House and Senate Reach Final Tax Bill Agreement
Conferees finalize a $250 million tax bill dropping Roosevelt inheritance taxes and boosting existing taxes. Plan includes graduated corporate rates, increased capital stock tax, excess profits tax with new rates, earlier surtax triggers, intercorporate dividend exemption at 90 percent, and estate levies up to 10 percent. Borah amendments against tax-exempt securities and McCarran repeal were dropped.
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Washington, D.C
Aik
Senate
House Conference Committee
Roosevelt
Harrison
Mississippi
Conternet Committee
Short Evita, Ag
Anl
McCarran
Wheat acreage control contracts eyed in Oklahoma campaign
A representative of the AAA is scheduled to campaign for renewal of wheat acreage control contracts in the Oklahoma wheat belt next week. The effort comes as farmers anticipate continued price support and production limits under the program.
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Oklahoma City
AAA
Oklahoma
Washington project funds push to $5 million goal
Submission to Washington reports a total of about 5 000 000 in works progress projects with a quarter of the 20 000 000 state goal set by H F Drought. New applications speed toward Washington for approval to provide a year of work for 3008 Texans. Harris county led with a large item for 1314 jobs, while Bexar county sponsors five projects totaling 34 657 providing 67 man-years. Projects include Olmos barn work graveling culverts bridges creek widening repairs and drainage improvements on St Hedwig road with typhus fever and rodent control. A Baugh urged counties and cities to submit promptly to shift workers from relief to WEA payrolls.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
H. F
Harris County
Bexar County
St. Hedwig Road
A. Baugh
WEA
Possinie
Texas Woman in Lead for Post for Social Security Board
Margie B. Ness of Dallas leads the contest for the social security board appointment. Her strong candidacy challenges several prominent Democratic women who expected a nationally known welfare worker to receive the post. Ness currently assists as women’s director of the NRA.
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Social Security Board
Democratic Party
Mise Neal
NRA
Ousted Jews in German Parks Spark Nazi Response
Aug 20 report from Garmisch Partenkirchen details municipal bans on Jews from public recreation spaces with banners reading Jews are not allowed. Hanover Brunswick theaters owned by Jews were closed, police say for anti Reich actions. Frankfurt social relief for Jews surged from 38,575 to 296,162 marks. Franz Selte discusses funding for war veterans Steel Helmet, while August von Mackensen resigns honorary membership amid tension.
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Garmitch-Partenkirchen
Internatonal
Indy
Tin Municipal Touneil
Hanover
Frankfurt-am- Main
Franz Selite
Day
August von Mackensel
Tax plan ruled unconstitutional in new sales tax decision
In an oral opinion, Attorney General rules the planned 1 percent sales tax collection unconstitutional starting next week. McKittrick renewed attacks on the act three days after State Auditor Forest Smith said he would administer the levy with receipts.
Skeletons unearthed at old post office burial site
Skeletons found after a fire at the old post office likely end up buried in the San Fernando cemetery. Rev J T Lockwood announced the discovery and said the bones may be from Indians or Mexicans. Further digging by engineers will be supervised to rebury any additional remains. Arch Bishop A J Drossaerts will conduct the burial service.
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Alamo
San Fermanco
J. T. Lockwood
Roberts
Indiana
M. H. Flore
San Fernando
4. J. Drossaerts
Arrest of KY National Guard chief in Harlan case
Bench warrants for General Henry Denhardt head of the Kentucky National Guard were issued after an indictment charging criminal contempt. The true bill accuses Denhardt of ordering troops into Harlan County to supervise the July primary, with warrants sent to Franklin Jefferson and Harlan counties. Denhardt faced immediate jail upon arrest if bailed not endorsed and had been summoned to testify before the grand jury.
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Henry MH. Dunhards
Kennness National Guard
Clcult
Vfanns M. Gilbert
Harlan County Grand Jury
Pranklis
Jefferson
Harlan County
Commonwealth
Altoney Daniel Boune Smith
Denhardt
Ure
Kentucky
Hich
Gilbert
Grand Jury
Mit Haws
Harlan Elroult Rouré
Kentucky National Guard
Kentucky Na Iirit
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Zionist Congress Opens in Lucerne With 43 Nations Attending
Delegates from 43 nations gather in Lucerne for the nineteenth biannual Zionist congress at the grand arts palace. The event draws heightened interest due to concerns over Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe and optimism about Jewish development in Palestine. An unfurnished lower duplex at 268 Post Avenue is offered for rent at 45 dollars monthly in light classified ads.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Germany
Europe
Palestine
Post Avenue
Washington awaits action on Paige spread probe
Aug 20 report says prompt house action was promised on a severite-approved resolution to study the spread between prices paid to farmers and charged to consumers. The editor notes no immediate move on forming a special committee to study the meat situation including the Detroit meat strike. Four-room furnished apartment at 410 King's Court for rent at $30 a month is listed in Classification 27, L Classified ads.
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Washington, N.1
House
Wheeling
Chatman C Cuntor
Miles Committee
Detroit
King's Court
Massed Troops Amid Ethiopian War Preparations
Addis Ababa reports hurried war preparations with a completed cartridge factory and troop movements near the Djibouti railway. Emperor Haile Selassie orders no visible mobilization while drilling continues and arms shipments from Sudan allegedly fall short of demand. A separate Rome dispatch notes a charred belt of four white women found in a burned school ruin.
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Ethiopia
Addis Ababa E Djibouti
Haile Selassie
Hye Sudan
Rome
Abe
D. Carley
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