State audit exposes reformatory cash shortage and reform drive
The Gazette reports a long inquiry into missing cash at the state reformatory sparked by university audits. Governor Clyde Herring and officials ordered audits, leading to the arrest of the former reformatory auditor, bond debates, and a push for independent audits of state institutions amid recurring defalcations.
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Gazette
The
State University
Reformatory
Herring
Board of Control
Factor Kidnap Victim Freed After $50,000 Paid
John Factor known as Jake the Barber was freed after twelve days in captivity in Chicago. He admitted paying $50,000 for his freedom and signaled there was an agreement to pay more later. Police hunted for the basement where he was held and believed a gang of about twenty men was involved. Authorities from city, county, Cook County, and federal agencies coordinated the extensive search and arrest effort.
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Chicago
John
Jake the Barber
Factor
Aurora
Elgin
North Western
Milwaukee
North Shore ‘Electric
Ponty
Itn Grange
Dan Gilbert
State’s Attorney
Touhey
Cook
Melvin Purvis
United States Bureau of Investigation
Kansas City Man Surrenders in Plaza Slaying Probe
Kansas City police report Frank B. Mulloy formerly of Missouri appeared voluntarily at headquarters as detectives planned to question him about the June 17 Union Station Plaza killings. Officials say furniture was moved from the Mulloy home after the slayings, involving Verne C. Miller once named as a plaza gunman.
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Kansas City
Frank B
Fritz) Mulloy
Union Station Plaza
Mulloy
Verne C Miller
South Dakota
Missing Cash Shortages Across Years Revealed in Audit
An audit notes books and records show ongoing cash shortages over a period of years. The report highlights gaps in accounting and potential financial discrepancies spanning multiple fiscal periods.
Brookings Experts Urge Early Cash Shortage Warnings
A skeptical critic questions Brookings Institution advisors who were invited to advise the state on efficient governance. The speaker wonders if the state will heed the guidance to detect cash shortages before they grow costly.
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Brookings Institution
Tax Savings Claim Backed by Honest Fund Handling
A newspaper editorial urges tax reduction through responsible use of public funds. It argues taxpayer money should be managed honestly and efficiently to achieve meaningful savings.
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Gagette
Board of Control
Youth Stand Foe of The Broken World Says 1933 Essay
An article laments modern youth in despair as older generations fail guiding ideals. It argues youth must awaken, reject stagnation, and seize a future shaped by courage, truth, and religion for a fairer world. Copyright 1933.
Johnson May Place Textile Industry Under Cotton Code
Washington AP reports steps to have other textile divisions follow wage and hour limits to take effect next week in cotton mills. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator, discussed the plan with representatives from wool and silk industries amid new trade agreements arriving from other sectors.
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Washington
Industrial Administration
Hugh S. Johnson
British Wreck U. S. Wage-Lifting Plan
London reports Great Britain rejected an internationally coordinated public works program to raise employment. Walter Runciman announced England would not join further experiments. A Dutch-backed resolution to delay the sub committee on public works passed, ending the controversy.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Economic Commission of the
World Economic Conference
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
England
H. Colljn
Holland
Monetary Commission
Commission
Cox Revives Sessions at London Economic Conference
James M. Cox of Ohio urged the steering committee to press on at the London economic conference despite the Federal Reserve Board’s stance on central bank cooperation. His forceful speech outlined American issues and prompted continued work on silver and commercial indebtedness.
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London
James M. Cox
Ohio
Federal Reserve Board
Thief Aims at Smallest Bible At World’s Fair Church
An AP report from Chicago says a thief tried to steal the world’s smallest Bible from a miniature church inside the Hall of Religion at the World’s Fair. He broke the rock church but did not remove any Bible to a vault.
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Chicago
Mystery woman and marked money linked to St. Paul doctors
A mystery woman identified as Miss Irenee Plaza sought an illegal operation from Dr. Hedberg in St. Paul. She paid $25 with marked bills, later found to be all marked, and fled when detectives were mentioned. Police pursued possible links to another physician, but no solid lead emerged.
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ST. Paul
Walter Hedberg
E. J. Engberg
Jon
Dr. Hedberg
Herman Wall
State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Plan Immediate Appraisals For Iowa Mortgages
A meeting at Ames will plan immediate appraisal of farms whose mortgages are held by closed Iowa banks. D P Hogan of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha said Earl Liggett and H E Baird will join P L Gaddis to organize a force to implement the Farm Credit Administration plan to relieve the banking situation in Iowa.
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Omaha
Iowa
Ames
D. P. Hogan
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Earl Liggett
Eighth Land Bank District
H. E. Baird
P. L. Gaddis
Farm Credit Administration
Missing 85 Year Old Man Found Alive and Married
Denver AP report says Frank M. Taylor 85 and his bride Minnie C Flagg 5! were found at the bride's house after being sought since his daughter reported him missing. The couple said they eloped to avoid interference from their thirteen children and forty two grandchildren.
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Denver
Frank M. Taylor
Minnie C Flagg
Rosa Miller
Four Die in Smackover Refinery Fire in Eldorado
Four bodies recovered after an explosion and fire at the H. H. Cross refinery near Smackover Eldorado Arkansas. Six men hospitalized with serious burns and injuries, two or three missing likely dead. Identified victims include R. C. Burns Dudley Dalton Monroe Winn and Jack Van Wagoner. Other critical patients include C. L. Murphy H. P. Morgan L. Whaley A. D. Doran Co L Huffman and C A Sears.
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Eldorado
Ark
H. H. Cross. Oi
Smnackover
R. C. Burns
Simms Oil Company
Smackover
Dudley Dalton
Monroe Winn
Jack van Wagoner
C. L. Murphy
H. P. Morgan
L. Whaley
A. D.doran
Co. L. Huffman
C. A. Sears
Kansas City
Huffman
Five Injured When Tie Blowout Upsets Auto
Five persons injured at 6 30 pm Thursday when a car blew a tire on highway 30 near the west Cedar Rapids city limits and overturned. Driver Fletcher Waychoff of Des Moines was unhurt. Passengers included Darrell 2 and Leona 5 Waychoff with cuts and bruises. Earl Yanecek and his mother Mrs Verma Yanecek with facial cuts. Pete er 3 and Mrs Mary Wa fax with cuts. Wilda Cole unhurt. All taken to St Luke's hospital for first aid. The curve has seen several accidents this year with no warning sign.
Former Wisconsin Boy Sheriff Charged in Bank Robbery
Lyall Wright once known as the boy sheriff of Juneau County and six others were charged with complicity in the $4 500 robbery of the New Lisbon State Bank in warrants issued here Thursday Four other men believed involved fled to Chicago and were sought by authorities
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Maulton
Wis
Lyall Wright
Juneau County
New Lisbon
Chicago
Pene
Italian air armada lands in New Brunswick
General Italo Balbo and a squadron of twenty four Italian seaplanes reached Shediac New Brunswick from Cartwright Labrador completing the fifth leg of a 300 mile flight to the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. The aircraft swept in from the north in close formation with Balbo piloting the leading plane arriving at 1 30 p.m.
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Shediac
N. B
Italo Balbo
Chicago
Cartwright
Labrador
S. T
Balbo
Illinois Plane Force-Lands Near Three Rivers Aiding Balbo Visit
An official party traveling to meet Gen Italo Balbo's Italian aerial armada forced an emergency landing near Three Rivers Michigan. Judge John Sbarbaro, his wife, George Harding of Chicago and John Leonard West survived the crash uninjured after the plane struck a fence and its propeller and landing gear were damaged.
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Chicago
INS
Montreal
Italo Balbo
Rome
Three Rivers
Mich
John Sbarbaro
George Harding
John Leonard West
Wanted Bed Springs Buyers Cash Ad Brings 24 Responses
The Gazette reports twenty four buyers answered a for sale ad for bed springs. One buyer acquired the bed springs while twenty three others still seek to purchase. Readers are urged to call 2-1121 to place a classifieds ad.
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the Gazette
Gazette
For Sale Full Size Rome DeLuxe Bed Springs
Full size Rome DeLuxe bed springs never used, priced under half. Cash sale only contact at 9620.
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Rome
Delays in Steel Code Spark Banker Influence Controversy
Washington report accuses New York bankers of delaying submission of the steel code to the National Industrial Recovery Administration. Article notes Roosevelt era strain with Morgan interests, limited coal code representation, and fears major industries await Wall Street guidance on policy alignment.
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Washington
New York
National Industrial Recovery Administration
Senate
Rockefeller
Mellon
General Johnson
R.A
Ps Morgan
Steel A Corporation
Elbert
Roosevelt
Morgan
New York Banking Group
White House
P. Morgan
Wall Street
Wallace Announces Licensing Method for Milk Industry
Secretary Wallace said licenses will be issued to all processors and distributors of milk when marketing agreements for fluid milk take effect in each milk shed. Many agreements have been submitted by the milk trade to govern prices and trade practices, and farm administrators had previously refused licensing to enforce them.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevel
Cummings
Life For A Pint Victim Pardoned
Fred Palm once labeled Michigan's "life for a pint" victim was released by executive order from Governor William A. Comstock. Palm, convicted in 1927 in Ingham County as a fourth habitual offender, had parole recommendations from W Alfred Debo.
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Lansing, Mich
Llp
Fred Palm
Michigan
William A. Comstock
W. Alfred Debo
Palm
Ingham County
Hfe
Rescue Six At Sea When Boat Explodes
FISHERS ISLAND N Y Six people including Colonel Thomas F Guggenheim his wife and son were forced to leap into the sea when their small power launch blew up and burned late Wednesday An army boat from Fort Wright and an accompanying plane spotted the blaze and staged the rescue of all six survivors.
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Fishers Island
N. Y
INS
Thomas F. Guggenheim
Fort Wright
Fort
Negotiations Fold in O Connell Kidnapping Case
Reports from Albany and Alton describe stalled talks with kidnapers over John J. O Connell Jr and August Luer, as state police push efforts in Greene County while O Connell brothers push for direct handling and negotiators appeal for contact from abductors.
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Albany
N. Y
O'Connell Brothers
John J. O'Connell
Ed and
Dan" O'Connell
John J
Sally) O'Connell
New York Stocks Rally To Record Turnover Peak
The bull market pushed to new highs on Thursday with the largest turnover yet as major groups led gains across alcohol, aviation, utilities, rails and industrials. Late profit taking trimmed advances. volume neared 7.5 million shares.
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York
Eee
Pte Group
Lindbergh Flight Delayed by Severe Weather
Stormy conditions in Newfoundland force Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh to postpone the North Atlantic survey flight. Rain fog and cold weather delay take-off for Cartwright Labrador where they planned to greet the Italian air armada.
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St, John's
Newfoundland
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Cartwright
Labrador
Shelley denies scientific birth claims in Hommel estate case
James G. Shelley told county officials that Mrs. Mare Atwood Hommel's three children were born naturally and not by any scientific procedure. He said Dr. Dunwoody treated one child for a skin disease and had no other role, contradicting Hommel's Los Angeles court testimony in the divorce and estate dispute involving Wesley J. Hommel.
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Detroit
Mare Atwood Hommel
James G. Shelley
Mrosecutor
Shelley
Hommel
Cincinnati Automobile Company
Inter
John Franklyn Dunwoody
Dunwoody
Hommer
Los Angeles
Wesley J. Hommel
Raphael Corcoran
Detroit Banks To Get RFC Loans
Washington AP reports the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will loan the Detroit Guardian National Bank of Commerce receiver 20 to 25 million dollars and the First National Bank receiver up to 50 million dollars.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Guardian National Bank of Commerce
Detroit
First National Bank
Keenan Urges Public Backing In Kidnaping War
Joseph Keenan announced that federal agents will lead the fight against kidnapers with extensive FBI fingerprints and investigative resources. He urged quick public alerts to aid investigations and warned against delays that would aid abductors as officials stepped up protection for Roosevelt grandchildren.
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Washington
Joseph Keenan
United States Secret Service
Roosevelt
Aring
Department of Justice
James Roosevelt
Anna Roosevelt
Dall
Sissie
Buzzie
Little Boar’s Head
N. Hu
Sarah
Cummings
Hs É
Penick And Ford Workman Hurt In Ladder Fall
Rollie H. Blackwell a fireman at the Penick and Ford plant was injured at 5 p m Thursday when he fell from a ladder at work. X rays showed a fractured left wrist several broken ribs and a double pelvic fracture.
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Penick
Ford Workman
Cedar Rapids
Rollie H. Blackwell
Thireteenth Street
Penick and Ford
St. Luke's Hospital
Army Flyer Killed in Plane Crash Near Jednets Pa
Lieut Arrington a reserve officer on active duty at Selfridge field Michigan was killed Thursday when his plane crashed near Jedmets Pa after a refuel stop at Middletown Pa. He was en route from New York to Selfridge field. The craft spun out of control and burned.
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Harrisburg
Arrington
Selfridge Field
Mich
Jednets
New York
Army Air Depot
Middletown
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