Demands for Tax Revision Grow As Session Nears
Washington protests by influential Democrats push for early tax revision to aid flagging business as Congress prepares for a special session opening soon. Debate centers on capital gains and undistributed profits with no White House stance from Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt Opens Special Session Focus on Farm and Wage Legislation
President Roosevelt cleared the delta for a week of intense prep for swift enactment of farm wage hour and government reorganization bills at the special session opening next week. He worked in the White House study on a tentative draft of the opening message to be delivered in person.
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Cities Share Of Relief Load Will Be Issue
Washington report outlines federal relief policy debate as cities' share of work relief funding reemerges at Congress session. Mayors conference in Washington to discuss local contributions, with Chicago and St. Louis facing mounting relief strains. Local costs vary. WPA projects often initiated by cities, with state and federal coordination on funding.
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Hot Money Freed Of Slump Blame
The Federal Reserve Board virtually absolved foreign hot money from responsibility for stock declines. The board’s monthly bulletin states that purchases and sales of American securities by foreigners played little part in the market movement, noting large sums of foreign funds returning home since mid September. Much outward flow is attributed to repatriation of French capital that had fled temporarily from the French government.
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State Health Meet Sets Opening At Danial Boone Hotel
Doctors nurses and sanitation experts discussed syphilis and bad milk issues as the three day state health conference opened at the Danial Boone hotel with joint sessions of state health officers and West Virginia public health association. Dr Arthur E McClure presided at 2 p m. Gov Holt to welcome. over 200 expected with leaders from medicine and milk sanitarians present.
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Man Falls to Death From Speeding Train in Michigan
William P Erlandson a 30 year old concert pianist from Chicago was hurled to his death after climbing through a train window on a Michigan Central line near Kalamazoo witnesses say he briefly clung to the air before dropping train crew unaware of the fatality until after passing Kalamazoo relatives in Chicago disputed the identification and a brother headed to Kalamazoo to investigate as Erlandson was en route to Chicago after a New York concert engagement.
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New York
Super Speed Air Travel Planned At High Altitudes
New York dispatch reports plans for sealed, supercharged cabins with speeds near 250 mph on American air transport within 18 months. Aircraft would operate at 20 000 to 25 000 feet with 235 to 250 mph speeds, seating 55 passengers in planes and 20 in sleeper planes. Cross-country times could drop from 17 hours to 14 hours westbound and 15 hours 3 minutes to 22 hours eastbound.
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Ifty
D. W. Tomlinson
Holiday Declared To Aid Fund Drive
Armistice day declared a municipal holiday by Mayor Dawson to back the Community Fund drive. A parade and football game at Laidley Stadium. Redskins players to arrive and attend a breakfast at the Daniel Boone hotel. Guardsmen mobilize to march with the American Legion and leaders urging citizen contributions.
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Windsor Prefers Private Life as Roosevelts Tour Is Postponed
Windsor to FDR: regrets inability to visit White House during U. S. tour. Paris police guard the duke and duchess after postponement announcement Friday night. A special patrol surrounds his hotel and two police cars patrol nearby streets to ensure privacy.
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Leftists Shift Men and Munitions on Eastern Fronts
Madrid dispatch reports the Spanish government moving troops and arms to reinforce the Teruel front in eastern central Spain and the Almeria front on the southeast coast to blunt a forthcoming Insurgent offensive. Franco unlikely to attack Madrid directly as observers note a potential multi-pronged push toward the south from Malaga.
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New Attack Made On Justice Black
Albert Levitt former assistant at torney general urged President Roosevelt to remove Justice Hugo L Black from the Supreme Court. He charged Roosevelt was responsible for Blacks presence on the bench and said private citizens face legal coercion due to the president's actions.
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Soviet Parade Marks 20th Bolshevik Anniversary
Moscow November 7 to 9 featured a major display as the Soviet Union commemorated the Bolshevik revolution. Tens of thousands marched to Lenin's tomb with tanks guns and soldiers, supporting defense commissioner Marshal Voroshilov. Stalin observed. aircraft roared over Red Square despite overcast skies.
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Navy Chief Blames Delays for Ship Building Slowdown
Washington reports Admiral William D. Leahy cited strikes, late material delivery, drafting shortfalls, and necessary changes as slowing the naval construction program. The annual review found 23 of 142 destroyers under construction during the year ended June 30 delayed by these factors, leaving the fleet short of full strength.
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Navy
William D. Leahy
Chinese Armies In Shanghai Area Facing Isolation
Chinese forces in the Shanghai region brace for isolation as a Japanese thrust advances from Sungkiang toward Pootung. Chiang Kai-shek renews commitment to Brussels Nine-Power treaty, rejects armistice talks with Japan, and warns against reliance on mediation. Japanese user plan to cut lines of supply and move toward Shanghai’s rim.
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Navy Needs More Men Says Leahy in Report
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, told Secretary Swanson that the navy requires more personnel. He said the 100,000 men funded for 1937 were not enough to man the 349 ships at sea, and noted 71 new and replacement warships would be added in the next three years, underscoring a need to boost fighting efficiency.
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Thanksgiving turkey to be larger this year in market survey
CHICAGO November 7 AP The Thanksgiving turkey is expected to be plumper than last year with higher prices. Wholesale quotes show best young birds around 15 cents a pound and young hens about 28 cents, while live turkeys fetch 14 to 22 cents. Ducks at 21 cents and geese 20 cents. overall supply similar to 1932 33 levels.
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Defeated killer Mrs Hahn faces electric chair ruling
In Cincinnati a jury, of all women and one man, convict Mrs Anne Bas rie Hahn of poisoning four men and one woman for money. She was sentenced to death by electric chair after the second ballot. Officials fear she may attempt death by her own action and searched for a poison cross once worn by her in the Rhine neighborhood. She came to the United States in 1929 and was previously known as an angel of mercy.
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