House Liberals Move To Strike Draft From Tax Bill
A group of Washington lawmakers push to amend the McBain tax bill to remove conscription provisions. Maury Maverick signals house leadership may send the bill back to military committee for stripping the draft clause. Senate plans to rewrite tax sections per Nye committee recommendations. anti draft action failed though foreign service draft remains. The measure would freeze prices at prewar levels, authorize wartime wage parity, and empower the president to commandeer supplies and prioritize production. Senate munitions group seeks industrial salary caps and wartime profit limits for corporations.
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Washington, D
House
Maury
Democrat
Texas
Hawss Military Committee
Senate
Fiesta week society notes in San Antonio
A busy San Antonio social page lists engagements, luncheons, and teas honoring Miss Marjorie McCampbell bride elect of Lieut. James Forsythe Thompson with gatherings at the Gunter hotel and other venues. Attendees include Mrs. T. B. Butler and Mrs. George Ray, plus plans for a wedding rehearsal and a Battle of Flowers luncheon at the St. Anthony hotel. The column notes travel to New York and Comfort, and mentions the Court of Enchantment event and Fiesta week activities.
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Antonio Musical Club Solvee
Ihine Sputhoven
St. Anthony Inte
Jonanna Belle Steves
Gunter Hote
Marjorie McCampbell
Butle of Flowers Ausocratins
Municipal Auditorium
Clara C
BR. A. Richey
Mises Virginia
Aurelia Sorsette
Presbyterian Church
Tulsa
Okla
San Antonio
New York
David & Hyde
West Summit, Avenue
Mary L. Hose
Miami
Fla
Mesdames M
L. Read
Forkner
Dramatic Department
San Antonio Music Club
Gunter Hotel
John Blebsfeldt
William H. Donovan
Battle of Flowers Association
Battle of Flowers
St. Anthony Hotel
Lee A. Palfrey
Bade
Carolyn Hay
Henrietta Bolles
Frank
Bolles
E. J. Fellowes
West French Place
Mary Johnson
Kentucky
Gassaway Attacks Long On Air In 1920s Oklahoma
Washington, April 8. Representative Percy Gassaway, introducing himself as Old Ge toma, used an 18 minute broad ast on the Columbia chain to lambaste Huey P. Long and his share the wealth plan. He derided the plan as wild promises of something for nothing and urged aborting Long’s program. He mocked Kingfish and warned against a new program that would fund everyone at high levels with government money. He called Long a small wind imitating a woodpecker and described his own plan as a rebuttal to the Long agenda.
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Washington
DB. C
Percy Gassaway
Huey P. Long
Columbia
Gas- Saway
Santa Clas
Huey
Tam
Gasawey
Helium Plant to Close July Near Amarillo
The government helium producing plant near Amarillo with an annual capacity of 24,000,000 cubic feet will close July 1 unless pending appropriation is approved. If funds pass, operations will still be cut drastically. Supervising engineer G. W. Belbel reports 12 employees are to be reduced immediately and six more in three months.
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Amarillo
coUgrees
G. W. Belbel
Fedu
United States
National Geographic Society
Army Air Corps
Experiment Laboratory
Seibat
Fishing thief nets watches from Cleveland store
Hugh W. Beattie, president of a Cleveland jewelry store, found a hole in the front window and several watches missing after a thief pried in from the sidewalk. Police investigated the break in, with witnesses noting the thief’s escape route along the street.
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Cleveland
Hugh W. Beattie
Boy Calm Amid Footlong Snake Ensnarement in Melbourne
In Melbourne in April a three year old, Vance Cole of South Purrumbete Vittoria, had a three foot snake coiled around his ankles but was not bitten. His mother credits fearless ness noting he often sees eels and likely mistook the creature for another of them.
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Melbourne
INS
Vance Cole
South
Vittoria
Thief Feasts While Guard Dog Barks Loudly
A burglar broke into a Toorak house and helped himself to wine and pineapple. He ate in the kitchen as a chained dog barked outside, leaving a penciled note on the dresser reading very choice indeed.
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Melbourne
Apric
Toorak
Airedale Answers Call of the Wild in Greeley
An airedale found near the Powdre river by COG workers used a hollow tree as a den for her pups and deer and rabbits were claimed as prey. A local resident reports the dog defended her pups and allowed no contact with them.
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Greeley
Calo
Fermie Airedale
Powdre River
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