Compromise Tax Bill Near as Lewis Backs Guffey Plan
John L. Lewis the United Mine Workers leader endorsed the Guffey coal control bill, urging immediate passage to stabilize the industry though the measure drops labor provisions after a Supreme Court ruling. Senator Guffey introduced the substitute bill, with O Neill calling operators to support it as constitutional and practical for price protection and market stability.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Congress
Supreme Court
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Labor
Perkins
High Court
House
White House
O'Neill
Charles O'Neill
National Conference of Bituminous Coal Producers
Marie Groff Crowned Wisconsin VFW Queen in Oshkosh
Marie Groff won the Wisconsin department encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars queen contest at Oshkosh with 19 831 votes. Lo Rayne Sorensen finished second with 18 923, Leona Stadler third with 13 156. Crowning at a preconvention dance at the Eagles ballroom tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Department
Oshkosh
Marie Groff
Lo Rayne Sorensen
Miss Groff
Miss Sorensen
Philip D. Lampert
Florian Lampert
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eagles
C. A. Wiechering
Leona Stadler
Mary Walter
Katherine Schneider
Hattie Griep
Betty Schulz
Helen Kriz
Mary Jane Beau
Verna Kocipin
Irene Erdman
Mildred Shorey
Gertrude Cain
Archaic Wisconsin penal system faces court review
Milwaukee report by the Milwaukee women's court and civic conference labels Wisconsin's 17 penal and industrial institutions archaic and outmoded. It urges revision or replacement of the state board of control and calls for a trained supervisor for Taycheedan prison and overall reforms.
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Milwaukee Women's Conference
State Board of Control
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Women’s Court and Civic Conference
Board of Control
John B. Dolan
Vie
Taycheedan
Trevenor
Taycheeedan
Reciprocal Illinois Wisconsin truck agreement dissolved
Springfield, WA Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes announces the abrogation of the Wisconsin Illinois trucks for hire pact. Wisconsin trucks entering Illinois faced fees as injunctions dissolved and enforcement resumed, stopping units and collecting charges.
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Springfield
Edward J. Hughes
Wisconsin
Ilanoss
Hughes
Owas
Fnd
Norris Bill Signed By President For Rural Electrification
President Roosevelt signed the Norris bill authorizing 410 million dollars over ten years to extend power lines into rural areas. The Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation would lend up to 50 million dollars in the first year to the rural electrification administration with 40 million dollars appropriated annually for nine subsequent years, favoring farm cooperatives and nonprofit farm units.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rural Electrification Administration
Adjournment Delay Hangs Over Washington Congress
Congressional leaders warned that adjournment may slip past June 6 as the GOP and Democrats clash over timing. If no break by June 9 Republican convention, the session could extend weeks. A weeklong recess for conventions is possible. tax and relief bills linger in Senate committees.
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Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington
Congress
Joseph W. Burns
William B. Dankhead
House
Berthand Snell
Senate
Burns
Manitowoc Hosts Ninth Fox River Safety Conference
Manitowoc Wisconsin welcomes thousands to the ninth annual Fox River Valley and Lake Shore Safety conference. Attendance tops records for Wisconsin conferences and even national safety council events. A banquet at White House Milk Company is highlighted with all 1 400 covers sold and a half holiday declared for local workers to attend. A parade and ten sectional meetings will cover industrial home and highway safety.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Fox River Valley
Lake Shore
Wisconsin
H. A. Klemm
Wisconsin Industrial Commission
National Safety Council
White House
Frank E. Town
Arthur Schuetze
Harbors and Rivers to Get $137 Million Upgrade
Washington U P reports a War Department plan allotting 137 million dollars to improve U S harbors and rivers. Of the total 103 458 839 will fund new projects while 34 408 150 covers maintenance of existing works. Projects approved by the corps of engineers begin soon with allocations varying from 23 900 000 for the upper Mississippi to small sums for backwater creeks. Funds may be adjusted as work progresses with unused balance returning to the general fund.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
America
Mississippi
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps of Engineers
Wisconsin
Plans revived for Horicon marsh land sale negotiations
Madison officers report the federal Biological Survey is willing to renew talks to acquire Horicon marsh lands for a wildlife refuge. The state conservation commission cites lack of funds but notes ownership issues are cleared by a recent supreme court ruling and urges landowners to set fair prices.
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Madison
Wis
Adjt
Ralph M. Immell
State Conservation Commission
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Horicon Marsh
Immell
Supreme Court
General Immel
Ira Nl Gabrielon
Biological Survey
Washington
Smrvell Wetold
Resettlement Administration
Gabrielson
Ini
Immell Todas
Bureau
Horwen Oinarch
Teombie
State Supreme Court
Train Strikes Automobile Killing One Injuring Three
A Northwestern passenger train struck a Milwaukee automobile today near Milwaukee injuring three occupants and killing one. Langan 21 suffered a skull fracture while 20 year old Langan was cut about the face. Driver George Couch suffered a fatal skull fracture and 12 year old Warner Jowitt, a newsboy, was thrown and injured.
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Milwaukee
Northwestern Oo
Gin Langin
Langan
George Couch
Warner Jowit
Man Confesses Killing Wife Near Crossroads
Oregon District Attorney S Donald Crowell said Guy M Tallmadge 56 an undertaker's assistant confessed to killing his wife Bessie 54 at a lonely crossroads five miles from here Tuesday night.
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Oregon
Donald Crowell
Guy M. Tallmadge
Senate Finance Panel Endorses Compromise Tax Plan
The Washington Senate Finance Committee reached a compromise on the New Deal corporate tax theory. The plan imposes an 18 percent flat tax on earnings, 7 percent on undistributed income, taxes dividends at 4 percent, and grants a 1000 dollar exemption for corporations earning 20000 or less. The measure aims to raise over 500 million, with debate over total revenue to meet the 1.137 billion target. Senator Couzens opposed the compromise. La Follette threatened a walkout.
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Washington
WUP
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
James Couzens
Michigan
Roosevelt
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Townsend Denies Mail Fraud Ties to Plan
Washington report says Townsend denies knowledge of an appeal used to fund the Townsend movement. A Congressional committee notes funds raised in January 1925 for the McGrory bill and Townsendgrams aimed at promoting the plan. Robert Clements and others oversaw the financials and administrative tasks.
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Townsend
Scott Hersher
Washington
James A. Sullivan
Ple. Townsend
Sudan
Washington A
McGrourty
Towntend
Sullivan
Towner
Robert EB. Clements
Natons
Otfers
Oshkosh Secures State Convention For 1930
The Farmer Labor Progressive Federation of Wisconsin will hold its first annual convention in Oshkosh June 20 and 21. About 1500 to 2000 delegates are expected, with Appleton withdrawing its bid in favor of Oshkosh. Convention HQ will be at the Hotel Raulf and sessions in the Recreational gymnasium opened to meetings by the vocational education board.
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Farmer-Labor-Progressive Federation of Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Appleton
Ald
Harold H. Priebe
Raulf
Board of Vocational Education
Beavers Captured Alive After Prison Break
Claude Beavers surrendered in the Jack Fork mountains near McAlester Oklahoma, ending a prison break that killed a foreman and wounded a guard. Old Boston the bloodhound led a five man posse to Beavers, with two fugitives still at large. Beavers to be placed in solitary confinement with recaptured convicts at the state penitentiary.
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McAlester
Okla
Claude Beavers
State Penitentiary
Jack Fork Mountains
Here
Old
Boston
Beavers
Roy W. Kenny
Julius Bohannon
A. C. McArthur
Kenny
Settlement reached in auto damage case in Wisconsin
A out of court settlement was reached in Fond du Lac Wisconsin in the $25,000 auto damage action filed by Estel and Nelda Curry of Detroit Michigan along with others against Raymond Zastrow and Oscar Stark of Watertown. The Currys were passengers in a Glenn Teenber driven automobile near Addison in Fond du Lac County in April 1934.
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Fond Duo Lac. Wis
Raymond = Zastrow
Oscar Stark
Watertown
Estel
Nelda Curry
Detroit
Michal Werenault
Addison
Woredanition
Currys
Glenn Teenber
Fond du Lac
ELC
Damroaw
Fond Dur Lac
Stork
Guiry Aon
Detroit Soeatenal Tchao
Dearnros
Convention of State District Attorneys at Delavan
Wisconsin announcement states the annual convention of the State District Attorneys Association will be held in Delavan on July 10. Secretary Robert L. Wiley notes the event will bring together district attorneys from the state for sessions and discussions.
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Delavan
Chippesa Falls
Wis
Robert L. Wilew
Waieansin District Attorneys' Asociaten
Asocsten
John C Schmidtmann death services today in Manitowoc
Private funeral services are set for 2 p m in Manitowoc for John C Schmidtmann member of the state personnel board who died by suicide at his Madsen home yesterday. The body will be taken to Exergescen cemetery by train from Madison with Rev D O Rustad of First Lutheran church officiating.
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Manitowoc
Wis
John C. Schmidtmann
State Personnel Board
Madsen
Exergescen
D. O. Rustad
First Lutheren Church
Wisconsin travelers to Oshkosh for annual convention
Delegates and members from across Wisconsin travel to Oshkosh for the Travelers Protective Association of America annual convention at the Athearn hotel with sessions starting Friday at 10 am. Mayor Wiechering delivers the welcome, while host Post C and the auxiliary organize events and receptions.
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Wisconsin
Travelers Protective Association
Oshkosh
State of Wisconsin
Travelers Protective Association of America
Order
Athearn
Charles A. Wiechering
Post C of
Arthur C. Roper
Charles M. Boller
Mayor Expresses Regret Over Police Action in Peace Parade
Appleton Wisconsin mayor John Goodland, in a letter to Lawrence College President Henry Winston, apologizes for police clubs used on Lawrence students during a peace demonstration last month. He clarifies the parade permit was canceled to keep the event on campus and regrets interference with students and veterans. Winston calls the mayor's letter a clear recognition of constitutional issues and a courageous expression of regret.
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Winston
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Efe
Illinois
Mathieu
Marie Groffleff
la Rayne Sorynsen
Norris Bill
Grover Cleveland
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Howe
OME TV
Rivers, Harbor Act
Horizon Marsh
Donde
HW. MacKenzie
Homcon Dam
C. A. Davieson
Jegn
Jegyswiture
Commission 9
Fatie Dom
Dasian
Ine
Compie
Tar Commission
la Follette
Athearn Hotel
T. S. Logan
St. Louis
Mr. Boller
William F. Schad
Mr. Roper
E. A. Curler
Arthur Chapple
Goodland
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