FDR proposes bill to halt tax evasions and avoidances
President Roosevelt announced plans to seek legislation this session to close loopholes in big income tax payments. A Treasury study found glar ing evasions by a small number of wealthy individuals, prompting actions including civil suits and fraud prosecutions. Morgenthau presented findings after March tax receipts fell 17 percent below estimates.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Morgenthau
Supreme Court
Stanley Reed
Alabama Power Company
Iowa City Light & Power Company
PWA
Capitol
House
Senate
Weather Across States Forecast Mostly Fair
Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky expect generally fair conditions tonight and Saturday. Temperature little changed. Virginia will be cooler tonight with further cooling in the southern portion Saturday. Kentucky forecast calls for generally fair weather and cooler conditions in the northern area tonight.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Saturton
Kentucky
Strike and Beer Mess Hits Alcoa Plant Workers
In Alcoa Tennessee about 16 of roughly 3 000 Aluminum Company of America workers who struck May 18 over a 60 cent an hour demand were jailed for drunkenness after fresh beer was served to them by a Knoxville beverage firm. Some were released on bonds. fabricating mill workers kept striking seeking parity with New Kensington Pa where the basic rate is 3 cents.
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ALCOA
Tenn
Aluminum Company of America
Bob Young
Biointernity
Maryville
Knoxville Beverage Company
New Kensington
Fred Wetmore
Aluminum Workers
New Legion Pool Opens Tomorrow in Kingsport
Kingsport unveils a $40,000 American Legion recreation center at the Bristol Johnson City routes intersection. The pool 120 by 60 feet holds depths from 3.5 to 10 feet and uses a dedicated filtration system to sterilize water every eight hours. A formal opening with Governor Gordon Browning and Senator George L. Berry is planned for June 32, with county and national officials invited.
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Kingsport
Tiawmond
Post
American Legion
Virginia
East Tennessee
Bristol
Johnson City
Legion
Gordon Browning
George L. Berry
Washington
Baldwin Drops Out Of English Picture Today
London May 25. British politics endures a smooth transition as Stanley Baldwin resigns the prime ministership to Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Baldwin, 69, retires to agriculture with his legacy sharpened by the abdication crisis. Chamberlain meets the king, returns to Downing Street, and awaits formal duties. A palace confer with George is brief, and honors follow as Baldwin receives an earldom and Mrs Baldwin is named a Dame. Ramsay MacDonald also retires from public life.
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Witt Hancock
London
Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Stan” Beldwin
Baldwin
Chamberlin
Burekinghet Painne
Brckingtem Palace
Conservative Party
Bonar Law
Chamberlain
George
Palace
No. 31
Downing Street
Order of the British Empire
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
Enid Vines
Ramsay MacDonald
Romance blooms anew at hearing in Jersey City
Gladys MacKnight, 17, and Donald Wightman, 18, were convicted of second degree murder in the hatchet slaying of MacKnight’s mother in Hudson county. The verdict capped a trial that hinted at a rekindling of their romance as sentencing by Judge Thomas F. Meaney set for next Thursday. The couple faced a maximum 30 years in state prison, and their reactions included a brief exchanged smile after the verdict.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Donald Wightman
Hudson County Court
Thomas F. Meaney
Bayonne
Donald
Gladys
College editor faces tough start at state teachers college
Enric Duffey a 22 year old sophomore from Tallahassee Alabama takes the editorship of the state teachers college publication the Tiger Rag amid campus turmoil. Critics allege he has never written edited or corrected a page while praising rival Leon Manley as a dedicated worker. Duffey defends his record noting an A average in English literature and prior work on his high school paper.
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Memphis
Enric Duffey
Tallahassee
Ala
State Teachers College
Er Ray
Duffey
Tiger Rag
Leon Manley
Manley
The
Tellassee
bill would curb injunction scope
Washington May 28 Intimates of Senator Norris predicted he would soon propose legislation to restrict injunctions against federal financing of publicly owned power plants He may create seven regional bodies like the Tennessee Valley Authority and would require cash to cover losses if an injunction is granted plus allow municipalities to participate in such suits and seek damages for unjustified injunctions The move stems from a long fight over government by injunction and a Supreme Court dispute over PWA power grants to Alabama and Iowa communities with loans delayed by injunctions and losses by utilities in multiple courts.
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Washington
Norris
Ind- Neb
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Capitol
Supreme Court
PWA
Alabama
Iowa
Iykes
Circuit Courts of Appeals
Wrong Fit
Salt Lake City news item reports Leida Chavez age twenty accused of stealing a dress from a beauty salon. She denied the charge claiming purchase. City Judge Reva Brel Bosone sentenced Chavez to 15 days in jail after trying on the dress.
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Salt Lake City
Leida Chavez
Reva Brel Bosone
Miss Chavez
Jal
Man Denies Operation By Him Caused Death
Woodbury Tenn May 28 Joan W Davis 65 year old farmer accused of murder in connection with the death of his wife Tad ie 34 will be given a preliminary hearing in Magistrate s court tomorrow Sheriff J T Smith said Davis was arrested after a coroner s jury reported his wife died in their cabin home early Tuesday as the result of an illegal operation Physicians who performed an autopsy reported that blood poisoning developed Davis expressed belief his wife died as the result of being poisoned by food He denied performing the operation The sheriff said Davis told of his wife helping to put a plow in making a garden on their tiny farm The couple was too poor to keep farm animals Smith explained
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Woodbury
Tenn
Joan W. Davis
W Tadie
J. T. Smith
Davis
Smith
Byrd Blasts Government at University Convocation
Senator Harry F. Byrd told University of Richmond students that Washington runs the most wasteful and bureaucratic government in history. He warned that expanding federal functions create powerful, hard-to-dismantle machines and urged keeping power divided to avoid economic servitude. He supported not dismantling the Supreme Court and cautioned public faith in its honesty.
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Richmond
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
University of Richmond
Washington
Byrd
University
Bismantle
Senate
Ure
Supreme Court
Byd
United States
Duke Replenishes Supply of Money
London sources say the Duke of Windsor has received a telephone message claiming he lost his bid to obtain for Wallis Warfield the royal file. Reports from Monts France claim Edward and Wallis will soon announce via letters patent. An associate says cash was delivered to the duke days before his marriage and a possible U.S. visit for a second honeymoon is noted.
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London
Duke of Windsor
Edward
Wallis
Warfield
Herman L. Rogers
Windsor
Sir Walter
Hdward
Chateau
Duke of Kent
Act
Ford Workers Protest Dismissal From Plant
Ford workers in Somerville march on the Federal building to protest discharge and alleged coercion by managers in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Samuel Sandberg says about 100 workers, many with long service, were dismissed from Ford’s Somerville plant. A second item notes John L. Lewis mobilizing 70,000 steel workers across the Great Lakes region to pressure Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and others amid recent picket drives and plant closings in Ohio and Chicago.
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Boston
Ford Motor Company
Somerville
Federval
A. Howard Myers
National Labor Rations Board
Samuel Sandberg
New England
United Automobile Workers of America
Committee Forndustrial Organization
Imen
National Labor Relations Act
Sandberg
le Meyers
Ford Company
Youngstown
Qhin
Taxi Driver Held In Death Of Local Child
Margaret Ruth Whittimore two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Luther Whittimore died after being struck by a taxicab in front of her home in Johnson City. Ernest Hashbarger the cab driver was arrested on a charge of reckless driving and bound for city court after rushing the child to the hospital where she died. Hashbarger said he was traveling east on Fairview avenue at about 26 miles an hour when the child appeared in the street.
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Psurchal
The
Times
Johnson City
Margaret Ruth Whittimore
Luther Whittimore
Dave Peterson
Ernest Hashbarger
Peterson
Hashbarger
Fairview Avenue
Canadian Quintuplets Turn Three In Quiet Milestone
Mr and Mrs Oliva Dionne marked the third birthday of famed quintuplets Marie Emilie Cecile Yvonne and Annett with oatmeal and spinach routine. A public ceremony and radio show followed, led by Dr Allan Roy Dafoe who previously aided the babies and their mother.
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Callander
Oliva Dionne
Tod
Marie
Emilie
Cecile
Yvonne
Annett
Allan Roy Dafoe
Emmly
Elyine Dionne
Baldwin Suffers Severed Artery in Dungannon
On May 29 in Dungannon Arda P Baldwin a teacher at Cleveland high school suffered a severe cut that severed a left wrist artery after slipping and falling against a rear license plate while rushing to an automobile First aid was given by Dr M W Stallard and an artery was tied by Dr Stallard and Dr I E Moife Baldwin was then taken home to Wood near Dungannon The report notes Oklahoma A and M experiments showing grasshoppers do not make good turkey feed.
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Dungannon
Arda P. Baldwin
Cleveland High School
M. W. Stallard
Stallard
IT. E. Moife
Baldwin
Wood
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