Cedar Rapids Birthday Ball Raises Record Fund for Infantile Paralysis
At the President's Birthday Ball in Memorial Coliseum, 682 attendees helped push Cedar Rapids and Linn county contributions toward the national Infantile Paralysis Foundation. About 800 tickets were reportedly sold locally, with proceeds earmarked for orthopedic centers, notably the University of Iowa. A portable iron lung, costing about 900, was presented to Cedar Rapids and Linn county for community use, funded from prior ball proceeds. Mayor Hahn accepted the gift as the event honored Roosevelt's birthday with a grand march and a radio broadcast.
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Memorial Coliseum
Paul H. Huston
National Fund
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Foundation For
University of Iowa
Charles D. Huston
Internal Revenue
Iowa
Frank K. Hahn
Hahns
Hahn
Raymond Coward
Young Democrats
Lorraine Buckman
W. E. Lamey
Welton O'Dell
Walter R. Hutchinson
United States
Edna K. Dieman
Marilyn Morehouse
A Morehouse
Seventh Street
Marie Kathryn Morlan
R. L. Morlan
Eighth Avenue
Bettilou Lefebure
L. V. Lefebure
Fourth Avenue
Marilyn Ladd
Dorothy Ladd
Mary Eileen Stenner
Gertrude Stenner
D Avenue
Mary Jane Hubbard
P. A. Tisher
Eighteenth Street
Lorraine Lee Hinton
Robert M. Hinton
First Street
Patricia Kaufman
G. D. Kaufman
Second Avenue SE
Jean France
France
Urbana
Charles Dougherty
Shellsburg
Leone Blume
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Warm Springs Foundation
Huston
Agreement to Limit Sugar Grower Benefit Payments
Senate leaders propose limiting BG benefit payments to reduce checks to large landowners while boosting small farmers with a 10 percent fund allocation. About 50 million of 500 million expected this year would target sub $200 payouts, with structured increases across income classes. Committees for administration would be county elected and state appointed, and conferees plan to work Sunday to finish House-Senate farm bill reconciliations.
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Pope
Idaho
Secretary of Agriculture
House
Senate
Congress
Murphy Faces Shirt Shortage Amid Laundry Strike
Detroit reports Governor Frank Murphy needing a new dress shirt for the President's birthday ball after his shirt was stuck at a laundry on strike. The laundry refused delivery, offering to remove pickets with the national guard. Drivers are striking and picketing the plant.
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Detroit
INS
Frank Murphy
National Guard
Grandmother Acquitted in Arsenic Murder Case
Hastings Minnesota Mrs Beatrice Johnke 41 acquitted of poisoning her husband Louis after a 73 hour jury deliberation. The case alleged arsenic in his food to shield an affair with Carl Sandgren 32 a St Paul WPA worker and to collect a $1500 life insurance policy.
Clear Bus Operator of Drunk Driving
SIOUX FALLS SD AP Henry Peiper bus driver stood acquitted today of driving while drunk from a July accident in which 20 were injured and one bus burned. A municipal court jury freed him. A Moravia arrest had a Russian suspect for police photos but every plate was blank. The suspect offered a secret of invisibility for freedom but was refused.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Henry Peiper
Moravia
Will to Live Aids Man Buried in Coal
Mrs. Lodge said her husband Ted remained conscious during rescue though stressed by pain and cold. He told rescuers Ill freeze to death and Yes, of course I do when asked if he recognized a friend. At hospital he was deemed fine though still shocked.
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Mrs. Lodge
Contract requires radio stations to hire more musicians
The American Federation of Musicians announced a two year contract forcing all 18 U S radio stations to employ more musicians and limit broadcast of records. It adds 2 013 000 yearly to musicians pay and covers 150 stations in the United States and Canada. Petrillo said stations will not deal with firms that avoid hiring musicians during record broadcasts. Hollywood is next in the union's plan to place orchestras in motion picture theaters.
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Chicago
American Federation of Musicians
James C. Petrillo
Chicago Federation of Musicians
Petrillo
United States
Canada
Hollywood
California Assembly Demands Full Probe of Statewide Vice
The California assembly interim committee urged Governor Merriam to launch a full and complete investigation of statewide vice and corruption and requested $50,000 from the emergency reserve to fund the inquiry. Col. Neblett publicly pressed Speaker Moseley Jones and effectively forced him to take leave from his law firm amid the political firestorm in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
INS
California Assembly
Frank F. Merriam
William H. Neblett
Assembly
William Moseley Jones
Jones
Neblett
Foil Efforts Of Chinese Crew To Challenge Japs
In Boston a heavy police guard at the Keiyo Maru dock frustrated a Chinese crew on another vessel from challenging Japanese seamen to a wharf fight without weapons. The challenge came via a stevedore emissary after Police Commissioner Tumilty ordered the guard removed on reports that something might happen.
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Boston
Joseph F. Tumilty
Patterson, Wylde and Company
Soviet protest over Milan court seizure of delegation funds
The Soviet embassy formally protests to Italy over a Milan court injunction sequestering nearly 26 million lire from the Soviet commercial delegation in Italy at the request of Ansaldo steel works. The protest calls the court action ille gal.
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Rome
Foreign Office
Milan
Italy
Ansaldo Steel Works
State Dairy Oversight Faces Calls for Enforcment Reform
The piece condemns current food and milk inspections as ineffective, criticizes the political appointment of inspectors, and urges expansion and qualification reforms in the dairy division. It notes a federal push for drastic action at Des Moines after failed attempts to move inspections to public health, labeling the legislature's stance a potential mistake.
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Jowa
Dairy and Food Division
State Department of Agriculture
Des Moines
Public Health Department
Senate Fights to Restore Lodge Wage Amendment
A secret coalition of senators formed to back Senator Lodge’s prevailing wage amendment as the Senate prepared to act on a $3 billion housing bill. Wagner plans a test vote to lay the measure aside indefinitely while Southern filibusters press their campaign. Connally predicts the bill cannot pass and will be dropped by next weekend.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Lodge
Mass
House
Wagner
New York
Connally
Texas
Mass. mental hospital deaths exceed five hundred
Massachusetts state authorities are investigating more than 500 deaths in eight institutions last year. The count includes 118 sudden deaths with 73 from fracture complications and 29 from personal crisis reports, with one homicide victim among the cases. Dr. Clifton Perkins notes each death was publicly reported at the time.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Clifton C. Perkins
Bobby Jones sues over excess taxes in 1931 claim
Robert T. Jones, the retired golfing great, filed suit in the Middle District of Georgia to recover 27 398 70 dollars he says he overpaid in income taxes for 1931 from earnings on a Warner Brothers movie. The hearing was scheduled for next Thursday.
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Macon
INS
Robert T
Bobby” Jones
Middle District
Grandy Rawls
Jones
Warner Brothers
Rawls
Panay Fate Narrowly Avoided by Luzon Gunboat
Luzon narrowly escaped Panay's fate during a Hankow air raid as fragments of Chinese anti-aircraft shells struck decks. One shell hit Luzon’s lighter, killing one Chinese and wounding several. Radioman sustained scratches but the vessel remained undamaged while Chinese forces claimed gains near Tsining in Shantung as Japanese began withdrawing. Chinese troops at Mingkitang repelled a Japanese river crossing with heavy fire.
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Shanghai
United States
Luzon
Panay
Hankow
Tsining
Shantung Province
Mingkitang
Republican Party urged to defend structure of government
The speech accuses US party leaders of surrendering to organized pressure groups and expanding administrative power that weakens courts and Congress. It urges a program grounded in plentiful economics to provide lower prices and more goods, and warns against lawmakers echoing executive will.
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Dr. Frank
Republican Party
Iowan Implicated in $150 000 Swindle at Reno Trial
Edward W. Gilsdorff of Chicago testified at the Reno trial of Allen Comer and four others that a Sioux City Iowa man helped take his $150 000 in 1930. He identified a man named Mr Hyde as the intermediary. Hyde, William Hyde alias Walter W Hamlin, pled guilty in 1936 and got a one year sentence. Gilsdorff said he felt doped or hypnotized after the transaction.
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NEW York
Chicago
Allen Comer
Sioux City
Comer
Reno
Nev
Edward W. Gilsdorff
Nine arraigned on illegal fishing charges in city court
Nine men faced Justice H R Churchill on illegal fishing charges. One pled guilty. six of eight who pleaded not guilty were fined 100 dollars with 75 dollars suspended. Three more were fined 50 dollars with costs and suspended. Several cases were continued. Names and addresses of involved defendants listed.
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H. R. Churchill
Leo Logan
Godfrey Suchan
Third Street
Louis Thissel
Sixteenth Street NW
Milo Webb
Toddville
Richard Rudd
I Avenue
James Dutton
Sixth Street
Edward McNabb
Fourth Street
Charles Barkwill
Charles Barkwill, Jr
Eighth Street
Marion
Robert Shekelton
Deaths Lyle Turner Dies in Florida Brother of Mrs Hickok
Mrs. Charles T. Hickok learns of Lyle Turner of Cleveland death in St. Petersburg Florida. Turner widowed by Mrs. Hickok and survives two sons Harry of Cleveland and Allen H. of Akron. He also leaves sister Mrs. E. E. Niekirk of Toledo and St. Petersburg and brother Allen W. Turner of Toledo.
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C. T. Hickok
Florida
Charles T. Hickok
Fifth Avenue SE
St. Petersburg
Fla
Lyle Turner
Cleveland
Turner
Death of Mrs Ina Mae Herman 56 in Cedar Rapids
Mrs Ina Mae Herman died at 1 25 p m Saturday at her home after a 15 year illness. Age 56 born April 22 1881 Racine Wisconsin daughter of L C and Mrs Preston married to Fred C Herman Sept 28 1911 Muscatine Iowa lived in Cedar Rapids since 1916. Survived by husband mother and sister Merce Chilston Los Angeles California funeral at Green's cemetery Vinton at 2 30 p m Monday Rev Frank Ward. Friends may call Beatty chapel 7 9 p m Sunday or until noon Monday.
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Ina Mae Herman
Johnson Avenue
Racine
Wis
L. C. Preston
Fred C. Herman
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
Merce Chilston
Los Angeles
Green’s Cemetery
Vinton
Frank Ward
Beatty Chapel
Insanity Faker Fulfills Kill Threat in Bronx Shootout
Martin J. Lavin 37, a noted cop killer who feigned insanity to escape trial, killed a Bronx police sergeant after a gun duel with five holdup men. Five suspects indicted for first degree murder. Senator McNabee orders inquiry into Lavin’s Matteawan asylum commitment amid past warnings by Dr. Wertham that Lavin would kill again.
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New York
INS
Martin J. Lavin
Lavin
Bronx
John J. McNabee
Legislative Committee of Law Enforcement
Matteawan
Insane Asylum
David Kilpatrick
Frederic Wertham
Bellevue Hospital
McNabee
Wertham
New York City
U S Declines Move to Aid China amid Nanking Incident
U S officials withheld joining a planned aid push for China after Japan slapped American Consul John M Allison in Nanking. The protest, voiced orally in Tokyo following a Roosevelt Hull meeting, signals mounting strain in Tokyo Washington ties as Britain France and Russia discuss aiding China in its war with Japan.
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John M. Allison
Nanking
Hangchow
China
Japan
United States
Grewn
Tokio
State Department
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Norman H. Davis
America
Europe
No Fogrom Carol Jews Pogrom Question in Roumania
King Carol of Roumania assured the world there will be no violence to Jews in Roumania. In a Bucharest audience he said the country has a Jewish problem but is wrestling with it and aims for a nonviolent solution under Premier Octavian Goga's government amid rising nationalism and anti semitism.
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Geneva
Great Britain
France
Russia
United States
China
Japan
League of Nations
League Council
V. K. Wellington Koo
League
Poland
Joseph Avenol
Roumania
Council
Fogrom
Carol
Alvin Steinkopp
Bucharest
Royal
Octavian Goga
Fear Steamer Tinge Feared Lost With 23 Hands
Amsterdam reports the 1 744 ton Tinge registered in Panama bound for the North Sea vanished after distress calls near Terschelling bank. Rescue ships from the Netherlands failed to locate the steamer and all 23 crew members are feared lost.
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Amsterdam
Tinge
Panama
Terschelling Bank
Tage
Netherlands
Police Nab Six In Raid On Card Game
Six men were arrested in a raid on a card game at the Allison hotel around 10 15 p m Saturday and a gambling charge filed. Detectives Haberle Wilson Kudina and Sgt Hrabetin led the operation finding 27 dollars in cash on the table. The group named Frank Lewis Augie Larson John Smith J A McGrath Joe Leedom H L Williams posted 30 dollar cash bonds each and were released.
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Allison Hotel
Haberle
Wilson
Iowa City
J. A. McGrath
Coralville
Joe Leedom
G Avenue NW
H.L. Williams
Fourth Avenue SE
Green Defies Move for Ouster in Reply
Green rejects a cease and desist order and argues the international executive board lacks authority to act as accuser before the convention of the United Mine Workers of America. He contends no provision allows appearance before bodies other than the local union as specified in the constitution.
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Green
International Executive Board
United Mine Workers of America
AFL chief challenges ITU head to CIO referendum
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged Charles P. How ard president of the International Typographical union to put the question to a referendum among his 60 000 members on quitting the federation to join the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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Miami, Fla
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Saturday
Charles P. Howard
International Typographical Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Cummings Aid Shot By Beggar After Refusal
Russell Hardy special assistant to Attorney General Cummings was shot in the hip by a man who asked for money outside the George Mason hotel in Alexandria. Hardy, reporting the incident to police, said he refused the request, the assailant slammed the car door, then fired and vanished. He was taken to Alexandria hospital in good condition.
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Alexandria
Russell Hardy
Cummings
Alexandria Hospital
Hardy
George Mason Hotel
Midwest Braces For Snow and Severe Cold Wave
A Arctic snowstorm moves from Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas toward the Midwest with temperatures dropping below zero in places like Helena. The storm threatens rain turning to snow in the region while a new cold snap grips the northwest. The Midwest faces heavy snow, power outages, and disrupted traffic as emergency crews toil. Flooding from ice jams affects Illinois towns along the Rock River, trapping 85 year old Ellen Crandall near Erie, and a 90 foot dam bursts at Dixon forcing evacuations.
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United States
Arctic’ Circle
Montana
Wyoming
Dakotas
Middlewest
U. S
J. R. Lloyd
Chicago
Rocky Mountains
North Central States
Helena
Mont
Lloyd
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Rock River
Ilinois
Ellen Crandall
Erie
Ill
Confessed Plots Against Soviet Government in Georgia
Seven counter revolutionaries in Tiflis admitted plans to overthrow the Soviet regime in Georgia. Three others were sentenced to die for wrecking the Central Siberian railroad and a fourth for sabotage on a collective farm in Dagestan. The Tiflis group included institute leaders, two professors, and three agricultural economists acting under a former Georgian agricultural commissar.
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Moscow
INS
Tiflis
Georgia
Josep
Central Siberian
Daghestar
Agricultural Institute
Rockefeller House Demolished for Parking Lot in Cleveland
The mansion of the late John D. Rockefeller on Cleveland's millionaires row will be razed to make way for a parking lot and filling station, authorities announced Saturday.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockfeller
Pendleton Fan Seeks Autograph from Errol Flynn
A Pendleton Oregon resident wrote to film star Errol Flynn asking for an autograph and to visit Pendleton to sign a pine tree. The quirky plea highlights the fan’s bold request and hometown pride.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Errol Flynn
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