Lawmakers Seek Tax Reform After Mitchell Verdict
Senate and House tax committees vow to tighten income tax laws after Charles Mitchell's acquittal. The case prompts reviews of deductions and loopholes as investigators press forward with probes into Mellon and other figures.
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Washington
Charles Mitchell
New York
Senate
House Tax
Mitchell
House Ways and Means
Senate Finance
National City Bank
Congress
Cummings
Chester Youth Is Hard Luck Champ
Chester youth Billie Carter aged 10 suffers a broken leg from a cherry tree fall and marks a history of injuries with prior breaks in 1929 and 1932. He begins a fifth extended hospital visit as doctors treat the latest injury.
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International News Service
Chester
Billie Carter
Chester Hospital
Billie
New Kensington to Dedicate New Post Office
Informal dedication of New Kensington's new federal post office, costing $285000, was to be led by C. R. Eilenberger, third assistant postmaster general. The program included a public building inspection, a dinner and a reception for Eilenberger.
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International News Service
New Kensington
C. R. Eilenberger
Eilenberger
Doves Nest On Denver Tramway Wires
Motormen on the Fourth Avenue tramway line in Denver take special pride in the safety of a nest of young doves. The unusual sight highlights everyday caution and care by city workers in maintaining safe transit operations.
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Denver
Colo
Fourth Avenue
Nest on power poles halts traffic to save birds
On a platform between two high voltage lines a bird’s nest was found with eggs. The crew shut off power to their cars and coasted past the poles built on a breaker to avoid electrocution of the mother and her young, preventing a deadly accident.
Victims Of Plane Crash Identified In San Diego
In San Diego on June 23 two victims of a Navy Air Station plane crash were named Ensign M. E. Vorhees 27 of Findlay Ohio and J A Sheridan 21 of Bridgeport Connecticut. The two were killed when their plane went down near Descanso forty five miles from the city during naval maneuvers.
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International News Service
San Diego
Cal
M. E. Vorhees
Findlay
J. A. Sheridan
Bridgeport
Conn
U. S. Navy Air Station
Descanso
Here
NORGE Rollator Refrigerator offered at low payments
The advertisement highlights NORGE Rollator Refrigerators with prices as low as ten dollars down and seven fifty per month. It promises savings in money and time by storing perishable meats vegetables and groceries until needed. Buy now to secure healthful foods at bargain prices.
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Rollator
Patronage Demands Press for Civil Service Reassignment
Washington June 28 Democratic members of Congress calling for re vocation of 6000 government workers from the Hoover administration seek Farley action. A congressional patronage committee plans to urge Farley to press Roosevelt to blanket the positions into civil service with competitive exams initiated upon his return. The precedent was set when agricultural workers were blanket transferred to civil service and will require new exams and filled vacancies.
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International News Service
Washington
Congress
Hoover
Farley
Roosevelt
Agricultural Department
Dr John McDowell To Deliver Key Address At Synod
JENKINTOWN Pa June 23 The Rev Dr John McDowell moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States was to deliver the principal address at the annual convention of the Presbyterian synod of Pennsylvania The synod pledged its members to support the meeting and its program.
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International News Service
Jenkinstown
John McDowell
Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Presbyterian Synod of Pennsylvania
Repeal Amendment Balloting Cited in No vember Campaign
A fragment notes the push to leave nothing undone to keep Pennsylvania from joining the repeal column in the ballot on the eighteenth amendment in November.
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Pennsylvania
Justice at wheel in damage suit at Vancouver
In a damage case brought by Mrs. L. Yeager against Miss Joan Campbell, Justice D. A. McDonald of Vancouver presided. He awarded damages after testing similar conditions by driving a car through the same intersection behind a truck, echoing Miss Campbell's account.
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International News Service
Vancouver
B. C
D. A. McDonald
Joan Campbell
L. Yeager
Justice McDonald
Unidentified Man Buried in Jeannette Brick Yard
The body of an unidentified man about 35 was found in a Jeannette brick yard and later interred at the Westmoreland county home after failed identification efforts. Death was believed to be due to natural causes.
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International News Service
Jeannette
Westmoreland County
Woman Tortured by Brutal Thugs in Steubenville
Stella Stoyich, 65, of Steubenville, reports she cannot pay hunting money she says is demanded by a group she describes as brutal thugs. The incident underscores local fear and calls for action.
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Steubenville, O
Stella Stoyich
Two Men Force Entry at Apex Cabin and Assault Woman
Two men forced their way into a cabin in Apex a mining settlement west of here and beat the occupant with a shovel and poker. They tortured her to reveal money and were later rounded up by police and jailed in the county jail.
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Apex
Here
Relief Rolls Show 200 Are Dropped
Venango county relief board announced that in the first half of June 206 cases were removed from the relief rolls and that with continued improvement 100 additional cases will be dropped.
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International News Service
Oil City
Venango County Relief Board
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