Alabama Legislature Advances Key Revenue Bill Amid Debate
Montgomery June 15 AP Alabama's 1935 legislature reports progress with major bills moving forward or being rejected. The general revenue measure clears House passage after adding a $2000 home stead exemption while facing Senate revision. Other actions include a chain store tax hike, auto license tag price increase, and a pay raise for legislators under court scrutiny. The session also sees votes on reapportionment, a fair practice bill, and governor appointment powers for the state docks commission.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House
Senate
Leest
Arnold Bil
W. B. Leedy
Birmingham
Supreme Court
Bibb Graves
Leedy
Hia
Mike
Arnold
Stephens
Lusk
State Docks Commission
Denson
Fragmentary sports commentary and broadcasting jibe
The piece complains about hidden broadcasters and media bias in sports coverage. It mentions Kate Smith as a rare correct predictor and mocks figures who reveal payers, calling for open broadcasting of sporting events and criticizing Henry Ford for controlling who pays.
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Beverly Hills
Maxer
Kate Smith
Katie
Henry Ford
Diszy
Roper Fires Aide Refusal To Quit Commerce Bureau
President Roosevelt appoints John Monroe Johnson of South Carolina as assistant secretary of commerce in place of Ewing Mitchell of Missouri, dismissed after refusing to resign. The move aims to tighten supervision of engineering and transportation bureaus and seek a man with broad engineering and administrative experience. Mitchell, an attorney and early Roosevelt supporter, was offered a legal post but refused to resign.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John Monroe Johnson
South Carolina
Commerce
Ewing Mitchell
Missouri
Roper
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Mitchell
Perjury Charged After Kidnap Verdict
In Oklahoma City on June 15, star witness Molly O Edison a Denver attorney was arrested on a federal perjury charge moments after Ben Laske was convicted of conspiracy in the Charles F Urschel kidnapping case. Edison testified Laske received $2970 in bills not the $20 ransom note alleged. Bond set at 5000 dollars, with a preliminary hearing scheduled Friday.
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Francis Barden
Oklaboma City
Ben BP
Laske
Denver
Charles F. Urschel
Molly O. Edison
Lasha
Kidpepers
Charles F. Arachel
America
Laska
Albert Bates
Feldman
Edison
Edgar 8. Vaught
Ex-Wife Acquitted in Kentucky Theater Slaying
Eva Cooper Wilson, 38, once married to J Truesdale Wilson, was acquitted by a Stanford jury of murder for killing her successor in a theater lobby last February. She testified temporary insanity and the unwritten law saying her former wife of the victim, Mrs Marc Dutton Burns Wilson, had tormented her and broke up her home.
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Stanford
Eva Cooper Wilson
J. Truesdale Wilson
Treasury Position Washington June 13 Receipts and Balance
Treasury data shows June 13 receipts of 17 million 259 thousand 256 dollars and 17 cents expenditures 14977 604 61 balance 2 008 134 726 63 customs receipts for the month 23 192 042 14.
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Treasury
Washington
Treasuy
Economist Sees Better Business After NRA Codes Suspended
Cleveland June 15 AP Col Leonard P Ayres famed economist predicts a period of improved business conditions will follow the suspension of NRA codes The first conclusion is that conditions will probably improve after necessary readjustments of business practices are made He warns against undue optimism and says a strong industrial recovery depends on increased building activity and renewed corporate financing through long term bonds for expansion and equipment upgrades Ayres notes that during two years under the codes American industry posted one of the worst recovery records among nations.
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Cleveland
Leonard P Ayres
Col. Ayres
Florida Offers Reduced Fishing License For Nonresidents
Florida cuts nonresident fishing license fees to 55.5 dollars and begins issuing terms immediately. The Florida conservation department ruled the reduced rates take effect now, after earlier plans tied to a July 1 start and a separate game and freshwater license commission. Continued on page four.
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Florida
Eagle
Tallahassee
Associated Press
Florida Conservation Department
Prosecution Site Still Open in Weyerhaeuser Kidnap Case
Tacoma June 15 AP A federal state choice looms for Harmon and Margaret Waley in nine year old George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. J Edgar Hoover stated state court trial preferred if possible. Pierce County Prosecutor Harry H Johnston ready to handle with conditions. William Mahan’s arrest sought before arraignment. boy held two hours in Olympia jail with Federal agents.
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Tacoma
Harmon
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Federal District Court
J. Edgar Troover
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Washington
Harry H. Johnston
Pierce County
Johnston
William Mahan
Young Weyerhaenser
Olympia
George
Recovery of Boy's Body Ends Frantic Nine Day Hunt
The body of five year old Jackie Kaul was recovered from the East River nine days after his disappearance from a Sutton Place playground. Identification was made by his father John Kaul at Fordham Hospital morgue where he collapsed. Police pursued two theories including accidental fall or abduction by a woman.
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New York
Jackie Haul
East River
Sutton Place
Manhattan
John Kaul
Bronx
Fordham Hospital
Pollee
New Deal Leaders Push for Roosevelt Legislation Hope
Washington reports leaders in both parties to press Congress into advancing the Roosevelt program. The Senate leads on must legislation while the House struggles to catch up and avert a July adjournment. NRA extension, social security talks, and wealth tax proposals dominate debate as lawmakers seek to push bills through amid battles over anti trust, codes, and taxes.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Harper Sibley
United States Chamber of Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
NRA
Supreme Court
The
Trade Commission
Sibley
Nha
Long
Lousiana
Roosevelt Bnl
Boy Wins Race For Gun Then Kills His Father
A 15 year old boy, held at Gretna jail, is accused in the shooting death of his father near Nine Mile Point on the Mississippi river. He surrendered after claiming they both raced for a gun in a field and he fired as his father advanced. The boy said he acted after his father threatened to kill him over his mother’s whereabouts.
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New Orleans
Gretna
Ag Frank Najola
Nine-Mile Point
Mississippi River
Ernest M. Conzelman
Jefferson Parish
St. Cloud Hoarder Buys Car With Penny Pile
In St. Cloud Minnesota on June 15 AP reports W. A. Kennedy used a peculiar method to buy a car offering pennies and small change totaling 410.44 dollars. He counted 5164 pennies 420 half dollars 360 quarters and 59 dollars in currency for the purchase.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
W. A. Kennedy
Sheriff Seizes Whiskey Truck Test Of Carrier Rights
Sheriff May refuses to release a 69 case whiskey cargo to Gooch of Kentucky, claiming the bill of lading is forged and planning a test case on common carrier rights through a dry state. Drivers Stokes and Glover arrested, bonded, and released as Mose Harper halted the speeding truck Monday night.
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Alex May Saelardey
Gooch Wholesale Liquor Distributing Company
Kentucky
May
C. EB. Murphy
Consignee
Murphy
Gooch Company
Motorscout
Mose Harper
Roy Stokes
John Glover
Last Minute Bulletins: Convicted Brother-in-Law Slaying
Wooding Brown, 25, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for manslaughter in the death of his brother-in-law Albert Ledller near Lackton on May 24. Fred Kirsch of the Imperial Sports Palace in Berlin wired Jimmy Brenano to offer James J. Braddock $20,000 to meet Max Schmeling in Berlin in September. Haywood Patterson and Clare Norris, two defendants in the Seediabarn case, were removed from Kilby prison death row and sent to Jefferson County Fair in Birmingham, while seven others remain jailed.
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Tuescalonsa
Wooding Brown
Albert Ledheller
Neer Lack
NEW OK
Tone 15
Capris
Fred Kirsch
Prremoter
Imperial Sports Palace
Berlin
Jimmy Brenano
Sue Therby
James J. Bradfeck
Max Schsmeling
Montoomers
Lane 1
Haywood Patterson
Snl
Clare
Enen Norris
Negen
Kilby Privon
Tiukep
Jefferson County Fair
Birmingham
Gadsden Route Kirkland Dies in Auburndale
Gadsden route carrier Kirkland, native of Perthan Alabama, died last night in Auburndale from a heart attack after a fall from a door when he stumbled while loading a vehicle. Survived by widow, three daughters and four sons.
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Fliadeden
Kirklend
Perthan
Ala
Auburndale
Japan backs fiat to China with bayonets report from Tientsin
Japanese forces extend into Tientsin and Peiping with fresh demands on Chinese authorities after four Japanese were detained in Changpei. Gen Yo Ying Chen meets in Nanking as China faces orders to curb anti Japanese elements in Chahar and ensure apologies and punishments.
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Tientsin
China
Japan
Peiping
Shanhaikwan Inday
Chahor Province
Changpei
Yo Ying-Chiin
Nanking
Hopei Province
Tientain
Shanhaikwan
Great Wall
Chahar
Britain expands air defense on war time basis
London reports eight battalions formed immediately for anti air craft defense. Five will become searchlight units while three, including the Royal Fusiliers, convert to anti aircraft artillery brigades. The plan funds about 2.25 million dollars and targets London area with giant searchlights and radar like beams.
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London
Great Britain
Work Office
Royal Fusiliers
Army Council
Great Midland
War Office
War Offices
House of Commons
England
Seung
Kunener
Tadiy
Capt Key Clarifies Paragraph of Report About Salvation Army Post
Capt Key addresses confusion in a Dothan Salvation Army post report. He states the article’s basis was unclear and that the Saturday pacograph recording details should have been edited for accuracy.
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Dothan
Salvation Arn
Hwan
Jack Key
Key
Poyner Sets City Election for July 18
Probate Judge Saxon Poyner issues a proclamation scheduling the city election for July 18. Candidates must qualify by June 28 with a petition signed by voters, under the interpretation that both the signer and the signatories are qualified voters. The council will oversee the election, with three commissioners elected to staggered three year terms beginning October after the vote.
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Dathan
Saxon P. Poyner
J. C. Ezell
Dolhan
Commission
Threatened Soft Coal Strike Called Off At FDR Bid
Washington June 15 AP The projected bituminous coal strike was called off today as a joint conference of United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators unanimously accepted President Roosevelt's plan to extend wages housing and working conditions through June 30. John A Lewis warned if Pocahontas Tug River and Greenbriar do not accept the wage and hour extension production could halt Monday. The conference will reassemble June 24 to renew talks on further contracts.
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Washington
United Mina
Appalachian
Roosevelt
John A. Lewis
DB. C. Kennedy
Pocahontas
Tug River
Williamson
Logan
Greenbriar
Southern Appalachian
Hazard
Harlan
Port of Virginia
Lowlea
Sennedy
Lewis
Riding With Drunk May Cost Alabamians Lot
A Montgomery report notes a proposed Alabama law to penalize passengers who knowingly ride with a drunken driver. Representative Hill argues for equal treatment, stating drunk groups share responsibility, while Hamner of Tyla has moved for a favorable committee report.
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Montgomery
House Committee
Representative Hill
Hill
Ole Miss Nears Half Way Mark in Endurance Flight
MERIDIAN MISS June 15 AP The endurance plane Ole Miss piloted by Al and Fred Key aims for the halfway point of the present world endurance test shortly after midnight. The brothers seek to beat the current record of 53 hours 41 minutes 30 seconds. The craft carries full radio equipment enabling 24 hour communication. No serious trouble reported so far and the pilots say evening is fine.
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Meritiat
Miss
Ole Miss
Fred Key
Meridian Brothers
Fred
E Veryning
Taxpayers Rush to Beat Income Tax Payment Deadline
Taxpayers filled the treasury counters as June installments neared the midnight deadline. The AP report notes a rush to complete payments with expectations for the installment total and revenue impact.
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Waseven Pton
Treasury
Tativingg Jn
Weather Forecast Damp Weekend Across Regions
The forecast covers Alabama and Northwest Florida with mostly cloudy skies and local showers Friday night through Sunday. Regional outlook calls for unsettled conditions, occasional showers, and seasonal temperatures across the central and East Gulf states.
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Alabama
Florida
Tral
East Gulf States
Bis
England's spinsters push earlier pension age
In Edinburgh on June 15 AP reports 2.5 million English spinsters seek pension reform. They want the qualifying age lowered from 65 to 53 and larger weekly payments, with branches of the Women’s Pension Leagues forming nationwide. Lady Astor supports the effort.
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Edinburgh
England
Women’s Pensione Leagues
Lady Astor
Scotland
League
County Adult Schools to Close Next Thursday
Houston county will end its term with 31 adult schools closing Thursday per Superintendent Solomon Baxter. Commencement will be held at several schools after Friday night plays began in Madrid. Ardila and Smyrna plan Friday night performances. over 300 pupils are enrolled in general courses from reading to stenography and bookkeeping.
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Houston County
Solomon Baxter
Madrid
Ardila
Smyrna
Pathan
Child Fractured Skull After Fall From Awning
Mr and Mrs Daniels of Sherman heard a radio plea while driving near Fort Worth. By phone they learned their two year old son Charles was in a hospital with a fractured skull from a fall from a broken awning.
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Fort Worth
Tex
June W.japi
W. B. Daniels
Sherman
Daniela
Charles
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