Inflation fears and political shocks hit the capital
The piece warns readers that inflation may rise as President Roosevelt faces commodity price controls, while gold withdrawals signal inflationary pressure. It notes Navy Admiral Moffett’s death amid a court inquiry and reports on French propaganda funding and political revolutions in Andorra, with broader remarks on unemployment relief and world economic moves.
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Lakehurst
Akron
William A. Moffett
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Roosevelt urges creation of Tennessee Valley Authority
President Roosevelt asks Congress to legislate a Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plant and coordinate broader river basin planning. He argues for national planning to develop power, flood control, forestry, and agriculture across multiple states, with authority to implement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Program
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley
Tennessee River
Bank official reports $9000 discrepancy after arrest at courthouse
Lines surrender at the county courthouse in Des Moines while awaiting County Attorney Carl Burkman. Capital City State Bank President Rolfer Wagner says a discrepancy of about $9,000 was found in Lines' accounts. Lines disappeared in April.
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Des Moines
City Lines
Capital City State Bank
Court House
Carl Burkman Rolfer Wagner
Governors Meet in Chicago Over Milk Price Fixes
Governors from several states gather in Chicago to discuss dairy pricing and how to aid dairsmen. Dairy inspector Dr Mennary reports persistent opposition and delays as producers face blocked sales at half the regular price while consumers pay more.
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Chicago
Dr Mennary
Akron flight had weather warnings before fatal sea crash
Naval court records show weather advisories warned of poor visibility and adverse conditions as the U S S Akron left Philadelphia for a radio compass mission over New England. Lt. Cmdr Wiley said there was no sense of danger, while Capt. McCord ordered an eastward course toward Barnegat inlet where the dirigible was lost.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Court of
U. S. S. Akron
H V. Wiley
New England
Michigan
Wiley
Philadelphia
Delaware River
McCord
New Jersey
Barnegat Inlet
Akron
H. Butler
H. E. Shoemaker
Carroll To Serve Ten Years For Five Car Thefts
T. E Carroll aged 33 from Sumner received five ten year terms and one five year sentence at Fort Madison State penitentiary after district court on five counts of motor vehicle theft and one count of displaying false license plates. All sentences run concurrently. Carroll's arrest in March solved eight car thefts here over the past eight months.
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Cedar Rapids
T. E Carroll
Sumner
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
John T. Moffit
Carroll
Death verdict upheld in Alabama for Haywood Patterson
In Decatur Alabama a white jury again sentenced 19 year old Haywood Patterson Negro to death for assaulting a white girl. Samuel S Leibowitz the defense attorney vows to appeal to the U S Supreme Court, claiming bigots and urging continued fight to protect the nation's name. Weems case for retrial on freight train assault moves forward with venue change denied.
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Decatur
Ala
Haywood Patterson
United States Supreme Court
Samuel S Leibowitz
New York
Charlie Weems
Weems
Birmingham
James E. Horton
Scottsboro
Joseph Brodsky
Alabama
Farm Mortgage Bill Moves to House Action
Washington Senator announced the administration backed bill to create a $2.009 billion federal bond issue to refinance farm mortgages at lower interest rates and longer maturities. Democratic leaders predicted swift passage.
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Washington
INS
House
Fenders
Capitol Eyes 3.2 Beer Permit in Building
The house accounts committee decided to permit sales of 3.2 percent beer in the Capitol building. The action moves forward pending conditions and final approval by the legislature.
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Capitol
Axis Fascist Accord Seen With Holy See Stirring Europe
Vienna reports a new anti communist bloc forming among fascist Italy fascist Germany and the Holy See with Franz von Papen meeting Mussolini and Cardinal Pacelli in Rome. Goering joins discussions as Dollfuss plans Rome trip to seek terms for Tyrol and potential alliance.
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Rome
Italy
Germany
Holy See
Franz von Papen
Vatican
Berlin
Benito Mussolini
Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli
von Papen
Europe
Austria
Dollfuss
Vienna
Pius” XI
Adolf Hitler
Wilhelm Hermann Goering
Duce
Engelbert Dollfuss
Mussolini
Judge Recommends 60 Days In Jail For Gastric Ulcers
In federal court Judge George C Scott presided as consulting physician as R S Milner urged leniency for Mark Collogan indicted for transporting liquor. Milner cited a physician affidavit stating Collogan suffers from gastric ulcers and the judge mused about a 90 day cure via diet before settling on sixty days in county jail. Other pleas of guilty saw Albert Anderic receive a 30 day sentence Ben Snape fined 350 dollars and Clarence Russell and Pan Vance placed on probation. Seichsschan faced 150 dollars in costs.
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Cedar Rapids
George C Scott
R. S Milner
Mark Collogan
Milner
Scott
Piea
Collogan
The Secret of Life in Everyday Religion
The piece argues true happiness comes from losing self rather than seeking self. It cites Jesus saying those who save their life lose it and Lincoln and Wilberforce as examples of self-forgetting devotion, plus reflections from Hankey and a friend on happiness and purpose. Copyright 1933.
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Jesus
Lincolin
Donald Hankey
Wilberforce
BR Henry Van Dyke Dies at 80 in New Jersey
Dr Henry Van Dyke noted author and educator died in his sleep at Avalon New Jersey aged 80 after eight months of declining health. Born in Germantown Pa he graduated from Princeton and was ordained in 1879 later serving as minister in Newport Rhode Island and New York City and as professor of English literature at Princeton. He served as American minister to the Netherlands from 1913 to 1917.
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Princeton
N. J
Ins
Henry van Dyke
Avalon
van Dyke
America
Germantown
Princeton University
Newport
R. I
New York City
The
Netherlands
Higher Price Levels Sought by Roosevelt
Roosevelt faces pressure to lift prices as deflation drags through the new administration. Officials debate public works bonds of 5 billion dollars or a revaluation of the dollar to spur demand, with inflation advocates pushing aggressive action while others urge waiting for natural causes.
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Raymond Clapper
Washington
Roosevelts
Congress
Senate
Wallace
Wagner
Dem
New York
la Follette
Wisconsin
James H. Rand, Jr
Remington Rand
Frank Vanderlip
Phillip K. Wrigley
France Plans Massive U.S. Propaganda Drive in Budget
Paris reports reveal a French foreign office budget of 33 million francs to create an American publicity network. The plan includes collaborating with Havas and Associated Press, film exports, radio broadcasts, pro French articles, and lecturer missions to sway the American public.
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United States
Foreign Office
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Forege Department
Agence Hava
Agencs
Associated Press of America
Rugby
Home Bureau
Foreign Department
Associated Press
Nnd
France
Pari
Havas Agences
Department of the French
Britain Reveals Soviet Evidence In Vickers Case
Britain releases a white paper detailing Soviet obtained confessions from six Metropolitan-Vickers British representatives on espionage and sabotage. It cites William MacDonald naming William Thornton and Charles Nordwall as implicated and notes interrogation pressure. Madame Kutusova appears as a key Moscow contact in the forthcoming trial.
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London
Metropolitan-Vickers, Ltd
Electrical Company
Metropolitan-Vickers
William MacDonald
MacDonald
William 4H. Thornton
Allan Monkhouse
Soviet
Russia
Charles Nordwall
Esmond Ovey
Icutosova
Moscow
Thornton
Walter Strang
Mme. Kutosova
Ake
Zlatoust
Winter wheat crop estimated short in 1933
The agriculture department estimates 1933 winter wheat production at 334 087 000 bushels, down from 462 151 000 in 1932 and well below the 1926–30 average of 589 436 000. April 1 crop conditions show 59.4 percent of normal for wheat, with rye at 72.5 percent and pasture at 72 percent. Stocks on farms April 1 include 1 126 616 000 bushels of corn, 178 354 000 of wheat, and 467 048 000 of oats.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Woman recluse with gun claims hate for men
A 77 year old recluse Mrs Sarah Hardwick was arrested near the Mississippi river road after she waved a revolver and declared hatred for men She has lived in isolation for thirty years in a fog cabin on a hilltop guards were placed at her home as officials search a five acre lumber plot for hidden gold.
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Sprejal
Chiisette McGregor
Sarah Hardwick
Mississippi
Wauken
Humane Pree
Des Moines Governor Sets Move Up Prohibition Referendum
Gov Clyde Herring said the national prohibition amendment repeal vote will be held after June 1 and before June 2, scheduling the election around June 13. The plan follows a signed paving bill and a national convention action.
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Des Moines
INS
Trena
X.o.e
Clyde Herring
Reduction of 20 Per Cent Passes House
Des Moines AP The Beatty Bennett tax reduction bill won final legislative approval in the House by a 47 to 50 vote after long debate. The measure lowers 1933-34 levies by 20 percent for counties cities and towns from 1930 levies with expanded exemptions and school district relief. Proponents call it the main tax cut of the session while opponents call it mandatory and impractical and say it shifts burden to local districts.
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Oneereat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Des Moines
House of the General Assembly
Senate
House
Conference Committee
T. Pnes
Rep. Rice
Keokuk
Rep
Hanson
Lyon
Rep. Peet
Guthrie
Gallagher
Iowa
Assembly
Johnson
Linn
Bruce
Pocahontas
McFarlane
Black Hawk
Conspiracy Case Against 678 Jury Concludes Instructions
The federal jury in the liquor conspiracy case against six Cedar Rapids defendants retired after Judge George C. Scott read instructions for 45 minutes. Arguments were limited to 90 minutes per side. Defense attorneys urged the jurors to ignore newspaper reports about missing key witness Roy Pugh and its impact on testimony.
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Cedar Rapids
George C. Scott
Scott
Roy Pugh
Pugh
Thirteen Lost As Iceland Skuivfoget Founders At Sea
A Soviet fishing trawler with a crew of thirty seven sank off the Icelandic south coast after a gale on Monday. Thirteen sailors are confirmed dead with others missing and feared drowned.
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Reyisjavik
Iceland
Sven
Mendav
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