Roosevelt Seeks Law Limiting Tax Exemptions on Bonds and Salaries
President Roosevelt presses for a short law to end tax exemptions for income from state and local bonds and for state and local officials salaries. He argues a progressive income tax and broad exemptions cannot coexist and urges equal treatment for government and private earners. Congress debates a two year modified undistricted profits tax and a flat capital gains tax while awaiting action on bond and salary exemptions.
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Ohn Marshall
Supreme Court
U. S
States
Marshall
Roosevelt
Ether debate and chemurgy spark science talk
Reports discuss experiments with moving clocks and ether concepts, noting hydrogen atom tests show time dilation. The term chemurgy is praised as a farm science industrial move led by Dr. Hale, with projections of national income and state testing plans.
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William J. Hale
Midland
Mich
Omaha
Wheeler McMillen
Mississippi
Hugh L. White
Divorces in Bahamas and custody case headline
The Bahamas court voids Reno divorce rulings and clears Forrester Scott after a Miami voyage to recover two daughters. Scott was arrested for attempting to kidnap the children during the incident.
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Forrester Scott
Philadelphia
Scott
Bahamas
Miami
Ford Brotherhood of America seeks work guarantees
A Dearborn based Ford Brotherhood of America claims 21 400 members and seeks guarantees of work and income per member from Ford Motor Company. CIO talks with GM over Buick and Chevrolet grievances in Flint as a two day strike at Gar Wood Industries ends with a plan to share 20 percent of firm dividends. Frank B. Noyes to retire as AP president. Robert McLean elected to succeed him. Methodist Episcopal Church South considers merger with other branches amid anti merger opposition. Virginia Senator Carter Glass backs anti merger stance. Municipal bankruptcy law void two years ago is being updated to aid 3 000 distressed localities. Washington state legislature summoned by Lt Gov Meyers. Martin's absence complicates authority. YWCA League warns against press bias while studying political economy in St Louis. LaFollette calls for liberal momentum and big public works with higher taxes. Four U S Senate seats in primaries Tuesday. Hill unopposed in Alabama. Hitchcock opposed in South Dakota. Pepper challenged in Florida. Van Nuys seeks re election in Indiana. Pennsylvania WPA probe into political coercion. Gov Earle dismisses Margiotti amid graft concerns.
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Ford
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General Motor
Buick
Cevrolet
Flint
Gar Wood Industries, Inc
Detroit
U. S. Senate
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Lister Hill
South Dakota
Herbert E. Hitchcock
Tom Berry
Fred H. Hildebrandt
Florida
Claude Pepper
Dave Shultz
J. Mark Wilcox
WPA
Indiana
Frederick van Nuys
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Charles J. Margiotti
In Short Pennsylvania electrocutions and scattered disasters
A jumble of historical items reports three men electrocuted in Pennsylvania for a 41 cent holdup slaying. Tornadoes caused six deaths across five states. A plane forced down near Cuba and Jamaica rescue operations followed. Strikes and arrests span Columbus Ohio and Rochester New York. Names include archbishop espionage arrests in Russia and various legal cases involving Simone Simon’s secretary Jackie Coogan and others.
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Cuba
Jamaica
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Rochester
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Russia
Simone Simon
Jackie Coogan
Albania
Zog
Geraldine Apae Eerence Warren Pershing
Geneneral
Muriel Bache Richards
Jules Seu Gootas Grey Barnard
Charles Sumner Hamlin
Federal Reserve
Michael Selwyn
Charlie Chapin
John M. Landon
Alf M. Lan
New Irish Presidency and Baltic Shifts Highlight 1930s Tensions
Dr. Douglas Hyde, 78, named president of Eire as Irish leaders seek a trade and arms pact with Britain while Ulster remains unresolved. Estonia returns to parliamentary rule under Konstantin Paets with a two house system, and Daladier moves to govern France with production focused reforms. France asks League aid for Austrian refugees ahead of May 9 council.
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Douglas Hyde
Irean
Ireland
Dr. Hyde
Eire
Ulster
Northern Ireland
DeWitt Mackenzie
France
League of Nations
League Council
Navy budget surge and war games in progress
The presidented signed a 546 million appropriation to run the navy for another year as Pacific war games wind down. Senate debates a larger navy while critics call it a desperate effort. antiwar demonstrations grow as government tax and wartime costs rise.
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Ince
Italy
Japan
Senate
Michigan
Vandenberg
America
Idaho
Borah
Colorado
Johnson
Europe Eyes U S Deals for Warplanes
Five British buyers visited America this week to scout warplanes. Officials weigh risks of reviving 1915 1916 style tensions while Germany questions access to helium for airships after the Hindenburg disaster.
Wars and unrest swirl across Asia and Europe in week of battles
Chinese guerrillas face a supreme test as Japanese forces rush troops to recapture Taierhchwang and squeeze China from Peiping to Shanghai. Elsewhere Japan drives near Outer Mongolia while conflict and political talks unfold in Spain and Palestine with British mediation in Jerusalem.
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Imce
Taierhchwang
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Peiping
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Outer Mongolia
Toussia
Russia
Henlein and the SdP in Czechoslovakia tensions rise
The report details Konrad Henlein leader of the SdP in Czechoslovakia urging autonomy for 3.5 million Germans and forming potential conflict. Allies’ diplomacy and German pressure across Hungary Poland Austria and Italy frame a growing regional crisis.
Explosion in Virginia mine kills forty five workers
A coal dust ignition in a Grundy Virginia area mine last weekend killed 45 miners. The report notes ongoing danger from dust and gas in modern mining despite improved methods and cites another deadly blast near Pottsville, Pennsylvania, this week where seven men died from suspected gas ignition.
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Grundy
Pottsville
Quotes from leaders warn on business, government and hunger
James A Farley argues that business withdrawal harms public goodwill. Herbert Hoover says democracy tolerates some inefficiency but not immorality that rots the system. Fiorello LaGuardia imagines sugary bread as a remedy for undernourishment. Alfred P Sloan Jr warns political control of industry as a cancer eroding society.
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Herbert Hoover
Fiorello LaGuardia
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Coming Up Sunday May Day and National Music Week
The listing notes events including Child Health of National Music Week starting, Scotland's Empire exhibition opening in Glasgow, Monday Pulitzer awards, a German Colonial exposition in Munich, U S Chamber of Commerce in Washington, and a royal wedding between Hohenzollern Prince Louis Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillowna. Also mentions Hitler visiting Rome, Poland constitution Day, primaries in several states, the Kentucky Derby, and the Delaware Tercentenary pageant in Dover.
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