New Tax Bill To Be Passed In Congress Soon
Washington June 19 A newly shaped tax plan aims to raise 800 million dollars mainly through penalties on undivided corporate earnings and higher taxes on dividends. Administration leaders expect passage by Saturday night despite Senate opposition while Roosevelt backs stricter corporate taxation.
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Bulletin
Washington
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Senate House
Senate
AAA
Haslep Acquitted of Beating Man to Death
A jury acquitted Clarence A. Haslep, 37, of killing Luther Chapman, 31, who was beaten and found dead in a locked garage near his residence January 3. The state contended Haslep killed Chapman out of jealousy for Mrs. Chapman.
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Springfield
Clarence A. Haslep
Luther Chapman
Chapman
Haslep
Activities In Congress Today and Yesterday
Senate debates on a shipping bill while the House votes on the Walsh Healey government contracts bill. Yesterday the conference report on relief was approved and ship subsidy measures discussed. Debates on the Walsh Healey contracts bill continued and several immigration bills passed. Bell committees finished public hearings in the Townsend old age pension inquiry.
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Walsh-Healey
Senate
Bell
Townsend
Prospects for grain and hay sliced in June
A Federal Crop Reporting Board statement on June 19 said prospects for spring grains and hay declined in the first half of June. It noted pasture conditions worsened in the northern Great Plains and from western Tennessee to northern New York, with some regional improvement in the lake region and the west, and that pasture conditions remain better than 1934 but as low as during the drought years of 1933 and 1911.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Great Plains
Tennessee
New York
Lake Region
Drouth
Coughlin Plans Third Party Announcement
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin signaled a possible third party presidential bid and awaited a formal announcement from a candidate in New York, Boston, or Washington. He hinted the decision would come from one of three men and likely occur in one of those cities.
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New York
Charles E. Coughlin
Boston
Washington
Detroit
Senate clash looms over Ohio relief bill in new battle
In Columbus on June 19 the Senate prepared to revisit the relief bill after the House approved a revised version raising family allowances from eight to twelve dollars and preserving a six and a half million dollar appropriation. Debate centered on tax exemptions for home food purchases and potential school funding impacts, with Gov Davey urging a three million dollar safeguard and extending the cigarette tax for schools. The House also sent to the Senate a measure allowing postponement of real estate appraisals to 1942.
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Martin L. Davey
John T. DeRighter
Cuyahoga
William M. McCulloch
Davey
DeRigh
House
Jusiah H. Schweller
Putnam
Schweller
Ed R. King
Vinton
McCulloch
State Relief Commission
General Revenue Fund
Ohio
Senate
County Pays Bills for Woman Dead Ten Years
Seneca County uncovered that maintenance bills for Nettie Semer continued after her death on October 1, 1926, for nearly a decade at the State Institution for Feeble Minded. State Examiner A. H. Hartlett reported a finding for 2510.40 dollars against the state in favor of the county.
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Columbus
Seneca County
A. H. Hartlett
State Bureau of Accounting
Nettie Semer
Sinking excursion ship wins in race with death
The 306 foot Tashmoo struck a rock near the Detroit River during a moonlight cruise. After 1,400 passengers danced aboard, a coast guard patrol boat and Amherstburg tug guided the vessel to dock as it sank in 18 feet of water. Ownership by White Star and Tashmoo Transit, built 1900, valued at $700,000.
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Detroit
Detroit River
Amherstburg, Ont
Coast Guard
Amherstburg
White Star Steamship Company
Tashmoo Transit Company
Bodies of mother and two children found in Pittsburgh home
Pittsburgh June 19 The bodies of Eleanor Feely and her two children Robert five and Janice three were found stabbed and strangled in their east end house. Police and investigators offered competing theories with husband Martin Feely away at camp.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
East End
Martin J. Feely
Robert
Janice
Eleanor Feely
George Schmetzer
John Artz
James L. Davidson
Street slaying of veteran in Dayton
Dayton police investigate the midnight killing of World War II veteran Randy Siler, 44, as his nephew Louis Manning, 20, reports hearing several gunshots. Siler died within minutes from three gunshot wounds, and Manning recalls the victim crying I’m shot. Detectives seek trace of 15 fifty dollar bonds.
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Dayton
Randy Siler
Siler
Louis Manning
Manning
J. F. Granger
Herby Gaylor
New naked eye star seen by three observers abroad
Cambridge report says Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory announced a new star visible without equipment. The object was observed early today by three astronomers from three separate countries and reported to the observatory.
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Cambridge
Harlow Shapley
Harvard Observatory
Convicts Riot Aboard Train En Route To Leavenworth
Eight mutinous convicts, seven narcotics offenders, overpowered by five guards on a speeding train, wrecked the Pullman car interior, hurled objects, and screamed for narcotics before authorities sent them to Leavenworth Penitentiary.
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Chicago
Leavenworth
Toledo
Woman Must Die in Electric Chair in Child's Slaying
Hollidaysburg, Pa. June 19 A jury decides Margaret Karmendi 24 must die in the electric chair with her alleged lover Roy Lockard 24 for the slaying of her three year old son Matthew Sonny Karmendi. Sr., father of the boy, helped prosecute with an attorney. The state says the two killed the boy because he tattled on them.
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Hollidaysburg
Margaret Karmendi
Matthew Karmendi
Roy Lockard
Matthew
Sonny” Karmendi
Hit-Skip Auto Driver Injures Eight In Cleveland Crowd
In Cleveland suburb Newburg Heights a hit-skip driver struck steel workers waiting for a street car injuring eight, several seriously. The car sped off and twenty minutes later detectives arrested a 23-year-old youth with a girl in a nearby car.
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Cleveland
Newburg Heights
Rain Relieves Drought Across Regions As Heat Lingers
Rain spread relief across the Pacific Northwest and drought hit Southeast while central states faced record high June temperatures. Farmers combat grasshoppers as officials seek federal aid. South Dakota officials urge help, Senator Murphy signals Resettlement Administration funds may flow. Rain and storms tame heat in New England and the mid Atlantic as northern Rockies and the north Pacific see scattered showers.
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Middle Plains
Thomas Berry
South Dakota
Brough
Washington
Murphy
Roosevelt
Resettlement Administration
Kansas
Weather Bureau
New England
Middle Atlantic
Rocky Mountain Region
North Pacific States
Georgia
Carolinas
Wheat Prices Jump on Drouth Crop Loss Reports
Chicago reports show wheat futures rising sharply as prices hit 93 18 cents a bushel in late trading. Market-wide gains followed sensational drought news, with September wheat near the session highs and other grains climbing to their highest level of the season on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Chicago
Drouth
Chicago Board of Trade
Senate Passes Bill for Ship Subsidy Program
The Senate today approved legislation to expand the American merchant marine through direct subsidy payments. The measure passed without a record vote and was sent to conference with the House for action on Senate amendments.
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Senate
Ican
House
Ohio WPA Payroll in April Tops 10 Million in Ohio Counties
The Ohio Works Progress Administration reported payroll for April at 10 254 215 with 7 252 714 or more than 70 percent paid to employees in the ten most populous counties.
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Ohio
WPA
Columbus
Ohio Works Progress Administration
Elusive Girl Pat captured after long pirate gold chase
In Georgetown British Guiana the government steamship Pomeroon rammed and captured the long elusive trawler Girl Pat after a weeks long voyage from Grimsby seeking pirate gold. Five crew were arrested as the government men observed the ship from shore and sea.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Pat
Grimsby
England
William Kidd
South Atlantic
Geoffrey Northcote
London
Strikers Halt Firing After Guards Leave Kent
Forty six guards from the Black and Decker Electric Co were fingerprinted at city hall and held for arraignment on charges of shooting with intent to wound after an armed conflict at the plant. Pickets remained at the site as six weeks of labor dispute escalated. Wounds were reported as six men injured and some affected by tear gas. National Guard observers watched intermittent gunfire.
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Kent
W. S. Harvey
Harvey
Douglass Rupp
Portage County Central Labor Union
William Crayford
International Association of Machinists
Crayford
National Guard
Walsh-Healey bill limits labor on government suppliers
Washington June 19. The House passed a bill placing maximum hours and a minimum wage on firms selling to the government. For principal contractors of 10 thousand dollars or more, the 40 hour week, 8 hour day, local prevailing wage, minimum ages of 16 for males and 18 for females, and prohibition of sweat shops, home work, and convict labor.
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Washington
House
Walsh-Healey
District of Columbia seeks commitment for Zion check
Washington report says the DC Commissioners filed a petition in court asking that Representative Marion A. Zion check be committed to St Elizabeths Hospital. The second item notes a new flash in Williams Bay with a star explosion observed by Dr Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago, traveling 500 miles per second.
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Zioncheck
Washington
District of Columbia Commissioners
The
Cort Today
Marion A. Zioncheck
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Herring Again Urged to Seek Democratic VP Nomination
Des Moines Iowa June 19 Governor Clyde L Herring New Deal says he is being urged again to seek the Democratic nomination for vice president He did not indicate his intentions but noted the repeated calls from party leaders and supporters in Iowa and national circles.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Clyde L. Herring
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John Dillinger
Central Press
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Black & Decker Company
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