House Subcommittee Advances Repeal of Profits Tax
Washington June 13 The House subcommittee moved to repeal the undistributed profits levy and draft new business tax legislation to reenact excise taxes that expire soon. Chairman Cooper says speed is essential as Morgenthau outlines a plan shifting to an 18 percent tax on corporations with net income over 25 000 while preserving smaller-business rates and allowing two-year loss carryovers.
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Washington
House
Cooper
Tennessee
Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Clashes at Fisher Body Plant Amid GM Strike
In Flint Michigan on June 13 members of two United Auto Workers unions clashed at Fisher Body plant No 1 gate. About 100 on each side fought briefly before police intervened. GM plants in Flint and Saginaw opened after a week long strike led by Homer Martin. U A W CIO pickets faced AFL opposing lines wearing white armbands. Fisher No 1 supplies Buick division.
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Flint
Mich
United Auto Workers
Fisher
General Motors Corporation
Flint and Saginaw
General Motors
Homer Martin
All Nations Invited to Join Reciprocal Trade Pacts
Secretary Hull marks the fifth anniversary of the reciprocal trade program by inviting all nations to join in treaties. He condemns Italy and Germany’s closed economics and warns against large nation discrimination. The U S has pacts with 20 countries covering nearly three-fifths of trade and cites the UK and Canada as major markets.
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Washington
United States
Hull
Italy
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Two NMU Officials Resign Amid Communist Claims
In New Orleans Gulf District headquarters of the National Maritime Union two leaders quit as members voted to end a Houston area strike. Arthur Thomas, district executive committee chairman, and F. P. O Donohue, NMU Houston business agent, resigned after protests over alleged Communist influence. Some ports reported continued strike action.
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New Orleans
National Maritime Union
Ci.o
Gulf District
Arthur Thomas
F. P. O' Donohue
Houston
Port Arthur
Beaumont
Tex
Lewis Attacks Congress Over Unemployment Record
John L. Lewis told the C I O executive board in Washington that Congress has a worse than nothing record handling unemployment. He warned of economic paralysis and urged bold action to avert despair and rising extremism, saying fascism feeds on such conditions.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
C. I. O. Executive Board
Congress
Lewis
Torture Tales Told In Spain Trial Of Yugoslav Architect
In Barcelona on June 13 thirty witnesses testified in a courtroom about torture and madness in small prison cells blamed on Yugoslav architect Alfonso Laurent Cik 38 accused of building the cages for republican authorities. The prosecutor seeks the death penalty claiming nationalist prisoners were tortured for Franco military intel. Cik denied constructing the cells and said syndicalist leaders forced him to paint walls with bizarre patterns.
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Barcelona
Alfonso Laurent Cik
Cik
Ciki
Francisco Franco
Divers Battle Squalus Salvage With New Helmet
Divers in Portsmouth New Hampshire work beneath the sunken submarine Squalus to tunnel through obstructions and place pontoons for the first lift. A new re circulating helmet allows more helium oxygen mix letting divers stay longer below. Seven dives were made yesterday with the helmet, raising hopes the tunnel will be completed tomorrow and the hull secured for lifting after it went down May 23 with 59 aboard.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Squalus
Five Arabs Slain Near Haifa by Dressed Band
Five Arabs were killed during the night in a village on Haifa's outskirts by a group of men wearing European clothes. The incident occurred in Palestine on June 13 as authorities investigated the attack.
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Haifa
Palestine
Two Terrorist Acts Blamed On Man Who Shot Near Duchess
MIAMI FL A man who shot near Duchess is blamed for two terrorist acts as details surface of his request for elevator access to a rooftop jail. A politician berates the operator but learns the man will serve a year. YORK PA In 1936 farmer Harold Flinchbaugh shot a deer, another hunter contests the claim.
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Miami
Fla
Dade County
York
Harold Flinchbaugh
Hartman Hart In Auto Crash Near Grant Parish
Joseph W. Hartman 35 of Monroe a VP of Imperial Oil and Gas Products Pittsburgh is in critical condition at Baptist hospital Alexandria after a car wreck near Dry Prong Grant Parish He suffered multiple fractures and facial lacerations with possible internal injuries while returning from a fishing trip.
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Alexandria
Joseph W. Hartman
Monroe
Imperial Oil and Gas Products Company
Pittsburgh
Baptist Hospital
Grant Parish
Hartman
Moreauville
Man Sentenced in Ruston Shooting
Ernest H. Broughton 32 itinerant photographer from Lamesa Texas pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two to three years for shooting his companion photographer Johnnie Walker 28 of Carrollton Missouri. Walker sustained a broken leg and a bullet hit his left hand. Broughton's wife was detained then released.
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Ruston
Ernest H. Broughton
Lamesa
Tex
Johnnie Walker
Carrollton
Walker
Broughton
Lawlor Accused of Shooting Near Princess Royal Home
Lawlor, an Australian welder, was ordered held for trial at Old Bailey on charges of firing near the Duchess of Kent and into the Princess Royal’s residence. Prosecutors say he rode a bicycle with a sawed off rifle near royal homes on June 4 and 5. The defense insists there was no intent to harm.
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London
Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor
Old Bailey
Duchess of Kent
Princess Royal
Lawlor
George
Earl of Harewood
Belgrave Square
Leslie Marks
H. A. K. Morgan
Waterloo Bridge
Britain
Bel
Benes' Brother Escapes Prague Heads to England
In Warsaw on June 13, Votja Benes brother of Eduard Benes former Czecho Slovakia president arrived after an alleged escape from Prague. He plans to move on to England with friends calling the journey difficult. Reports place his Prague return from the United States in January amid Germanys Czech protectorate crisis.
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Warsaw
Votja Benes
Eduard Benes
Prague
England
Benes
United States
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
Bohemia-Moravia
King and Queen Set for Home Start in Three Days
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth proceed through French Canada into the maritime provinces with 27 days of the American tour completed and three remaining before sailing home from Halifax aboard the Express of Britain. Newcastle in New Brunswick welcomed their majesties as the blue and silver special train paused for ten minutes at the gaily decorated station amid crowds.
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Queen Elizabeth
Great Britain
Hyde Park
N. Y
United States
President Roosevelt
Canada
Halifax
London
Roosevelt
England
Washington
New York
New Castle
N. B
George VI
Maritime Provinces
Britain
Newcastle
New Brunswick
Landon predicts Roosevelt will not seek a third term
In Boston on June 13 Ali M Landon former Republican nominee urged that President Roosevelt not run again in 1940. He criticized New Deal spending and warned that calls for a third term would harm the republic while noting many Americans oppose the plan. He argued a true leader would refuse the exaltation and duty of a third term.
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Boston
Ali M. Landon
Roosevelt
Business and Professional Women’s Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Kansas
Landon
Republic
Far East tensions rise as Britain seeks solution to Japanese incidents
London reports a difficult Far East situation after a series of British Japanese incidents. Britain weighs responses to a possible Japanese blockade of Tientsin concessions while protests rise over the Pootung death of British businessman R M Tickler. The Foreign Office orders a formal protest to Tokyo as disputes over terrorism accusations and British rights continue.
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London
Far East
Cabinet Foreign Affairs
Tientsin
Cire Cles
Tientesin
Britain
China
R. M. Tinckler
Pootung
Woosung River
Shanghai
Foreign Office
Japan
Robert Leslie Craigie
Tokyo
House of Lords
Viscount Halifax
Vaccination of babies urged by Harvard scientists
Harvard researchers urge vaccinating babies to build early immunity against smallpox and recommend revaccination at school age. Dr Russell says constant immunity requires regular vaccination of new arrivals, ideally in infancy, to curb epidemic outbreaks.
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Boston
Harvard
Frederick F. Russell
School of Public Health
Elliott S. Robinson
Russell
West
Middle West
Citizens Military Training Camp Opens at Camp Beauregard
Alexandria La June 13 Opening exercises for the annual citizens military training camp will be held at Camp Beauregard Friday with Lieutenant-Colonel Elbert J. Lyman as commanding officer. More than 700 candidates will attend the training period which ends July 14.
Milwaukee strike turns violent injuring workers and officers
At least 13 people are hurt as rioting erupts near the Allis-Chalmers plant in West Allis. Eight officers and deputies are assaulted, five pickets hospitalised, as tear gas and night sticks are used to disperse the crowd surrounding the strikebound facility.
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Milwaukee
West Allis
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Wisconsin
George Kuemmerlein
The
Transport Company
Milwaukee Street Car Lines
Kuemmerlein
Court Justice cotillo attacks World's Fair labor abuses
Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo urged Grover A. Whalen to curb labor union pressure at the New York World's Fair. He warned high pressure salesmanship and union labor demands threaten foreign exhibitors and cultural aims, noting prior protests and a letter to Gov. Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia.
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New York
World of Tomorrow
Supreme Court
Salvatore A. Cotillo
Grover A. Whalen
New York World's Fair Corporation
Justice Cotillo
Cotillo
Lehman
LaGuardia
Whalen
Oop Sees New Land as Vacation Reads Arrive by Mail
A playful verse hints at a cave man from Moo adjusting to here while readers are urged to call 4800 for mail delivery to vacation addresses, promising chuckles and fresh local newspaper reads.
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