Iowa Governor Faces Resignation Call for Cooper
The Iowa liquor control chairman Harold Cooper is urged by the governor to resign after an alleged gift of state liquor seals to a casual acquaintance. Cooper refuses, raising questions about public confidence in the agency. Other state issues include the Wegman Belt warrants dispute and critiques of Governor Herring's administration. Social security proposals from Roosevelt and Townsend are noted, with payroll tax debates for workers and employers.
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Harold Cooper
State Liquor Control Commission
Des Moines
Mr Roosevelt
Dr. Townsend
Huey Long
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussoni
Josef Stalin
Iowa liquor chief Harold Cooper asked to resign again
Gov. Clyde L. Herring formally requests the resignation of Harold M. Cooper as chairman of the Iowa State Liquor Control Commission after a Linn county grand jury indictment. Cooper refuses, saying he will reply to the governor's letter tomorrow.
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Des Moines
INS
Harold M. Cooper
Clyde L. Herring
State Liquor Control Commission
Cooper
Executive Council
Ned Repaiteu
Linn County
Grand Jury
Iowa
Resignation Denied By Harold Cooper In Liquor Board Case
Harold M. Cooper refused to resign as chairman of the liquor control commission amid his indictment in Cedar Rapids and told Governor Herring he feared resignation would prejudice his Linn county case. Continued on page 20 column 5.
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DES Moines
INS
Linn County
Harold M. Cooper
Herring
Liquor Control Commission
Cedar Rapids
Plan To Remove Unproductive Land From Tillage Urged
Washington report notes shrinking population could reach 144 million by 1960 and urges a safe farming plan. The land planning committee of the national resources board warns against reliance on rising birth rates and immigration, proposing removal of unproductive land from tillage to avert future disaster.
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Washington
National Resources Board
Land Planning Committee
Board
Ickes
Friday
Property Right Of Oyster Gets Court Defense
Chicago papers report a historic legal defense over oyster property rights after Sadie Stearns admitted the oyster’s pearl belongs to the oyster. The case sets a precedent claiming the oyster is a fructus naturales and prior possessor, Margot King, may own the oyster and its contents.
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Chicago
Sadie Stearns
Nino Rinaldo
Margot King
Mrs. Stearns
Margot
Sadie
Nina
Harry
Elkins
Superior Court
Robert Cohan
Yeggs Bolt Wilson Co Poultry Office Safe
Burglars cracked the Wilson and Company poultry office safe, escaping with 1054 dollars in cash and 118.76 dollars in checks. Entry was gained by prying a window and punching the safe combination. The theft was discovered at 7 15 a m Friday by O W Compton, with only the safe area disturbed.
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Wilson and Company
Yeggs
Poultry Office
Packing House
W. D. Potter
O. W. Compton
Rain Delays Earhart Hop Start in Honolulu
Heavy rain and cross winds at Wheeler Field force postponement of Amelia Earhart Putnam’s planned Friday departure for the Pacific coast. The heavily loaded monoplane could not be lifted safely, halting the flight attempt.
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Amelia
Honolulu
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Pacific Coast
Wheelerfield
Army Airport
Mediator Brings Peace in Cedar Rapids Milk War
Federal mediation ended the Cedar Rapids milk price clash as producers and distributors agreed to a fixed Class 1 price of $2 per hundredweight and Class 2 butterfat at 40 cents per pound. The accord expires April 30 with new talks to follow, while Blue Valley Dairy may start independent production nearby.
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Cedar Rapids
William O. Perdue
AAA
Des Moines
Dubuque
Blue Valley
Tom Wright
Chicago
Marion
Weaver Witwer
Wright
Perdue
Washington, D. C
Five Injured In Headon Collision West Of Walker
Five occupants of a car driven by P W Shive were injured in a headon crash with Willis Crippen on highway No 11 one and a half miles west of Walker at 3 35 p m Friday. Crippen also injured. all were taken to St Luke's hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
P. W. Shive
B Avenue
Shive
Willis Crippen
Crippen
Walker
Highway No. 11
Aged Seeker at Door Reflects City’s Hidden Hardships
An elderly woman pleads for pennies at a door, her life marked by endless labor, poverty, and family losses. Her worn features reveal generations of struggle as she recalls a distant childhood, multiple marriages, and four lost children, highlighting urban misery and society’s neglect.
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Zif
Not Guilty Plea Entered For Harold Cooper
Harold M. Cooper head of the state liquor commission pleads not guilty in district court to an Iowa liquor control act indictment. His attorney, H. G. Cartwright, filed a $1 000 bond. Cooper did not appear. The indictment, by Linn county grand jury, accuses him of allowing J Le Roy Farmer to possess liquor unlawfully after a Cedar Rapids raid that seized about $2 000 worth of liquor.
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Nless
Cooper
Iowa
Linn County
Harold M. Cooper
State Liquor Commission
H. G. Cartwright
Marshalltown
Cartwright
H. C. Ring
G. E. Hermence
Edna Cooper
Linn County Grand Jury
J. LeRoy Farmer
Canning Company
Farmer
Cedar Rapids
Rogers says marriage reports about Pickford are news to me
London AP reports Charles "Buddy" Rogers doubts rumors of wedding to Mary Pickford after her divorce from Douglas Fairbanks. Rogers says he had not heard of any engagement plans and treats the news as new.
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London
Charles
Buddy" Rogers
Miss Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1935
A brief note records traffic toll data in Cedar Rapids for 1935 showing counts of accidents, injuries, and deaths. The OCR lacks clear figures, but the item outlines the toll totals as a historical statistic referenced in the era’s transportation report.
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Cedar Rapids
Herring Plan to Upset Be eh Deal Blocked
Iowa Attorney General E L O Connor says proposed refunding warrants totaling 3 5 million would be illegal under the state sinking fund limit 3 5 million tied to the first issue sold to the Carleton D Beh Co Des Moines Gov Herring had urged amendments to the sinking fund law to allow larger refunds but keep new issue limits The governor plans a public sale rule requiring highest bidder for future obligations and O Connor notes the Beh sale was private but legal under current law
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State House
Herring
DES Moines
E. L. O’connor
Carleton D. Beh Company
Clyde L. Herring
Leo J. Wegman
Beh
Gov. Herring
General Assembly
O'Connor
Iowa
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Anti-Nazi Leader Urges Saar Voting Freedom
Max Braum, an anti-Nazi leader, telegrammed the league council alleging rising terrorism in the Saar Valley. He urged protection for Germans opposing Saar return to Hitler’s Germany and denounced Nazi efforts to muzzle opponents ahead of Sunday's plebiscite.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Max Braum
League Council
Braun
Germany
Council
Ransom Notes Take Center Stage in Hauptmann Trial
Evidence on the Lindbergh ransom notes and their distinctive signatures dominates the Hauptmann murder trial as prosecutors press to prove the notes were written by the alien ex convict. The courtroom fills with spectators while handwrit ing experts prepare to testify and state officials observe proceedings in Flemington.
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Flemington
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Martens Acquitted Of Murder In Self Defense Claim
SIGOURNEY CAP The jury acquitted Adolph Martens a 50 year old Keswick farmer of murdering his stepdaughter Maxine Abel 14 The verdict followed a self defense theory based on a gun blow and knife attack The defendant still faces a charge in the slaying of his wife Estella Martens whose body and the girl were found after Aug 2 The case dates traced to several months before the trial
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Sigourney
CAP
Adolph Martens
Keswick
Maxine Abel
Frank Bechly
Montezuma
Martens
Estella Martens
Kann Heads Iowa U Employment Service
Lee Kann, assistant in Johnson County probation work, will become director of the University of Iowa student employment service at Iowa City on Monday. He succeeds Benjamin W. Robinson, who resigned to join the federal reemployment office in Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa City
Lee Kann
Johnson County
Benjamin W. Robinson
University of Iowa
Supreme Court decision looms over New Deal monetary plan
Washington AP reports a looming Supreme Court ruling could alter a $69 billion debt outlook and the fate of the New Deal monetary program. Markets fell as grains and metals declined while government bonds gained, amid speculation on how the court’s decision would affect currency value and bond redemption.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Treasury
Congress
Ransom Case Details Highlight Hauptmann Trial
Scraps of money and stationery tied to the Lindbergh ransom case surface in Flemington New Jersey court. Albert Osborn and others testify Hauptmann wrote the notes, while a Bronx garage repaint and a green sedan link to the kidnapping emerge. An elderly witness describes a suspicious green car near Lindbergh’s home on the kidnapping day.
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Hauptmann
Associated Press
Albert
Osborn
Brune
Bronx
Bruno
Violet Sharpe
Yonkers
N. Y
U. S
Leipzig
Germany
Isidor Fisch
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Albert S. Osborn
New York City
New Yorke
George Johnson
East 182Nd Street
Amandus Hochmuth
Hopewell
Sourland Mountain
Hochmuth
No Bruno Hauptmann Trial Saturday Session
Justice Trenchard grants defense Friday request to allow Saturday examination of state exhibits including handwriting samples at the state capitol in Trenton. The Bruno Hauptmann trial in Flemington, New Jersey, will pause for the extra review.
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Flemington
N. J
INS
Bruno Hauptmann
Thomas W. Trenchard
State Capitol
Trenton
Mentholatum founder Albert A Hyde dies at 86
Albert A Hyde, 86, founder and chairman of the board of the Mentholatum Company, died in Wichita Kansas on Thursday night from a heart attack.
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Wichita
Kas
Albert A. Hyde
Mentholatum Company
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