Public debt debate and Iowa graft claims
A long letter attacks national debt levels and New Deal policies, arguing taxes will rise for all families and that private business cannot bear government costs. It also denounces Iowa graft exposure, calling for strict voter action to curb corruption and demanding accountability from state officials.
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Universal Service
New Deal
Messrs. Tugwell
Wallace
Uncle Sam
Washington
Tugwell
New Austro German Pact Outlined By Leaders
A working agreement between Germany and Austria seeks pre war solidarity while preserving Austrian sovereignty. It hints Italy may be a third party, creating a broad Middle European entente. Schuschnigg calls the pact a path to European peace.
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Vienna
Germany
Austria
Italy
North Sea
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Kurt Schuschnigg
Fatherland Front
Schuschnigg
Iowa Republicans Confront Past Leaders in Nomination Battle
Amid a heated nomination fight, GOP figures including Herring and Kraschel face scrutiny over a scandal blamed for humiliating Iowa. The platform argues the party bears responsibility for the condition, prompting calls to condemn those at fault.
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Iowa
Herring
Kraschel
Gazette weighs party leadership after primary votes
The Gazette notes that despite Democratic gains in the primary, party machinery and patronage boosted incumbents. It suggests many Democrats may vote against them in November or abstain, while urging clear thinking citizens not to support leaders who failed them.
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Gazette
Paradox of Evil and Knowledge in Daily Reflection
A reader asks why sin and evil persist if God is good and why pain exists. The writer argues evil and ignorance reveal goodness but must be fought and reduced where possible, noting that without evil we could not know good and without ignorance there would be no progress. Copyright 1936.
Cadman Condition Grows More Critical in Hospital
Plattsburg N Y The condition of Dr S Parkes Cadman the radio preacher aged 71 at Central Congregational Brooklyn worsened Saturday in his hospital room cooled by ice. Dr L C Barton Jr said his condition is much worse though his doctors have not abandoned hope. Cadman who had appendix rupture earlier in the week spoke irrationally after Friday night rally and oxygen treatment.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
S. Parkes Cadman
L. C. Barton, Jr
Central Congregational Church
Brooklyn
George L. Buist
Cadman
Lindbergh reports new Flying Caravan aircraft
The Sunday Graphic reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has devised a new airplane called the Flying Caravan. A British firm is building the craft with seats that convert to bunks and unusually large fuel tanks. Delivery to Lindbergh is set within two weeks, with F. G. Miles collaborating on the design.
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The
Sunday Graphic
Charles A. Lindbergh
Graphic
F. G. Miles
Lindbergh
Owen Wedding at Roosevelt Home Church Hyde Park NY
Ruth Bryan Owen United States minister to Denmark wed Captain Boerge Rohde in a small stone Hyde Park chapel with President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt as guests. The New England style ceremony in St James Church featured a scarlet gray Danish captain’s uniform. Attendants included author Fannie Hurst as matron of honor and Robt Lehman as best man. The New York minister Rev M Shoemaker Jr officiated after meeting Mrs Owen during an Oxford group stay in Copenhagen.
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Republic
Ruth Bryan Owen
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Boerge Rohde
King’s Guard
America
Roosevelt
St. James Church
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Fannie Hurst
Robert Lehman
Bernard Gimbel
Portchester
Otto Wadsted
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Sioux City Girl Killed in Nebraska Head-On Crash
Marjorie Sanders fourteen of Sioux City Iowa was killed instantly and five others were seriously injured in a head-on collision nine miles west of Hartington Nebraska late Saturday night. Injured were Leonard Lenz twenty-two and Marcella Lenz fourteen of Sioux City Leonard Walters twenty five and his wife and five month old baby of Hartington. Sanders was riding with Lenz and his sister in a car that collided with Walters vehicle en route to Hartington on Highway 84. Lenz and sister were taken to a hospital here, Walters party to Yankton, and all sustained serious cuts bruises and internal injuries in a crash that ended with Sanders dying on the way to a physician’s office.
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Neb
Marjorie Sanders
Sioux City
Leonard Lenz
Marcella Lenz
Leonard Walters
Walters
Lenz
Yankton
S. C
Sanders
Bloom
Labor Council Splits Over Suspending Rebel Unions
In Washington the AFL executive council is divided over suspending 12 rebel unions led by John L. Lewis. Eight oppose and seven favor suspension as Green and Lewis lobby for a peaceful settlement while talks of a Tampa convention to decide the issue loom.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
Green
George M. Harrison
Railway Clerks Organization
Tampa
Heat Wave Tops 111 Degrees Ties 22 Year Record
Under a blazing sun a nine day 100 degree heat wave pushed temperatures to 111 degrees at 3 p.m. Saturday, tying Chambers Inskeep company records set 22 years ago on July 23, 1934. By 7:30 p.m. the mercury fell to 95 and to 86 by 9:30.
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Chambers Inskeep Company
Mercury
Weather Outlook for Chicago and Regions
The period July 13 to 18 brings showers in the north on Monday and in the south by Tuesday or Wednesday. The week turns generally fair later, with cooler conditions in the central and north portions Monday and Tuesday and extreme south Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures near or slightly above normal for the rest of the week.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Screen Director's Condition Critical in Car Crash
Hollywood director Alan Crosland remains in grave condition after a Beverly Hills auto accident. Physicians battled through the night to stabilize him as he suffered a sinking spell and doctors postponed X rays to assess possible skull fracture.
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Hollywood
Calif
Alan Crosland
Beverly Hills
Crosland
Editors forecast Landon sweep despite drought and grasshoppers
Two Kansas country editors told Governor Landon that many midwest farmers see drought and pests as acts of God punishing Roosevelt policy. They predicted farmers will vote Landon, citing resentment of relief programs and a shift toward the GOP.
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William K. Hutchinson
Topeka
Kan
INS
Prairie State
Kansas
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Great Midwest
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Marysville
Clarence Moody
AAA
Mid-West
Roosevelt
Landon
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Weeks
Moody
Nebraska
London
Warren Mentioned As McCarl Successor
Washington reports on political circles naming Rep. Lindy C. Warren of North Carolina as a potential successor to Comptroller John R. McCarl, whose 15 year term ends July 1. Warren chairs the House accounts committee and is noted for blunt speech in the session.
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Llp
Lindy C. Warren
N. C
House Accounts Committee
John R. McCarl
Gazette's Sunday feature highlights and section list
The Sunday Gazette outlines sections and features across the paper with notes on late world and local news poetry theater weather and society pages. It lists sports results including Billy Hall’s golf title and Dizzy Dean’s concussion while previewing pages for editorials health and feature columns across the seven sections.
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Waterloo
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St. Louis
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Randall’s Island
N. Y
Louella Parsons
Hollywood Story
Siamese Twin Violet Hilton to Wed in Texas
Violet Hilton, one half of the Siamese twins, will marry James Moore in a public ceremony next Saturday at the Dallas Cotton Bowl during the Texas centennial expo. Ed Steger, Dallas County clerk, confirms no Texas rule bars such a marriage. The couple will be publicly presented at a reception after the ceremony.
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Tex
New York
New Jersey
Illinois
Daisy Hilton
Violet
James Moore
Cleveland
Ohio
Texas
San Antonio
Ed Steger
Dallas County
Moore
Two Boys Freed From Room Prison In Philadelphia
Two young boys were rescued from a stifling top-floor room in Philadelphia where police described them as held in virtual imprisonment. Temperatures earlier reached a 104 degree July high as neighbors reported cries and police released them to temporary guardians of the Society to Protect Children from Cruelty.
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Society
Herbert Walker
Edward J. Holland
John Shanks
Charles
Walker
End of heat wave sighted. drought toll rises
Across the nation the heat wave shifts east from the Rockies while fatalities near 700 are projected. Domestic grain prices crumble as rain prospects fail to ease losses. Rexford Tugwell forecasts 50 000 farm families in drought across Alabama Georgia and South Carolina needing federal aid. Canadian heat deaths reach about 100 with scant crop relief. Thousands flee torrid cities for beaches. WPA relief adds over 4 000 drought stricken farmers to aid. Forest firefighters claim victory on a wide front.
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Ala
Rexford G. Tugwell
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Georgia
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Toronto
Ontario
Prairie
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Sundance
Wyo
Wide Front
Northwest drought ends as light rains cool heat wave
Light rains broke a stubborn drought across southwestern North Dakota and eastern Montana on Saturday night. Residents in almost a dozen counties found relief as temperatures dropped about 40 degrees, though crops and pasturage were largely unrecovered. Precipitation totals were not yet available.
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N. D
Northwest
North Dakota
Montana
Colorado Drenched by Drought-Busting Rains and Landslide
Heavy downpours soaked the western slope leading to a Glenwood canyon landslide that delayed traffic for hours with no injuries reported. Denver recorded 68 degrees as rain drenched Utah Idaho and Montana, stranding tourists and washing out highways temporarily.
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Colorado
Glenwood Canyon
Utah
Idaho
Drene
Montana
Heat Wave Break Forecast For Midwest And East
Forecaster J R Lloyd predicts a cooling mass moving from the northwest will bring relief by Monday after nine days of extreme heat. Deaths from prostrations and drownings rise toward 700 as cooler air spreads from the northwest to lower Missouri and Illinois.
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America
Rockies
Atlantic
J. R. Lloyd
North Central
Missouri
Illinois
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