Graft investigation moves forward as OConnor arraigned
Woodbury county grand jury added testimony and exhibits in the graft probe after indicting 23 people including Edward L. O Connor and his assistants. O Connor pleaded innocent to gambling conspiracy charges and may be arraigned next Monday with Asst Atty Gen Walter Maley.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Yowa
Edward L. O’connor
A. O. Wakefield
O’connor
Des Moines
Fred Free
Free
O'Connor
Walter Maley
The Harp of Life and the Secret of Music
An old Gaelic tale parallels life with a mother and children learning a harp. The mother explains the music lies in the strings but the power to draw it out requires Wisdom Strength and Beauty and patient practice. The children persist until the melody answers their touch.
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Trathel
Sioux City Police Stage More Raids
Sioux City police conducted further raids on Thursday targeting vice operations. Sam Brown, a bartender at a venue linked to Joe Siegel, remained held without charge as alcohol was seized. George Guff, 29, faced two whisky related charges at the Commerce tavern, and Inez Bowman was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after directing a girl to haul whisky from the Bowman home.
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Sioux City
Sam Brown
Joe Siegel
Ed O'Connor
Iowa
Brown
Commerce Tavern
George Guff
Inez Bowman
Bowman
Hickenlooper Urges Iowa to Ban Corruption and Restore Liberty
Cedar Rapids attorney and Iowa representative B B Hickenlooper warned at a Fourth of July gathering that graft must be rooted out and public officials held to account. He said transparency and citizen action are needed to curb bureaucratic rule and congressional encroachment on constitutional rights.
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Wellman
B. B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Iowa House of Representatives
Iowa
Hickenlooper
United States
Legislative Branch
Supreme Court
Washington
Huey Long tightens grip on New Orleans
Huey P. Long steered the Louisiana house ways and means committee to swift approval of 26 bills aimed at extending Long's control over New Orleans and limiting federal relief influence. He claimed the measures keep politics out of relief while praising President Roosevelt, though no wire of approval was received.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Ways and Means
Louisiana House of Representatives
Long
New Orleans
Edmond G. Burke
Kingfish
House
Senate
Jack Williamson
Lake Charles
Roosevelt
T. Semmes Walmsley
Louisiana
Army plans to fortify Fort Knox with mobile forces
Washington AP reports plans to deploy an almost invulnerable army ring around the government's gold vault at Fort Knox Kentucky. The War Department seeks 2 238 066 dollars from the work relief fund to upgrade the fort. Army officials also designate Fort Knox as the headquarters for mechanized forces.
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Washington
Fort Knox
Kentucky
War Department
Army
Desperadoes Loot Alvin Theater Box Office
Four men sat through a performance of Any Thing Goes at the Alvin theater then robbed the box office sparking a New York police investigation. The heist yielded about 13000 dollars taken early Friday from the stage venue.
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New York
Alvin Theater
Roosevelt urges strict banking bill provisions on separations
President Roosevelt requested no relaxations in the law that separates commercial and security banking. He reserved judgment on a Senate proposal allowing Fed member banks to underwrite securities under limits until he sees a printed copy. He noted Chairman Fletcher's view that underwriting would be possible only up to a percentage based on open market sales.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Federal Reserve System
Fletcher
Senate Banking Committee
Suits on File Test Legality of AAA Program
The Justice Department disclosed 117 protest suits in federal courts challenging the AAA processing taxes as part of the New Deal program. A July 3 list showed 61 new cases since June, more than doubling in a week, with Supreme Court review expected after October. The June 28 benefits check cites $772,269 in payments to farmers.
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Washington
AAA
Justice Department
NRAA
Supreme Court
Cummings
Supreme ’ Court
Decree Death for Bath Tub Killer Flynn Found Guilty
Frank A. Flynn a 39 year old garage manager was found guilty of the bath tub murder of six year old Margie Parlato in Long Island City. A phonograph confession was admitted as evidence and Flynn faces the electric chair with sentencing set for Tuesday.
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Long Island City
N. Y
Frank A. Flynn
Margie” Parlato
Charles S. Colden
Flynn
Colden
Double Indemnity Valid In Air Crash
The U S circuit court of appeals ruled that aviation’s growth keeps double indemnity life insurance in force for deaths by plane crash. It reversed an Arkansas ruling, ordering Mutual Life Insurance to pay Mary Noel Gregory $25,000 for her husband’s 1933 Waterloo, Iowa crash death.
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ST. Louis
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Eastern District Court of Arkansas
Mary Noel Gregory
Augusta
Ark
Arkansas
Waterloo
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Gregory
Roosevelt signs Wagner labor bill titled to curb employer dominated unions
President Roosevelt signed the Wagner labor disputes bill stating it guarantees workers in a plant the right to organize for collective bargaining. It creates a national labor relations board to hear cases and conduct elections to identify employee representatives while clarifying mediation remains with the Labor Department.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Labor, Relations, Board
Emoyes
Mediation Board
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Department of Labor
First heat wave sweeps across nation
The nation faced a record heat wave with Boston at 90 and Omaha 95 as New York reached 87.2. Three deaths were reported in Detroit and Ohio amid high humidity and scattered thundershowers. Severe storms caused a train derailment near Bainville Montana and drowned three in Minnesota lakes. Flood threats rose along the Des Moines river in Iowa.
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Midwest
Detroit
Ohio
Mercury
Boston
Omaha
New York
Toronto
Chicago
Kansas
Dresden
Garden City
Topeka
Wichita
Kansas City
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Ontario
Quebec
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North
Canadian
Bainville
Mont
Iowa
Des Moines
Indiana
Atlanta
Washington
Memphis
Thompson Denies Guilty In Murder Trial
In Peoria Illinois Gerald Thompson 25 pleaded not guilty to first degree murder charges for the death of Mildred Hallmark 19. Judge Joseph Daily denied motions to strike counts. Trial set for July 22 with Thompson likely to repudiate his confession.
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Peoria
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Thompson
Joseph Daily
Daily
Roosevelt Plans Weekend Fishing Trip to Sequoia
President Roosevelt will motor to Annapolis Maryland on Saturday to board the government yacht Sequoia for a weekend of fishing and rest on Chesapeake Bay waters. He will return to the White House Sunday night.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Annapolis
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
White House
Goodrich and Wife Return to Detroit Amid Murder Indictment
Merton W. Goodrich and his wife were placed on a train back to Detroit after a murder indictment over the slaying of 11 year old Lillian Gallaher. Goodrich, a trap drummer, admitted assaults on five other girls while insisting he never fought with them. Mrs Goodrich vouched for him and recalled their 1929 marriage after meeting at a Lorain church party.
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New York
Merton W. Goodrich
Detroit
Lillian Gallaher
Florence
Goodrich
Mid-Summer U.S. Business Improves Despite Trade Gap
Washington AP reports that the U S chamber of commerce says mid summer domestic business improved versus last year. May foreign trade deficit persisted, marking the second consecutive month with a gap.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Temperature Hits 93 Degree Mark
Cedar Rapids recorded a high of 93 degrees amid rising humidity on Friday after brief rains. Temperatures climbed from 71 at 4 a.m. to 93 by mid afternoon with .07 inch of precipitation.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Two Women On Jury Picked To Try Mrs Waley
Tacoma AP reports Margaret Waley a 19 year old wife of kidnapper Harmon Waley faces trial for the 200000 George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. A mixed jury of eleven men and two women is seated with hearings to begin after a selection that took one hour and twenty five minutes.
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Mrs. Waley
Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Veniremen
Harmon M. Waley
E. E. Cushman
Canadian program breaks wheat price dip sparks fear
Wheat prices fell five cents a bushel in a single day as traders feared possible U S and Canadian policy shifts. Liquidation accompanied talk that Canada could dump its surplus wheat on the world market if policies change, raising concern on the market.
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Chicago
Canada
Escape From Chicago Courtroom Shocks Court Crowd
Clarence Bowman 43 slugged a bailiff and fled a packed Chicago court Friday after his conviction for beating his mother. Police fired during the chase. Angelo Saccillo 28, a janitor, was wounded by a stray bullet.
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Chicago
Clarence Bowman
Angelo Saccillo
Fireworks Injure Several During Cedar Rapids Fourth
Cedar Rapids recounts a Fourth of July with an apparent surge of explosions yet eight reported fireworks injuries. Read across two hospitals list multiple young burn cases from firecrackers and aerial shells, plus minor facial cuts from a can strike, all tied to a truck-firecracker incident on First avenue.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Luke's Hospital
Ronald Roupe
B Avenue NE
Junior Marsh
D Avenue NW
Joe Eikenberry
Nineteenth Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Ruth Ann Lenz
Fifth Street NW
Wesley Estill
Eighteenth Street
Boy
Can
Allan Himmel
Nineteenth Street
David Elderkin
University of Iowa
Elderkin
Merle Evans
Oclwein
S. C
Melvin Semerroth
Hull Replies to Abyssinia Non-Commital Over Pact
Washington sidestepped entanglement in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis by urging the League of Nations to continue mediations. Secretary Hull expressed loathing to believe Italy or Ethiopia would use non pacific means and stressed faith in the Kellogg Briand pact and treaty sanctity. The note noted the U.S. interest in world peace and the League’s forthcoming decision.
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Washington
United States
League of Nations
Hull
Haile Selassie I
Ethiopia
Italy
U. S
Abyssinia
Paris
Jamn Perty
Waddin
Ababa
League
Soviet Russia
China
Maxim Litvinov
Russia
Japan
Manchuria
July 4th Death Toll Hits 216 Across Nation
AP reports 216 lives lost in July Fourth incidents with drownings totalling 90 and auto fatalities 83. Midwest accounted for 94 deaths, 54 from drownings, while L. J. Stafford 80 of Kansas City died after mistaking a torpedo for candy.
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Chicago
L. J. Stafford
Kansas City
Midwest
Prominent Detroit Politician Missing
Detectives began a search for James F. Murphy 66 a noted Detroit politician after his son James Jr of Alton Ill reported him missing for two weeks. The son said the landlady Mrs Frank McGowan notified him of the disappearance.
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Detroit
James F. Murphy
James, Jr
Alton
Ill
Fred W. Frahm
Frank McGowan
Murphy
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Frank Nissen
Remsen
Nissen
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H. B. Connor
Woodsbury County
Justice of the Peace
Cc. E. Clark
American Township
Plymouth County
Louis Meyer
Pocahontas
Mayer
W. W. Walters
Pocahontas Pool Hall
C. W. Gilchrist
Pocahontas County
Walters
Gilchrist
DE. Newson
Huey
Wagner
Cedar Rapids News
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