Supreme Court upholds Louisiana tax on chain stores
The court, in a 4 to 3 ruling, upholds a Louisiana wartime era chain store tax seen as a tax on bigness. Nine total decisions issued, with social security and tax refund procedures not yet decided. Justices split 8 to 1 on the processing tax refunds under the old agricultural act. Turn to Page Two.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Social Security Act
Roosevelt
van Devanter
Stone
Hughes
McReynolds
Sutherland
Supreme Court Upholds AAA Tax Refund Restrictions
The Supreme Court upheld the 1936 revenue act refunds rules, allowing refunds only when taxpayers prove they paid the levies and that costs were not passed to consumers. The decision affects $963 million in previously collected taxes and preserves windfall taxes on processors. The ruling, with one dissenter, centers on Anniston Manufacturing Co. suit seeking $269,854.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Treasury
Justice McReynolds
AAA
Congress
Internal Revenue Bureau
High Court
Anniston Manufacturing Company of
Alabama
Local Union Backing Green, Morgan Run Unit Believed
Ben Mobley, charter member of Morgan Run local, predicted the United Mine Workers unit will support member Billy Green in the dispute between the AF of L and the Committee for Industrial Organization. Mobley said 13 of 14 members would back Green and reject John L. Lewis’s expulsion order.
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Coshocton
Morgan Run
United Mine Workers of America
Billy” Green
Ben Mobley
American Federation of Labor
Mobley
Green
A. F. of L
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Duke to reveal plans for Windsor Wallis wedding
Monts France May 17 The Duke of Windsor will announce tomorrow the wedding date with Wallis Warfield spokesmen said at 2 30 p m The announcement may name the wedding location and whether royal attendance will occur Officials in London debate ecclesiastical objections and government representation and speculation centers on best man and honeymoon plans
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Chateau de Conde
D. Buchanan Merryman
Wash
D. C
Warfield
Chateau de Cande
Havre
Roosevelt
Priday
Rogers
Fist Fights Riot as Movie Craftsmen Return to Work
In Hollywood on May 17 an automobile was overturned and about 300 striking film workers clashed as 300 craftspeople returned to their jobs. Police dispersed the melee after a crowd blocked a car with four Columbia studio laborers. one worker was injured.
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Hollywood
Columbia Studio
Culinary
Camera Machinists
Central Strike Committee
Federated Motion Picture Crafts
Charles Kimberlin
Prisoner Poison Incident Reported in Beckley
Dr. E L Hedrick says W S Williams a county prisoner drank a portion of poison after incarceration and is in serious condition in Beckley West Virginia. The health officer provided the update on May 17.
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Beckley
W. Va
E. L. Hedrick
W. S. Williams
Hedrick
Williams
Hatchet Girl on Trial for Murder in Jersey City
A 17 year old, Gladys Macknight, is on trial for killing her mother with a hatchet while her 18 year old sweetheart restrained her. A neighbor testified she saw and heard details of the night July 31 at the Macknight home in Bayonne. The case includes evidence of forced entry and a pool of blood in the kitchen.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gladys Macknight
Daniel Taid
Wiahitman
Hite County
Dozen Vacancies Await Appointees
A survey shows at least twelve major offices with vacancies awaiting action by President Roosevelt. Key posts include undersecretary of state to be filled by Sumner Wells and state department counselor likely Walton Moore. Additional postings cover minister to Denmark and Iran, plus major gaps in labor and war departments and the comptroller general's office.
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Roosevelt
William Phillips
Italy
Sumner Wells
Walton Moore
State Department
Denmark
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Iran
Persia
Afghanistan
Edward Reed
Rome
Labor Department
Immigration and Naturalization
War Department
Harry H Ones
George H. Daniel W. Bell Long
Sone Oreeter
Richard N. Elliott
Ralph J. Totten
South Africa
al M. Owsleyn
Irish Free State
John Cudahy
Poland
Dublin
Cudahy
Warsaw
Banquet Ends Dentists First Convention Day
Dentists from nearly every dental college in America and one in Canada attended a reunion banquet at the West Virginian hotel closing the first day of the West Virginia State Dental Society thirty first annual meeting in Wheeling. Officers were elected for the national convention and Dr E D Douglas of Parkersburg will be president at the final session. Delegates to the Atlantic City convention and holdovers were named. about 150 are registered.
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West Virginia State Dental Society
C. G. Anderson
Mount Hope
C. Baxter Morris
Logan
E. D. Douglas
Parkersburg
L. A. Stark
Clarksburg
G. W. Lavender
Bluefield
Mercer-McDowell-Mingo Dental Society
Telegraph
America
Canada
West Virginian Hotel
Dental Surgery
University At Lousville
University of A
Seen
Speakersville
A C. Young
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
State Society
Roy C. Landin
Moundsville
John S. Stone
Clarks
L. D. Creek
Bartley
Atlantic City
N. J
Howard Summers
Huntington
J. Bernard Poindexter
C. L. Price
Shinnston
Carl Kennedy
Montgomery
Solons Vote To Give Sap A Break
Boston May 17. Massachusetts senators advanced a bill requiring a sign in hotels and night clubs if hat check and cigarette girls are not allowed to keep tips. Senator Arthur F. Blanchard argued the rule would expose tipping as a mean practice and said it would make a sap realize he is a sap.
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Boston
Sen
Massachusetts
Arthur F. Blanchard
Cambridge
Blame Gas Cell for Zepp Disaster Details Emerge
Lakehurst New Jersey May 17 A Hindenburg crew survivor Hans Freund described standing in fire when the May 6 disaster began as flames poured down from above. He cited a gas cell 3 or 4 as the likely source and said he felt surrounded by burning gas after a muffled explosion.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Hans Freund
R. W. Schroderm
Department of Commerce Board
Freund
Former Board Member Urges City Election Interest
Former city board member and wholesaler S J Sublette calls for a mass meeting to field a strong ticket in the municipal primary. Only one candidate has filed as filing closes May 28, ten days before the primary, with several contenders from the same district. Sublette says government accountability depends on public interest.
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Sublette
Mother Confesses in Picnic Slaying Case on Long Island
New York police say Helen Tiernan, 25, confessed to attacking her daughter Helen and son Jimmy amid a love triangle. She said the apartment was too small for her lover and the children, and that she used a knife and ax in the wooded area near Brookhaven.
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New York
Edward Mullins
Manhattan
Helen Tierman
George Christie
Helen
Jimmy
Long Island
Christie
Brookhaven
N. Y
Helenerman
Helen Tiernan
Francis Kear
47Th Street
Solons Lukewarm Toward New Agricultural Measure
Washington May 17 A proposal by farm leaders for a new AAA met tepid reception from the house agriculture committee. The plan would use the soil conservation crop diversion fund for parity payments while excluding a processing tax provision found unconstitutional. Hearings were set for tomorrow as Chairman Jones urged careful review before altering the successful soil conservation program.
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Washington
AAA
House Agriculture Committee
Supreme Court
Jones
D.tex
American Farm Bureau Federation
Associated Groups
Negrin Forms New War Cabinet in Spain
Dr Juan Negrin 48 year old physician and socialist forms Spain's sixth wartime government as premier and finance minister, shrinking the cabinet from nineteen to nine with ministers from four left party groups and a merged war navy and air unit to push for victory.
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Valencia
Spain
Juan Negrin
Negrin
Joe Giral
National Defense
Indalecio
Prieto
Manuel Irujo
Julian Zugazagoita
Jesus Hernandez
Vincent Uribe
Bernard de Los Rios
Union Republican
Labor and Social Assistance
Jaime Ayguade
Manuel Azana
War
Navy
Air
Ministry of Propaganda
Ministry of State
Industry
Azana
Franciso Largo Caballero
Albanian government declares rebellion ended in Tirana
The Albanian war ministry says government troops occupied Argyrokastro and ended a 34 hour rebellion in the south. Rebels are believed to have fled toward the Macedonian hills near the Greek border. Government denounces revolt as communist in origin and confined to one sector.
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Tirana
Albania
War Ministry
Argyrokastro
Little Kingdom
Zog
War Office
Albania-Yugoslavia
Senate foes reject amendments to Roosevelt court bill
Senate opponents of the Roosevelt court bill rally behind the president’s no compromise stance. Fourteen senators at a Wheeler‑called meeting pledged to oppose all amendments and fight the issue on the president’s lines. McCarran withdrew a compromise amendment, and Hatch remained split as more senators had yet to state their position.
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Senate
Roosevelt Court
Supreme Court
Hatch
New Mexico
McCarran
Nevada
Farley
Moore
New Jersey
Maloney
Connecticut
Bulow
South Dakota
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ashurst
Stevenson files candidacy for city board district one
James A. Stevenson operator of the Okay Barber Shop filed to run for member of the city board of directors representing District No. 1 in the June primary. He lives on Frederick Street in South Bluefield. James Rantis also seeks a seat but has not filed. Muriel Kerfoot, city clerk, noted Stevenson’s filing as the only completed form to date. The filing deadline ends on the 28th.
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James A. Stevenson
Okay
Bland Street
Mr. Stevenson
Frederick Street
Bluefield
James Rantis
Muriel Kerfoot
Stevenson
Sheriff hunts shotgun slaver of young deputy in Pikeville
Sheriff G C Rowe led a search for Homer Wolford the shotgun slaver of deputy Homer Wolford who died during an investigation Fleming Hurley is critical in Matewan hospital from wounds Wolford inflicted before a shotgun blast struck the deputy Wolford wore a bullet proof vest and was ordered to investigate a disturbance near Alma yseg Company store when he was shot Rowe said his men sought Hurley’s brother and ramped up the pursuit in Kentucky and West Virginia days after the incident
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Pikeville
G. C. Rowe
Homer Wolford
Fleming Hurley
Matewan
W. VA
Wolford
Almayseg Company
Tom Norman
Coe
Rowe
Hurley
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Medico-Dental Economic Conference of Pennsylvania
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Sap
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S. J. Sublette
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