NEWS behind the NEWS behind the NEWS
A confidential White House briefing outlines anticipated policy moves before spring. It highlights potential reforms at the National Labor Relations Board, tax adjustments, anti monopoly efforts, and housing loan trends as indicators of an uptick in economic activity.
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Morgenthau
Levon
Cing
National Labor Relai Board
NLRB
Bistration
Busi
Nan
Hopkins
Local Taxpayers Organization Formed in Portsmouth
The Portsmouth Taxpayers Association was perfected at a junior high auditorium meeting. Laurence G. Peyser presided as chairman and a slate of directors including Daniel W. Badger and James A. Borthwick was elected. Langmuir of Nashua spoke on tax reduction and fiscal accountability, highlighting statewide tax data and debt, urging citizen involvement. Continued on page 10.
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Portsmouth Taxpayers’ Association, Inc
State Federation of Taxpayers’ Associations
Laurence G. Peyser
Daniel W. Badger
James A. Borthwick
Charles B. Brackett
Fred Cushman
Arthur B. Duncan
Paul Griffin
J. D. Hartford
John Leary, Sr
James P. Lee
Harold A. Littlefield
Wallace Nelson
Clarence Pearson
Harold Preble
Frederick Schretcer
Morris Silverman
Concord
Laconia
Keene
Nashua
Claremont
Mr. Peyse
J. D.langmuir
Langmuir
Blame Broken Brake Part For Boston Tragedy
A broken brake part blamed by Boston Elevated Company officials for a trolley crash that killed six people and injured many more. The car exited control on a downhill in Dorchester near Franklin Park, struck a tree, and collapsed, with victims including a Boston University student and a Portia Law School student. Police and six investigations follow as operator Edward Hanley faces charges.
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Boston
Elevated Company
Edward Dana
Compa
Dorchester
Franklin Park
Greater
Edward F. Hanley
Dana
Harney
Alice R. Sloane
Aleck Kozak
Subversive Advice Crackdown Proposed in House Bill
The nt asked Congress on March end, acting Navy Secretary submitted to the House a draft bill to levy up to two years in prison and a $1000 fine on anyone who advises soldiers or sailors to disobey regulations or disseminates such claims.
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Retary
Two Newburyport Men Charged With Assault Here
County Solicitor Stephen Wheeler issued a warrant charging Abraham Checkaway and Jacob B Checkaway of 90 Federal Street Newburyport with aggravated assault on Edward Flahive in Portsmouth. They pulled him into their car took him to the Plains section and struck him about the face. one suspect allegedly had a gun. They were arrested and later released on bail for appearance in Portsmouth municipal court Friday morning.
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Stephen Wheeler
Exeter
Newburyport Mass
Portsmouth
Abraham Checkaway
Jacob B. Checkaway
Federal Street
Newburyport
Edward Flahive
Plains
Tole
Fishive
Talk On Americanism By Edward D. Ross At Kiwanis
Portsmouth Kiwanis Club listens to Edward D. Ross of the National Committee of Disabled Americans Veterans for the Advancement of Americanism. He links depressions with dictatorships, analyzes Russia 1917, and notes Mussolini and the rise of Fascism in Italy.
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Portsmouth
Berensky
Lenin
Italy
Ross
Russia
Mussolini
Retires After 50 Years Service at Railway Express
Charles E. Abbott, Portsmouth agent for 22 years, retires after 50 years with the Railway Express Agency. Born in Concord, he began as a driver in 1689, served as messenger between Concord, Newport, Boston and Keene, then Berlin, St. Johnsbury, and finally Portsmouth. He turns 70 last November and ends duties due to age limit. He and Mrs. Abbott live at 86 Orchard Street.
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Railway Express Agency
Charles E. Abbott
Portsmouth
Mr. Abbott
Concord
Newport
Boston
Keene
Sherbrook
Que
Berlin
St. Johnsbury
Abbott
Orchard Street
Cardinals Start Balloting For Pope Tomorrow
Vatican City March 1 (AP) Cardinals begin the papal conclave process after mass in the Pawine Chapel near the Sistine Chapel. Cardinal Granito Fignabelli De Belmonte led the service as 62 cardinals prepare to elect a successor to Pope Pius XI with South American arrivals marking a first for the conclave. US cardinals O Connell Mundelein and Dougherty will join the voting group.
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Vatican City
Pawine
Sistine Chapel
Granito Fignabelli de Belmonte
Sacred College
Fius XI
Toudey
Leme
Rio de Janeiro
Capello
Buenos Aires
Wnapies
South America
United States
O'Connell
Boston
Mundelein
Chicago
Dougherty
Philadelphia
Annie L Morrison Celebrates 50th Year As Teacher
Miss Annie L Morrison, principal of Lafayette School, marked her 50th year in teaching with Founders Day at the Lafayette School in Portsmouth. About 200 attendees heard speakers praise the Parent-Teacher association she organized 22 years ago and its aims to enhance child welfare through home and school cooperation.
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Annie L. Morrison
Lafayette
Miss Morrison
Lafayette Parent-Teacher Association
Portsmouth
Raymond I. Beal
Barbara Beal
Jerry de Rochemont
Betty
Mary Wood Hewitt
Maxine Libby
Winnifred Claus
Alice Mildram
Thomas Marden
N. H. Congress of Parents and Teachers
The
National Congress
Alice McKellan Birney
Phoebe A. Hearst
N H. Congress
Marden
Submarine Squalus Commissioned Into U S Navy
The Portsmouth built submarine Squalus was commissioned into the U S Navy with official orders read by Capt. W P Amsden. Lieut Comdr Naquin assumes command as Rear Admiral Cyrus W Colp and officers witness the ceremony on a Marine color guard. The vessel, 299 feet long, 26 feet 11 inches wide, displaces 1 450 tons, carries 41 crew and 6 officers.
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U. S. Navy
WP. Amsden
USN
O. F. Naguin
Cyrus W. Colp
Fers
Lical
J. J. Curley, Jr
Amsden
USS Squalus
Arcondance
Navy Department
Navy
Squalus
Vieut
New England Briefs: Multiple regional items
Boston reports say William A. McConville of Worcester, 30, is held after reporting assault and robbery of 39 dollars in the South End, with facial and scalp injuries. In Lawrence, four-year-old Ralph Tiberio died from burns after falling into a tub of scalding water in Methuen. Kaunas recognizes Franco government, becoming 28th nation to do so. In Boston, a Ways and Means panel notes a possible 10 percent cut from beano games in armories. Also Boston: £100,000 proposed for a Massachusetts administration of justice inquiry rejected 56 to 41. Northampton: Medical Examiner calls Elizabeth Nichols’s 50-foot plunge accident accidental.
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Boston
William A. McConville
Worcester
City Hospital
South End
Lawrence
Mass
APJ
Ralph Tiberio
Methuen
Lawrence General Hospital
March
National Guard
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
John Laseil
Northbridge
Adjutant General's Department
House
Britain raises army budget amid European war fears
AP reports Britain’s peace time military estimates rise to 805.7 million pounds for 1930 40, with defense spending pushing the total British budget above two billion pounds. Chamberlain won Commons approval 344 to 137 for recognizing the Spanish Nationalist regime as the Civil War stalemate persists. Franco in Madrid threatens further action with 800000 troops ready, while Goering boasts of Germany’s air force. Warsaw banks patrol streets as Polish protests mark fears of German power. In Jerusalem the Jewish Assembly backs a general strike to oppose a British plan seen as paving an Arab sovereign state.
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Britain
Europe
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Spain
Franco
Madrid
Berlin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Warsaw
Poland
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Jerusalem
Palestine Jewish Assembly
National Council
Holy Land
Move For Show-Down On Army Air Corps
Washington March 1 AP Opposing factions moved toward a showdown vote in the senate on the 358 million army expansion bill. The fight centers on the maximum number of planes for the Army Air Corps with Clark predicting a close vote over raising the limit from 5590 to 6000. Nye linked foreign policy debate to the issue while Russell urged removing the cap to let the War Secretary set aircraft totals.
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Washington
Senate
Army Air Corps
Clark
D-Mo
House
Shephard
D-Tex
Military Committee
Russel
D-Ga
Secretary of War
Nye
R-Nd
Europe
United States
President Roosevelt Heads Home From Sea Voyage
President Roosevelt returns to Washington from the Caribbean aboard the Houston after a ten day sea trip. He will reach Charleston by Friday, then ride to Washington for church services and joint congressional ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary of the first Congress. White House aides coordinate from temporary Coral Gables offices as naval officers discuss war game lessons.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
United States
Caribbean
Houston
South Atlantic
Charleston
S. C
Washington
Navy “Yard
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Senate
House
Culebra Island
Puerto Rico
St Thomas
William D. Hassett
Key West
White House
Coral Gables
Navy awards contract for extension of ship ways at yard
The Navy has awarded a 246700 dollar contract to Hughes-Feulkrod Company of Philadelphia for the extension of ship building ways at the Portsmouth New Hampshire Navy Yard. The article also notes that the dahlia flower was named after Swedish botanist Dahl.
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Washington
Navy
Hughes-Feulkrod Company
Philadelphia
Portsmouth
N.H
Navy Yard
Dahlia
Dahl
Fight Over 40000 Estate Starts In Manchester
In Manchester Probate Court, a dispute over Olive Blanchard Dover estate begins Friday. Ithamar W Blanchard, grandnephew, seeks to revoke attorney J Vincent Broderick as administrator and appoint himself. Inez A Blanchard and Adeline A Balch support Blanchard. John Fred Dover claims lineage but petition alleges no relation.
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Manchester
APJ
Olive Blanchard Dover
Billerica
Atty
J. Vincent Broderick
Ithamar W. Blanchard
Blanchard
California
Inez A. Blanchard
Adeline A. Balch
John Fred Dover
Duncan
Okla
Dover
Mr. Broderick v
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Paul Mallon
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CIO
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BEC
Fanny Perkins
Perkins
Federal Housing Adoration
Herald
Local Taxpayers’ Association
James D. Langmuir
Taxpayers’ Association
State Capitol
Albany
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New York
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New England
Connecticut
Fgures
State Tax Commission
Diana Lax
Boston University
Dorrit Ruth Forman
West Newton
George Walton
Eleanor Schreiver
Portia Law School
Norway
Svy
Ban
API
Congress
Abraham and
Jacob Checkaway
Charles A. Abbott
Parent-Teacher Association
Portsmouth Navy Yard
New England Briefs
Kaunas
Lithuania
Francisco Franco
Northampton
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Mary P. Snook
Elizabeth F. Nichols
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