Austria Moves Toward Executions in Nazi Bombings
Vienna faces the possibility of executions for seven Nazi suspects linked to bombings. A bombing victim died, while four others were injured in Salzburg. Police arrests include an inspector and a female public security director's employee. A separate grenade attack critically injured a district fascist leader in Carinthia. An updated Vienna phone book still shows the Adolf Hitler house.
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Vienna
Hurg
Austria
Hermione Graubna
Jaz
Salzburg
Emi
Edouard Fischer
Fischer
Fey
Heimwehr
Felfsberg
Carinthia
Feys
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss Drives Out Nazis in Austria
Vienna reports Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss launched a purge of his official residence and a broader cleanup of state police amid daily bombings and sabotage blamed on Nazi supporters. The Abendzeitung assigns responsibility to Adolf Hitler as the five day pathway to surrender explosives ends.
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Vienna
Engelbert Dollfuss
Abendzeitung
Adolf Hitler
Dollfuss
Death penalty possible under law courts not lax on sentences
Courts may impose the death penalty where legal standards permit. Authorities stress that lighter sentences are not allowed under relevant statutes and judicial guidelines, ensuring strict adherence to the law in capital cases.
Washington Senate Race Opens After Dill Retirement
Spokane report notes Senator Clarence Dill, a Democrat, will not seek re election opening a wide race for the Senate seat. Dill cites no current issue compelling a change in plans though he hints urgent congressional matters could alter his stance. Also mentioned is Europe air travel speed lagging behind U S on continental routes with some short hauls averaging 33 miles per hour.
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Spokane
Wash
INS
Washington
Clarence Cain
Dill
Senate
Congress
Europe
United States
Linn County to Receive 20 000 Lbs Cotton for Mattresses
The Linn county emergency relief committee will obtain a carload about 25 000 pounds of cotton from Des Moines around August 1 to manufacture mattresses for relief recipients. The project, supplied by the surplus commodity division of the national emergency relief committee, aims to employ the unemployed. a supervisor with mattress-making experience is sought and may be sent to Des Moines for training.
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Linn County
Tait
Des Moines
Siamese Twins Fight for Marriage and Freedom in Courts
New York reports Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined at the hips, seek marriage and motherhood while city officials resist. They have battled for rights in Omaha and other venues, claiming control of their lives after years in circuses and vaudeville. Their past includes foster care in Australia and a 26 year history of public attention and legal action.
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New York
Violet
Maurice L. Lambert
New York City
Newark
Daisy
England
Omaha
California
Myer Myers
Australia
Myers
San Antonio
Texas
Orient
Prince of Wales
Parer‘s
Tresas District
Tex
York
Central Park
Teague Defends Farm Board's Work For Co-operatives
Madison reports former Farm Board member and Hoover campaign manag er Charles C Teague defends the boards co operative marketing role. He argues the administration's landslide ended a powerful upbuilding force and notes co operatives grew by about 30 percent during the Farm Board era while speculators sought to undermine the marketing act.
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Madison Wistup
Federal Farm Board
America
Charles C Teague
American Institute of Co-operation
Teague
Hoover
California
Calfornia Fruit Growers Exchange
Calfornia Walnut Growers Exchange
Institute
University of Wisconsin
Wallace
Mordacai Ezekiel
AAA
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Nebraska
New Agricultural Administration
Farm Products of America
Farm Board
U S Now Independent Of Foreign Dyes
Washington reports the United States is reducing reliance on foreign synthetic dyes and medicinals with a rising export market. For the first four months of 1934 imports totaled 1,503,500 pounds worth 1,926,000 dollars while exports reached 6,917,000 pounds valued at 1,983,000 dollars, indicating a growing domestic production and trade balance.
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Washington
CINS
United States
C C Concannon
Commerce Departments
Chemical Division
Concannon
Hearing on Exemption from Beattys Bennett Tax Reduction Law
Notice of a July 25 1934 hearing at Marion Community Rooms on the Marion Township School Board application for exemption under Chapter 123 Laws of the 45th General Assembly. Reasons cited include rising school population costs and reduced levy for the year 193. Taxpayers may appear or submit objections in writing or orally. Dated Marion Iowa July 13 1934. Secretary D B Storck.
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Marion
Iowa
Marion Township
G& A
Beattys-Bennett
State Comptroller
Notice of Hearing on Final Report in Hunt Trusteeship
Probate in Linn County Iowa requires a hearing on the final report and accounting under the will of Kate E Hunt. The date set by order is June 13, 1934, at Cedar Rapids Court House at 9:00 AM on May 2, 1934, for Ralph D Hunting Lenore Hunting and interested parties to appear, file exceptions, and object to the report and discharge of the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company as trustee and receiver.
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District Court OF
Iowa
Linn County
Kate E Hunt
Ralph D
Kate E
Ouet House
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Jay
Rey Safers
Cedar Ranies Savines Mans and Trust Company
W Bates
Bankine
State of
Inan
Cedar Rapids Saves Barr and Trust Company
Crwir Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Compan
Gun Girl's Killer Guarded as Mob Fears Rise
Frank Martin, a convict who killed Helen Spence Eaton, 27, faced possible mob violence as deputies increased at the Little Rock jail. Sheriff Branch sought calm after threats while Coroner Aday ordered Martin held on a murder tech charge and prosecutors pressed the case amid a grand jury inquiry. Helen Eaton, serving for two prior killings, lay in state as about 8,000 mourners gathered to view her body before burial in a dress provided by the undertaker.
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Little Rock
Ark
Frank Martin
Helen Spence Eaton
L. B. Branch
Martin
State Farm For
L. C Aday
Lawrence C Auten
Trusty
Arkansas Penal Board
Walter Helms
Helen
Mrs Roosevelt urges parents to study children
New York United Press report quotes Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt urging parents to use spare time from the New Deal to get to know their children. She wrote a foreword for a Leisure League of America booklet by Dr James W Howard on Getting Acquainted With Your Children. She stresses parents must understand themselves and treat each child as an individual.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Leisure League of America
James W Howard
Ancient City Note Unsettles New Orleans Treasurer
City Treasurer William S Daly faced a problem when William Fleet of Hammond presented a five dollar New Orleans note from Reconstruction days and demanded payment. The City Board of Liquidation ruled the note valueless. it bore July 20, 1863, with steamboats and pickaninnies on one side and a securing inscription on the reverse.
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New Orleans
William S Daly
William Fleet
Hammond
Daly
City Board of Liquidation
City of
Louisiana Bill to Ban Child Marriages in State
Baton Rouge report notes a pending Louisiana bill that would prohibit child marriages with girls under 16 and youths under 18. It also removes clergy and justices of the peace from the right to perform marriages if they violate the proposed terms.
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Louisiana
Baton Rouge, la
Woman's Bath Triggers Neighbors to Call Police
In Boston Mrs. Anna Zoll drew her shades to bathe. Neighbors mistook the closed blinds for a robbery and alerted police. Offcers arrived to find Mrs. Zoll in the bath, no crime in progress.
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Boston
Anna Zoll
Movies Issue Cleanup Order To Employes
HOLLYWOOD California INS The motion picture industry moves to a moral overhaul with new rules forcing studios to scrub content for decency. Will Hays and Joseph Breen lead the mor al watch as post July 15 releases must bear a certification seal. Theater owners may reject films with legitimate moral protests. Paris INS Edouard Herriot from France may chair a new film import commission governing foreign films.
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Hollywood
Calif
INS
Will Hays
Joseph I. Breen
Canecome
Paris
Edouard Herriot
France
America
Film Commission
Herriot
Battery Water Level Gauge Ends Battery Guesswork
A simple gauge mounted on the automobile instrument panel now eliminates guesswork about when to add water to the battery. It provides a clear reading, helping ensure proper maintenance and avoiding damage from low electrolyte levels.
Will Rogers on Hull and a loans plan for houses
Will Rogers praises Secretary of State Cordell Hull and discusses a South America visit and a new housing loan program. He notes banks or local groups loan up to two thousand dollars with government guarantees for twenty percent loss, stressing renewed trust and honesty and praising Jimmy Moffett and a strong organization.
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Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
South America
Jimmy Moffett
Washington
Accidental Shell Kills Two on French Destroyer
In Toulon, France, a shell fired by accident from destroyer Vautour struck sister ship Albatross, killing two sailors and wounding another during cleaning. The shell had been forgotten in a Vautour gun and exploded on the Albatross’ forward deck.
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Toulon
France
Vautour
Albatross
Lightning Shatters Tree in Bever Park Reveals Insects
A lightning bolt split a big red oak in Bever Park near park superintendent William F. Volz’s residence, exposing extensive insect inroads by borers in several park trees. Volz plans to leave the trunk for several days for public viewing as fragments were scattered.
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Bever Park
William F. Volz
Boy Hit by Truck Suffered Bruises After Reaching For Cap
Arthur Abodeely, 14, of 818 Ninth Street SE, was bruised on his left foot Thursday afternoon when he stepped in front of Ralph Woods operating a truck at a filling station near Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE. He had left his cap on a ladder in the truck and reached for it as Woods began to move.
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Arthur Abodeely
Ninth Street SE
Ralph Woods
First Avenue E
Third Avenue
Sixth Street
Woods
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