Senate moves to pass tax bill amid Couzens amendment fight
Senate leaders and Republicans back the tax bill while Democrats oppose restoring wartime income surtaxes. Smoot insists the Couzens amendment to raise rates will fail as overtime sessions are planned to expedite passage. Additional notes mention potential delays from House grasshopper relief and unemployment aid debates.
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Harrison
Mississippi
Senate
Finance Committee
Washington
Smoot
Utah
Moot
Senator Watson
Indiana
E House
Ark
Supreme Court
Leaders in Lindbergh kidnapping search seek unified command
Trenton May 16 Leaders in the Lindbergh baby mystery meet to decide who shall direct the investigation ending in the official quibbling that began after the kidnapping Gov A Harry Moore calls the conference with state police heads and justice department reps J Edgar Hoover to coordinate federal and local efforts Schwarzkopf expected to remain in charge Meanwhile shore and sea search continues with details of negotiations for return of the baby becoming public, Condon acknowledges knowing the first name nationality and size of a man in the gang
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Delos Smith
United Press
Trenton
N. J
API
Lindbergh
A. Harry Moore
Department of Justice
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Moore
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Hoover
John ¥. Condon
Jataie
John H. Curtis
Norfolk
Condon
U.P
United States
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Assassins of Japan's Premier Executed in Tokyo
Inukai Tsuyoshi, Japan's aged premier, was killed by six men in military uniforms after bombing and street chaos across Tokyo. Police, journalists, and a guest were wounded, and one policeman died. The assassins aimed to topple the government and install a fascist bloc as crowds fled the violence.
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Miles W. Vaughn
United Press
Tokyo
U.P
Japan
Tsuyos! Inukai
Inukai
Bank of Japan
Mitsui Bank
Count Maine
Privy Seal
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Kanatdro Suzuki
Supreme Court backs Oklahoma oil curtailment act 1915
The Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma's 1915 oil curtailment act as valid state police power and approved enforcement orders by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The act allowed Gov. Murray to use the state militia to control oil production.
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Washington
WUP
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
William
Murray
Pampa liquor conspiracy defendants go to trial in federal court
Sixteen of twenty one defendants in the Pampa liquor conspiracy case went to trial in federal district court as prosecutors questioned jurors. Four defendants fled justice and one forfeited bond. several former Gray County officials are among the defendants. The trial is the first of three sensational cases this term, with Potter County and LeFors conspiracies to follow.
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Federal District Court
Leslie Salter
Washington, D. C
Arnold Davis
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Gray County
E. A. Simpson
S. D. Stennis
Pampa
William J. Bass
Bob Underwood
Louie Baker
E. T. Miller
W. Murph Smith
Ernest 8. Graves
Granville Parrish
Herman Wachendorf
O. T. Smith
Lee Banks
Scott
E. N. Lewis
Wellington
OC. N. Harrison
Canyon
James C. Wilson
Potter County
LeFors
Hoover
Fedral
Death closes phenomenal career of Captain Robert Dollar
Captain Robert Dollar 88, veteran lumber and shipping magnate, died at his San Rafael home after a two week illness. Born in Falkirk Scotland on March 20 1844 he built a vast empire spanning western Canada Michigan California and Washington before turning to shipping. Known as the grand old man of the Pacific his life followed a long active arc from shipyards to global trade and empire building.
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Dollar
California
San Rafael
Calif
Robert Dollar
P.S.T
Pacific
Rafel G. Duffiey
Harold
Stanley
Melville Dollar
Canada
Michigan
Washington
Orient
The
Sunshine Stages Comeback After Sand Storms Across Panhandle
Sun and wind give way to clearing skies as a second sand storm and heavy rains sweep the Plains since Saturday. Reports show half inch to 1 inch of rainfall from Canadian to Woodward Oklahoma and Clovis New Mexico, with 2 inches near Childress causing impassable dirt roads and crop damage.
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Panhandle
Plains
Higgins, Shattuck
Okla
Woodward
Black
Hereford
Clovis
N. M
Fort Worth
Denver
Clarendon
Lelia Lake
Hedley
Estelline
Memphis
Childress
Severe Texas storm drops heavy rain and floods many areas
A major storm drenched Texas with excessive rainfall and strong winds. Waco suffered a cloudburst with 3.71 inches of rain, four feet of city flooding, and power outages delaying floodgate openings. The Bosque River surge rose drastically while other cities reported multiple inches of rain across the region.
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Associated Press
Texas
Waco
Lake Waco
Weather Bureau
Fort Worth
Dallas
McKinney
Carrolton
Trinidad
Palestine
Abilene
Austin
San Antonio
Houston
Galveston
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Forecast Update
Weather report shows fair conditions in Amarillo and vicinity with warmer Tuesday. West Texas expected fair and warmer in north, cooler southeast tonight. New Mexico unsettled tonight then generally fair Tuesday. Temperatures reach 45 to 62 by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Perjury complaint filed against church clerk in 1930 case
Massachusetts Representative Tinkham demands grand jury presentation of alleged perjury by Deets Pickett, research secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, for statements before a Senate lobby committee. The letter links a 28 May 1930 incident to an indictable time limit and accuses Attorney General Mitchell of failing duties in a separate prosecution of Bishop James Cannon Jr.
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Washington
Deets Pickett
Mitchell
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Boston
Pickett
Methodist Board of Temperance
Senate Lobby Committee
Baltimore
James Cannon, Jr
Cannon
Pickett labeled unspeakable by Rep Tinkham in perjury bid
Atlantic City May 16. Rep Tinkham of Massachusetts demands grand jury on alleged perjury by Deets Pickett of the Methodist Board of Temperance. Tinkham says Pickett testified in 1930 that no material or files were removed, while eleven packages were reportedly shipped from the board’s headquarters on the day records were subpoenaed.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Deets Pickett
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Representative Tinkham
Massachusetts
Pickett
Tinkham
Senate Lobby Commission
Temperance Board
Ford plant rehiring 800 workers ahead of full resumption
About 800 men were re employed at the Ford Motor Company assembling plant in Houston on May 16 as operations prepare to return to full time status.
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Houston
Ford Motor Company
Owen D Young Declines Democratic Presidential Bid
Owen D Young formally states he cannot accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He sent a letter to John Crowley, publisher of the Little Falls Times, a trusted friend from his boyhood home in Van Hornesville.
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Little Falls
N. Y
Owen D. Young
John Crowley
van Hornesville
Young
Notables Rally To Greet Snyder Party
John Snider barbecue king of the Texas Panhandle arrives in Washington for a National Press Club event. He is greeted by Congressman Marvin Jones and governors and sets up camp at Chesapeake Beach after a 26 hour drive from West Virginia. Assistants named include Secretary of War Hurley and Senator Kendrick with Garner and Texas lawmakers.
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Washington
Honor
Chesapeake Beach
Bascom Timmons
John Snider
Texas Panhandle
Marvin Jones
Amarillo
National Press Club
Snider
West Virginia
James R. Beverly
Porto Rico
Groom
Patrick Hurley
J. B. Kendrick
Wyomig
Garner
Texas
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Max Gardner
North Carolina
B. T. Baker
W. H. Kimble
Dick German
Guy Culp
Queens of Cotton crowned at festival in Anderson
If you cotton to beauties, Nancy Elizabeth Hogg of West Virginia and Olive Shaw of Quincy Florida were picked as queens of their states to reign at the Southern Cotton Festival in Anderson. THEY'RE QUEENS OF COTTON.
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Nancy Elizabeth Hogg
West Virginia
Olive Shaw
Quincy, Fla
Anderson
8. C
Roosevelt Votes Roundup Begins
Franklin D. Roosevelt drives to corral delegates as Democratic contests unfold across Connecticut Kansas New Mexico and more. Kansas leaders pledge 20 delegates to Roosevelt while leaders in Lawrence announce instructions to align 24 delegates with Roosevelt and adopt the unit rule.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Connecticut
Kansas
New Mexico
Alfred BE. Smith
Roosevelt
New York
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Smith
New Jersey
Montana
South Carolina
Vermont
District of Columbia
Tennessee
Oregon
Nevada
Lawrence
Kas
D. Roosevelt
Guy T. Helvering
Plans Funeral Calls Ambulance Shoot Self
In Houston on May 16 Dr. Robert J. McGinnis a retired dentist shot himself as an ambulance summoned by his own call stood before his home He had earlier told undertaker H D Morse Jr that he planned to end his life and requested funeral arrangements Morse alerted the family and then received a phone call in which the voice claimed to be his son and that the father was dead.
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Houston
Robert J. McGinnis
H. D. Morse, Jr
McGinnis
Morse
Dr. McGinnis
Bob
Passengers Flee Burning Steamer Georges Phillipar
About six hundred passengers abandoned the French steamer Georges Phillipar five miles off Cape Guardia Ful in Italian Somaliland when a fire broke out. The ship was en route from Marseilles to China. Three passengers suffered serious burns. The British ship Mahsud and a Soviet vessel assisted in the rescue.
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Aden
Arabia
Georges Phillipar
Cape Guardia Ful
Italian Somaliland
Marseilles
China
Mahsud
Good Deed Editor Awards Movie Passes for Meritorious Helps
The Good Deed campaign at The Globe and Mission Theater offers free passes to The Man Who Played God for residents who performed good deeds. Several reporters recall acts like rescuing a stalled car, helping tires, and assisting an elderly man, with names and details noted for redemption.
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The
Globe
Globe and the Mission Theater
George Arliss
God
Country Club
Sie Globe
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Lyle C. Wilson
Senate Today
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Jafsie
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Cape Cod
Norfolk Boat
Inukal
U.S
U.S. Court
Board of Trustees
Capitol Hotel
Bivins
Waco Bosque River
FORD
Owen Young
Snyder Party
Arthur Brisbane
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
America
Arrabane
Wall Street
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