Financial feelers probe Italian war loan scenario
The piece notes tentative inquiries in New York banks about Italy seeking big loans if it goes to war with Ethiopia. It suggests a $200 million annual cost and mixed bank receptivity, with possible deals only with a respected Italian bank, not the Italian government. It mocks American gullibility and warns of policy impracticalities and gambling law enforcement failures in Ohio and Iowa.
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Ethiopia
Italy
New York
Sam
Tax the Rich Plan Opens New Levy Fronts
Washington AP report describes chairman Robert L Doughton unveiling a tentative 275 million tax bill pushing higher levies on incomes over 50 000 and steep increases for multilevel rates. The measure raises inheritance gift taxes and shifts corporate rates from 13 to 14 percent with a graduated scale.
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Washington (Ap
Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Washington
Roosevelt
Coughton
President attacks on corporate giving and press bias
The piece criticizes Laurents Roosevelt era corporate gifts as dodging taxes and buying goodwill. It also mocks Washington politics, defends an independent press, and recalls George Washington warning against constitutional changes by usurpation.
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Roosevelt
David Lawrence
Washington
Dave
Lone Raider Seizes Slots at Sioux City Clubs
Special to The Gazette Tom Brown a famed one man raider staged solo gambling raids Sunday seizing slot machines at the Sioux City and Morningside Country clubs. At the Sioux City club Brown picked up three machines and arrested J A Walker. At the Morningside club Harry Donovan a golf professional was arrested and two machines were collected. The raider visited four other places and filed gambling house charges against Joe Knox D H Hood D Farrell and Ray Gordon.
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The
Gazette
Sioux City
Tom Brown
Morningside
Brown
J. A. Walker
Harry Donovan
Joe Knox
D. H. Hood
D. Farrell
Ray Gordon
Portland General Electric to Restore 1929 Salaries
Franklin T. Griffith, president of Portland General Electric, announced that about 1,200 workers will receive a salary restoration to 1929 levels on August 1. The company had cut salaries in 1931 by eight percent and in 1933 by 5 to 20 percent. the 1933 reduction was restored last year.
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Portland (Ap
Franklin T. Griffith
Portland General Electric Company
Do mother troubles ever end in this letter
A reader worries about her daughter who holds a degree and a career yet fears lack of home skills if she marries. The columnist argues life is not harder for women and urges training for earning a living, noting men should share housework. The piece ends with reassurance and a copyright notice from 1935.
Lime Springs Man Dead By Hanging
Lime Springs, La. is the scene of a suicide as 26 year old Orville B. Austin killed himself by hanging on Monday. Coroner E L Bradley Cresco investigated and ruled death by own action.
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Lime Springs
Orville B. Austin
E. L. Bradley
Cresco
Rust Reports Boost Wheat Price in Minneapolis Market
Northwest wheat crop shrinks under black rust as heat wave persists. Minneapolis traders lift prices to the five cent limit for fifth straight day with September at 1.04 and December at 1.01. Milling quality concerns rise as newly harvested grain from South Dakota proves light and shriveled.
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Minneapolis
South Dakota
Northwest
Two Die In Crossing Crash Near Lomira Wisconsin
Two people were killed and four injured when a car collided with a Soo Line freight near Lomira Wisconsin. Victims were Esther Yakel 20 of Chicago and Rudolph Pfeifer 21 of Oakfield Wisconsin.
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Lomira
Wis
Soo Line
Esther Yakel
Chicago
Rudolph Pfeifer
Oakfield
Fletcher Aces Fight 10 Save Constitution in Radio Call
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee urged all citizens to defend the Constitution against the New Deal in a 15 minute radio address. He said the 1936 race would transcend party lines and warned constitutional barriers to a planned economy must not fall to a centralized socialistic state.
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George Washington
Washington
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Fletcher
Democratic Party
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Borah
Emil Hurja
Farley
Democratics National
Aj Fecent
Tda
Salt Lake City
Ben Ross
Idaho
Constitution
Hopson gains 2.85 million in utilities probes
Senate investigators hear that H C Hopson, called the utilities mystery man, profited about 2 855 106 during the low mood years via control of the Associated Gas and Electric system. Evidence also shows Hopson earned about 570 000 annually from private companies and about 50 000 in salaries in 1932 and 1933 as agents pursue records linked to the A G E fight and the Wheeler Rayburn bill.
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Washington
Senate
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
Wheeler- Rayburn Utilities
Hopson
Sen
Lewis Schwellenbach
D. Wash
Stewart C. Ross
New York State Legislative Utilities
Joseph P. McCarthy
Lusitania Mystery Unveiled From Hidden Admiralty Files
Aboard the Orphir off Ireland Captain Henry Dell Russell reveals newly uncovered Lusitania files from the British admiralty. The log of U-20 commander Schweiger and a letter from U boat pilot Lanz, plus Turner’s statements, promise a more complete sinking account and aid in locating the wreck. The expedition seeks to determine if the disaster was premeditated murder or due to munitions on board.
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Orphir
Old Head OF Kinsale
Ireland
Admiralty
Henry Dell Russell
Lusitania
Schweiger
William Lanz
Russell
William Thomas Turner
United States
Great Britain
Edward Carson
Germany
Bestic
Mrs Dunkel Names Evelyn Smith as Lang Killer
In Chicago Mrs Blanche Dunkel to her attorney named Evelyn Smith as the killer of 28 year old Ervin J Lang. Smith had returned from New York after arrest and faced Dunkel in the criminal courts building with both denying involvement.
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Mrs. Dunkel
Evelyn Smith
Lang
Chicago
Evelyn
B.stith
Iby
Ervin J.lang
Blanche Dunkel
German Press Signals Move to Obtain Apology
Berlin reports forecast German diplomatic steps after New York Mayor LaGuardia refused to license a German masseur and amid communist attacks on the Swastika while the Bremen was berthed at a New York pier. The Fremdenblatt demands official atonement and knowledge, not a platonic press apology. LaGuardia later said he would defer to the State Department on international matters.
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Berlin
New York
F. H. LaGuardia
Jiner Bremen
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Bremen
Fremdenblatt
Wilbur J. Carr
U.S
Washington
Geneva Drama Returns To Italo Ethiopian Crisis
In Geneva the League of Nations adjourned amid stalemate as discussions on restraint measures failed. Italy notified that Malians would attend the council meeting to discuss conciliation powers while Ethiopia disputed limiting studies to the calual clash. The council faces a direct bid by Italy and Abyssinia to shape arbitration terms.
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Geneva
League of Nations Special Committee
Mohday
INS
Italy
Abyssinia
League of Nations
Ethiopia
League Council
Holland
Italians Ready for War as Crisis Deepens
Rome reports Italians believe war with Ethiopia is imminent. League of Nations talks are seen as useless words, while ten steamships load war materiel and thousands of soldiers await embarkation. Public morale remains high and diplomatic efforts by Britain and France are judged to have failed after ten days.
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Rome
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Great Britain
France
Battle on Eritrean frontier leaves 60 dead
London reports 60 dead as 12 000 Ethiopian troops march north after a clash at Walkail on the Italian Eritrean border. The Times dispatch from Addis Ababa notes a new crisis looming as the League of Nations council prepares for a special session.
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London
Ins
Italian Eritrea
London Times
Addis Ababa
League of Nations Council
Walkail
Times
Italy Denies Ethiopian Clash Report
Rome officials rejected a Times story alleging a clash between Italian and Ethiopian troops last week, saying they had no knowledge of the incident and calling the report a gross exaggeration. The foreign and colonial offices stressed ignorance of any such engagement.
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Rome
INS
London Times
Foreign Office
Colonial Office
Bandits Held In Kansas Linked To Cedar Rapids Car
Police traced a stolen car abandoned in Cedar Rapids to Kansas City grain salesman W. E. Grogman. The three bandits, suspected in a Sergeant Bluff bank robbery, were believed in Cedar Rapids last Friday after two gloves lacking trigger fingers were found in the vehicle. Police noted no Cedar Rapids cars were reported stolen since last Friday.
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Lansing
Kan
William Maltby
Third Avenue
Maltby
Cedar Rapids
Sabetha
Midwest trio captured after sprees tied to bank robbery
Kansas troopers nabbed three men entering Sabetha area and linked them to a Michigan murder, an Iowa bank robbery, and other Midwest crimes. Howard Vernon, 27, John Meade, 19, and Larry Kruse, 24, confessed to abducting W. E. Gregman, robbing the Sergeant Bluff bank, and a gun battle with Fairbury officers. Paul Gruber to question them. extradition holds possible if Michigan charges proceed.
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Lansing
Kan
Iowa Department .of Justice
Ido
Michigan
Iowa
Sabetha
Wint Smith
Howard Vernon
Fairbury
Neb
John Meade
Larry Kruse
Sioux City
Paul Gruber
Towa
Sergeant Bluff
Gruber
Kansas
Major Smith
Devere Wygent
Saginaw
Mich
John Jeske
Kerkimer
Robbers Strike Fifth Avenue Jewelry Store in $100,000 Heist
Police said two men robbed a New York Fifth Avenue jewelry store late Monday, taking stock and a ruby necklace once owned by Marie Antoinette. The piece, valued at up to $100,000 exclusive of the necklace itself, was on display with a government certification card. The necklace featured twenty five flat rubies of one to two carats, a diamond-ruby clasp, and diamond studded filigree.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Marie Antoinette
Senate Fixes August 10 Adjournment Move
The Senate tabled a Republican motion to adjourn on August 10. Democratic Leader Robinson asked to table Hastings resolution seeking information from the Agriculture Secretary on a farmers' rally endorsing the New Deal group control program.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
McNary
Hastings
Del
Robinson
Secretary of Agriculture
Penick and Ford File Action Over AAA Processing Taxes
Penick and Ford Ltd Inc challenge the Agricultural Adjustment Act as unconstitutional regarding processing taxes on corn and sugar cane. They seek a temporary restraining order to halt tax collection of about 21 322.59 on corn and 1 993.38 on sugar cane for June, with potential monthly assessments near 25 000. The suit cites multiple constitutional provisions and asks for a permanent injunction and tax refunds if the act is upheld.
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Penick and Ford, Ltd., Inc
Cedar Rapids
Charlies D. Huston
District of
Iowa
George
Cy “Scott
Nin
Sioux City
John Morrell and Company
Ottumwa
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
J. H. Horan
Penicl and Ford, Ltd., Inc
Grimm, Elliott, Shuttleworth and Ingersoll
Penick and Ford
AAA
Armour and Swift File Restraining Pleas in Federal Court
Armour and Company and Swift and Company, two of Chicago’s Big Four packers, filed petitions for restraining injunctions in federal court on Monday to halt collection of Internal Revenue Service faxes. The action seeks to curb the IRS’s processing of certain records as part of the tax collection effort.
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Chicago
Armour and Company
Swift and Company
Chicago Packers
Bis
Earlville Boy Dies in Dyersville Car Crash
Dyersville reports Francis Brooks 18 son of Mr and Mrs Pranis Brooks Earlville died in a Dubuque hospital Monday after sustaining skull and internal injuries from a head on collision Saturday evening. Driver Neal Clute of Earlville and John Cotterell of Epworth injured others treated.
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Dyersville
Francis , Brooks
Pranis Brooks
Earlville
Dubuque
Neal Clute
John Cotterell
Epworth
Brooks
Clute
Wife Accused of Murder in Washington Inquest
An inquest will be held Monday for Wade Smith 26 who gave his wife Dorothy a revolver and told her to go shoot her. Mrs Smith faces a probable murder charge in the incident in Washington.
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Boston
Washington
Wade Smith
Dorothy
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