Treasury official details tax dodging and community property laws
Secretary Morgenthau and Undersecretary Magill testified to a joint congressional inquiry on tax evasion. Magill cited eight states with community property laws enabling income splitting, noting potential federal gains from reform. Morgenthau urged publicity and remedial legislation to curb evasion and avoidance.
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Roewell Magill
The
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Congressional
Magill
Representatives
Morgenthau
New York
California
George
Georgia
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Idaho
Nevada
Congressional Inquiry Committee
Senate House
Hollywoods Perfect Pair Wed In Colossal Social Event
Hollywoods perfect pair Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond began their married life at a secret Spot after a wedding that shattered movie colony records for excitement. More than 15 000 people lined Wilshire church area and a million roses filled the chancel as Nelson Eddy sang. The Honolulu honeymoon follows sailing June 26 and a 25 000 dollar ceremony tab was reported.
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Relman Morin
Hollywood
Calif
Jeanette MacDonald
Gene Raymond
Honolulu
Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church
Harold Lloyd
John Mack Brown
Allan Jones
Basil Rathbone
Warren Rock
Richard Hargreaves
Jones
Nelson Eddy
Leche Strikes Snag in Move for Hospital
Lake Charles La June 17 Ernest S Clements one of two senators from the fourteenth district told Governor Leche he would vote no on the board of liquidation plan to add 4 5 million to the 8 million for a New Orleans charity hospital. He urged spreading the funds to build charity hospitals in Lake Charles Alexandria Monroe Baton Rouge and elsewhere.
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Lake Charles
Ernest S. Clements
Fourteenth District
Leche
Charity
New Orleans
Clements
Alexandria
Monroe
Baton Rouge
Oberlin
State Senate
Leche Strikes Page 8 and Local Assault Report
In New York a 12 year old girl Mary Maglione of the Bronx was found beaten and assaulted in an air chamber beneath a theater stage. A hospital doctor said the skull fracture left her condition serious and police questioned theater staff including night watchman Arthur Watkins and two porters. In Benton Arkansas Joe Newt Sims, 34, was convicted of murdering his wife with an axe and faces the electric chair after a jury verdict.
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New York
Mary Maglione
Bronx
Arthur Watkins
Brooklyn
Watkins
William Brown
William Ray
Megro
Benton
Ark
Joe
Newt” Sims
Sims
Cyclone overturns car injuring Aswell family near Eros
R L Aswell of Eros 60 brother of late Congressman J B Aswell was taken to St Francis sanitarium with a broken shoulder and collar bone after a cyclone struck the car he rode in near Eros Wednesday night. M D Hargis his son in law received head and body lacerations. They were returning from a fishing trip when the twister approached and overturned the vehicle.
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R. L. Aswell
Eros
J. B. Aswell
St. Francis Sanitarium
M. D. Hargis
Mr. Hargis
Weather Summary for Louisiana and Arkansas
Louisiana fair tonight with Friday partly cloudy skies and isolated thunderstorms in the southeast. gentle southerly winds along the coast. Arkansas fair tonight and Friday with warmer conditions in the central portion tonight.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Mediation board named to settle steel disputes
Secretary Perkins announces a three member federal steel mediation board with Charles P. Taft Lloyd K. Garrison and Edward F. McGrady to investigate hearings and issue factual findings. The board will operate from Cleveland with McGrady arriving from Europe this weekend.
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Perkins
Charles P. Taft
Lloyd K. Garrison
Edward F. McGrady
Federal Steel Mediation Board
Miss Perkins
Cleveland
McGrady
Europe
United States
Taft
Garrison
Roosevelt
Dedication of Sanatorium Friday Planned at Pine Top
Final plans for the dedication of the G. B. Cooley Tuberculosis sanatorium to be held Friday afternoon at Pine Top were announced Thursday. The 5:30 p.m. program includes flag raising by L. T. I. band and Company G, 156th Infantry, invocation by Rev. N. F. Vandegaer, and addresses by J. L. Warren, J. Lester White, and Dr. C. Prentice Gray Jr.
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G. B. Cooley
Pine Top
America
L. T. I. Band
156Th Infantry
N. F. Vandegaer
J. L. Warren
Parish
J. Lester White
State Planning Board
C. Prentice Gray, Jr
Goat Woman and Dana Defy Law Over Old Mansion
Federal and local authorities clash over the disappearance of Mrs. Alice McDowell Parsons as agents pursue a kidnaping theory while Suffolk officials push murder as the motive and prepare for a grand jury. In Natchez Mississippi an eccentric pair Dana and Oc tavia Dockery resist eviction from Goat Castle amid mortgage pressures.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Suffolk County
Alice McDowell Parsons
Long Island Society
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Natchez
Miss
Goat Castle
Dick Dana
Octavia Dockery
Jane Surget Merrill
Ayres Merrill
United States
Belgium
Miss Merrill
Miss Dockery
Blum Proposes Dictatorship Bill in Finance Plan
Paris June 17 Premier Leon Blum testified before the senate finance committee proposing a measure granting government power to take any financial action through decrees until July 31 without parliamentary approval. Parliament would review such actions after three months. Blum and Finance Minister Convent Auriol argue the extraordinary power is needed to tackle an anticipated deficit of 1.76 billion dollars in annual and extraordinary expenditures.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Senate Finance Committee
Blum
Convent Auriol
Pumilia Freed In Death Case
In Gretna Louisiana on June 17 Joseph Pumilia 23 was acquitted of killing Vincent Bologna a New Orleans wholesale grocer during a 1935 holdup. A 13 minute jury deliberation followed a judge ruling out a confession as evidence.
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Gretna. la
Joseph Pumilia
Vincent Bologna
New Orleans
L. Robert Rivardo
Pumilia
John Grosch
Pumiha
Hammond Adopts Commission Government In City
In Hammond Louisiana on June 17 the commission form of government took effect. Mayor W H Jordan Finance Commissioner P P Vail and Street Commissioner J W Elizey were sworn in yesterday. Jordan named Leon Foro city attorney and Fred Meyers chief of police.
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Hammond
W. H. Jordan
P. P. Vail
J. W. Elizey
Jordan
Leon Foro
Fred Meyers
Louisiana board of commerce and industry organized
A state board of commerce and industry was formed in Baton Rouge with A B Paterson of New Orleans Public Service as chairman and M C McDonald of Monroe as vice chairman. The group has 100000 to promote the state’s civic industrial and commercial interests and attract new industries. A secretary executive director remains to be chosen with selection postponed to next Thursday. Governor Leche presided and indicated no candidate yet.
Anniversary of Priest Marked at St Matthew’s Catholic Church
The 25th silver anniversary of Father N F Vandegaer at St Matthew’s was celebrated with a nine thirty high mass attended by church dignitaries and visiting priests. His brother Father John Vandegaer assisted, with Father Kronenmeyer and others in service. A noon dinner at the rectory honored the jubilarian. The occasion drew the Right Rev Daniel Desmond, bishop of the diocese.
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N. F. Vandegaer
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
Father Vandegaer
John Vandegaer
Tallulah
Kronenmeyer
Vidalia
Vandegaer
Monroe
J. C. Marsh
Hodge
M. F. Walsh
St. Matthew's Church
Father Platz
Lake Providence
Finess
Daniel Desmond
Mrs Hauptmann Reaches Germany to Visit Family
Mrs Bruno Hauptmann widow of the man executed for the Lindbergh kidnapping arrived in Bremerhaven from New York to visit her parents near Stuttgart. She said she would return to the United States and resume efforts, with the aid of German friends, to prove her husband innocent of the crime.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Bruno Hauptmann
Charles Augustus Lindbergn, Jr
New York
Markgroeningen
Stuttgart
United States
Eight Japanese naval fliers killed in midair collision
Eight Japanese naval airmen died when two training aircraft collided midflight over Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture. The incident occurred during a routine practice flight near Tokyo on June 17.
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Tokyo
Kisarazu
Chiba Prefecture
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