Mitchell Freed on All Tax Evasion Charges
New York June 22 Charles E Mitchell once nicknamed Sun shine Charlie after leading National City Bank was acquitted by a federal jury of income tax evasion for 1929 and 1930. The verdict ended a high profile trial over losses and stock sales including interactions with his wife and the National City Company.
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New York
Charles E. Mitchell
Charlie
National City Bank
Mitchell
James K. Campbell
Max D. Steuer
Steuer
State of
U. S
George Z. Medalie
National City Company
Anaconda
W. D. Thornton
Greene Cananea
Copper Company
Missing Spanish fliers Barberan and Collar search renewed
In Mexico City on June 22 authorities renewed the search for Captain Mariano Barberan and Lieutenant Joaquin Collar, after earlier reports of a crash near Guadalupe Tlaxcala were discredited. The pair had recently completed a non stop Atlantic crossing from Seville to Havana aboard Cuatro Vientos.
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Mexico City
Mariano Barberan
Joaquin Collar
Guadalupe
Tlaxcala
Cuatro Vientos
Collar
Barberan
Havana
Seville
Spain
Roosevelt Resumes Coastal Trip From New Hampshire Port
Roosevelt resumes his journey up the coast from Little Harbor in Portsmouth New Hampshire heading toward Portland. A mail run precedes the meeting as the trip continues along the shore.
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Roosevelt
Little, Harbor
Portsmouth
Portland
Rev Fraley Named Conference Officer
Lafayette Ind June 22 The eighty second session of the North of Indiana Conference Methodist Episcopal Church opened with 157 ministers present including 188 active seven probationers and twelve retired Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit led the devotional and organization of the conference was completed The Rev F O Fraley Lebanon was elected secretary for the fifteenth consecutive year the Rev H M Braun South Bend statistician the Rev W B Servies Terre Haute treasurer and the Rev A K Miller Jamestown auditor.
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Lafayette
Ind
North of Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hertelhe
Battle Ground
Edgar Blake
Detroit
Mich
F. O. Fraley
Lebanon
H. M. Braun
South Bend
W. B. Servies
Terre Haute
A. K. Miller
Jamestown
Rackham Will Creates $20 Million Trust For Humanity
Detroit dated report confirms Horace J Rackham leaves a 20 million dollar unrestricted trust for benevolent charitable scientific religious and public purposes. Trustees Mary A Rackham and friends will form a fund comparable to Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations with estimated annual income of 1 million dollars and potential 30 million over 25 years. The fund derives from Rackhams Ford stake and government and municipal bonds.
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Detroit
Horace J. Rackham
Henry Ford
Radhham
United States
James Conzen
Ford Motor Company
Couzens
London
United States Senate
Michigan
Rackham
Mary A. Rackham
Mabel Cameron
Horace M. Rackham
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Beer hijacking reported near Seymour Indiana
Albert Freeman a 27 year old Louisville driver for C L Meeks Company reported his truck carrying 300 cases of Falls City beer was hijacked six miles east of Seymour Indiana by three men armed with a machine gun. Freeman said he was blindfolded captured placed in a brown sedan and driven until about 4 30 am before being released.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Albert Freeman
North 24Th Street
Louisville
C. L. Meeks Company
Falls City
Chillicothe
Ohio
Seymour
Freeman
Tardieu Group Staging Fight Against Disarmament Propaganda
In Paris on June 22 reports detail a financed campaign by Andre Tardieu’s group to oppose disarmament and international conferences. The movement promotes centralized sovereignty, political posters, and speeches aimed at farming communities, arguing the state and national interests must come first.
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Andre Tardieu
France
Paris
National Republican Organization
le Liberte
the Liberty
Tardieu
Maene
Two Hurt in Auto and Truck Crash Near Sheridan
Clinton Razier, 35, suffered a bruised shoulder and a cut, and his aunt Maude Razier, 47, was also injured. Kirklin passenger sustained fractured ribs and bruises when Razier's car was struck by an oil truck near Sheridan on Tuesday night. Mrs Razier transported to Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis.
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Sheridan
Ind
Clinton Razier
Maude Razier
Kirklin
Razier
Here
New Waterway Dedicated Today
Chicago June 22 A great boon to world commerce the Lakes To Gulf waterway linking the middle west with southern salt water was dedicated today Army planes escorted Secretary of War Dern who flew in from Washington On board the U S S Wilmott Dern received a 21 gun salute The opening was signaled by a Mississippi barge flotilla from New Orleans and lake craft with sirens and guns The opening is viewed as a major boost to trade by middle west producers and cities along the route Mayor T S Walmsley of New Orleans attended and spoke at the ceremony
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Chicago
Great Middle West
War Dern
Washington, D. C
Middle West
T. S. Walmsley
New Or
Grains Fairly Active In Forenoon Trading
In Cheago on June 22 grains held firm in a fairly active forenoon session. Wheat rose about a cent on bullish crop news and dollar weakness but gave back gains, trading near the previous close. Corn saw modest gains then slipped, oats advanced modestly, and international markets showed mixed movement Tokyo Liverpool and Winnipeg, with uncertain crop news continuing to influence trade.
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Cheago
Liverpool
Winnipeg
Kiwanis Luncheon Hears on Government In Business
C V Sorenson of Indianapolis, Public Service Co. general sales manager for Indiana, urged new codes and systems at a Kiwanis Club luncheon. He said government in business grows from political self interest and the aim of better service, with trade groups ready to act on proposed reforms such as a six hour day and wage protections.
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C. V.sorenson
Indianapolis
Indiana
Public Service Company
Kiwanis Club
Sorenson
O. K. Williams
Earl J. Good
The
Public Service Co
Williams
Mr. Sorenson
Electric Manufacturing Association
National Paper Board Association
City seeks resurfacing of all streets in highway system
Mayor John C. Perkins and the City Council petitioned the Indiana State Highway Department to repair and resurface all city streets that are links in state and federal highway systems. The state commission has about 10 million dollars in federal funds for highway work and Lebanon may be an early project, with details to be set by the commission. The measure aims to employ local labor under federal public works law.
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John C. Perkins
Indiana State Highway Department
State Commission
Lebanon
Commission
City Hads
State Highway Commission
Indianapolis Avenue
Lafayette Avenue
Main Street
West Street
Here
Indianapolis
Hoosier
Alabama Congressman Ed Almon Dies of Heart Trouble
Washington reports Rep. Ed ward B. Almon of Tusumbia Alabama died after a heart attack in his hotel room at age 73. A Democrat, he chaired the House roads committee and had served since the 64th Congress. Born in Moulton he was a lawyer, circuit judge in 1898 and an Alabama legislator who became speaker of the lower house. He is survived by his widow and two children Mrs. James A. Ryder and Clopper Almon.
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Washington
Edward B. Almon
Tuscumbia
Ala
Almon
Moulton
University of Alabama
Alabama
James A. Ryder
Clopper Almon
Johnson takes lead to bring coal industry under recovery act
Washington dispatch reports Hugh S. Johnson, administrator, will personally oversee unification of the bituminous coal industry under the national recovery act. He will press operators to organize, set minimum wages with labor, and limit hours, while major firms like Pittsburgh Coal Company and Consolidated Coal Company resist. Johnson seeks conferences with unions, aiming for a square deal without guaranteed unionization.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Mellon Company
Consolidated Coal Company
Rockefeller Company
Congress
Court Discharges Mellett Case After Jury Deadlock
Anderson Ind June 22 Judge Charles E Smith of Madison circuit court discharged the jury that tried the suit by Jesse H Mellett former mayor to regain his office from Harry R Baldwin after the jury reported it could not agree Deliberations began yesterday noon and continued until the verdict was not returned.
Roosevelt Embraces Wilsonian Trade and World Peace Policy
Washington June 22 Roosevelt echoes Wilson in proposing to remove trade barriers and seek freer global commerce through the London World Economic Conference. He sends delegation with aims to restore free flows of trade, curb barriers, and joins in international effort for peace via consultation and collective security.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
United States
London
Wilson
Genoa
Geneva
Hull
World economic conference sidesteps money stabilization debate
London June 22 The World Economic Conference defers monetary stabilization amid American opposition. Hull, MacDonald, and Bonnet agree to push other economic issues while removing stabilization from the agenda. A prepared resolution urges gradual tariff cuts and removal of embargoes and quotas to restore free trade, with Roosevelt signaling U S restraint on currency stability talks.
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Geological Museum
London
Cordell Hull
Hull
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
Georges Bonnet
France
America
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Mitchell Freedon
Fraley
C. V. Sorenson
ITY
Mellett
New England
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