Six Die As U S Naval Flying Boat Crashes in San Diego
A U S Navy PBY 1 flying boat on a routine night practice flight crashed into San Diego bay killing six of eight aboard. Two crew members survived with minor injuries and shock. The crash site involved the Narwhal wreck and the damaged hull lay submerged as rescue operations continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Navy
San Diego Bay
W. C. Dey, Jr
F .L. Wallace
W. M. Freshour
R. Fall
R. M Purdy
H. B. Bryan
Hull
Naval Hospital
J. W. Blackman
Aviation
T. P. Dougherty
Honolulu
Canal Zone
Panama
Moby Dick
UAW Convention Sees Rising Support for Compromise
Milwaukee totals show sentiment growing for unity as CIO leaders warn employers would exploit a split. The second day of the UAW convention ends without irrevocable split. unity faction wins key points while progressives concede on several issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
United Automobile Workers of America
Committee For
Industrial Organization
CIO
John Brophy
Ora Gassaway
Tom Kennedy
Pennsylvania
UAW
Guild members seek ouster of two nonmembers at Wisconsin News
A motion to bar two non members of the American Newspaper Guild who work for Wisconsin News owned by William Randolph Hearst was ruled out of order by Homer Martin president of the United Auto Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee, Wis
American Newspaper Guild
Wisconsin News
William Randolph Hearst
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
Youth Killed By Live Wire Near Manchester
Robert Stephenson an 18 year old linesman for the Iowa Electric company was electrocuted when he touched a 220 volt wire atop a pole near the Will Hockaday home. He fell to the ground after his father and others lowered him, a physician could not revive him. He had been working since graduating from Manchester high school in June and is survived by his parents two brothers Rol and Walter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spreial
The
Gazette
Manchester
Robert Stephenson
Jack Stephenson
Iowa Electric Company
Will
Hebt Company
Manchester High School
Roland
Walter
Marengo
Wichita
Kan
Byron W. Mann
Grinnell
Calamus
Wilma Hayes
Leonard Hayes
Robert Swafford
Hazel
Morning Sun High School
Morning Sun
DeWitt
Swafford
Polo
Jil
Columbus Junction
Hafner
Columbus Chautauqua Park
N. J. Hafner
William Carpenter
Hubert Hafner
Lillian
Dorothy
Charles
Cranston
Russell Hafner
Lester Hafner
Harry and
Dale
Byron Hafner
Eugene
Joyce
Guy Hafner
Vernon
Max and
Louise
Earnest Lieberknecht
Letts
Russell Gilkey
Donald
Ray Swickard
Jean
Margaret
Kay
Nichols
Rice Shellabarker
Ruth
Mary
John
Billings
Mont
Volga City
Lydia Stone
Reinbeck
John Farrell
Charles City
Sacred Heart Church
Cregan
Mae Farrell
Michael Land
New Hampton High School
IC Stone
Ingh School
Mitchell, S
Edward Farrell
Farrell
Reimbeck
Chris Stephans
Decorah HS Vis
Lutherin Chun
Elise Glbertoen
Oscar Wo Bauder
Tharald
A’ Hoff
Helen Bauder
Carlson
Alden W Bauder
Gilbert Gilbertson
Camp Crook
Peter Johnson
Bauder
Millersburg
Rose Hall
F. C Schadt
Estella Myers
Equatorial Africa
Reynold Zuber
Schaffner
John Myers
Filis Withite
John Wood
Charles Stanard
Reysnold Zuber
Florenc Lacy
Cedar Rapids
Filmer Lacy
Floyd R Fans
Bad Weather Delays Arctic Search for Missing Flyers
Barrow Alaska and Coppermine Canada report search efforts for six missing Russian flyers are grounded by dense fog and bad weather. Airmen led by Jim Mattern await clearer skies after eleven days as Sir Hubert Wilkins' flying boat also faces delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrow
Alaska
Ins
Jimmy Mattern
Russia
Armen
Coppermine
Northwest Territory
Hubert Wilkins
Arctic
New York
Carnival workers injured in derailment at Des Moines fairgrounds
Three carnival employees suffered cuts and bruises when three flatcars carrying carnival apparatus derailed while being switched to the Des Moines fairgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Eastern Iowa man jailed for assault in railroad yard
Frank Reed a 40 year old Black railroad crew member was sentenced to five years at Anamosa reformatory after pleading guilty to assault with intent to maim for shooting Charles Coleman in a railroad bank. Reed was arrested in Sioux City and brought back for trial in district court before Judge A B Lovejoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Frank Reed
Anamosa Reformatory
A. B Lovejoy
Reed
Charles Coleman
Sioux City
Irwin Murder Trial Set For Sept 20
NEW YORK AP General Sessions Judge John J Freschi set Sept 20 for trial of Robert Irwin a 29 year old sculptor indicted in the Easter Sunday slayings of Veronica Gedeon model her mother Mrs Mary Gedeon and a toddler Frank Byrnes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J Freschi
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Mary Gedeon
Todger
Frank Byrnes
McReiver Faces Court On Counterfeit Money Charge
Mitchell McReiver age 29 appeared in court charged with possessing counterfeit money. His alibi claims he stole the money and believed it to be genuine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mitchell McReiver
Move Americans From War Zone Vision of Refugees and Battle
Witness describes a destroyer aiding a refugee convoy to sea as shells explode over Shanghai. Four shell holes pockmark the University of Shanghai buildings near the Whangpoo river, a campus run by American Baptists amid the bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
University of Shanghai
Whangpoo
Evacuation Plan Outlined for Americans in Shanghai
American emergency committee prepared to evacuate all U S citizens from the international settlement if Chinese troops retreat to barriers protected by U S Marines and volunteers. American Women's Club and foreign Y M C A named evacuation concentration points guarded by Marines and sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
American Emergency Committee
United States
Charles F. B. Price
Fourth Marines
Marine
American Women's Club
Foreign Y . C.A
Marine Command
Harry E Yarnell
Navy
Chinese crack guards wheel around Peiping front
Chinese advance guards roved the flanks southwest of Peiping in a rapid bid to encircle 30,000 Japanese troops trapped by rains. A major battle with up to a quarter million involved stretched along a 150 mile front as four directed offensives sought to push the Japanese from conquered northeast China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tientsin
Peiping
China
Yungting River
Fengtai
Wanpinghsien
Hoboes crown John the Baptist as monarch at Hoboday festivities
The Britt event crowned Harry C. Beetison known as John the Baptist during the seventh annual hobo day. Seventy four Weary Willies attended the slumgulion banquet and elected Beetison over Hairbreadth Harry, with Scoop Shovel Scotty anticipated to react after two years as king. Scotty faces six months in Cedar Rapids jail for a brick store window demolition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britt
Harry C. Becetison
John the Baptist
Beetison
Ashland
Neb
Harry Hobo
Scoop Shovel Scotty
King
Cedar Rapids
Harry
Aviation pioneer Ra chele Jacuzzi dies in Berkeley
Ra chele Jacuzzi, 61, aviation pioneer and credited with building the first cabin plane, died in Berkeley, California, Tuesday after a brief illness. He was a native of Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
INS
Rachele Jacuzzi
Italy
James Lynch Receives Life Sentence for Bank Robbery
James Lynch, 37, returned from Kansas City to Cedar Rapids and pled guilty to entering a bank with intent to rob. Judge H. C. Ring imposed an indeterminate life sentence at 2:30 p.m., Lynch to be sent to Fort Madison prison. Police long hunted Lynch after the $2,000 1933 Sixteenth Avenue SW bank robbery. Dee Aldrich had been jailed for life, later commuted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lynch
Cedar Rapids
Kansas City
Earl Stanley
Larry Condon
H. C. Ring
Lynch
Fort Madison
United State Bank
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Dee Aldrich
Long Island
N. Y
R. S. Milner
Frank Kanak
Bessie Zurka
W. E. “Bill
Collins
Liberty
Indiana
Honeymead Co Buys Cedar Rapids Grain In Grain and Oil Plant Move
Honeymead Co acquires Cedar Rapids Grain to add a 50 ton daily flaxseed extraction plant and 170000 bushel elevator. Cedar Rapids operation dates to 1908 and employs over a dozen workers. plant will process flaxseed into linseed oil and meal for seeds and paints. The Cedar Rapids facility, part of a growing nationwide Honeymead network, will store grain and support livestock feed production with expanded product lines. Sparrows once sold for up to a dollar each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allis-Chalmers Company
Milwaukee Company
Bonotto
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Grain Company
Gerrit Goedhart
Hugo Lensch
A. M. Andreas
Honeymead
Cedar Rapids Grain
Minneapolis
U. S
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
Jocal Concern
Honeymead Products Company
R. P
Mesquakie Mills
United States
Lisbon
Omaha
Neb
Clinton
DeKalb, Ill
RP. Andreas
G. A. Andreas
D. O. Andreas
QO. S. Andreas
Howard Thompson
DeKalb
O. J
GOP leaders see Roosevelt slipping in national race
Seventeen Republican state chairmen met in Washington with John D. M. Hamilton to plot strategies aimed at gains in 1934 elections. They debated Roosevelt’s waning popularity and pledged grass roots work as they listed attending chairs from Virginia to Massachusetts and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
John D. M. Hamilton
G.O.P
White House
Congress
Hamilton
C. R. Ahalt
Pierce Brereton
Ohio
James F. Thomson
Mich
F. G Todd
Kan
Sinclair Weeks
Mass
W. M. Parker
Minn
Grover W. Dalton
Lawrence Cobb
Calif
John Tyrel
Karpis Barker Gang Suspect Arrested in Bremer Kidnapping
Harold Rinecke announced the arrest of Anthony Joseph Amersbach 40 in Indianapolis on charges of accessory after the fact in the 200000 ransom kidnapping of Edward G Bremer of St Paul and harboring Karpis gang members He was ordered moved to Toledo Ohio after a hearing before Commissioner Fae W Patrick Amersbach formerly worked at a Cleveland gambling house and was described as a remnant of the Karpis Barker gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Harold H. Reinecke
Department of Justice
Anthony Joseph Amersbach
Reinecke
Amersbach
Toledo
Ohio
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Karpis
Fae W. Patrick
United States
Cleveland
Probe of Vigilante Groups Likely by Senate Panel
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee likely will probe vigilante groups including the Black Legion as a final act in its inquiry into labor rights violations. Sen La Follette said he would announce final action after returning from Europe in late September. The first witness expected is Dayton Dean, a confessed killer for the Black Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Black Legion
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
la Follette
Wisconsin
Europe
Tua Follette
Dayton Dean
Man Not Fired At On Road Near Independence
State Agent Jim McDonnell concluded the windshield hole in Cedar Rapids man George Gamble case was not from a bullet. Gamble, driving on highway 11 south of Independence, believed two men shot at him as he headed to Oelwein for an electrical repair job. Authorities noted the hole was jagged, not bullet shaped, and sped away from the scene. gamble had been warned years earlier after aiding his uncle in a bootlegger arrest. Local directories show no listing for a George Gamble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Independence
George Gamble
Cedar Rapids
Jim McDonnell
Gamble
Highway 11
Oelwein
Iowa
Former Wife of Phone Head Killed
Florence P. Temple, 44, former wife of Walter S. Gifford head of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, died in a fall from her eleventh floor New York apartment. Her marriage to Gifford ended in Reno in 1929. she later married John Temple, an electrical engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Florence P. Temple
Walter 5. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Hornpan Fe
Gifford
Reno
Constable Taken For Ride Abductor Warrant Issued
Constable John Taylor chose survival over capture after a man named George Crouch abducted him in Cedar Rapids. Crouch, sought to settle a $100 rent claim, drove toward Center Point road then north on highway 11 before Taylor escaped injury. A kidnapping warrant was issued by Justice Watsabaugh. Crouch’s location was unknown, Delaware plates on the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Taylor
George Crouch
Crouch
Center Point
Highway
W. T. Watsabaugh
Delaware
Hearings Scheduled on Pope McGill Farm Bill Across West
Senator Pope announced a west coast hearing tour for the Pope McGill farm bill. The schedule lists Spokane Boise Grand Forks St Paul Des Moines Topeka Dodge City Springfield with dates in late September and October. The western subcommittee on corn and wheat includes Senator McGill and Senator Frazier. a separate southern panel will hear tobacco rice and cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James J. Pope
Idaho
West
Senate Agriculture
Spokane
Wash
Boise
Grand Forks
N. D
St. Paul
Des Moines
Topeka
Kan
Dodge City
Springfield
Pope
George McGill
Kansas
Lynn Frazier
North Dakota
South
Forest Fire Death Toll Reaches 14 in Wyoming
Rangers battling Wyoming's largest forest fire report 14 dead as the blaze spreads over more than 2000 acres in the Shoshone National Forest 35 miles west of Cody. Forest Supervisor John Sieker says the fire is dying down rapidly and blames shifting winds for trapping crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cody
Wyo
INS
Wyoming
Shoshone National Forest
Here
John Sieker
Britain Protests Bombing Of Ship Noemijulia
Great Britain protested to Spanish nationalist authorities over an aerial attack on the British merchantman Noemijulia, bombed by two airplanes off the Catalan coast of Spain on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Catalan
Spain
Monk Named Acting City Engineer in Iowa City
Iowa City officials named Harold J. Monk acting city engineer to replace Allen Wallen who has not reported for duty for a week. If Wallen fails to respond by Friday, his office will be declared vacant and a permanent appointment made by Mayor Myron J. Walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Harold J. Monk
Allen Wallen
Myron J. Walker
Wallen
PWA Grants Named for Iowa Schools Millersburg Atalissa
Washington AP reports the Public Works Administration advised Senator Clyde L. Herring of PWA grants to Iowa projects. Millersburg school receives 15300 and Atalissa school addition 9450.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Works Administration
Clyde L. Herring
PWA
Iowa
Millersburg
Atalissa
Judge holds Lu cier Buehler in high bond as murder lure claim rises
Assistant State's Attorney Frank Donahue said Lucille Buehler alias Grace Snyder aided in the Burns case, calling her the likely lure in the Grant Park slaying of Robert Francis Burns alias Herbert F. Lee. Judge Michael L. McKinley set a 100000 bond for a Friday habeas hearing while police search for other accomplices. Burns was identified as Herbert F. Lee by a Detroit living partner who said Lee abandoned a wife and son years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank Donahue
Lucille Buehler
Grace Snyder
Grant Park
Robert Francis Burns
Herbert F. Lee
Donahue
Michael L. McKinley
Miss Buehler
McKinley
Burns
Harry Posner
Detroit
Theresa Weichbrodt
Lee
Posner
Waukon FFA Members Tour Cedar Rapids Plants
Fifteen members of the Waukon high school Future Farmers of America from the Little Switzerland chapter toured Cedar Rapids plants including Quaker Oats Hutchinson Ice Cream and The Gazette plant. Accompanied by instructor Milo Pitcher the group camped at Riverside Park and planned a visit to Ana masa reformatory. this marked their first trip of this nature recorded after one year of local FFA activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Future Farmers of America
Little Switzerland
Waukon High School
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Hutchinson
Gazette
Penick and Ford, Ltd., Inc
Milo Pitcher
Riverside Park
Anamasa
Waukon
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AUCRT
Iowa News
Delaware Schoolmates Association
Table Rock
Fish Hatcher
Axel Larson
Earlville
E. J. Paris
Amy Benda
Buckingham
Geneseo
Geneseo Consolidated
Tracr
Orange Township
Fred Lockard
Ross Bell
R M Gunn
J E. Raudebaugh
Margaret McElhinney
Helen Thompson
Marjorie Tow
Urbana
Wheeler
Vinton
Fred Wheeler
Ames
Ellis Wheeler
Walter Lockhart
la Porte City
N F Drilling
Waterloo
Clifford Brannaman
George Wheeler
Jessie Spencer
Raymond
Margaret Lockhart
Donald Hausner
Brandon
George Knapp
Charley Gallaher
A. H. Moritz
Vera Moritz
Oelwe
Ralph
N. J. Slater
Buchanan County
Buffalo Township
Vern Moritz
Oolwen
Ralph Slater
N. J Slater
Rosencrans
Melvin Rosencrans
Rowley
John R. Fillmore
R. Rosencrans
Floyd Rosencrans
Ed Pilcher
Roy Petro
S. T. Seysler
Winthrop
Thomas
Patrick
Cornelius Farrell
Independence Park
John O'Connor
Harry Callan
Coggon
Frances Reidy
Anna N Farrell
John H. Farrell
T. R Clancy
Chelsea
Frank Matula
W. F. Panek
St Joseph's Catholic Church
Mr Matula
Moravia
Texas
Wenel Matula
Mary Baloun
Oxford
Frank J Kupka
Frank Kessner
Joseph Ulch
James Zeman
Grace Phelps
Muscating
Center Pent Tipton
Parnell
Dellet
Morse
Waiken
Austin
Central City
Kalona
Johnstown
Davenport
West Liberty
West Branch Walford
W. GL. Musser
Methodist Church
Irwin
Chochow
Liangshiang
Mentoukow
Kangchia
Marco Polo Bridge
Yungting
Liangjiang
Hoboes
AIR Pioneer
Honeymead CO
O. P
Nab Karpis
Bremer
Britain
Monk
Atalissa Pwa
Sherwin‘williams CO
Third Avenue SE
Raymond John Conley
Marie Amelia Weers
Anamosa
Darrell Huff
Frances Nele’ Son
HW. G. Fussell
Opt
Okinow
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