Sioux City Kidnapper Hanley Sentenced in Federal Court
Joseph Hanley, 34, of Sioux City, confessed to kidnapping hotel agent Walter Newman in February and transporting him to Minnesota. He received a fifteen year federal sentence after a career described by prosecutors as started at 14 and included crimes from grand larceny to abducting and robbing Newman.
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Joseph Hanley
Sioux City
Bee
George C. Scott Tuesand
Hanley
Joseph Irus
United States
Marl
FBI
Est Newman
St. al, Minn
Rockport
Walter Hutchinson
United Tes
Rihern
Iowa
Nley
Anamosa Reformatory
Pipestone
Minnesota Peninary
Anley
Newman
St.al
Lindbergh
Newman Ross
Texas
Mercy
Fanley
Will Owen
West
Owen
Hank
Scott
Orney
Laramie
Heron G. Bredensteiner
Depu
Dean S. James
Nishhbotna, Mo
Department of Juse
Jackpot Slot Machines Seized In Marion Raid
Two jackpot slot machines were seized at the Scoreboard, a dine and dance place at 740 Tenth Street, Marion, by Deputy Sheriffs Dick Ayn and Harlan Snyder early Monday evening under a search warrant. County Attorney G. K. Thomp said action would be taken within a few days. The proprietor Ping Ballard reportedly communicated with the county attorney.
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Paar Rapids News
Marion
Dick Ayn
Harlan Snyder
H. R. Churchill
G. K. Thomp
Ping” Ballard
Coogan Willing To Relate His Bad Conduct
Hollywood tale: Jackie Coogan offers to discuss the “particularly bad thing” he did at age twenty while his mother Lillian Bernstein testifies she withheld his trust earnings. She recalls a heart to heart after his twentieth birthday and insists the law supports her stance.
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Coogan
Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
Jackie
Lillian Coogan Bernstein
Arthur L. Bernstein
Rains
City Market Contract Awarded To Zobac In Low Bid
The city council met in a special forenoon session and awarded the city market erection to Frank Zobac for 1315 dollars, well below the 2300 dollar estimate by Building Inspector O L Leefers. Zobac admitted bid error but posted a 250 dollar certified check, risking loss if he declines. The contract pauses seven days before final approval and bids may be reopened if savings justify re advertising.
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Frank Zobac
O. L. Leefers
Zobac
Zobae
Senate Navy Act debate sparks battleship clash
The Senate opened debate on a $1.156 billion naval authorization bill to expand the fleet with fights over battleship tonnage and defense areas as Senators Bone Nye Holt Gillette clash on defense needs and costs while the National Council for Prevention of War urges delaying action.
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Washington
Senate
Bone
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Nye
Ind
Holt
West Virginia
Gillette
Towa
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
National Council For Prevention of War
Rebels Crush Loyalist Forces Near Tortosa Front
From Lisbon and Perpignan reports indicate insurgents advance south of Tortosa as government troops retreat across the Ebro. International brigade units and Navarrese legions are said to form the insurgent backbone while Barcelona and Valencia remain focal targets amid strategic river crossings and coastal advances.
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Tortosa
International Brigade
Ebro
Garcia Valino
Barcelona
Valino
Benicarlo
Miguel Aranda
Valencia
Mediterranean
Francisco Franco
Cheete
Aldove
Torosa
Insurgent raid hits Barcelona suburb amid new fighting
Two people were killed and twenty three wounded when insurgents attacked a Barcelona suburb on Tuesday. The clash marked the first combat inside the Catalan capital limits as insurgents pursued a encircling maneuver through Sierra de Montenegroso Sierra de Caro and Sierra de las Razas. Earlier, insurgent tanks and armored cars drove government forces from Amposta at the Ebro delta, with infantry seizing the town and controlling the river mouth and southern approaches to Tortosa.
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Barcelona
INS
Sierra de Montenegreso
Sierra de Caro
Sierra de Las Razas
Amposta
Ebro
Tortosa
Like Magic Want Ads Sell Suit Fast
A gray size 38 suit, described as like new, is sold via Want Ads. The ad highlights strong interest and a quick sale through the daily reading circle, noting higher results and broader selection this week. Dial 3-1927.
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Dial
Faith in God as Father Sustains Hard-Lived Life
A reader shares a testimony of enduring faith amid poverty blindness and struggle. Despite losing an eye and aging, she trusts God Our Father and believes help will come, noting joy remains when faith holds. Her simple testimony counters doubt with lived experience, © 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Job
Spreckels Offers To Pay Up To Settle Tax Fight
Rudolph Spreckels former millionaire and civic leader signaled willingness to give up all he owns to settle a 648000 income tax suit. Accountants worked to evaluate holdings while a list of properties was sent to Washington for possible compromise. The assets include oil lands in Kettleman Hills water rights in Pit River district ranch land in Tulare county and an interest in Tanforan racetrack.
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San Francisco
INS
Rudolph Spreckels
Tulare County
Tanforan Race Track
Temperature Slides as Clouds Quiet Cedar Rapids Sun
Cedar Rapids observed a cooler Tuesday as clouds shaded the area. Temperatures fell from a 71-degree high at 10 a.m. to 68 at 1:15 p.m. and 64 by 2:30 p.m. The day began at 59 degrees Monday midnight, rose to 62 by 7 a.m. Tuesday, with Monday’s high reaching 74 at 3:30 p.m. The 7 p.m. reading stood at 70 on the Chambers Inskeep thermometer.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
C. Rapids
Boston Town
Washington
Tampa
Sioux City
New Orleans
Galveston
Charles City
Los Angeles
Des Moines
Francisco
Seattle
Havre Ag
Dubuque
Davenport
Bismarck
Recky
Detroit
New York
Chicago
Japs To Pay Panay Damages Tomorrow
Washington reports Japan will make full payment for Panay bombing damages. A check for 2,214,007.36 dollars will be delivered to Ambassador Grew in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Washington
INS
Japan
U. S
Panay
Joseph Grew
Tokio
Broadway Dancer Dies After Plunge From Midtown Hotel
New York AP reports 26 year old Thais Giroix, a Broadway specialty dancer, fell from a fifth floor hotel room in midtown early Tuesday. Police investigated the death as a possible accident or suicide while the dancer’s colleagues mourned the loss.
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New York
Thais Giroux
Mass Return Planned by Expelled C10 Group
About 200 CIO unionists and supporters from Grass Valley and Nevada City gathered for a mass return to their communities after a vigilante expulsion. The event coincides with a California hearing on accusations that law and order collapsed in Nevada County and that peace officers colluded with vigilantes to break the union. Resner issued a warning of accountability for violence and announced plans for a federal restraining order to protect CIO members and reopen the local offices and picket lines at the Murchie mine.
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Sacramento
Calif
CIO
Grass Valley
Nevada City
State Relief Administration
Frank F. Merriam
Committee For Industrial Organization
Nevada County
Herbert Resner
Murchie Mine
Resner
George Anderson
Federal District Court
San Francisco
Ile
Scott Erwin
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
John Doe
Debtor Nation Trade Pact Publicity Sparks Senate Move
Washington Senator J Hamilton Lewis introduced a resolution urging the State Department to reveal terms and form of trade agreements with nations that do not meet debts in the U S The measure also questions the department's authority to finalize reciprocal treaties without Senate ratification.
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Washington
J. Hamilton Lewis
Senate
State Department
Card sender claims to be Lindy killer in postcard
Atlantic City police received a postcard on Tuesday claiming to be the Lindbergh baby killer. The message read I killed the Lindbergh baby. Just thought I'd tell you again You haven't caught me yet and you never will. It was mailed from Atlantic City and pictured an interior view of a local saloon.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lindbergh
United States Opposes Recognizing Italy's Ethiopian Claim
Washington reports the United States will not recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia despite Anglo Italian accord. Non-recognition, tied to Kellogg Briand principles, aims to avoid setting a precedent for Japan's Manchuria seizure, impacting Italy's treaty prospects and US Italy relations. Czechoslovakia Tuesday recognized the Ethiopian conquest.
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Washington
INS
United States
Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
State Department
Japan
Black Kingdom
Manchuria
Manchuku
Stimson
Nippon
China
Czechoslovakia
Paving of Highway 30 Cutoff to Begin in Week
Charles Fisher, resident engineer for the state highway commission, says paving the 2.8 mile Highway 30 cutoff into Cedar Rapids will start within a week. Bemis and Schlick of Des Moines hold the contract, crews arriving this week to establish a base near the Sixteenth avenue Rockford road viaduct. Completion is targeted for June 1, with city paving inside east of the viaduct done by Haegg Construction under a separate contract. A 250 foot detour on current Highway 30 will be built in an adjacent field and graveled.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Fisher
State Highway Commission
Sixteenth Avenue
Rockford Road
Bemis and Schlick
Des Moines
Fisher
Haegg Construction Company
Revolt Flares On Coast of Honduras
The press reports renewed revolutionary activity on Honduras Atlantic coast led by Generals Beneatih Diaz Zelaya and Rufino Olis as of Tuesday.
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Honduras
Managua
Nicaragua
Beneatih Diaz Zelaya
Rufino Olis
Executions at State Penitentiary in Iowa
Franz A. Jacobsen and Mario Heinz were executed by hanging at the Iowa state penitentiary in Fort Madison just after 5:30 am on Tuesday. A crowd of about 150 watched, the largest ever for an Iowa execution. Heinz died at 5:39 am and Jacobsen two minutes later for separate murders. Jacobsen, Ottumwa and Davenport chef, killed Catherine Leahy, Ottumwa waitress. Heinz, former Dubuque relief worker, killed his six year old nephew David Fox. Witnesses noted a sardonic smile as Jacobsen was hooded.
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Fort Madison
Franz A. Jacobsen
Mario Heinz
Town State Penitentiary
Iowa
Heinz
Jacobsen
Ottumwa
Davenport
Catherine Leahy
Dubuque
David Fox
Rescue Woman From Burning Apartment
Firemen from engine company No. 1 rescued Mrs A E Rankin a 74 year old from the second story of a burning building at 598 Fifth Avenue SE at 3 pm Monday. The fire started in a first floor clothes closet and spread to a closet bedroom and kitchen. Rankin had left with other tenants but returned for her pocketbook as dense smoke blocked interior stairs. Fireman Charley Usher lowered her to safety from a second story window. Smoke and heat caused heavy damage. Companies No 1 and 6 and a hook and ladder truck answered.
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Cedar Rapids
Engine Company No. 1
A E Rankin
Fifth Avenue SE
Rankin
Charley Usher
R. L. Jasper
No. L and 6
Venus Sues Over Child Alienation In Missing Daughter Case
Dorothea Purley file a $75,000 damage suit in Phoenix charging Thelma Bailey and her husband with alienating her daughter Mattie, now 19, from her after Mattie won parole in December 1936. Mattie has not communicated since. Purley, once jailed for the slaying of her husband, tells of the ouija board influenced events and the Randolph School association.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Dorothea Purley
New York
Turley
Mattie
Thelma Bradford Bailey
Randolph School For Girls
Bailey
Sterilized Gold Now Handled By Bankers In Fumigated Banks
By Arthur Bugs Baer the germless bankers will manage sterilized gold in fumigated banks. Attempts at antiseptic borrowing will be thwarted by the board of diech. Credit deodorized endorsers pasteurized, a thirty day breath hold through cheese cloth may be required. The piece parodies banking fears of epidemics.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Board of Diech
Roosevelt Recovery Push Doubles Farm Dept Highway Aid
Washington reports the House, in line with President Roosevelt's recovery program, moved to more than double the highway appropriation in the Agriculture Department supply bill to 201.5 million while sending the bill to the Senate. The Senate also approved a 50 million increase for CCC camps for the next fiscal year. Debate centered on public works funding and RFC authority, with Glass supporting relief but opposing a 1 billion public works fund. Public reaction shows letters to lawmakers growing, while some allege inflationary risk from the new spending cycle.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Senate
Glass
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Budget Bureau
Senate Appropriations Committee
RFC
Glass Carter Glass
Public Works Administration
Bio New
Jesse TI. Jones
Rep
Wadsworth
New York
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Vernon Stoll
Harvey M. Leete
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