Mrs Roosevelt Income Sparks Public Scrutiny
The article reports Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt contributed to Ladies Home Journal about the Roosevelt family income. The writer questions secrecy of presidential tax returns, accuses unequal scrutiny of the Roosevelts, and hints at potential political motives and use of presidential funds.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ladies Home Journal
Roosevelt
Treadway
Massachusetts
Ham Fish
James Roosevelt
Jimmy
Frankie
Johnny
Mr. Roosevelt
Detroit transit vote settles tie up with AFL appointing exclusive agent
AFL Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Operators won the ballot in Detroit’s transit jurisdiction dispute ending last week’s city strike. About 5,016 of 5,700 eligible workers voted with 3,075 for the AFL and 1,924 for the CIO. The result, part of an agreement ratified earlier, ends disruption for a 400000 population.
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Associated Press
Detroit
A. F. L. Union
C. SO. State
Tam
WANTS OBSERVERS IN RUSSIAN WAR
Secretary Knox urged Russia to allow American observers at the front lines calling the war private. He noted repeated requests to send observers have failed and mentioned only one AP reporter has been near the fighting on the German side with Berlin and Smolensk correspondents cited.
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Washington
Knox
Joe Stalin
Associated Press
Berlin
Louis Lochner
Alvin J. Steinkopf
Smolensk
British Soviet advance crushes Iranian resistance near Tabriz
British and Soviet forces drive toward Tabriz as Iran’s military collapses. Tehran diplomacy hints at armistice or convention. British naval losses reported. Bandar Shahpur area under occupation with oil workers protected. Haft Kel air landings aid pipeline protection.
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London
Iran
Tabriz
Shah Reza Kahn Pahlavi
Teheran
Simla
India
Bayendar
Bandar Shahpur
Kohrramshahr
Haft Kel
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Russian Caucasus
Senate Finance Committee Drops 10 Percent Corporate Tax
The U S senate finance committee voted to ease new corporate taxes by removing a 10 percent levy on profits of corporations exempt from the excess profits tax. The decision lowers expected revenue to 3 5437 billion dollars and shifts focus to the capital stock tax rate still under discussion.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Byrd
Virginia
House
George
Georgia
Tanker Control Board Formed to Oversee U S Fleet
Washington August 27 Officials said a tanker control board under the defense petroleum office and Admiral Emory S Land would coordinate allocation and use of all American tankers. The intent is not to commandeer ships but to pool them for improved efficiency and fuel supply in the east.
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Washington
East
Defense Petroleum Office
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
R. E. McConnell
Office of Production Management
Hitler
Legislature to Be Polled on Borrowing
Baton Rouge August 2 The state board of liquidation with Governor Sam Jones authorized a poll of the legislature for permission to borrow 540000 to operate the department of finance. The board trimmed its loan total from 1190000 by cutting 150000 for the supervisor of public funds and 500000 for the New Orleans Charity hospital. Senator D Y Smith said the funds are to keep welfare checks and hospital payments flowing and to avoid interruption.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Liquidation
Sam Jones
Department of Finance
New Orleans
D. Y. Smith
Monroe
Finance Department
A. P. Tugwell
Army payroll to begin for 37th division in Louisiana maneuvers
The 37th division starts an $11,000,000 payroll in Louisiana with more than $500,000 for the first day. Units pay soldiers in temporary camps under military police guard. Local banks hold funds from New Orleans Dallas Houston and Georgia banks as heavy guard and a three day bank holiday affect transfers.
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Lake Charles
37Th Division
Third Army
Federal Reserve
New Orleans
Dallas
Houston
Georgia
Land Obtained Near Here for Army Base at Monroe
Major Niels I. Poulsen announced land acquisitions near West Monroe for a quartermaster base camp and army facilities. About 200 acres will host 3,000 quartermaster troops, 600 vehicles, and maintenance stations two miles from Highway 8. The first floor of the old post office will become an army post office, dispensary, and police office, with Lt. Col. Warren H. Aldrich moving the Second army depot HQ from Gordon, Ark. to Monroe around September 1.
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West Monroe
Quartermaster Base
Second
Army Depot
Missouri Pacific
Army Post Office
Niels I. Poulsen
Army
Quartermaster
Quartermaster Corps
Poulsen
Thomas H. McMilan
Warren H. Aldrich
129Th Infantry
Second Army
Gordon
Ark
Monroe
H. H. Benoit
Douglas Williams
Second Phase of War Ends in Western Louisiana
In Western Louisiana on August 27, the Third Army ordered the termination of its second phase maneuvers involving about 250000 troops to prevent annihilation of the outnumbered Eighth Army corps. The Fifth Corps pincer attack, led by Major General Edmund L. Daley, had already battered General H. V. Strong's forces defending north Louisiana.
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Norman Walker
THIRD
Louisiana
Third Army
Eighth Army
Fifth Corps
Edmund L. Daley
H. V. Strong
North
World War II Crisis Escalates Across Fronts
Tallinn in flames as siege and mass escape attempts are feared. German reports claim 40 000 Russians killed and 380 000 captured in the 22nd Army annihilation on the central front. Moscow silent on Dnieperopetrovsk and Luga. Far East tensions rise with warnings over Japan blocking US war supplies. Iran collapse forecast as Tabriz falls. French police round up Communists and Jews in Paris.
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Associated Press
Tallinn
Moscow
Dnieperopetrovsk
Luga
Far East
Russia
Japan
United States
Vladivostok
Washington
China
Iran
London
Tabriz
Middle East
Ran
Paris
Estonia
Finnish Gulf
Gulf of Finland
Oil Kingdom
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Velikie Luki
Leningrad
Lake Ilmen
Smolensk
Teheran
Simla
India
Lost battalion trudges home after 72 hours in war games
Centralia Washington reports the 2nd battalion of the 185th Infantry 40th division endured a 72 hour flanking exercise near Deep River in southern Pacific county. Soldiers say they faced food shortages and were not tested by actual combat but returned to base exhausted and hungry. Officials state the unit was never lost but “overcome” and retraced its route to safety.
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Centralia
Wash
West Coast
185Th Infantry
Pacific County
40Th Division
Recreation for soldiers amid Louisiana maneuvers
An editor note introduces a behind the scenes piece on Louisiana maneuvers. It describes soldiers seeking leisure at beer joints hamburger stands dance halls and roadside restaurants near Camp Polk as U S O facilities lag behind demand. Camp Polk hosts two theaters a large service club a guest house and weekly dances but crowding remains acute with many soldiers turning to nearby shacks for recreation.
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Louisiana
Battle
Camp
Polk
U. S
Camp Polk
Leesville
DeRidder
Showdown on Trial Before W F W Likely
Veterans of Foreign Wars faces a possible court martial for Illinois Department Commander Earl Southard amid internal caucus move to bring the matter to the encampment floor. Southard accuses persecution as he defends loyalty in a dispute over a political committee pamphlet.
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Philadelphia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Illinois Department
Earl Southard
Southard
Tam
Illinois
Menendez
Traffic signal rules and yearly accident summary
A safety notice reports this year’s accidents total 357 with 43 personal injuries and 4 deaths, compared to 307 accidents and 4 deaths last year. It also restates a traffic rule requiring drivers to signal turns or stops at specified distances with specific arm positions.
Bang by Soldier Wastes Ammunition
In the fifty eighth army corps maneuvers a headquarters battery of the 150th field artillery near Sugartown used a roadblock. Private James Cory of Munice Indiana, posted at the barricade with an automatic rifle blank ammunition could not fire. Master Sergeant George L Stackhouse, Indianapolis, Ind., instructed the soldier to simulate a noise by saying Bang Bang. The sergeant warned he would report the incident as waste of ammunition.
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George L. Stackhouse
Indianapolis
Ind
Cory
Stackhouse
Walls of Fire Over Tallinn Port Amid Soviet Siege
Descriptions of towering flames above Tallinn Port signal intensified Soviet siege efforts. German forces report cutting off the city by land while Nazi planes hit four Soviet transports and damaged others in the Gulf of Finland as tanks drive toward Leningrad and Moscow.
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Tallinn
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