New Wealth Tax Faces Tight Deadline
President Roosevelt pressed to enact the wealth tax this session not necessarily tied to the nuisance tax bill due by Saturday. House Democrats push to originate a broader tax plan while keeping the nuisance and excise levies to extend to June 30. Senate leaders warn of revenue losses if delays occur, as finance leaders study draft levies projecting about 340 million dollars yearly.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Ways and Means
Senate
New Deal
Harrison
D. Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Inherited Assets Prove City Solvent Under Republicans
The city inherited liquid assets of 287,593 dollars above current liabilities when the Republicans took office in April 1933. Records show assets of 463,790.11 and liabilities of 176,196.14, with funds redirected to pay debts. The piece argues Democratic transfers and federal aid created the apparent fiscal health, countering claims of mismanagement.
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Budly
Reuben Musey
Mongerstown
Hagerstown
Democratic National
Washington
Mrs Waley Denies Knowledge of Kidnapping Case
Olympia June 26 Mrs Margaret Thulin Waley described by her lawyer as eager to testify in her defense for the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping trial set for July 5 The attorney released Waleys account claiming she never saw the victim while held for a 200000 ransom and recounted her alleged involvement with Harmon Waley and Mahan Spannard details from Ellensburg and Black Diamond locations.
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Olympia
Wash
Margaret Thulin Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
John F. Dore
Harmon M. Waley
William Spannard
Mahan
Waley
McNeil Island
Harmon
Ellensburg
Dore
George
Knoxville man seeks missing wife Essie Ledwell
J. B. Ledwell of Knoxville Tennessee asks police and newspapers to help locate his wife Essie Davis Ledwell who vanished on May 15 in Knoxville. He says they married in Hagerstown about a year ago and she may have returned there. He describes her as 22 with dark brown hair gray eyes and 125 pounds.
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J. B. Ledwell
Knoxville, Tenn
Hagerstown
Essie Davis Ledwell
Knoxville
Ledwell
Tragic Death of 13 Year Old in Milk Wagon Runaway
A 13 year old, Nicholas Goss, was killed in Chicago when a milk wagon drawn by a runaway truck crushed him against a motor vehicle. The incident occurred in the city on June 26.
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Chicago
Nicholas Goss
Condemned To Spinster Life
Rita Coates a 24 year old Lynn schoolteacher surrendered plans to marry Axel Anderson fireman after the city school committee ruled she must choose between marriage and her job The decision leaves her believing she is condemned to a spinster life as she supports her dependent parents and must stay single.
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Lynn
Mase
Rita Coates
Public Enemies Rabbit Campaign Ends With 940000 Lost
Dr. E G Kelley of Kansas State College reported 940 426 jackrabbits killed in the statewide campaign. About 782 000 were slain in rabbit drives as the field marshal led the extermination effort that began a year earlier.
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Manhattan
Kas
E. G. Kelley
Kansas State College
Kelley
Depositors mailed checks from Mechanics Loan and Saving
Checks totaling 86 673.74 are mailed to depositors today as a five percent distribution. The Circuit Court approved the distribution, bringing the receiver's total distributed amount to 45 percent of the bank's assets.
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Mechanics Loan and Saving Institution
Circuit Court
Montgomery county tax rate fixed at $1.50 per $100
Rockville reports the 1935 levy sets the tax at 1.50 dollars per 100 dollars of assessed value, a 60 cent increase from last year. Officials say previous rate was entirely inadequate.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Motion for New Trial Granted in Elgin Suit
Judge David A Robb of the Allegany County Circuit Court granted a new trial in the 100000 damage suit brought by Mrs Helen Dorothy Elgin and her two minor children Doris and Lester Elgin against Carl J Bruckner and John S Schellhammer. The Elgins had been awarded 21000 from a Cumberland jury last May 22. The death of husband Joseph L Elgin in a truck collision on June 26 near Middleburg Pike prompted the action. attorneys for the widow and defendants argued anew.
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David A. Robb
Allegany County
Helen Dorothy Elgin
Doris
Lester
Carl J. Bruckner
John S. Schellhammer
Was it a black one council bluffs incident
Mrs N C Creager of Council Bluffs is recovering with a broken leg after stepping on a cat and tumbling down a flight of stairs to a concrete basement on Monday night.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
N. C. Creager
Park board plans fall tulip bulb planting at spark mansion
John S. Kausler of the City Park Board announced today plans to plant 2200 tulip bulbs this fall in the two large flower beds at the center of the lawn in front of the spark mansion.
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John S. Kausler
City Park Board
Spark
Roosevelt creates national youth administration agency
President Roosevelt announced a national youth administration under the works relief program with a $50 million fund to provide apprenticeships in private industry, schooling at high school and college levels for ages 16 to 25, and work relief. Miss Josephine Roche and Aubrey Williams lead the effort, aiming to aid about 600,000 youths with job placement and training.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Josephine Roche
the Treasury
Aubrey Williams
Harry L. Hopkins
Indus
Re Hearing Sought in Bookie Case
Harry D. Miggins asks for a re hearing to bar the State's Attorney and Sheriff from interfering with local bookmaking. The petition cites Chief Judge D Lindley Sloan's Monday opinion upholding the 1935 anti bookmaking law. Miggins' attorneys docketed the petition and left for Cumberland to seek Judge Sloan's ruling.
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Harry D. Miggins
D. Lindley Sloan
Sloan
Miggins
Cumberland
Governor Nice to Attend Washington Square Band Carnival
Gov. Harry W. Nice will attend the Junior Y. M. C. A. Band carnival in Washington Square. He has accepted the invitation and may deliver a brief address at the event today.
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Harry W. Nice
Washington Square
Will Wage War Against Movies
In Harrisburg on June 26 a coalition of 11 church and temperance groups launches a campaign to ban Sunday movies. Dr O B Poulson leads the effort from the Pennsylvania Men's Dry League promising a fight in more than 60 communities until fall with vigilance committees in each. Residents may vote on Sunday movie showings in the November 5 election if petitions reach five percent of last vote.
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Harrisburg
O. B. Poulson
Huntingdon
Pennsylvania Men’s Dry League
Iowa Women Refused Licenses Over Missing Ages
The Iowa motor vehicle department sent back hundreds of driver license applications from Iowa women because the forms were improperly filled out and the applicants refused to insert their ages, as reported in Des Moines on June 26.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Motor Vehicle Department
Judge Rules Hens May Stay in Night Roosters May Leave
Washington judge Robert Mattingly ruled that roosters may be removed while hens may stay after neighbors complained about fowls owned by George Kind and Edward Edwards. The judge quipped that hens do not cackle at night only after laying eggs, signaling a humorous yet decisive outcome.
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Washington
Robert Mattingly
George Kind
Edward Edwards
Store Manager Is Acquitted By Cumberland Court
Leonard Thomas, manager of a Hershey Ice Cream Company branch in Hagerstown and Harrisburg, was acquitted by the Peoples' Court of Cumberland of violating a city ordinance. Chief Judge D. Lindley Sloan and Judge David A. Robb reaffirmed the acquittal in Allegany County circuit court yesterday. The judges did not rule on the ordinance's validity, which targets fly by night stores competing with Cumberland firms.
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Peoples’ Court of Cumberland
Leonard Thomas
Hershey Ice Cream Company
Hagerstown
Harrisburg
Cumberland
D. Lindley Sloan
David A. Robb
Allegany County
Colonel Louis B. Goodall Dies at 83 in Sanford Maine
Sanford Maine June 26 Colonel Louis B Goodall 83 former U S representative from Maine died early today of a heart attack at his home in Sanford He had served in Congress representing a Maine district and was a prominent local figure in politics and business for many years.
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Sanford
Louis B. Goodall
U. S
Maine
Discount Rate Reduced by Bank of the Netherlands
Amsterdam reports the Bank of the Netherlands cut its discount rate from five to four percent today. The move signals easing monetary policy and aims to stimulate lending and investment, reacting to market conditions and the broader economic outlook.
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Amsterdam
Bank of the Netherlands
Leg Ligaments Open Her Eyes
Mrs Victor Summers of Frederick Maryland underwent a pioneering operation to lift drooping eyelids. Ligaments from her right leg were grafted with muscles above the eyes to keep them open day and night after initial promises of only temporary relief.
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Union Memorial Hospital
Baltimore
Rock slide at quarry kills workers in El Paso
A blast at the Southwestern Portland Cement Co quarry in El Paso buried 10 to 15 workers and a spectator, Stephen Sparks, 17, son of the superintendent, among the dead. About 20,000 pounds of dynamite were used while rescue teams with drag lines and steam shovels worked frantically to reach the victims.
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EL Paso
Tex
Southwestern Portland Cement Co
Stephen Sparks
H. S. Sparks
Spark
Henry Salcido
Newspaper Source Shield Bill Sent to Senate
Springfield June 26 A measure to exempt newspapermen from revealing in court the source of information was sent to the senate for action today The bill introduced by Representative F W Lewis who publishes Robinson passed the house 105 to 4 The text declares no person employed by a newspaper shall be compelled to disclose the source of information gathered and published by them in the newspapers where they work
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Springfield
Ill
Senate
F. W. Lewis
Robinson
House
Grand Jury
Petit Jury
Tennis Star Challenger to a Duel
Paris June 26. Didier Poulain calls out Jean Borotra to a duel amid a clash of honor. Simultaneously Jean Chiappe, Paris municipal council president, seeks a peaceful settlement of a separate duel with his predecessor Pierre Godin. The Borotra dispute stems from Poulain accusing Borotra of insulting him in a newspaper.
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Paris
Jean Borotra
Didier Poulain
Auto
Jean Chiappe
Chiappe
Pierre Godin
Godin
Borotra
Poulain
France
Wimbledon
Eighteen More New Members Join Hagerstown Chamber
Eighteen additional firms joined the Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce this week, bringing total new members in two weeks to thirty nine. The list includes Baer Brothers Becks Restaurant M Fleischer Inc Ezra Fox Darner and Son Hagerstown Hosiery Co J Edgar Young Maryland Motor Co Hershey Creamery Co Saint Gallo and others. The notice notes continued support from long standing members such as the Alexander Hotel and American Oil Company.
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Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Baer Brothers
John M. Baer
Beck’s
Albert A. Beck
M. Fleischer, Inc
Joseph D. Mish
Ezra Fox, Grocer
C. E
Noted sportsman of hairbreadth escapes is dead
Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny a famed sportsman died at his Maldon home Essex aged 8 His career was marked by extraordinary adventures across the globe including encounters with a python a wounded tiger and a charging rhinoceros He was celebrated for his daring feats and unique place in British sporting lore.
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London
Claude Champion de Crespigny
Maldon
Essex
India
East Africa
Japanese Regulars Held Ready In Manchoukuo Border Clash
Japanese front line forces near Jehol City held in readiness as Manchoukuo troops fought a Chinese column along the Sanguina by Jehlo Chahar frontier. Tokyo said the war offices reported a rising clash with Chinese forces advancing from Tushikkou and Kalgan vicinity.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Sanguina
Jehlo Chahar
Manchoukuan War Office
Rengo
Hikinking
Manchoukuan
Tushikkou
War Office
Hekinking
Manchoukuo
Toshikkou
North China
Mt Jehol
Mancchoukuo
Kenji Dothara
Hsinking
Chehar
Chahar
Great Wall
Kalgan
Heinking
Foreign Office
Japanese Air Losses Reported in Two Accidents
Tokyo reports two air crashes within Japan today. At Magamigahara near Gifu two planes collided, killing three crew. At Kagamigahara air base another plane crashed in Niigata prefecture with two deaths.
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Tokyo
Magamigahara
Gifu
Kagamigahara
Niigata Perfecture
First Death From Malady Reported In South Carolina
Columbia S C reports the first infantile paralysis death in weeks as Ditlion county notes three cases in the week ended June 22. North Carolina meanwhile records twelve new cases raising totals to 158 since June 1 with eight deaths.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
State Department of Health
Ditlion County
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Earhart Recovering After Nose Operation in Los Angeles
Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed aviator, is in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from a nose operation. Dr. Joseph Goldstein called the procedure minor and said she could leave within a day or two.
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Los Angeles
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Joseph Goldstein
Pickled Hay at Kensington Dairy Farm
A garbled passage from Kensington Kansas describes cows eating sour forage and Mrs Bohm recalling hay that had been stored long ago. The fragment notes an aging supply and unfamiliar details about the farm.
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Kensington
Kas
Rowsn Bohuv
Bohm
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R. J. Cope
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