Debates over debts and New Deal politics in Iowa and Washington
Readers see sharp reaction to wartime debt payments and foreign policy as France fends off Hitler accusations. Iowa Republicans target the New Deal while Dan Turner faces party repudiation. NRA code progress on prison labor prompts cautious praise. Public schooling debate centers on the role of education in social order. A Chicago commerce group tests fall market plans from a plane over the metro area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Dickinson
Hammer and Tongs
AAA
NRA
CWA
FERA
Dan Turner
Mac
N.E.A
Washington
F.D.R
Chicago Association of Commerce
Cedar County cow war leaders begin three year terms
J W Lenker and Paul Moore, once prominent figures in Cedar county cow war, were ordered to prison for three years each after their conspiracy conviction. Mittimus issued by Cedar County court, with arrest to Fort Madison, amid delays cited by officials and political pressure reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
J. W. Lenker
Paul Moore
Cedar County
Fort Madison
Mittimus
Lee Byerly
Jones County
Henry Eichhorn
Ray Cooley
Leaker
Wilton Junction
Moore
West Branch
Lenker
Supreme
William Dallas
H. G. Ring
Cedar Rapids
Byerly
Dallas
Marvin Levien
Dan Turner
National Guard
Supreme Court
Alec Francis Dies Veteran Film Actor at 65
Alec Francis, noted motion picture actor, died at a Hollywood hospital after a brief illness. He was 65 and had been active until shortly before his death. He recently completed work with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall in The Green Hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Alec B Francis
Hollywood Hospital
Francis
Constance Bennett
Herbert Marshall
Plans for Autumn Business Expansion Laid Out
The report outlines strategies to plan business growth this autumn, focusing on market assessment, investment priorities, and operational steps for the upcoming season. It emphasizes scheduling, resource allocation, and risk assessment to boost activity and profits.
North Dakota Won’t Issue Salaries for Convicted Officials
The state treasurer withholds June salaries for Governor Langer and Highway Commissioner Frank Vogel pending court decisions on their fitness to hold office after criminal conviction. The attack argues public officials err in being singled out for fraud amid wider frauds by others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Langer
Frank Vogel
Sam
Vogel
New Uprising Against Adolf Hitler Feared
Fears of a new uprising against Adolf Hitler kept Nazi forces on alert as the first week after the purge of stormtroop chiefs ended. Breslau reported that Hitler barely escaped death during the purge and an American source cited by a former Heines associate claimed details. Von Papen’s position appeared strengthened with three aides released from custody, while no evidence linked them to traitorous acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Breslau
Edmund Heines
Yan
Jarnat Roehm
Munich
Heines
Franz von Papen
Fritz Gunther von Tschirsky
Friedrich Karl von Savigny
Margaret von Stotzinger
von Papen
Downpour Drenches Northeastern Iowa. Drought Fear Fades
Heavy rainfall across northeast Iowa, Cedar Rapids seeing .52 inch and .4 inch gauges, with temperatures dropping from 94 to 73. Cedar River high, expected rise as upstream floods drain. Oelwein reports two inches in three days, barn fire near Fayette destroys Ezra Cornish farm structure with horses and calves killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Oelwein
Center Point
Ezra Cornish
Fayette
Portland and Frisco General Strike Feared
Labor turmoil across the Pacific coast escalated as the International Longshoremen's Association urged unions to appoint delegates for a Monday meeting on a general strike. San Francisco faced riots with two dead and many wounded while 2,000 militia patrolled the embarcadero and a mediation board sought arbitration in a tense standoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
International Longshoremen's Association
San Francisco
National Guardsmen
Embarcadero
Pe Bay
Olues
Tracy
Calif
San Francisco Labor Council
Teamster’s Union
Longshoremen's Union
Oakland
Friday's Major League Results Across the Leagues
United Press reports American and National League games with scores from Philadelphia Boston Washington New York Chicago Cleveland St Louis Detroit Brooklyn Pittsburgh Cincinnati and others. Notable blowouts include Philadelphia and Boston lighting up opponents while New York and Brooklyn slugged high totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Philadelphia
Boston
Dietrich
Flohr
Wilshere
Lagger
Berry
Hayes
W. Ferrell
R. Ferrell
MacNider Charges Democratic Policy A Socialist Plot
Hanford MacNider former national commander of the American Legion and ex U S minister to Canada spoke in Jackson Mich accusing the Democratic administration of a socialistic experiment and indebting the nation. He urged a unified Republican party reinvigorated by the party’s original constitutional aim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mich
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
American Legion
United States
Canada
MacNider
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Socialist Party
Germans Seek Accord With All Creditors After London Talks
Berlin reports a successful outcome from the London moratorium conference. Germany aims for a bilateral loan settlement with creditors and will deposit sterling in British banks to cover payments. Reichsbank official notes other nations could pursue similar diplomatic debt talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Foreign Office
Germany
London
Karl Ritter
Men
Ritter
Highreichsbank
Reichsbank
Iowa to Patrol Highways Each Weekend for Safer Roads
Des Moines AP reports Iowa state highway patrols will operate weekends to cut the accident toll. Motor vehicle inspectors covered 9,407 miles on the Fourth of July patrol, recorded 874 violations, and noted a 20 percent drop in injuries and crashes despite uncertain overall impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Alex Miller
Motor Vehicle Department
Department of State
Miller
Secretary of State
Roosevelt Extends Federal Pay Cut For Six Months
President Roosevelt issued an executive order delaying restoration of the final 5 per cent of the 15 per cent federal pay cut for six months. The move follows a cost of living survey showing living costs about 20.2 per cent below 1928 peaks. The 15 per cent cut began last year with 5 per cent restored on February 1, 1934 and another 5 per cent on July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Mysterious Patient At Mercy Hospital Sparks Police Probe
Police in Cedar Rapids investigate a patient at Mercy Hospital identified as Jack Shearer of Ogden Utah who resembled Joe Fries, an escapee from Tama County. Two men brought the patient Wednesday night and left without identity. Sheafer suffers meningitis and refused to reveal information. Toledo sheriff to visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Jack Shearer
Ogden
Utah
Joe Fries
Tama County
Toledo
Sheafer
Simon and
Stusak
Strategic Point Bombed In Austria
In Austria the government’s fatherland front headquarters at Knittelfeld in Styria were dynamited on Friday and the residence of a government commissar at Kindberg in Styria was bombed causing heavy damage in both incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Fatherland Front
Knittelfeld
Styria
Kindberg
Holy Deadlock in Marriage Declines Across Nations
Dr Joseph Fort Newton warns of rising divorce rates in America, contrasting one in eight marriages with England one in eighty six and Canada one in one hundred forty. He argues secular pressures erode sacred marriage and urges a renewed emphasis on its sanctity to avert social collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
England
Canada
Copsrisht
Sportswear Bandits Hold Up Gloucester Jewelry Store
Five bandits robbed Hodgson Kennard and Company jewelry store in Gloucester. They escaped with gems estimated at 250000 dollars retail value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Mass
Hodgson Kennard and Company
Unified control of welfare work urged in Iowa City
Dr. A F Kuhlman of the University of Chicago urged unified control of public welfare under a single state administrator at an American Political Science Association conference in Iowa City. He proposed a state welfare board, trained county social workers, and county supervision of parole for state inmates to prevent maladjustment and reduce overcrowding in insane and corrective institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowacity
A. F. Kuhlman
University of Chicago
American Political Science Association
Kuhlman
Brookings Institute
Iowa
Roosevelt Plans Regulated Self Government to Supplant NRA
A New York report says the Roosevelt administration is shaping a plan to replace the NRA with a regulated self government for industry. Hugh S. Johnson guides the move, aiming to keep codes and avoid monopolistic practices while the federal government oversees price and trust concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Roosevelt
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
Federal
S Jm Acer
Girl Sentenced for Harboring Dillinger in Two States
Patricia Cherrington, 30, pled guilty in U S district court to harboring John Dillinger and his aide Tommy Carroll. She received two concurrent two year sentences in Alderson federal women's reformatory. Counts covered harboring them at Sault Ste Marie Michigan and St Paul. She escaped the Little Bohemia raid but was arrested in Chicago three weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Patricia Cherrington
U. S
John Dillinger
Tommy Carroll
Federal Women's Reformatory
Alderson
W. Va
Dillinger
Carroll
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Stock Speculation Banned for Exchange Board Members
Washington leaders enacted a rule barring employees of the new securities and exchange commission from speculating in stock and securities markets. Chairman Joseph P Kennedy announced the policy after a Wednesday meeting reviewing organization and other details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Lp
New
Securities and Exchange Commission
Joseph P Kennedy
Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Verne Marshall
Young
State Department
France
Burr
NAP
Blue Eagle
Donald R. Richberg
Darrow National Recovery Review Board
White House
Hould School
Ma'‘Ams
The
Russell Cook
National Education Association
Legion
Ft. Madison
Alec Francis
Cedar Rapids News
Frisco
Tire Coast
Whitehill
Russell
Sewell
Ruffing
van Atta
Murphy
Dickey
Chicago
Cleveland
Gaston
Heving and
Shea
Winegarner and Putlak
St. Louis
Detroit
Hadley and Grube
Sorrell and Cochrane
National League
Brooklyn
Bowman
Smith and Mancuso
Richards
Mungo
Lopez
Brown
Mangum
Rhein
Betts
Spohrer
Holley
Grabowski
Hansen
C. Davis
Todd
Pittsburgh
Hoyt
Birkofer
Padden
Bush
Hartnett
Cincinnati
Frey
Brennan
Johnson and Lombardi
Haines
Lindsey
Vance
J. Dean
Walker
Mooney
Carleton
Davis
Seesaveeeeetenseeres
C.csesecreess
Austria
Holy Deadlock
Joseph Fort Newton
DER
Newton
Sportwear Bandits
U. 5
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Exchange Board
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!