Senate Debates Compromise Tax Bill Opens Row Over Revenue
The Senate opens a stormy debate on the compromise tax bill amid sharp attacks on Roosevelt proposals. King and the finance panel defend the measure, saying it would raise $829 million and curb inequities while harming small firms. Debate to continue with a possible three day passage aim and potential adjournment.
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Washington
Senate
Presid
Roosevelt
Finance Committee
King
Utah
House
Finance
Treasury
Committee
Congress
Black
D.-Ala
la Follette
Wis
McNary
Oregon
Exfilm Star Beaten by Mob in Manhattan Beach
William Haines and James Shields were assaulted by a mob of over 100 people in Manhattan Beach on Sunday night. Haines said the attackers shouted threats and accusations, while sheriff reports noted injuries to both men and their party. Police have not yet arrested anyone as an inquiry continues.
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Los Angeles
William Haines
James Shields
Manhattan Beach
Haines
Hollywood
Justice of the Peace
Shields
Haines’ Beach
Theile Heir Quits Job For Breakfasts In Bed Again
The 15 year old orphan boy who sold magazines door to door in Chicago to escape a life of breakfast in bed in his New York home plans to return there. An airplane carried him from a hotel room to resume life with his millionaire father in Shadow Island estate, after two weeks of hardship in Chicago. He adopted the name Jay Webster and claimed to be 18 as he worked at McCalls magazine, saying he preferred the street life to luxury before heading east again.
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Chicago
New York
William Webster Thiele
Shadow Island
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Theile
McCalls
Daniel Webster
Jay Webster
Norman Ballantine
Chicago Daily Times
Tewn
Pelham
Hudson Tunnel
Newark
N. J
Hamburg
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Wooster
New Addition for City in Prospect
Col E O Toole plans a 37 dwellings project on a 75 acre tract between West Bluefield Avenue and the municipal park. J N Durham told the city board Thorn Street will be opened to serve the development and a city map must be filed for planning commission action. The board also approved two building permits and granted a ten 5 cent machines license to West Virginia Amusement Company. Payroll and utility bills for May were approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. E. O'Toole
Bluefield Avenue
Municipal Park
J. N. Durham
City Board of Directors
Colonel O'Toole
Thorn Street
Durham
Planning Commission
Sarah J. Fortner
North Street
Margaret Stephenson
Knox Street
West Virginia Amusement Company
Virginia Court Hears Edith Maxwell Plea for New Trial
Wytheville Virginia June 2 The Virginia supreme court of appeals heard Edith Maxwell s plea for a new trial but reserved decision The court also considered bail for Miss Maxwell who is serving 25 years for the murder of her father Trigg Maxwell Pound blacksmith The state did not oppose bail plea
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Wytheville
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Edith Maxwell
Miss Maxwell
Trigg Maxwell
Pound
Bandits Escape Holdup In Bronx Robbery
A bandit car fleeing a $50,000 robbery was stopped for an improper turn in New York. The driver received a traffic summons as detectives pursued a possibly fictitious name on the license. The loot was taken from Theodore Frank and Arthur Triver of the National Safety Bank and Trust Company during a Bronx ambush near a congested intersection.
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New York
Theodore Frank
National Safety Bank and Trust Company
Arthur Triver
Bronx
AT and T Campaign Aims to Shape Public Opinion
Washington hearings into a 750000 dollar utility probe reopen as Samuel Becker accuses AT and T of forging public opinion to ease rate increases. E S Wilson testifies about campaigns including ads, civic talks, interviews, posters, and prepared news material to win regulatory approval.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Communications Commission
Samuel Becker
FCC
Becker
E. S. Wilson
A. T
Swife
Wilson
Relief payments in West Virginia to end June 15
Charleston officials say the states 3 million dollar annual relief appropriation will be exhausted by June 15 affecting 23 726 state relief recipients including 16 082 unemployables and 7 644 who could work with jobs. Administrator C L Allen will seek 105 000 to fund two more weeks of June. The 1987 appropriation becomes available July 1. The plan covers extending cash relief to mid June continuing Camp Randolph support and state and county admin expenses.
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Charleston
W. Va
C. L. Allen
Allen
Relief Administration
Camp Randolph
Berkeley Springs
Black Legion linked to labor spies and murder in Detroit
Court details the Poole execution and the Black Legion’s operations as state and county seek trial for thirteen members. AF L president warns of labor spy ties, while congress and officials urge a federal probe into the secret society amid accusations of political connections and police concerns.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Cummings
Department of Justice
Dickstein
New York
House
Sadowski
A. F. L. Auto Workers Union
Charles A. Poole
Hooded Society
Poole
Knout
Jackson
Cyrus H McCormick Dies in Chicago Home
Cyrus Hall McCormick 77, heir of the reaper fortune and longtime International Harvester chair man, died at his Lake Forest estate Walden at 11 30 a m EST after a heart attack and brief illness. His wife and elder son Cyrus Jr were present. He had been under physicians care since Saturday.
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Chicago
Cyrus Hall McCormick
International Harvester Company
Hig Lake Forest
Walden
Cyrus, Jr
Fox as Democratic Candidate for State Supreme Court Nomination
Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox announces his candidacy for one of two Democratic nominations to the West Virginia state supreme court. Incumbents Judge Homer B. Woods and M. O. Litz, both Republicans, must seek re nomination. A state judicial convention to name nominees will be held on a date to be determined by the state committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Fred L. Fox
State Supreme Court
Homer B. Woods
M. O. Litz
Capitol
Jas. B. Riley
Wheeling
Frank Haymond
Fairmont
State Bar Association
D. H. Hill Arnold
Elkins
Walter Virgil Ross
Bluefield
HOLGC
A. D. Preston
Raleigh County
House of Delegates
Foxx
Sutton
Opposition to ousting Schwarzkopf blocks Kimberling vote
In Trenton New Jersey opposition to removing Col Harry Norman Schwarzkopf as state police superintendent stalled a senate vote on Col Mark Kimberling the Lindbergh case investigator slated as successor The governor had criticized the Lindbergh inquiry and Kimberling who oversaw Hauptmanns execution faced a blocked confirmation until the next session June 15.
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Trenton
N. J
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
State Senate
Harold G. Hoffman
Schwarzkopf
Senate
Col Mark O. Kimberling
Col. Kimberling
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Labor Speakers At Mercer County Meeting Attack Court
John W. Seabold and Bruce Crawford denounced the Supreme Court and five-man dictatorship in passionate speeches at the Mercer County Central labor meeting. They urged electing union men to Congress, highlighted unemployment, and argued for broader union outreach.
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Mercer Central Labor Union
John W. Seabold
Bruce Crawford
Supreme Court
Mercer County Central Labor
National Guard
Railway Carmen of America
Sunset News
E. J. Preston
Central Labor Union
J. R. Wood
Mr. Seabold
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Supremes
Proctor Dies in Charleston at 52
Charles Nelson Proctor of Lookout Raleigh county member of the West Virginia House of Delegates died today in Charleston from a ruptured appendix. A lumberman, he was named to the house in 1933 by Governor Kump and reelected in 1934. Survived by widow, daughter, two sons Charles Jr a midshipman at the Naval Academy and Herbert. Funeral services set for Thursday at Rainelle.
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Charleston
W. Va
Charles Nelson Proctor
Lookout
House of Delegates
Raleigh
U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
Herbert
Rainelle
Zionchecks Wife Visits Him in Hospital After Admission
Mrs Marion A Zioncheck visited Washington congressman in Galinger hospital twice today while he is held for mental observation. She spoke with Dr Gilbert and later spent an hour with him, embracing before leaving. She pledged to stand by him.
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Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Galinger Hospital
Washington State
Seeepe Gilbert
District of Columbia
Zioncheck
Josephine Young
Rubye Louise Nix
Texarkana
Texas
Gilbert
British Budget Scandal Ties Thomas to Secret Leak
A royal tribunal found James Henry Thomas revealed budget secrets to Sir Alfred Butt and Alfred Bates, with Bates and Sir Alfred said to have profited from the leak. Thomas faces possible resignation as Parliament weighs action while his son Leslie was cleared.
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Thomas
Alfred Bates
Sir Alfred Butt
London
James Henry Thomas
Great Britain
Alfred Butt
Alfred
Bates
Sir Alfred
House of Commons
Leslie
Commons
Financial
Lloyd's
Neville Chamberlain
Judicial Tribunal
Last Member Tri State Gang Is Electrocutted
Charles Zied of Philadelphia, the last member of the Tri State Gang, was executed in the electric chair at New Jersey state prison for the murder of Camden detective William T. Feitz Jr. A prior reprieve by Gov. Hoffman spared him briefly on March 31, when Hauptmann faced execution. A grand jury probe into the Paul H. Wendel case postponed Hauptmann’s fate.
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Trenton
N. J
Charles Zied
Philadelphia
State Prison
William T. Feitz, Jr
Camden
Zied
Harold G. Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Paul H. Wendel
Hauptmann
Bids Submitted on Grassy Branch Road Improvement
Princeton contractors Brown Murphy and Wright submitted the low bid of 57 639 97 for grading and surfacing 2.5 miles of Grassy Branch road from the Bluefield Princeton highway to Cumberland turnpike. The state road commission led by Mortimer W. Smith expects awarding within ten days and immediate start. The WPA project, halted last winter, will create a new route aiding South Bluefield residents and tourists seeking to avoid Bluefield congestion. The commission plans 15.198 miles of road work and two bridges costing about 515 000 with other bids noted by the release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown, Murphy and Wright
Princeton
Grassy Branch
Charleston
Mortimer W. Smith
State Road Commission
Bluefield
Cumberland Turnpike
Smith
Morgan
Fisher Bridge
Canton Urged to Form Militants Units to Back War Plans
Hugh Ike Shott Republican nominee to U S Senate urged rapid intra county unit formation by county executive committees. In a letter to all county committees the Bluefield publisher stressed militant precinct aggregations and said election results arise from the precincts, not from higher authorities.
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Hugh Ike Shott
U. S
Bluefield
Veterans Preference Denied by Court in Census Project
The US circuit court of appeals reversed a district ruling and held that war veterans have no preference in employment for the federal business census project. Judge Buffington stated Congress did not intend such a preference for this act, noting the Metcalf amendment's defeat and that wartime benefit did not apply beyond established measures. Benjamin Spang, a disabled veteran, had sought hiring preference for the Philadelphia based project and for widows of veterans. the court restricted the ruling to the census project and affirmed no veteran preference here.
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Circuit
Philadelphia
Circuit Court of Appeals
Joseph Buffington
Congress
Benjamin Spang
Pennsylvania
George A. Welsh
Spang
District Court
WPA
PWA
Walsh
Welsh
Circuit Court
President Roosevelts attack on court ruling on wages
President Roosevelt said a Supreme Court decision restricting state and federal power to set minimum wages creates a constitutional no mans land. He noted both majority and dissenting opinions over New Yorks women’s wage law, and lawmakers in Congress weighed a constitutional amendment to allow states to set minimum wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
New York
NRA
High Court
Congress
Representative Fish
R-N. Y
Wellsburg reports 748 marriage licenses in May
County clerk Charlotte Calderwood announced 748 marriage license applications in May at Wellsburg tri state Gretna Green, a new record. The prior peak was 788 licenses issued in June 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsburg
W. Va
Charlotte Calderwood
Gretna Green
Reports Branded As False By Nanking Officials In Sino Japanese Crisis
Shanghai dispatch June 3 reports say South China government and Canton leaders deny Japanese claims of trouble and vow resistance to Japan. Japanese sources claim Canton declared war and urge national war, while other Canton and Kuomintang groups urge immediate war to stop Tokyo aggression and preserve China.
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South China
Canton
Nanking
Shanghai
Japan
China
North China
Southwest Political Council
Southwest Kuomintang Executive Committee
Tokyo
Peiping
Tientsin
Manchuria
League of Nations
GOP Convention Plans Complete Ahead of Big Meeting
Cleveland June 2 The Republican national convention preparations were finalized by the arrangements committee as delegates arrived. Major figures Henry Fletcher and key state leaders discussed invitations and candidacies while Borah and Landon campaigned among arriving delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Republican National Cnvention
William EB. Borah
Idaho
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Herbert Hoover
National Committee
John Hamilton
London
Carl G. Bachmann
West Virginia
Borah
Prison-breakers get stiff sentences
Two men who escaped the Wellsburg jail after slugging a turnkey received a combined 47 year term today for their part in a gasoline station incident. Judge J F O'Brien sentenced Ralph Richards of Pittsburgh and Richard McCulley of Wheeling to lengthy terms. they were recaptured hours later at Mt Pleasant, Pu.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Ralph Richards
Pittsburgh
Richart McCulley
Wheeling
Richards
McCuley
Mt. Pleasant
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Cyrus H. M’cormick
Fox
U.K
Kimberling
Seabold
Rush Holt
United Mine Workers
Charles N. Proctor
Tri-State Gang
SHOTT
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GOP
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