Mysterious Galesburg death ends as self strangulation
Gale Davieson 28 of Galesburg was found dead in a tree dressed in his mother's clothes and women's items. Doctors ruled strangulation and suicide after a postmortem. An inquest was expected to determine the official verdict as neighbors described a secret fascination with women's attire.
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Galesburg, Ill
INS
Gale Davieson
Galesburg
E. H. Seifert
Andrew H. Mailer
Davieson
Robert Funderburg
Myron Hanbaugh
Maud Davieson
Juanita Ward
Davies
Surgeon Dies Before Operation Son Carries It Out
In Memphis Tennessee Dr. William T. Black Jr. carried out his father's planned operation after the senior Black collapsed from a heart attack in the operating room. The younger surgeon performed the procedure successfully and on schedule despite his dramatic start.
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Son
Memphis, Tenn
William T. Black, Jr
William T. Black
Eva Tanguay Near Death Report From Doctor
Hollywood dispatch states Eva Tanguay the famed I dont care girl from the Ziegfeld Follies and vaudeville was reported near death Saturday night by her physician Dr Wendell W rr.
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Hollywood
Eva Tanguay
Wendell W.rr
Leading U S scientists urge defense of democracy
A manifesto signed by 1 284 scientists from 167 institutions condemns Nazi and fascist doctrines and calls educators to defend democracy and intellectual freedom. Spokesman Franz Boas cites science’s independence from borders and races and stresses protecting physicists like Franck Einstein Mann from political repression.
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New York
America
Germany
Italy
Robert A. Millikan
Irving Langmuir
Harold C. Urey
Franz Boas
Columbia University
American Anthropologists
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Association For the Advancement of Science
Boas
James Franck
Albert Einstein
Thomas Mann
Mixed results in farmer referenda on New Deal crop control program
Early returns from 17 of 19 cotton states show strong support for federal control, while tobacco and rice growers vote against similar authority. Cotton producers in the south favor the plan, needing two thirds approval to activate the system, signaling regional sentiment toward New Deal crop policy.
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Washington
South
Far West
New Deal
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Police Nab Robins Youth For Reckless Driving After Chase
Robert Bebee of Robins Iowa was arrested around 1130 p m Saturday by Patrolmen Duncan and Hanna on reckless driving charges after a high speed chase. He led officers from Kenwood along First Avenue then east and south across multiple streets before being nabbed on Second Avenue SE between Third and Fourth streets. Three other youths in the car were released.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Bebee
Robins
Duncan
Hanna
Bebee
Kenwood
First Avenue
Twenty-fourth
Twenty-sixth
Third Street
Tenth Avenue
Second Avenue
Second Avenue SE
Third
Fourth Streets
Rebee
Gazette Want Ad Proves Demand for Living Room Suites
Mrs. George Thompson advertised a davenport and chair in The Gazette with December 4 5 and 6 issues and thirty two inquiries followed. Additional readers remain buyers watching the Want Ad section for bargains. Call 2 1121 to place ads and save 25 cents per day for three days.
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Gazette
George Thompson
Ave
The
Man Confesses Bigamy After Wounding Self in Buffalo
Mil lard L. Gasner a 39 year old Buffalo post office clerk admitted living alternately with two wives mother of five children. He shot himself in the left side after writing a note to The Woman I Wronged. Police say he visited both homes and was hospitalized with a non serious flesh wound.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Millard L. Gasner
Gasner
Oscar H. Dabritz
Anna Firta Gasner
Dabritz
Julia Gasner
Anna Gasner
Leo J. Hagerty
Hagerty
Mother and Daughter Hit By Automobile in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Della Eiica and her daughter Mariette, about 12, were slightly injured when struck by an eastbound car at First Avenue and Twenty fourth Street E as they crossed after alighting from a bus. Driver A L Hubert of Tipton remained at the scene. Both were taken to St Luke's hospital with head and shoulder injuries and shock.
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Cedar Rapids
Della Eiica
Avenue
Mariette
First Avenue
Twenty-fourth Street
A. L. Hubert
Tipton
St. Luke’s Hospital
Einen
Temperature Remains Moderate in Cedar Rapids Saturday
Cedar Rapids temperatures stayed in the moderate range with a daytime high of 38 degrees at 2 p.m. The mercury fell to 28 by 9 p.m. and remained at 28 through 11:30 p.m. The overnight low shortly after midnight was 22 degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Byrd Decries Fiscal Insanity and Demands Retrenchment Plan
Boston AP Senator Byrd, a Virginia Democrat, urged an end to nine years of fiscal insanity and pressed a five point retrenchment program including government reorganization and relief roll purge. He blamed Roosevelt leadership and Hoover for debt, while Senator Walsh called for broad tax reductions and urged confidence in economic recovery.
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Boston
Byrd
Virginia
Roosevelt
Massachusetts Federation of Tax Payers’ Associations
Washington
Hoover
Senate
Walsh
Mass
Taxpayers’ Federation
Tugwell
Corcoran
Congress
Roosevelt to donate papers. family home to government
President Roosevelt disclosed that Hyde Park estate will pass to the government after his death and that his papers will be housed there for scholars. A fireproof, stone house will store the collection funded by public subscriptions and gifts from Roosevelt and Justice Rosenman.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Sarah Delano Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Frank Walker
New York
National Emergency Council
Samuel Morrison
Harvard University
Morrison
Farmhand Linked to Double Slay Found Dead
The body of 74 year old Everett Pierce was found in a haystack near Milton Junction after a weeklong search. Sheriff Crooke suspects Curtis Hansen, the itinerant farm hand whose body and Mary Cunningham's were found in Hansen's car, killed Pierce. Cunningham and Hansen died from gunshot wounds. Pierce showed no bullet injuries.
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Janesville
Wis
Everett Pierce
Milton Junction
James Crooke
Pierce
Curtis Hansen
Hansen
Mary Cunningham
Cunningham
First Lady Rules Out Succeeding Husband in Third Term
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt states nothing would induce her to accept the nomination to succeed her husband. She urges focusing on placing capable women in offices and stresses that a woman president would face difficult public acceptance and policy hurdles.
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Washington
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inquirer
Democratic Digest
Democratic National Commute
Maria E. Campos
Porto Rico
Miss Campos
Alice Frost Lord
Auburn
Quaker Fellowship
Chamberlain
Shoppers Flock to Cedar Rapids From Wide Area
Thousands of out of town Christmas shoppers descended on Cedar Rapids on Saturday boosting the holiday trade. Shoppers came from as far north as the Minnesota line and as far south as Washington with many from within a fifty mile radius. Store executives termed Cedar Rapids a great retail center with gains across all departments and a 15 to 18 percent rise over last year.
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Cedar Rapids
Minnesota Line
Washington
Mississippi
Des Moines
Peace groups urge Hull reject armament economy
Seven peace organizations sent a joint cable to Secretary Hull at the Lima Pan American conference urging rejection of theories endorsing an armament economy. The note presses emphasis on disarmament and peaceful cooperation amid Latin American talks.
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Washington (Ap
Hull
Lima
Say Pope May Oust Hitler From Church
London Sunday Referee reports Pope Pius considering excommunication of Adolf Hitler. Diplomatic correspondent notes possible action by the Vatican in response to Nazi actions.
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Hitler
London
Pius
Adolf Hitler
Weekly Forecast for Chicago and Valleys
AP forecast shows heavy cloud cover with two to three light precipitation periods. Temperatures trend near to above normal across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Roosevelt Defends Free Press in Anniversary Letter
President Roosevelt says government has a right and duty to support free news and press freedom. He warns editors not to run papers for public interest from the counting room and cites internal reform over external pressure. He questions sensational editorials and asserts press criticism has not curtailed in recent years.
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ST. Louis
Roosevelt
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Grover C. Hall
Montgomery
Ala
Bulletin of the American
Hall
Broad Hull Plan Proposed for American Front
At the Pan American conference in Lima, discussions leaked a draft from Cordell Hull proposing a broad defense pact. The plan would unite 21 republics to treat any outsider menace as a common concern and allow individual nations to choose their contribution. Annual foreign minister meetings would oversee regional questions.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Argentina
United Press
U. S
Cordell Hull
Western Hemisphere
Alarmist Tendencies Criticized At Pan American Conference
La Prensa of Buenos Aires criticized alarmist tendencies in official U S quarters suggesting unfounded fears could steer the eighth Pan American conference off course. The newspaper urged calm and factual discussion during the event.
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U. S
Buenos Aires
United States
la Prensa
Pan American conference seeks unified appeal to Spain
At Lima and Pan American sessions in Lima, Hull declares the Americas will resist any armed challenge or political action by foreign powers. Delegates discuss mediation for the Spanish civil war and approve a Cuban resolution against racial persecution.
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Lima
Peru
Spain
United Press
United States
Hull
Jose Maria Cantilo
Carlos Concha
House of Representatives
Doctrine Has Never Run A Race But It Had Many Workouts
Arthur Bugs Baer compares the Monroe Doctrine to a cautious political trainer. He notes twenty one republics align with it without it ever entering a race, yet it is regularly trotted out for workouts as a historic guiding hint.
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Doctrine
Kentucky
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