Newspaper Telegrams Seized by Western Union Linked to Senate Inquiry
A Spokane auditor uncovers that Western Union sent Cowles publications telegrams to New York under headquarters orders. The row ties to a Senate committee seizure attempt, raising press freedom concerns amid broader debates on political influence and federal relief snares.
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Cowles Publications
Spokane
Wash
Western Union
Telegraph Company
Cowles
New York
Senate Lobby Committee
Washington
INCE
Black Committee
Senate
Congress eyes cushion reserves tax plan for corporations
Washington experts tentatively approve a cushion reserve provision in the revenue bill to allow tax breaks on undistributed profits while still raising about 620 million dollars annually from corporate surpluses. Hearings by the House Ways and Means Committee are expected within 10 days as details set a 15 to 55 percent tax scale on undistributed net income.
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Washington
Roosevelt
AAA
Supreme Court
Rgleek
Robert Doughton
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means
Samuel B. Hill
Wash
Soviets Charge Siberian Frontier Violated Again
Soviet officials accuse Japanese and Manchukuoan forces of further frontier violations on the Amur river. A Japanese Manchukuoan detachment reportedly fired 30 shots at Soviet workers, with five soldiers crossing the border to inspect the diggings.
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Moscow
Far East
Soviet Union
Siberian
Habarovsk
Amur
Far Eastern Frontier
Josef Stalin
Roy W Howard
Publiser
Russia
Japan
Outer
Mongolia
Retailers Not To Bear All Of Liquor Taxes
Washington AP Committee rejects proposals to shift all federal liquor taxes to retailers and to ban blackstrap molasses in making liquor. Debate opens on making the Alcohol Administration independent of the Treasury with a three‑member board. Copeland and Murphy proposals fail.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Alcohol Control Administration
Treasury
Copeland
Murphy
Iowa
Treasuries
Overton
Alcohol Administration
Treasury Department
Senate
Chicago motorist hurt in crash near Mount Vernon
Harold H. Steinberg of Chicago suffered slight injuries when his Plymouth sedan was crowded off the Lincoln highway two miles west of Mount Vernon by an out of state registered car. He swerved to avoid the impact, struck ten guard rail posts, and the vehicle tipped into a ditch.
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the Gazette
Mount Vernon
Harold H. Steinberg
Chicago
Lincoln Highway
Steinberg
Riot in Madrid as ex extremists torch churches and plant
In Madrid on Friday night mobs of ex extremists set fire to La Nacion newspaper plant and churches including San Luis and Santa Isabel convents. Police and civil guards battled rioters, armored car operations and evacuations followed as emergency crews responded and a fascist youth was fatally stabbed in clashes.
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Madrid
la Nacion
San Luis
San Ignacio
Santa Isabel Convent
Red Cross
Alvaro Rodriguez
Luis Jiminez Asua
Rodriguez
Man Wanted in Weyerhaeuser Case Captured
Edward Bentz, sought in the 1934 Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, was arrested by federal agents after tear gas raid on a New York flat. He was found in a dumbwaiter shaft amid a cache of weapons. Bentz faced other bank robbery links and may have aided several robberies in New England and Vermont.
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New York
Edward Bentz
George Weyerhaeuser
Bentz
Weyerhaeuser
Lincoln
Neb
National Bank
Genet
Louis Phillips
Phillips
Heey
Chilren
Caledonia Bank
Danville
First National Bank
Milford
Mooreville
N. C
John Philip Weyerhaeuser, Jr
Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
Salt Lake City
Department of Justice
Harmon Waley
What is mental health and how to keep it
A 1936 article defines mental health as maintaining an even temper alert intelligence considerate behavior and a happy disposition. It notes frequent mood swings and social irritability and suggests pills or prayers as possible remedies while urging ongoing mental upkeep.
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Newton
Wm Mahan Seen In Gary Ind Report
William Mahan, the nation’s top kidnapper, was the target of a DOJ and police manhunt after the $200000 Weyerhaeuser kidnaping in Tacoma last May. He was reported seen in Gary Indiana at a local drug store Thursday night as authorities closed in.
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Wm. Mahan
Gary
Ind
Chicago
INS
William Mahan
Department of Justice
Indiana
George Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma Wash
Brewery Man Robbed of 4000 Dollars in Milwaukee Suburb
Frank Sklencar state agent for Anheuser-Busch was robbed of 4000 dollars by four men in Cudahy. Sklencar, in a car driven by James McCormick, was en route to pay Ladish Forge workers. The robbers forced the car to the curb, grabbed the money bag with revolvers and fled south on highway 42.
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Milwaukee
Frank Sklencar
Anheuser-Busch Company
Cudahy
Sklencar
James McCormick
Ladish Drop Forge Company
Ladish
Hitler Cancels Speaking Tour As Berlin Calls Urgent Talks
Adolf Hitler abruptly canceled his campaign tour to rush to Berlin for urgent conferences with Nazi leaders. He planned a speech in Munich on Saturday after addressing Karlsruhe Thursday night. German troops remained in the Rhineland amid tensions, with 30 000 troops and 11 000 police under arms, and officials denied plans to move toward the Franco Belgian frontiers while promising no troop withdrawals.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Hitler
Munich
Germany
Rhineland
Propaganda Ministry
London
France
Rhine
Cologne
Belgium
League
Widening of 161 Between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Begins
Work on highway 161 between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City started Thursday as part of a federal beautification and widening project. The cost is estimated at 75 000 to 100 000 dollars with the government funding most money and state rights of way funded by the state. Labor will be provided by the Iowa Re employment service except foremen. Local farmer resistance in Johnson and Linn counties cites prioritizing secondary roads, though engineer P W Shive expects most objectors to favor the project after details are given. The work aims to widen and level curves to improve safety, reduce snow removal costs, and beautify the road with selective shrub plantings serving as snow barriers. Continued on page 18, col 1.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
P. W. Shive
Iowa State Highway Commission
Shive
Iowa Re-employment Service
Johnson and
Linn Counties
Shve
Linn County
Realty Board In New York Offers Peace
The realty advisory board, representing owners, offered a peace plan after the Building Service strike. They proposed a new division of strikers and retained replacements, a move not seen as arbitrable by strike reader James J Bambrick. Spokesmen urged mutual concessions, while 15 percent of replacements were pledged permanent positions and 85 percent deemed unsatisfactory for ordinary duties, per William D Rawlins after talks with Mayor LaGuardia.
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New York
Realty Advisory Board
Building Service
Metropolitan Building’ Owners Association
James J. Bambrick
Advisory Board
William D. Rawlins
F. H. LaGuardia
Britain Seeks Delayed Action as League Council Opens
AP briefs note Britain wins a delay in action against Germany on the eve of a league council session hoping Hitler will offer a conciliatory gesture France demands sanctions against the Reich but Italy objects and Russia backs Paris A German financial emissary warns sanctions would cause German financial collapse and losses to French investors while new suggestions reach London Berlin reports say Hitler cancels a speaking tour and returns to Berlin for a conference
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Ngland
France
Russia
Germany
Hitler
Versailles
England
Anthony Eden
Rhineland
Eden
Britain
Associated Press
London
Reich
Italy
Paris
Berlin
House Approves 50,000 for Townsend Pension Probe
After hours of debate the House authorized a 50 000 investigation into the Townsend old age pension plan, expanding the inquiry to include all acts and conduct connected with pension schemes. Rep Monaghan urged rejection, clashing with Speaker Burns over procedure.
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Washington
House
Burns’ Gavel
Congress
Townsend
Monaghan
Mont
Burns
German emissary in Paris urges France to drop sanctions
A German finance official, Emil George Von Stauss of Deutsche Bank, visits Paris as the confidential envoy of Hjalmar Schacht to persuade France to abandon sanctions over Rhine land remilitarization. He warns Paris leaders that French capital in Germany would flee if sanctions trigger a Reich economic collapse.
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Paris
France
Germany
Rhineland
Emil George von Stauss
Reichstag
Deutsche Bank
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Georges Bonnet
Pans
Reich
von Stauss
Dr Schacht
Adolf Hitler
Schacht
Hitler
Schacht Ts
Inva
Hearst seeks restraining injunction against senate lobby probe
William Randolph Hearst petitions the DC Supreme Court to bar the Senate lobby committee from seizing current or future Hearst telegrams and to compel return of telegrams in possession. The suit also targets the Federal Communications Commission and cites backing from American Newspaper Publishers Association officials. Senator Milford Minton calls it a smoke screen by New Deal opponents.
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Boston
Hararie
Ohsister
Vthat - Rafter
Supreme “Court
of Columbia
Black
Senate
Washington
William Randolph Hearst
Senate Lobby Committee
Jerome D. Barnum
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Hearst
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Federal Communications Commission
Elisha Hanson
Newspaper Publishers Association
Black Committee
Liberty League
Minston
Ind
Court urged to keep Maley Gagen Harrison appeals separate
Des Moines AP The Iowa Supreme Court was asked to separate the appeals of Walter Maley Joe Gagen and Ray Harrison from those of T L Taggart and about thirty Woodbury county graft grand jury defendants The motion argues Harrison and Gagen should adopt Maleys argument and that abstracts by Sioux City attorney George Gorder be transferred to relevant cases The defendants seek review of Judge Earls denial to quash the indictments in a gambling conspiracy graft and corruption probe
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Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Walter Maley
Joe Gagen
Ray Harrison
T. L. Taggart
Woodbury County
Lou Salinger
Maley
Harrison
Gagen
Woodbury Grand Jury
Earl Peters
Salinger
George Gorder
Sioux City
Taggart
Maley, Gagen
Breckinridge Files For Ohio Primary
Colonel Henry Breckinridge of New York filed petitions in Columbus for the Ohio Democratic presidential preference primary on May 12. He arrived by airplane to present the petitions which bore 1,275 names from 41 counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
Henry Breckinridge
New York
Breckinridge
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WPA
Ilinois
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Relief Administration
L. S. Hill
Tax Group
Ecogpoment
Mt. Vernon
Manwanted
N. Y
Cedar Rapids News
Townsend Pension Movement
Publishers
Assn
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