Hitler Birthday Note Challenges League of Nations
On his forty sixth birthday Adolf Hitler challenged the League of Nations Council, rejecting their condemnation of Germany’s rearmament. He sent a measured note to 14 nations, signaling willingness to negotiate while asserting Germany’s right to defend its honor and reserves.
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Europe
Reich
Germany
Hitler
Argentina
Australia
Chile
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
Great Britain
Italy
Mexico
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
Russia
Council
League of Nations
League Council
Poisonous Easter Egg Dyes Seized in Western New York Markets
Buffalo report from the state department of agriculture says large quantities of highly poisonous Easter egg color dyes flooded western New York markets. Several shipments were seized and the action reflects growing enforcement against unsafe toy and dye products.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York
State Department of Agriculture
Last Chance to Place Want Ads in Big Sunday Gazette
Readers are urged to order Want Ads now to start in the Big Sunday Gazette at special bargain prices. Avoid a late rush by calling Dial 2-1121, Ad-taker, to place your ad as soon as possible.
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BIG Sunday Gazette
Beer Measure Passes Iowa House 81 to 14
The Iowa House approved by 81 to 14 a rewritten beer law bill after long debate and nearly four days of amendments. The measure, Senate title only, will return to the Senate for consideration of the House amendment.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Senate
House
Lower Branch
Committee On
Martens Sentenced to Eight Years for Manslaughter
Adolph Martens, 55, of Keswick Pennsylvania farmer, received the maximum eight year term in the Fort Madison Iowa state penitentiary for manslaughter in the August killings of his wife Estella and his stepdaughter Maxine Abel. He also fined 1000 dollars and the trial costs, with an appeal bond set at 10000 dollars but later not pursued. Judge W S Cooper criticized the jury verdict as a compromise and indicated no appeal would be taken. Martens surrendered after fleeing to Nebraska and Galesburg, returning voluntarily three months later.
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Newton
Adolph Martens
Keswick
Iowa
Fort Madison
Martens
State
W. S Cooper
Supreme Court
Estella
Cooper
Marten
Henry F. Wagner
Maxine Abel
Nebraska
Galesburg
Maxine
Sigourney
Omaha Street Car Strike Ties Up Service
In Omaha and Council Bluffs 400 union workers from the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Car company walked out for the third time in a year. They demand higher wages full union recognition and an end to discrimination claims. The company made no attempt to run trams and threatened workers could be dropped after 72 hours.
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Omaha
Council Bluffs
Omaha and Council
Huey Rejects 7 Million PMA Bridge Project
Senator Huey Long blocks a 7 million dollar joint federal state bridge project at Baton Rouge. A P Tugwell announces withdrawal to keep federal works under state control as Louisiana legislature backs a state board dominated by Long. Ickes warns no further federal relief under these terms.
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LLP
Huey Long
Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Highway Commission
Long
Interior
Harold Ickes
Ickes
Public Works Administration
Louisiana
Capital asks if relief disputes may hit 1936 campaign
Washington observers warned that relief and work money fights could shape the 1936 election. The New Deal controversies with Huey P. Long and Georgia Governor Talmadge were cited as foreshadowing clashes. President Roosevelt said he aims to keep politics out of relief while Senator Hastings claimed the administration is using relief for political ends.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
Talmadge
Georgia
Roosevelt
Hastings
Del
Hopkins Relents Slightly on Relief for Georgia Schools
Federal Relief Chief Harry Hopkins allows Georgia teachers in needy rural districts to join work relief so schools stay open. The dispute with Harold Ickes, Huey Long, and Eugene Talmadge intensifies as Long heads to Washington to push back against Roosevelt’s policy.
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Washington
INS
Harry L. Hopkins
Georgia
Illinois
Pennsylvania
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Harold L. Ickes
Huey Long
Louisiana
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Coggon Man Held For Drunk Driving After Accident
John Bading a 40 year old Coggon man was charged with drunk driving in district court after an early morning accident on Marion boulevard. He furnished a 500 bond following his 2 a.m. arrest by Sheriff James Smith who traced a fleeing stock truck to Central City. No injuries were reported.
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Ed Fordyce
Bading
Marion Boulevard
Norman Johnson
Twenty- Seventh Street
Third Avenue SE
Johnson
James Smith
Central City
Drake Estate Fraud Suspect Dies Suddenly
James F. Kirkendall, 66, one of five defendants in the Sir Francis Drake estate swindle, died of a heart attack in a Chicago hotel apartment. He had been free on bond and was arraigned Friday with three companions, later bound over to a grand jury on mail fraud charges. The group operated from a north side hotel and targeted midwesterners seeking the fictitious Elizabethan estate. Kirkendall’s death leaves other defendants in custody with bond adjustments. prosecution proceeds.
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Chicago
James_ F. Kirkendall
Kirkendall
North Side
Otto Yant
Mallard and Manson
Iowa
Delmer C. Short
Storm Lake
Lester E. Ohmart
San Benito
Tex
James Hauber
Spencer
New York
Canfield Hartzell
Oscar
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Hazel
U. S
Austin Hall
Six youths killed in Salisbury joyride crash
Six young people died when their car collided with a parked truck at Powellville nine miles east of Salisbury. Two were killed instantly and four died later at Peninsula Hospital after they could not be revived. Victims listed as Thaddeus Dykes 25 Morris M. Dykes 22 Wisehart Mumford 19 all of Salisbury Violet Templeton 17 Evelyn Willey 17 and Agnes Taylor 20 of Delmar.
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Salisbury
Powellville
Here
Peninsula Hospital
Thaddeus Dykes
Morris M. Dykes
Wisehart Mumford
Violet Templeton
Evelyn Willey
Agnes Taylor
Delmar
Hauptmann Defense Files Arguments
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's counsel filed 133 arguments with the prosecution seeking to set aside the Lindbergh baby murder conviction. The defense plans to present an appeal in June.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Amelia Earhart Arrives in Mexico City After Nonstop Flight
Amelia Earhart Putnam neared Mexico City in a bright red Lockheed Vega on a record nonstop attempt from Burbank California. Officials prepared elaborate welcomes as Earhart’s plane was sighted over Salamanca Guanajuato about 150 miles from the capital.
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Mexico City
INS
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Burbank
California
Los Angeles
Atlantic
Pacific
Union Air Terminal
Balmy Easter Day Forecast Brightens Cedar Rapids
Spring weather strengthens in Cedar Rapids as temperatures rise from 36 at 5 a.m. to 63 by late morning. The day records a 66 high at 1 15 p.m. with cooling to 50 by evening and 40 after midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Senate jam slows Roosevelt social security bill progress
The Roosevelt social security measure cleared the House by a wide margin but faces a delay in the Senate. Lawmakers consider changes to fund the program with taxes totaling over 2.7 billion dollars for the aged, jobless, children, and mothers. The bill goes to the Senate finance committee, with hearings on the bonus and NRA pending.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
NRA
Harrison
Milk fund tops total with new gifts in Cedar Rapids
Recent contributions push Cedar Rapids milk fund beyond four thousand four hundred sixty one dollars and ninety five cents. New donors include Prokop Velky lodge No. 137 C S A twenty five dollars St Margaret s Circle five dollars Three Minute Cereals four dollars fifty one cents Matice Skolska in memory of Mrs Jennie Hurka St Matthew s Parent-Teacher association three dollars each and Loyal Daughters Sunday school class of Trinity Methodist church two dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Prokop Velky Lodge
St. Margaret's Circle
Immaculate Conception
Matice Skolska
Jennie Hurka
St. Matthew’s
Michigan Requires Oath By Teachers
Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald signed the Baldwin bill requiring teachers in state supported schools and colleges to take an oath of allegiance to the federal Constitution. The measure passed as part of state education reforms in Lansing.
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Lansing
Mich
Baldwin
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Mrs. Bedford-Jones Granted New Trial
Federal Judge William M. Holly in Chicago granted a new trial to Mrs. Mary Bernadin Bedford-Jones wife of the adventure story writer. The jury had awarded her $100000 in heart balm two weeks earlier.
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Chicago
William M. Holly
Mary Bernadin Bedford-Jones
Sunday Gazette Sport News Preview
Complete baseball box scores and track meet reports will be carried in the first Sunday Gazette edition. The paper goes on sale downtown this evening.
Judge Rice Refuses To Name Special Prosecutor In Oster Case
Sioux City AP Judge F H Rice declines to appoint a special prosecutor in the Kuhlmann removal action and bars transcript access for County Attorney Max Duckworth. Duckworth says delay to obtain witness evidence from the grand jury is likely. The court notes secrecy of grand jury proceedings and cites several attorneys refusing the appointment.
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Sioux City
Henry C. Kuhlmann
Rice
Jesse Marshall
Henry Shull
Grand Jury
Af Public Safety
Kuhlmann
Verne Marshall urges Judge Rice over Kuhlmann ouster case
In a Cedar Rapids telephone call around 11 20 a m today Verne Marshall of The Gazette pressed Judge Rice to oppose Duckworth prosecuting the Kuhlmann ouster in Woodbury County He warned Rice not to permit Duckworth and urged the board of supervisors to appoint another attorney for the case The exchange touched on newspaper promises of full cooperation and the involvement of a Weedbury County grand jury investigation last week.
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the Gazette
Rice
Duckworth
Kuhlmann
Marshall
Gasette
Weedbury
Judge Rice
Mr. Marshall
Cedar Rapids
F. H. Rice
Sioux City
Woodbury County
Heinle
Board of Supervisors
Brother of Bremer prosecutor accused in Kentucky killings
Martin Brown 29, a University of Kentucky graduate and brother of former Congressman John Y. Brown, was held on charges of robbery and murder in the killings of Sidney and Mrs Yates both 75. The elderly couple were burned to death in their farm home. Brown’s brother serves as special prosecutor in the Bremer kidnapping case in St. Paul.
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Martin Brown
University of Kentucky
John Y. Brown
Sidney Yates
Brown
St. Paul
Edward G. Bremer
Gazette exposes graft reach across Iowa in liquor probe
The Woodbury county grand jury report notes police and public officials face charges of lawlessness. The Gazette traces a wider pattern from Cedar Rapids to Sioux City, detailing perjury by Harold Cooper, raids on the Farmer plant, and a statewide scheme tied to protection money. The editor testifies before a legislative committee, revealing graft links and triggering a broader investigation.
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Maeless
Woodbury County
Gazette
Sioux City
Iowa Liquor Control, Commission
Cedar Rapids
J.leroy.farmer
Liquor, ‘Commission
Harold ‘Cooper
Commission
Cooper
Farmer
Annandle
Coopers
The
Wuete
Gasette
Legislative Committee
State Liquor Commission
Des Moines
Gagen
Joe Gagen
a.Polk County
Floyd Page
Legislative Investigating Committee
Associated Press
M. X. Geske
Sioux City-Des Moines
Geske
Attorney Page
Page
W. W. Stevens
Stevens Printing Company
Sioux
Woodbury County Court House
Woodbury
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