House moves on veterans spending amid revolt
Washington June 6 The House will adopt the Senate amendment adding 170000000 to the independent offices bill for veterans unless the President submits a satisfactory alternative plan. Democratic leaders say they cannot stem revolt against the drastic veterans economy act as they seek a new tax levy to fund the changes.
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Washington
House
Senate
Independent Offices
Rainey
Democratic Steering Committee
Special Veterans Committee
Buchanan
Texas
Appropriations Committee
White House
Roosevelt
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Affairs
Lewis W. Douglas
Congress
Byrnes
South Carolina
Special Veterans’ Protest Committee
Connally
Ford Asks That Own Taxes Be Increased
Dearborn Michigan June 6 Henry Ford became one of the few to seek and win a tax rise on his own property. A tax expert urged raising a section of Ford’s estate assessed at 16000 to a higher tax total. The township board approved increasing Ford’s township tax rate from 89 to 248.40 dollars. Ford gave no explanation for the higher levy.
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Dearborn
Mich
Henry Ford
Mercury Reaches 98 Degrees This Afternoon
Weather records show a high of 98 degrees at 3 PM in Whitestown per Clyde Laughner's home thermometer. Prolonged heat continued into the afternoon with other readings around 100 degrees in nearby locations.
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Clyde
Laughner
Whitestown
Tas
Morgan Income Tax Inquiry Suppressed
The Senate banking and currency committee on June 6 ordered special counsel Ferdinand Pecora to drop the income tax inquiry for the present. The panel told Pecora to proceed with Morgan purchases while directing its subcommittee to draft a resolution expanding the probe to include income taxes. The vote was 11 to 6 with the minority arguing the committee had power to push the tax inquiry now.
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Senate Banking of Currency Committee
Ferdinand Pecora
J. P. Morgan and Co
Indiana Voting on Repeal Today
Indiana voters faced a pivotal repeal ballot as the state, seen as possibly the tenth to join repeal, weighed repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment amid wet dry tensions. Early voting was slow after a hail storm, with turnout projections around 750000 and Governor McNutt and Representative Earl Crawford urging their sides to victory.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
James Cannon
Commonwealth
Illinois
Michigan
Democratic Party
Marion County
Paul V. McNutt
Earl Crawford
House of Representatives
Illinois ratifies repeal strong statewide vote
Illinois today became the ninth state to ratify repeal of national prohibition. In Chicago area margins ran roughly eleven to one in favor of repeal, with fifty delegates selected to attend the state convention in Springfield on July 10 to ratify the twenty first amendment repealing the eighteenth. Repeal carried the entire state.
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Illinois
Chicago
Middle West
Springfield
Public hearings set by Boone county board for tax units
The Boone county board of review opened its annual 30 day session and scheduled public hearings for tax units. Hearings cover personal property assessments and 1933 changes, with specific dates for Marion Clinton Washington Jefferson Sugar Creek Thorntown Center Ulen Lebanon Union Perry Eagle Zionsville Harrison Worth Jackson Jamestown and Advanced Taxpayers urged to attend. The review board includes Assessor Peter F. Wilson chair, Auditor Carl C. Bowman secretary, Treasurer Granville Wells, Hassil Schenck and John R. Bohannon.
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Boone County Board of Review
Marion
Clinton
Wahington
Jefferson
Sugar Creek
Thorntown
Center
Ulen
Lebanon
Union
Perry
Eagle
Zionsville
Harrison and
Worth
Dune
Jackson
Jamestown
Peter F. Wilson
Carl C. Bowman
Granville Wells
Hassil Schenck
John R. Bohannon
Schenck
Bohannon
Crider Garage Sold to Paul Slagle and Frank Miller
Purchase of the Crider Garage at 211 South Lebanon street was announced today. Immediate possession was given. Paul Slagle plans to move his Dodge and Plymouth Sales and Service agency from the Charles block to the garage and run it with the garage business. Slagle has about 12 years in auto sales and service and four years as Dodge Plymouth agent on South Lebanon. Frank Miller, his partner, has worked at the traction power house for several years and was formerly tied to the C. W. Patterson Garage. Lester Crider sold to Slagle and Miller in February. Crider has not decided on future plans.
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Crider
South Lebanon Street
Paul Slagle
Frank Miller
Slagle
Dodge and Plymouth Sales
Charles Block
Dodge-Plymouth
Traction Power House
C. W. Patterson
Lester Crider
Garrett Returns to Frankfort as Streets Commissioner
Frankfort June 6 Grover C Garrett resumes his former post as commissioner of streets and alleys and now leads the city s department of the bus He previously served as a state motor police official under Secretary of State Frank Mayr and was reassigned after motor police were moved from the secretary s jurisdiction in the McNutt administration Garrett had taken a leave of absence from his city job to accept the state post two years ago
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Frankfort
Grover C. Garrett
Gane
Frank Mayr
McNutt
Garrett
Deadline Set for Store Licenses and Taxes
June 15 is the deadline for store license applications in Indianapolis district. Penalties will be imposed on owners lacking 1938 licenses by that date. Application blanks are at the local auto license agency. delinquent lists will be sent to prosecutors if not resolved.
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Maurice Gronendyke
Indianapolis
Lawrence Arnsman
Court House
Gronendyke
Clarence A. Jackson
Jackson
Gaddis Family Guests Visit Thorntown Relation
Mr and Mrs Jesse Gaddis of Arkansas visited his parents Mrs and Mrs Charles Gaddis at Thorntown and were guests Sunday of his cousin Alva Cory and family west of town.
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Jesse Gaddis
Arkansas
Charles Gaddis
Thorntown
Alva Cory
Boone county men enter reforestation army training
Nineteen of twenty four Boone county men seeking government reforestation positions were accepted Monday afternoon after physical examinations at Crawfordsville armory. They left that city for Camp Knox Ky last night to undergo two weeks of training before assignment. Recruits from Montgomery Fountain Warren and Boone counties include Bernard Hooton Frank Lewis Roy Fellers Argyle W La Follette Arby Prentiss William Arnold James Otis Newkirk William Boggess Jacob McClellan Thomas C Wagoner Edwin Hubble Mark Rector Henry B Dewey Lawrence Wetherald Ernest Warren Glen Wethington Thurran Hood Earl Hood and Lawrence McIIntyre.
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Boone County
Crawfordsville
Camp Knox
Montgomery
Fountain
Warren
Boone Counties
Bernard Hooton
Frank Lewis
Roy Fellers
Argyle W. la Follette
Arby Prentiss
William Arnold
James Otis Newkirk
William Boggess
Jacob McClellan
Thomas C. Wagoner
Edwin Hubble
Mark Rector
Henry B. Dewey
Laurence Wetherald
Ernest Warren
Glen Wethington
Thurran Hood
Earl Hood
Lawrence McIintyre
Early Balloting Light in Boone County During Repeal Vote
Weather stayed dry in Boone County producing a sparse early turnout for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. By 2 PM precincts reported low voting, with Center No. 5 at the auto license branch recording 300 ballots and Center No. 4 at 266, far fewer than last fall’s totals. The heaviest action occurred between 8 and 9 AM as farmers remained in fields and townsfolk showed indifference or doubts about impact.
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Boone County
Center No. 5
Court House
Center No. 4
Surveyor’s Office
Center No. 8
Indiana Condensed, Milk Company
Center No. 6
Center No. 7
Jamestown Woman Ella Harris Found Dead
Mrs Ella Harris aged 76 was found dead at her West Main Jamestown home by neighbor Mrs F Hiller. Coroner G A Owsley returning from Camp K cox investigated and ruled death due to coronary heart disease with time of death about 3 p m Monday. Mrs Harris lived alone and was last seen alive near noon Monday by Mrs Dora Morris.
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Ella Harris
West Main Street
Jameston
F. Hiller
G. A. Owsley
Thorntown Fyr
Ex-Lebanon Ministers’ Wild Washington Trip Ends
Five Indiana Baptist ministers led by Dr. A E Cowley and Rev E E Weaver returned home from the Northern Baptist Conference in Washington. A fire scare near the Capitol caused by a shorted car wire triggered alarms and a citywide commotion before the blaze was extinguished. The group also met President Roosevelt at the White House and joked about loyalty, saying they could not reach 100 percent.
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Shelbyville
Ind
United States
Indiana
A. E. Cowley
E. E. Weaver
Waldron
Northern Baptist Conference
Washington, D. C
Capitol
Morris Coers
Indianapolis
Asylvania Avenue
Dr. Cowley
Roosevelt
Power perfect in class attendance at IU ROTC
Bloomington Ind June 6 Maxwell E Power of Lebanon is among 372 Indiana University students who were neither absent nor late for any military classes during the school semester just closing. These students will receive a grade of A for their military work per Col C P Robinson commander of the universitys ROTC unit.
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Bloomington
Ind
Maxwell E. Power
Lebanon
Indiana University
Col
C. P. Robinson
I. U
Col. Robinson
Mercury Hottest Across Midwest In Severe Heat Wave
Chicago reports 85 degrees at 10 am with forecaster predicting a possible 95, an all time June high. Heat prostrations reported in Kansas City and other areas as thunderstorms expected to ease the scorching conditions later.
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Chicago
Middle West
C. A. Donner
Kansas City
Kansas
Enid
Okla
Fort Worth
Tex
Des Moints
Iowa
Jefferson City
Washington
Mercury
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Pacific Coast
Louisville
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Indiana
Indianapolis
Robinson Demands Woodin Dismissal in Senate
Senator Robinson of Indiana demanded the immediate dismissal of Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin or his impeachment. He cited Woodin’s inclusion on J. P. Morgan lists exposed by the Senate committee and called him a cat's paw of Morgan. The scene followed a Senate pledge to widen the stock market inquiry to the income tax returns of the House of Morgan and other private banks.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Woodin
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Robinson
Indiana
Woodin
J. P. Morgan and Company
Senate Committee
J. P. Morgan
Walcott
Connecticut
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
House of Morgan
Mattern Lands in Omsk on World Flight Leg
Texas aviator James Mattern arrived in Omsk Siberia at 10:35 a.m. GMT on his around the world record bid. He left Moscow last night and faced headwinds, with the journey from Moscow to Omsk taking 12 hours 20 minutes, about 110 mph, as he closes in on the record set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty.
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Omsk
Siberia
James Mattern
Texas
Mattern
Moscow
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Newfoundland
Norway
Svelovsk
Harbin
Manchuria
Irkutsk
Floyd Bennett Airport
New York
Post
Gatty
Novosibirsk
Post-Gatty
Proba
Khabarovsk
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FORD
Morgan Income Tax
Wwoney “King
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Crider Garage
F. Miller
Garrott
Forest Army
Traning
Boone
Power
Midwest
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