Roosevelt orders navy aid to coast guard against smuggling
A bold Roosevelt directive directs the U S navy to assist the coast guard in stopping liquor smuggling, a move rejected in Prohibition days as imprudent by Canadian shipowners who offered 40 000 cases of whisky for unloading in Los Angeles. Europe’s stance on debts and varied opinions on tax and reform fill a broad political landscape reflected in editorials. The piece also notes seed corn debates, a Wallace seed program, and Linn County relief leadership changes as it channels funds and clarifies responsibilities.
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Roosevelt
United States Navy
Coast Guard
Nationwide Hunt Begins for Touhy Tie Gang Links
Chicago politie officials announce a country wide manhunt for a kidnaping gang linked to the Touhy Dillinger group. States attorney Courtney says film theaters newspapers and roving police squads backed by federal, city and state forces will broadcast photos and pursue W A Hendrickson John Kiutas Charles Connors Basil Banghardt and the wider Touhy network with Verne Miller Harvey Bailey and George Machine Gun Kelly.
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Chicago
Thomas J. Courtney
W. A. Hendrickson
John
Handsome Jack" Kiutas
Charles “Ice Wagon” Connors
Basil Hugh Banghardt
Courtney
Roger Touhy
John Factor
Touhy
Illinois
Klutas
Oklahoma
George
Touhy-Dillinger
John Hamilton
William Shanley
Unity Bank and Trust Company
Allman
Shoemaker
Meyering
Collins
County
Melvin Purvis
Federal Division of Investigation
James Hackett
Connors
Factor
Banghardt
Atlanta, Ga
Gerald Chapman
Bandits Invade Busy Chicago Department Store
Seven masked bandits entered the Butler Brothers store on the second floor in Chicago, brandishing sawed-off guns and a sub-machine gun. They gathered about $2,800 in cash from the cashier, warned 150 employees to stay still, and left without firing a shot. The raid occurred at the Butler Brothers building near the Chicago river between Washington and Randolph streets.
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Chicago
Butler Brothers
Chicago River
Washington and
Randolph Streets
Black man convicted in Ilsley slaying case
Leesburg reporting George Crawford, a Black man, was found guilty by a white jury of causing the fatal harm to Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley of Middleburg and her maid Mrs. Mina Buckner. The five day trial ended with a life sentence.
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Leesburg, Va
George Crawford
Agnes Boeing Tsley
Middleburg
Ilsley
Mina Buckner
Everyday Religion and the Golden Rule Across Cultures
The piece argues that all people share the same fundamental human traits and fears, regardless of faith or background. It cites Grant, Thackeray, and Queen Elizabeth era wisdom to emphasize empathy, forgiveness, and kindness, urging readers to treat others as they wish to be treated, with humane, enduring compassion.
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Grant
Thackeray
Copeland outlines crime curb bills for Congress
Senator Royal S. Copeland announced a slate of about thirty measures to curb racketeers and kidnapping. The package includes alibi testimony timing, extending the Dyer act to stolen goods worth 1000 dollars, Lindbergh law revisions, firearm controls, and better coordination of federal police agencies. Copeland noted many proposals are minor changes rather than drastic overhauls.
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Washington (Lp
Congress
Roosevelt
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Copeland
Chicago Weather Outlook Week Ahead Dec 18 to 23
Weather forecast for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys calls for generally fair conditions early in the week, then precipitation midweek, followed by fair conditions again. Temperatures start cold Monday, rise through the week, with another cold spell around Thursday or Friday.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Family Of 14 Lives Happily On Father's $3 A Day
COLORADO SPRINGS UP This is the success story of Joseph Flores a laborer with wages of 3 a day who supports a wife ten children a brother and a niece living in a neat five room cottage He outlines his budget saying half his monthly check goes to food while he ensures meat three times a week He credits a good wife hard work and family love as the keys to living on 90 a month with fourteen dependents
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Colorado Springs
Joseph Flores
Betty
Flores
Lorena
Great Britain to start air armament race
London reports Britain plans to mobilize an air fleet double the present size to deter future war. Experts warn capitals like London are vulnerable. air power could cripple mobilization processes before armies mobilize. Britain’s aim is parity with leading air forces amid fiscal strain and disarmament hopes fading.
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Great Britain
London
Dickens Rower Injured By Motorcycle in London
Sir Henry Dickens sixth son of Charles Dickens was seriously injured Saturday after being struck by a motorcycle in London. He is 85 years old.
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London
Henry Dickens
Charles Dickens
Missing Brinks guard linked to kidnapping claim
A Des Plaines Street police station received a man claiming Brinks guard Allen Hammel was abducted with him after an armed robbery involving $39,000 from a Brinks truck. Police doubted the tale and began verifying the stranger’s story while withholding his identity.
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Chicago
Allen Hammel
Brinks Express Company
Des Plaines Street
Hammel
Express Company
First National Bank
American in Britain offers to pay income tax in silver token
A prominent member of the American colony in London faced a British income tax demand. He replied that he would make a token 10 percent payment in silver at 50 cents an ounce, and awaits the treasury's reply.
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Britain
London
Treasury
France to ease rum trade with concessions to Washington
Paris reports French concessions to aid American imports of apples and pears, aiming for reciprocal fruit quota agreements in exchange for a larger wine export allotment. Officials stress negotiations proceed satisfactorily while noting French mail restrictions on Christmas liquor parcels to the United States remain in effect.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
United States
France
Parcel Post
Ministry of Posts, Telephones and Telegraphs
Washington
US Delays Agreement Over French Tariff Concessions
AP reports the United States delaying a formal agreement as Paris considers substantial increases in tariffs on American apples pears and lard. Officials note no final concessions were learned yet, and talk of a broader wine farm trade pact with France hangs in the balance, with Washington holding aloof Saturday night.
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Paris
Washington
Former Local Man Near Death From Accidental Wound
Louis Dvorak of Salina Kansas, formerly of Cedar Rapids, is near death at his Cedar Rapids home from an abdominal wound suffered when a shotgun discharged during a hunting trip. The gun, left on the ground, exploded as his nine year old son Tommy picked it up to shoot a squirrel. Relatives visiting from Salina include his mother, a sister, and a brother, with four sisters in Nebraska and Kansas.
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Cedar Rapids
Louis Dvorak
Salina
Kan
Wendl Dvorak
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Tommy
Dvorak
George Shearer
Fifteenth Street
M. M Dvorak
Mount Vernon Avenue
L. G Hac
Lincoln, Neb
J. H Slatters
Emporia
Kans
M O. Harding
William Pulda
Woman Regains Sight After 21 Years Of Blindness
Mrs. Mildred Naylor of Green Bay regained sight in a delicate eye operation by Dr. M. H. Fuller after twenty one years of blindness caused by scarlet fever. She thrilled at first look at husband Tom and daughters Mildred and LaVerne, saying colors are brighter and planning to visit a flower store.
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Green Bay
Wis
Thomas Naylor
Naylor
Mildred
LaVerne
Tom
New Cabinet In Spain Leans To Conservatism
MADRID AP Lerroux forms a conservative leaning republican party cabinet after a crisis from elections and a brief anarchist uprising. He claims support of 300 deputies from centrist and rightist parties, plus 110 agrarian and 50 others, securing a strong majority in the cortes amid brewing internal tensions and a Socialist opposition. The cabinet includes Jose Maria Cid interior Jose Pareja Vedenes education Cirilio del Rio agriculture and other ministers.
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Diego Martinez Barrios
Lerroux
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Jose Pareja Vedenes
Ang Valdes Alvarez
Jose Maria Cid
Pita Romero
Gomez-Lara
Ricardo Samper Thanet
Zamora
Spalace
Parlia
Evers
Politée Bandits steal $800 from Chicago Gold Coast hotel
Seven bandits in a Chicago Gold Coast hotel lobby, armed with revolvers, seized $800 from a vault and an unspecified amount from guests including Mrs Livingston Fairbank and Mrs Rudolph Richey. One guest described the robber as polite and briefly allowed a seat.
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Politée Bandits
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Gold Coast
Livingston Fairbank
New York City
Rudolph Richey
Iowan Named Head Of AAA Dairy Section
Washington AP report says Dr Clyde L King resigns as chief of the dairy section AAA and J H Mason of Des Moines Iowa is named acting chief by farm administrator Chester C Davis Mason, head of Des Moines Co operative Dairy Marketing Assn, has steered dairy policy for two decades and will oversee milk marketing agreements under attack from distributors. Other AAA leaders including George N Peck and Westervelt plan resignations as the agency reshuffles leadership.
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Clyde L. King
Agricultral Adjustment Administration
J. H. Mason
Des Moines
Chester C. Davis
King
George N. Peck
Peck
Roosevelt
Mason
Des Moines Co-operative Dairy Marketing Association
Midwest
National Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation
Sioux City
AAA
Peek
W. S. Westervelt
Chicago
C. W. Dunning
Westervelt
United Airlines Cuts Transcontinental Flight Time
United Airlines announced a new coast to coast schedule of 19 hours for California to New York and 22 hours westbound, a reduction from 27 hours last year. The San Francisco to Chicago eastbound time is 13 hours and westbound 15 hours, marking the third cut in a year.
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United Airlines
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New York
San Francisco
Woman found guilty in torch murder of husband
Rockford Illinois Mrs May Hanson convicted by a jury of twelve men of the torch murder of her husband Earl Hanson who was burned to death last August near his divorced wife’s country home. The verdict followed a four hour deliberation and the jury sentenced her to fourteen years in prison.
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Rockford, Ill
May Hanson
Earl Hanson
Arthur Fisher
Hanson
Alice Muddler
Milwaukee
June
Insull Lawyers Seek Path To Halt Exile
Greek lawyers for Samuel Insull Jr. work to save their client from U.S. authorities. Insull, 74, is ill with diabetes and heart trouble, worsened by Greece's decision not to renew his stay permit after January 31. A physician ordered rest and easy conditions.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
United States
Insull
Lleness
Greece
Wall Street Firm Announces 20 Percent Employee Bonus
New York based Redmond and Company of the New York Stock Exchange said it would pay a 20 percent bonus to over one hundred employees as a Christmas reward. Grunthal and Company, another Exchange member, followed with a bonus of two weeks extra salary.
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New York
Redmond and Company
New York Stock Exchange
Grunthal & Co
Exchange
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year Reported
A Cedar Rapids toll toll analysis shows figures for the year including counts of accidents injuries and deaths. The brief states the total incidents and casualties without detailing locations or specific cases.
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Cedar Rapids
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