Chamber survey on unemployment opens annual convention
The United States Chamber of Commerce begins its annual convention in Washington with a survey of unemployment and reemployment prospects. Business seeks payroll growth and buying power, while Roosevelt pressures industry to fulfill four year promises. Hoover urges open public records to fight graft.
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Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
T. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
D.A.R
Senators Demand Inquiry Into Tugwell Resettlement Unit
Senator Barbour objects to the Tugwell resettlement administration calling for a sweeping senate inquiry. He cites 27 Washington buildings and 13,045 employees paid from relief funds, urging disclosure of expenditures and secrecy. Senator Vandenberg supports probing high payments and urges publication of AAA benefits over $10,000.
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Washington
INS
Resettlement Administration
Barbour
New Jersey
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Congress
Tugwell
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
Agriculture
Wallace
Women junior high leaders ousted for new high school plan
Under rules imposed by educational administrators four longtime women heads of junior high schools are to be made assistant principals to fit the new junior-senior high system. The Gazette noted assurances given earlier by the superintendent about the reorganized high schools.
Rainfall and rising temperatures mark Cedar Rapids day
Increased humidity followed Monday night rains bringing Cedar Rapids total rainfall to .43 inch since Monday. Temperatures climbed from 54 at 7 am to 61 at 10 am and 73 at 2:45 pm, with the day ending near 55 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Proverbs From The Oxford Dictionary Of English Wisdom
Dr Newton questions the bleak edge of many proverbs and asks why there are few cheerful sayings. He surveys samples about marriage and courage, noting lasting bite yet seeking happier observations from popular wisdom.
Recover Liquor And Nab 3 Suspects In Illinois Hijacking
Officers waited in a Pekin barn for three hijackers and recovered 175 cases of whisky. Arrests were made for Arthur English and Sam Hargrave of Peoria and Aural Armstrong of Medon Tennessee. The liquor was stolen from a truck en route from Moberly Missouri near Golden Illinois.
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Pekin
Ill
Arthur English
Sam Hargrave
Peoria
Aural Armstrong
Medon
Tenn
Moberly
Golden
III
Weiss Arrested in Wendel Kidnapping Case
Brooklyn district attorney announces the arrest of Harry Weiss, one of five indicted in the Wendel kidnapping. Weiss, charged with four others, was seized in an Ohio town about eighty miles from Cleveland and will be brought to New York. His wife allegedly guided officers to the hideout.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
William F. X. Geoghan
Harry Weiss
Wendel
Ohio
Geoghan
Weiss
New York
Paul H. Wendel
Bruno Hauptmann
Cleveland
Zioncheck Wins License To Wed Texas Woman
Washington congressman Marion A. Zioncheck obtained a marriage license to wed Ruby Louise Nix of Texarkana Texas. Nix listed her age and residence as Texarkana Texas amid ongoing reports of Zioncheck’s traffic and other minor legal issues.
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Washington
INS
Marion A. Zioncheck
Washington State
Tuesday
Ruby Louise Nix
Texarkana
King Fuad I Dies After Sudden Rally in Egypt
King Fuad I of Egypt died at 1 00 p m after a brief rally from a throat infection and a prior coma. Heir is 16 year old Crown Prince Farouk with a regency to follow. Foreign dignitaries face attendance issues at funeral under Moslem burial rules.
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Cairo
INS
Fuad I
Egypt
Fuad
Ali Maher Pasha
Farouk
England
Mohamed Ali
Tewfik Nessim Pasha
Mahamed Fakhry Pasha
Paris
King Fuad
Italy
Tommy
Ahmed Fuad
Britain
Alexandria
Libya
Ethiopia
Ismail
Prince Ahmed Fuad
Gizeh
Turin
Sultan Husein
Prince Fuad
Two States Elect Delegates To Party Conventions Today
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts hold primaries to choose delegates for Republican and Democratic national conventions. Roosevelt nears pledged delegations in both states while unpledged Republican delegates appear likely. Voters express preference among presidential candidates, making the results highly watched.
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United Press
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
House Advances Tax Bill Amid Fast Floor Action
Washington (ULP) The new tax bill survived its first test vote as Democrats defeated an amendment offering payroll tax credits. The House moved quickly, approving revisions and setting up a Tuesday roll call followed by final passage likely after a Wednesday vote.
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Washington
ULP
House
Harry Sauthoff
Wis
Gardner R. Withrow
May Shut Down On Baseball Broadcasts
Chicago news reports Commissioner Kenesaw M Landis ordered all major and minor league clubs to halt new radio contracts for game broadcasts. Complaints from minor groups say broadcasting hurts attendance.
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Chicago
INS
Kenesaw M. Landis
Stockholders Seek Receiver in Waterloo Cedar Falls Line Case
Forty five preferred stockholders of the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad filed for a receiver in Linn county district court to aid in pursuing a $465000 claim. They seek a receiver to take over records linked to dealings among the Cass family and Cedar Valley Construction, alleging their control prior to 1923. A hearing is set for May 18.
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Waterloo, Cedar Falls
Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern
Cedar Valley Railway Construction Company
H. C. Ring
C. D. Cass
J. F. Cass
Louis S. Cass
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Northern
Casses
Cedar Valley Construction Company
Electric Rail Company
C. F
Roper Outlines Ten Point Plan to Create Jobs
Secretary Roper at the Chamber of Commerce convention proposed a ten point program for business to absorb more workers. He urged firms to survey needs, cut costs passed to consumers, study technological unemployment, accelerate capital goods replacement, boost home building, expand foreign trade, fund public works, balance production and wages, promote state and local fiscal responsibility, and strengthen government business cooperation.
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Washington
Roper
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
White House
Commerce
Harper Sibley
Chamber
Breeding Case Sparks Dispute Over Governor Herring Action
Montgomery County Attorney Lester Ors and District Judge Mantz criticized Gov Herring for his commuting of Arch Breeding death sentence. Herring cited fair hearings while officials argued the move reflects on their conduct and the court's involvement. Breeding, once to be hanged, had his sentence commuted and removed from Fort Madison death row.
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RED Oak
Montgomery County
Lester L. Orsborn
H. L. Mantz
Audubon
Clyde L. Herring
Arch Breed
Osborn
Mantz
Herring
Breeding
State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Orsborn
Renovation Overhaul for Washington Parks Draws Fire
Alice Longworth notes Washington DC parks are being renovated with a $1 million New Deal plan. Lawns are dug up and lilac bushes removed for geometric concrete walks and formal plantings under PWA supervision, provoking resident protests and charges of bureaucratic overreach.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
PWA Federal Project
Suspects Nabbed in Slaying of Officer Rivers
Three men described as tough babies were captured after a chase by state and local police and questioned in the slaying of Indianapolis Police Sergeant Richard Rivers Monday night. Two cars believed used by the gunmen were found burned near Hastings, about 15 miles west of Indianapolis, with a coal oil can nearby. Rivers was shot when he and two officers went to question three men at a physician's home about a wounded companion.
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Huntington, Ind
Indianapolis
Richard Rivers
U. S. Road 24
Here
Rivers
National Foreign Trade Week Set for May Observation
The commerce department announced the second annual National Foreign Trade Week to be observed from May 17 through May 23. The declaration highlights U S efforts to expand international commerce and promote trade.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Refugees and wounded flood Addis Ababa as war advances
Report from Addis Ababa says refugees and Ethiopian warriors arrive at a rate of 10,000 daily. Camps outside the capital house gassed and wounded soldiers while a large Italian motor column advances from the north toward Addis Ababa.
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Addis Ababa
Fred Russell
Seattle
Dessye
Asfaou Wasan
Haile Selassie
Italy
Wallaga
Michio
Dedjasmatch
Makonnen
British
Red Cross
Derba Birhan
Wealthy Spaghetti Manufacturer Kills Daughter And Self
In Oak Park Illinois the 42 year old spaghetti maker Pitro Viviano shot his 20 year old daughter Grace in the hallway and then killed himself in the living room. Police found the bodies at the family home with the revolver still at his feet.
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Chicago
INS
Pitro Viviano
Grace
Viviano
Oak Park
One Killed and Ten Hurt In Interurban Crash Near Springfield
Two passenger interurbans of the Cincinnati and Lake Erie company collided head on on a curve nine miles north of Springfield. One person was killed and at least ten injured. Motorman Charles Patterson of Springfield, operator of the northbound car, died in the crash.
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Springfield, O
Cincinnati and Lake Erie Company
Here
Charles Patterson
Springfield
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Cedar Rapids News
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Chamber of Commerce
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Lewis H. Brown
Johns-Manville Corp
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