Public Power Debate in Hopkinton Tests Federal Role
Hopkinton fights a municipal power plant funded by a federal grant against a private utility. The piece argues federal action undercuts private investment, faulting Washington for the original injustice while noting mixed results across Iowa towns. It warns of taxation, depreciation, and regulatory factors shaping public ownership outcomes.
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Hopkinton
Iowa Electric Company
Russia
United States
Iowa
Count's alleged plot against Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow
London court heard a witness recount the Danish count's jealousy of a wealthy Englishman and a proposed death by own action frameup to hurt his wife. Barbara Hutton era baroness allegedly sought a 5 million settlement, with threats and a pistol claim. The case includes a letter from Barbara breaking off contact and a June 2 discussion of separation. The count was freed on bail as the trial continued.
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London
Winfield House
Lance
W. W. Mitchell
Barbara
Mitchell
Court
Sir Patrick Hastings
Patrick
Paris
Towns Face Tax Loss If Utility Revenues End
The text argues that removing taxes from public utilities like rail, telephone, and power would slash public revenue, forcing replacement from other sources. It claims essential services and schools rely on these taxes and warns that socialized government must come with costs. It cites the Hopkinton incident as a symptom of a national drift toward a mirage of a millennium, and condemns dismantling honest enterprise.
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Hopkinton
Federal Treasury
NLRB Rulings Face Criticism as Settlements Rise
Senator Burke cites that about 80 percent of 6,090 cases closed by the National Labor Relations Board were settled by agreement with employers and workers. He urges modifications to the board’s powers and more employer considerations as he polls opinion following the board’s third anniversary statement detailing case outcomes since 1935. The board reports 11,180 closures from 14,832 cases, with 3,652 pending as of June.
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Washington
INS
National Labor Relations Board
Burke
Nebraska
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wheat Receipts at Kansas City Hit New Peak
Wheat receipts at Kansas City reached a new record of about 5.5 million bushels on Tuesday, with Wichita and Amarillo reporting strong inflows. Kansas City tallied 3,579 freight carloads as part of more than 12 million bushels moving to southwestern markets during the Fourth of July holiday period. Futures declined 1 1/6 cents as traders noted weak foreign demand and grain sold earlier at 67 to 70 cents per bushel.
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Kansas City
Wichita
Amarillo
Plan Approved for Withdrawal of Foreign Troops
The nonintervention committee representing 27 European nations approved the British plan to withdraw foreign troops from the Spanish civil war. Britain was asked to secure approval from both sides for evacuating aliens, with insurgent acceptance already forecast. The move is seen as a potential peace factor, with Britain France Italy and Germany each contributing £12,500 to start the process.
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London
Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Cedar Rapids Sees Heat Peak as Temperatures Escalate
The Cedar Rapids heat wave intensified on Tuesday with bright sun pushing the thermometer from 69 at 6 a.m. to 81 by 9, then 88 at 4 to 8 p.m. The 7 p.m. reading reached 82 and midnight settled at 70, as the day reached near ninety degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Holiday death toll sets new holiday record across states
New York reports at least 576 deaths from all causes during the holiday period. Fireworks fatalities fall to six, but automobile crashes claim 273 lives on busy highways. Drownings reach 139 with 27 people shot to death and 20 by suicide. A 16 year old in Brooklyn dies from a stray bullet. spectators injured as three racing cars crash in Hokohus New Jersey.
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America
States
District of Columbia
Missouri
Brooklyn
Hokohus
N. J
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Fireworks Explosion Causes Stampede at Chicago Fourth Fest
About 20,000 people panicked when a large fireworks display prematurely exploded during a neighborhood Fourth of July celebration in Chicago. Seventeen injured, nine were children. some sustained burns while others were trampled as the crowd surged toward safety.
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Chicago
Loans On Wheat Near Parity Shaped as Policy Move
Washington reports that federal wheat loans at or above 52 percent of parity, now $1.14, are effectively mandatory. Secretary Wallace announced after a Roosevelt meeting that loans of about 59 to 78 cents are possible, though average loans to farmers may be lower due to grade and type.
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Washington
INL
Wallace
Roosevelt
Why Not Run Spur Track Under Fort Knox To Get Gold
In 1938 Arthur Baer argues that railroad financing has shifted away from Washington and rails lenders. He proposes a spur into Kentucky and a freight tunnel under Fort Knox to access gold, suggesting legal strategists arrived first and blames policy and finance for the crisis.
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Fort Knox
Kentucky
FBI To Probe Thomas Cyster Ejection Say Grand Jury
A federal grand jury in Newark plans to ask the FBI to investigate the ejection of socialist leader Norman Thomas from Jersey City on April 30 as he spoke without a permit. Thomas accuses Deputy Police Chief Underwood and Inspector Gauthier of Lindbergh Law violations and kidnapping threats.
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Newark
N. J
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Norman Thomas
Jersey City
Thomas
John J. Underwood
Henry Gauthier
Thomas W. Arrowsmith
Homer Cummings
Utility Restores Its Electric Service At Hopkinton
Hopkinton guards keep a 24 hour vigil over the municipal power plant awaiting operation. Mayor Brown says action follows two men cutting Iowa Electric power lines to the water pumping plant despite a restraining order. service restored and tests planned as town prepares its own plant.
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Hopkinton
G G Brown
Iowa Electric Company
A. B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
Iowa Electric
Frank Irish, Jr
Power Company
Dr. Brown
Garner receptive to presidency bid
Senator Logan of Kentucky said neither Roosevelt nor Garner would seek a third term. Burke of Nebraska thought Garner would be receptive if offered the 1940 Democratic nomination. Friends report Garner receives about 500 letters weekly urging him to run and expect him to control Texas at the convention.
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Washington
Logan
Roosevelt
Garner
Kentucky
Senate
Burke
Texas
Van Nuys Eyes Renomination Amid Indiana Democratic Split
U S Senator Frederick Van Nuys indicated he would be delighted to accept Governor M Clifford Townsend's invitation to seek renomination at the Indiana state convention. Townsend said the convention would be wide open and denied controlling the party slate. The move ends a potential three way race with Raymond B. Willis already holding the Republican nomination.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.S
Frederick van Nuys
M Clifford Townsend
Indiana
van Nuys
Walloon Lake
Michigan
Supreme Court
Paw Paw Belt
Raymond B. Willis
Angola
Townsend
French Lick
Michigan Lake
Democratic Party
Cedar Rapids records no Fourth of July fire alarms
Cedar Rapids celebrated a safe Independence Day with no fire department calls for the first time in the city’s history. Chief E P Kohout credited the new anti fireworks law for the record, noting prior Fourths averaged ten to fifteen calls.
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Cedar Rapids
E P. Kohout
Reds to Back F. D. R. Until Radical Leader Emerges
Earl Browder, national secretary of the Communist Party, told about 3,000 workers at a Fourth of July labor picnic in Finleyville Pennsylvania that the party will support President Roosevelt only until a more socialistic leader appears. He said the Roosevelt administration is the economic royalists best protection against revolution, though they are too stupid to realize it.
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Finleyville
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Roosevelt
Browder
James Roosevelt Improves at Mayo Clinic
James Roosevelt, son and secretary of the President, shows definite improvement from a gastric ulcer at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Doctors say no surgery is needed and expect his discharge within about two weeks after Monday’s X ray.
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Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Capsized Boat Victim Walks To Sheep Camp
A. S. Hunt, 58, of Denver, walked barefoot to a sheep camp after his boat capsized on the Rio Grande killing his companion. He reached Antonio, Colorado, then travelled on to a store and planned to salvage gear. Hunt, exhausted, walked over ten miles through badlands and canyon walls, signaling an overhead plane he believed saw him.
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N. M
A. S. Hunt
Denver
Rio Grande River
Antonio
Colo
Hunt
Rio Grandes
Black Canyon
W P Cather
Questa
Pot Mountain
All-Iowa Fair Window Display Contest Planned
The All-Iowa Fair window display contest, planned to run Aug 31 through Sept 7 at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids, offers six prizes totaling 100 dollars. Entries from Cedar Rapids retailers must be filed with John W. Beck by August 25, with two divisions and prizes of 25 15 and 10 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Downs
Chamber of Commerce
John W. Beck
Hypnotist Question in Glendale Death Case
Detectives hold Robert Avery Gilbert on suspicion of murder after Marie Colombos, 23, an expectant mother, died in Glendale. The 49-year-old vaudeville hypnotist claims no hypnosis was used. autopsy results awaited to determine if death was from poisoning or the hypnotic session. He says he was called by George Colombos to discuss a future childbirth and fled the scene after attempting resuscitation.
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Glendale
Calif
INS
Marie Colombos
Robert Avery Gilbert
Gilbert
Ethel Gaynor
Colombos
George Colombos
CCC Food Bill Reveals $45 Million Grocery Needs
Director Robert C. Fechner disclosed on Monday that it will require 45 million dollars worth of groceries to feed the Civilian Conservation Corps this year.
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CCC
Washington
INS
Robert C. Fechner
Swift Packers Challenge Fair Hearing Denial in Appeal
Swift and Company of Chicago filed an appeal in the U S circuit court seeking review of Secretary Wallace’s cease and desist order under the Packers and Stockyards Act. The firm argues the action violates due process and intrastate commerce limits and says the order is vague and overreaching.
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Chicago
Swift and Companys
U. S&s. Circuit Court of Appeals
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Packers and Stockyards
Wallace
Wale Lace
National Banks Urged to File June 30 Condition Reports
Washington The U S comptroller of the currency ordered all national banks to submit reports detailing their financial condition as of the close of business June 30. The move seeks a nationwide snapshot of bank health and liquidity.
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Washington
INS
U. S. Comptroller of the Currency
State banks condition report requested for June 30
Des Moines field notes state that D. W. Bates the state superintendent of banking issued a call on Tuesday requesting the condition of state banks as of June 30.
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Des Moines
D. W. Bates
Gazette Want Ad Success Sparks Raspberry Sellout
Mrs. Jess Davis of 2017 Fruitland Boulevard reports over 100 responses to her Want Ad for raspberries cherries and spring produce and sold 130 quarts. Call 24 1121 to place a Want Ad.
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Gazette
Jess Davis
Fruitland Boulevard
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