Louis Bleriot Dies At 64 Aviation Pioneer
Paris reports Louis Bleriot the French aviator who first crossed the English Channel has died at 64. He achieved the 23.5 mile Channel hop in 38 minutes in 1909 and later built a pioneering career influencing early flight. Family at bedside as funeral plans are announced.
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Paris
Louis Bleriot
English Channel
Bleriot
Calais
France
Dover
England
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
North Atlantic
August Opens With Heat Wave In Cedar Rapids
The weatherman notes a hot start to August in Cedar Rapids with a 96 degree high at 4 pm and 94 degrees at 1 pm under clear skies. By 7 pm the temperature had fallen to 84 degrees and the midnight reading was 65.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Refining Views on Charity and Life Lessons from Dr Newton
A 1938 collection of aphorisms discusses charity as action beyond creed, the limits of knowledge, the value of artists, and the balance of being too good or too smart. Quotes from Mussolini Emerson Baldwin and John Gunther frame wealth, age, and purpose.
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Arnold Bennett
Mussolini
Ludwig
Emerson
Stanley Baldwin
John Gunther
Germany
Austria
Two Youthful Killers Sentenced to Death in Chicago
Three gunmen involved in the murder of Policeman Jerome McCauley last May faced verdicts. Frank Korczykowski and Andrew Bogacki were sentenced to death by electric chair, while Paul Jenket received a 199 year prison term after denying firing shots. The trio had earlier stabbed two bailiffs while attempting to escape.
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Chicago
Jerome McCauley
Paul Jenket
McCauley
Frank “Bones” Korczykowski
Andrew Bogacki
Criminal Court
Waterloo Walks Off Cedar Rapids In Ninth
Berger delivered a two out bases loaded single in the ninth to give Waterloo a 5 4 victory over Cedar Rapids Raiders Saturday night at Waterloo The loss was attributed to Red War Fleet Meanwhile Omaha beat Davenport 7 2 and Sioux City defeated Des Moines 9 3 with line scores showing the victors in each game
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Waterloo
Cedar Rapids Raiders
Red War Fleet
Webb
Cedar Rapids
Don King
Omaha
Davenport
Sioux City
Des Moines
van Fieet
Sharp clash over ship mail contracts in new act
Washington reports a sharp conflict looms as the government plans to share annual ocean mail contracts ranging from 30 million to 4.5 million under the merchant marine act. The 43 existing contracts must end within a year and hearings suggest a court challenge by steamship lines unless compensation is provided.
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Washington
Maritime Authority
Post Office Department
Roosevelt Demands More Relief Workers On PWA Projects
President Roosevelt told reporters aboard his train he would demand a higher share of relief workers on PWA projects after inspecting flood control and relief efforts in Vermont and New Hampshire. He cited 51 percent relief labor on Vermont projects and 35 percent on New Hampshire projects as unacceptable before approving further funding. He planned to rely more on WPA lists and conducted auto inspections of flood control dams in New England ahead of a Springfield Mass conference.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Vermont
New Hampshire
PWA
WPA
Hanover
N. H
Springfield
Mass
New England
Youth in Grant Pleads Guilty to Shirley Temple Extortion Letter
Sterling W. Powell, 16, admitted writing a letter threatening Shirley Temple’s life unless her father paid 25 000 dollars. He pled guilty to extortion before a U S commissioner and was bound over to a federal grand jury term beginning June 8 1937. Powell was released on 1 000 bond with Sheriff Howard Bechtel escorting him home to Perkins county.
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Neb
Sterling W. Powell
Shirley Temple
Powell
U. S
A. F. Streitz
North Platte
Streitz
Federal District Court
Howard Bechtel
Perkins County
Powell Woodshed
George F. Temple
Shirley
Temples
Temple
Acs
Bechtel
Carl F. Powell
Drug heir held on charge of seizing his two children
Cornelius Peter Van Schaack, 27, heir to a drug fortune, was arrested in Wilmette on a charge of abducting his estranged wife’s two children. He drove to the home with the kids while police searched for him after a prior complaint. Police Sergt. Herman Vance took him into custody.
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Chicago
Cornelius Peter van Schaack
Herman Vance
Wilmette
van Schaack
Sergt. Vance
Negro Jailed After Car Strikes Pole and Injures Boy
James Johnson a 39 year old Negro of 1411 Third street NW landed in jail Saturday afternoon when he lost control of his automobile at Twelfth avenue and Fourth street SE and crashed into a tele phone pole. His car struck Philip Dvorak 13 of 815 Division street SE the boy was taken to Mercy hospital where he was found not to be seriously injured. Police said Johnson was driving west on Twelfth avenue and swerved to the left side of the street and alcohol was involved. A G Ampey 44 of 1016 Eighth street SE who rode with Johnson was not held.
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Third Street NW
Twelfth Avenue
Fourth Street
Philip Dvorak
Division Street SE
Mercy Hospital
Johnson
A. G. Ampey
Eighth Street
Soviet Arctic Flyer Levanevsky to Fly Los Angeles to Moscow
The Soviet embassy said Sigismund A. Levanevsky will depart Los Angeles for Moscow on Sunday heading via Alaska and the Bering Strait along the Siberian Arctic coast. He will fly a Vultee single engine plane with a Wright Cyclone motor and aims for no record.
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Washington
Sigismund A. Levanevsky
Los Angeles
Moscow
Levanevsky
Alaska
Bering Strait
Siberian Arctic
Bayonne Girl Confesses Hatchet Slaying of Mother
Gladys MacKnight, 17, confessed to killing her mother with a hatchet while her boyfriend, Donald Wightman, 18, helped restrain the woman. The couple, remanded to Hudson County jail to face murder charges, allegedly plotted the crime after a quarrel over their affair.
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Bayonne
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Donald Wightman
Helen MacKnight
Hudson County
Jersey City
Emily Hassmiller
Woman Shoots Self Fatally In Here Saturday Evening
Mrs. Ida Serene Blakey, 21, of 1402 N Street SW, shot herself at about 6 30 p m Saturday at her home. Deputy Coroner R E Munden ruled death a self inflicted act and said no inquest needed. Blakey left notes for her husband Clinton and relatives indicating intention to die. The Blakeys had quarrelled Friday night and she was shipping belongings to his parents when he returned. He found her dying after receiving a call to come and retrieve a note. The couple lived with Mrs Blakey's uncle Charles Perkins. Perkins was away. The revolver used belonged to Perkins. Blakey is survived by her mother Mrs Flora Atchesom of Cincinnati. Body taken to Johnson chapel for funeral arrangements.
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N Street
R. E. Munden
Blakey
Flora Atchesom
Cincinnati
Johnson Chapel
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1936
A Cedar Rapids toll report lists accidents 315 injuries 201 deaths 0. The tally covers the year 1936 with no separate totals for fatalities beyond the stated count.
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Cedar Rapids
Movie Stars Shun Publicity In Astor Case
Hollywood figures tremble as Mary Astor fights for custody of her four year old daughter Marilyn Thorpe. Six male stars named in diary excerpts face subpoenas over alleged pre divorce conduct while morals clauses threaten future contracts. Names include George Kaufman John Barrymore and a mysterious Mr Goodrich. testimony hinges on evidence from the Astor household diary and witness accounts.
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INS
Hollywood
Mary Astor
Miss Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Joseph Anderson
Thorpe
Marilyn Thorpe
Goodwin
J. Knight
Holly
Sinclair Prompts Landon On Labor Policy Elaboration
In Pasadena California UP Sinclair former EPIC leader asks Kansas Governor Alf Landon Republican presidential hopeful to expand his labor stance. The telegram says Landon must pledge government action to protect labor organizers or his reply to Norman Thomas will be futile.
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Calif
Upton Sinclair
EPIC
California
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Sinclair
Landon
Norman Thomas
Weather snapshot for Chicago and plains region
The week of Aug 3 to 8 shows limited precipitation across the Chicago area and upper Mississippi valley with cooler conditions early. Temperatures trend near normal elsewhere in the northern plains, with little rainfall indicated through the period.
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Chicago
Pualack
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Farm editor begins new interview series in Gazette
The Cedar Rapids Gazette debuts Out on the Acres with Frank Thomson, a Cedar county farmer near Mechanicsville, as the first interview. The Sunday paper outlines features across pages 1 to 8 including gardening, sports results, society pages, and local culture.
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Ray Anderson
Sunday Gazette
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Mechanicsville
Frank Thomson
Cedar County
Marion
Terhune
William A. Brady
Josephine Culbertson
World Wheat Supply Drops to 1927 Low Amid Drought Claim
Washington reports the smallest world wheat supply since 1927 as forecasts show global crops under last year by 20 million bushels and Russia and China excluded. US production above 1935 levels, but world carryover down, with aridity threatening reserves. Chicago markets jump to a record $1.05 a bushel while drought lists grow in Missouri and Nebraska.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Bureau
Russia
China
Chicago
Missouri
Two Firemen Die In Downtown Greenville Blast
In Greenville Texas two firefighters died after an explosion rocked a downtown building. A crowd watched as they attempted to break through a barred window to escape the blaze.
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Greenville
Tex
France Reserves Right to Intervene in Spain Civil War
Paris reports France reserves liberty of action to aid the Madrid radical government if a non intervention accord fails. Foreign Minister Delbos said Paris seeks neutrality declarations from Britain and Italy before broader steps. The Blum cabinet backs an international non intervention pledge to avert wider European war.
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Universal Service
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Delbos
Chamber of Deputies
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Foreign Relations Commission
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Morocco
Leon Blum
Britain
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Russia
Mussolini
Hitler
Moscow
Blum
Plane Missing Over Sea With Eight Passengers Reported
A Jersey airliner with eight passengers and two crew members disappeared Friday night. Five women were aboard. Jersey Airways asked French authorities to help, RAF planes joined the search, and local vessels widened patrols.
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Jersey
England
Jersey Airways
Royal Air Force
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