Government Probes Mellon's Manipulations
Pittsburgh April 2 AP Andrew W Mellon disclosed at his income tax hearing that he was offered the post as ambassador to the Court of St James before resigning as treasury secretary in 1932. Jackson questioned Mellon's 1931 stock sales to his daughter's Ascalot Company, seeking details of 380000 tax deductions and the aim to simplify holdings.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Court of St. James
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert H. Jackson
Meilon
Jackson
Mellon
Ascalot Company
Bellow
Treasury
Ascalot
American Locomotive
Texas Gulf
United Light & Power
Westinghouse
Small business man accuses NRA code authority of intimidation
George S. Tracy, president of Perkins-Tracy Printing Co. in St. Paul, testifies to the Senate Finance Committee that he faced pressure from a major code authority under the NRA to prevent him from winning a state printing contract. Union leader Smith Scoggin supports his claim of persecution for employing union labor as FTC moves to charge Rubber Manufacturers Association with price fixing amid fire hose sales testimony.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
NRA
George S. Tracy
Perkins-Tracy Printing Company
St. Paul
Smith L. Scoggin
Finance Committee
Nathan Frank Called a Lover of Women
St Louis April 2 AP The late Nathan Frank millionaire bachelor lawyer was a lover of women, attorney William R Gentry told a jury in a will contest for Mark Frank a nephew The letters on his desk concerned women and their destruction was ignored, aiding several estate claims Three women claims were dismissed The estate once valued at 4009000 bequeathed to Alfred Frank Oakland Calif and two nieces Branatte Krupp El Paso and Mr Greenhall St Louis Mark Frank not named in will
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ST. Louis
Nathan’ Frank
William R. Gentry
Mark Frank
Frank Geas
Gentry
Frank
Alfred Frank
Oakland
Calif
Branatte Krupp
el Paso
Tex
Greenhall
Wren
Early action on work relief and security bills
Washington dispatch reports House and Senate conferees pressing toward action on the $4.83 billion work relief bill and the social security program. Conferees weigh language mandating one third of loan funds to states be spent on labor, a point opposed by Secretary Ickes, while the Ways and Means Committee advances a revised social security draft. A FTC move to file a price fixing complaint against Rubber Manufacturers’ Association is noted, along with a $652,279 bombing airplane contract to Glenn L. Martin Co. and testimony about Bernard M. Baruch’s past involvement with New York Shipbuilding Corp.
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Washington
Senate
House
Robinson
Carter Glass
Virginia
Ickes
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Federal Trade Commission
Rubber Manufacturers’ Association, Inc
ERA Code Authority
War Department
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
Bernard M. Baruch
New York Ship Building Corporation
Snander
Benial
Senate Munitions Committee
Lynn H. Marndorff
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Senate galleries cleared as sergeant at arms missing
Washington April 2 AP public galleries in the senate were cleared for the first time in years after the inability to locate Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney prompted President pro tempore Senator Pittman to order the crowds out while debates could be heard. The move excluded the private gallery and press gallery as reporters remained. Royal Air Force squadrons undergo a modernization program to bring all units up to date.
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Washington
Senate
Pittman
D-New
Robinson
Chesley W. Jurney
Jurney
Royal Air Force
Great Britain
Railroad brakeman wins damage suit
JAP O. Pipkin of Poplar Bluff Missouri will receive 20000 damages from the Missouri Pacific Railroad for injuries suffered while working as a brakeman for the company. The Supreme Court refused to review the Arkansas court award. Pipkin claimed he was disabled for life when a train stopped suddenly at Hoxie Arkansas.
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Washington
Jap~o. Pipkin
Poplar Bluff
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court
Pipkin
Hoxie
Ark
Willlie Hoppe Exhibition Tonight At Madison Street Parlor
International billiards star Willie Hoppe headlines a Miller and Weiss visit with an exhibition from 9:00 to 9:45 p m and instruction from 9:45 to 11 o'clock at the Madison street billiard parlor Balkline 100 points and three cushion 35 points featured The National Billiard Association of America sponsors the tour Hoppe known as the boy wonder rose to world fame starting from age eight and won his first world title in Paris at twenty Maurice Vignaux was the defending champion at the time Hoppe was born in Cornwall, New York in 1887 and has earned his living from billiards since reaching adulthood
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Willie Hoppe
Miller & Weiss
Noeppe
Imoss
Madison Street
Hoppe
Troppe
National Billiard Association of America
Boy Wonder
Paris
Maurice Vignaux
Cornwell
Missouri Corn Hog Signers Reach 84000 In State
Columbia Mo April 2 AP Corn hog contract signers in Missouri total 4000. J W Burch production control supervisor announced last night. Signed contracts in the hands of county farm agents not yet received at the supervisor office are estimated by Burch at 6060. The state's total of signers last year was 110000.
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Columbia
Missouri
J. W. Burch
Burch
Congressman Demands Mexican Reprimand in US Rights Case
Representative McCormack urged the state department to issue public notice to Mexico over alleged interference with Americans constitutional rights. The House foreign affairs committee delayed action on a resolution condemning religious persecution in Mexico and sought state department views. McCormack, head of the un American activities group, cited alleged acts by Mexican consul Hermonao Torres in California to block a religious celebration last December.
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Washington
McCormack
Dmass
State Department
Mexico
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Special House Committee On UN- American Activities
Hermonao E. Torres
San Bernadino
Calif
Torres
Eden Talks With Polish Officials in Warsaw
Captain Anthony Eden, British Lord Privy Seal, began exploratory talks with Polish leaders in Warsaw on April 2. Discussions focused on easing mutual distrust in Europe and possible changes to security arrangements, with hints of a renamed eastern European pact to suit Poland and ease German and Russian concerns.
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Anthony Eden
W Who
Gazettie Polske
League of Nations
Poland
Germany
Den
Foreign Office
Moscicki
Marshal Pilsudski
London
Berlin
Moscow
Russia
Joseph Beck
Eden
Protest as Sailor Is Hanged Amid Capital Punishment Fight
On April 2 a naval petty officer Leonard Albert Brigstock was hanged at Wadsworth jail for killing Chief Petty Officer Begun aboard the warship Marshal Soult Jan 19 at Chatham. Outside a wealthy widow led anti death penalty protesters circling in airplanes with banners while loudspeakers played Abide With Me andSandwich boards circulated. Police logged demonstrators but made no arrests.
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London
Wadsworth
Leonard Albert Brigstock
Marshal Soult
Chatham
Violet Vandericst
Kensington
Real Baruch Steps Out Of Fog Of Legend
Washington April 2 Bernard Mannes Baruch testified before the Senate Munitions Committee clarifying his role in World War I. The 65 year old financier and adviser to Wilson rose from rumor to reveal a measured, civic minded figure who financed liberty bonds, helped run the War Industries Board, and later advised Versailles allies and American leaders including Coolidge and Hoover, shaping policy and farm programs.
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Washington
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Senate Munitions Committee
Baruch
Father
Bernard Mannes
Jeremiah
Europe
Simon Baruch
East Prussia
Bernard
New York City
College of the City of New York
Annie Griffen
Woodrow
Wilson
Stock Exchange
Woodrow Wilson
Council of National Defense
Senate
War Industries Board
General Johnson
Harding
Alexander Legge
Hugh Johnson
President Coolidge
Hoover
Protests Over Post Office Circular Delivery
Senator Clark of Missouri protested to Postmaster General Farley against an order allowing letter carriers to deliver circulars and handbills. He argued the policy creates unfair competition and will cause embarrassment and financial loss to rural newspapers nationwide.
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Washington
Senator Clark
D-Mo
Farley
Post Office Department
United States
Louis Shows Little Interest In The Election
St Louis voters largely ignored open polling places in an off year election. About 135000 of 371078 registered voters were expected to cast ballots by 7 pm. Democratic candidates aimed to sweep the board president and aldermen seats, while education seat races and a 3600000 bond issue for public relief via tolls on the Mississippi bridge captured attention.
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ST. Louis
St. Louisans
William L. Mason
Bernard F. Dickmann
William Moffitt Bates
Board of Education
Mississippi River
St. Louis County
Arraign Bremer Kidnapers in Seven Paul Court
Nine of ten suspects arraigned in federal court on the $200000 Edward G. Bremer kidnapping case pleaded not guilty. James Wilson pleaded guilty with later option for counsel. Barker and others denied guilt. five indicted for kidnapping and four others for conspiracy to distribute ransom. Trial date set for April 15. some defendants held without bond. A separate note reports Britain and Italy planning air passage rights.
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St. Paul
Federal District Court
Edward G. Bremer
James Wilson
Wilson
Arthur “Doc” Barker
Barker
Elmer Farmer
Bensenville
Harold Alderton
Bensenville House
Byron Bolton
Chicago
Bremer
Jess Doyle
Edna Murray
Joseph J. McLaughlin
Edward Vidler
Philip J. Delaney
M. M. Joyce
Vidler
Delaney
McLaughlin
Swiss order probes Nazi activities in Switzerland
In Berns the Swiss government ordered an investigation into Nazi activities as it protested abductions and the alleged mistreatment of a German journalist seeking refuge. The report notes a recent dispatch of a protest to Germany and mentions postmaster confirmations in Missouri.
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Berns
Switzerland
A (Ap
Nazi Party
Germany
Agai
Kit Klein Announces Marriage to George Nichols
Kit Klein the national men's speed skating champion acknowledges today she was married to George Nichols of Sandusky Ohio former NBA lightweight boxing champion in an understated AP report from April 2.
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Buralo
Kit Klein
George Nichols
Sandusky
Ohio
NBA
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