May Drop Maytag NLRB Case
James J Matles of New York City CIO organizer arrived in Des Moines to join the Maytag strike. William Sentner, national union vice president, met with him and announced plans to hold a meeting with the local union’s executive committee at 4 pm Sunday.
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Des Moines
James J Matles
New York City
CIO Union
Maytag Washing Machine Company
William Sentner
National Union
Mattes
Kraschel Downplays Maytag Strike Probe as Minor
Governor Nelson G Kraschel said the three month old Maytag strike over a 10 percent wage cut ended with a separate agreement. He called the probe of unlawful strike activities a minor matter and unrelated to the settlement reached Thursday.
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Harlan
INS
Nelson G. Kraschel
Maytag Co
Union aims to push Maytag talks toward board conclusion
Union leader Matles outlined moves after dismissals of twelve Maytag workers. He said he would amend NLRB charges through Thurlow Smoot and seek effective bargaining at the plant. Sentner would discuss the amendment with Smoot. Smoot would forward charges to Minneapolis for approval and potential prosecution.
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E. W. Ford
George Umbrell
A. H Taylor
Thurlow Smoot
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Matles
Labor Board
Maytag
Sentner
Smoot
Maytag plant sitdown protest under CIO review
Newton report says Maytag will investigate a nine day occupation of the washing machine plant in June as CIO leaders study the action. Details continued on Page 2 Col. 8.
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Newton
Maytag Company
CIO
Mercury Reaches 87 in Cedar Rapids After Cool Night
A Cedar Rapids record shows temperatures rising to 87 degrees by 1:45 p.m. Saturday amid a cool night. The day opened with a low of 70 and afternoon showers cooled the area before a late-evening rise to 72 at midnight.
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Mercury
Cedar Rapids
China Expects Jap Offensive To Get Hankow
Chinese military authorities said Hankow would fall and the war would continue. Observers expect major Yangtze operations centered at Nanchang as Chinese mass troops to defend territory and force Japan to spend men and munitions.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Yangtze River
Nanchang
Helen Hayes Plans To Adopt Boy Baby
Charles MacArthur announced that Helen Hayes will adopt a blue eyed boy next week after she returns home from a trip. The child, Mary, is described as the actor’s daughter born under a contract clause once used by Hayes in 1929 to permit absence for the birth.
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New York
Mary
Charles MacArthur
Helen Hayes
MacArthur
Miss Hayes
Ohio faces probe over alleged political influence on pensions
The Social Security board announced an investigation into Ohio to determine if Governor Martin L. Davey and H. J. Berrodin acted to sway pension recipients. They allegedly appealed to voters and included campaign letters with pension checks, despite prior warnings eight months earlier.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
H. J. Berrodin
States Division of Aid For the
Davey
Berrodin
Mrs. Eliza L. Fletcher Dies at 89 in Cedar Rapids
Eliza L. Fletcher age 89 widow of James S. Fletcher died at her Cedar Rapids home after a lingering illness. Born November 4 1848 in Cleveland she lived in Estherville Iowa and Hollywood California before moving here two years ago. Surviving daughter Mrs Edward F Winslow and granddaughters Mary and Ann Winslow. Funeral 4 p m Sunday Turner chapel with Rev William M Evans officiating burial later. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Cedar Rapids
Eliza L. Fletcher
James S. Fletcher
Commonwealth Apartments
Cleveland
Estherville
Hollywood
Calif
Edward F. Winslow
Mary
Ann Winslow
Fletcher
West Hollywood Presbyterian Church
Hollywood Women’s Club
Turner Chapel
William M. Evans
Russia strikes anew in undeclared Russo Japanese border war
Soviet forces press a multi front push along the Siberian frontier and near Manchukuo with tanks and aircraft. Reports say 110 tanks and numerous airplanes supported infantry as battles flare at Changkufeng Shaotsoaping and Mankien shang near the Korean border.
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TOKIO
INS
Vassily Blucher
Red Army of the East
Siberian
Moscow
Kazan
Koje
Shikai
Korea
War Office
Manchukuo
Mankienshang
Suifenho
Changkufeng
Shaotsoaping Hills
Belon Changkufeng
Shaotsoaping Hill
Russia
Japan
Shuijiufeng Hill
Shaotsoaping
Warner Oland Dies in Stockholm at 57
Warner Oland noted for Charlie Chan fame died in Stockholm at 3 pm on Saturday after pneumonia illness. He was born October 3, 1880 in Umea Sweden and moved to the United States at age 13. The Swedish born actor appeared in Theda Bara's Jewels of Madonna and Don Q as villains in several silent films.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Warner Oland
Oland
Umea
United States
Theda Bara
Madonna
Douglas Fairbanks
Don Q
Pearl White
Paris
Auto Train Crash Kills Fort Calhoun Man Near Blair
Fritz Genke 28 of Fort Calhoun Neb died and James Sailors 30 was in critical condition after their auto struck a freight train at a grade crossing near Blair on Friday night.
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Blair, Neb
INS
Fritz Genke
Fort Calhoun
Neb
James Sailors
Blair
County Attorney Says Shafer Barta Shooting Closed For Now
County Attorney G. K Thompson states the Shafer Barta shooting case remains closed unless new evidence or light emerges. He notes no evidence links another shooter, cites Shafer’s fingerprints on the .45, and explains why no statement from Frank Monahan was taken at the station.
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Gazette
Shafer-Barta
G. K Thompson
Thompson
Earl Stanley
Cedar Rapids
Coroner’s Office
Bert Shafer
Shafer
Vernon Barta
Fifth Avenue SE
Barta
Frank Monahan
Monahan
Des Moines
Income Taxers target Lee Tracy over late sleeping claim
Washington police tiptoed through William Lee Tracy’s income tax return, disallowing 161 dollars in tips to studio staff as business expenses while he slept late. The bureau insisted the costs were personal and not deductible, noting Tracy’s claimed residence in Trucksville and work in Hollywood.
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Washington
William Lee Tracy
Tracy
Internal Revenue
Board of Tax Appeals
Bureau
Trucksville
Hollywood
Calif
William
Baer Proposes Foot Parade for Drunk Drivers
In a column by Arthur Bugs Baer, he critiques local option laws and suggests canceling a drunk driver’s license and forcing them to walk. He argues the duration of intoxication cannot be proven by passage of a pint and mocks “drunken drivers” in dry states.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Industrial League Picnic Program at Ellis Park
The Allied Industrial Civic League event at Ellis Park on Sunday features a parade of floats and decorated bicycles at 2 pm, Y M C A drum and bugle corps, puppet show, archery events, horseshoe races, Diamondball matches, Dempsy Jones entertainment, a Penick and Ford concert, and an industrial variety show with teams and acts.
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Allied Industrial Civic League
Ellis Park
Waltonian Archery Club
Hall Manufacturing Company
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Penick and Ford
Bupane Gas Company
Towa Electric Light and Power Company
la Plant- Choate Manufacturing Company
Dempsy Jones Entertainment
Rose Garden
Penick and Ford Band
Corrigan Rejects Cash Schemes After Ocean Flight
Douglas Corrigan spurned offers of film deals speaking tours and endorsements as he waited for a steady flying job. He revealed he would only endorse products he used and paused to have an chest X ray after being jostled at Friday’s parade while awaiting news that his five day suspension had ended.
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New York
Douglas Corrigan
Corrigan
Dublin
Peekskill
N. Y
National Guard
Dublin Society of New York
Hotel Astor
Dennis Mulligan
Bureau of Air Commerce
Washington
Broadway
Willard Ellsworth
F. H. LaGuardia
Atlantic Ocean
Los Angeles
Ose
Roosevelt Stakes Barkley Victory in Kentucky Primary
President Roosevelt in Panama signals focus on Kentucky’s Democratic Senate race between Sen. Alben W. Barkley and Gov. A B Chandler. Roosevelt has publicly urged Barkley, framing the contest as a test of the New Deal and his leadership, with a Barkley win seen as continued New Deal support and potential 1940 implications. Chandler’s victory would spell repudiation of Roosevelt’s New Deal and party leadership.
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Roosevelt
Panama
Kentucky
Alben
Washington
INS
Barkley
Chandler
Senate
Senator Bark
See Gangland Court Ordering Execution of Chicago Bandits
Two men, Bruno Switaz aged 35 and Leo Muszinski 32, were shot to death as a gunman opened fire from another car in broad daylight outside Alderman Joseph Rostenkow’s home. A witness reported one to two accomplices. Police consider underworld executions tied to gamblers and bookies rackets and note multiple related unsolved slayings in the area.
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Chicago
Bruno Switaz
Leo Muszinski
Muszinski
Joseph Rostenkow
Cornelius Collins
Underworld
Greater
Benny Bartellini
Chicago Heights
Escaped Convict Samuel Kuzzy Returns to Camp
Samuel Kuzzy 34, an escaped convict from a 75 year term, has returned to the Oakdale trusty work camp. He was sentenced at Fort Madison under the name Robert Hickman for three Cedar Rapids robberies in December 1930, after an earlier eight year Missouri penitentiary term.
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Cedar Raunds News
Samuel Kuzzy
Oakdale
State Bureau of Investigation
Kuzzy
Fort Madison
Robert Hickman
Cedar Rapids
Missouri
Maine sheriff linked to doctor murder case testimony
In South Paris Maine Francis M Carroll, former deputy sheriff, faces murder charges in the Dr. Littlefield case. Sheriff Fernando F Francis testified about a cigarette lighter found near the crime scene and Carroll's possession of a gun last October. Paul Dwyer 19, the doctor's killer's alibi, testified.
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South
Paris
Dwyer
Carroll
Francis
Paul Dwyer
Jessie Dwyer
Kentucky Senate Battle Tests New Deal Loyalty in Bloody Primary
In Louisville a fierce Barkley Chandler primary pits Senator Alben Barkley backed by Roosevelt against Governor A. B Chandler with national stakes. A fatal shooting in Breathitt County inflamed tensions as tabulators prepare to count votes after 4 p.m. local time, with results not expected until Monday.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Alben W. Barkley
A. B Chandler
Barkley
Roosevelt
Senate
Barkley-Chandler
Jackson
Breathitt
Lee Combs
Lewis Combs
Chandler
Walter Deaton
It's Canning Time Again Produce Wants To Cash In
E J Duffy of 1106 Oakland Ave NE reports selling crab apples tomatoes beans and cabbage to buyers who answered a Gazette Want Ad on August 4th. He notes 25 people called and invites readers to place ads to sell Whitney crabs tomatoes cabbage and green beans using the Gazette Want Ads dial.
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E. J. Duffy
Oakland Ave
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