Four killed as truck and car collide near Tama
A 2 a.m. crash on Lincoln highway four miles west of Tama killed Raymond Brush Burnell Brush Richard Kaloupek and Gladys Polka all Chelsea residents and injured six others including Mrs Raymond Brush Ruth Wilkinson Otis Smith and Ray Vernimont. An inquest led by Coroner Harvey Jones adjourned after six witnesses testified and details emerged about the roles of the Brush car and the Vernon mont driven truck in the collision.
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Tama
Lincoln Highway
Raymond A. Brush
Chelsea
Burnell Brush
Richard Kaloupek
Gladys Polka
Raymond Brush
Ruth Wilkinson
Otis Smith
Auburn
Ray Vernimont
Harvey ‘Jones
Toledo
Paul Stewart
Smith
Brush
Vernimont
F A. Brush
Dance
Marshalltown
Wernimont
Jefferson
Wis
Kaloupek
Amzy Brush
Ray Stotelmyre
Harvey Jones
Tom Mix Faces Court Trial For 26 Year Old Horse Theft
Newkirk Oklahoma May 5 Tom Mix the western film star is set to appear in court on embezzlement charges involving four horses allegedly taken from a 1930s ranch twenty six years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Mix
Newkirk
Okla
Side-stepping in life and law and faith
An essay condemns dodging problems from personal duties to national issues. It argues that evading difficulties creates larger burdens, citing slavery in the Constitution as a historic example and warning that true facing of life before God is required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Garden of Eden
Congress Cuts Off U S Cash To Europe Over Debt Defaults
Washington reports Congress passed the Johnson bill barring new borrowing from defaulting nations in Europe. France Belgium and allies face limits while Britain and Italy with token payments may be spared. Roosevelt favors token payments. Morgen thau confirms administration support. the move already affects a French loan syndicate.
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Washington
INS
Congress
United States Treasury
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Italy
Britain
Roosevelt
Johnson
House
Florida
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
New York
Huey Long Threats to Attack Probe Witness at Hearings
Huey Long spent a tense day in hearings over Daniel Moore’s nomination as collector of internal revenue at New Orleans. He warned of striking an attorney, clashed with Senator Harrison and others, and denied ever visiting a racetrack while accusing Moore’s backers of bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Huey Long
Long
Daniel Moore
Internal Revenue
New Orleans
Senate
Pat Harrison
Miss
Moore
Harrison
Kingish
Sen. Clark
John “P. Sullivan
Louisiana Battler
Sullivan
E. R. Bradley
Kentucky
Edward Righter
Righter
Widow of FE H Gary Dies in New York
Mrs Elbert H Gary widow of the steel magnate died at her Fifth Avenue residence after a prolonged illness in New York City. The death occurred at 9 o clock Thursday morning. Her husband FE H Gary was a prominent figure in the steel industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FE. H. Gary
New York
Elbert H Gary
Fifth Avenue
Woman Injured When Cartridges Explode in Stove
Miss Marie Gray, 409 Avenue NW, Cedar Rapids, was struck by a bullet that exploded as she threw a handful of old cartridges into a stove. She was taken to Mercy Hospital at 4:30 PM with a flesh wound in her left arm. condition not believed serious. Only one shell exploded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Marie Gray
Avenue NW
Mercy Hospital
Chickie's Daughter Serial to Start Tomorrow
The Gazette will begin publishing Chickie's Daughter by Elenore Meherin tomorrow. Readers who followed Chickie will find the new serial equally engaging as a portrait of modern youth and society.
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Chickie
Elenore Meherin
America
the Gazette
Mencken Predicts Fascism as U S Politics Riot
H L Mencken after returning from a Mediterranean cruise says politicians profit from recovery and predicts a fascist drift in the United States. He ridicules figures like Insull and Dillinger, compares British and American justice, and warns of a future man on horseback in Washington.
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Mencken
FW Allen Smith
United Press
New York
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore
United States
The
Algonquin
U. S
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
Washington
Milwaukee Man Survived Andes Crash Finds Life in Jungle
Marshall, principal of Chaco-Pacific in Milwaukee, Wis., was the sole survivor of a March 10 airplane crash in Colombia's Bolivar Valle region. Exhausted and weak, he wandered for weeks with his pilot and jungle rescues. Authorities rushed medical help and notified family as Marshall’s aliveness became confirmed.
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Colombia
Newton
Marshall
Milwaukee
Wis
Bolivar-Valle
Scadia
Cali
Bogota
Chaco-Pacific Company
Bolivar Department
Scadia Company
Walter Geck
Julio Zuniga
Medellin
Quibo
Cartago
Chaco
Child Born Shortly After Mother's Suicide in Philadelphia
Mrs. Cecile Myers, 26, shot herself in a Frankford hospital two hours before giving birth to a son. Her husband, Arthur, reported she feared the baby would be stillborn. Doctors said the infant would have survived if the mother had not shot herself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Cecile Myers
Frankford Hospital
Arthur
Army Flyer Killed In Pennsylvania Crash
Langley field VA pilot of a mail plane crashed into a hill side in Pennsylvania late Thursday. Coroner at the scene said the ship nosed into the ground from a small height and did not burn. Airport attendants saw the plane circle the field before crashing in the graveyard of aviators area among the Appalachian peaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langley Field
Va Prashere
Appalachian Mountains
Wounded Dillinger Pal Suspected In Bremer Kidnapping
Eddie Green, a wounded ex convict ally of John Dillinger, is under heavy guard in Ancher hospital as a possible suspect in the $200000 ransom kidnapping of Edward G Bremer. DOJ operatives plan to have Bremer view Green to aid identification.
Senate Rejects La Follette Plan in Tax Measure Battle
The Senate approved a $30.6 million increase in federal income taxes by rejecting Senator La Follette's plan. It keeps the normal tax at 4 percent with surtaxes on high incomes, while La Follette proposed higher rates, lower exemptions, and steep inheritance and gift taxes. The debate centers on balancing revenue with steeper rates for extreme fortunes.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Committee
House
Weirton Steel workers attack Wagner board at hearings
Weirton Steel employees accuse the Wagner Labor Board of being a hotbed of radical agitators. Jack Larkin, union chairman, says Wagner threatened jail and that an impartial investigator was an Amalgamated Steel worker. Magnates denounce the bill as a push for compulsory closed shop.
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Washington
INS
National Labor Board
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Weirton Steel Company
Senate Labor Committee
Wagner Labor Board
Jack Larkin
Weirton Company
Wagner
Weirton
Labor Board
Larkin
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Zinc Workers
Heat Overcomes Petersburgs First Summer Victim of 1934
In Petersburg Indiana Jord Showalter 56 collapsed from heat Wednesday as temperatures reached 90 degrees marking the season’s first heat victim.
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Petersburg
Ind
Jord Showalter
Cedar Rapids Gazette Pet Parade invites kids and pets April 14
The Cedar Rapids Gazette sponsors a Kids Pet Parade on Saturday April 14 from noon to 1 PM in Cedar Rapids. Entries open for children up to sixteen with pets including dogs cats birds goats pigs cows and ponies. Prizes for queerest best dressed funniest dressed smallest and largest dog and other features to be announced. The parade ends at the Iowa theater with participants as guests to see Frank Buck’s Wild Cargo.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Theater
Buck
Iowa
Child’s Name and Contact Details Listed
The record lists a child’s name, address, and phone number along with a note about the type of pet.
Smith Denied Release From Insane Ward
John M. Smith of Perry was denied release and recommitted to the state reformatory insane ward after a district court hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. Dr. R A Stewart testified to epileptic insanity likely to recur, while attorneys argued over sanity and past events including a 1931 disappearance and a hitchhiker assault.
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Anamosa
John M. Smith
Perry
State Reformatory
Smith
W H. Frazer
H. C. Ring
Reformatory
R. A. Stewart
Independence
State Insane Hospital
Stewart
Marvin Levsen
Jones County
Curtis W. Gregory
Dallas County
Frazer
George C. Lawrence
Levsen
Gregory
Lawrence
Ring
Dallas
Sincasant
Clarinda
House Approves Home Loan Guaranty Bill 337 to 1
The House passed a bill guaranteeing interest and principal on home loan bonds up to 2 billion dollars and authorizing 200 million for modernization. Only Rep. Martin J. Kennedy opposed. The Norris amendment requiring efficiency based hiring was rejected, Roosevelt supports it in conference with the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LLP
House
Martin J. Kennedy
N. Y
George W. Norris
Neb
Roosevelt
Norris
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Banking and Currency Committee
Home Loan Corporation
Kennedy
Home Owners Loan Corporation
T Alan Goldsborough
Home Loan
Shoemaker Jury Fails To Agree
Washington AP reports a police court jury deliberated six hours over charges that Representative Shoemaker of Florida Minn assaulted a taxicab driver. The panel failed to reach a verdict and a new trial is set for April 25.
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Washington
Representative Shoemaker
Minn
Des Moines Dairymen Back Dairy Production Program
Iowa dairy men endorsed the dairy production adjustment program in a regional AAA meeting in Des Moines. About 275 dairy farmers and cooperative representatives attended as speakers argued for a processing tax to fund the program despite opposition that warned of higher butter fat prices and consumer impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Dairymen
AAA
Co-Operative Creameries
Paul Stewart
Maynard
Iowa Dairy Committee
R. K. Bliss
Iowa Extension Service
Emmett
Co. W. Honan
National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation
St. Paul
Kansas City
Holman
Milo Reno
Bang
Holdale aid bill fails in House vote
The House defeated the Holdale bill to pay about 11 million dollars to Minnesota victims of the 1918 forest fire that killed 500 people. The measure, brought up under suspension of rules, failed 99 to 123.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Old Brain Trust Out Of Picture
Washington observers Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen report that President Roosevelt now largely acts as his own brain trust. The Merry-Go-Round column says the old group dissolved before the current debate over its theories began and that Roosevelt has new advisers while he largely pursues his own ideas.
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Roosevelt
Drew Pearson
Robert S. Allen
Washington
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Wiggins
Insull
Dillinger
Illinois Supreme Court
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Maryland
Greece
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Hatry
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Fentee Ee
Gazette
Insane
Shoemaker
John Thompson
Wallace
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