Aviation deaths stir debate on air mail policy
Five army aviators were killed in air mail operations linking the air corps to mail contracts. President Roosevelt seeks relief measures, while Postmaster General Farley defends contract cancellations. The piece details political fallout, proposed shifts in air mail duties, and broader relief programs for unemployed communities amid war debts and tariffs debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Farley
Army Air Corps
Army
Senate
Post Office Department
Walter F. Brown
Brown
Mr. Farley
Hugo L. Black
New York
Rainey
House Rules Committee
War Department
Ben [Oulois
Government eyes drastic liquor duty cuts and broader controls
The piece outlines President Roosevelt and Budget Director Lewis Douglas backing reduced import taxes on whisky to about three dollars a gallon. It discusses quota shifts easing imports, fears of industry gouging, and proposed broader federal cost-regulation of public utilities and supplier costs, including a new Treasury general counsel plan and expanded agency oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Lewis Douglas
Federal Alcohol Control, Administration
FACA
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Douglas
Bureau
E. Barrett Prettyman
United States Senate
Maryland
Prettyman
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Morganthau
Robert Jackson
Jamestown
N. Y
Democratic National Committee
Jackson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Death at Dawn Reveals Cherished Photo Bond
In the trench scene amid shellfire, Corporal McTigue and Private Barnswallow carry Larrabee to a shallow grave. McTigue dies after grabbing a photograph from Larrabee, only to be found bearing a picture of his own wife Mollie McTighe on his shirt. The two men share a final, poignant discovery and a lasting, if tragic, friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArt
Air Corps
Army Air Corps
Peet
Dern
Army
Hugh Johnson
NRA
Washington
General Johnson
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Steel Trust
Edward F. McGrady
Mr. McGrady
Ngland
London
Hyde Park
Scotland Yard
Tom Mann
Harry Pillitt
Miniister
MacDonald
House of Commons
Corporal McTigue
Barnswallow
Larrabee
Tim McTigue
Jim Larrabee
Eureka Lake
McTigue
Mollie McTigue
Kansas City
Mollie McTighe
Roosevelt proposes new federal commission for communications
In a special message President Roosevelt urged Congress to establish a federal commission to regulate wire, cable and radio communications systems and to take over the existing regulatory duties from other agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Commission
New Manchu Emperor Kang Teh Installed By Japan
Henry Pa yi, once the child emperor of China and head of Manchukuo, is enthroned as Kang Teh in Hsinking. The coronation used a bullet proof car amid barbed wire and troops with heavy Japanese presence. His wife Yueh Hua becomes queen despite poor health. Regional tensions erupt as Japan and Soviet Russia spar over flights, though an official denies imminent war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Henry Pa Yi
China
Manchukuo
Kang Teh
Russia
Manchuria
Henry
Hsinking
Heaven
Yueh Hua
Apan
Soviet Russia
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Edward W. Pickard
J. A. Farley
CWA
Reedsville
W. Va
Schall
Minnesota
United States
Robinson
Indiana
Great Britain
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas
HREE
George N. Peek
White House
Tariff Commission
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Edgewater
N. J
Chester
Wiliam Hi
Davis
National
Craig
Ford. Company
Tetovery
iBy Carter
Bureau of Internal Revenue
President’s Aim
By Stewart Hooker
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WIN Service
Jim
Mollie
Emperor Kang Teh
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