Battle Over Louisiana Case Against Ex President Smith
Baton Rouge officials clashed over who prosecutes former LSU president Dr James Monroe Smith charged with embezzling 100000. District Attorney Sanchez and East Baton Rouge authorities pressed for custody of Smith. General Guerre and state police claimed authority. A federal Huey Long law potentiality hovered as Governor Earl Long mediated custody. Caldwell's resignation as LSU construction head cited amid funds concerns.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
James Monroe Smith
the State University
Dewey J Sanchez
East Baton Rouge Parish
Dr. Smith
Brockville
Ont
Sanchez
Guerre
Gov. Long
Smith
Mrs. Smith
Canada
General Guerre
David M. Ellison
Huey Long
Long
George Caldwell
Caldwell
LSU Ex-President James M Smith Charged with Embezzlement
Dr. James Monroe Smith former LSU president faced embezzlement charges in the United States involving about 100000 dollars of university funds. His wife was arrested with him by Canadian authorities and described as hysterical. Canadian and Louisiana officials arranged custody as they awaited return to Louisiana.
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Brockville
Ont
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Louisiana
Murphy Roden
Byron Clemens
East Baton Rouge Parish
Smiths
University
J. P. Fraim
Cleveland
Ottawa
Red Letter Fourth Parade Sparks Patriot Nostalgia
War veterans parade tomorrow to mark a red letter date with a playful display. They plan to wear trench helmets and explode toy cannons while lighting giant crackers with clay pipes, celebrating peace and veterans' history.
Mood shifts from fear to defiance in Britain says editor
Ernest Jeffs reports Britons move from autumn fear to a defiant fatalism. They resist propaganda and urge meeting danger, while faith and morality are urged to overcome fear. The piece warns of fascism, calls for a force above reason, and concludes that tyranny will fall but with agony. Dr. Newton.
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WMY
Ernest Jeffs
London
Beng
Neared Distance Swim Goal in Yellowstone River Attempt
Clarence Giles a 45 year old auctioneer moved slowly downstream in the Yellowstone River toward Glendive Montana aiming to set a world record by swimming 288 miles from Billings to Glendive. He was less than 10 miles from Glendive near noon as the battered and weary swimmer pressed on.
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Glendive
Mont
Clarence Giles
Yellowstone River
Billings
Giles
No Compromise at Tientsin as Japan Demands Control
Peiping Japanese spokesman vows no compromise with Britain over Tientsin. Provisional government demands include joint control of concessions, currency policy cooperation, bank inspections, and strict anti-Japanese publication limits. Blockade tightens as Tokyo prepares to negotiate. British subject John Anderson was publicly assaulted. Edward Griffiths, a British engineer, is detained for alleged insult to the Japanese army amid tensions.
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Tientsin
Peiping
Provisional Government
North China
Tokio
John Anderson
China
Woodrow Wilson Street
Edward T. Griffiths
Griffiths
Meteor blast terrifies Portland as sky fire lights up region
Portland residents report a massive fireball exploding overhead on Sunday sending a flame trail across the Willamette Valley. J Hugh Pruett of the University of Oregon surveys reports from Arlington to Eugene as witnesses describe the object’s moonlike size and a loud concussion felt across a 40 mile radius.
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Portland
Ore
Science
Washington
Arlington
Columbia River
J. Hugh Pruett
University of Oregon
Oregon
American Meteorological Association
Pruett
Ford Hand
Eugene
Her
Willamette Valley
Group Bolts When Congress Of Youth Won't Assail Reds
New York dispatch reports Alfred M. Lilienthal leader of the First Voters League of New York led an anticommunist faction out of the American Youth Congress meeting at Manhattan Center after a voice vote failed to condemn communism alongside Nazism and fascism.
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Congress of Youth
Reds
New York
INS
Alfred M. Lilienthal
First Voters League of
American Youth Congress
Lillienthal
Manhattan Center
Lilienthal
Dionne Files Second Suit Against Dafoe Over Personal Profit
Oliva Dionne sues Dr Allan Roy Dafoe in Nipissing district court claiming Dafoe profited personally from the quintuplets through private contracts with 43 corporations. He seeks production of private papers and to funnel all proceeds to the quintuplets’ trust fund.
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North Bay
Ont
Oliva Dionne
Allan Roy Dafoe
Dafoe
Dionne
Nipissing
Guins
Saints and Sinners Club of
New York
Embryo Stage Found For Individual Development
Stanford symposium features Yale’s Dr Ross G Harrison revealing the stage when embryos become organized. He reports experiments with salamander grafts showing eye tissue can become a belly part, then later acquire organ forming power. He cites organizer cells and notes removing them halts differentiation.
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Palo Alto Calif
Ross G Harrison
Yale University
Stanford University
Harrison
Former Ace Director Neilan Arrested on Worthless Checks
Hollywood veteran Marshall Neilan was jailed for 24 hours on charges of writing worthless checks. Friends posted $1,000 bail. he said he tried to keep up appearances in clubs while broke. Once a top director earning about $100,000 per film, he later failed to adapt to talkies and filed bankruptcy with debts around $195,000.
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Hollywood
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford
Jean Harlow
Neilan
Harlow
Corrigan to Wed Schoolteacher in July Wedding
Miss Elizabeth Marvin a San Antonio schoolteacher announced her upcoming wedding to Douglas Corrigan the famous wrong way flyer set for July 17 in San Antonio The couple have a long friendship dating back to childhood in Galveston Texas and the date marks the anniversary of his hop to Ireland.
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San Antonio
Tex
Elizabeth Marvin
Douglas Corrigan
Ireland
Galveston
Holiday Weekend Toll Surges With 279 Killed
United Press reports a rising Fourth of July death toll as millions travel. In the first two and a half days, at least 279 people died violently, with activity on highways and resorts likely to push the total past prior years. Fireworks injuries and other accidents are expected to continue.
Man Breaks From Jail With String In South Paris
Alphie Lazzette, 29, escaped Monday using a string to reach a cord wood, pry window bars, and drop to the rail yard. He then climbed over a 15 foot fence to gain freedom while held on an assault charge.
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Paris
Alphie Lazzette
Alphie
Weather man predicts wet Fourth of July across Midwest
The weather forecaster in Chicago predicted a wet Fourth of July with occasional thunderstorms Monday night into Tuesday for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Cooler temperatures were also forecast.
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Chicago
Midwest
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
J. R. Lloyd
Temperature Hits 88 Amid Clouds In Cedar Rapids
Sun broke through cloud banks Monday afternoon keeping Cedar Rapids temperatures at 88 degrees between 1:10 and 2:45 p.m. The prior Sunday reached 88 at 3 p.m. The Chambers Inskeep dial showed a low of 17 amid Monday midnight, with 7 p.m. Sunday at 75.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Mercury
Boy Flyer Returns to Denver After Solo Chicago Flight
Sixteen year old Richard James arrived in Denver Monday following a solo flight from Chicago. He completed the journey alone, marking a notable achievement for the young aviator.
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Denver
INS
Richard James
Chicago
Two Programs Hold Key to Adjournment in Washington
Washington reports that administration neutrality and lending programs dominate the agenda as Congress faces adjournment warnings. Democratic opposition rises to the 83.86 billion dollar lending plan while Senate and House debate extends into August with the arms embargo and monetary powers under fire.
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Washington
Roosevelt
INS
Senate
House
League of Nations
Freight train crashes after boulder toppled onto track
In Mount Vernon Kentucky three trainmen died when a heavily loaded freight train struck a massive boulder that had fallen from a mountainside. The collision overturned the locomotive and nine cars in the early hours.
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Mount Vernon, Ky
Camp Good Health Fourth of July celebration for Cedar Rapids children
Camp Good Health will host a July Fourth celebration for underprivileged children at the Cedar Rapids camp. The day includes sun baths, meals, a four case pop picnic funded by Tehel Bottling, gifts, and a flag-decorated grounds observance. The fundraiser aims to raise the remaining amount toward a $3,000 goal to support the program run by Public Health Nursing Association.
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Camp Good Health
Tehel Bottling Works
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Iowa
Heroic Mom Rescues Two Children from Drowning Spree
Mrs Yolanda Fabbrey a 23 year old mother of two rescued her children and their father Edward Dressden 36 who attempted to drown them in Lake Michigan at Navy Pier Dressden was taken to a psychiatric hospital for observation after pulling the boy into the water and fighting the rescuer The mother swam repeatedly to save the three and bring Dressden to shore. he later jumped back in the lake and was pulled out again Dressden reportedly despondent over unemployment.
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Chicago
INS
Yolanda Fabbrey
Lake Michigan
WPA
Edward Dressden
Eugene
Patricia
Dressden
Psychopathic Hospital
Navy Pier
Hint Strike Call To 8 000 of GM Workers Imminent
Detroit sources report the United Auto Workers CIO hinted a strike for 8 000 GM tool and die makers engineers and maintenance staff as talks ended in a hostile mood. No new conferences were set as the union seeks a supplementary wage and hour agreement while GM demands a clear UAW identification before negotiating.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers Union (Cio
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Uaw-Cio
Uawcio
UAW
National Labor Relations Board
Homer Martin
American Federation of Labor
No Wonder Fox Was So Tough
BurgaW North Carolina AP John Sikes a farmer rushed a fox raiding his hen house to save a hen in its jaws The fox bit him as he fought to rescue the bird His daughter joined and decapitated the fox with a large knife Then they pried the foxes jaws apart to free his leg The head was sent to state health authorities for rabies examination Neighbors said the fox was drunk on bootleg mash from the lowlands
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Burgaw
John Sikes
Sikes
Blackmail sack claim against WMCA head amid picket protest
Allen Zoll, 43, held at Tombs prison after refusing $5 000 bail on a blackmail charge involving Donald Flamm of WMCA. Zoll allegedly organized a Broadway picket mainly of elderly women to pressure Flamm to air Rev. Charles E. Coughlin programs, demanding 7 500 to halt the protest and threatening to double the crowds if unpaid. Zoll, leader of the American Patriots, was arrested after accepting 200 in marked bills from Flamm.
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New York
INS
Allen Zoll
Tombs Prison
Donald Flamm
WMCA
Zoll
Fayetteville
Ark
California
Broadway
Flamm
Charles E. Coughlin
the American Patriots
Park Avenue
British plan vetoed as impracticable by Soviet Russia
Moscow dispatches report Premier Molotoff rejected a Franco British proposal to guarantee twelve European states in a secret protocol. He said such guarantees could not ensure the independence of nations like Holland and Switzerland, with which the Soviet Union has no diplomatic relations.
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London
INS
Moscow
William Strang
Foreign Office
Vyachasevy M Molotoff
Baltic Republic
Russia
Molotoff
Holland
Switzerland
Britain and France Brace for Danzig Crisis and War Threats
Britain and France press the Moscow talks while warning Germany against moves in Danzig as Nazi plans prompt public demonstrations and military readiness. Chamberlain reports to King George amid cabinet rumors of Churchill and Eden exchanges. Poland signals warning to Danzig senate and possible intervention to halt fascist moves.
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London
Great Britain
Europe
Danzag
Moscow
Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Free Corps
Beig
Danzig
Britain
France
Reich
Paris
Germany
Danza
King George
Winston Churchill
Anthons
Eden
Adolf Hitler
Stl
Chamberlain
Hitler
Free City
Poland
C R Savings Bank to Distribute Dividends Wednesday
Depositors of the former Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust will receive 121 750 76 in dividends starting at 9 a m Wednesday in the American Trust building main room. About 4 500 checks will be available. pass books must be presented. Fifty percent of deposits were paid earlier under trusteeship. This disbursement is the first 15 percent on the remaining 50 percent.
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Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company
American Trust Building
J. R. Drake
Hitler Returns To His Capital In Balkans Policy Move
Adolf Hitler abruptly returns to Berlin to bolster Germany's Balkans friendship policy during a three day state visit by Bulgarian Prime Minister George Kiesselvanoff. This is his first return to the capital since June when he shifted headquarters to Berchtesgaden for summer.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Balkans
George Kiesselvanoff
Berchtesgaden
WART AD HOURS Fourth of July Gazette edition notice
The Gazette announces ad hours for July 4 from 8 AM to 10 AM. Readers unable to visit downtown Tuesday morning may telephone 2 1121 to speak with an Ad-taker for Want Ads in the edition.
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