Committee Bills Move To Tax Bond Issues
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected the Treasury’s plan to tax income from state and municipal bonds. Chairman Robert L. Coughton led the session, as debates over new income tax reforms and an optional examination fee surfaced, with several members favoring broad funding measures and others wary of equity and potential war tax schemes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Robert L. Coughton
North Carolina
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Walter F. George Democrat
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Coughton
Ways and Means Committee
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Treasury Department
Open Glider Pilot Training Limited to Qualified Applicants
The local army recruiting office announced glider pilot training is limited to enlisted men aged 18 to 32 who pass a physical exam. Qualified candidates must be CPT graduates or hold a private pilot certificate or have 30 hours or 200 flights as a glider pilot. Ineligible are those previously eliminated from military air crew training. Successful trainees earn the glider pilot rating and rank of staff sergeant.
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Army
Navy Air Force
CPT
Federal Court To Convene Monday in Amarillo
U S District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo division will convene at 10 o clock Monday morning with Judge James C Wilson of Fort Worth on the bench Mrs Mary K Harty United States district clerk announced this morning Civil dockets will be called and settings for trial of cases will be made Criminal dockets will be heard later in the term Court officials from Fort Worth with Judge Wilson are George W Parker clerk and J P Little bailiff Naturalization hearings set for 9 o clock next Wednesday morning Notices have been sent to those who will have final hearings
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U. S. District Court
Northern District of Texas
Amarillo Division
James C. Wilson
Fort Worth
Mary K. Harty
United State District Clerk
Wilson
George W. Parker
J. P. Little
Registrants To Get Another Questionnaire
Every man in this city and county who registered Feb 16 will soon receive a second questionnaire. This time it will be a regular Selective Service questionnaire. Previously men of the third registration had received occupational questionnaires.
Markets Dow Jones Stocks and Kansas City Livestock Report
Dow Jones averages at 1 P M show gains across industrials rails utilities and 65 stocks with mixed up movements. Kansas City livestock yields include hogs mostly 5 to 10 cents higher top at 14 dollars, cattle and calves salable with steady to active demand and veal prices mainly 12 to 14 dollars, while sheep sales reach 14 to 14.75 dollars for select lots.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kansas City
U.P
AMA
Financial Industrial Fund Liquidating at 1.26 Offering
The Financial Industrial Fund announces liquidation terms with a price of 1.26 per share on an outstanding position valued at 1.1439. Investors are advised to review the instrument details and official notices for deadline and settlement specifics.
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Financial Industrial Fund
Mother Saves Child In Runaway Car
In Superior Arizona on May 15 a mother Mrs J B Hunter saved her daughter Margaret Diane by leaping into front of a moving car, directing it into a fence. She suffered severe bruises and is hospitalized while bystanders freed her from the rear wheels.
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Superior
Ariz
J. B. Hunter
RAF resumes offensive with three German sweepers sunk
London reports the Royal Air Force renewed attacks after a five day pause and reportedly destroyed three German mine sweepers off the French coast.
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London
U.P
Royal Air Force
Rio Grande floods force 200 evacuations near Isleta
In Albuquerque on May 15, about 200 residents south of Isleta Indian pueblo fled their homes as the Rio Grande, swollen by snow, battered a 300 foot levee breach at Peralta, 18 miles downstream. Army engineers warned that an auxiliary dike might not hold and advised around 800 others in the area to prepare to leave.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Isleta Indian Pueblo
Rio Grande
Peralta
French Island Issue Settled Hope Hopes for Martinique settlement grows
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said demobilization of French warships in Martinique settled the main point at issue while economic talks on merchant shipping in French harbors may take time. He noted military questions remain, but progress exists with American and French officers. Hull stressed not negotiating with pro-German Laval and reported Hoover and Robert continuing productive talks in San Juan after conferences in Martinique.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Martinique
Hull
Americas
Pierre Laval
Laval
Vichy
France
John H. Hoover
Caribbean Naval Front
Georges Robert
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Hoover
Fort de France
Priority Problems Are Discussed Again in Amarillo Session
The second session in two weeks on priority problems opened this afternoon with Bob Harper and Joyner Cole presiding. They arrived from Dallas after attending a Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers’ Association meeting. Cole, formerly traffic manager for the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, was recently placed with the Office of Defense Transportation. Harper works in the priorities division of the War Production Board. Ratings and regulations were explained at the sessions serving the Amarillo area.
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Bob Harper
Joyner Cole
Amarillian
Dallas
Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers’ Association
J. (Joyner) Cole
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Office of Defense Transportation
Harper
Bureau of Field Operations
War Production Board
Amarillo
Banker Edward H. Andrews Shot At Home In Houston
Edward H. Andrews vice president of the Union National Bank was found shot to death in a Houston home bedroom. He suffered a chest wound and a revolver lay nearby. A native Houstonian he was son of the late Col. Frank Andrews and served as naval ensign and aide to Col. E. M. House at the Paris Peace Conference. He survived by his widow a son Edward H. Andrews Jr a Yale student and a brother Forest Lee Andrews Houston attorney.
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Houston
Edward H. Andrews
Union National Bank
Andrews
Yale
Forest Lee Andrews
Hidden half million sought in old Dr. Kinsolving home
In Hornersville Missouri searchers uncovered more than 200000 cash and securities in the late Dr F Kinsolving's 18 room house with relics in the basement described as a museum. Officials guard the property as belief grows that about 500000 is hidden there from an estate worth over 1500000 after his death May 5 at age 78.
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Hornersville
U.P
Virginia
Grain Dealers Open Meeting in Amarillo for Panhandle Convention
Grain and feed dealers from the Panhandle assemble at the Herring Hotel for a two day convention with more than 300 attendees. The opening session features Dr Earl Hamlett Rex Baxter Sam L Rice S J Cole and Bob Harper as speakers and a Crystal Ballroom banquet and dance planned for tonight. The program continues tomorrow with C P Wasson John E Davis and others before closing with crop estimates and officer elections.
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Panhandle
Herring Hotel
Panhandle Grain and Feed Dealers Association
Earl G. Hamlett
Polk Street Methodist Church
Rex Baxter
Amarillo
S. J. Cole
Office of Defense Transportation
Bob Harper
War Production Board
Crystal Ballroom
C. P. Wasson
Southwest Shipping Board
Dallas
John E. Davis
J. E. Wells, Jr
Department of Agriculture
E. C. Shhumann
White Deer
Fisherman Finds Floating Mine Off Florida Keys
In TAVERNIER Florida on May 15 a fisherman hauled a floating mine ashore, mistaking it for a buoy. A demolition expert neutralized the explosive, and the device was towed back to sea and sunk. The Seventh Naval District did not comment.
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Tavernier
Fla
Florida Keys
Ed Lowe
Lowe
Seventh Naval District
Americans Arrive From Bulgaria in Istanbul
The first of the Americans left behind in Bulgaria when the legation moved out last December arrived in Turkey under arrangements made through Swiss diplomats.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bulgaria
Army to train large numbers of glider pilots
Washington announces creation of glider pilot schools with more than 100000 civilian fliers invited to qualify. Civilian pilots aged 18 to 35 ineligible for army aviation cadet training may enter, with selection of several Middle West aeronautics authority schools and Army training sites for instruction.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Civilian Aeronautics Authority
Middle West
CAA
Picked Wrong Man To Cash This Check
E E Goff a bill clerk at Santa Fe freight offices refused to cash a $20 check endorsed by E F E Gott after recognizing the endorsement. The man fled in a taxicab but was arrested by police. At headquarters he identified himself as W H Louis of Hot Springs Ark and was jailed on forgery charges unable to post $1,000 bond.
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E. E. Goff
Mr. Goff
Louisiana Street
Santa Fe
Goff
E. F E. Gott
W. H. Louis
Hot Springs
Ark
German Prisoners Are Recaptured Near Bowmanville
Two German air force officers who escaped Bowmanville prison camp have been recaptured. Lieut. Frederic Dechesser was taken at Belleville railway station, while Lieut. Aberhard Wildermuth was arrested at Union Station in Toronto. The men fled Wednesday, their third attempt for flight.
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Toronto
Bowmanville
Here
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Frederick De¢eser
Belleville
Aberhard Wildermuth
He'd Rather All Cars Were Retired
MIAMI Florida May 15 Thomas Booras faces repeated injuries from traffic incidents three times in four months, none of which involved him driving a car. He was injured in bus accidents the first two times and in a private car collision on the latest occasion as he crossed the street.
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Miami
Fla
Thomas Booras
British Resume Daylight Raids Over Dover Strait
FOLKESTONE England May 15 The roar of planes bound east over the Strait of Dover signaled the resumption of daylight offensives against the German occupied continent after several days of bad weather kept activity low.
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Folkestone
England
Strait of Dover
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