Germany Agrees To Eastern Pact At Lausanne Parley
Britain reports Germany ready to join an eastern non aggression pact with signatories agreeing to local assistance. The move, conveyed by Foreign Secretary Simon from Berlin via Neurath, followed talks among Italy Britain and France ahead of Geneva. France signs limited regional pacts while Britain backs a regional approach rather than a broad European security alliance.
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BESA
Germany
Bender
Berlin
Konstan- Semon Neurath
Reichsfuehrer
P Laval
Geneva
League of As
Locarno
France
Europe
Mance
Bnany
Ay Persailles
Pierre-Etienne Din
Pierre Laval
Mussolini
Italy
Ramsay Macids
Great Britain
John Simon
Battle Nears Close Culbertsons Assured Of Victory
NEW YORK AP The Culbertsons lead Hal Mapes in a 150 rubbers bridge match as the six remaining rubbers loom. Sims have to overcome a 13 970 point deficit and would need about a plus 69 400 per rubber to win.
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New York
Ako
Y Culbertsons
P. Hal Mapes
Vic
Es Ely
Josephine Dulee
Hal
Dorothy Sims
Sims
The Life and Courage of Katherine Mansfield
A tribute reflecting on Katherine Mansfield's brief yet brilliant life. The piece praises her bold spirit and literary gifts while urging readers to live fully and courageously now rather than delaying. It references her stories and letters and quotes her call to embrace life without postponement.
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Katherine Mansfield
Egg Riot During Chicago Univ Peace Parade
About 500 students staged a parade after an anti-war meeting at Mandel Hall. Following blocks of egg and stink bomb attacks, the marchers regrouped and advanced through the campus, with several injuries reported though no severe harm.
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Chicago
Univ
University of Chicago
Mandel Hall
University
Iowa Students Strike Amid Cheers and Shouts on Capitol Steps
About 250 University of Iowa students held a strike on Old Capitol steps. Frank J. Spencer from YMCA College in Chicago said he regretted volunteering in the last war and claimed the Chaco war in South America was really between the United States and Great Britain.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Old Capitol
Frank J. Spencer
Y. M. C. A. College
Chicago
Chaco
South America
United States
Great Brit
Quaker Oats to Build New Elevator in Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats announces a new elevator at Fourth street and B avenue NE replacing Elevator A. The $150000 to $200000 project adds 300000 bushels of space, extends Elevator B, and aims for completion before winter. Union labor will be used under agreed wage scales.
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Quaker Oats Company
Fourth Street
B Avenue
George Laird
Quaker Oats
Laird
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Teachers Head Calls Politics Ban in Schools
President O. R. Latham of Iowa State Teachers College urged the removal of university control from politics. Speaking before the North Central association, he argued that shifting state political climates hinder the university's ability to maintain a stable education policy.
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Chicago
O. R. Latham
Iowa State Teachers’ College
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Hope Dwindles for Missing Mute Boy Richard Perrot
Chicago reports dwindling hope for four year old Richard Perrot who is mute and believed dead. Searchers focused on county forest preserves after Flora Thompson told authorities she saw a man and a child emerge from a forest preserve near Des Plaines, matching descriptions of the boy and the thin man last seen in a candy store on April 4.
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Chicago
Richard Perrot
Flora Thompson
Des Plaines
Richard
Jones County Farmers Receive $143 573 Benefit
Anamosa AP reports twelve hundred third payment corn hog benefit checks totaling $143,573.78 were distributed among Jones county farmers on Thursday.
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Anamosa (Ap
Jones County
Roosevelt stays Security. £ id To Balance Budget
President Roosevelt defended the social security bill saying it will balance the budget by removing most aged relief needs and preserving purchasing power via unemployment insurance. House Republicans attacked the bill as costly and unconstitutional, led by Rep. Allen Treadway with criticism of its authors.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Allen T. Treadway
Mass
Ways and Means Committee
Treadway
Brain Trusters
Harold Knutson
Minn
Frank Graham
University of North. Carolina
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate passes HOLC funds bill to reopen loan program
Congress approves 1.75 billion to expand the Home Owners Loan Corporation new cash infusion. The Senate preserves the current regional office structure and sends the measure to a House conference for final settlement. The bill aims to aid homeowners refinancing mortgages and covers pending and new applications within 60 days of enactment.
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Washington
Home Owners Loan
Senate
HOLC
House
Train strikes bus. Fourteen pupils die in Rockville accident
In Rockville Maryland fourteen high school students were killed when an express train hit an auto bus late Thursday night. Fifteen others were injured or shocked, with most able to return home. driver Percy Line 30 is jailed on manslaughter charges awaiting an inquest.
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Rockville
Washington
Williamsport
Margaret Crebs
Thelma Staley
Percy Line
Line
Louise Funk
Williamsport High School
Grand jury probes Marshall payoff scheme in Sioux City
Verne Marshall Cedar Rapids Gazette editor testifies before Woodbury County grand jury amid a widening probe into an alleged protection payoff network reaching into the state capital. Witnesses summoned include beer parlor operators and a bondsman as the investigation extends into next week.
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Sioux City (Ap
Verne Marshall
Cedar ‘Rapids Gazette
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Nile Luke
Sioux City
J. E Brennan
Jim Pontrallo
Jesse’ Marshall
Marshall
Binnie
Cedar
Rapids
W. Ir.tice
Paul Czerkas
Fourth Street
Floyd Deverell
Sioux City Night Club Queen Subpoenaed for Grand Jury
Muriel Peacock Hanford known as the queen of Sioux City night clubs was subpoenaed to testify before a special grand jury probing a protection payoff system in the city.
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Sioux City
INS
Muriel “Peacock
Hanford
Michigan Rebounds To Beat Iowa 6 3 In Opener
Iowa City AP report says the University of Iowa opened its 1935 baseball season by losing to Western State Teachers' Kalamazoo 6 to 3. The Wolverines scored early and held off a late Iowa rally as Western State Teachers' took the lead late.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Western State
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mrs Amelia Huckins Freed Of Charges
Milwaukee AP report says federal judge F A Geiger dismissed charges in the Huckins mail fraud case. The action clears Mrs Amelia Huckins wife of George E Huckins and related figures including his son and John Niles a former postal inspector.
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Milwaukee
Huckins
F. A. Geiger
U. S. District Attorney’s Office
Amelia Huckins
George E. Huckins
John Niles
Bonaparte Man Arrested After Car Crash Drunk Driving Charge
Clyde Petrie, 57, of Bonaparte, Iowa, was arrested by Sheriff James H. Smith and Deputy Larry Condon for drunken driving after a collision on highway 161 near Western. His car side swiped Dr. H. A. Scott of Oakdale. no injuries reported. Petrie pled not guilty before Judge F. O. Ellison. bond set at $500.
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Clyde Petrie
Bonaparte
James H. Smith
Larry Condon
Highway 161
Western
Petrie
H. A. Scott
Oakdale
Dr. Scott
Cedar Rapids
F. O. Ellison
G. K. Thompson
Senate passes regulation of stock buying in Iowa
The Iowa Senate approved a bill to regulate direct livestock buying after a prior defeat, voting 26 to 22 for final passage and sending the measure to the House. The motion to reconsider passed 29 to 18, with cross-party support from five Republicans and many Democrats, though objections cited cost and federal Packers regulation.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State
Senate
House
Vincent Harrington
Sioux City
George Patterson
Burt
Harrington
Nels Kraschel
Bill
State Secretary of Agriculture
American freed of espionage charge by German court
Richard Roiderer, an American from Cleveland, was acquitted by Germany's People's Court on espionage charges after testifying that an undercover agent provoked him to note stormtrooper activities. He described losing his girlfriend to a man named Wolfahrt and tearfully recounted his imprisonment and arrest on June 22.
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Berlin
INS
Germany
People's Court
Richard, Reiderer
Cleveland
Roiderer
Reiderer
Wolfahrt
Munich
Margaret Sickert
Fraulein Sickert
Finnegan
Hrbek
Probers Claim Sioux City Liquor Sales Violation Ratio
Private investigator P D Van Wagoner testified before the Iowa liquor committee that about 90 percent of Sioux City liquor sales fall outside the Iowa Liquor Control Act. He cited General Liquor Sales as a violator and said wholesale houses often operate under intolerable conditions. The probe also touched Hammond Liquor Co and potential political connections, with ongoing debate on further investigation.
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Sioux
Wagoner
Sioux City
Des: Moines
P. D. van Wagoner
Iowa Liquor Commission
van Wagoner
Tom Green
Equor
General Liquor Sales Company
Iowa
ADE Vcnelgl Luqmul Deata Lusspany
Globe, Inc
Globe
M. X. Geske
McGregor
Van
St. Paul Oe
Senate
House
Commission
Hammond
Hammond Liquor
Council*Bluffts
Charles Hammond
Don Hammond
B. G. Messdinger
Pany
Norton
Hiawatha
Kan
Hammond “Company
Hammond Company
Ofc
Cunsel
J. L. Blanchard
Henry J Reelofs
Liquor
Andy
Alesch
Gus
Plysmouth
Untouchables To Escape Liquor Probe,’ “The man I_had in mind was Feuling
Feuling
Eugene J. Feuling
Democratic State Central Committee
Democratic Campaign
Finnegan Trial Delayed in Cedar Rapids Assault Case
A seven woman five man jury is set for Friday to hear Charles L. Finnegan 26 Cedar Rapids charged with assault with intent to murder and robbery in the Jan 21 Bohemian Savings loan office attack at 419 Third Street SE. Police say more than 560 dollars were stolen. Hrbek identified Finnegan as the assailant. The case details vary as Finnegan allegedly bound the secretary with a tie and fled with the cash.
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Charles’ L. Finnegan
Cedar Rapids
Jan J. Hrbek
Bohemian Savings‘and Loan Association
Third Street
Finnegan
Hrbek
Greatest Trade Rise in 20 Years Foretold by Dun and Bradstreet
The weekly Dun and Bradstreet business review forecast the sharpest rise in business in the last quarter century. It said March passed and expectations shifted from distant improvement to an immediate surge, with measures to prevent future recessions.
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New York
Business Review
Dun and Bradstreet
Roosevelt Hints at Texas Visit for Summer Tour
President Roosevelt expressed hope to visit Texas this summer though plans were not finalized. His second son Elliott lives in Texas, and the trip may occur en route to or from a west coast visit.
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Washington
Texas
Roosevelt
Elliott
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