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May 26, 1939

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Notable Deaths

Charles Horace Mayo

1939Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (born 1865)[†]

Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, Edward Star Judd Jr., Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour.

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Headlines from May 26, 1939

Profits Tax Held Doomed

By Unknown Author

WASHINGTON, May 25.--The undistributed profits tax appeared doomed today as word was passed that a compromise plan for revising the revenue laws to encourage business recovery had been approved by President Roosevelt, the Treasury and Congressional leaders.

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SENATE VOTES BILL TO HELP RAILROADS; Adopts, by 70 to 6, Measure to Put Water Carriers Under Same Regulation

By Charles W. Hurd Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 25.--The omnibus railroad bill was adopted by the Senate late today by a vote of 70 to 6 soon after that body ended an acrimonious debate over the status of waterways by rejecting decisively an amendment which proposed to delete from the measure provisions to transfer authority over waterways to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Naquin Hails Men's Performance, They Praise His Resourcefulness; All Unite in Acclaiming Lloyd Maness, Who Insists He Only Did His Duty in Closing Door Against Mounting Flood, Saving 33 Lives

By Marshall Newton Special To the New York Times

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 25.-- The men that the sea gave back told their story today. In hospital beds, but sitting up and cheerful, in a big white ward in the Portsmouth Navy Yard Hospital, they told what their actions were, their thoughts and their feelings when the submarine Squalus sank off the Isles of Shoals on Tuesday.

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MANTON'S ACCUSER ADMITS BLACKMAIL; Ex-Convict Testifies He Got $7,500 Bribe Back on Threat of Exposing Ex-Jurist

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M Renkoff, exconvict, testifies how he and Fallon acted as go-betweens for Manton and A M Andrews of Dictograph Products Co in fixing Dictograph-Schicic Dry Shaver patent suit; Renkoff links M C Weisman, McGrath and Prudence Co to suit; admits blackmailing Manton to get exec clemency plea lr; lr in evidence; Kenyon, H Katz (Lotsch employe) and A Tulin (atty) testify

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