Tax Plan Would Redistribute Poverty Provokes Chase of Menace Claims
Ohio Chamber of Commerce denounces the president's tax plan as a threat to wealth and calls it a major menace that could delay enactment. George B. Chandler cites six menaces including loss of representative government as Washington debates the bill amid White House support for passage before adjournment.
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Washington
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
George B. Chandler
Columbus
Chamber
House
Ways and Means
Wel Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Progam
Capitol
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Chandler
Mrs Waley Good Witness Faces Prosecution Duel
Tacoma July 12 Government lawyers press to dismantle Mrs Thulia Waley denial in the $200000 abduction of 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser. DA J Charles Dennis launches a barrage of questions to break her claimed ignorance and fear under Dainard alias Mahan and her husband Harmon M Waley. She says she feared Dainard and did not see the boy, while the captors blame his threats for her silence.
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Tacoma
Wash
Thulia Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
U. S
J. Charles Dennis
William Dainard
Mahan
Dainard
John F. Dore
George
Harmon M. Waley
War on Plan to Tax Rich Causes Alarm
Washington lawmakers reacted to a nationwide Chamber of Commerce drive opposing President Roosevelt's tax plan. Democratic legislators feared a flood of telegrams to Capitol Hill as business leaders call the program destructive and confiscatory. The page six continuation references another ongoing congressional clash.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Pecora May Be Asked To Head Investigation Staff
Washington July 12 Ferdinand Pecora, whose role in the senate inquiry helped drive the stock exchange control law, may become chief counsel in a government probe of AT and T. Congress has ordered the FCC to conduct the investigation and allotted 750000 dollars. Roosevelt reportedly asked Pecora to accept the post. He now has a 25000 dollar annual New York Supreme Court judgeship and faces election in the first district this fall.
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Washington
Ferdinand Pecora
Senate
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Congress
The
Communications Commission
Roosevelt
Pecora
New York Supreme Court
New York
Bitter Row Over Canal May Be Settled Shortly
Washington July 12 Congress may settle a canal plan next week. House rivers and harbors chair Joseph J Mansfield said the rules committee will rule Monday on sending the omnibus bill to conference. Differences over Beaver Mahoning rivers are among items to be compromised.
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Washington
Congress
Youngstown
Ohio River
Lake Erie
Beaver Mahoning
Joseph J. Mansfield
Texas
House Rivers and
Wheeling Firemen Find Water Will Burn
Wheeling firemen report water will burn after responding to a blaze on Left Hand Tun near the city limits. Residents recalled youngsters tossing matches into the water, and sewers had carried cleaning fluid from local dry cleaners into the stream.
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Wheeling
Wheeling Fire Department
Dunkel Admits Hiring Slayers In Lang Case
Chicago police say Mrs Blanche Dunkel 43 confessed to hiring assassins to remove her son in law Ervin Lang victim of a swamp murder. Investigators named Chinese district suspects and four Chinese men were arrested as they pursued the slavers based on Dunkel’s alleged confession and payments of 500 dollars.
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Chicago
Blanche Dunkel
Ervin Lang
Thomas Kelly
Lang
Hammond
Ind
Mal Cochlin
Dunkel
Cochlin
Stratosphere Balloon Collapse Before Takeoff
Rapid City dispatch reports a National Geographic Society U S Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon collapsed at takeoff time. The giant bag ruptured an hour before 4 a m MST, five gondola workers jumped to safety, 375000 cubic feet of helium escaped, Captain Albert W Stevens had no explanation.
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Rapid City
National Geographic Society
U. S. Army Air Corps
Albert W. Stevens
Seimade
HAIL VOTE ON TV A RETURN OF HOUSE TO FOLD
Washington July 12 The House voted 278 to 100 approving Tennessee Valley Authority amendments acceptable to the president Democratic leaders predicted the House would stay in line Burns said comparatively smooth sailing death sentence not a revolt but an honest difference of opinion Rules Committee readied to probe lobbying against the utility bill RFC counsel Thomas Corcoran alleged to have tried to intimidate Rep Brewster into voting with the administration Continuous into next week promising further inquiries on page five.
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Washington
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Burns
House Rules Committee
Thomas Corcoran
RFC
Rep. Brewster
R.-Me
Death Sentence Asked For Slayer of Officer in Mercer County
Isaac Taylor Robinette faces a murder trial for killing Constable Joseph H. Davidson in Gardner Mercer County last October. Robinette was arrested in Tulsa Oklahoma months later after Davidson died while guarding two men arrested on Fayette County warrant in a robbery probe. Henry Hollandsworth of Mercer County was later arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Princeton
Isaac Taylor Robinette
Joseph H. Davidson
Gardner
Mercer County
Robinette
Tulsa
Okla
Davidson
Fayette County
Henry Hollandsworth
Treasure Trove Hidden Attic Brews Public Hearing Clash
Clarksburg reports ousted state liquor store manager E. V. Connell seeks a public hearing in Clarksburg next week as the Liquor Commission negotiates the timing. Meanwhile Wheeling unveils a dusty treasure tale with brass chests found behind a false fireplace in a Delaplaine homestead attic and a contested will from a former consul.
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Old Wheeling
Clarksburg
E. v. Connell
State Liquor Commission
Connell
D. Homer Stephenson
Liquor Commission
Stephenson
Sherman George
George
Wheeling
Louis S. Delaplaine
United States
Georgetown
British Guiana
Cleo O'Donnell Delaplaine
Henry L. Hazlett
Oklahoma City
Public utilities lobby spat over $300000 raised to defeat bill
Washington July 12 more than $300000 was spent by public utility executives to oppose the abolition of holding companies in seven years. Philip H. Gadsden of Philadelphia testified the Edison Electric Institute of New York contributed $150000 as part of the drive. Senate and House moves on the utilities bill split.
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Washington
Senate
Philip H. Gadsden
Philadelphia
House
Edison Electric Institute of New York
Justin Ward
Richmond
Sullivan
Attempt to Catch Ball Costs Life of Youth
In Beckley on July 12 a youth named Harold Mickey, nine, was killed at the Middle Atlantic league park when a ball he tried to catch went over the fence. He ran in front of a car driven by J. T. Lawson, police said.
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Beckley
Middle Atlantic League Park
Harold Mickey
J. T. Lawson
Two Girls Rescued From Dam Waters In Ohio River
In Wheeling on July 12 two girls Veronica Weisnerski and Helen Kinder, both 15, were swept into swift water above Warwood dam. Government engineers arrived by boat and rescued them from the swirling Ohio River current.
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Wheeling
Warwood Dam
Veronica Weisnerski
Helen Kinder
Ohio River
Laura Ingalls Eyes West To East Flight Record
Burbank California July 12 Laura Ingalls after soaring the first non stop East to West trans continental flight by a woman contemplates attempting a West to East record in the near future. Her 18 hour 19 minute 30 second crossing fell short of a record.
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Burbank
Calif
Laura Ingalls
Senator Long Grows Control of New Orleans Government
In New Orleans on July 12, Senator Huey P. Long appears to have consolidated power, with District Attorney Eugene Stanley resigning and State Senator Charles A. Byrne quickly sworn in. Walmsley supporters desert to align with Long’s administration as six special legislature sessions erode local self government.
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Senator Long
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Eugene Stanley
Iar
Charles A. Byrne
Walmsley
T. Semmes Walmsley
Long
State sales tax receipts rise to twelve million in year
The state gross sales tax brought 12,949,571.65 into the treasury for the year ended June 30, per a Tax Commissioner statement. The figure compares with 8,619,046.39 the previous year, reflecting a substantial increase in revenue.
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Charleston
Treasury
Fred L. Fox
Midwest heat wave abating from midwest to Kansas City
The Associated Press reports a high pressure system drove cool air across the central plains easing the midwest heat. Death toll reaches 48 with many hospitalized and 150 drowning while seeking relief in water. Record highs surged in Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Texas as temperatures topped 100 in multiple locales.
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Midwest
Plains
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
A. M. Hamrick
Kansas City
Mid-West
Fairfax
Okla
Salina
Kas
Nemesis of Dillinger Quits Post As G Man
Melvin Purvis head of the Chicago FBI bureau announced his resignation from the Justice Department. He said he would leave his government post to take on new duties and would stay in Chicago. Hoover accepted the resignation. Purvis prepared to depart his office.
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Chicago
Melvin Purvis
Department of Justice
Bureau of Investigation
John Dillinger
Justice Department
Purvis
Hadeen
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Cloudbursts Claim 5 Dead and 7 Missing at Granada
Five bodies were recovered and seven persons listed as missing after last night’s cloudburst floods near Granada Colorado. The dead include Mrs Alzada Karn and her son Leo, Mrs Anton Eder and her children Glenn and Ruth. Several Karn relatives visiting the Eder ranch and Eder family members plus six children were reported missing.
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Granada
Colo
Here
Alzada Karn
Leo
Anton Eder
Glenn
Ruth
Karn
Eder
Bill Barring Suits To Collect From U. S. OK'd
Washington July 12 The house banking committee approved an administration bill to bar suits against the government to collect damages from devaluation of the dollar The measure aims to shield the government from liability claims stemming from currency value changes and would limit legal actions against federal units over monetary policy.
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Washington
Nouse Banking Committee
Slur on Relief Clients Brings Threats of Harm
Erle P. Halliburton, wealthy oil man of Los Angeles and Oklahoma, says he has hired private watchmen to guard his home after receiving threats to his life and his wife and five children. Duncan police have been alerted to threats to blow up the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing plant, and the property is under guard. The threats arose after a remark attributed to him about not employing in his Oklahoma plant any man who had been on relief.
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Los Angeles
Erle P. Halliburton
Oklahoma
Duncan
Okla
Halliburton Oil Well
Young Roosevelt Found Working at TVA Norris
The Knoxville Journal reports John Roosevelt, 18, son of the president, is employed in the cost accounting department of the Tennessee Valley Authority at Norris Tennessee.
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Young Roosevelt
TVA
Knoxville, Tenn
Knoxville Journal
John Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris, Tenn
Extortionist Arrested in New York Kidnapping Case
Federal agents arrest Alfred Wagner of Brooklyn on extortion charges for demanding 465000 in ransom from seven families of missing persons. Hoover described him as a misery chiseler with no direct ties to the disappearances. Wagner seized at a rendezvous and had claimed funds for safe return of an 82 year old man. Page four continued story.
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New York
Alfred Wagner
Brooklyn
Chiseler
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Department of Justice
Wagner
Rose
Rssom
Charles D
Nyacknee
Sing Sing
Dorothy Annie
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Woodstock
N. Y
Sawkill River
David Howell
Marjorie Cameron
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Nemesis
Dillinger
G-Man
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