Brookhart Runs in Iowa as Republican Senatorial Candidate
The former insurgent Brookhart announces via the Republican ticket for United States senator in Iowa. He criticizes Dickinson Linville and Manning, revives old protests against the Cedar Rapids Gang, and notes his past ties to Roosevelt era policies and a Moscow leaning.
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Iowa
Smith Wildman Brookhart
United States
Senate
Dickinson
Linville
Manning
Roosevelt
Russia
Brookhart
New Deal
Maryland
Baker
Washington
Des Moines
Smith W. Brookhart
Soviet Russia
Vandenberg AAA payments row and Baldwin’s peace plea
The Senate agricultural committee backs a Vandenberg resolution demanding a full report on AAA benefit payments of ten thousand dollars or more. The piece notes many farmers received 4500 dollars, questions tax implications, foreclosures, and large corporate gains, while Baldwin argues Americans support efforts to build world peace though the league’s US membership remains debated.
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AAA
Uncle Sam
Vandenberg
Stanley Baldwin
England
League of Nations
Mr. Baldwin
League
United States
Baldwin
Brookhart enters Senate race blasts rivals in Iowa
Former Iowa Senator Brookhart announces Republican bid for U S Senate in June primary. He skews Lester Dickinson Edwin Manning and Guy Linville as a trio of weak choices and urges a bold program, pledging a parity-price plan to aid farmers and curb unemployment.
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Congress
Edwin Manning
Guy Linville
Cedar Rapids
Brookhart
Brookhart Candidate as a Democratic Joy and GOP Worry
The piece argues Brookhart’s nomination would delight Democrats while unnerving Republicans. It notes discontented Republican farmers who supported Roosevelt might switch back if Brookhart wins, and that Republicans would fear a Brookhart leadership, while Democrats would rue Secretary Wallace’s firing of Brookhart.
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Brookhart
Roosevelt
Wallace
Deeds Of Heroism Mark Tupelo Storm
Tupelo residents recount heroic actions during the severe storm. At City Hospital two emergency operations continued as the roof ripped away Sunday night with staff standing on chairs to brace the ceiling and keep it from collapsing.
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Tupelo
Internet
Pickwick Hero and Dickensian Wisdom Celebrate a Century
A nostalgic 1936 reflection honors R Pickwick at a hundred and notes Dickens's influence. The piece praises Pickwick’s Comic Spirit as a virtue guiding humble happiness, quoting Chesterton on England’s gift to literature and urging forgiveness and gratitude as life’s core.
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R. Pickwick
Pickwick Club
Boz
Buzzfitz
Dickens
Pickwick
Oliver Twist
Mrs. Clennam
Bleak House
Growlery
Chesterton
England
Marilyn Miller in Critical Condition After Pneumonia
Marilyn Miller, star of Sally, is reported out of danger at Doctors hospital on Saturday but then worsened to a very critical condition. The dancer entered the hospital with pneumonia and developed a toxic condition last week. her status was described as critical.
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New York
Marilyn Miller
Doctors Hospital
Youth Confesses Killing Sweetheart in Crestline
Charles Wilson 23 confessed amid grief that he killed his high school sweetheart Jean Moorhead 17 after finding her with rival Haskell Smith 19 in a car before her Mansfield home. Wilson fired five shots through Smith’s car window, hitting Moorhead four times. Ward Moorhead, company president, is Jean’s father.
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Mansfield, O
Charles Wilson
Jean Moorhead
R. E. Moorhead
Moorhead Automobile Company
Wilson
Crestline
Mansfield
Miss Moorhead
Haskell Smith
Inwood Smith
Ohio State University
Smith
Jean
Supreme Court Rules Against Securities Unit
The Supreme Court deferred ruling on the constitutionality of the Guffey act. In a 6 to 3 decision Justice Sutherland said the securities commission could not compel J Edward Jones to testify about a proposed $100000 securities issue. Justices Cardozo Brandeis and Stone dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Securities Commission
J. Edward Jones
New York
Sutherland
Cardozo, Brandeis and Stone
Senate Stock Market Investigation
Jones
Commission
New York Federal District Court
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Congress
Vlach Likely to Be Named Hanford Chief of Police
Robert J. Vlach commander of the Hanford American Legion is slated for appointment as chief of police under Safety Commissioner W. C. Benesh. The 39 year old Solon born former auto salesman has served the city civic life and Legion circles and would replace Ray S. Tapper whose term expires. Vlach lives at 1808 D avenue NE with his mother and Mrs Sadie M. Vlach.
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Robert J. “Bob” Vlach
Hanford
Tapper
Vladi
Vlach
Legion
Kruidenier
Benesh
Public Safety Department
Vinch
Solon
Cedar Rapids
T. M. Sinclair Packing
United States Army
Rude Auto Company
American Legion
Hanford Post
Knight of the Elks
United Commercial Travelers
D Avenue
Mary Hershey
Ap Sadie M. Vlach
Candy maker David Huyler dies in Miami Beach
David Huyler, 53, a retired candy manufacturer, died Monday at his winter home in Miami Beach after a short illness.
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Miami Beach
Fla
David Huyler
Rotary drives sale of 1200 books of baseball tickets
A Cedar Rapids Rotary luncheon launched a drive to raise funds for a Western league baseball team by selling 1,200 books of tickets. E. L. McKibben chairs the campaign. the books cost 10.70, cover 17 adult and 6 children tickets, and promise a saving of 2.70 vs individual grandstand pricing.
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Roosevelt Hotel
Rotary Club
E. L. McKibben
G. K. Thompson
The
Baseball Association
Harry Johnson
Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Hank Greenberg
Lefty Gomez
Mickey Cochrane
Lou Gehrig
Tommy Bridges
Buddy Myer
Joe Vosmik
Rogers Hornsby
Joe Cronin
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Tigers
Goose Goslin
Cochrane
Detroit
Senate probes AAA payments over ten thousand dollars
The Senate agricultural committee endorsed a resolution by Vandenberg requiring the Agriculture secretary to list all recipients of ten thousand dollars or more from the AAA for crop or livestock reductions. The move reflects earlier disclosures of corporate payments up to a million dollars. The document seeks names, counties, states, and payment amounts for each contract year, including territories.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Vandenberg
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate
AAA
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Ins
Wallace
Smith
South Carolina
Michigan
Secret AAA payments top $1 million in 1933 sugar and cotton grants
Secretary Wallace disclosed a partial list of large 1933 AAA payments, including a Florida sugar producer receiving $1,067,665 for not growing sugar cane and a Hawaiian sugar concern at $1,022,037. Other sizable sums went to Mississippi, Arkansas, and California firms. wheat and corn hog awards and tobacco and rice payments are noted. Wallace urged Congress to decide on public disclosure while arranging a full list for Senate review.
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Smith
Senate Agriculture Committee
Florida
Wallace
Mississippi
Oscar Johnson
AAA
Mississippi State
Arkansas Penal Institute
Arkansas
California
New Jersey
New York City
Congress
U. S
John R. McCarl
Senate
Italian Troops Fast Move to Isolate Northwestern Ethiopia
Italian forces push south and west toward Dessye and Gondar as Haile Selassie reportedly escapes. First and Second corps threaten to cut Lake Tana access while bombing raids target Ethiopian remnants near Ashangi. Italian pilots pursue a plane believed to carry the emperor into Addis Ababa.
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Rome
INS
Lake Tana
Second
Magdale
Dessye
Gondar
Ethiopia
First Corps
Karam
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Lake Ashangi
Ashangi
Hauptmann Body Cremated After Brief Services
A simple funeral service for Bruno Richard Hauptmann was held in a crematory chapel with his widow and attorney present. Clergy read scriptures and offered brief prayers as Greta Haenckle, a friend and defense witness, attended. Afterward, the body was to be cremated at Fresh Ponds in Queens with ashes likely to be sent to Germany.
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New York
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
C. Lloyd Fisher
John Matthiesen
D. G. Werner
Greta Haenckle
Hauptmanns
Flemington
Fresh Ponds
Queens
Germany
Family of 13 killed in Tupelo tornado
A tornado struck Tupelo Mississippi on Sunday night wiping out a family of 13. Mr and Mrs Jim Burroughs and their eleven children died when their home was demolished by the storm.
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Tupelo
Miss
INS
Jim Burroughs
City Council Sworn In Delays Appointments
New city council members were sworn in by Judge Powell with no appointments until Tuesday at 9 a.m. Officials from the old council including Mayor Hahn and commissioners Burgus Williams Stefan Benesh attended. Dan Kruidenier remained to greet Benesh and then reported for duty as a patrolman after the ceremony.
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Frank K. Hahn
Louis D. Burgus
Dave Williams
Ed Stefan
Old Council
Wes Benesh
Thomas B. Powell
Powell
Clyde Herring
Dan Kruidenier
Public Safety
Benesh
Kruidenier
Toll Rises From Southern Tornadoes and Fires
Red Cross reports to Gov Talmadge that Gainesville North Carolina may face up to 500 deaths from a tornado and related fires. Across several states more than 175 known dead 1 000 injured and hundreds homeless amid property damage estimated between 1 and 6 million dollars.
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Atlanta
INS
Red Cross
Eugene Talmadge
Gainesville
North Carolina
Tupelo
Miss
North Georgia
Mississippi
South
Washington
Athens
G. C. Reed
Greensboro
N. C
Forty-Two Bodies Found After Gainesville Disaster
In Gainesville Georgia rescuers reached early wreckage in the Queen City of the Mountains finding forty two bodies in the first buildings entered after a tornado and fire ripped through the business district. Four more buildings were burning and several others were not yet accessed. About 150 were seriously injured.
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Gainesville
INS
North Georgia
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