Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-06-02
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A subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee voted to re-
port the Cochran bill making it a
capital Offense to transport a kid
mapped person across a State line.
This is the first action by a Con-
gressional body since the child of
Colonel Lindbergh was found dead
and is expected to be the forerun-
ner of several equally drastic meas
ures. Mr.. Cochran said: AThe bill
is something that is being demand
ed by every mother in the nation,
and if enacted will cause future
kidnappers to think deeply before
committing such another crime as
the Lindbergh tragedy"
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All records for counterfeiting
were broken in the past year, boot
leggers are joining in the fraudu-
lent-money game and there is now
more counterfeit money in circu-
lation than at any time within his
memory, William H. Moran, chief
of the Secret Service, said. The
Secret Service, he added, has its
hands full, but is making good pro-
gress in its campaign to put the
counterfeiters out of business. He
also stated that ito date in the
fiscal year 1882 1924 persons
have been arrested for counterfeit
ing United States money. This
is a new record"
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Advocates of real beer for tax
alton were routed by a dry Senate
in the first test of legalization of
the beverage. Hopes of those who
say economic conditions would be
improved and tax burdens lessened
by approving good beer, we'll tax
ed, went waiting away from the
billion-dollar tax bill, gently but
firmly on foam of not more than
one-half of l per cent. Two votes
were taken. The first on A per-
cent beer. a second on 2.75 per-
cent. The votes were 60 to % and
60 to "a.
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Republican Congressional leaders
have decided that there will be no
adjournment or recess of Congress
until the appropriation tax and
economy bills and probably the
relief legislation are enacted. An
nouncement to this effect vas made
by Senator Watson, Republican
leader in the Senate. Speaker
Garner and Representative Smell,
the Republican leader in the House,
had insisted that it was imperative
to pass the first three measures
before adjournment or a recess on
June IL for the national conven-
tions. While Mr.. Garner and Mr..
Smell did not mention the relief
legislation in a statement they is
sued, it is understood they favor
its early enactment.
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Representative Mas of Mime
sofa introduced a bill to abolish the
office of postmaster in all first
class postoffices, and in second
class offices having receipts of
more than $4,000. The measure
provides that the postmaster be
taken by the highest ranking civil
service employee Immediately I'M
der the postmaster in each office.
Mr.. Mas said the bill would bring
about greater efficiency, remove
postmasters from political activity
and result in economy. The salary
proposed for the new official would
be the maximum now paid to the
highest ranking civil service en-
ploye.
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The son of a Negro cavalry Of
ficer in the United State army is
to be the second accepted West
Point appointee of Representative
Oscar De Priest, Republican, of
Illinois, the only Negro in Congress.
The War Department announced
that Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., had
passed his examination and had
said he would accept appointment.
! He has been ordered to report at
West Point on July /. He is the
son of Colonel Benjamin O. Davis,
now on active duty as an i%nstruc-
] tor at Tuskegee Institute for the
Reserve Officers Training Corps.
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The average American taxpayer
now has a clear idea of how Con-
gress has been wasting his money
and then calling upon him to make
/ increasingly heavier sacrifices. He
knows how the House made a joke
of economy and struck $l7O,OOO,-
/ 600 out of the plans and speci-
fications for saving 5000, 000 1000.
And he is prepared to hold the
Senate also to a strict accounting
| if it now fails in its plain duty to
use the ax on governmental expen-
] ditures, beginning with the over
loaded Federal payroll.
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Ut is impossible to guess who
will be nominated for President by
the Democrats at Chicago, if some
other than Governor Franklin D.