United States Proposes Ten Percent Tariff Cut
At the world economic conference a tentative plan urges a general ten per cent tariff reduction and continued tariff truce. The proposal, presented by the American delegation, aims to simplify currency controls and stabilize exchanges to reduce fluctuations while keeping rates flexible.
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U. S
DeWitt Mackenzie
London
Washington
Roosevelt
Bolivia
Chile
Dominican Republic
Greece
Guatemala
Iceland
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
Uruguay
Alfred Hugneberg
Africa
Hugenberg
Commission
The
Economic Commission
United States
Argentina
Britain
Four Officers And Bandit Die In Kansas City
Gunmen killed four officers and wounded another at Union Station as they tried to free Frank Nash, the Oklahoma mail train robber being returned to Leavenworth federal prison. The incident occurred in Kansas City on June 17.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Frank Nash
Oklahoma Mail
Leavenworth Federal Prison
Nash
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
T. J. Higgins
R. E. Vetterli
United States Bureau of Investigation
Kansas
Missouri
Sajury
Frank Smith
Department of Justice
Raymond J. Caffrey
Bureau of Investigation
W. J. “Red” Grooma
Otto Reed
McAlester
Oklo
F. J. Lackey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lackey
Lenoir Girl Dies From Poisoning
Miss Margaret Dula age 19 of Lenoir was found dead in a hotel room with an empty poison bottle and a suicide note stating she could not live without a Le noir youth. Police report she left home after an argument, checked into the hotel alone, and was discovered by a hotel porter. Her family survives. inquest pending.
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Lenoir
Margaret Dula
Mra
BE. Dula
Miss Dula
North Carolina
Michigan approves pari mutuel horse racing bill
Lansing June 17 news reports the Michigan legislature approved pari mutuel horse racing in its closing hours. Indications point to Gov. William A. Comstock signing the measure into law.
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Lansing
Med
Michigan
William A. Comstock
Emergency Relief Fund to Put Over Million to Work by October 1
Detroit June 17 Harry L Hopkins administrator of the 500 million federal emergency relief fund announced at the national conference of social work that about 1,000 new public works projects will employ 1,000,000 men by October 1. He urged cooperative federal state county city relief administration and warned against starvation wages.
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Detroit
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief Fund
National Conference of Social Work Today
Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
O. K
Navy
Wallace
Joseph B. Eastman
Commerce Department
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Springfield
Missouri
Four Wounded As Police Trap Robbers In Doctor's Office
In Lafayette Indiana on June 17 a gunfight ended with two police officers and two suspects wounded. Harry Huston a sanitarium assistant manager aided police by taking a machine gun from a wounded officer and firing on the fleeing robbers.
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Lafayette
Ind
Fayette
Harry H. Huston
J. Wesley Wilson
Paul Klinker
Robert Sanders
P. T. Murphy
Nashville, Tenn
Frank Byrd
Indianapolis
Plan to draft trade rules for knitwear industry
Roy A. Cheney, secretary of the American Knitwear Manufacturers association, reveals plans to draft trade practice rules for all underclothing makers under the recovery bill. A June 18 meeting will form an executive committee to prepare codes of unfair competition for submission to federal administrator Hugh S. Johnson, with August 1 set as the target date for rules to take effect.
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Washington
Roy A. Cheney
American Knitwear Manufacturers Association
Arthur Reis
Robert Reis and Company
New York
Rayon and Silk Group
Yale Club
Chenep
Hugh S. Johnson
Cheney
Gandhi Ordered to Rest in India
Poona dated June 17 report says Mahatma Gandhi’s three week fast failed to improve. Six physicians monitoring him report stagnant weight and rising blood pressure. They direct four weeks of complete mental and physical rest for Gandhi.
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Gandhi
Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Plane crash kills pilot in training near Detroit
Detroit June 17. Second Lieutenant Jerome P. Thompson 24 of Helena Arkansas was fatally injured and his mechanic Dewey Miracle of Oaklandon Indiana seriously hurt when the army pursuit plane they were flying during practice flights crashed north of the city this morning.
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Detroit
Jerome P. Thompson
Helena
Ark
Dewey Miracle
Oaklandon
Ind
Here
Government Administrators Push Forward National Recovery Program
Washington dispatch reports the Roosevelt administration advancing the National Recovery Act with strong warnings against rushed industrial codes. Hugh Johnson heads the industrial control plan while Donald Sawyer leads the public works program and a first $25 million contract batch is set.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
Donald H. Sawyer
Federal Employment Stabilization Board
Public Works
Moody and Ryan lose Kent doubles final to Round and Heeley
Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth Ryan, former Wimbledon champions, were defeated 6-4 6-4 in the Kent championships women’s doubles final by Mary Heeley and Dorothy Round of England.
Chicago to get stainless steel train at 120 mph
Contracts were signed for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad to build a three car stainless steel train. The articulated train will be powered by a diesel electric motor and capable of traveling at 120 miles per hour.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Robbery Strikes Lamont Bank as Safe Is Stolen
In Enid on June 17 two men attacked Citizens Bank at Lamont taking the safe containing $5,000 amid a shower of bullets and buckshot.
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Enid
Okla
Citizens Bank
Lamont
Two Robbers Stop Car In Hearne Highway Underpass Fatally Shoot Woman
Miss Ledelle Hammond aged 20 was shot and killed and her companion Ervin Conway aged 21 wounded in the shoulder when two men and a woman stopped their car at an underpass on the Hearne highway to rob them.
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James McDonald
Paul Roby
Ruth Edwar
Frankfort
Ind
Byrd
Lafayette
Huston
Fpf
A. Loop
Bryan
Tex
Ledelle Hammond
Ervin Conway
Hearne Highway
Shooting Near Concord Claims Highway Dept Employee
KR Apperson age 38 employed by the state highway department was shot to death near here last night. Blume Weddington aged 20 surrendered to police a short time later after admitting the shooting. Weddington lived where Apperson was a boarder.
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Concord
Apperson
State Highway Department
Blume Weddington
Weddington
Short Talks on Advertising and Social Progress
The text treats advertising as a powerful social force shaping civilization and progress. It argues advertising benefits consumers by informing choices, fuels competition, expands purchasing power, supports culture through media and the arts, and sustains industry via sales. It also notes the educational role of affordable media and the broad reach of advertising in modern life.
Bread Prices Could Rise From Wheat Taxes
Washington dispatch reports debate over 30 cent per bushel processing taxes to fund wheat relief. George N Peek predicts only a slight rise, bakery reps pledge to pass on only the tax, not use it to boost prices. Peek notes past price spreads in wartime and 1932 show producer costs influence bread costs.
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Washington
George N. Peek
Organisation of Bakers
Peek
Kansas City
Jury rules beer non intoxicating in Canton case
A jury absolved a dealer accused of violating state prohibition laws after hearing testimony that a witness drank 45 bottles of 3.3 percent beer in a day and still went home sober. The jury ruled the beer non intoxicating, and the case centered on whether the beverage qualified as intoxicating.
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Canton, Mies
R Albert Taylor Dies At Lexington
R Albert Taylor 72 died at his home route 2 Lexington after a brief illness. Funeral services Sunday at 3 pm at Lebanon Lutheran Church with Rev Fisher and Dr J C Leonard officiating. Interment in churchyard. Survived by six sons Joe Charley Jesse Jack Roby of Lexington and Horace of Hickory and two daughters Mrs J P Sharpe of Spencer and Mrs L T Seaford of Davie county.
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Specal
Tee Erper
Lexington
R. Albert Taylor
Route 2
Lebanon Lutheran Church
Fisher
J. C. Leonard
Joe
Charley
Jesse
Jack
Roby
Horace
Hickory
J. P. Sharpe
Spencer
L. T. Seaford
Davie County
State Gets Loan To Improve Stadium
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation will lend North Carolina State College in Raleigh $40,000 to enlarge the stadium's capacity. The project will employ 60 workers on a 30 hour week for four months.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation Today
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
N. C
Mac West in new pictures teased in Beverly Hills scene
In Beverly Hills on June 16 the writer notes three new films feature MacWest in She Done Him Wrong style, suggesting audiences should seek only Mac West appears and dismiss others as similar. The piece hints at a Finnish descent road being shown and ends with a fragmentary slogan about hauling.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Mac West
Mac
Millionaire Brewer Kidnapped in St Paul Demands $100000 Ransom
St Paul June 17 1931 William Hamm Jr president of Theodore Hamm Brewing Co is kidnapped and a $100000 ransom demanded Police report two clues a phone call and a note tie the case to Verne Sankey a fugitive also linked to earlier abductions The ransom would be paid via a beer truck to be driven openly. Hamm 39 a member of one of St Pauls oldest families faces a perilous threat as authorities pursue the case.
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ST. Paul
Theodore Hamm
William Amm, Jr
Federal Department of Justice and State Crime Bureau
William Dunn
Hamm
Verne Sankey
Sankey
Haskell Bohn
Charles Boettcher
Denver
William
Bariler
Haif
Boba
Leon m
Cada ‘Sena
the National Bank
Bank Stock Corporation
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Fred Nash
Pao Nen
Laie
Massel
Knitwear Body of Trade Laws
Flyer
Iece of Research and Education Advertising Federation OF America
Ill ¢ Rogers
Brewer
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