Publicity Held Damper on Tax Evasion
Treasury officials urged Congress to close income tax loopholes and to publicize names of alleged tax avoiders. Secretary Morgenthau and Undersecretary Magill outlined examples such as foreign holding companies and yachts used to reduce liability. Magill said first names to be released tomorrow to pressure reform and deter avoidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington—Treasury
Congress
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
House Senate
Treasury
Rosewell Magill
Magill
Roosevelt
Robert L. Coughton
North Carolina
Joint Committee
Assembly Passes Housing Measure in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a measure 60 to 30, authorizing first to third class cities to form housing authorities to issue bonds for low cost housing. Opponents argued against federal projects. measure sent to senate with tax roll exemption provisions contested.
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Madison
National Relief Administration
Francis Murphy
Milwaukee
Murphy
Petitions Urge South Side High School for Oshkosh
About 2,000 South Side residents signed petitions filed with City Clerk James Chase urging immediate steps to build a $500,000 South Side High school. The plan seeks $250,000 from a state loan and the rest from a PWA grant, with a 20 year repay schedule and 4 percent interest. The board of education supports the proposal and may hear it at the next council meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Side
James Chase
State Land Commission
PWA
Board of Education
James Hart
Wisconsin State Land Commission
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Chase
Cities to Provide 25 Percent Plan for Relief
Senator Joseph T. Robinson urged an amendment to a $1.0 billion relief bill requiring local communities to pay 25 percent of work relief costs. The move, a surprise against administration stance, aims to curb treasury outlays by making those able to contribute more. The proposal contrasts with Byrnes plan for 40 percent local cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Robinson
James
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Treasury
State of War Ends as Brazil Restores Constitutions
Rio de Janeiro Brazil restored full constitutional guarantees to 47 000 000 people ending a state of war in effect for nearly 20 months President Getulio Vargas and Justice Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares guided the move to political normalcy The constitution was promulgated July 16 1934 Parts were suspended November 23 1935 during a failed communist revolt and congress repeatedly extended the state of war afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Getuiio Vargas
Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares
Congress
Earhart Reaches Calcutta During World Flight Stop
Amelia Earhart lands her twin-motored monoplane at Dum Dum airport Calcutta at 4 09 p m after a 1350 mile hop from Karachi She plans to depart after dawn Friday and spend the night at the airdrome to supervise adjustments The round-the-world flight is described as a leisurely raid with a “lust for fun” motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
India
Amelia Earhart
Dumdum
Karachi
Miss Earhart
Health policy tax measure meets death in Wisconsin assembly
The Wisconsin assembly defeated the compulsory health insurance bill proposed by Assemblyman Andrew J. Biemiller. The payroll tax of 27 million dollars would extend coverage to about 1.2 million people, but the measure failed 62 to 26 after amendments adding tuberculosis coverage and a clause exempting socialized medicine supporters. Biemiller denied socializing medicine. opponents warned of government interference between doctor and patient. The debate also covered plans to abolish trading stamps, with proponents and opponents clashing before the assembly commerce and manufacturers committee.
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Madison
Wis
Bicmiller
Cos
Assembly
Andrew J. Biemiller
Milwaukee Socialist
Wisconsin
Biemiller
Whean
Milwaukee
House
Charles A. Budiong
Marinette
Maurice Fitzsimons
Fond du Lac
Vernon Thomson
Richland Center
Assembly Commerce and Manufacturers Committee
William Shenners Jr
Desperate Bilbao siege and Franco advance near Santander
Reports describe Franco’s insurgents tightening a frontline around Bilbao with airfield control and hills captured. Refugee starvation claims rise as a broader push toward Santander begins, while battles threaten to engulf the Basque capital.
Soviet President Dies Amid Anti Government Drive
Soviet President of the White Russian socialist republic Alexander G Cherviakol reportedly killed himself after a sweeping crackdown that has seen hundreds executed and arrested across the Soviet Union. The government blamed family reasons while charging treason, espionage and diversion in a wide purge touching factories, ministries, and key party bodies.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Socialist Republics
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Alexander G. Cherviakol
Russian Soviet Socialist Republic
Poland
Minsk
White
Russia
I. P. Uborevitch
U.S. S
N. M . Goloded
White Russian Council of Commissars
White Russian Central Executive Committee
Mediation Board Sits To End Steel Strike Battle
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins appoints a three man federal mediation board to probe the Mahoning valley steel strike in Cleveland. C I O and independent steel firms weigh whether arbitration will end the deadlock amid threats of sit down strikes and renewed violence.
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Cleveland
Mahoning Valley
Ohio
Frances Perkins
Federal Board
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Tom Girdler
Republic
Frank Purnell
Sheet and Tube
White House
Battle of Steel
John L. Lewis
C. I.0
Roosevelt
Marlin L. Davey
Daniel J. Shields
Johnstown
John Owens
C. 1 O
Owens
United Automobile Workers of America
C. SO
Homer Martin
Detroit
Weather Summary for Wisconsin and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy to cloudy with showers and possible local thunderstorms Friday. Warm near La Crosse, cooler elsewhere. Milwaukee reports high and low temperatures with a 93 degree reading in the afternoon and a 63 degree minimum earlier. Observations from Buckstaff Observatory note a maximum of 34 and a minimum of 34 with no precipitation.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Northwestern
Fair Milwaukee
Phoenix
el Paso
Winnemucca
Spokane
Boise
Buckstaff Observatory
John Steenis Found Safe After Four Day Island Search
University of Wisconsin biologist John H. Steenis, 31, Madison, Wis., was located well and uninjured after four days on uninhabited Agatla Island in the Aleutians. Coast guard cutter Cyane raced 800 miles from Unalaska to assist. Steenis had been surveying bird life with the Brown Bear party.
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Seattle
John Holt Steenis
Madison
Wis
Agatla Island
Aleutians
Coast Guard
H.R. Searles
Bering Sea Patrol
John Steenis
Attu
Steenis
Alaskan
Cyane
Unalaska
Navy
University of Wisconsin
Searles
John H. Steenis
J. W. Steenis
Oshkosh
H. Rex Searles
William KM. Searles
Western Coast Board
Pacific Seaboard
Alaska
Bering Sea
Japan to Refuse Secret Proposal on Naval Arms Limit
Tokio reports an authoritative source says Japan will reject President Roosevelt’s last appeal for limiting naval armament to 14 inch guns. Japan argues real disarmament requires definite quantitative curtailment and would not accept reductions in caliber alone. The proposal is linked to US efforts at a world arms race curb urged by Great Britain via Ambassador Grew.
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Tokio
Japan
Roosevelt
United States
Joseph W. Grew
Great Britain
Wisconsin relief bill hearing postponed in Senate battle
The Wisconsin development authority bill sparked a late Senate session and postponed the finance committee hearing on relief funding for northern Wisconsin. Senator Philip Nelson could not appear before the committee regarding the plan to provide 28 counties 750000 for unpaid relief bills.
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Madison
Senate
Wisconsin Development Authority
Chamber
Finance Committee
Wisconsin
Philip Nelson
Maple
Perkins Names Three Man Steel Mediation Board
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins named a three man board to mediate the seven state steel strike. Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati Lloyd K. Garrison and Edyward F. McGrady will serve with headquarters in Cleveland. The move follows Governor Davey of Ohio's appeal for federal intervention amid rising violence.
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Cyrus L
Sulzberger
United: Press
Washington
W—Secretary of
Frances Perkins
Miss Perkins
Charles P
Taft
Cincinnati
Shasman
Lloyds
Rooses” Welt
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Taft and
Garrison
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin Law School
Wasom McGrady
Tom
Geneva
Switzerland
Miss” Perkins
Mebers
Philip Murray
Steel Workers’organizing Committee
Steel Board
Davey
Steel
Five Die In Auto Truck Crash At County KK Intersection
Sheboygan Wisconsin reports the fifth and final victim of a two vehicle crash involving a car driven by Ben Goldberg and a fish truck owned by Marcel Schwartz. Victims include Mrs Otto Ring Mrs George Manske Mrs William Schulte Gloria Schwartz Luella Schwartz all residents of the area. The collision happened last evening. victims were taken to a local hospital where Mrs Schulte and the girls died shortly after admission and Mrs Ring died today. The Manske child was the Schwartz family nephew.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Otto Ring
George Manske
William Schulte
Gloria Schwartz
Luella Schwartz
Ben Goldberg
Marcel Schwartz
Goldberg
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Joint
Congressional Investigating Committee
South Side High
Neenar
Limekiln Point
Kimberly
Paul Neubauer
Hutter Construction Company
Jack Kimberly
Neenah
Tom Rees
Frank Groeschel
Douglas Street
Appleton
Neubauer
Shipdton
District Federated Building Trades Council
Robert Niles
The
Carpenters Union
District Building Trades Council
A. F. of L
Public Works Administration
Biomiller
Milwaukee Journal
Philip F. la Follette
Dynamiting
Bilbao
Mendaye
Francisco Franco
Santander
Francd
Hendaye
Franco
Nervion
London
European
Germany
Italy
Wilhelmshaven
Reichsuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Deutschland
Manuel Hedilla
Phalanx
Canton
Stephen Mann
Canton Republic Steel
Franklin
Bethlehem
Camtria
Washington Pon
Sun
Lengh
John Steen
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