Gazette Defends Audit Drives Against Education Board
The Iowa Gazette urges newspapers to push for honest, efficient handling of taxpayer money at the state university. It cites audits exposing graft, payroll padding, and misused funds, defending journalism that uncovers state education board malfeasance and tax waste.
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Iowa
Commonwealth
State Board of Education
Capitol
Board of Education
State University
Cedar Rapids
da of Education
the Gazette
Jessup-Boyd- Baker-Dutcher-Gemmill Quintet
Stratosphere plane JU 49 built by Junkers eyes 300 mph dream
In Dessau Germany the JU 49 stratosphere plane from Junkers aims to climb seven to ten miles high and reach 300 miles an hour. Details released after secret tests describe hermetically sealed cabins and oxygen support as designers push toward Atlantic crossing in half a day.
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Germany
Auguste Piccard
Atlantic
Piccard
United Press
Junkers Works
Junkers
Lobbyists Go Unpaid by State Board Despite Assembly Sessions
A passage notes that the Des Moines legislature does not fund lobbyists for the board of education and that Secretary W. H. Gemmill is the most active, yet information is kept to a minimum while securing taxpayer money.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
W. H. Gemmill
Board of Education
Informa
Legislators Missed Higher University Budget Figure
The notice contrasts the last general assembly budget, stating the State university would see 2.3 million for 1930-31, while a confidential Jessup dynasty budget allegedly reaches 3.4 million, inflating costs to taxpayers.
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General Assembly
State University
Jessup Dynasty
Essupes
Figures of university attendance remain unseen
A terse note directs readers to turn to page 2 for exact student enrollment numbers, but the current section provides no clear tally. The article leaves the attendance figure as an undisclosed detail, prompting readers to continue browsing for the official count.
Evening Story Hour at Camp Good Health Delights Children
Camp Good Health hosts evening story hour around the big fireplace for children on the Public Health Nursing Bureau list as part of the health prep before school. Daytime activities include outdoor play, meals, naps, and cleanup duties with story and song hours concluding each day.
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Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Bureau
Dowager Queen Marie visits Carlsbad for Ileana baby baptism talks
The dowager Queen Marie of Roumania flew to Carlsbad on Saturday to confer with former King Alfonso of Spain about baptismal ceremonies for the former Princess Ileana s baby.
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Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Report summarizes traffic toll in Cedar Rapids with figures on accidents injuries and fatalities. The data shows 115 deaths this year across reported incidents and highlights the ongoing impact of road hazards on the city.
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Cedar Rapids
Rumors Swirl Over Will in Natchez Slaying Case
Natchez Mississippi rumor swirls about a new will for Jane Sarget Merrill the 72 year old recluse as investigators like Maurice O Neil return with fingerprints guns and bullets. Sheriff Roberts says the case is not closed amid leads linking a Chicago gunman George Pearls who was killed in Pine Bluff Ark and a confirmed weapon preliminarily identified by O Neil.
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Jane Sarget Merrill
South South
Duncan Minor
Seclu
Maurice O'Neil
New Orleans
C. P. Roberts
George Pearls
Chicago
Pearls
Pine Bluff
Ark
Oneil
Child Burned When Gasoline Stove In Home Flares Up
Firemen answered a blaze at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Greene 3348 Pioneer avenue SE Cedar Rapids at 8 37 p m Saturday when a defective gasoline stove flared. Mrs Greene covered the fire with a blanket averting danger. An eight-year-old child of the Greene family suffered a minor burn.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Greene
Pioneer Avenue
Cedar Rapids Boys Drum Corps Places Second in Chicago Contest
The Cedar Rapids Boys and Bugle corps earned second in the Chicago land Music festival at Soldiers' Field, trailing St Marys Training School of Des Plaines and surpassing Racine. Led by Jack Fromm, drum major Ben Carns, and Edwin Keyes, the 60 youths performed with military uniforms and intricate drills. They traveled Friday and returned Sunday.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Mary’s Corps
Racine
Soldiers’ Field
Jack Fromm
Ben Carns
Edwin Keyes
Thousands of Jobless Trek Back to Southwest Farms
Thousands of unemployed Americans are returning to farm life in Arkansas Texas Nebraska and Oklahoma as urban work dries up. Officials report 8000 to 10000 new homesteads in Arkansas since January 3 and widespread land use across state school lands in Oklahoma. Missouri officials note a clear rural shift even as land remains scarce and squatters occupy unused plots.
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Kansas City
Arkansas
Henry Major
State Bureau of Agricultural Economics
J. E. McDonald
Texas Agricultural Commissioner
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Oklahoma
State
School Land Department
A. L. Beckett
Commission
Beckett
Robert W. Brown
Missouri Farm Bureau Federation
Pees Agricultural College
Pilot and teacher die in Portland plane crash
A Gypsy Moth open cockpit plane crashed during takeoff at Stroudwater airport in Portland. McLellan, 24, a mail transport worker, and Grace West, 20, a Peary school teacher, were burned to death as the craft failed to gain altitude and erupted in flames.
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Grace West
Peary
McLellan
Tne West
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Earth
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Rally After Near Death Sinking
Edith Rockefeller McCormick faced a critical collapse Saturday night. Nurse Florence L. Everett reported the patient sinking rapidly, but a physician later stated she rallied and her condition returned to earlier levels.
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Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Florence L. Everett
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefellers Nurse Vigil As Dowager McCormick Fights Illness
In Chicago Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick lies in a Drake Hotel room as death nears. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his son arrive from Boston to stand at her bedside along with Mathilde Oser and other kin. Family ties, marriages, and social prominence surround the waning matriarch of the Rockefellers.
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Th Rockefeller McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Drake Hotel
Mrs. McCormick
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Mrs. Rockefeller
Max Oser
Worldlg
Eas
Harold F. McCormick
Harvester
Edith Rockefeller
Ganna Walska
Fowler McCormick
Amer
Muriel
Maj
Elisha Dyer Hubbard
Fifi Stillman Mck
Fowler
Fifi
James A. Stillman
Europe
Oshkosh Flyer Prepares for Sea Hop to Oslo
Clyde Lee of Oshkosh Wisconsin completes final prep for a 6 am Sunday liftoff from Harbor Grace to begin a non stop flight to Oslo Norway.
Roosevelt Returns To Albany After Democratic Speech
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt left Columbus at 7 50 pm Saturday on the way to Albany New York after formally opening the Democratic presidential campaign in Ohio with an address to the state Democratic convention.
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N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
James J. Walker
New York
White House
Roosevelt
New York City
W. Kingsland Macy
Samuel Seabury
Legislative
Walker
Columbus
Gov. Roosevelt
This Week's Weather Chicago Outlook
AP reports a weekly forecast for the upper and lower Mississippi valleys, predicting fair conditions with scattered showers mainly in northern areas.
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Photographers Record Hoover Life At Camp Ulster
Photographers captured President Hoover at his Rapidan river retreat as he fished, walked with Mrs. Hoover, and relaxed in rustic cabin life. About 36 newspapermen and photographers visited the 160 acre mountain estate to document weekend escapes from Washington's heat.
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Woman Killed As Interurban Wreck Injures 23 Near Kenosha
A Chicago woman is killed and 23 others injured when a North Shore electric train derails three miles south of Kenosha Wisconsin. The three car northbound train from Chicago to Milwaukee leaves the rails, overturns, and scatters passengers across an alfalfa field. Motorman Cr. Lichfield cannot explain the wreck and conductor H L Mead of Highland Park Illinois reports no clear reason.
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Smoot Renominated by Utah Republicans
The Utah Republican state convention renominated Senator Reed Smoot by acclamation after adopting a platform that states the party does not bind candidates to any definite course on modifying the prohibition amendment.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Reed Smoot
Republican Party
Nab Local Man For Forcing Cash From Monticello Couple
Lawrence Dunigan of 204 Second Avenue SW was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Condon on a warrant charging assault with intent to commit robbery. The case involves a July 4 incident at Jt Holmes’s Monticello home with two accomplices. McDow was later arrested at 6:45 p.m. on a desertion charge and jailed.
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Cedar Rapids
Lawrence Dunigan
Second Avenue
Condon
Jones County
Anamosa
Linn County
Dunigan
Jt Holmes
Holmes
Monticello
McDow
G. S. Lightner
Robbed As He Locks Barber Shop
John Benesh of 2109 Mt. Vernon avenue SE was robbed of a bag containing between 3 and 6 dollars while locking his barber shop at 508 Sixth Street SE about 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Two young men, described as well dressed, grabbed the bag and fled. no weapon was shown. One man wore a dark suit and light cap. the other wore a dark suit.
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Cedar Rapids
John Benesh
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Sixth Street
Benesh
U O P Chief Speech Responses Prominent In Ohio Coverage
Roosevelt's Ohio speech dominates campaign discourse with economic policy contrasts toward Hoover while prohibition and party division spark debate. Hurley and Mills prepare rebuttals as No action plans unfold ahead of November. Alfred E. Smith's role gains visibility following talks with Speaker Garner.
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Tydings
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Hoover
Walker
Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Garher
Editors View Roosevelt Speech Draws Mixed Reactions
Editorials from the New York Herald-Tribune and Washington Post judge Governor Roosevelt’s Columbus speech as a partisan clash. The Herald-Tribune calls it demagogic for accusing the administration of lining up with a stock market and misrepresenting conditions after the panic. The Post characterizes the speech as either a sophomoric outburst or an indictment of Herbert Hoover’s honor.
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United Press
Roosevelt
Columbus, O
New York Herald-Tribune
Columbus
Washington, D. C
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt Speech Praised for Broad National Appeal
The article notes that listeners and readers recognized the speech as building a broad base for Roosevelt’s national electorate. It mentions Columbus as the location of a commendation and emphasizes the call for voters to exercise informed judgment in November.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Columbus
Hoover misled by boom say critics in Kansas City
A Kansas City Journal Post column argues the speaker echoed repeat statements from the past two years and that millions of voters already believe. It contends Mr Hoover was fooled by the boom, as are leading financiers and industrialists.
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Kansas City Journal Post
Hoover
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