Iowa liquor row sparks political clash over seals
A Cedar Rapids liquor raid exposes 200 state seals given by Chairman Harold Cooper to J. L. Farmer, raising questions about legality and political favors. Governor Herring backs arrests while critics warn of a looming public controversy as state labor and re employment offices face staffing upheavals and accusations of political influence in Cedar Rapids.
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Mr. Cooper
Farmer
Governor Herring
Cooper
Not Guilty Pleas Entered by Farmer and Plant Supt
J LeRoy Farmer head of the family canning plant pled not guilty after arraignment on illegal liquor possession and keeping a gambling house charges. Delbert Greb plant superintendent also charged in the liquor information. Police raid on the Cedar Rapids factory yielded liquor, bar equipment, gambling devices and 200 liquor seals. Hearing set for December 24 on forfeiture action for 678 bottles. Governor Herring called for investigation and vowed no more seals to individuals. Cooper of the liquor control commission urged a full inquiry and pledged support to Cedar Rapids and federal authorities.
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Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Commission
Cedar Rapids
Wisconsin
J. LéRoy Farmer
Canning
H. C. Ring
Farmer
State Liquor Commission
Twelfth Avenue SE
Craven Shuttleworth
Delbert Greb
Meadowbrook
Sheriff's Office
Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Cooper
Associated Press
Harold M. Cooper
State Liquor Control Commission
United Press
International News
G. W. Larson
Liquor Commission
J. LeRoy Farmer
Tapper
Thompson
Strangers to a community tackle unemployment mess
The piece argues for constructive handling of joblessness as winter deepens and jobs grow scarcer. It singles out local relief efforts from Washington to Des Moines and Linn county, warning that cheap politics and grudges threaten efficiency and could worsen relief work at Burlington Cedar Rapids and beyond.
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Wenng
Moore
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Des Moines
Linn County
Rain Threatens Floods In Los Angeles Area
Steady rain drenches the Los Angeles coastal plain threatening floods. Dozens flee from washes in Montrose La Crescenta Glendale and Burbank as muddy walls flood streets. Red Cross sheriff CCC flood unit patrols sandbags critical highways. area towns including Los Angeles Pasadena Hollywood Santa Monica and Long Beach are affected.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Coastal Plain
Montrose-La Crescenta
Glendale
Burbank
Red Cross
CCC
Pasadena
Hollywood
Santa Monica
Venice
San, Pedro
Wilmington
Long Beach
Fae
Nagging cited as motive in Los Angeles wife murder confession
ST LOUIS police said John Happel 40 a former St Louis resident confessed to killing his wife Rosabelle Hap pel in Los Angeles on December 5. He told officers nagging caused the crime and was arrested as he arrived in the city on a bus from Arnold Missouri. He formerly lived in Mehlville and worked as an electrician.
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ST. Louis
John Happel
Malaria Strikes Half Million in Ceylon
Malaria has stricken 500,000 of Ceylon's 5,300,000 inhabitants. Authorities summoned all doctors for service and organized relief efforts from Colombo.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Hotel Kerns Fire Death Toll Rises to Thirty
Authorities report thirty known dead in the Hotel Kerns blaze in Lansing with twenty four bodies recovered. Investigations reveal a 15 to 20 minute delay between discovery and alarm and conflicting accounts of who set off the first alarm. Funeral memorials planned with citywide observances.
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Lansing
Mich
Kerns
INS
Kerns Hotel
Edward W. Welsh
I. J. Jones
Welsh
Andrew Thevenau
Flint
Flaming
Man vanishes after poisoning claim linked to Dillinger era
An unnamed man claiming undercover DOJ ties was poisoned by John Hamilton of the Dillinger gang, disappeared from Joliet area hours after hospital admission, leaving a note and police scrambling for details. Authorities examined his story and identity as federal agents widened investigations.
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Joliet
Arman
Department of Justice
John Hamilton
Dillinger
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Jack Moxey
Here
Hamilton
Justice Department
Chicago
Moxey
R. C. Suran
Department
Suran
Robb
Plainfield
William R. McCabe
Kansas City
Jast
Fred Barker
Moran
Joseph P. Moran
Edward Bremer
St. Paul
Elgin
State Penitentiary
McCabe
Hoxey
War profiteering details in Du Ponts contracts revealed
Senate munitions inquiry discloses that the Du Ponts and the government shared a wartime contract worth about 2 million dollars with no direct investment by the company. Reporters note 80 percent of the sum went to taxes, leaving 400 thousand in profits, including 200 thousand in bonuses to Old Hickory plant officials.
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Washington
du’ Ponts
Delaware Munitions Company
Senate
Alger Hiss
du Pont
Tennessee
du Ponts
War Profits Bill Drafted in 1932 Washington
The War Policies Commission draft proposes to bar wartime profits by capping margins on munitions and organizing manufacturing and distribution. It targets manpower and capital mobilization, sets up a marine risk bureau, war trade administration, and a war finance corporation, with outlines in the Industrial Mobilization Plan approved in 1933.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Press
War Policies Commission
Hoover
War and Navy Departments
Congress
Patrick J. Burley
Navy
Charles Francis Adams
United States
Bureau of Marine War Risk Insurance
Treasury Department
War Finance Corporation
War time profits hit 362 percent in single year
Washington officials testified before the Senate munitions investigating committee that World War I profits by munitions makers reached as high as 362 percent on invested capital in a single year. The figures followed Roosevelt’s March mobilization drive and the creation of a board to ensure profitless mobilization of resources.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Arcturus light and Beethoven echo in Century of Progress glow
A century of progress display bathes with light from Arcturus captured by a photo cell and relayed to Chicago. Beethoven’s healing melody amplified by radio fills America with beauty and harmony, lifting weary souls from daily din.
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Chicago
Fairgrounds
Beethoven
America
Py Avery
Aged painter confesses to Grace Budd killing
New York police announce Albert H. Fish, 65, a New York house painter, confessed to kidnapping and killing Grace Budd on June 3, 1928. He allegedly throttled the child, cut her body in three pieces, and buried parts in Worthington Woods near Greenburgh, with the skull later recovered where he said the head lay.
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New York
Lewis J. Valentine
Albert H. Fish
Grace Budd
Valentine
Fish
Worthington Woods
Greenburg
N. Y
Westchester County
Poets Wonder If God Hears Prayer Amid Radio Melodies
A fragment reflecting on worship and the reach of radio music, questioning whether divine listening extends to human prayers. The quotation hints at a 1934 copyright and notes a poet’s view on art crossing oceans in a city din.
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Asione
Clarinda Girl Crowned Iowa Dolphin Queen at Show
Marcia Lisle of Clarinda was named queen of the University of Iowa Dolphin show. Attendants Virginia Tiss Fort Madison Elinor Maloney Fonda Wilberta Cook Ottumwa Virginia Dawson Farmington and Vir ginia Dawson Farmington were presented by Hawkeye swimmers at the water pageant in the field house pool.
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Iowa City
Marcia Lisle
Clarinda
University, of Iowa
Kappa Kappa:Gamma Sorority
Hawkeye
Field House
Virginia Tiss
Fort Madison
Delta Gamma
Elinor Maloney
Fonda
Gamma Phi Beta
Wilberta Cook
Ottumwa
Alpha Xi Delta
Virginia
Dawson
Farmington
Kappa Alpha Theta
Suit seeks 420000 against conductors union
Fourteen former conductors of the Toledo Peoria and Western railroad allege loss of jobs and seniority after a 1929 wage strike. They sue the Order of Railway Conductors of America in Cedar Rapids claiming violation of the railway labor act. The case explores the impact on organized labor and was filed after a law firm was engaged.
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Order of Railway ‘Conductors of America
Iowa and Illinois
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
United States
Cedar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors of America
J. E. Rogers
Grimm, Elliott, Shuttleworth and Ingersoll
Organized Labor
Peoria
Paraguay Fights to Deal Crushing Blow
Paraguayan troops rushed Bolivian defenses in the northern Chaco on Thursday night in a crucial battle shaping the westward advance.
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Paraguay
Asuncion
Chaco
West Point Style Police Training Endorsed by Conference
The attorney general's crime conference endorsed creating a national West Point for training police officers. The group also urged states to bolster police resources amid deplorable conditions nationwide.
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Washington
West Point
Attorney General
Mystery Case Involves Missing Grace Budd And Grainy Clues
Detailing the Budd case, authorities traced a killer known as Fish who cooked and dismembered a victim and buried parts of the body. Police recovered a skull as detectives pursued the scene while linking a prior burglary arrest to the suspect. Grace Budd’s dress fragment surfaced as investigators hunt for the elusive Howard figure and chase further leads in the decades old mystery.
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William King
Missing Persons Bureau
Fish
Grace
Edward Budd
Delia Budd
Parley on Cedar Rapids Jobs Office Governance Held
A conference in Des Moines addressed changes in the National Re-employment Office personnel in Cedar Rapids. Attending were Cedar Rapids representatives urging retention of Manager O L Moore, plus state officials Frank Wenng and Walter Hutchinson and local figures Charles D Manson and Robert W Greene. The meeting followed Governor Herring's request for advocates.
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Cedar Rapids
Clyde Herring
O. L. Moore
Frank Wenng
State, Labor
Walter Hutchinson
State, Securities, Department
Linn County Democratic Committee
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