Treasury to name corrupt tax dodgers via joint investigation
In Washington on June 4, critics doubt the Harrison resolution as Roosevelt urges treasury led inquiry into rich income tax deceivers. The aim is for Congress to publish names through a joint committee, delivering daily headlines while avoiding sweeping public outrage. Also noted is Senator Robinson’s tentative support for a federal corporate charter bill.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Treasury
White House
Pat Harrison
Harrison
Treasury Department
Pillory
The
Congress
Congressional Investigation Committees
President
Joint
Congressional Investigation Committee
Supreme Court
Gotherman Granted Release in Schofield Disappearance Case
Russell Gotherman 39, held since May 18 as sole suspect in Wilmington resident Frank Schofield’s disappearance, was released at 10 40 AM Friday after prosecutors said evidence did not justify a preliminary hearing. He vowed to stay in Wilmington as his lawyers pursue clearing him.
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Russell Gotherman
Frank Schofield
Wilmington
Gotherman
News-Journal
G. L. Schilling
Schofield
Smith, Rogers & Smith
Howard Botts
Columbus Street
Pauline Rabensteine
Death of General Emilio Mola Shocks Spain
In Biscayan front crash today Generalissimo Franco's top commander Gen Emilio Mola dies. Only a young shepherd witnessed the plane strike a mountain slope near Castin De Peones. Mola and aides are buried at Burgos after a military funeral.
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Victoria
Spain
Emilio Mola
Francisco Franco
Biscayan
Bilbao
Castin de Peones
Mola
Burgos
39 DROWNED AS SHIP IS WRECKED NEAR LUZON
The master of a sailing ship reports 39 deaths from a wreck near Dalupiri island in the Babyuan group north of Luzon. The Rosario carried 12 sailors and 27 passengers, all Filipinos or Orientals, who perished on May 11.
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Manila
Abulug
Cagayan Province
Rosario
Dalupiri Island
Babyuan
Luzon Island
War Department allocates funds for Sandusky harbor dredging
The War Department announced on June 4 that $17,000 is allotted for dredging at Sandusky harbor to improve navigation and harbor access.
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Washington
War Department
Sandusky Harbor
Flood Crest Sends Carlsbad Residents to Evacuate
The Pecos River flood crest threatens McMillan dam near Carlsbad New Mexico. About 7,500 residents prepare to evacuate as 18 000 acre feet of water in the reservoir could be released when the crest strikes the dam tomorrow.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Oasis City
Pecos River
McMillan Dam
Here
Nine Burned to Death in Bus Accident
A Greyhound stage overturned at Shiloah Springs north of Redding California early today killing nine people. Fire trapped victims as flames erupted. CCC enrollees helped fight the blaze. Driver Al Wilson and a mixed group of passengers perished. identities unavailable per company records.
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Redding
Calif
Greyhound
Shiloah Springs
Here
CCC
Roy S. Duggins
al Wilson
Italy Seeks Peace in Spanish Civil War Talks
June 4 Rome reports Italy assures the United States the Spanish civil war can end without disturbing European peace. Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son in law and foreign minister, conveyed the pledge to U S Ambassador William Phillips. Civita Vecchia endured a simulated battle as German minister Werner von Blomberg visited.
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Rome
United States
Europe
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
Civita Vecchia
Werner von Blomberg
Probe of relief orders asked in Columbus
City Auditor John E Davies urged an investigation by city detectives into relief grocery orders. He questioned why many relief clients received identical groceries down to the last cent and noted vouchers show duplicates or triplicates with client names filled in.
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Columbus
John E. Davies
Davies
Bombs Hit Paris Post Offices In June Attacks
Bombs exploded at three district post offices in Paris today wounding two clerks. Police traced the packages to a tall dark young man seen delivering one in a post office slot as authorities chase the revived "three judges of hell" terror campaign from 1934.
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Paris
Hell
Windsors Ride Grand Canal During Italian Honeymoon Visit
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor toured Venice aboard a canal launch as part of their European honeymoon itinerary. They traveled by private train car from France toward Austria, with a Venice layover and greetings from spectators, before continuing to a castle near Noetsch for an extended stay.
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Italy
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Grand Canal
Niagara
Windsor
Chateau de Cande
Wasserleonburg
Koetsch
Allen Napier
Austria
Edward
Europe
Milan
Noetsch
Laroche-Migennes
France
Frick Orders Lift of Dizzy Dean Suspension
New York June 4 Ford Frick president of the National League ordered within 24 hours the lifting of Dizzy Dean suspension after he refused to sign a statement backing his verbal denials of controversial remarks.
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New York
Dizzy Dean
Putbice Ace
Ford Frick
National League
Columbus pro Carl Maust and Hillsboro amateur win state trap doubles
Carl Maust of Columbus and Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro each hit 92 of 100 targets to win the doubles events in the state trapshooting championship today in Bucyrus.
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Bucyrus
Carl Maust
Columbus
Joe Hiestand
Hillsboro
WPA extension would extend agency two years
The House appropriations committee approved a bill to extend the Public Works Administration for two years and authorize about 256 million dollars for loans and grants. It would renew access to the 95 million unobligated revolving fund balance and permit selling 40.009 million dollars of securities for this purpose.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Public Works Administration
Harlow Passes Restless Night
Beverly Hills California June 4 Jean Harlow ailing film star passed a restless night after an intravenous injection of glucose to sustain her strength Her mother Mrs Jean Bello said today Miss Harlow's illness described as inflammation of the gall bladder by Mrs Bello and by Dr E C Fishbaugh as just a bad cold
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Jean Harlow
Jean ‘Bello
Miss Harlow
Waterfront Fire Blamed on Spark From Pile-Puller
Seattle fire inspector EF Blain Rossman blamed a spark from a pile-puller for a waterfront blaze that caused about 1700000 dollars in damage to a store of small arms ammunition.
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Seattle
Blain Rossman
Germans Execute American Citizen in Dawn Treason Trial
Berlin reports the execution by guillotine at Ploetzenzee prison of Helmut Hirsch a 21 year old Jewish American citizen for treasonable explosives charges. He faced opposition from Otto Strasser exile in Praha and four clemency pleas by U S Ambassador Dodd. Hirsch died with 20 year old German co defendant Oscar Denner on the same high treason charge.
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Berlin
Helmuth Hirsch
United States
America
der Fuehrer
Hirsch
Otto Strasser
Hitler
Praha
Czechslovakia
Ploetzenzee
William E. Dodd
Oscar Denner
Striking Cincinnati Building Workers Halt Downtown Elevators
Elevators in several downtown Cincinnati offices shut down after a walkout by building service workers led by Union No. 145 A. About 1,500 employees joined the strike over hours wages and union recognition. The union seeks a 25 percent wage increase a closed shop and overtime at time and a half.
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Cincinnati
Building Service
Carew
Don Lash
Union No. 145-A
Graduation celebration ends in teen’s death near Middletown
Bettie Reed aged 17 died after a car crash on route 68 seven miles southwest of Middletown while returning from Castle Farm in Cincinnati. The accident occurred when a tire blew out in the evening celebration of a Middletown high school graduate.
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Middletown
Middletown High School
Bettie Reed
Miss Reed
Castle Farm
Cincinnati
Here
Snowstorm Sweeps Wyoming with Giant Flakes
Cheyenne reports an early summer storm dropping wet snow and soaking rain across Wyoming. Federal meteorologist F L Disterdick notes the largest flakes he has seen, with some measuring 2 1 2 inches long and 3 4 inches wide as the temperature dips to 30 degrees above zero.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
F. L. Disterdick
Federal
Auto Workers Walk Out In Detroit And Pontiac
In Detroit and Pontiac Michigan about 17 000 workers were sent home as Chrysler Packard and GM units shut down after sit down actions and missing union reporting. The Jefferson and Kercheval plants closed 11 000 workers affected while Packard stamping division shortages hit 2500 to 3000 in the small car division and a GM Fisher Body plant also closed. A Chrysler official cited non union workers joining sit down on the Jefferson motor line as triggering plant closings amid vehicle and body shortages.
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Detroit
Pontiac
Mich
Jefferson and Kercheval
Chrysler Corporation
Jefferson Avenue
Packard Motor Car Company
Fisher Body
General Motors
E. R. Leeder
Chrysler
Jefferson Plant
United Automobile Workers
Packard Motor Car Co
Packard
Vandals Damage Eighty Tombstones at Trinity Church Graveyard
In New York uptown at Trinity Church graveyard on 53rd Street and Broadway, eighty tombstones were overturned with about thirty broken. Police reported no immediate motive. The cemetery sits behind ten foot walls and locked gates. the superintendent, who lives on site, says he heard nothing overnight and checked the grounds near midnight.
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New York
Uptown
Historic
Trinity Church
Roosevelt says gold policy unchanged in press briefing
President Roosevelt told reporters there has been no change in the government's gold policy and advised avoiding concern about renewed reports of possible changes. He spoke at a Washington press conference on June 4.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Beard Dies in Electric Chair After Two Death Sentences
Augustus Beard was executed in the electric chair in Huntsville on June 4 after being twice sentenced to death for murders in North Carolina and Texas. He maintained his innocence as the sentences were carried out.
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Huntsville
Texas
Augustus Beard
North Carolina
Roosevelt hints at compromise on court reform plan
President Roosevelt said the court reorganization bill would pass this session and suggested a possible compromise. He noted four high profile cases awaiting decision, including TVA and PWA matters, and urged reform as the Supreme Court adjourned for summer without ruling on key disputes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robinson
Supreme Court
the Inquirer
High Tribunal
TVA
PWA
Securities Commission
WPA to place workers in industry in Cincinnati report
A Hamilton County committee urged removing Works Progress Administration employees who can obtain industry work to free relief on WPA rolls. The report signed by chairman Chase M Davies requests reexamination of workers and removal of those with outside part time jobs, allowing only one family member to work on WPA projects.
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Cincinnati
Works Progress Administration
Committee On Coordination and Co-Operation
Hamilton County
Chase M. Davies
Giants Outfielder Jojo Moore Hit by Ball in Doubleheader
New York Giants outfielder Jojo Moore sustained a blow to the head and was knocked unconscious in the fifth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cubs. He recovered consciousness within moments.
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New York
Jojo Moore
New York Giants
Larry French
Cubs
Markets At A Glance
NEW YORK STOCKS rise with gains in industrials and rails. BONDS firms and utilities advance. CURB market steady as leaders move up. FOREIGN EXCHANGE mixed with sterling and franc recovering. CHICAGO WHEAT climbs on unfavorable domestic weather. CORN firm on wheat influence. CATTLE generally steady. HOGS steady to 10c lower, top $11.55.
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