Tax Plan Circulated In NRA Study For Stopgap Program
Washington June 6 Senate House and administration representatives held a secret conference on NRA stopgap principles, with rumors of proposed high inheritance and gift taxes to broaden NRA aims. The exact agreement was not disclosed though discussions suggested little change from Tuesday’s White House understanding. Senator Robinson warned more permanent NRA legislation may follow if the plan advances.
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Washington
Senate
House
Administration
White House
New Deal
NRA
Ways and Means Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
McMullen Indicted Over Fees in Tax Lobby Case
Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, head of the patents section in the Army JAG, was indicted by a DC grand jury for taking fees from Cuban-American Manganese Corp. He allegedly received a $1,500 retainer on July 6, 1932 to oppose a manganese import tax and $250 on Jan. 3, 1932 as monthly compensation.
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Washington
Joseph I. McMullen
Army Judge Advocate General’s Office
District of Columbia
Secretary of War
Manganese Corporation
St Thomas plans Jumbo memorial in Barnum style return
In a Barnum inspired plan St Thomas will mark the 50th anniversary of Jumbo the elephant killed by a locomotive with a city wide tribute. A committee for old home week proposes pink red orange and blue Jumbo images on light standards and may place giant Jumbo statues at city entrances.
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St. Thomas
Barnum
Twin Girls Returned With Stork at Atwood Home
GENEROUS BIRD HAYODAN, N. C., June 6, (P). The stork has been doing double duty lately at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Atwood. Ten months ago he left twin boys. A few days ago he came back with twin girls.
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Hayodan
N. C
Alonzo Atwood
Dance Maestro to Honeymoon in New York
Piano star Eddie Duchin the dance band maestro honeymooning with Marjorie Oelrichs. He will end his Casino engagement tonight and depart for Washington on a concert tour ending in Hollywood where he has another engagement.
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New York
Eddie Duchin
Marjorie Oelrichs
Washington
Hollywood
Duchin
Hagerstown High School 263 Graduates At 57th Commencement
At the fifty seventh annual commencement in the high school auditorium 263 students were graduated. Valedictorian was Alan L Habercom and salutatorian Miss Josephine E Herman. The program featured orchestra, prizes, diplomas, and selections by the graduating class with remarks by Rev Paul Holdcraft and Byron J Grimes.
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Hagerstown High School
Alan L. Habercom
Josephine
E. Herman
Theigh School
Paul E. Holdcraft
Florence Aylward
Jack Lowmen
Blue Danube
Land of Hope and
William M. Norment
Byron J. Grimes
Paul K. Holdcraft
Kee Mar
Helen Zentmyer
Hagerstown High
Immunizations Rise to 506 This Week in Four Areas
The Health Department reports 200 more people received their first typhoid vaccine bringing weekly total to 506 at Leitersburg Ringgold Pinesburg and Chariton. A special clinic will be held Monday night June 10 at 7 30 at the Leitersburg Grange Hall for those unable to attend yesterday.
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Leitersburg
Ringgold
Pinesburg
Chariton
Health Department
Grange Hall
Grange
Dealers May Collect Tax From Consumer In Maryland
Baltimore June 6. Attorney General Herbert R. O Conor ruled that dealers selling to consumers may add the one per cent state gross receipts tax to bills and collect it. The ruling, in a letter to Comptroller William S Gordy Jr, says it is optional for the vendor to absorb, raise the price, or itemize the tax as cost with purchaser agreement.
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O’conor
O’conor
Baltimorean awaits sentence for girl assault in Bel Air
Norman Jerry Stebbing a 22 year old dairy solicitor and amateur night club performer was found guilty by a Circuit court jury after three hours deliberation. He faces a maximum ten year sentence.
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Bel Air
Norman
Jerry” Stebbing
Pressure Ends Toledo Power Plant Strike
A Toledo Edison strike ended as a crew of troubleshooters operated the plant while union electrical workers agreed to end the walkout after negotiations on a 20 percent wage raise. The vote to end the strike was 227 to 22 amid pressures from Washington labor officials and local business groups.
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Toledo
Toledo Edison Company
Ohio
New York
Henry L. Doherty Company
Toledo Edison
Oliver Myers
Electrical Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
Myers
Washington
Department of Labor
Toledo Chamber of Commerce
Perkins
Depositors to Receive Another 5 Percent Dividend
The Mechanics Loan and Savings Institution will pay a further 5 percent dividend to its 5,000 depositors early in July, bringing total payouts to 45 percent of deposits. About $90,000 will be distributed. This follows three prior dividends of 20, 10, and 10 percent, per E. C. Lease, receivers’ representative.
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Mechanics Loan and Savings Institution
E. C. Lease
Mother and son to be hanged in Delaware
At Georgetown Delaware Mrs May H Carey 55 and her son Howard 27 face execution for the slaying of her brother Robert Hitchens 57 over a $2000 life insurance policy. The doomed mother broke down as a storm lashed the prison and the pair awaited tomorrow's death sentence. James Carey a second son is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Georgetown
Del
May H. Carey
Howard
Robert Hitchens
Delaware
Howard Carey
Myra
James Carey
Pietri Tries for Cabinet in France
Paris June 6 The threat of disorders and withdrawals again unsettles France as Pietri, former navy minister and noted financier, seeks to form a cabinet strong enough to defend the franc and win support in the Chamber of Deputies. He is Albert Lebrun s fifth choice for the premiership.
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Paris
France
Francois Pietri
Chamber of Denuties
Joseph Caillauy
Pietri
Albert Lebrun
Byng, Famous British War Leader Dies
Viscount Byng of Vimy long served as wartime hero and police reformer and died at his Thorpe Hall home after abdominal surgery. A former Governor General of Canada and commander famed for Vimy Ridge, he was 72. His death leaves Lord Allenby as the last major World War I British field leader.
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Thorpelsoken
Essex
England
Viscount Byng of
Vimy
London
Metropolitan Police
Thorpe Hall
Vimy Ridge
Canada
Lord Allenby
Lord Byng
United States
West End
Piccadilly Circus
Health Officers Study Work Here
Dr. C Y Moser of West Virginia and Dr. A C Shach of Iowa arrive in Hagerstown for one month of field work with the local Health Department. They will study how health work is conducted in Washington county, whose health unit is considered a model.
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C.Y. Moser
West Virginia
A. C. Shach
Iowa
John’s Hopkins
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Washington County
They Know Wher Baby Snakes Go They Know Wher Baby Snakes Go
James Marker and Bud Baker, state roads workers on Conococheague, watched a watersnake mother attacked near a creek. They killed the mother with a rock and found twelve young snakes and a devoured sunfish after cutting open the body.
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James Marker
Bud Baker
Conococheague
Jury Hears Testimony In Murder Case
The coroner's jury ruled an unknown person killed 80 year old rooming house proprietor David L. Buchanan on June 1. Inmate testimony described finding the body, bloodstains, and details of the room as police pursue new investigative angles. James Riggs testified of being at Buchanan's after work and sleeping on the bed.
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David L. Buchanan
Buchanan Rooming House
Edward Heard
Rooming House
Tabb
Kyle
Buchanan
James Riggs
Riggs
Buchanan’s
Slayings Prompt Hunt for Two in Glasgow
John T. Glasgow, 69, a storekeeper and town founder’s son, was slain behind his counter in Glasgow. His wallet and the cash register vanished. Police hunted two men seen near the store and heard shots before discovery. A neighbor and a local operator both reported sightings and sounds of gunfire.
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Johnstown
Glasgow
John T. Glasgow
Greer
Charles Kuhn
Kuhn
Cyril McCleland
County Treasurer H E Keedy Sets June Tax Collection Date
County Treasurer Harry E. Keedy announced plans to begin collecting 1935 state and county taxes around June 20. He said the tax bills, printed on yellow paper, are currently being produced.
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Harry E. Keedy
Man Held With $10,000 In Cash In Mail Theft Case
South Boston Virginia June 6 authorities hold Albert C Davis a Rock Hill South Carolina post office employee suspected in a mail theft case. He was found asleep near his car six miles from town with about 10 000 dollars in currency believed stolen from the mails. A sealed package in the car contained 7000 and about 3500 in currency was taken from pockets. He is wanted in connection with money sent through the mails to the Bank of Lancaster via American Trust Company in Charlotte North Carolina.
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Boston
South Carolina
Albert C. Davis
Rock Hill
S. C
Davis
Bank of Lancaster
Lancaster
D. C
American Trust Company
Charlotte
N. C
Tydings Urges Caution on Tariff Policy Changes
Senator Tydings of Maryland urged the government to proceed slowly on tariff alterations until world trade and related issues are resolved at an international conference. The remark came as the Senate foreign relations committee weighs Francis Sayre's push to ratify a multilateral agreement limiting most favored nation benefits to non signatories.
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Washington
Tydings
D. Md
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Francis B. Sayre
United States
Water did trick a Jersey City airedale dog rescue
Eddie Maher's airdale chased a car between two garages and became wedged. Police emergency squad tried to fish the dog out with a hook under its collar. A bucket of water softened the coat and freed the dog.
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Jersey City
N. J
Eddie Maher
Airdale
Injury Report From Ridge Avenue Incident
Phyllis Ahalt daughter of John Ahalt of Ridge Avenue suffered a badly injured hand and arm yesterday when caught in a winger. Four stitches were required to close the wound.
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Phyllis Ahalt
John Ahalt
Ridge Avenue
Anniversary of the 1917 hailstorm disaster observed
Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the disastrous hailstorm that struck on June 6, 1917, recalled by residents and local officials amid ceremonies and remembrances.
Money order clerk notes ransom bill in Weyerhaeuser case
Spokane money order clerk Vernor Beavers received the second $20,000 ransom bill amid the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping probe. Federal agents traced the bill to Spokane post office and Portland, with hotel detentions and quiet leads unfolding as authorities pressed the investigation. A Seattle hotel room was surveilled as investigators questioned a man tied to the case.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
Seattle
Department of Justice
Spokane
Portland
Huntington
Ore
Salt Lake City
Vernor Beavers
W. W. Simpson
Miss Beavers
F D R Heads to Hyde Park for Weekend
President Roosevelt will depart late tomorrow night for Hyde Park New York to spend the weekend and then travel to West Point next Wednesday to deliver diplomas to the graduating class of the military academy. He plans to return to the capital Wednesday night to review the Shriners parade in convention here next week.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
New York
West Point
Military Academy
Capital
Shriners
Floodlights Planned to Stop Gage Park Coyotes Howling
Park Commissioner Harry Snyder will install floodlights over the coyotes' pen at Gage Park to end nightly howling disturbing residents. The plan targets the animals' darkness to quiet calls and restore sleep for nearby citizens.
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Peka
Kas
Gage Park
Harry Snyder
Cuban Millionaire Abducted by Eight Kidnappers
Havana June 6 Eight Mango peddling kidnappers seized Antonio San Miguel a Cuban millionaire and three of his servants after blocking his car with a mango wagon witnesses say. The 78 year old former senator and publisher was taken as police and soldiers hunted the abductors.
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Associated Press
Havana
Antonio San Miguel
San Miguel
Pedro Herrera Sotolongo
Millonaire
Simon Arleta
Sotolongo
Arleta
Antoni San Miguel
Vibora
Modesto Inglesias
Constantino Prieto
Simon Artina
Paul Garago
Senor San Miguel
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