Suspect Gibson Captured After Iowa Slayings Inquiry
Federal and state officers nabbed Clair Ralph Gibson in Roseburg Oregon after a long search tied to the November 1935 Zrostick murder in Britt Iowa. He faced Minnesota bank robbery charges and was later to be returned to Minnesota for federal trial.
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Des Moines
State
Deral
James Zrostick
Ritt
Farmer
Roseburg
Ore
Clair Ralph
Gibson
Thomas J. ‘Runyon
Ichita
Kan
Garwher
Fort Madison
Beck
Milbank,d
Robert Markword
Gibson and Runyan
Butler
Minnesota
Oregon
Mountain
Violet
Popes
Ter
Firborine
Robert C. “Héndon
Hendon
Clair Moore
C. B. Drugan
Carl Vernon Drugan
Carl Dugan
Carpenter Savings Bank
Carpenter
Farmers State Bank
Merrill
Morningside State Bank
Sioux City
Oclwein
State Bank of
Captain Brooks Denies Crew Involvement In City of Baltimore Fire
Captain Charles O. Brooks told a federal inquiry that sabotage is unlikely as the City of Baltimore burned with three dead. He praised his crew’s loyalty despite labor troubles and described passengers leaping into rough seas. A missing oiler, Cy Hynie, was found drowned. another passenger, H Paige, was located in New York.
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Baltimore
Charles O. Brooks
Chesapeake
Federal Board of Inquiry
Brooks
Cy Haynié
Bayside Beach
H Paige
New York
Committee For
Dm Pegetithid Sec
Murphy Calls Visit With President A Purely Social Cruise
Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan arrived in Washington for a weekend cruise with President Roosevelt he called purely social and without political significance. He denied being pressed to help rewrite labor laws or being considered for the Supreme Court vacancy.
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Washington
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
White House
Naval Flying Field
Anacostia
Here
Potomac River
Victim Of Shooting Should Have Some Chance As Clay Pipe Victim Of Shooting Should Have Some Chance As Clay Pipe
A 1937 column by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks Paris court leniency for a woman fined for shooting a diplomat. He notes a three dollar and seventy-five cent fine versus eleven dollars and costs if she missed. Baer jokes about shooting galleries and lenient sentences for women who shoot boyfriends.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Clash on Haiho River As Japanese and French Exchange Fire
In Tientsin protesters report Japanese and French troops firing across the Haiho River as tensions rise after French authorities impose military rule. The French accuses Japanese units of machine gunning a detachment and severing link to the French garrison. The international bridge is closed to Japanese troops and French barricades hold the river crossings.
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Tientsin
Haiho River
Haiho
Stalen
Enib
Charles Leipssier
East Station
International
Temperature Reaches 90 Degrees in Cedar Rapids Saturday
Cedar Rapids reported a 90 degree high on Saturday amid heavy humidity and cloudy skies. The day cooled from 90 at 4 pm to 80 by 7 pm with gentle breezes, finally settling at 76 on Saturday night.
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Cedar Rapids
Holy Land Faces Financial Crisis After Investment Withdrawals
Palestine faces a financial crisis as foreign capital, especially US investments, pulled out amid tension over the partition plan. Real estate values fell, imports and exports stalled, and many foreign merchants prepared to leave. German Jews and American investors suffer losses in citrus and other assets as uncertainty grows.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
U. S
Palestine
Bethlehem
Nazareth
United States
Not meant to be without hurts a grieving mother writes
A lonely mother shares the loss of her child to a dreadful disease and her struggle with suicidal thoughts. She pleads for readers not to end their lives, emphasizing faith, endurance, and belief that life remains under God's care. The note hints at a continuation on page 7.
London film quota fight fuels British import clash
London authorities press a white paper plan to push American studios into higher cost British production. Films must cost at least 225000 dollars to produce with 100000 dollars for foreign rights. The compulsory British quota rises from 10 to 15 percent in 1939 and to 33 1 3 percent eventually, facing strong opposition.
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London
INS
Britain
Madrid Braces as Guns Boom Sleep-Worn Citizens Take Sedatives
Loyalist and insurgent guns roared on the Madrid front while weary residents, used to bombardments, sought sleep aids. Heavy artillery pounded University City as insurgents returned fire, yet citizens turned to sedatives to cope with the constant bombardments and fear.
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Madrid
INS
University City
Raiders Lose Lead as Waterloo Tops Cedar Rapids 4-3
In the Western League doubleheader opener at Davenport on Saturday night the Cedar Rapids Raiders fell 4-3 to Waterloo. Red Van Fleet took the loss, his season record dropping to 19-4. Waterloo then beat Sioux City 5-4.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids Raiders
Waterloo
Red van Fleet
Sioux City
Rising movie star scam tied to public fund theft
Rose Marie Gennarelli testified in Chicago that she siphoned 6200 from her employers to fund a "rising movie star" she dated, believing he was an assistant casting director with a $300 to $400 monthly trust income. Patrick J. Billings, named by her, was arrested after detectives found letters and a new car.
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Chicago
Rose Marie Gennarelli
State’s Attorney’s
Acc
Hollywood
Patrick J. Billings
Rose Marie
Billings
Securities Service Corp
Beardsley and Eaton Injured in Wyoming Auto Crash
Miss Martha Beardsley daughter of Dr and Mrs David E Beardsley Linden Drive SE and Miss Katharine Eaton of Pittsburgh were hurt Saturday afternoon in an auto accident near Pine Bluffs Wyoming Details say both sustained scalp lacerations and Dr Beardsley planned to travel to Pine Bluffs that evening Eaton had been visiting in the Beardsley home for two weeks and they planned a vacation at Hortons H F bar ranch near Buffalo Wyoming
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Martha Beardsley
David E. Beardsley
Linden Drive
Katharine Eaton
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Wyo
Pine Bluffs
Beardsley
Miss Eaton
Miss Beardsley
H. F. Bar Ranch
Goose Drowns in Bucket After Attempted Perch
Lester Miller of Lindsay California reported his full grown goose drowned in three inches of water. The bird was found head down in a bucket after apparently tumbling in while trying to perch on the rim and drink from the bucket.
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Lindsay, Calif
Lester Miller
Feud ends in church shooting and suicide in El Centro
In El Centro California Fred W Simmons 42 a chicken hatchery owner interrupted a Seventh Day Adventist service to denounce Dr O Lamar Webster for alleged intimacies with his wife He fired twice striking Dr Webster then killed himself The scene unfolded as services ended witness Charles Rhodes tried to intervene The incident left Mrs Simmons hysterical and the church quieted by tragedy
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EL Centro
Calif
Fred W. Simmons
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Dr. O
Lamar Webster
Robert W. Ware
Imperial‘ Valley
San‘ Diego
Simmons
Ware
Webster
Dr. Webster
Charles Rhodes
Mayoral Race in New York Could Influence Senate Seat
The New York mayoral race looms as a potential path to placing Alfred E. Smith in the U.S. Senate if Dr. Royal Copeland wins in November. The campaign tense with Tammany Hall and Republican splits leads to a Monday executive committee meeting to select Dooling’s successor and possible Copeland support with Lehman’s stance under scrutiny.
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New York “Sq
Alfred E. Smith
U. S. Senate
New York
Dr. Royal’ Ss. Copeland
Tammany
James J. Dooling
Smiths
Will
Tammany Executive “Committee
Christopher D. Sullivan
Stephen W. Ruddy
Timothy ‘Sullivan
Senator Copeland
Smith
Lehman
Copeland
White House
Supreme Court
Labor
Calloused hands win parole for eight from Brooklyn clash
AP reports eight of eleven men arraigned for disorderly conduct after a clash between 2,000 strike sympathizers and police at Robins Dry Dock Brooklyn were paroled for a hearing on August 10. The eight with calloused hands received parole while the others paid $5 bail.
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NEW York
Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company
Brooklyn
William
O’dwyer
Joliet Youth Dies In Bathtub Electrocution
Timothy Murphy Jr., 16, of Joliet, was electrocuted Saturday when a fan cord fell into his bathtub. His brother Robert, 18, found the body after forcing entry into the bathroom.
Weekly Forecast For Upper Mississippi And Missouri Valleys
Local showers Monday and Tuesday with additional showers later in the week. Cooler at the start, warmer midweek, and a cooling trend again toward the end of the period.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Doodlin and Daily Life in Cedar Rapids
A lively Cedar Rapids feature highlights doodling as common practice. It profiles locals who doodle, a baker’s kolaches at Sunday mornings, a deputy sheriff who stays popular, a film-spotting couple in a Warner Brothers project, and a farm woman teaching a horse circus act using her dog Brownie as a messenger and delivery helper.
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Poular
Roy Radebaueh
Hollywood
Cedar Rapids
Warner Brothers
Benton County
Elmer Becker
Pet
Southern Democrats Fails To Stop Roosevelt Senate Bill
A large Southern Democratic bloc in the Senate pressed to defeat President Roosevelt's hour-week measures but failed as the chamber passed the bill amid loud protests and pledges of renewed resistance in the House. Senators Connally Byrnes Harrison and George led the fight, while the gallery filled with a tense crowd and party strikes reflected a party shaken by the rebuke.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
South
Connally
Texas
Byrnes
South’ Carolina
Harrison
Mississippi
George
Georgia
Sais
Senate splits on wage bill amid amendments and inaction
Senators Gillette of Iowa and Herring aligned against the wage and hour bill while Caraway of Arkansas joined the anti side. The chamber debated farmer exemptions, rejected several Southern-backed proposals, approved a Wheeler Johnson child labor substitute, and defeated Copeland’s lynching offense move. The final tally favored the measure among 51 Democrats, 2 Republicans, 2 farmer laborists and 1 progressive, with 15 Democrats opposing. The measure was slated as unfinished business for Monday with fast passage anticipated.
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Rowans
Gillette
Iowa
Herring
Caraway
Arkansas
Senate
Wagner
Monnday
Copeland
New York
Black
Alabama
Means Transferred From Leavenworth to Federal Hospital
Gaston B Means, linked to the Lindbergh kidnapping case and the Mrs Edward McLean fraud, was moved Saturday from Leavenworth prison to a federal hospital for defectives in Springfield, Missouri. The reason for the transfer was not disclosed. physicians had treated him for gallstones since incarceration.
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Washington
Gaston B
Edward
McLean
Leavenworth
Federal Hospital
Springfield
Stephens College President Promotes Alumnae Marriage Rates
The Stephens College president in Columbia Missouri notes that students are taught poise personality and pulchritude with instruction from stylists and beauticians. He claims 87 percent of Stephens alumnae marry within five years of graduation and notes beauty shops in Cedar Rapids reportedly improve matrimonial prospects according to Gazette Want Ads.
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Stephens College
Columbia
Stephens
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Lillian Suchy Beauty Shop Ad Wins New Customers
The Gazette Want Ads helped Lillian Suchy of 116 16th Ave SW grow business. An ad brought in four new customers in one day citing satisfaction with advertising results. The croquignole wave Vita-Oil wave and end curl offered at 1.95 dollars and Vita tonic priced 95.00 are listed in the ad from 1921.
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Lillian Suchy Beauty Shop
Gazette
Lillian ‘Suchy
16Th Ave
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