Four Month Vigil Begins In Little America Antarctica
In Little America near the Bay of Whales Byrd's Antarctic party prepares for a four month polar night. Fifty six men fortify a self contained village with snow hangars a machine shop a meteorology station a dairy and libraries while the underground outpost drifts are buried.
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Little America
Antarctica
Mackay
Polar
Bay of Whales
South Polar
Athat
Ross Sea
Piccard Predicts Moon Trip By Light Rays
In Nancy France AP Auguste Piccard the Swiss physicist predicts a future moon journey using light rays from disintegrated lead. He argues rockets are impractical for interplanetary travel due to heavy explosive loads and suggests matter dematerialization could enable planetary trips though he does not detail the method.
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Piccard
Moon
Nancy
France
Auguste Piccard
Can Flowers Listen and Other Garden Notes
Philosopher Albert J. Nock says a few people can make flowers and fruits thrive by talking to them while tending them. Try it on roses and onions this spring, but keep it quiet lest neighbors gossip. The most effective talk is a Want Ad in The Gazette selling a used Eureka vacuum cleaner for cash.
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Albert J. Nock
the Gazette
Rising wings from beast to angel in a four panel allegory
The piece describes an artist’s four panel painting tracing humanity’s path from predatory animal to higher life with wings. It notes early violence, then toolmaking, then war, and finally flight as a metaphor for spiritual ascent, invoking Plato and other thinkers about wings of mind and soul.
Bank Guaranty Limit May Be Made
Washington UDP Saturday night report on a federal deposit insurance dispute. Chairman Henry Steagall proposes a full guarantee of deposits up to 10 000 after July 1 and allows state nonmember banks to obtain fund benefits. Hearings to start this week. Senate already approved a 2500 extension and a compromise target around 5000 is hoped.
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Washington
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Henry B. Steagall
Ala
House Banking and Currency Committee
Steagall
House
Senate
Livestock Breeders Charge Attempt To Pack Chicago Parley
A five member committee of the American National Livestock Association charged that others than real cattlemen tried to pack a Chicago meeting of cattlemen called by Secretary Wallace to discuss a production control plan. The session faced protests over a proposed processing tax on beef. The committee said producers and feeders ultimately controlled the meeting.
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Chicago
American National Livestock Association
Wallace
Committee of Five
Tugwell frames farm policy as action over talk
Dr Rexford G Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture, told the New York bankers association that the Roosevelt administration moves from talk to action on farming surplus and adjustment. He warned past secretaries favored persuasion but did not halt overproduction, calling the agricultural adjustment act an economic bill of rights that 3 million farmers support without complaint.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Rexford G. Tugwell
New York State Bankers Association
Roosevelt
Hyde
Tugwell
Farley Predicts Savings In Future Air Mail Contracts
Postmaster General James A. Farley during a Saturday dedication of a new federal building predicted annual savings exceeding 10 million dollars in future air mail contracts. He noted air mail cost about 20 million in 1932 before the current administration and said service would be improved for less than half that amount.
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ST. Louis
James A. Farley
United States
Farley
Roosevelt signals limits on silver plan and policy shifts
President Roosevelt indicated he would refuse to back a 30 percent money base on silver without global agreement. The article notes actions on home loan bonds, Silver holders disclosure, wheat acreage cuts, and various economic and foreign policy moves including a push for Indian self government and disarmament outlook.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Harriman
Tenn
Senate
Morgenthau
Smith
Farm Administration
Senate Banking
New York
United States Supreme Court
Efforts Made To Black Bank Deposit Agreements
Long exposure outlines attempts to liquidate two Cedar Rapids banks amid frozen deposits. It details Reconstrucion Finance Corporation audits starting May 1933, plan for reorganizing into a new bank, and fifty percent payout to depositors. It notes stockholder contributions and ongoing depositor communication.
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Senate
Cedar Rapids
Job
American Trust
Cedar Rapids Savings Banks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Injunction Sought in Cleveland Auto Strike Against UAW
In Cleveland an injunction was requested to restrain the United Automobile Workers from interfering with 3,000 members of the Fisher Body Company union amid a major auto industry strike. Negotiations were planned for Monday under the National Labor Board as other disputes moved toward settlement.
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Fisher Body Company
Cleveland
United Automobile Workers’ Federal
National Labor Board
Alabama
Appalachian
Fisher Body
Chevrolet-Fisher
Milwaukee
Alice Barrows Hosts Party For Lee Simonson
In New York Alice Barrows hosts a party for Lee Simonson, the Theater Guild director, with guests including Hildegarde Kneeland Mary Taylor David Cushman Coyle and Lawrence Todd. The gathering, held in a blue studio above a garage, follows a prior incident involving Dr. William A. Wirt.
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Washington
Alice ‘Barrows
William A. Wirt
Miss Barrows
Lee Simonson
Theater Guild
Kerensky
Robert Bruere
Dr. Wirt
Virginia
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1934
A Cedar Rapids toll report lists 103 accidents 127 injuries and no deaths for the year 1934. The figures summarize crash counts and injuries within the city limits.
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Cedar Rapids
Recovery Hopes Rise as Tariff Trade Policy Considered
Washington reports a renewed push for Roosevelt era executive power to negotiate reciprocal trade deals. The administration plans tariff measures to spur domestic recovery while ensuring protections for affected industries and avoiding hindering new business ventures. Uncertainty remains on how to balance these goals with securities act constraints.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Trade boom may shift focus from farm curtailment
The administration seeks to use tariff passage to boost home business and growth in industry and agriculture. If the recovery rides the boost, some parts of the recovery program not meeting expectations could be scrapped or suspended. Henry A. Wallace has agreed farm curtailment could end as American trade booms.
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Henry A. Wallace
Watson King Held for Auto Theft After Bridge Collision
Police pursued Orland C. King and Jim Watson after they rammed a bridge rail on Edgewood road NW in a damaged 1933 Chevrolet owned by E. Stark. Both men, linked to larceny of a motor vehicle, were found hiding near a yard. Stark learned his car was stolen from investigators. King and Watson had prior records, including terms for motor vehicle and burglary offenses.
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Cedar 'Rapids
Orland C. King
Fifth Street
Jim Watson
J Street
Edgewood Road
E. ’J. Stark
First Street
Watson
King
Ahring
Wilson
Universal Crusher Raises Hourly Wages in Cedar Rapids Plant
Wages for hourly workers at Universal Crusher company rose more than fifteen percent effective Saturday. General manager W. L. Harrison said the boost restores pay to former levels the company calls the highest paid in the industry. No change in weekly hours.
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Cedar Rapids
Universal Crusher Company
W. L. Harrison
Search Cave In Hunt For June Robles
A sequence of tips and events places the June Robles kidnapping suspects near Colossal Cave as deputies and miners search caverns by night. The six year old heiress’s parents and grandfather await ransom notes while authorities pursue two armed men seen with the girl near Fort Huachuca. Apache trackers join the hunt as squads fan out from Tucson chasing a Texas stolen car tied to the case.
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Tucson
Ariz
June Robles
Colossal Cave
Fernando Robles
Bernabe Robles
Fort Huachuca
Clyde Barrow
Uvalde
Tex
Arizona
Loomis Brothers to Erect Warehouse No 10 on Plant Site
The building will stand on the old plant house site between warehouses 2 and 3. It measures 130 by 80 feet and will use reinforced concrete and brick. Loomis Brothers will hire local labor with expected broad work for trades. Preliminary work starts next week. completion in about four months. Iowa Steel and Iron Works previously secured the steel contract.
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Loomis Brothers
Willc
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Italy King urges building defense forces for peace
King Victor Emmanuel in the throne address to the twenty ninth legislature urged stronger armed forces as the best guarantee of peace. He said Italy should unite around the Savoy house and pursue a balanced budget, disciplined economy, and constitutional changes. The speech was met with strong approval from senators and deputies.
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Rome
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Twenty-Ninth Legislative Assembly
Savoy
Europe
Prince Humbert
Mussolini
Elena
Boa
Wasi
Weather outlook for upper Mississippi valley and plains
Week of April 29 to May 5 shows scattered showers early, then cooler unsettled weather later. Moderate temperatures expected in the northern and central Great Plains and lower Missouri valleys.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
President backs Wheeler Howard bill for tribal self government
President Roosevelt addressed Senate and House Indian affairs chairmen, publicly endorsing the Wheeler Howard bill to extend fundamental rights of political liberty and local self government to the Indians.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Senate
House Indian’ Affairs
Bremer Kidnapping Boss Faces Trial in Minnesota
Chicago reports say John J. McLaughlin, named by prosecutors as the brains of a $200000 Bremer kidnapping ring, was jailed in St Paul on $100000 bond. His son Jack was seized at the board of trade as federal agents probe missing Bremer funds and hidden papers found in his hat.
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Son
Nelson
Dillinger Aid
Chicago
John J. McLaughlin
Bremer
St. Paul
Jack
Board of Trade
Department of Justice
MecLaughin
Edward Bremer
Rosenbaum Grain Company
Robbery and homicide tied to noted gang figures
Fragmentary report notes a mail robbery at a club involving Deenene Lebensberger and partner with alleged gang members Saat Sakae and McLaughlin. Lebensberger reportedly shot himself hours before a warrant was issued. Winkler had been slain weeks earlier in front of Commissioner Weber's beer depot.
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Deenene
Lebensberger
Peta Blichone
Gus
Winkler
Himself
McLaughlin
Charles ‘H. Weber
Nelson Linked to Little Bohemia Shootings in Wisconsin
Reports say authorities closed on the Little Bohemia resort near Spider Lake after a volley of bullets wounded Mercer and others and killed Carter, Baum, and a third man. Folowing the siege, evidence points to George Baby Face Nelson as the gunman.
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Paul
Minnesota
George
Nelson
Nelaon
Eral Arenta
Mercer
Agen
Little Bohemia
Carter, Baum
Koerner
Spider Lake
George“Baby Face
Wisconsin
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Clarence Murphy
Elkader
Frank Comfort
Dee Moines
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Comfort
R.F.C
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Alice Barrows
Tarife
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Universal Crusher
Loomis Bros
Quaker
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