Sherman says Americans taxed as heavily as any nation
Taxpayers' Harry Sherman challenges President Roosevelt's Arthurdale claim that taxes are lower in the United States. He cites per person and per family estimates showing the U S tax burden now rivals Great Britain and France, with total government expense about 523 dollars per family. He warns that real costs rise from borrowing and urges economies in government.
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Harry Sherman
Roosevelt
Arthurdale
Sherman
Great Britain
United States
Mr. Sherman
France
National Industrial Conference Board
Government wage hour bill may push industry scales to state control
The proposed wage hour bill is a compromise merging sliding scales with board-set limits for each industry. It would expand government oversight, increase inspectors, and curb private business flexibility while echoing NRA restraints.
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Congress
White House
NRA
Congress Missed Chance on Wage Hour Bill
The record notes Congress lacked the will power and initiative to toss the mischievous wage-hour bill into the waste basket before adjourning.
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Congress
Eden seeks clear stand against Nazi world politics
Anthony Eden urges Britain to adopt a definite policy against Nazi fascism. He notes his past records aimed to preserve democratic prestige and treaty respect, while the current government pursues a similar goal by different means, finding the European stand still as uncertain as in his tenure.
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Anthony Eden
Mr. Eden
Eden
Wheat Harvest Nears in Kansas Fields
The Kansas landscape shifts from green to gold as harvest time nears. Handling the grain becomes the priority over economics, and farmers must gather the crop. Prices rise at the harvest threshold, but the essential work of the wheat fields continues.
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Kansas
Night air bombers threaten European peace
One theory claims Spanish insurgents have formed a Ku Klux Klan style aviation faction. They bomb neutral ships under cover of night, aggravating Britain and France as night bombers operate after midnight, creating a new menace in European skies.
Here We Come Iola Register
The Pittsburg Headlight finds humor in a Colorado high school paper line WPA here we come. The piece notes the jest while arguing graduates should seek brighter futures marching forward to meet world problems.
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Iola Register
Pittsburg
Colorado
WPA
Jim Farley
Franklin Roosevelt
Sundown Stories Feature Christopher's Punishment Tale
In Sundown Stories, Mery Graham Bonner sketches a scene where Christopher Columbus Chow suffers from hunger after worrying. He asks for his punishment, acknowledging his faults, while Willy Nilly remarks on his honesty as the crow character.
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Christopher
Christopher Columbus
Chow
Chrisopher
Willy Nilly
Mischievous Christopher Brings Courage and Curiosity
Narrator calms Christopher noting his brave acts that saved lives and his mischievous nature. Willy Nilly recalls his pond treasure hunt and a damaged watch, while a punishment of pecking in the garden is discussed and rejected as banishment.
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Christopher
Willy Nilly
Ceiling Caves in on Dottie Lavelle Night Club Act
The ceiling collapsed during Dottie Lavelle's restaurant performance in New York, injuring 11 people slightly. Police in Saunton, Virginia, shot five owls to quell a noisy disturbance after residents complained of sleeplessness. In Anna, Illinois, Mabel Keith Lesar, 52, earned a high school diploma she left unfinished 32 years ago and plans to study at the University of Illinois with her son.
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New York
Dottie Lavelle
Saunton
E. L. Bragg
E. B. Turner
Anna
Mirs
Mabel Keith Lesar
Anna Jonesboro
University of Illinois
Scooter Ban Chicago Justice of the Peace Frank J Carroll ruling
A Chicago judge named Frank J Carroll issued a ruling in a case titled Scooter Ban. The decision details are unclear due to partial OCR text. A court document appears to involve local justice procedures and a determination by the presiding official.
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Scooter
Chicago—Justice of the Peace
Frank J. Carroll
Brookfield ruling bans scooters for minors boosts kiddie car craze
A Brookfield decision expands the definition of motor vehicles to include motor scooters and bars their use by minors. The judge fined Otto Berthelsen $25 for renting a scooter to a 12 year old, a move linked to rising popularity of kiddie cars in the suburb.
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Brookfield
Otto Berthelsen
Wage Hour Bill details and penalties summarized
A Senate House committee approved wage hour bill lays out who is affected including interstate goods handlers and exemptions for agriculture seamen air workers and small newspapers. It sets minimums rising to 40 cents an hour after seven years with regional boards, a 44 hour first year workweek dropping to 40, time and a half over max, and penalties up to six months in jail or 500 dollars. It also bans child labor under 14 and restricts 14 to 16 with a certificate and bans under 18 in hazardous jobs.
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Washington
Motor Carriers
Labor Department
Senate
Federal Circuit Court
Hoover Convention Opens Amid Bandwagon For Hoover Nomination
The Republican national convention in Kansas City opened with a two hour session aimed at nominating Hoover and returning home swiftly. Dawes prospects rose. Simeon D. Fess praised the Coolidge regime while Topeka Bishop James Wise spoke at the university convocation.
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Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Coolidge
James Wise
Topeka
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Friendship
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Mabel Bell
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Paul Winter
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John A. Dent
University of Pittsburgh
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T. D. Prentice
James Sellers
Madison
Wis
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Sellers
A. T. Walker
Calvin Fields
Lorraine
Roy Catman
Bernice
John Shea
Rockford, Ill
Tuscon, Ariz
Bowie, Ariz
University dinner crowds mark twenty five years ago
Twenty five years ago a large crowd gathered on the hill for a University dinner in Robinson gymnasium with talks by D W Ross Elmer Whitney R R Price and W R Carruth. Fraternities prepared moving day as Kappa Sigs Betas and Phi Beta Pi swapped houses. A bridal pair Miss Martha Ella Bishop and Samuel Eliot wed at Zion Mission hall.
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Jesse Dunn
Alumnii Association
D. W. Ross
Elmer Whitney
R. R. Price
W. R. Carruth
I. J. Meade
Bob Johnstone
Dudley Asher
Charles Starkweather
Phi Beta Pis
Kappa Sig
Rhode Island Street
W. E. Bowersock
Cannon City
Colo
T. J. Sweeney
Grace Gibbs
Walter Richardson
T. C. Maughlin
Murder Mystery on Quanomet: Ambergris Find Returns to Octagon House
Asey Mayo investigates Marina Lorne’s murder tied to a $50,000 ambergris hoard. Pam Frye and Tim Carr, both connected to the Frye family, are suspected yet deemed innocent as clues emerge from a chaotic chase. Witnesses recount barn fires, stolen camera evidence, and a caravan of barrows on Octagon House grounds as authorities close in on the truth.
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Marina Lorne
Asey Mayo
Cape Cod
Pam Frye
Pam
Asey
Tim Carr
Frye
Marina
Tim
Roddy Strutt
Ambergris
Dune Island
Lorne’s
Aaron
Shorty
Jack Lorne’s
Chatham
Indiana
O’malley
Biffer
Gran
O'Malley
Strutt Boy
Timothy
Octagon House
Barrows
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
White Says Prosperity Will Make Better World
William Allen White, editor from Emporia Kansas, told 600 Carnegie Institute of Technology graduates that prosperity for all is essential to forge a better world. He argued tyranny pinches common people, and only by boosting consuming power can citizens become generous neighborly and peaceful.
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William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Carnegie Institute of Technology
White
Europe
Honest and Satisfactory Rewards for Social Service
A statement advocating that rewards should be honest and satisfactory to encourage real social service. The aim is to ensure the common man gains a larger share of the common enterprise and can enjoy the economic surplus needed to be kind.
Predict Early Crops
Washington reports agriculture department forecast shows better than 1929 spring prospects with a record wheat crop. Cotton tobacco corn moisture and milk production improve while poultry eggs and fruit crops trend higher. Meat supplies remain below normal due to prior droughts.
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Agriculture Department
Drouth
Alan for a Lodge Camp
The Lawrence Campfire Council lodge met Sunday evening June 12 at F Wiedemann’s home. Plans for a lodge camp June 15 to 16 at the Tonganoxie state lake were set. Reed Whetstone named Bob Wiedemann temporary social service chair. James Boyce is away. Eldred Jones reported tennis pairings next week. Regular monthly meetings will be held on the first Sunday each month. A caravan of Lawrence cars will attend the July 14 anniversary day at Fairyland Park Kansas City MO. Delegates will be sent to the Pioneer party in Kansas City June 23, sponsored by Kansas City lodges.
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F. Wiedemann
Tonganoxie State Lake
Reed Whetstone
Bob Wiedemann
Social Service Committee
James Boyce
Eldred Jones
Fairyland Park
Kansas City
Lawrence Lodge
US Navy reaffirmed policy protecting citizens abroad
Admiral Harry Yarnell, commander of the American Asiatic fleet, reaffirmed the policy of safeguarding American citizens wherever found in Chinese territory. Navy officials said he restated the stance, holding Japanese military authorities responsible for attacks on Americans.
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Harry Yarnell
Navy
Yarnell
State Department
Ameri
Evening Radio Schedule Shows Wide Range of Local Talent
Radio programs listed for Monday and Tuesday evenings feature WREN KMBC and WDAF with orchestras, news, theater, and variety segments. Notable items include WREN If I Had My Chance and Tonight’s Weather Forecasts, plus Cantor's Caravan and Amos n Andy at various times.
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Ashburn
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KMBC
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Kansas City
Ruoy Newman
Pick
Pat
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Wayne King
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Lum
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Blue Barron's Orch
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Carl Ravazza
Lang Thompson
Roger Pryor
Muehlebach
Frank Trumbner
Franklyn MacCormack
Dean Fossler
Griff Williams
Herbie Kay
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Dance Cavaliers
Vivian Della Chiesa
Little Orphan Anning
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Eedward G. Robinson
Johnnie
al Jolson
Horace Heidt
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Martin Dies
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Ray
Vic Arden
WRIEN
Freddie Martin
Johnnie Long
Muehlebach Or
Charlie Barnett
Carlos Molina
Nighthawks
Henry Gendron
Drake Hotel
Jimmie Noone
EKMBC
Hankow Shipping Zone Dispute Mentioned by Yarnell
Dispatches from the American embassy at Hankow indicate Yarnell replied to a Japanese proposal that American ships remain out of a defined zone near Hankow. The exchange centers on property and lives under all circumstances cited in the statement.
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Hankow
China
Yarnell
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