Murder by bathtub method shocks New York police
John Fiorenza a paroled convict and upholsterer helper confessed to the April 10 killing of Nancy Evans Titterton after detectives traced the crime to him via binding twine found on the body. Fifty-five detectives pursued leads through manufacturers in three states before locating the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Fiorenza
Nancy Evans Titterton
Lewis J. Valentine
Fiorenza
Valentine
Titterton
Beekman Place
East River
Theodore Kruger
Leaders and Bosses in a Machine Age
A 1936 essay contrasts leaders who guide with bosses who command, warning that excessive regimentation harms growth. It argues true leaders foster self leadership and collaboration, while tyrannical authority stunts development in children and followers. The piece references Sancho Panza, Edna Millay, and Jesus to illustrate authority vs. guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sancho Panza
Edna Millay
Dr. Cog
Teader
Jesus
Princess Royal and Son Stricken by Measles at Harewood
London based report says the Princess Royal and her younger son the Hon Gerald Lascelles have contracted measles at Harewood House. A bulletin notes the illness follows its usual course and the princess will spend her 39th birthday in a darkened room. Viscount Lascelles was exposed but not yet infected.
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London
INS
Harewood House
Princess Royal
Edward VIII
Gerald Lascelles
Earl of Harewood
Viscount Lascelles
Federal and state officers capture two bandits after gun battle
In a multi hour raid at a Hickman Mills tourist camp near Kansas City Missouri officers wounded and captured Clarence Sparger a former gangster linked to a Neosho bank robbery His wife and John Langan were arrested Also a federal agent was lightly wounded in the clash which ended with Sparger crawling from the cabin and surrendering to authorities
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Kansas City
Clarence Sparger
Trish O’malley
Neosho
Sparger
John Langan
Wyandotte County
Kansas
Hickman Mills
Department of Justice
W. H. Smith
Col. B. M. Casteel
Fay Fullbright
Jackson County
Sharon, Pa. Burned Business District Worth Million
Fire in Sharon's business district caused about $1 million in damage. Fire departments from five nearby cities fought the blaze, reducing it to control at 4 a.m. Three buildings were destroyed and several stores wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon, Pa
Sharon
House Passes Bills to Build Up Air Force Strength
The House backed three measures to expand the Army Air Corps from 1,800 to 4,000 planes in five years and create an Army Air Reserve Training Corps. It also allows calling 1,350 reserve flyers to active duty for three years, as D A R members praised President Roosevelt’s pledge to adequate national defense. Admiral Standley urged $4 million for two new battleships, while other defense bills seek large peacetime Army Navy appropriations and increased coastal and Pacific defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
National Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Congress
House
William H. Standley
Naval Operations
Military Affairs Committee
Air Corps
United States
Army Air Program
Army Air Corps
Army Air Reserve Training Corps
War Department
Army
John J. McSwain
House Military Affairs Committee
William N. Rogers
N. H
Senate
Hawaiian
Navy
House Appropriations Committee
Daughters of the American Revolution
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Cedar Rapids Weather Sees 32 Degree Morning
Cedar Rapids records show a 32 degree low at 6 am after light rain Monday. Temperatures rose to 42 at 10 am and 49 by 2:30 pm. Monday's high reached 78 at 12:30 pm with 60 in the evening and 41 at midnight. Rainfall totaled one tenth of an inch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers
Wreck on Union Pacific line kills two and injures Iowa City woman
A loose iron plate at a grade crossing caused a coach to derail on the Union Pacific branch north of Topeka. Two people were killed Fred W. Paul aged 79 from Beatrice Nebraska and Mrs Elmer Peterson 58 of Onaga Kansas. Six were injured including Jean Bothwell a missionary from India residing in Iowa City.
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Topeka
Kan
Union Pacific
Here
H. L. Clark
Fred W. Paul
Beatrice
Neb
Elmer Peterson
Onaga
Jean Bothwell
India
Iowa City
Lobby Probers May Try Again To Get 10000 For Counsel
The Senate lobby committee discussed renewing efforts to win House approval for a 10000 special appropriation to hire special counsel. Senator Sherman Minton suggested an amendment to a pending 75000 House request to cover payrolls for special and select committees. The House had approved the measure, but Chairman Hugo Black, absent, had the vote rescinded and the bill set on the Senate calendar for future action.
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Washington
LLP
Senate Lobby Committee
House
Sherman Minton
Ind
Senate
Hugo L. Black
Ala
Lobby
Chamber
German Paper Foresees Austrian Monarchy Restore
Berlin based Der Angriff claims documentary evidence of an Austrian government plan to stage a putsch to restore Archduke Otto of Hapsburg to the throne. The paper says Otto will arrive by private airplane in May at the Hapsburg Stynian estate.
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Berlin
INS
der Angriff
Archduke Otto of
Hapsburg
Otto
Hapsburg Stynian Estate
Holdoway City Man Faces Theft and Crash Charge
Leonard Anderson nineteen of 421 Dubuque Street Iowa City pled not guilty to a motor theft charge in district court Tuesday afternoon. Bond set at 2500 dollars. Officers turned him in after catching him near a wrecked car on highway 161 twelve miles north of Iowa City. The crashed vehicle was stolen from Leslie Cooper Nu Enamel Co. 204 First Avenue East.
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Leonard Anderson
Dubuque Street
Iowa City
H. C. Ring
Anderson
Dolezal
Schnoebelen
Highway 161
Leslie Cooper
Nu-Enamel Company
First Avenue E
New Tax Bill Introduced in Lower House
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the Roosevelt budget tax bill by 15 to 8 amid party lines. The 249 page measure seeks major corporate tax reform, yields estimated at 700 to 800 million dollars, and includes an 80 percent windfall tax recapturing disputed processing taxes. The Senate planned hearings as the bill moves toward potential passage within eight days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Ways and Means
Supreme Court
AAA
Samuel D. Hill
Wash
Board approves adding two principals to ten high schools
The board of education voted to add two high school principals, giving one for each of the four six year schools with junior high principals as assistants. The change starts next fall, with principal assignments at McKinley Wilson Franklin Roosevelt.
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Board of Education
Arthur C. Deamer
McKinley
Wilson
M. S. Hallman
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Fred Kluss
Roosevelt
Hallman
Slashes His Throat But May Recover
A. E. Wicher, 70, of 106 L avenue NW, was found Monday at 4 10 p m near his home with his throat slashed. He was taken to Mercy hospital in fair condition where he remained unconscious from blood loss. Relatives, despondent over finances, discovered him after missing about 2 p m. Police and deputy coroner Dr R E Munden reported he slit his throat with a razor.
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A. E. Wicher
L Avenue NW
Mercy Hospital
Wicher
Linn County
R. E. Munden
The Big Four serial starts in The Gazette
Agatha Christie pens a new mystery to begin next Friday in The Cedar Rapids Gazette. The Big Four promises rapid tense action from chapter one and will run as a continuing serial with further announcements to follow.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Agatha Christie
The
Gazette
Man Arrested After Stealing Auto Crankcases
Thaddeus Miller twenty one? no nineteen, of 112 A venue NW, was arrested at 12 15 a m Tuesday by Patrolman How ard Walsh who found him pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with old auto crankcases Miller admitted taking the crankcases from a south end junk yard to make extra money because his relief allowance would not cover expenses He was held for investigation.
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Thaddeus Miller
112 Avenue NW
Howard Walsh
Miller
South End
Walsh
Conservation as New Deal abracadabra from Alice Longworth
Alice Longworth criticizes the New Deal for using conservation as a catchall to cloak government spending. She argues true conservation lies in balancing the budget and questions cabinet reshaping proposals.
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Washington, D. C
New Deal
Ickes
Department of the Interior
Department of Conservation
Alice Longworth
Senate approves flood control bill for lower Mississippi
Washington report says the Senate passed the 272 million Overton bill to fund flood control projects in the lower Mississippi valley covering Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas and sent it to the House for action.
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Washington (Lp
Senate
House
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Expert Acquainted With Old Mine To Help Rescue Crews
Harvey Higgins, 62, a WPA worker from Concord Massachusetts, worked the Moose River gold mine thirty years ago and knows its labyrinth. He heads by train to Nova Scotia then Shubenacadie to Moose River to aid in the two trapped miners' rescue, arriving Tuesday night.
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Concord
Mass
INS
Moose River
Harvey Higgins
Nova Scotia
Higgins
WPA
Shubenacadie
Steiwer Chosen as GOP National Convention Keynoter
Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon was unanimously selected to keynote the upcoming Republican national convention. National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher announced the choice after the arrangements committee meeting, noting several names were considered before the committee's unanimity.
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Cleveland
INS
Frederick Steiner
Oregon
Henry P. Fletcher
Barkley to Keynote. Robinson to Chair Democratic Meet
The Democratic national convention arrangements committee plans Barkley of Kentucky as keynote speaker and Robinson of Arkansas as permanent chairman. Postmaster General Farley, the national chairman, will preside at the Philadelphia meeting this Saturday.
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Washington
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
Committee On Arrangements
Philadelphia
Farley
Penick And Ford Reports Quarterly Profit In New York
Penick and Ford, Ltd., Inc. reported a net profit of 338 280 for the quarter ended March 31 in New York City. The earnings per share were 1 05, compared with 271 318 or 73 cents in the prior year March quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penick and Ford, Ltd., Inc
New York City
City council to study exam questions for bus operators
Amalga mated Association of Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees protested to Seattle city council that questions like How many spots on a pair of dice and How long is a piece of string are perfectly silly for civil service examiners. The council promised to consider the matter.
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Seattle
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Motor Coach Employee of America
Civil Service Commission
Rescue plane fails to aid doomed Moose River miners
Ontario air force plane carried radium direction finding gear for a rescue attempt at a Moose River gold mine. Dr. Richards offered the equipment, but Dr. Gallie reported rescue workers could dig in the right direction, making the radium set likely unnecessary.
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Toronto
Ontario
Moose River
G. E. Richards
Toronto General Hospital
D. E. Robertson
J. Gordon Gallie
Hepburn
Rescue crews battle rock to reach two men in Moose River mine
In Moose River Nova Scotia rescuers halted within feet of two men trapped nine days in the Moose River gold mine as a new tunnel was cut. Dr D E Robertson faces possible pneumonia while awaiting rescue and his wife is summoned to the mine head as hopes rise for a breakthrough within six hours.
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Moose River
N. S
Michael Dwyer
D. E. Robertson
Toronto
Robertson
Dwyer
Daughter Prays For Mine Victim
In Waukesha Wisconsin on Tuesday a 15 year old girl Ethel Scadding prayed for her father Charles Alfred Scadding timekeeper at the Moose River mine in Nova Scotia where two men were trapped after a cavern collapse rescue crews worked through rock as the area waited for word on his survival.
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Waukesha
Wis
Moose River
N. S
Ethel Scadding
Charles Alfred Scadding
Ethel
West Coast Dock Strike Settlement Reaches Agreement
In San Francisco longshoremen vote to return to work following a settlement with employers. The San Francisco local of the International Longshoremen's Association ratified an agreement by a federal board, ending a stoppage that halted Golden Gate shipping after the 1934 strike.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
International Longshoremen’s Association
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Hayes
Cenoma Owen
Louise Randolph
Jackson
Isabelle Kratz
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Evelyn Barnett
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