Move To Extend NRA On Modified Scale Blocked In Senate
Washington June 11 Efforts to push through a measure extending a modified NRA were blocked in the senate after only a half hour of debate. Senator Gore sought to amend the revised law to require confirmation of all government officials earning more than 4000 a year. The house debated an anti smuggling bill as the senate bank ing committee approved a joint resolution extending until June 16 three years the time federal reserve officers must pay off personal loans from their own banks.
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Senate
Gore
D. Okla
Lenagers
House
Senate Silver Bloc
McCarran
D. Nev
Morenthau
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Reserve
Congress
House Labor Committee
Shriners
Senatorial Action to Extend NRA Blocked
The Senate temp blocked action on extending the NRA vote as Senator Gore sought to amend the recovery law to require confirmation of officials with more than 4000 dollars. The debate used the half hour planned for NRA discussion and the chamber shifted to the public utilities holding company bill. Chairman Harrison warned the NRA resolution would be taken up again after the utility bill vote due at 4 pm EST.
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Gore
D.-Okla
Chamber
Public Utilities
Pill
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
NRA
Administration chiefs urge Senate session to rush NRA compromise
Washington June 11 Administration leaders called the Senate into session half an hour early to push a plan extending the devitalized NRA until April 1 next year. A virtual agreement would restore antitrust laws while allowing business men to bargain on hours wages and fair trade practices. Senator Byrd strong opposes broad federal power via constitutional amendment amid NRA debate.
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Rexford G. Tugwell
Wallace
Supreme Court
Tugwell
Senate
Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
NRA
Byrd
D. Va
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
Senator Glass
Democratic Party
Mistrial Ordered in Dr Immerly Trial in Lancaster
A mistrial was declared in the trial of Dr. H. C. Immerly after a juror collapsed on seeing clothes believed to have belonged to missing Gladys Lawson. The illness of the female juror halted proceedings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Lancaster
Gladys Lawson
H. C. Immerly
Prince of Wales urges goodwill German visit
London June 11 report The Prince of Wales publicly endorsed a suggestion that a British legion delegation should make a goodwill visit to Germany. The emphasis was on fostering postwar reconciliation and friendly relations between nations.
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Prince OF Wales
London
the Prince of Wales Today
British Legion
Germany
Disappointed suitor shoots night club hostess to death
Chicago June 11 a disappointed suitor shot to death Celia Venable a night club hostess in a North Side hotel as she cowered in bed. The killer identified as Tony Madona 26 a gambler and wrestler fired six bullets after forcing his way in with two accomplices. Police sought Madona and a second man while the clerk Keeney described the fatal assault and the victim’s plea before death.
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Chicago
North Side
Jack Williams
Celia Venable
Butte
Mont
Anthony Madona
Robert Smart
Madona
Smart
Celia Mae Venable
Union County
Ohio
Arthur Halvey
Keeney
Tony
Dr. Halvey
Harry Keeney
G O P Chiefs Adopt Platform in Grass Roots Meet
The Republican grass roots conference of 10 prairie states adopted a principles declaration for the 1936 campaign. Planks call for preservation of constitutional government, state rights, opposition to fascism, labor collective bargaining, child labor limits, equal wages, old age pensions, and a balanced budget with thrift and relief controls.
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Robert P Howard
Associated Press
Springfield
Prairie States
Justice For Veterans
Ed. A. Hayes
Decatur
Grass roots GOP meeting cheers demand for veterans bonus
Springfield Illinois hosts a midwestern Republican grass roots session with 8 642 delegates and alternates. Harry Hasser of Enid Oklahoma calls for payment of the veterans bonus from a four billion dollar work relief fund. The group creates a permanent committee on future plans and policies ahead of the next Republican convention. Women delegates appear prominently as vests melt in hot June weather.
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Springfield
Prairie States
Harry Hasser
Enid
Oklahoma
Oklahma
Glasser
Georgia Public Service Commission cuts long distance rates
Georgia's Public Service Commission ordered discounts across Southern Bell tolls effective July 1. Person to person calls and day and night station to station rates drop by five to twenty five cents depending on distance. The commission calls intra state tolls unjust and excessive, Jay P Wilhoit chairing the panel. Company officials could not estimate revenue loss.
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Atlanta
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Georgia
State Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission
Jay P. Wilhoit
Union
Police Question Father and Suspect Over Slain Woman
Robert Smart of a North Side address and Narl A. Dahleen of Wilmette were questioned after a woman's body was found. Both named a petty politician and gambler called Tony as a person of interest. The father said his daughter’s married name was Williams and she had a husband in Butte.
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Robert Smart
North Side
Narl A. Dahleen
Wilmette
Tony
Williams
Butte
Linder Attacks Farm Program in Market Bulletin
Atlanta June 11 Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tom Linder launches fresh criticism of AAA and processing tax in the Market Bulletin. He says the post office threatens higher rates if the bulletin is treated as political, and Governor Talmadge backs free speech amid postal dispute. About 125,000 copies mailed weekly. He must reply by June 20.
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Atlanta
Tom Linder
AAA
Market Bulletin
Linder
Georgia
Bullein
NRA
Cartersville
State Department of Agriculture
United States
Post Office Department
Washington
Talmadge
Department of Agriculture
Fight Over Postage Rates For Georgia Market Bulletin
Atlanta June 11 A clash over postage for the Georgia Market Bulletin pits Commissioner Tom Linder against the Roosevelt administration. The post office warned it could revoke low cost second class status unless the Bulletin aligns with new rules. Linder vows to expose harm to Georgia farmers and keep the Bulletin in circulation. Governor Talmadge accuses the post office of throttling free speech as Linder has until June 20 to submit copies and a petition for continuance.
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Georgia State Market Bulletin
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tom Linder
Roosevelt
Post Office Department
Washington
State Departments of Agriculture
Linder
Georgia
AAA
Talmadge
Packing House Burned At Sylvester Georgia
Fire of undetermined origins last night destroyed the barn and packing house of the Sylvester Fruit Company, a major cantaloupe packing and shipping concern in the state.
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Sylvester
Georgia
Sylvester Fruit Company
Hope Province Added to Japan Influence Amid East Asia Tensions
The Associated Press reports non Japanese quarters in Tokyo view Hopei Province as shifted into Japan s sphere of influence with Japanese army action and lukewarm government support. Simultaneous reports cite a Russian soldier s death on the Manchukuo border in a disputed incident. Chiang Kai Shek directs anti communist campaigns from far western China as Chinese press largely silent on North China events.
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Hopei
China
Japan
Moscow
Chile
Manchoukuan
Manchukuo
North China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hopeli
Manchuokuo
Slaying of Soviet Sentry Triggers Russo Japanese Clash
The June 3 frontier skirmish near Mishan on the Manchoukuo Siberian border escalates into a diplomatic dispute as Moscow and Tokyo exchange notes. Each side accuses the other of invasion after a Soviet sentry was slain and a second man sought help.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Manchouguan-Siberian
Russia
Japan
Moscow
Mishan
Red Army
Harbin
Manchoukuan
Nicholas Rayvich
Shigenori Togo
Foreign Office
Siberia
Manchoukuo
Youth Drives Auto Off Bridge and Is Drowned
New Bern June 11 4 Robert Jones a 15 year old New Bern boy drove an automobile on the railing of the Neuse river bridge and was drowned. Police headquarters believe only Jones was in the car when it plunged into the river as the long bridge span was wrecked with no witnesses.
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New Bern
Robert Jones
Neuse River
Jones
Women’s clubs back birth control plan in federation vote
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs endorsed federal legislation to disseminate scientifically regulated birth control information by a 493 to 17 vote. The convention also adopted anti lynching and anti communism resolutions and urged federal cancer control and child welfare funding. Mrs S Blair Luckie led the birth control efforts.
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Detroit
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
S. Blair Luckie
Chester
Plan For Gift And Inheritance Taxes Favored
Washington June 11. A poll of the House Ways and Means Committee shows broad sympathy for inheritance and gift taxes if President Roosevelt proposes them. Of the 9 members surveyed 14 would back the plan, two opposed, nine doubtful. No rates are set, Morgenthau warned that new taxes would be needed if the bonus is paid. Gift taxes currently range from 3-4 of one percent under 10 thousand to 45 percent over ten million.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Capitol Hill
House Committee
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Increased Newspaper Advertising Boosts Housing Program Support
Chicago reports show over 43 million agate lines of newspaper advertising in the last ten months credited to the government’s housing drive. H. Dorsey Newson notes 77 percent of daily papers now cooperate with better housing sections, expanding from 25,000 lines in 1934 to 1,720 papers carrying the section. Leaders stress ads help disseminate housing policy and counter propaganda.
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Chicago
United States
H.dorsey Newson
Federal Housing Administration
Newspaper Advertising Executives Association
Advertising Federation of America
Newson
Work progressing on big Norris Dam
Norris Tennessee June 11 the pounding of waters of Clinch river behind Norris dam began with lowering a heavy steel gate into the second opening in the dam. After a five foot concrete wall is poured behind the gate the gate will be moved to the final opening and alternated between openings until both reach fifty feet.
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Norris ,Tenn
Clinch River
Norris Dam
Weather forecast for the southeast and gulf states
Weather outlook for South Carolina and Georgia shows mostly cloudy skies with local thunder showers in the north tonight or Wednesday and in the south portion Wednesday. Florida trends generally fair with scattered afternoon showers Wednesday. Alabama and extreme northwest Florida expect partly cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday.
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Georgia
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South
Florida
Alabama
$90,700 Found in Cache Near Salt Lake City
Washington reports the recovery of $90,700 of the $200,000 ransom for kidnapped George Weyerhaeuser. J Edgar Hoover says the money was buried two feet underground near Salt Lake City and recovered after Harmon M Waley confessed. He notes William Mahan likely has the rest and that Waley burned $4,000.
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Washington
George Weyerhaeuser
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Departments Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Harmon M. Waley
Willam Mahan
Waley
G-men
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Spokane
Tacoma
Mahan
State of Washington
United States
Morrey
West
William Mahan
Butte
Mont
Justice Department
Hoover reports recovery of 116000 in Weyerhaeuser ransom
In Salt Lake City on June 11 the government announced $90070 of the $200000 ransom for 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser was recovered in Immigation Pass. J Edgar Hoover tied the cache to Harmon Waley and his wife with federal agents noting further arrests in Salt Lake City.
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Utah
George Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
Immigration Pass
Here
Department of Justice
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Harmon M. Waley
Margaret
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