Peace-maker in Washington voyage sparks debate on safety
Aboard a pier at Havre, Herriot is guarded as he boards for Washington to meet President Roosevelt. The scene illustrates the risks and escort required for peace advocates, amid critiques of postwar ideals and the fate of nations seeking peace without triggering the next conflict.
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Hisavil US Puuce
Ferriot
Hner
Havre
Washington
Roosevelt
Herriot
Cedar Rapids Auto Crashes Leave Three Dead
In Cedar Rapids two weekend crashes killed Fred Toft, 72, and Dr. Shellito. Arnold Zika, 15, initially pled not guilty to a hit and run charge after striking Toft at Fifteenth Street NE. The second wreck near Johnson and Eighteenth wounded four Marengo residents and others.
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Arnold Zika
Fred Toft
F. O. Ellison
Cedar Rapids
Fifteenth Street
First Avenue
Avenue
Wy C
Shellite
Rudolph Hergert
Middie Amana
Skellito
B. F. Wolverton
Biake Boulevard
Shellito
St. Luke's Hospital
Amy Riechmann
Middle Amana
Wiliam Zuber
South Amara
Gustav ~Hergert
Mercy Hospital
Irma Zuber
Lena Shoupe
South Amana
Hergert
Marengo
Johnson Avenue NW
Eighteenth Street
Oral Gleason
Ellis Barnes
Carl L. Erickson
British Church Official On Liner Believed Drowned
Canon Horace Granville Monroe of Southwark Cathedral is missing after the S S Berengaria voyage to New York. A South London ecclesiastic, 61, he was en route to Newfoundland to visit relatives after a long illness and the death of his wife last December. The crew think he has drowned.
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S&s. S.berengaria
New York
Horace Granville Monroe
South London
Monroe
Newfoundland
Southwark Cathedral
Missionaries Threatened by Japanese Air Bombs Near Peiping
Americans in North China prepare evacuations as Japanese air raids threaten Peiping and Tientsin. U.S. minister Nelson T. Johnson authorizes consul Frank Lockhart to advise evacuation of nationals and mission properties between Tientsin and the Great Wall. Reports say bombs hit Changli mission buildings and Shin-Hsi area, with casualties among the Red Swastika relief unit. Farther south, heavy fighting near the Great Wall yields about 70,000 Chinese wounded in the Chinwangtao area.
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Changll
Changli
Shin-Hsi
Peiping
Red Swastika (Cross
Woman given ten years to life in Skeele kidnapping case
In Los Angeles Superior Court Luella Pearl Hammer, 35, musician, received a ten years to life sentence for the failed $10,000 ransom kidnapping of Mary B Skeele, 65, wife of USC dean Waller Skeele. Co-defendant E H Van Dorn had pleaded guilty and also got ten years to life.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Luella Pearl Hammer
Mary B. Skeele
Dean Waller
Skeele
University of Southern California ,Music Colege
E.H van Dorn
Senate Stand Put On 30 Hour Week Debate
The Senate refused to reconsider the five day work week bill and sent it to the House where modifications are expected to align with administration farm bill goals. The motion to reconsider failed 52 to 31, clearing a major hurdle after weeks of opposition. Dickinson of Iowa supported reconsideration while Murphy of Iowa opposed.
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Washington
Senate
House
Dickinson
Iowa
Murphy
Iowd
House Passes Arms Embargo Resolution To Aid Roosevelt
The House approved the arms embargo measure by a 252 to 110 vote, granting the President power to restrict arms shipments to warring nations. The bill now heads to the Senate amid opposition, with Republicans led by Rep. Hamilton Fish seeking to return it to committee. The rule carries penalties including a 10000 dollar fine and up to two years imprisonment.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Senate
Hamilton Fish
New York
Foreign Affairs Committee
Hull
Hoover
Friay
Pearl Buck Refuses To Answer Church Charges
Pearl Buck, author of The Good Earth, declined to appear before the Presbyterian board of foreign missions in New York to answer charges of heresy raised by Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen. Buck, who remains in Ithaca, had published criticisms of the modern missionary movement in Harper’s magazine, arguing against a sectarian form of religion in China.
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New York
Pearl Buck
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
J. Gresham Machen
Presbyterian Church
Berlin Quiet After Nazi Domination Sigue Clashes Diminish
Berlin shows a calmer surface under Adolf Hitler as nazi control tightens. Parades and torchlit processions continue, police bands march on Unter den Linden, and nazi uniforms dominate streets while anti semitic attacks persist in attack papers. Public discussion of politics wanes as fear subsides and German life centers on controlled entertainment and affinity for Mussolini style fascism.
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Milton Bronner
London
NEA
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Goebbels
Ious
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
Kurfverstendamm
White Light
Haus Vaterland
Germany
What is conscience and how to tell right from wrong
A college discussion on conscience defines it as moral awareness guiding inward intent and outward results. It stresses acting rightly with good means for the greatest good, but warns feelings can mislead without knowledge and clear insight. The speaker cites Lincoln on inner feeling and urges wise outward conduct.
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Lincoln
Billy
God
Gaston B Means Sentence Upheld
The District of Columbia court of appeals affirmed a fifteen year sentence for Gaston B Means after he was convicted of stealing 104000 dollars from Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean. He claimed the money was to secure the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. McLean paid him 100000 in cash and 4000 for expenses.
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Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Gaston B. Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Means
Charlies A. Lindbergh
McLean
Delayed Scottsboro Trial After Liebowitz Criticism
In Decatur Alabama eight Negroes charged with attacking two white women on a freight train near Scottsboro faced indefinite postponement after Judge James F. Horton cited a published critique of Alabama jurors attributed to defense head Samuel Liebowitz. Patterson faces death after conviction. Knight disputes Liebowitz quote.
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Decatur
Ala
Scottsboro
James F. Horton
Alabama
Samuel Liebowitz
Defense
Horton
Heywood Patterson
Decatur Daily
Thomas FE. Knight, Jr
Liebowitz
New York Herald-Tribune
Knight
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
A brief report from Cedar Rapids notes the auto toll figure for the year with counts of accidents injuries and fatalities. The tally lists 88 accidents 37 injuries and no further fatalities recorded in the fragment.
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Cedar Rapids
Senate Defeats Move to Inflationary Silver Coinage
Washington report says President Roosevelt opposes Wheeler's 16 to 1 silver coinage plan as part of the farm relief bill. The 43 to 33 Senate vote reflected White House control, with Borah switching to oppose after White House opposition was noted. Inflation advocates plan new moves, including greenbacks or reduced gold content, to halt price declines.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Wheeler
Mont
Robinson
Borah
Rep
Idaho
William Jennings Bryan
Roosegrit
Wheeeler
Long
White House
Capitol Hill
Thomas
Okio
Capitol Till
Monday Major League Games in Early Season Line Scores
In the American League Boston and Washington split early results with runs and errors. Cleveland defeats St Louis as Hudlin and teammates secure a 4 3 win. Chicago and Detroit post lopsided scores as Gaston and allies lead the Cubs against a 7 8 setback. In the National League Brooklyn at Boston, St Louis at Cincinnati, and New York at Philadelphia were postponed due to rain.
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Brooklyn
Boston
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
Philadelphia
Factor Urges ransom as son’s kidnapping grips Chicago
John Factor sits in a $100 day hotel suite awaiting ransom instructions for his 19 year old son Jerome who was kidnapped last Wednesday. Factor tells secretary William Bleet to relay money readiness and seeks direct contact with kidnappers while denying any involvement by Capone's former gang. He has spent over a million dollars in pursuit and faces extradition battles in a growing Chicago case tied to a $7 million stock swindle abroad.
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Chicago
John
Jake
Factor
Jerome
William Bleet
Blect
Wales
England
United States Supreme Court
Young Factor
Northwestern University
Leonard Marcus
Murray Humphries
Capone
UC Murray
Compromise On State Budget Reveals Salary and Funds Shifts
Iowa lawmakers near a budget compromise report shows total annual appropriations at 11.866 million, with differences from house and senate figures. The plan sets university president salaries at 10,000 for Iowa, 9,000 for Iowa State College, and 7,000 for Iowa State Teachers College, while adjusting Fort Madison prison guards and board of control allocations amid a cautious give and take across institutions.
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University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Iowa State Teachers College
Frailey
Fort Madison
Arkane
Town U
Board’ of Education
Board of Control
House
Senate
Girl Struck By Car Near Western
D DeNil reported to Sheriff Joseph A Petrus that his car struck Martha Fordyce a 10 year old near Western at about 4 pm. The child was taken to Western where a physician treated her for minor cuts and bruises.
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Cedar Rapids
D. DeNil
Joseph A. Petrus
Martha Fordyce
Western
Pass Bill To Allow R. F. C. Loans For Sewage Plants
Iowa lawmakers approved a bill letting cities borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to build self liquidating sewage plants without a special election. After construction, fees on plant use would repay the loan. hand labor is required per amendment. Cedar Rapids and other Iowa cities seek relief from unemployment.
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DES Moines
INS
Iowa
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
House of Representatives
Senate
Arch McFarlane
Waterloo
United States
Cedar Rapids
Bowling Green
The
Finance Corporation
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Roanoke
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Tyler
Tex
Valdese
N C
Winston- Salem
Glen Rose
Texas
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Ohio
Virginia
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Atlantic City
N. J
Deming
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Roosevelts Start Off Egg Rolling On White House Lawn
President Roosevelt opens the traditional White House egg rolling on the south portico with family present. He smiles and jokes about joining the fun as Mrs Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall with two grandchildren watch nearby.
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White House
Washinton
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt
Anna Roosevelt Dall
Buzzie
Sistie
McKeown verdict affirmed by state supreme court
The Washington Supreme Court upholds a King County judge’s conviction of Seattle dentist Dr. Albert G. McKeown for second degree murder in the death of his mother Rhoda McKeown of Muscatine Tay. The court found no reversible error after careful examination of the record.
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Olympia, Wash
State Supreme Court
King County Court
Albert G. McKeown
Seattle
Rhoda McKeown
Muscatine
Tay
Supreme Court
Merrick dies in dynamite cap explosion at Maquoketa
Maquoketa AP report states 72 year old Hiram Merrick died at a hospital Sunday evening from injuries after chewing a dynamite cap. An inquest Monday from the coroner's jury found the death was caused by an explosion intentionally triggered by Merrick.
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Maquoketa
Hiram Merrick
Merrick
Extra Spring Cash Ads Sell Used Goods Fast
Gazette Want Ads promote extra cash by selling used furniture and odds and ends. Readers are urged to advertise attic garage basement or spare room items like a baby carriage bike camp cat refrigerator type writer for quick cash. The ad emphasizes selling items for cash and notes a dining set sold for cash.
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Gazette
Buddy
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