Police Seek Injunction Amid City Funds Battle
Milwaukee area boards opened with officer elections and tackled issues of relief pensions salaries and road programs. Waukesha county received a Hartland residents demand for a grand jury probe into alleged vice and gambling. Green County restored official salaries and approved a $50 grant to fund the county agricultural agent’s Washington trip on cheese business.
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Milwaukee
Waukesha
Sheriff's Committee
Hartland
V. M. Gaspar
Green County
Washington
Delinquent Tax Totals Highlight Winnebago County
Winnebago County reports a record 66446192 dollars in delinquent tax certificates as auditor A L Lund presented the financial statement to the county board. He notes future levies could be reduced when back taxes are paid and courthouse bond obligations may be met from these funds.
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Winnebago County
A. L. Lund
Lund
Oshkosh
Menasha
Oshkosh Officials Challenged Over Pension Deduction
Police and firemen in Oshkosh seek an injunction to stop a 5 percent pension deduction, instead of the 1 percent mandated by statute. A show cause hearing before Circuit Judge Fred Beglinger is set for May 11 at the courthouse.
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Police Department
Oshkosh
Circuit Court
Fred Beglinger
Common Council
Paul Neubauer
C. A. Wiechering
James S. Chase
Harvey A. Galow
R. F. Kriz
Wisconsin
Supervisors Vote Change in Road Policy of County
California and South Dakota results show shifting delegate dynamics as GOP and Democratic contests unfold. In California, a 44 delegate GOP slate backed by unrested delegates edged a Lan don slate. Roosevelt leads Demo slate with large margin over EPIC and Townsend. Alabama, Missouri, and Tennessee results favor Roosevelt or Landon in key delegate deals.
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Associated Press
California
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Townsend
South Dakotta
Landon
Borah
Idaho
Alabama
John H. Bankhead
William B. Bankhead
House
Missouri
Tennessee
Connecticut
Conquest Proclaimed as Italy Seizes Addis Ababa
Reports from Rome Paris and London declare Italy will formally annex Ethiopia, with Mussolini refusing settlement terms not recognizing Ethiopian territory as Italian. Badoglio in Addis Ababa asserts Italian rule as fascist salutes mark the occupation.
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Stewart Brown
United Press
Rome
U.P
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Ethiopia
Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Giuseppe Bottai
Pietro Badoglio
Paris
London
League
Legation
Mine Agreement Is Reached
Operators and miners end days of deadlock in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields as they reach in principle agreement on a two year contract. Edward F. McGrady joins as labor department aid and a subcommittee will finalize details. The existing contract expired March 31 and was extended twice during the talks.
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Donald C. Bolles
Associated Press
New York
Pennsylvania
Edward F. McGrady
SARGENT SEES TAX BILL HARM RAIL REORGANIZATIONS
Chicago and North Western president Fred Sargent told the senate finance committee the house tax bill would deliver two disastrous blows to railroads in receivership. He urged a five year exemption from the undivided profits tax after reorganization and warned the 15 percent tax on recovered firms would block plans to return to normal operations. He noted CNW must file a plan by June 27 and said earnings should not be distributed while reserves are depleted.
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Joseph W. Burns
House
Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Fred Sargent
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Senate Finance Committee
Sargent
Chicago and
Northswestern
Appraisal Values Nieman Estate At 10 Million Plus
Milwaukee report shows Lucius W. Nieman founder of The Milwaukee Journal valued at 10,156,913.14 in court files. Stock appraised at 5,000 a share. relatives oppose actions blocking sale. Mrs Nieman inherits half, with 200000 bequests to Harvard University.
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Milwaukee
Lucius W. Neeman
The
Milwaukee Journal
Jirs. Nieman
Journal
Robert Wahl
Paula Wahl Pierce
Chicago
Fred Wahl
Washington
Sieman
Harvard University
Nieman
Crime Instructor Faces Prison Term in Waupun
Joseph Duame a 20 year old labeled crime instructor was sentenced to one to ten years in Waupun State Prison for the Campbellsport Bauer warehouse robbery seven months earlier. Milwaukee youths had called him a crime instructor while imprisoned.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
U.P
Joseph Duame
Waupun State
Bauer
Campbellsport
Duame
Dist. Atty
Alex Simncun
Milwaukee
Duame Their “Cryme
Waupun
Simpson
Dusame
Lee Donald
Clayton F. van Pelt
St. Cloud, Mint, Reformatory
Governor unable to attend Oshkosh bass festival
Governor Philip F. La Follette regrets he cannot attend the Oshkosh White Bass Festival set for May 15. A state representative will attend. Delegation of Oshkosh queen contestants met him in Madison and presented a 60 by 20 inch invitation.
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Philip F. la Follette
Madison
la Follette
Oshkosh
Firls
Re elected Chairman Davis Receives Flowers
Richard Y. Davis was reelected chairman of the La Crosse county board for a 27th term. Board members presented him with a large bouquet of flowers in ceremony at La Crosse Wisconsin.
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la Crosse
Wis
Richard Y. Davis
Barger
la Crosse County
County abandons day labor road building in favor of contracts
Winnebago county will stop concrete road construction by day labor and shift to contracting. Highway Commissioner E M Bird says costs are lower with contract work and federal funds likely for future projects. The board accepted a committee report noting outdated equipment and rising earthwork costs, and district funds will not cover new equipment.
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Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington
Hopkins-Ickes
House
Roosevelt
WPA
Harry Hopkins
PWA
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Hopkins
J. R. McCarl
New Deal
E. M. Bird
Highway Committee
Winnebago County
State Highway Commission
Bird
Howard N. Howe
Oshkosh
Burd
Great airliner slated for hop across Atlantic
Friedrichshafen Germany The Hindenburg begins its first north transatlantic flight to the United States with about 100 crew and 43 passengers aboard each paid 590 dollars. Capt Ernest Lehmann and Dr Hugo Eckener pilot toward Lakehurst New Jersey as towns along the coast are mapped for a Washington Baltimore Newark Newark and Delaware route.
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Webb Miller
United Press European
Germany
United States
Copsright
United Press
Friedrichshafen
P. m
Frankfurt
Atlantic
Lakehurst Air Station
Lakehurst
New Jerseys
Ernest Lehmann
Hugo Eckener
Washington
Baltimore
Newark
New Jersey
Delaware
New York
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George F. Sullivan
U. S
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Alvin Karpis
Olave
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