Actor Charles Laughton nursed tax avoidance via English holding firm
Treasury investigator Elmer L. Irey testified before Congress that actor Charles Laughton, an English citizen, used a British holding company to receive a $20,000 1935 salary while transferring his American film earnings totaling $190,280 to the firm. He listed other prominent capitalists forming foreign corporations to dodge U.S. taxes.
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Washington
Elmer L. Ivey
Treasury
Charles Laughton
Irey
Laughton
England
Iey
Phillip DeRonde
New York
Visitors Pour Into City For J B Cooley Home Dedication
Visitors flock to Monroe for the dedication of the G B Cooley tuberculosis sanatorium built by the Works Progress Administration since 1935. Governor Leche cannot attend and designates Lorris Wimberly to speak. Lt Governor Earl Long will also address attendees.
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Works Progress Administration
Pine Top
Monroe
Leche
Lorris Wimberly
G. B. Cooley
Richard W. Leche
Quebec
Canada
Laval University
House of Representatives
Earl K. Long
Lorris M. Wimberly
Arcadia
Pigeons Challenge New Orleans City Hall Dwellings
New Orleans officials try once more to move pigeons from city hall eaves into WPA built apartments in Lafayette Square. City Architect M B Depass plans to cage pairs for 15 days then release them to attract others, with potential remodeling into elevated gardens if unsuccessful.
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New Orleans
Lafayette Square
WPA
City Hall
Cotes
M. B. Depass
Depass
Mrs Tiernan pleads guilty in fatal child slaying
Blonde Mrs Helen Tiernan admitted planning to kill her seven year old daughter and pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. She faces 20 years to life with possible parole after 13 years and four months and will be sentenced Monday in Suffolk county.
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Riverhead
N. Y
Helen Tiernan
Suffolk County
Tiernan
Local Weather Report Louisiana Arkansas
Louisiana sees fair night with partly cloudy Saturday and isolated southeast thundershowers. Gentle south and southeast winds across the region. Arkansas has partly cloudy night and Saturday with local thundershowers in the northwest and extreme north portions.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Tupelo union organizers driven from hotel by workers
In Tupelo Mississippi officers reported hundreds of industrial workers seized two female union organizers from a hotel and drove them out of town. Ida Sledge of the C I O affiliated garment union and Lillian Messer were threatened as they stated they would stay to organize Reed Brothers Inc workers despite a petition signed by 336 employees opposing the union.
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Tupelo
Miss
Committee For Industrial Organization
Miss Sledge
Lillian Messer
Garment Union
Bilbao Defenders Retreat Amid mined Bilbao Foe Advances
Refugees from Bilbao describe a fortified city with mined bridges and cobblestone barricades while Basque defenders pull back to west of the Nervion to keep a retreat path to Santander. Insurgents claim control of eastern Nervion approaches as a major push unfolds.
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Hendaye
Bilbao
Nervion
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Unconscious Child Found In Ant Hole Near Juliette
Gray Wash June 18 A 7 year old boy Smith Mitchell missing two hours was found unconscious in an ant hole near Juliette by a 250 person search party. Doctors described him acutely painful but not in immediate danger. WPA foreman R B Wyens crawled through thick brush to locate the child. Large red ants covered him and his flesh. He is the son of widow Mrs Cheney Mitchell and was missing since Wednesday afternoon. He was found about a mile and a half from home.
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Gray
Smith Mitchell
Juliette
R. B. Wyens
WPA
Wynens
Cheney Mitchell
Citizens Honor Catholic Priest on Anniversary
A silver jubilee celebration marked 25 years as pastor of St Matthew's Catholic Church by Father N F Vandegaer. The event at St Matthew's parochial school drew diverse church members and city residents with musical numbers talks and a $750 check presented in appreciation.
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St. Matthew's Catholic Church
N. F. Vandegaer
St. Matthew's Parochial School
S. E. Burgoyne
Father Vandegaer
M. F. Walsh
St. Matthew's Church
F. K. Hirsch
Temple B'Nai Israel
Fred Williamson
News- Star
Morning World
W. M. Harper
W. B. Inabnet
Paul Fink
Ouachita Parish
Police Jurors Sit All Night In Deadlock For President
In Shreveport Louisiana the Caddo parish police jury remained in a 8 to 8 vote deadlock at 8 am on the presidency. E G Williamson of Vivian and Dr T B Tooke of Belcher each received eight votes after 16 ballots since Thursday morning. Jurors vow to sit out until a clear outcome emerges.
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Shreveport
Caddo Parish
E. G. Williamson
Vivian
T. B. Tooke
Belcher
Parish
Jokeshmith Al Boasberg Dies in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills California June 18 Al Boasberg 45 screen and radio jokesmith died of a heart attack at his home. He had been a script writer for Jack Benny's radio show the past year and had just signed a new contract yesterday.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
al Boasberg
Jack Benny
Boasberg
Arrest of 51 in Oil Conspiracy Across Five States
Shreveport reports 51 people across five states ordered arrested in a vast oil shipment fraud. Federal District Attorney Harvey G. Fields calls it the largest fraud in years and a colossal steal. Local voiture leaders in Monroe are named in unrelated organization election notes.
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Harvey G. Fields
Shreveport
Fields
Irish Volunteers Quit Spanish War Return Home
In Lisbon on June 18 Irish volunteers who fought six months for the Spanish insurgents embarked for Ireland. Their clothing was worn and many were nearly barefoot. Some wore Moorish fezzes and Carlist caps while General Eoin O'Duffy, leader of the Irish Fascist party, appeared in a neat blue suit and white collar.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Eoin O'Duffy
Irish Fascist Party
Parsons Case Ranked Among Big Mysteries
Stony Brook New York June 18 the case of the missing heiress Mrs Alice Mc Donell Parsons continues as a leading national mystery entering its tenth day. Federal agents say no comment and state police lean toward murder while seeking clues tied to a ransom note and possible inheritance of up to one hundred thousand dollars. The initial lead centers on servant companion Anna Kupryanova and her 11 year old son who lived with the Parsons. Parsons vanished after leaving with a middle aged couple to inspect nearby property.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
G-men
Alice McDonell Parsons
Long Island
Anna Kupryanova
Parsons
Famous actor page notes desert disappearance of mine operator
Ernest A. Moross, 65, a wealthy Michigan mining operator, vanished from a desert camp 14 miles east of Needles California. He left with $200 and two diamond rings in his sedan, amid questions of amnesia. sheriff notes no bank trouble. Moross had varied roles from mill operator to promoter of auto races and once clashed with authorities over license fees. His wife, a longtime companion, had served jail terms with him.
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Needles
Calif
Ernest A. Moross
Michigan
Moross
Topac
Colorado River
Emmet Shay
Detroit
Mich
Mosherville
Du Pont Wedding to Be All White in Delaware
Ethel du Pont and Franklin D Roosevelt Jr will wed on June 30 in an all white ceremony. Lilies and peonies decorate the church and home. a white satin runner leads to the altar rail. About one thousand guests attend a buffet reception at Owls Nest amid ferns and a green and white canopy.
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Wilmington
Del
UPI
Ethel du Pont
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
du Pont
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Claude Vance
E. C. Harrington
Vance
City
New J. B. Home
R. W. Leche
W. H. Seemann
Louisiana Tuberculosis and Public Health Association
J. A. O'Hara
State Board of Health
T. B Association
State Board
Mrs. Tiernan
Lee
Pair
Vandegaer
Charles Biggar
Father Walsh
Vet
Monroe Voiture
Jesse DeArmand
Mr. DeArmand
J. J. Martin
Russell Sims
Max Hellman
Bastrop
Conducteur
C. B. Braun
F. X. Cline
Sam Rubin
Cheminet
A. J. Willis
Rayville
W. H. Hamley
Lake Providence
C. Lee
Harry Stein
Shreveport, la
Parsons Case
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
Hugh White
Mississippi
South
White
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