Senate weighs last dispute on flood relief bill
Washington AP reports one final clash delaying a Senate vote on a 900 million dollar relief-deficiency bill to aid flood efforts. Senators Bailey and Robinson clash over required certificates of necessity and rapid steps to replenish WPA era funds amid broader flood control plans.
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Washington
Senate
J. W. Bailey
N. C
Joe Robinson
Ark
Works Progress Administration
Ponder Flood Control
Robinson
United States
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bone
Wash
Zoning Board Rejects Bleakley Petition on Inconsistency
The zoning board unanimously denied Bleakley s petition to reclassify block land from class A to class B residential citing no alley to divide the block and potential impact on homes. Four additional rezoning requests were denied as per committee recommendations.
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Bleakley
Commission
First Avenue
E. B. Cameron
Nineteenth Street
Loomis
Cedar Rapids Building and Loan Association
Second Avenue
Tenth
Eleventh Streets
Charles Houcek
Twelfth Street
Fifth Avenue
la Plant- Choate Company
Home Coal Company
F Avenue
Eighteenth
Nineteenth Streets
Frills And Knee Breeches For U S Diplomats Barred
President Roosevelt banned knee breeches gold braid and similar regalia for the U S diplomatic and consular service in an executive order. The measure extends a ban on uniforms to consular officers and formalizes a longstanding antipathy to ostentatious dress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
State Department
Congress
New Bathtub Death Mystifies New York
Brooklyn police investigate the death of Margaret Seaman 32 found nude except for part of her undergarments in a tub partly filled with water. Husband William F. Seaman, a newspaperman, found the body after returning from work. An electric iron lay unused in the tub as officials weigh natural causes against a recent string of bathtub murders in Greater New York.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
William F. Seaman
Margaret
Seaman
New York
Mary Case
Major Greene
Michael Murphy
Mothers Of 6A Cleveland Class Give Farewell Dinner
The mothers of Cleveland 6A class held a farewell banquet Thursday with a northland scene theme. David Franks served as toastmaster as students and guests heard talks on endurance school kindness individuality and onward with musical solos by Gene Goodrow and Doris Mae Newman.
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Cleveland
David Franks
Joy May
Bill Taylor
Kindness
Patricia Methven
Ethel Linkletter
Ann Robertson
John Martin
Paul Paterson
Donald Good
Donald Morgan
Madelyn Waddle
Mary Scherrebeck
Carol Keyes
Gene Goodrow
Doris Mae Newman
Oley Nelson III Stricken With Pneumonia in Des Moines
Ninety two year old Oley Nelson former national commander of the G A R and current sergeant at arms in the Iowa house of representatives has developed pneumonia. He entered a Des Moines hospital a few days ago for a cold but his condition grew more critical. Wednesday his status was reported somewhat better.
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Des Moines
Oley Nelson
G.A.R
Iowa House of Representatives
House
Nelson
Urges 3 Billion Works Program Across Regions
A description of a proposed three billion dollar works program outlining federal state and local funding roles. Congress would approve the broad plan while the executive branch decides project order and bureau construction. The resources board would coordinate planning and study taxation divisions. Regional drainage areas are listed and include the Great Lakes St Lawrence and Mississippi basins. Key figures named include Ickes Wallace Roper Perkins Woodring Delano Hopkins Merriam and Charles W Eliot II as executive officer.
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Congress
Resources Board
New England
North Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
Southeast
Tennessee Valley
Ohio Basin
Lower
Mississippi
Western Gulf
Southwest Mississippi
Mississippi- Red River
Great Lakes- St. Lawrence
Missouri Basin
Colorado Basin
Great Basin
California
Upper
Rio Grande
Pacific Northwest
Mr. Ickes
Wallace, Roper
Perkins and Woodring
Frederic A. Delano
Harry L. Hopkins
Charles E. Merriam
Charles W. Eliot, II
British Protest Bombs Near Royal Oak Near Gibraltar
G A D Ogilvie-Forbes British embassy charge d'affaires in Spain protested to the loyalist government after three monoplanes dropped bombs near the battleship Royal Oak near Gibraltar at 11 30 a m Tuesday. The planes reportedly mistook the Royal Oak for the nationalist cruiser Canarias and disappeared.
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London
G. A. D. Ogilvie-Forbes
Spain
Royal Oak
Ogilvie-Forbes
Gibraltar
Canarias
Fresh Italian volunteers reach Cadiz for Spanish conflict
The foreign office in London says it has confirmation that a new batch of Italian volunteers for the Spanish nationalist army landed at Cadiz last Friday night. The exact number of men is not given. Italy and other powers have agreed to stop sending troops if all nations agree to act simultaneously.
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London
Foreign Office
Cadiz
Italy
Spain
Gillette Proposes Farm Aid Bill With Constitutional Guard
Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa introduces a farm aid bill that would pay farmers for following soil conservation guidance and create an export bank for surpluses. The measure would require at least seven of the Supreme Court's nine justices to concur that it is unconstitutional.
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Washington
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Supreme Court
Soil Conservation Commission
Republican Party names assistants to chairman
John Hamilton announces William R. Castle former under secretary of state and William Hard radio commentator named assistants to the Republican National Committee chair in Washington.
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Washington
John Hamilton
Republican National Committee
William R. Castle
William Hard
Germany Despair and Hitler Rise Discussed at Montrose Club
Herman Friedleander, German-born Quaker Oats employee in Chicago, addressed the Montrose Kiwanis at the Montrose hotel noon session. He argued postwar misery helped defenders of the Nazi leader, warned of another European war, and cited the Polish corridor as a key tension point.
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Germany
Hitler
Adolph Hitler
Kiwanis Club
Montrose Hotel
Herman Friedleander
Chicago
Friedleander
America
Kaiser Wilhelm
Friedlander
Europe
Miss Walters Sister In Louisville Describes Flood Ordeal
Miss Marjorie Walters of Harrison school received letters from her sister Mrs Oscar Frisbie describing Louisville flooding. The Frisbies fled after a flood warning and endured stifling conditions with no gas, electric lights, or radio while their home sat surrounded by water. They kept furniture on the first floor and only learned escape by foot along the railroad right of way.
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Marjorie Walters
Harrison School
Oscar Frisbie
Louisville
Amputation After Boy’s Coasting Crash
Cleo Marsh eleven of 2938 South land drive SW suffered a compound fracture of the left knee and fractures of the ankle and lower left leg in a January twenty seven coasting accident at Schaeffer Heights school. Gas gangrene infection developed within twenty four hours, leading to amputation at the University of Iowa hospital in Iowa City. The boy was coasting on a hill near the school when his left leg struck a post.
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Cleo Marsh
Southland Drive
Schaeffer Heights School
University of Iowa Hospital
Iowa City
University
Alert Troopers Nab Suspect After Radio Tip
Johnson led troopers on a mile long pursuit after a radio alert. He was captured in Cedar Rapids and jailed. He claimed his wife and child were arrested in Quincy as he fled in a stolen car. Officials say he is also wanted in Quincy and Keokuk under the alias Raymond Dillon.
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Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Quincy
Johnsons
Wichita
Kan
Raymond Dillon
Keokuk
Sit-down strike forces delay of evictions at GM plants
Sheriff serves Gadola order as 4 000 national guard troops and 300 peace officers encircle Fisher Body plants No 1 and No 2. GM demands evacuation before talks despite UAW pressure and a Michigan court ruling potential bloodshed if force is used.
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Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors Corporation
United Auto Workers
Flint Court
Perkins
Sloan
General Motors
National Guard
Col
Joseph Lewis
Gadola
Gov. Murphy
Michigan
Fisher Body
Chevrolet
Wolcott
Goodyear Tire Plant Closed By Dispute
AKRON O AP The Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant No 2 with 5000 workers closed today after a dispute in which Vice-president C C Slusser was ejected from the tire building by workers. Public relations counsel said Slusser and another company rep were shoved out when they said the man could work without dues to the United Rubber Workers. About 150 of 525 men stayed in the factory.
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Akron, O
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
C. C. Slusser
Tire Building Department
L. E. Judd
Slusser
Tire Builders
United Rubber Workers Union
Doings of Congress Wednesday Debates Relief Deficiency Bill
Congress continued debate on the 900000 relief deficiency appropriation and resumed consideration of the 1 billion independent offices appropriation. The labor committee met in closed session to discuss an automobile strike information resolution. Committees studied farm tenancy and the long and short haul rule as interstate commerce hearings continued.
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Labor Committee
Labor Department
Interstate Commerce Committee
Agriculture Committee
River flood near Cairo swamps barge with 100 workers
A sinking barge carried 100 workmen with fourteen missing as Army engineers and flood commission leaders led by Major General Edward Markham and Harry Hopkins approached Cairo. The Mississippi River crested near 60 feet as sand boils and gaps widened at Bessie and Hickman, signaling potential failure of levees and looming flood devastation.
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Army Engineers
Cairo
Roosevelt
Edward Markham
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Thomas Parran
James Fieser
American Red Cross
Many Eastern Iowa Projects Schedule Major Waste Installations
Eastern Iowa projects include Oelwein Waukon creamery waste disposal at 10 000 dollars and Olin Oxford Junction sewage plant at 9 000 dollars. Minnesota dam projects total 156 000 dollars. Western water works and sewer schemes cover Davenport Marshalltown Muscatine Waterloo Des Moines Fort Dodge Ottumwa with plants and storm sewers ranging from 200 000 to 2 000 000 dollars.
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Oelwein
Waukon
Olin
Oxford Junction
Houston County
Beaver Valley Dam
le Seuer County
Volney
Dora
Olmstead County
Silver Creek
Shady Lake
Rice County
Cedar
Willings
Union
Mazaska
Dudley
French and Lower Hatch
Steel County
Owatonna
Waseca County
Watkins Dam
Minnesota
Iowa
Keokuk-Alton
Cantril
Pulaski
Milton
Davenport
Marshalltown
Muscatine
Waterloo
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Ottumwa
Baby born with two teeth shocks Cleveland doctors
Thelma Julius announced the birth of a seven pound girl at Lutheran hospital who had two shining lower incisors. Doctors said births with more than one tooth are almost unheard of.
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Cleveland
Thelma Julius
Oversize Bathing Suit Mystifies Cleveland Resort Goers
Lillian Meyers wonders who left an oversized bathing suit at a summer resort owned by a relative. Three girls then discover they can wear it at once, two using the armholes as neck coverings.
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Cleveland
Lillian Meyers
Iowa House Passes Mortgage Moratorium With Change
Iowa House reversed its stance and approved an extended moratorium date amid drought aid pressure. The chamber backed the Senate version 94 to 5, applying to loans before January 1, 1936, with the bill returning to the Senate to approve the amendment or trigger a conference committee.
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DES Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
Senate
House
Iowa Senate approves cut in school fund loan rates
The Iowa senate passed a bill reducing minimum interest on permanent school fund loans from five to four percent and lowering county payments to the state from four to three percent. The fund, about 5 million dollars, mainly loans to farmers and deriving from land set aside for schools.
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DES Moines
Iowa Senate
Linn Givers Donate Over Eighteen Thousand For Flood Fund
The Linn county flood relief drive received a wide array of contributions. Donations included $18 306 from local groups and individuals plus smaller gifts from many organizations such as the Whittier Community Ladies Aid Society and Red Cross branches, with totals reaching into the hundreds for various towns. The Marion Red Cross branch added $150, bringing its flood fund to $860, and Center Point reported $71.35, boosting its total to $208.63.
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Whittier Community Ladies Aid Society
Whittier
Midwest Union
Wilson Company
Albright Sash and Door Company
Omicron Alpha Chapter
Chi Omega Sorority
Margaret Bottome
King’s
Johnson School
Central City
The
Red Cross
Peter Pan Sales Club
Peter Pan Bakery
Congregation Beth Jacob
Linn County
Agnes Tichy
Allison Hotel
W. C. Bullen
W. R. C. Smith Publishing Company
Atlanta
Handler Motor Company
Lowdon Public
Star No. 4
Degree of Honor Protective Association
Elmont
North Linn Savings Bank
Coggon
Waubeek Community
St. Paul’s Ladies Aid
Woman's Relief Corps
Strawberry Point
Ohio Church
Ladora
St. Luke’s Hospital
Zora Kensington Club
Roosevelt P. T. A
Grace Walpole Circle of the King’s Daughters
International Harvester Company
John Blaul’s Sons Company
Quaker Oats Company Shipping Department
Ladies Aid
Spring Grove
Rock Island
First Christian Church
Walker
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
Community of
Dairy Dale
Phillips 66
Service Boys
Temple Judah
J. C. Penney Company
Sunshine Mission
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Marion
Three Cedar Rapids Kiwanians Named to District Committees
Cedar Rapids Kiwanis club President George Hearn announced at the Wednesday meeting that Clark Beems, Clyde Sanborn, and A. T. Pleune were named to Iowa Nebraska Kiwanis district committees. Pleune is immediate past president of the Cedar Rapids club.
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George Hearn
Cedar Rapids Kiwanis Club
Cedar Rapids
Relatives Safe After Louisville Flood Evacuation
Mrs. Elmer Grissel of 226 Johnston Avenue NW received word that her sister and family and her brother are safe in Louisville Kentucky after flood waters forced their evacuation from home.
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Louisville
Elmer Grissel
Johnson Avenue
Union Head Moroned as Elevator Strike Paralyzes Five Buildings
George Scalise vice president of the building service employed union was stranded on the 28th floor when elevator operators walked out in five buildings. Four owners were in Florida. He descended when the strike ended after owners agreed to $1 raises for union workers.
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New York
George Scalise
Building Service
Florida
Scalise
Doctor Murdered by His Kidnapper
Troopers say a small man named Kenyon abducted Dr. Davis and later killed him. The suspect allegedly led officers to the physician’s body after a prior Rolla, Missouri crime tied to a Ford V-8, a stolen kit found in the North Fork river, and a separate Tacoma case on Charles Mattson.
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Dr. Davis
Kenyon
Rolla
Yukon
Connelly
North Fork River
Here
Buster Brixey
Ozark
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Slaying of Dr J C B Davis Connects Muscatine Residents
News of the doctor’s slaying at Willow Springs Missouri drew local interest in Muscatine as Mrs Davis, former Mrs Kendig, is related to three city residents through her first marriage. Davis married about twenty five years ago.
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Muscatine
J. C. B. Davis
Willow Springs
Fred Hoopes
Joseph Kendig
J. H. Kendig
Davis
Kendig
Dr. Davis
Norris Urges TVA to End Power Contract
Norris of Norris, Indiana, urges TVA to end its contract with Commonwealth and Southern and stay out of certain power markets. He questions renewal while TVA faces injunctions. The move prompts wider speculation as officials consider a national power policy and Willkie meets TVA directors in Knoxville.
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Washington
Norris
Ind
Tennessee Valley Authority
Commonwealth and Southern
TVA
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Wendell Willkie
Knoxville
Tenn
Shirley Temple and Bartholomew Feud Rocks Studio Rows
Hollywood reports a public clash between Shirley Temple and Freddie Bartholomew over a joint publicity photo. Twentieth Century Fox accuses MGM of meddling while Temples defend Shirley as the top box office draw and refuse to share the spotlight with Bartholomew.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Freddie Bartholomew
England
Twentieth Century-Fox
Shirley
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Freddie
Bartholomew
Fox
Jane Withers
Temple
Harry Brand
Jane
Oldest Oceans Formed About 1.3 Billion Years Ago Say Scientists
Noted scientists estimate Earth's earliest oceans coalesced roughly 1.3 billion years ago, indicating ancient oceans preceded much later geologic events. The claim reflects interpretations of early crust formation and ocean development by researchers in the field.
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Ways and Means
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Kansas City
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Glendale
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Gillette
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Ieage
Paul V. Gadola
Frank Murphy
Sheriff's Office
Goodyear Tire
Associated Press
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Hickman
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