Harris Seeks Fight Over Tax Bill With Roosevelt
Senator Harris of Mississippi says Congress will oppose any attempt to restore business levies in the tax laws. He defends the 1938 revision while the treasury plans a full rewrite to codify the laws and include the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes as favored by the President.
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Washington
Harris
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Congress
Harrison
Arthurdale
W. Va
Finance Committee
Senate
President Roosevelt Heads to Hyde Park for Weekend
President Roosevelt arrived in Highland at 6 30 a m Saturday and drove by car to Hyde Park to spend a quiet weekend at his mother's home.
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Highland
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Stray horse held on vagrancy charge in Chicago
In Chicago a stray horse named Dobbin was rounded up by a patrolman and jailed Saturday for vagrancy, as the city has no ordinance governing stray horses in this motor age.
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Chicago
INS
Dobbin
Sunday Gazette Want Ad Offers Wide Reach
The Sunday Gazette promotes Sunday and Monday want ads for apartments houses rooms flowers home lots or miscellaneous items. Readers can place ads by dialing 2 1121 or visiting the Gazette office with Late bidding until 8 o clock tonight. A Furnished House ad at Forest Rutgers 420 16th St SE drew 24 calls and rented quickly.
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Sunday Gazette
Gazette
Forest Rutgers
16Th St. SE
The Power of Voice in Words and Tone
A 1938 essay by Dr. Newton argues that interpretation and tone shape meaning. It compares two viziers interpreting a king's dream and stresses how saying the same thing with different inflection changes impact. It notes that gentleness in speech prevents regret and underscores voice as an influential instrument.
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Owen Wister
OConnell barred from speaking at Jersey City rally
Rep. Jerry OConnell tested his free speech right at a Pershing Field anti Communist gathering in Jersey City. Police martialed protesters as he was seized and held for an hour before deportation to Newark. His wife suffered bruises as they left for Washington to meet Roosevelt and Farley.
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Jersey City
N. J
Frank Hague
Jerry O'Connell
Mont
Pershingfield
O'Connell
Hague
Daniel Casey
Director of Public Safety
O’connell
Newark
O’connells
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Reds Boast Gain of 35000 Since 1836
New York AP reports the communist party organization commission says membership rose from 40000 to 75000 since 1936 at the party tenth annual convention. Fifteen hundred delegates from all states plus Hawaii and Alaska attended. The report shows 58.1 percent in unions and 63 percent employed.
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New York
Communist Party
Organization Commission
Hawaii
Alaska
Federal jury indicts three major car firms
A federal grand jury in South Bend indicted General Motors Ford Motor Chrysler and affiliated finance arms plus 50 individuals for conspiring to restrain interstate commerce to promote monopoly. Indictments name Sloan and Knudsen for GM, Edsel Ford for Ford, Walter P Chrysler for Chrysler and 17 others. The case marks a second federal attempt after a Milwaukee panel was dismissed for impropriety.
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South Bend
Ind
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
Dis- Whee
James R. Fleming
Thomas W. Slick
General Motors Company
General Motors Sales Corporation
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
William S. Knudsen
Universal Credit
Fleming
Milwaukee
Ferdinand A. Geiger
Cedillo Prefers Death Over Capture in Mexican Revolt
Rebel General Saturnino Cedillo, hiding in San Luis Potosi, declared via short wave radio he will kill himself rather than surrender. Federal troops closed in, planes and cavalry in a chase that ended with Cedillo slipping away after his plane ran dry. Government forces admitted Cedillo near capture, but he vanished again.
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Mexico City
INS
San Luis Potosi
Saturnino Cedillo
Cedillistas
Mexico
Cedillo
Lazaro Cardenas
United States
Pancho Villa
Confessions of Bank Theft Suspects May Free Four Men
Kansas and Nebraska officials push for exoneration as two suspects confess to 12 bank holdups across four states. Ernest McCarthy and Harry Korte say they and others held up banks in Iowa Missouri Kansas and Nebraska since 1934. No sentences overturned yet as legal steps proceed.
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Kansas City
Walter A. Haxman
Kansas
Lester Persinger
Pete Rafferty
Melvin Ledbetter
Kansas State Penitentiary
Persinger
Tion
Ernest McCarthy
Harry Korte
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
McCarthy
Korte
Imogene
Tarkio
St. Joseph
Relax Quints Eat Ice Cream On Fourth Birthday
In Callander Ontario Canada Dr Allan Roy Dafoe eased diet rules for the Dionne quintuplets allowing ice cream while candy remains banned The celebration marked a move toward ordinary childhood living with a quiet religious observance and less public exposure Guardians plan to keep the sisters out of the public gaze when reunited in a single home next fall.
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Dionne
Temperature Rises After Misty Rain in Cedar Rapids
Clouds thinned and humidity rose after morning misty rainfall in Cedar Rapids. Temperature reached 72 at 1 15 pm Saturday after a low of 62 at 7 am and 66 at 10 am. Overnight temps fell to 63 by midnight. Milwaukee trains rerouted Friday night due to Tama washouts. service resumed Saturday over Milwaukee’s tracks.
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Cedar Rapidn
Mercury
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Milwaukee
North Western
Tama
Clinton
Britain Queried by Spain Over Alicante Bombing
Spain delivered a note to Britain asking if it will take steps to prevent crimes like the insurgent bombing of Alicante civilians. The inquiry seeks clear action from London in response to the attack.
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London
INS
Great Britain
Alicante
League Meeting In Only Spot Horizon Will Avert Bullet
Arthur Bugs Baer critiques European peace efforts with caustic lines about Spain Czechoslovakia and Poland. He notes the League of Nations meets in Switzerland where the horizon supposedly stops a bullet, implying limited effectiveness of diplomacy.
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Horizon
Bullet
League of Nations
Switzerland
Canton Air Raid Devastates City Amid War Assertions
Hong Kong reports official estimates of 500 killed and 1,000 injured in Canton after daylong Japanese air raids. Entire blocks razed. rescuers faced machine gun fire while diggings victims. Attacks focused near Wongsha station on the Hankow Canton railway line as Chinese troops push at Lanfeng in a fierce ongoing battle.
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Hong Kong
Canton
China
Wongsha
Hankow-Canton
Central
Lanfeng
Conferees Called To Seek Peace In Akron Strike
Akron Ohio AP conferees were summoned to forge a peace in Goodyear Tire troubles as CIO United Rubber Workers rally for a mass meeting protesting police tactics. James P Miller regional director of the NLRB announced a truce pulling most police from the two mile clash zone and the company agreed work would not resume before 6 am Tuesday. Both sides agreed to a conference to discuss accumulated grievances with renewed picketing permitted.
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Akron
Ohio
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
CIO
United Rubber Workers
James P. Miller
National Labor Relations Board
Miller
Huge foreign spy network unearthed in Washington
A five month joint Justice Army Navy investigation reveals a large espionage ring centered in New York City with ties to three major powers. The probe aims to indict individuals alleged to have conspired to violate wartime espionage laws and seek extraditions for foreign suspects.
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Washington
INS
Department of Justice
Army
Navy
America
New York City
New York
State Department
United States
Lamar Hardy
Hardy
Move To Curtail Debate On Recovery Act in Senate
Washington leaders moved in the Senate to curtail debate on the $3.25 billion relief recovery bill and push for a final vote next week. A proposed gag would limit debate to thirty minutes on the bill and fifteen minutes on each amendment, with a possible Decoration Day recess if approved.
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Washington
Ins
Senate
Memorial Gift to Camp Fund Will Benefit This Boy
Tommy, six, faces a summer at Camp Good Health due to illness and shyness. A memorial gift to the Camp Good Health Fund supports his health and social recovery through care by Public Health Nursing nurses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Contributions benefit camp maintenance in Cedar Rapids for physically handicapped children from needy homes.
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Tommy
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Borah Backs Gillette in Iowa Primary Fight
Senator Borah of Idaho publicly endorsed Senator Gillette in the Iowa Democratic primary, saying he would vote for Gillette though not Iowa-based. The move followed Hopkins’ defense of Wearin and amid Senate debates on campaign expenditure investigations by a five-member panel to probe contributions and uses of patronage or public funds.
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Washington
Senator Borah
Capitol Hill
Iowa
Gillette
Idaho
Borah
Senate
Harry Hopkins
Administration
Representative Wearin
Towa
Hopkins
Barkley
McNary
Oregon
Garner
King
Utah
Fatal Mail Run Ends In Tragedy At Fort Bridger
Aston Boynton, 20, and her sister were returning from town after mailing wedding announcements when they were struck by a truck near Fort Bridger Wyoming. Both sisters died in the crash, the AP reports.
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Fort Bridger
Wyo
Aston Boynton
Carl Peterson
Czechs Protest Nazi Plane Incursion and Sudeten Talks
Prague protests to Berlin over alleged German warplane intrusions across the Czech border. In Prague, Sudeten German leaders meet Premier Milan Hodza to pursue regular talks on minority self government ahead of municipal elections and potential border tensions.
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Berlin
Czech
Czechoslovakia
Milan Hodza
Rain Floods Road and Tracks Near Tama
A major storm near Tama halts traffic on the Tama Belle Plaine route of old U S Highway 30. A Milwaukee Railroad track at Tama washed out and farmlands suffered heavy crop damage as two feet of water covered highways and drivers struggled through floodwaters.
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Tama
Tama-Belle Plaine
Hull urges peaceful end to European strife
Secretary Hull warned another European war could destroy civilization and urged Germany and Czechoslovakia to settle their dispute pacifically. He cited the Kellogg Briand pact and said the United States watches the Czech German crisis with anxious attention, without consulting Britain or France.
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Washington
INS
Europe
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Cordell Hull
United States
Hull
Tanker NaShaa Sighting Off Minorca After Fire
Reuters dispatch from Marseilles reports the Panama tanker Nashaa seen thirty miles south of Minorca in the Balearic Islands. The Italian steamer Africa picked up two empty lifeboats from Nashaa, and no survivors were found aboard the stranded vessel.
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INL
Reuter
Marseil
Nashaa
Minorca
Balearic Islands
Africa
Nauskaa
Misage
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