Tax hike yields under three million in July
Washington Aug 19 The new excise tax adopted by Congress, replacing a general manufacturers sales tax, raised less than 3 million dollars for the treasury in July. The Treasury lists show July figures not typical of long term yield due to higher income tax rates not yet in effect and prebuying to dodge the levy. Internet revenue from all sources totaled 1 81 6 467, as against 74 169 258 the year before, with income taxes down by about seven million.
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U. C
Congress
Treasury Department
Hitler Adherents Land Leader for Cabinet Refusal
At Berechtesgaden Adolf Hitler said he received many messages from followers praising his refusal of a cabinet post under the terms offered. He expressed confidence in the long run, stated he has no plan to march on Berlin, and condemned dictatorships set up by force.
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Berechtesgaden
Bavaria
Adolf Hitler
Gertmany
Berlin
Tax figures from estate to miscel classified ads
Revenue breakdown shows estate taxes at 2,500,000 and cigarette taxes at 3,500,000. A new 2 cent tax on checks yielded 1,904,287 in returns, the pesoline tax contributed 335,461, while ads for home-brew items and miscellaneous merchandise in light classifieds carried a variety of values and descriptions.
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Wort
Explorer Carveth Wells claims ark fragment found
London reports explorer Carveth Wells returns with pictures of a supposed Noahs Ark fragment. He says a tiny petrified slab was guarded in an ancient Armenian church near the Turkish border, and was said to have been placed there by angels in the fourth century.
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Carveth Wells
Turkey
Armenia
Royals Exiled to Fever Swamps After Uprising
In Madrid on August 12 INS reports scores of nobles and former army leaders involved in the recent Royalist revolt will be exiled within days. Minister Casares Quiroga announced deportation to Bata in Africa after the Cortes passed a government bill by 262 to 14 confis cating the estates of all implicated. Dukes marquises counts and generals face deportation without trial.
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Spain
Bata
Africa
Casares Quiroga
Garner Leaves San Antonio For Uvalde Home
Speaker John N. Garner Democratic vice presidential nominee arrived in San Antonio after weather halted his flight from Austin. He met two young men at the field who offered to drive him to Uvalde, and after breakfast with his wife and son he departed for Uvalde. A delegation led by Mayor C. M. Chambers waited at the field without success.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
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Weston Apparent Wyoming Governor Victory Report
Cheyenne Wyoming August 19 Wyoming's Republican gubernatorial race appears decided with Harry R Weston of Jackson state treasurer leading. From 617 of 660 precincts Weston 16014 votes Clark acting governor 15623 Rowell Casper anti prohibitionist 8410.
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Two Nicaraguan Insurgents Slain in Clash
An official report to the navy department states two Nicaraguan insurgents were killed in a clash with a Guardia patrol under Lt. Bennie M. Buon of Chicago on Wednesday. Indications were that several insurgents were wounded, while there were no Guardia casualties.
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Joplin Street Car Robbery Sees Repeat Thefts
In Joplin Missouri a street car conductor was robbed of receipts and raped after a con venience robber boarded a car in a suburb. This marks the third car robbery in the city this week.
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Abe Miller
Oklahoma
No Compromise Slogan of WG.T.U. Rally
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union adopts No Compromise as its campaign cry to defend the Eighteenth amendment. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington of Washington DC, chair of the National Prohibition Board of Strategy, spoke at a banquet ending the fifty eighth annual convention urging support for pro prohibition candidates in Congress and state legislatures.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Ernest H. Cherrington
Washington
D. C
National
Danciger Oil Well Proration Held Up
A Texas railroad commission order placing Danciger Oil and Refining wells in Carson Gray and Hutchinson counties under state proration remains in abeyance awaiting a conference between Danciger's attorneys and commission representatives.
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Texas Railroad Commission
Danciger Oil and Refining Company
Carson
Gray
Hutchinson
Ebeyance
Danciger
Work Grows for 100 Laborers in Paducah
Paducah Kentucky August 19 Approximately 100 laborers will be given work by the Bronstein Ramer company here as a result of an order calling to work all employees laid off recently and the addition of new workers.
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Paducah, Ky
Bronstein-Ramer ‘Company
Troops Ready to Battle Miners in Illinois Counties
National guardsmen moved from Camp Grant to Decatur and Springfield in response to a large miner picket near Taove Into Christian county. Christian county was already occupied by striking miners from neighboring counties with sheriffs withdrawing barricades and deputies. Two of three mine locals voted to join the strike negating the reduced four dollar daily pay scale.
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