Bonus Payment Bill Moves To Senate Finance Committee
Washington June 15 A House vote 209 to 176 approves issuing 2.4 billion in new currency to fund veteran bonuses. Senate leaders forecast a fight with President Hoover vowing a veto if it reaches the White House. Finance Committee chaired by Smoot to act promptly tomorrow.
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Groton B Means Gets Prison Term
Former Justice Department agent Gaston B Means received a ten year sentence for larceny of 100000 dollars paid by Evalyn Walsh McLean to ransom the Lindbergh baby and five years for larceny of 4000 dollars in expense money. Judge James M Proctor condemned his clever plan and noted the Lindbergh case brought out both generosity and wrongdoing.
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Gavel Opens Republican National Convention in Chicago
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, national committee chairman, taps the gavel to start the 1932 Republican convention in Chicago. The scene captures the moment as the G O P display commences with a colorful gathering in the stadium.
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Congress clears path to adjournment with major finance bills
Washington date reports the House passed a 2.4 billion bonus bill and advanced a home loan bank system plan to rediscount mortgages. Senate referrals and stalled debates on the McNeary farm relief, economic measures, and a 500 million public works bond issue underline a tense push to adjournment.
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Opposition Flurry Grows Over Curtis Nomination in West Virginia
West Virginia delegation debated renomination of Vice President Charles Curtis with talks on Prohibition and a repeal plank. Senator H. D. Hatfield met with leaders then left for Washington. W. J. Cotton and Joseph H. Gaines supported repeal though the delegation remains dry. Gaines argued the Eighteenth Amendment has done more harm than good. Hatfield said the delegation was ready to back the resubmission plank and support Curtis.
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Illinois
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Gunmen Release Pass From Prison In Illinois Jail Raid
Five armed gunmen seized control of a county jail in Ottawa Illinois on visiting day and freed three inmates linked to a Streator bank robbery. They escaped in two cars after forcing the keeper to surrender keys and releasing other prisoners and guards. Authorities pursued toward Indiana as witnesses identified the suspects and a kidnapped utility manager was mentioned.
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U S May Be Requested Cancel All War Debts
Lausanne June 15 delegates from thirteen nations discuss at open session the possibility of the United States canceling all war debts. A resolution may present the demand as July German reparations of over 300 million fall due and Berlin says it cannot pay. A moratorium of one to five years emerges as a likely approach.
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Wolf chased from convention door amid stadium dispute
At the Republican national convention in Chicago the wolf barked at the door but was driven away. Sidney Strotz, stadium general manager, warned the Republicans must pay 8,500 for construction or the hall would not open tomorrow. GOP officials said the obligation would be met and called the matter a misunderstanding.
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Convention Arena Fills Early for Night Activities
Chicago Stadium audiences fill the arena as repeal advocates clash with anti repeal forces at the Republican national convention. Senator Bingham pleads for a repeal submission plank, while Nicholas Murray Butler and Ambrose Kennedy denounce the committee proposal. Administration leaders defend the current plank as delegates caucus and crowded galleries fill.
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Hoover
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Hoover’s Friends Rally at Stadium in Chicago
At Chicago’s Hoover rally the Republicans avoided loud demonstrations yet sent a loyal radio clamor toward Washington. Representative Bertrand H. Snell declared the party’s support as the convention prepared to renominate President Hoover, with DC delegation among the first to cheer after his name was named.
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Republicans Open 1932 Platform With Prohibition Submission
The 1932 Republican platform was presented at the national convention with a prohibition submission plank tied to Hoover policies. It calls for a state referendums on amendment resubmission while preserving federal power to combat liquor evils. The resolutions panel also attacks party irregularity in Congress, urging party loyalists to guide general policy.
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Ehalt Attow
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Ohio
Rites Held For Violet Sharpe In Englewood Burial
In Englewood New Jersey Violet Sharpe an English servant in the Morrow household was buried after a brief service attended by household members and the acting British consul-general. The consul will report on her suicide to London within two weeks.
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Arthur Springer
Josephine D. Graham
Gerald Shepherd
New York
Springer
Office of Affairs
London
Republican Platform Seeks Economic Renewal and Reform
The Republican platform pledges to restore the nation’s economic life, praising President’s crisis leadership, credit measures, and public works while urging drastic curtailment of expenditures. It calls for banking reform, gold standard defense, and limited federal relief, with emphasis on state and local responsibility and balanced budgets.
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Delegates reject repeal proposal adopt platform
The Republican convention adopted a middle-way platform after defeating a repeal amendment. The decision, reached in a long session ending at 1:13 a.m., favored allowing a future vote on a modification of national dry laws while preserving federal safeguards. California and Illinois delegations weighed in as others whispered about Calvi n Coolidge and possible vice presidential selections.
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Dawes Declines Run for Vice President and Steps Down
Charles Gates Dawes, longtime public servant, rejects Chicago calls to run for vice president and resigns as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He plans to return to his Chicago home Friday to resume business ties neglected since World War I. President Hoover's response noted in a separate dispatch.
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