Iowa graft exposed as state leaders face pressure to resign
The Gazette targets Governor Herring and officials including Harold M. Cooper Attorney General Edward L. O Connor and County Attorney Max Duckworth over drunken orgies graft and misused funds. It argues for a thorough house cleaning and stronger justice department action against the gambling syndicate led by Joe Gagen and allied officials.
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Herring
Harold M. Cooper
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Cooper
The
Gazette
Edward L. O'Connor
Iowa
O’connor
Department of Justice
Edward L. O’connor
Walter Maley
Joe Gagen
Des Moines
Gagen
Mayor Hayes suspended in Sioux City graft probe
Sioux City Mayor W. D. Hayes was temporarily suspended by Judge A. O. Wakefield after Special Prosecutors H. M. Havner and Ole T. Naglestad filed a removal petition. The Woodbury county grand jury urged the petition citing knowledge of lawless conditions and inaction. Hayes vows to fight the ouster as affidavits from Charles I. Small and state lawmakers support the probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
W. D. Hayes
A. O. Wakefield
H. M. Havner
Ole T. Naglestad
Hayes
Woodbury
Wakefield
Grand Jury
Max Duckworth
H. C. Kuhlmann
Public Safety Rastice
Stk
Reowsen
Charles I. Small
Small
Charles
John W. Moore
Gustave Alesch
County Board of Supervisors
Havner and
Naglestad
Maurice Rawlings
Edward L. O'Connor
Walter Maley
Monk Given Two Years For Smuggling Currency
Berlin reports Julian Allais a French Dominican monk was convicted of violating currency restrictions. He received a two year prison term and a 3000 mark fine for smuggling money out of the Reich.
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Berlin
INS
Germany
Julian Allais
Reich
O'Connor and State Officials Under Scrutiny
The piece urges action against alleged statewide corruption and asks how long O'Connor can stay in office while allowing conditions in the attorney general's office to persist. It accuses supporters of bearing responsibility for extended tolerate.
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O’connor
Executive Council
Attorney General
Hidden Power in Ordinary Lives and the Spark Within
The piece reflects on famous painters and Ulysses Grant, showing how failure and downfall can hide extraordinary potential. It argues that unseen powers lie dormant in people, ready to ignite, leading to remarkable changes and achievements.
Floods claim 12000 in Hankow area
Unofficial counts report about 12,000 deaths in Hankow as Yangtze floods surge beyond fifty one feet. Yangtze and Yellow rivers batter major cities, destroying property and threatening Hankow's 1.6 million residents.
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Shanghai
INS
China
Yangtze
Yellow Rivers
Hankow
Senate Rejects Additions to AAA Marketing List
The Senate rejected proposed additions to the commodities the agriculture secretary could regulate under the AAA. Poultry and package and queen bees were defeated after floor ridicule. Wool, mohair, and canning fruits were also not included. current scope covers milk, non canned fruits, tobacco, vegetables, and naval stores.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate Agriculture Committee
James P. Pope
Idaho
John H. Bankhead
Ala
AAA
Prohibition Agents Lubbers and Stewart Dropped
Federal Prohibition Agents Roy Lubbers and Charles B. Stewart, both of Sioux City, were dropped from government service on Monday after being under suspension since April amid an Iowa racketeering probe. Lubbers and Stewart had previously worked for the Iowa liquor control commission and had returned to federal service when pay resumed.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Roy Lubbers
Charles B. Stewart
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Liquor Commission
Lubbers
Stewart
Gazetts
Liquor
the Gazette
Frank Wilson
United States Bureau of Internal Revenue
Report on Slot Machine Probe in Mason City
Assistant County Attorney Hines Mount prepared a report on confiscated slot machines from September 17 1934 that were ordered destroyed and later allegedly sold to a gaming syndicate at Carroll He returned from investigations in Sioux City Carroll and Cedar Rapids and County Attorney F B Shaffer said results would be announced soon.
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Mason City
Hines Mount
Carroll
Mount
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
F. B. Shaffer
Prison Goods Bill Sent to White House for Signature
The Sumner-Ashurst bill banning prison-made goods in interstate commerce won final house approval Monday and was sent to the White House for the President's signature.
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White House
Washington
House
Five Little Dionies And How They Grew
Nurse Louise De Kiriline recounts the mission to care for the Dionne quintuplets beginning with Dr A R Dafoe’s urgent telegram. The Cedar Rapids Gazette features her six article series telling how the famous babies survived and grew, starting on page 5.
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A. R. Dafoe
Louise de Kiriline
Dionne Quintuplets
Nurse de Kiriline
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Indictments Round Graft Probe Reach Plainclothes Officials
Sioux City and LeMars officials face new charges as Woodbury county grand jury adds two indictments in the Iowa graft probe. Sheriff Ralph Rippey is charged with conspiracy over slot machine protection graft. Joe Siegel faces liquor nuisance charges and a prior perjury count linked to a party with Attorney General Edward L. O Connor. O Connor himself is named in the probe. Siegel’s manslaughter conviction hangs as his case awaits the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Rippey
LeMars
Joe Siegel
Sioux City
Woodbury County Grand’ Jury
Iowa
The
Gazette
Rippey
Siegel
Edward L. O’connor
Hattie Brown
O'Connor
O’connor
Supreme Court
Python attacks worker at Frank Buck's animal camp
Otis Lloyd, an experienced snake handler, was wrapped by a 27 foot python during a cage transfer at Amityville camp. Four employees freed him after a five minute struggle. Henry Kirby was badly cut by a lion that escaped its cage during the chaos. Both men were hospitalized. The python, recently arriving from Malay Sumatra and India, was subdued.
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Amityville
N.Y
Frank Buck
Otis Lloyd
Henry Kirby
Kirby
Reed Hospital
Lloyd
Fred Blue
Simo
Lloyd Quick
New York
Malay
Sumatra
India
Eclipse Of Moon Makes Longest Total View Since 1927
The United States watched the first total lunar eclipse since 1927 with the earth's shadow darkening the moon for about three and a half hours. Observers noted the moon turning copper under favorable skies as scientists explained the unusual timing due to Earth’s proximity to the sun and the moon’s near full phase.
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New York
United States
Iowa
Clyde Fisher
Museum of Natural History
Russia
South Africa
Hawaii
Congressmen cheer demand to adjourn
Resentment over postponement of adjournment sparked a three minute cheering demonstration for Rep. Braswell Deen of Georgia who urged immediate adjournment. Speaker Burns suggested adjournment by August 20 if Roosevelt's tax program fails to settle business. Members cheered across party lines.
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Washington
Rep
Braswell Deen
Congress
Deen
Joseph W. Burns
Roosevelt
Vatican Charges Hitler Broke Faith Over Concordat
Pope Pius, via Observatore Romano, accused Adolf Hitler of breaking faith with the Vatican by disregarding the concordat that promised non interference with the church in Germany.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Vatican
Observatore Romano
Auto Dealer Wins Return Of $300 Fine Under NRA
L A McKean Auto Co of Sioux Falls won a legal action to recover 300 of the 500 dollar fine imposed in 1934 for allegedly selling a new car below NRA code prices. The firm had paid 300 before, then refunded 200 and pursued the remaining amount in court.
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NRA
McKean
Ruleés Seizure Of Land For Housing Illegal
The Sixth circuit held the federal government cannot condemn land for public housing. It sustained Judge Dawson’s ruling that condemnation for such use is illegal, affecting a $1.618 million Louisville project and potentially the $160 million national housing program. The case originated in Louisville and involved 120 parcels valued at $347,668 for housing 460 families.
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Cincinnati
Sixth
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Charles I. Dawson
Louisville
Ickes
Supreme Court
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Dawson
Edward J. Gernert
Ickes Defends Slum Clearance Program After Court Ruling
Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes said the New Deal slum clearance and low cost housing program would continue despite a Cincinnati circuit court of appeals ruling limiting government condemnations. He outlined three land-assembly options and noted no decision on appealing to the Supreme Court. Ickes said the ruling likely affects only that district, not nationwide plans.
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Washington
Public
Harold L. Ickes
New Deal
Cincinnati
Ourt “of Appeals
Ickes
Housing Authority
Louisville
U. S. Supreme Court
Extra girl dies in third death by own action
Julia Graham, once a Sisterville choir singer who failed to break into films, died Monday night by suicide in the apartment of film cameraman Benjamin Reynolds. Reynolds said she used his pistol after two prior suicide attempts by poison. he admitted taking her to his apartment after she was too drunk to go to the studio club. The note she left described her weariness of life.
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Los Angeles
Julia Graham
Sisterville
W. Va
Benjamin F.reynolds
Reynolds
H. A. Spencer
Miss Graham
Studio Club
Earl Carroll
New York
Queen Marie's Train Catches Fire Twice in Romania
Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania traveled toward Sinaia when the train she rode caught fire two times. Both blazes were extinguished without difficulty.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Marie of
Police hunt William Mahan after Seattle bank robbery killings
Desperate escapee William Mahan, alleged kidnapper of George Weyerhaeuser, is hunted after killing two Puyallup police officers during a bank holdup. Authorities spread across Washington, tracing the stolen car toward Seattle as Mahan flees toward Wenatchee, with the $15,000 ransom unaccounted.
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Seattle
William Mahan
Weyerhaeuser
Kirkland
Wash
Lake Washington
Wenatchee
Payallup
George Weyerhaeuser
Puyallup
Chinch Bug Oil Ordered for Iowa Counties
DES MOINES AP H C Aaberg assistant Iowa secretary of agriculture ordered two cars of creosote for chinch bug control in east central Iowa counties. Shipment obtained with federal funds will arrive in Cedar Rapids and DeWitt Tuesday for distribution to area counties. First creosote purchase for Iowa this year from congress appropriation. Farmers may obtain the oil by contacting their county agent.
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Des Moines
H .C. Aaberg
Iowa
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids
DeWitt
Aaberg
Congress
Bell Lab Chief Seeks Televised Link Permit
The FCC is expected to grant permission for a long distance telephone television hookup between New York and Philadelphia in early 1936. Dr. Frank B. Jewett president of Bell Telephone Laboratories will present the request Monday.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
New York
Philadelphia
Frank B. Jewett
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Strike Called At Boulder Dam Work In Nevada
A general state of strike was declared on Boulder Dam construction work in Boulder City Nevada after labor representatives failed to reach agreement with Six Companies Inc construction operators. A federal conciliator was en route from Los Angeles to arbitrate.
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Boulder City
Nev
Boulder -Dam
Companies
Inc
Los Angeles
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Newton
Lubbers and Stewart
Journal
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Frank Chadwick
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