Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Trust Film Price Decree
The 4 3 ruling upholds a Northern Texas federal decree barring distributors from enforcing price restrictions on exhibitors. Justice Stone notes it suppresses competition and price maintenance. Justice Rob ert dissents with Justices McReynolds and Butler concurring.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Federal District Court
Harlan F Stone Monda
Owen J. Robert
James C McReynoulds
Pierce Butler
Felix Frankfurter
Stone
Rutledge Says Court Pack Plan Now a Dead Issue
Dean Rutledge of the University of Iowa law school told a Rotary club he is not pursuing a Washington post and has not been approached about a Supreme Court appointment. He previously supported the court packing idea but said it is a dead issue based on what he has read in newspapers.
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Cedar Rapids
Wiles Rutledge
University of Iowa Law School
Supreme Court
Rotary Club
Washington
Rutledge
Roosevelt Much Better Remains In Bed Despite Attack
President Roosevelt, recovering from grippe, was described as much better by his physician but stayed in bed for a fourth day as a precaution. He planned bedside briefings with Cordell Hull Sumner Welles and Sam Rayburn, with other meetings canceled. He intends to depart for the south Thursday night and cruise to observe Caribbean maneuvers of the U S fleet.
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Ins
Roosevelt
Ross T. McIntire
McIntire
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Sam Rayburn
Texas
House
Capital
South
Caribbean
Lincoln and Gettysburg sermon join state volume tributes
Reading excerpts from a Gettysburg sermon broadcast on July 3 during the final reunion joins a Pennsylvania issued volume honoring the Civil War anniversary. The Little book We Here Highly Resolve includes a Union League Philadelphia talk about Lincoln and Herndon, and a Springfield District Court address on the spiritual life of Lincoln. Lincoln is portrayed as more than a historical figure, an article of national faith.
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Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Lincoln
Union League of Philadelphia
Herndon
Henry Rankin
Judge Zane
Old District Court House
Springfield
Jesus
Lee
Tke Grant
Iowa House Debates Marriage Health Bill Fees
Iowa lawmakers clashed over pre marriage physical exams and a proposed $2 per person cap as Rep Burke and others argued on costs and safeguards. The bill would require syphilis checks filed with the district court when obtaining a wedding license, with debates paused for remarks on Lincoln.
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Iowa
House
State Board of Health
A H Avery
Spencer
Abraham Lincoln
New York
Illinois
Wisconsin
Rep. H. W. Burma
Allison
Burma
E. A. Moore
Harlan
Plane Missing With 3 Aboard In Alaska Area
A Marine Airways pontoon plane with four aboard, including pilot Lon Cope and three salesmen, disappeared after loss of contact during a 274 mile flight from Ketchikan to Juneau. Coast guard, Marine Airways, and the Canadian steamer Princess Norah searched Stephens Passage amid ice and gale, with one chance in ten of survivors.
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Lon Cope
Ketchikan
Cope
Marine Airr
Coast Guard
Haida
Alex Holden
Princess Norah
Taku Inlet
John Chappel
Earl Clifford
John Chamberlain
E. Eri Stephens
Alaskan
Seymour Canal
Stephen's Passage
Weather Bureau Aviator Missing After Ice Forming Flight
Spokane investigators prepared search planes to resume Monday for Roy Shreck a veteran U S weather bureau aviator missing since Sunday after an observation flight. He took off at 12 30 am had enough fuel for 3 1 2 hours and reported wing icing and a strong west wind an hour after departure.
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Spokane
Wash
Roy Shreck
U. S. Weather Bureau
Shreck
Renounces Italian Fortune To Stay U.S. Citizen
Kalamazoo news reports Frank Rusoti a paper mill worker renounced an Italian fortune rather than lose his U.S. citizenship. His father died last month leaving Rusoti a Castellona Italy estate if he settles there. Rusoti, 42, came to the United States at age nine and fought in World War I after growing up in Milwaukee.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Frank Rusoti
United States
Rusoti
Italy
Castellona
Milwaukee
Wis
Veteran group leader urges congress on compensation
Owen A. Galvin of Minneapolis national commander of the Disabled Veterans of the World War called on Congress to restore the slash in veterans' compensation schedules in a Sunday night address.
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Boston
Owen A. Galvin
Minneapolis
Congress
Pair Trapped In Extortion Plot Against Advertising Chief
Charles A Ward of Brown and Bigelow fends off a $15,000 extortion attempt tied to a murder a Minneapolis editor and a fake informer scheme. Suspects Mathew Stegbauer and Harold McAvoy, both of St Paul, plus messenger Paul Contreras, implicated as witness, were arrested after Ward and police set a trap at Wallys Bar.
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ST Paul
Charles A Ward
Brown and Bigelow
Ward
Mathew W. Steggauer
Harold McAvoy
St. Paul
Paul Contreras
Charles J Tierney
Stegbauer
McAvoy
Contreras
Liggett
Tierney
Walter Liggett
Minneapolis
Wally
O Brians Long Distance Calls Prompt Council Inquiry
Des Moines AP The Republican state executive council sought an explanation of long distance calls made by former Secretary of State Robert F O Brian before leaving office. The $134 telephone bill includes calls to Sallinger Chicago to Detective department and jail in Chicago and a $4 call to New York.
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Republican State Executive Council
Robert F O'Brian
O Brian
Sallinger
Chicago
Franklin
Detective Department
Ill
Congress Adjourns in Tribute to Pius XI
Congress met briefly to mourn Pope Pius XI and adjourn in tribute to the Pope of Peace. The move placed among rare adjournments, with leaders from both parties praising the papal leader and Roosevelt asked to inform Cardinal Pacelli of Congress’s sympathy.
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Sister of Pope Is Confined By Shock Reported
Donna Camilla Ratti the late pope's sister is reported confined to bed with shock. She collapsed at the death bed Thursday after kissing her brother's hands, it was learned.
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Rome
INS
Donna Camilla Ratti
Pope
Judge Rules to Resume Hines Lottery Conspiracy Trial
Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. refused a defense plea to drop lottery conspiracy charges against James J. Hines and ordered a second trial of the Tammany leader to resume in New York.
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LLP
Charles C. Nott, Jr
James J. Hines
Hoover to Head Lincoln Dinner Talks in New York
Former president Herbert Hoover will keynote the Lincoln Day dinner in New York as part of a nationwide Republican observance. The event highlights unity for victory in 1940 with speakers including John Hamilton and governors Bushfield Carr Fitzgerald and others in a two hour radio broadcast.
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Herbert Hoover
Lincoln
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Thomas L. Dewey
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John Hamilton
William Henry Hayes
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Julius P. Heil
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Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
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Senate rejects public release on French arms aid
Washington senate military affairs committee voted 11 to 5 to withhold public record of U S aid to a French air mission seeking about 600 new American planes. Chairman Morris Sheppard said faith to witnesses who testified in secret.
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Senate Military Affairs Committee
United States
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Coughlin Credits Pius XI for Labor Stand
Rev. Father Charles Coughlin praised Pope Pius XI on his radio program declaring the late pontiff a world leader in protecting laborers, especially in Europe, from oppressive labor practices. He traced Pius XI's life from priestly ordination to leadership, saying his spirit endures beyond death.
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Ins
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Charles FE. Coughlin
Pope Pius
Europe
Nebraska Governor Sees Merkur Extradition From Texas
Governor R L Cochran says Texas will receive Christ Merkur if Texas wants him, as Merkur faces extradition proceedings after arrest in Lincoln for a Texas felony case. Merkur, once in Sioux City on a Texas warrant, was seized in a Lincoln hotel lobby amid court and bond actions.
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Christ Merkuri
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Merkur
Sioux City
Nels Kraschel
James Allred
Lone Star State
Kraschel
Chris Fox
Iowa
George Wilson
Fox
Cochran
Max Cowle
Merkurl
Merkuri
Edward Fisher
Cowle
Merkurt
Four Iowa City Youths Arrested In Stolen Car
Police arrested four Iowa City youths on a larceny of a motor vehicle charge after spotting a stolen 1930 coach at Seventh Avenue and Third Street SE. Suspects are William Mathess 16 Robert Beck 15 LaVerne Hrdlicka 18 and Lawrence Christensen 17. Car registered to Earl Hayes of Des Moines.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
William Mathess
Robert Beck
LaVerne Hrdlicka
Lawrence Christensen
DeVore
Prasil
Seventh Avenue
Third Street
Earl Hayes
Des Moines
Slain girl dubbed Black Butterfly linked to Irish sabotage claims
London police arrested Arthur James Mahoney, 23, in the stiletto slaying of Georgina Hoffman known as the Black Butterfly. She also used Heath and Donnelly. Investigators probe whether she betrayed sabotage secrets of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The victim was found stabbed in her London flat. police report bruises on the throat and a wine colored dress. A separate court session heard charges against nineteen men and an 18 year old girl for possessing explosives in connection with bombings across England.
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London
Scotland Yard
Arthur James Mahoney
Georgina Hoffman
Heath
Donnelly
Irish Republican Army
England
Iowa Senate debates use of name list
The Iowa Senate passed a social welfare board bill 35 to 10 to create a three member full time board replacing the current five member part time panel. The measure, sent back to the House for minor amendments, would also consolidate duties under the old age assistance and related programs.
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Senate
Social Welfare Board
House
Legislative Committee On
Iowa
George M Faul
Breen
Donahue
Ed Breen
Fort Dodge
Faul
Monroe Diagnosis Endorses Atlantic Ocean Idea
A humorous, vaguely medical take endorses the Atlantic Ocean as a good idea. The piece, credited to Arthur Bugs Baer, mocks mixing medicines and cites postwar polemic references while remarking on separations of nations and finances.
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Atlantic Ocean
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