Tax Bill Unsigned Yet Law Says Roosevelt Signals Split
President Roosevelt let the tax revision bill become law without his signature to protest unwise provisions that lessen capital gains levies and invite tax avoidance. In a speech to 148 family graduates in Arthurdale West Virginia he urged future reform to spur private investment while preserving core tax principles. The president then left for Hyde Park for Memorial Day.
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Arthurdale
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Oil Group to Pay Fines After Antitrust Pleas
The Department of Justice announced that 14 oil companies and 11 executives awaiting trial in Madison Wisconsin on Sherman antitrust charges will interpose negotiable pleas and pay maximum fines totaling 400000 dollars. The pleas were accepted and recommended to the Madison court, the second group to face the court after 46 defendants were convicted last winter. The indictments cover three counts of unlawful agreements between 1931 and 1936.
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Washington
Madison
Wis
Noto
Department
Madison Court
War Pensions Boosted By President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signed a bill boosting pensions for Spanish American War Philippine Insurrection and China relief expedition veterans. The act grants an 80 dollar monthly pension to those aged 65 with at least 90 days service and to others discharged for disability incurred in service.
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Roosevelt
Rebels Bomb Towns in Mexico and Wage Bill Standoff
Reports say Cedillistas led by GATURNINO CHDILLO launched attacks using two airplanes against towns held by federal troops in San Luie Potosi state under President Car dennn. Avila Camacho cited Americana pilots and cited Japan’s aid to Cedillistas. Japan seized rifles and ammunition at Cerritosa. Tampico sighted a rebel plane over oil port dropping propaganda. Separately a wage-hour bill faced a conference compromise to avert a filibuster, with opposition from the South over wage differentials. The bill would set starting wages at 25 cents rising to 40, and a 44-hour week easing to 40 in two years. A farm-state and Southern coalition pushed an agricultural exemption. Labor figures and politicians weighed in on Barkley and Wearin amid political controversy over relief funds.
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San Luie Potosi
Cardennn
Manuel Avila Camacho
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Japan
Cedillistas
Cerritosa
Tampico
Gulf of Mexico
Cédillo
House
Senate
Congress
Farm State
Norton
Ickes Weds in Dublin Secret Wedding for Interior Chief
Secretary of the interior Ickes quietly wed Miss Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee in Dublin after secretly sailing from New York. The 64 year old, whose first wife died in a 1931 auto crash, plans a brief honeymoon before returning to his Olney estate. Dahlman is kin to John Cudahy the American minister to Ireland.
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Dublin
Arold L. Ickes
Interior
PWA
New York
Ireland
Jane Dahlman
Milwaukee
John Cudahy
Wilmarth Ickes
Winnetka
Ill
Mr. Ickes
Cudahy
J. Shattuck
Legation
Washington
Olney
Auto Makers Indicted by U S Grand Jury in South Bend
A federal grand jury in South Bend Indiana indicted General Motors Ford Motor Company Chrysler Corporation and several officers on charges of conspiracy to violate the Sherman antitrust law.
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General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
South Bend
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Wallace Predicts Hybrid Breeding From Corn to Animals
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, in a Spragg Memorial lecture at Michigan State College, said the hybrid corn method will soon be applied to animals, including dairy cattle and egg-laying poultry, to improve per-animal production. He warned against show-point selection and favored pure-line crossing to fix desirable traits, while noting negative eugenics is not a practical path.
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Wallace
Spragg
Michigan State College
American Captain Palmer First Sighted Antarctica in 1920
Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer, age a teen, commanded the 47-foot Hero in 46 tons, sighting the Antarctic continent on November 18, 1920. Yale maps and Hero log entries in the Library of Congress support American priority over British claims and naming. Graham Land was named by the 1832 British expedition.
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Nathaniel B. Palmer
Hero
American Philosophical Society
William H. Hobbs
University of Michigan
Yale University
Antarctic
Antarctica
Library of Congress
Palmer
Graham Land
Camels Once Roamed North American Plains
Washington data from Prof. William Berryman Scott of Princeton University describes camels and camel like animals roaming the West in prehistoric times. Originating in North America these creatures migrated to Asia and South America where descendants such as llamas and alpacas exist. The last North American camel species was Camelops, with bones found in the La Brea tar pits near Los Angeles, potentially surviving until early human settlement.
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West
National Academy of Sciences
William Berryman Scott
Princeton University
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Asia
South America
Camelops
la Brea
Los Angeles
Telepathy claims debunked by trained perception study
London science researchers probed vaudeville performer Marion real name Josef Kraus and found no occult talent or extrasensory perception. They attribute hidden object discovery and card recognition to heightened sensory observation, noting parallels with historical medical diagnosis relies on sharp perception rather than magic.
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Marion
G. Soal
University of London Council For
Josef Kraus
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The
Lancet
Gorillas and Hyenas Suffer From Arthritis
Philadelphia report by Prof. Herbert Fox notes arthritis in wild animals. Of 1749 animals examined, 77 were definitively arthritic, with earliest signs in the spine and spread to other bones. Affected families include hyena, baboon, bears, deer, and anthropoid apes. dogs, rodents, and bats largely immune.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Fox
University of Pennsylvania
American Philosophical Society
Fox
Philadelphia Zoological Society
Bends in Rails From Fast Trains Highlighted
A. A. Miller of Missouri Pacific told the Western Railway club that higher train speeds, especially freight locomotives, are causing extensive track damage. Irregular kinks and bends have increased, leading to rough riding or track renewal, due to greater strain on rails. He cited reports from railroads nationwide and blamed locomotives as the principal cause.
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Chicago
A. A. Miller
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Western Railway Club
Copper Pays the Freight in Copper Cliff Refining Claim
In Copper Cliff Ontario the saying copper pays the freight hints at a local mineral boom as refining copper yields gold and rare metals. The text notes recovery of gold silver platinum palladium tellurium and selenium alongside copper boosts in refining, with new rooms from sale of the byproduct rare metals.
Odds Ends for Crocheted Rug Rug by Ruth Wyeth Spears
Instructions describe assembling a crocheted rug from odds and ends in a black joiner and edging. It notes using wool for a nicer rug, dyeing colors, and a 36 by 21 inch rug with five inch squares joined by slip stitch. Full sewing directions and a book offer with 25 cent price are included.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Forgetful Chap Receives Sharp Reply From Razor Firm
A young man ordered a razor with a dollar in advance but forgot to enclose the money. The firm sent the razor anyway and added a sharp postscript mocking the sender.
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John Jones
P.S
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