Letters Show Rader Was Slots Fixer
In 1929 letters reveal Leroy A. Rader coordinating with Frank S. Brisbois on slot machine matters in Primghar O'Brien County and nearby towns. They discuss confiscation, selling machines, shipping to St. Louis, and court actions with references to Judge Butler and Minneapolis-St. Paul plans.
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Ir F S. Brisbois
Fonda
Iowa
Frank
Primghar
O’brien
St. Louis
Butler
Leroy A. Rader
Frank S. Brisbois
Lampman
Iam
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Judge Coyle
L. H. Salinger
Spencer
Juage Coyle
Lou Salinger
Pocahontas
Langer letters tie Brisbois to protection payments in 1933
June 28 1933 letter from MAX LANGER to Brisbois Brothers confirms protection requests and future territory expansion. Gazette interview reveals Brisbois did not recognize Langer or pay him protection. discovery shows Brisbois sent at least one $100 payment to Joe Gagen via American Railway Express. Brisbois checks to Langer totaled 100 27 and 50 dollars in May and June 1933.
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Langer
Brisbols Brothers
Sirs
Arnolds Park
Max Langer
Gazette
Frank Brisbois
Fonda
Dubuque
Brisbois
Joe Gagen
American Railway Express
Gagen
Elks Club
Des Moines
Railway Express
Grand Jury
Recknagle
Fonda Express
Duckworth Tells All In Graft Probe
Testimony and records linked to a graft probe center on Duckworth’s office receipts and three years of shipments with most activity in 1933. Grand jury heard from George Funk Howard Amick and local officials in Anthon Iowa as investigation widens with Brisbois linked to protection money and a Des Moines payoff via American Railway Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Jury
George E. Funk
Sioux City
Central West Public Service Company
Howard C Amick
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
W.S Harshfield
Woodbury
Anthon
Harshfield
Howard Foley
Walter Flynn
Oliver Downing
Langer
Dubuque
Brisbois
Duckworth
Hts
Emma Duckworth
Chicago Banks Hit Record Cash With Huge Rise in Deposits
Chicago bank resources reached 1 094 billion dollars a new all time peak deposits climbed 279 million in four months to 2 628 billion the largest since 1930 loans and discounts fell to 546 million a four year peak was set in savings deposits at 433 million, up 25 million in four months.
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Chicago
INS
United States Comptroller
Shenots
Cedar Rapids Bank Buys Amana Bonds
The Merchants National Bank of Cedar Rapids bought a $16,500 bond issue to fund a high school addition in Middle Amana. The 235 percent interest bid plus a $145 premium led against other bidders from Marengo Des Moines and Davenport. Bonds mature over fifteen years starting 1936 as bids continue for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Amana
Merchants National Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Town County Savings Bank of Marengo
Carlton Belt and Company
Des Moines
Bechtel and Company
Davenport
Health Camp And A New Dad Make Two Little Girls Happy
Two girls at Camp Good Health gain health and joy as their widowed mother remarries and a new father helps the family. The Public Health Nursing camp aids malnourished children, funded by donations to the Camp Good Health Fund via The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Camp Good Health
Dora
Donna
Public Health Nursing Association
Ida
The
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Maley presses probe into Lytle bid scandal
Walter F. Maley announced he would seek Linn county grand jury review of a bribe allegation linked to candidate Lytle in the Cedar Rapids sewage disposal plant bidding. Lytle countered that the attorney general’s office has not investigated rackets despite years in office. The Stark Building Co later bought Bemis and Schlick’s contract on section F of the plant, risking loss of potential city savings.
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Walter F. Maley
Des Moines
Linn County Grand Jury
Lytle
Cedar Rapids
Lytle Controversy Hindering Cedar Rapids Sewage Contract Purchase
The Cedar Rapids bid for section B of the sewage disposal plant faced scrutiny as Assistant Attorney General Maley questioned C. F. Lytle of Sioux City. Des Moines firm Bemis and Schlick won amid altered specifications and lower bids, with investors fearing weak contract terms and possible corruption, though no concrete offer to withdraw or buy favor was proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Bemis and Schlick
Des Moines
Walter Maley
C. F. Lytle
Sioux City
Bemis and
Schlick
H. R. Green Engineering Company
Lytle Company
Haegg Construction Company
Lytle
Bemis
Haegg Company
Haegg
Linn Grand Jury Prep Amid Uncertain Maley Case
County Attorney G K Thompson said no information has been received from Assistant Attorney General Maley about a possible grand jury probe of Maley's charges against C F Lytle. The next Linn grand jury is set to convene in September.
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Thompson
G. K. Thompson
Maley
C. F. Lytle
Linn
Fear New Flood On Des Moines River
A new flood threat looms on the Des Moines river as Iowa endures heavy rains and widespread damage. The Weather Bureau warns residents of the highest flood levels in years, with anticipation of two extra feet above last week's crest. Five men are feared drowned after a launch capsized on the Mississippi near Keokuk, as searchers continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Mississippi
Talmadge To Carry Roosevelt Fight To People Of Georgia
Governor Eugene Talmadge plans a Canton Georgia address on July Fourth to appeal for states rights and oppose President Roosevelt. Observers expect turnout indicates support for the governor ahead of Georgia’s presidential primary.
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Talmadge
Roosevelt
Georgia
Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Canton
Pine Mountain
Warm Springs
Stawinski Sentenced for Larceny in Cedar Rapids
Frank Stawinski of St Louis Missouri charged with larceny received a ninety day county jail term in district court Tuesday. Judge H C Ring ordered release after thirty days for good behavior. He allegedly took several pairs of men’s hose from Montgomery Ward in Cedar Rapids and was arrested Tuesday.
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Frank Stawinski
St. Louis
H. C. Ring
Stawinski
Montgomery Ward Company
Cedar Rapids
Trio May Get Life For Lawyer's Death
Four youths and three Jackson sisters planned and carried out the murder of attorney Dickinson in Rouge Park to steal $134. Confessions describe premeditated robbery with shots fired after stopping the car. The group traveled to Detroit then Chicago after the killing and were arrested in Fort Wayne.
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Dickinson
Lonely Rouge Park
Schweitzer
McCrea
Jackson Sisters
Jackson
Jean Miller
Loretta
Moncey
Florence Jackson
Jean
Bill
Detroit
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Ind
Northwest Storms Claim Six Lives
Six people died in the northwest after extreme heat and tornadoes spread to North Dakota and Minnesota. The toll includes drownings at Forrest Lake and near Robbinsdale, a CCC worker killed near Engleville, a farm girl near Ross, a crash of Vivian Rehen’s father, and Otto Fisk killed near Manitou in North Dakota.
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Minneapolis
North Dakota
Minnesota
Jack Metcalf
Forrest Lake
Minn
Francis Reger
Robbinsdale
Wilbur Hanson
CCC
Engleville
N. D
Vivian Rehen
Ross
John Rehen
Vivian
Otto Fisk
Manitou
Fairfax Township Road Not To Be Abandoned
Linn county board of supervisors decided to keep open a one mile unimproved county road in Fairfax township. Residents sought abandonment but the road remains the only access to a cultivated farm in the area.
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Fairfax Township
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Convict Killed In Prison Break at Pendleton Reformatory
In Pendleton Indiana one inmate died and a second was seriously wounded as four men attempted a break at Pendleton state reformatory. Guard Ralph Wright driven off the escape with a shotgun his son helping. Simon Dwyer 24 serving 21 years for voluntary manslaughter was killed. Robert McCallister 21 wounded. Robert Sanders 18 recaptured. Darrel Paul Jones 23 escaped.
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Pendleton
Ind
inNs
White
Pendleton State Reformatory
Ralph Wright
Ingalls
Simon Dwyer
Wrights
Robert McCallister
Robert Sanders
France Backs Italy in Abyssinian Stand
Britain faces cabinet tensions as France rejects British moves on Abyssinia and Laval signals Italian direction of Abyssinia. Eden reports Mussolini spurns a corridor proposal while talk swirls of reshuffles and possible resignations in Stanley Baldwin's government.
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London
Ins
Italy
Abyssinia
Stanley Baldwin
Mussolini
Britain
France
Geneva
Laval
Anthony Eden
Capt. Eden
House of Commons
Eden
League of Nations
Hearing Set July 18 on Iowa sewage question
DES MOINES AP The state department of health fixed July 18 for a show cause hearing for five Iowa river cities Eldora Marshalltown Tama Marengo and Belle Plaine and for Central Fibre Products Tama to justify why the state executive council should not order them to build sewage disposal plants Hearing will be conducted by Dr Walter L Bierring state health commissioner and A H Wieters head of sanitary engineering division sent notices to the cities and company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Department of Health
Iowa River
State Executive Council
A. H. Wieters
Sanitary Engineering Division
Eldora
Marshalltown
Tama
Marengo
Belle Plaine
Central Fibre Products Company
Walter L Bierring
Boy, 6, With Adult Development Dies in Dallas
Rodney Brown of Palestine, a 6-year-old boy with adult voice and organs, died in a Dallas hospital shortly before a planned delicate brain operation by surgeons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Rodney Brown
Palestine
Landon Seeks Midwest Backing With Budget Claim
Landon cited his Kansas record of cutting state and local revenues from 127 million in 1932 to 97 million in 1934 and reducing per capita government costs from 71 to 1 in that period. He urged guarding public funds to prevent government from burdening the people while crediting both parties in legislative budget reform. Midwestern Republicans may back him with Kansas policies as a model for regaining the region.
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Landon
Roosevelt
Kansas
Believed 100 Lost as Japanese Steamer Sinks
In Osaka Japan authorities report the small passenger steamer Midori Maru sank in the early hours. Over 100 persons are believed dead and a search operation is underway to locate survivors and recover the wreckage. Fire and rescue teams are coordinating with coast guard units along the coastline.
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Osaka
Japan
Rattler’s midriff thwarts 50 inch snake at gopher hole
In Laurier Washington two children spotted a large rattlesnake attempting to enter a gopher hole. Its midsection proved too wide to pass and the reptile was killed by men.
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Laurier
Wash
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Leroy
Frank S Brisbois
Clem McGuire
Rader
Automatic Supply Company
Clem J McGuire
United States
Louis Murphy
McGuire
Brisbois Brothers Company
Towa
Clem J. McGuire
Ene
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Senator Murphy
O'Connor
Canada Dry
Rickey
Cedar Rapids Bank
Amana Bonds
Lorenzo M. Silliman
EL. J
Helen
John
Cedar Rapids News
F. Lytle
Northwest
Snake
H. G. Fussell
Opt
Okinow
Rales
Buehler’s
DIAL
First Street
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