Administration Is Under Fire Over Expenditures and Budget
Washington July 13 Associated Press A flood of criticism and praise met the president tax plan as the House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings. Chamber of Commerce urged budget balance through cuts, while witnesses opposed tax increases. Rabbis endorsed the plan as democratizing economic organization. testimony highlighted concerns over inheritance, personal rates, and corporate impact.
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Clarence M. Wright
Associated Press
Washington
House Ways and Means
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Doughton
North Carolina
Merchants Association of New York
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Chamber of Commerce
Fred H. Clausen
Moricon
Wis
Roy C. Osgood
Chicago
E. C. Alvord
Clausen
Alvord
F. D. KR
Weather outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Generally fair Sunday and Monday with little temperature change. Virginia may see afternoon thundershowers on the coast Sunday. North Carolina mostly fair with possible thunderstorms in the eastern portion Sunday afternoon.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Syirginia
North Carolin
Sunnday
Question Source Funds For Utilities Lobbying
The Senate Lobby Committee moves to determine if consumers pay for the power industry fight against breaking up holding companies. Questionnaires go to all involved firms asking for fund sources and spending details amid a dispute over records seized from a utility executives group.
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Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Philip H. Gadsden
Committee of Public Utility Executives
Black
D—Ala
Gadsden
Philadelphia
Governor Denies Luke Lea Pardon
RALEIGH N C July 13 Luke Lea former United States senator from Tennessee and world war hero was refused a pardon from the North Carolina state prison by Governor Ehringhaus. Lea entered prison in May 1934 to serve six to ten years after his conviction in Asheville of conspiracy to defraud the Central Bank and Trust Company there before it failed in 1930. He was convicted in 1931 but fought his case through every court available.
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Lea
J. M. Broughton
Raleigh
Broughton
Luke Lea, Jr
Wallace Davis
Central Bank
Roosevelt Ready for Fight Rouses National Mood in Memphis
Memphis dispatch reports Representative Chandler returning with word that President Roosevelt is in a fighting mood. He says business has broken with Roosevelt and a boycott is spreading as dire lines urge no extra help unless necessary. Chandler predicts leadership in national affairs to rally broad public support.
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Memphis
Tenn
Chandler
D—Tenn
Roosevelt
Walmsley denounces allies as feud with Long widens
New Orleans mayor T Semmes Walmsley rejects resignation as rift with Huey Long deepens. Desertions by city officials and ward leaders spark mass meetings planned by the Old Regulars to push for his ouster. Long vows action, promising a special legislative session after signatures are collected. Walmsley blasts deserters and warns against accepting terms, seeking peace on his terms.
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New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
Huey P. Long
Walmsley
Long
Roosevelt
Thomas
Louisiana
Lang
al Capone
Ban-quo
Austria's Chancellor Hurt in Auto Crash and Wife Killed
Vienna reports the chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and wife were in a car crash near Linz. Frau Schuschnigg, 34, died. their son Kurt Jr. was badly hurt. Steering gear defect suspected. experts undecided on cause. The cabinet moved to consider Von Starhemberg as successor. President Wilhelm Miklas met Schuschnigg to discuss authority.
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Austria
Wade Werner
Foreign Starl
Vienna
Prince Ernest von Starhemberg
Kurt Schuschnigg
von Star
Hemberg
Heimwehr
Linz
Frau Schuschnigg
Kurt, Jr
Pran Schuschnige
Brothers of Charity Hospital
Wilhelm Miklas
Schuschnigg
Tennessee to reconvene legislature Monday noon
Tennessee general assembly to meet in extra session at noon Monday to address a $2.6 million borrowing need and unresolved debts from the last biennium. Governor McAlister works on his message as talks with Shelby County hint at a franchise tax on capital invested to raise funds.
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Nashville
Tennessee
General Assembly
McAlister
Shelby County
Young Buster Hoefer Touts New York News Visit
The 10 year old Bruce Hoefer of Sheboygan Wisconsin Weekly travels to New York with his parents to meet editors and scout plants. He runs a four page paper as publisher editor and advertiser, with a new duplicating machine and plans to learn from New York sources. He notes fearlessness in journalism and cites a piece criticizing a Gyp Grant School over a picnic.
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New York
Star of the Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Bruce Hoefer
Buster Young Hoofer
Buster
Ernest Hoefer
Dorothy Frocks
Mutilated torso case in Chicago linked to Lang family
Investigation into the mutilated torso of Ervin Lang, 28, a grocery clerk, led to questioning of Russell Anderson, nephew of Lang's mother-in-law Blanche Dunkel. Lang's fiancée Josephine McKinley accused Dunkel of threatening to kill Lang if he remarried after his first wife's death last December. Lang disappeared after visiting McKinsey a week before his body was found near Hammond, Indiana.
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Ervin Lang
Russell Anderson
Chicago
Chandler rails against sales tax and political rivals in Kentucky
Bowling Green Kentucky July 13 Lieutenant Governor A B Chandler urged repeal of the state sales tax in a rally here criticizing rival Thomas S Rhea for opposing exemptions and accusing him and Governor Ruby Laffoon of nepotism Chandler contrasted his own record aiding veterans and education for service orphans with attacks on Adjutant General Denhardt and questioned legal maneuvers in a pending case involving state troops.
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Bowling Green
A. B. Chandler
Thomas S. Rhea
Rhea
Chandler
Nee Jes
Ruby Laffoon
Speec
WHAS
Stanford
Kentucky
Col
Ben Johnson
J. Dan Talbott
Johnson
State Highway Commission
Frankfort
Laffoon
Commonwealth
E. J. Felts
Russenville
Officers Reserve Corps
Kentucky Disabled Ex-Service Men's Board
Russellville
Harlan
Bell
Jury verdict and delayed sentencing in separate cases
The report notes a guilty jury verdict with sentencing postponed. It also covers a separate Italo Ethiopian boundary dispute update highlighting Kellogg Briand pact discussions, wartime preparations in Eritrea and Axum, and Anglo Italian maneuvers in East Africa as Britain weighs near term actions.
Hapsburgs warned to stay out of Austria throne
In Bucharest on July 13 AP reports Nicholas Titulescu Romania's foreign minister warned the Hapsburg family to stay away from any claim to the Austrian throne. He said a restoration could trigger mobilizations by Romania Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, members of the Little Entente, though Czechoslovakia’s role was not clear. The statement followed talks with Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and referenced potential mobilizations.
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Bucharest
Hapsburg
Austria
Nicholas Titulescu
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Titulescu
Prince Paul
Riots mar Boyne Day celebration in Belfast
Two killed and twenty injured on a second night of Catholic Protestant clashes sparked by a Boyne anniversary event. Police and troops battled rioters in York Street as fires, looting, and stone throws erupted. several suspects faced court, with fines and weapons charges pending.
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Stephen Williamson
Associated Presa Foreign Blalt
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Battle of the Boyne
York Street
Orange Lodge
Soviet Russia chafes at new US trade pact gains 100 percent
Moscow reports satisfaction after the United States and Soviet Russia seal a one year trade agreement. The USSR pledges to double purchases versus three year average, with next year’s U.S. imports set at 330 million. Heavy rail equipment likely. Agreement auto enters into force via notes exchange between Bullitt and Litvinoff.
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John Lloyd
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Moscow
United States
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
America
William C. Bullitt
Foreign Comm Litv Inoff
Russia
Bullitt
Convicted in Lindbergh Law Kidnapping Case at Tacoma
In Tacoma Washington nineteen year old Margaret Waley was found guilty in four hours and forty five minutes of both Lindbergh Law and conspiracy charges for participating in the 200000 kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser. The verdict stemmed from her alleged role across state lines and in conspiracy with her husband and the fugitive Mahan. Judge Cushman set sentencing for next Wednesday morning, with life sentences possible on both charges.
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Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Washington-Idaho
Harmon M. Waley
William Dainard Alias Mahan
Ranson
E. E. Cushman
Waley
U. S
A. J. Chitty
Chitty
John F. Dore
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