Gazette reports bid to remove Iowa attorney general
The Cedar Rapids Gazette alleges state official connivance and wide scale gambling rackets led by Joe Gagen. It cites bribe offers to officials, slot machine schemes, and a major payoff at Carter Lake and Log Cabin, urging county grand juries to act across multiple Iowa counties.
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Des Moines
W. W. Stevens
Sioux City
State House
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Ness
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Carter Lake
the Gazette
Pottawattamie County
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Dubuque Officials Lead War on Slot Machines
The Gazette decries widespread slot machine gambling in Iowa and accuses county attorneys and sheriffs of lax enforcement. It calls for the attorney general to investigate malfeasance and potential oath violations by state officials, including Attorney General Edward L. O'Connor, amid calls for accountability from Gov. Clyde L. Herring's administration.
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Linn
Dubuque
John L. Duffy
John V. Giellis
T. J. Ryder
Munner
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Harold M. Corper
Iowa Liquor Commission
Neoady
Edward W. O'Connor
Towa
O’connor
Gazette
Executive Council
Clyde L. Herring
Edward L. O'Connor
Harold Cooper
Surty
Sorelfoom
Tee State Execcutie Council
Connor
Mount Vernon Students Strike Over Principal Reappointment
Three student groups and parents protested over Miss Opal Munger’s reappointment as principal. They urged board action to dismiss Superintendent George Anselm and to end practice teaching. A mass meeting was planned at city hall as Klimo refused to meet. About sixty of 181 students attended classes Friday.
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Mount Vernon
John Klimo
Opal Munger
George Anselm
Klimo
Jay Michols Dies At West Liberty
Jay Ira Nichols 80 longtime Muscatine County resident former state senator and representative died at his West Liberty home at 645 am Friday after two years of failing health. He gained early prominence supporting scientific farming and helped organize the Muscatine County Farm Bureau.
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Muscatine
Jay Ira Nichols
Muscatine County
West Liberty
Germany Starts Naval Building Submarines at Kiel
The Daily Telegraph and News Chronicle report Germany will lay down twelve submarines of 2,500 tons each, violating Versailles arms limits. Kiel’s submarine training school is to be reopened, signaling a broader naval buildup.
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London
Germany
Daily Telegraph
News Chronicle
Kiel
Reinstatement Planned for Opperman at Iowa City
Dean Robert E Rieners says Albert Opperman a Brooklyn New York freshman will be reinstated at the University of Iowa. Opperman was in Phi Beta Delta which was disbanded after charges of keeping a disorderly house. he was cleared of the charges.
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Iowa City
Slen
Robert E. Rieners
Albert Opperman
Brooklyn
N. Y
University of Iowa
Opperman
Phi Beta Delta
Hopkins Heads Progress Unit In Work Relief
President Roosevelt completed organizing the public works relief administration naming Harry L. Hopkins to head the new progress division while Hopkins remains administrator of the federal emergency relief. Rear Admiral C Peoples joins to run procurement and Col. Robert E Wood of Chicago joins as business advisory representative. A mayoral conference representative, likely Mayor LaGuardia, will join the setup.
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Public Works Relief Administration
New Progress Division
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief
C. Peoples
Robert E. Wood
Chicago
Business Advisory Committee
Business Advisory Committee A Representative of the Mayor’s Conference
Mayor LaGuardia
New York
New Setup
Roosevelt to form new works division for massive relief effort
President Roosevelt summoned seven top recovery officials to the White House to finalize a division of progress as the last step before launching the 11 billion unemployment fund. The plan calls for 7 million jobs and the end of direct relief by July 1, 1936, with a fireside radio talk to explain the program.
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White House
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DAI
Tugwell
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
New Works Allotment Board
Frank C. Walker
Division of
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Harry L. Hopkins
the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Joseph P. Kennedy
Securities Exchange Commission
Charles West
Ickes
Division of Progress
Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Frances Perkins Walker
Christian J. Peoples
Treasury
Daniel W. Bell
R Edward M. Markham
Army Engineer Corps
H H. Bennett
Elwood Mead
Government officials named in New Deal program roles
The list includes Robert Fechner as commissioner of reclamation, Thomas N Mae Donald as Civilian Conservation Corps head, Tugwell as rural resettlement director, F A Silcox of the forest service and Col Horatio B Hackett heading low cost urban housing.
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Missioner of Reclamation
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Thomas N. MaeDonald
Bureau of Public Works
Tugwell
F. A. Silcox
Federal Forest Service
Col
Horatio B. Hackett
Kenwood Bank to Pay Final Dividend in Cedar Rapids
Kenwood Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids seeks court authority to pay a final ten percent dividend to depositors, completing one hundred percent of claims. Judge H C Ring set May 3 for a hearing. O F Fryer is examiner in charge. Past dividends reached ninety percent about $90,000, with earlier payments totaling sixty-five percent in 1932 1933 and 1934.
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D. W. Bates
Kenwood Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
H.C Ring
O. F. Fryer
U S Naval Maneuvers Seen As Aimed At Japan
Tokio reports claim American naval exercises in the Pacific are targeted at Japan. The Nichi Nichi newspaper attributes the view to the Japanese navy and notes foreign office suspicion of U S disarmament pessimism driven by navy propaganda.
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TOKIO
Pacific
Japan
Nichi Nichi
Foreign Office
Chas Cuhel Sr Pioneer Farmer Dies At Swisher
Charles Cuhel Sr 73 a Johnson county pioneer died at his Swisher home Thursday at 2 30 p m after a heart attack Born in Linn County College Township he farmed in the area all his life except six years after retiring and moving to Swisher He is survived by Emma his wife three children a brother and a sister five grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 2 p m Sunday in the Barta chapel with Rev Francis Pokorny officiating Interment in Anderson cemetery Friends may call at the Barta chapel Saturday evening
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Charles Cuhel, Jr
Johnson County
Swisher
Linn County
College Township
Emma Cuhel
Emil Novak
Leonard Stepanek
Fairfax
Charles A. Cuhel
John Cuhel
Cedar Rapids
John Janko
Barta Chapel
Francis Pokorny
Anderson Cemetery
Two Men Slain and a Third Wounded at Hollywood Dinner
Hollywood police hunted three mysterious witnesses after a nightclub style dinner party at designer Paul Ivar Wharton’s apartment ended in murder. Wharton and his chauffeur were killed, a law professor shot, and a bystander committed suicide.
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Hollywood
Colony
California
N. C. McDermitt
Paul Ivar Wharton
Aimee Semple McPherson
Ivar
Aileen Pringle
Constance Bennett
Jean Harlow
Carmen Pantages Considine
Aftmee Semple McPherson
Paul Wharton
William M. Howard
Howard
Henry Bolte
Mrrs
W. A. Wharton
Plea Made to Spare Kidnapper's Life in Missouri
Miss Mary McElroy urged Governor Guy B Park to spare Walter H Mc Gee, the leader of the kidnap gang that abducted her for a $30,000 ransom nearly two years ago in Jefferson City Missouri.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Mary McElroy
Guy B. Park
Walter H. McGee
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