Plans to spend four forty eight billion in New Deal works
Discussion of the four plus eight billion dollar appropriation for work relief reveals administrative delay and uncertain plans. Key figures PWA chief Ickes FERA head Hopkins Rural Rehab Tugwell and Admiral Peoples await White House guidance as Congress approves funds but details lag. Local story notes criticism and a strange gold dental bridge gift to Rep Hildebrandt amid broader political maneuvering.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
White House
PWA
Ickes
FERA
Hopkins
Tugwell
Treasury
Admiral Peoples
CWA
Congress
Harry
Ickes’ Pwa
Gly-Cas Arthritis Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief
A Cedar Rapids advertisement touts Gly-Cas as a near miracle for arthritis, claiming rapid relief and improved digestion and constipation. Customer Cynthia Burhite says she is now 100 percent better after two years of misery and recommends Gly-Cas to all sufferers. The drug is sold at Thrifty Drug Store on 1st Street and 3rd Ave SE.
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Thrifty Drug Store
1St St
3Rd Ave
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Couple Accused Of Slugging Robbery At Roadhouse
Betty Tyler and George Mentzer waived to the grand jury on a robbery charge after allegedly slugging and robbing H L Coffin of five dollars his hat and billfold near a road house on highway No 11. Coffin said a sailor in a suit joined them earlier and warned him not to report the crime. Mentzer admitted being with the pair. both denied the robbery.
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Betty Tyler
George Mentzer
First Street
Grand Jury
W. Grunewald
H L. Coffin
Coffin
Betty
Miss Tyler
Mentzer
United States Navy
Senate approves $2500 claim to Iowa City man
Des Moines reports the Senate passed twelve claims including a $2500 payment to George Kanak of Iowa City, crippled for life in an auto collision with a state highway commission tractor, amid routine measures and minor pension law corrections.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Bolice
George Kanak
Towa City
Postmasters Named for Washington and West Branch
Washington postmaster nominee Mark PeLong recommended for permanent appointment and West Branch acting postmaster Louis Kinsey slated for permanent posting. Announcement by Representative EC Eicher cites Post Office department recommendations.
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Gasrite
Washington
EC Eicher
Post Office Department
Castern
Mark ¢ PeLong
Louis Kinsey
West Branch
Muscatine High School Strike Ends With Rehire Promise
Muscatine students returned to class after the school board agreed to reinstate three instructors Principal Fred Messenger Coach Leonard Hunn and Mathematics Instructor Marinus Jensen who were not reappointed when others were rehired. A large crowd gathered at city hall as strike leaders urged an end to protests and petitions circulated for a return to school.
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Muscatine
Muscatine High School
Board of Education
Fred Messenger
Leonard Hunn
Marinus Jensen
Messenger
Jack Strain
Prowler Shot At Packing Plant Receives Ten Year Term
After being shot in the leg by night watchman Robert Slade at Wilson and Company packing plant, H D Brown 33 received a indeterminate ten year sentence in Fort Madison penitentiary on a breaking and entering charge. Brown was confronted in a runway, threatened, and shot after reaching toward a pocket. the wound was not serious and first aid was given.
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Robert Slade
Wilson and Company
H D. Brown
Fort Madison Penitentiary
F. O Ellison
G. K. Thompson
Brown
Slade
Newspaper Ads Rise 5.2 Percent in March
New York AP reports that March newspaper advertising rose 5.2 percent from February. The Printers' Ink index for March reached 770, up from 732 in February, and was 4.1 percent higher than March 1934.
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New York
Army Flyer Killed In Texas Air Crash
Lieut Paul Beyer Wilson 26 of Marchfield Calif died when his plane crashed near Taylor Texas while returning from the west. He was alone in the aircraft and appeared to have engine trouble during the approach.
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Army
Texas
Taylor
Tex
INS
Paul Beyer Wilson
Army Flyer
Marchfield
Calif
Wilson
Progress in chases jokes back to Adam in collection
Chicago AP reports Rich ard Marvin spent ten years gathering over 6 000 old jokes saved in four scrapbooks. He traced classics from 1869 to 1907 and notes modern twists persist while original puns keep their punch lines.
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Chicago
Richard Marvin
Marvin
Northwestern University
School of Commerce
Arkansas
Asa
Adam
Johnson Pleads for Life of NRA in Heated Speech
Johnson argues to preserve the NRA as a corrective force against corporate excess. He claims the codes aided labor and consumers, and warns against returning to unregulated conditions, criticizing the Darrow board and NRA critics as biased and misleading.
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Johnson
Photo in Purse Tells of Oelwein Man Link to Chicago Tragedy
Chicago police recovered a body in the South Chicago river after a woman alleged to have died by her own hand. A bridge tender reported a splash and found a purse near the Madison Street bridge with Mrs. Alice Crowdey’s Bible and a snap shot bearing the name Charles Gillman of Oelwein Iowa. The missing woman was identified as 45 year old Mrs. Crowdey. NEWHALL The ill health of Mrs. L C Gardemann remained critical. She has lived near Newhall where she is affectionately known as Aunt Mary.
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Chicago
Madison Street Bridge
Alice Crowdey
James Gaynor
Charles Gillman
Oelwein
Newhall
L. C Gardemann
Gardemann
Mary
Radio Schedule Mix of NBC CBS and Local Stations
An extended listing outlines nightly radio programming across NBC CBS and local affiliates with numerous musical orchestras hosts and schedules. It mentions stations WJZ WEAF WABC WBBM WCCO KOIL KYW and others broadcasting concerts religious services and dramatic features with various named performers and programs.
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NHC
NBC
WFAP
WJZ
Bny
CBS
WBBM
Men of
Manhattan
WCCO
Woc
Mary Marlin
WEBM
Wecco Stoo
Masonerade
ONAC
WEAF
Onbc
Moran
the Gunns
CHS
Sayitt Orch
WABC
APTI
RNOON
WLW
Koil Stenross Orch
Wotlersgorch
WBUM
Weco
NDC
Joan and
Jerh
Sain
Princesy Marie
WEREM
KMOX
Hain
Vth-brances
Barton
Parmentier
Icbs
Wabc Wrem
Vausha de Leath
NBCH
Ehain
Marine Hand
Sloe
Dane
Buffalo
Kay Lester
Weaf Chain
Weaf Who
Tmewretty
Mab
Hms Ns
WMAQ
Verets Marlowe
Loretta Ler
WAKC
Wcco Southernaires
Callars
Rhney Howard
Moser Burton
NBC Weaf
Milly Orch
Nellie Revell
Vivienne Sesal
Nbci Wea
Hatley
Sheer
Stamn Club
W—Coakley
Wech
Nbci Wear
Fidlerorch
WEL
Beecher Orch
WEAP
Chain Concert Orch
Black Chamber
KYW
Willard Rabon
Noahe Carter
WBRBM
Vancerous
Paradise
WSM
WENR
Jessica Preset
Orch
Irene Hich
Roosevelt
Morton Downer
Edwin
WBHM
Ruth Stting
Jimmy Foxx
Med Nichols
WLS
Rolfe
Tim and
Irene
Kdka Koil
Klack
iOplere
James Melton
Col. Stoopnardes
WDBM
Cloister Bells
WJZ Chain
Oiim
Berrens
Nercher Arch
Derran Arch
Remareltt Arch
Shandor
Woz Chain
Tucker Arch
Inbc
Wiz Chain
Garrigan Arch
la Port Arch
Dornberrer Orth
Wbbm Wecco
Returns To Iowa To See Sick Son Dies
David Meredith 67 returned from Whittier California to Lynnville Iowa to see his ill son Clifford but died in Mercy hospital Oskaloosa after injuries from a forty foot windmill fall on his farm He had served Jasper county in both state senate and house Survived by Clifford his wife and other children including Robert and Mrs May Gray
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Oskaloosa
David Meredith
Lynnville
Whittier
Calif
Clifford
Mercy Hospital
Meredith
California
Jasper County
Senate
House
Robert
May Gray
Steubenville
Few Vacant Houses in Cedar Rapids, Survey Reveals
A Cedar Rapids Real Estate board survey as of March 18 shows 340 vacant housing units out of 15 514 total, a vacancy rate of 2 19 percent. After removing bad repair units the rate drops to 1 98 percent with the west side worst and multi family dwellings most affected.
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Cedar Rapids
West Side
East Side
Governor Sends Nurse to Aid Penn Triplets
Harrisburg reports Governor George Earle ordered Dr Edith Mac Bride Dexter secretary of health to dispatch a state nurse to the Kiser home in Somerset county. An inspector will assess family needs and hospital care may be arranged if required for three impoverished triplets born to Mr and Mrs Walter Kiser in an abandoned schoolhouse.
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Harrisburg
INS
Somerset County
Pennsylvania
George H Earle
Walter Kiser
Edith MacBride-Dexter
Kiser
Dexter
William R. Watson Retires From Omaha World Herald
William R. Watson resigns as managing editor of the Omaha World Herald effective May 1 after leading the paper since 1903. He will be succeeded by Walter E. Christenson, a seven year veteran now covering the Nebraska state legislature. Watson, 64, began at the paper in 1896 arriving from Salina Kansas.
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Omaha
William R. Watson
Omaha World Herald
Walter E. Christenson
World Herald
Nebraska
Watson
Salina
Kan
Alyce Jane McHenry Guardianship Battle Continues in Mass
In Taunton Massachusetts a court fight over guardianship of 10 year old Alyce Jane McHenry unfolds. Paul McHenry father opposes mother Louella McHenry’s petition and seeks to postpone the hearing from April 20 to May 6 to appear in person. Judge Mayhew R. Hitch will set the final date.
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Taunton
Mass
INS
Alyce Jane McHenry
Omaha
Truesdale Hospital
Fall River
Paul McHenry
Louella McHenry
McHenry
Guilford C
Roosevelt Urges Caution In Baring Foreign Financing
President Roosevelt told the senate munitions investigators to tread carefully in probing wartime financing to avoid provoking unfriendly reactions abroad. He did not seek to curtail the inquiry into J. P. Morgan and Co. He advised careful study of confidential banker correspondence with Great Britain France and other allied nations. He discussed a British note warning that disclosures could stir old hostilities and affect European political tensions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
J. P. Morgan and Company
Gerald P. Nye
Senate Committee
Great Britain
France
Cordell Hull
Nye
Bennett C. Clark
James P. Pope
Ida
Hull
State Department
Ronald Lindsey
Europe
Upton Sinclair Quits Political Activities
SANTA BARBARA Calif UP Upton Sinclair veteran of a twenty year political war against the interests on a hospital cot he declared I m through my political life is over He had come to recuperate from all elections and ended his public campaign activities with a weary gesture.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Des Moines Woman Wins DAR Prizes for Organization Work
Mrs. Clyde E. Brenton of Des Moines is named DAR regent and awarded two national prizes for organizing 188 Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution clubs, with a total membership of 3,127, as the national DAR meeting convenes in Washington. The Forty-fourth Congress also votes for officers, with Flora Myers Gillentine of Arkadelphia or William A. Becker of Summit seeking the presidency general. results to be announced tonight amid photo controversy involving Speaker Joseph W. Burns.
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Wasilington
D. C
Clyde E. Brenton
Des Moines
Towa Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society
Sons and Daughters of the United States of America
Washington
Forty-fourth
Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Flora Myers Gillentine
Arkadelphia
Ark
William A. Becker
Summit
N.J
Gillentine
D.A.R
Reduced Stock Feed and Rail Rates Extended
CHICAGO. Reduced rail rates on livestock feed for drought areas will be extended thirty-one days to May 31. Special drought region movement rates from last summer will be restored. Announcement by E. B. Boyd, chairman of the western traffic executives committee.
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Chicago
E. B. Boyd
Western Traffic Executives Committee
Finland’s landscape marked by lakes and low mountains
Finland spans nearly California in size with thousands of lakes and few mountains. About one eighth of its area lies underwater, shaping a low, water rich terrain.
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Finland
California
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Robert S. Allen
Rex Tugwell
Federal Power Commission
Golden Bridge
Fred H. Hildebrandt
South Dakota
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Iam
Marshall Davis
Davis
Vermillion, S. D
Maine
Aroostook County
Canada
Prairie State Committee
Guy M. Gillette
United States
Jim Farley
London
Cynthia Burhite
Conger St
Waterloo
Mrs
Iowa City
Federal Trade Commission
NRA
Fair Practice Control
John Marshall
Darrow
Darrow Board
Chiiftain
Penn
William Watson
Omaha Paper
Alyce Jane
Lowa
Sport Oxfords
New Miami
First Ave
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