Tax Provisions Hold Up Govt. Purchase Plan
In Chicago the federal butter buying program stalls due to Illinois retailers' occupational tax liability. State tax commission rulings say government sales are taxed, though butter is not resold by the feds. Chicago Mercantile Exchange requires resell certificates from buyers to shift tax liability, with possible disciplinary action for noncompliance.
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Chicago
Produce Trade
Illinois
Produce
State Tax Commission
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Maharajah of Patiala Dies Wealthy Indian Prince
The Maharajah of Patiala, 48, a wealthy Indian ruler, soldier and statesman, died Wednesday night in Lahore due to high blood pressure and kidney ailment. Born October 1891, he led Patiala’s 1.75 million people and owned vast jewels, a fleet of 21 Rolls Royces, and ten modern airplanes. He served in wartime cabinets, attended the League of Nations, and attended the Indian Round Table Conference in London. He was famed as a stylish dresser with lavish jewels and a limited harem. He had a senior maharanee and two junior maharaneees.
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Lahore
India
Maharajah
Patiala
Princes of India
London
League of Nations
Europe
Maharani Sahiba
One Of Every Fourteen In U S Hospitals Last Year
CHICAGO UP One of every fourteen persons in the United States entered hospitals as bed patients during 1937, at a rate of one confinement every 3.4 seconds, per a Journal of the American Medical Association report based on council findings. The average stay in general hospitals was 12.6 days, occupancy averaged 70 percent, there were 6,128 hospitals with a capacity of 1,124,548 patients, and hospital use rose along with facilities.
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Chicago
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Council On Medical Education and Hospitals
Realizes Now That Her Best Career Is Making A Home
May Manners column notes a woman abandons stage dreams for domestic life as she settles into homemaking. The piece records a public admission that fame eluded her and she will devote herself to angel food cake and steak and onions.
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Ame Sue
Hope
Kidney Trouble Signs And A Grand Remedy Ad
An old advertisement explains kidney trouble causing night awakenings and general malaise. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a fifty year trusted diuretic, claiming relief for backache nervousness nocturnal urination and related pains, urging a 35 cent package from drug stores.
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Haarlem
Holland
Baltic-Black Sea axis forms amid Baltic talks
Warsaw reports Poland and Lithuania move toward restoring telegraph postal and rail links as observers note a potential Baltic-Black Sea axis including Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Romania. Negotiations to resume Polish Lithuanian communications begin Friday at Suwalki frontier town.
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Warsaw
Russia
Germany
Poland
Lithuania
Esthonia
Latvia
Roumania
Suwalki
Lithuania urged to accept Polish ultimatum on relations
Kaunas Lithuania reported that Germany France Great Britain Russia Latvia and the league of nations advised Lithuania to accept the Polish ultimatum from last week restoring diplomatic relations amid rising tensions.
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Kaunas
Lithuania
Germany
France
Great Britain
Russia
Latvia
League of Nations
Pershing's Son to Wed in New York License
Francis W Pershing son of General John J Pershing and Miss Muriel Richards obtained a marriage license in New York Wednesday.
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Pershing
NEW York
INS
Francis W. Pershing
John J. Pershing
Muriel Richards
Trespassing Dogs Legalities Spur Fines in Britain
Albert Payson Terhune notes that British signs warning of shooting trespassing dogs have declined as people learn the law. A suburban homeowner is fined 35 dollars for wounding dogs, a gamekeeper 75 for shooting police dogs, and a doctor 20 for wounding dogs crossing land. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals supported this shift toward legal penalties over lethal action.
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Great Britain
Royal Society
Europe
Army Salute Costs Four Times Budget Limit
Washington AP reports the army's official military salutes cost 124,500 annually, over four times the 28,580 available for salute ammunition. Maj. Gen W. H. Tsehappat, ordnance chief, told a House appropriations subcommittee the department tries to hold to budget estimates, but 28,500 is all that can be allocated for saluting ammunition.
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Washington
Congress
W. H. Tsehappat
House Appropriations
War Department
Measure Indicates Army Also Eyes Pacific Defenses
The Army seeks strengthened defenses in the Pacific area as part of a wartime defense bill. Allocations include 6.7 million for seacoast defense, 12.8 million for anti aircraft needs, and 3.8 million earmarked for the Pacific region. About 6 million has already been spent since 1936 on a Pacific coast Hawaii Panama Canal program.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Navy
Pacific
Hawaii
Panama Canal
Automobile Stalls. Driver Frank Furtado Dies of Heart Attack
In Oakland, a stalled car on a downtown street prompted a dozen motorists to honk while an officer found 58 year old Frank Furtado dead at the wheel from a heart attack, authorities said.
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Oakland
Calif
Frank Furtado
Bukets Sleep Aid Ad From May's Drug Store
An old advertisement promotes a product named Bukets claiming to aid kidney function and relieve irritation, urging customers to ask doctors about it and visit May's Drug Store for local availability.
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May's Drug Store
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