Bus Plunges Toward Cliff Driver Steers It Into Hill
A Greyhound bus lost control on a steep road near Johnstown Pennsylvania and was steered into a roadside embankment to avoid a 350 foot precipice. Driver Clay Worthington and State Trooper William Tevelin helped evacuate 22 passengers. Seventeen were treated and released. five more seriously injured but not in serious condition.
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Johnstown
Greyhound
Clay Worthington
Gerry
Worthington
William Tevelin
Greensburg
Tevelin
Queen Mary Fails to Claim Fastest Atlantic Crossing
Queen Mary finishes the fastest elapsed time from Cherbourg to Ambrose lightship but chases the Normandie for the speed record. Britten says the ship did not deserve the blue ribbon. A seaplane crash near Nantucket delays the voyage and injures two, with photographer Ramsdell dying.
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New York
Edgar T. Britten
Cunard
North Atlantic
Ambrose
Cherbourg
France
Southampton
England
Cunard-White Star
Boston
Nantucket
Edward Ramsdell
Boston Post
William Wincapaw
Exermont
Queenary
Ramsdell
Sir Edgar
Fire River Gasoline Fire Kills Two in Ottawa Kansas
A gasoline truck overturned on Main Street causing a fire that swept through Ottawa killing driver Joe G. Duree of Topeka and a Detroit visitor Louella Francis. The blaze destroyed at least five homes, damaged cars and garages, melted tar, and caused about $60,000 in losses. Firefighters contained the blaze by 6 p.m. after five hours.
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Ottawa
Kan
Joe G. Duree
Topeka
Louella Francis
Detroit
Man Fends Off Burglary, Threw Intruder From Window
Michael Kascak awakened to a burglar in his second story bedroom. They wrestled and the intruder bit his left hand, but Kascak overpowered him and tossed the burglar out of the window.
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Cleveland
Michael Kascak
Kascak
Rebels Hold Morale High At Battle Front
A wartime report from Soma Sierra describes rebel morale, uniforms in blue overalls, and ongoing air and ground combat. Fighters anticipate Madrid’s air power turning the tide as foreign aid from France and Germany looms, with both sides seeking weapon shipments and planes.
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Soma Sierra
Brezo de Abajo
Gacia Escamez
Madrid
Seville
German Ace Udet Crashes Demonstrating Heinkel Plane
Ernst Udet, Germany’s leading wartime ace, crashed while testing a new Heinkel aircraft for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at Warnemuende. He leaped by parachute. slight injuries included cuts and a sprained ankle. Lindbergh watched, later touring the Heinkel works and the naval airport.
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Warnemuende
Germany
Ernst Udet
Charles A. Lindbergh
Col
Lindbergh
Udet
Air Ministry
Heinkel Works
Longtime Cedar Rapids resident Elmer E Veley dies at 71
Elmer E Veley 71 a Cedar Rapids resident for 62 years died suddenly at his home 2625 Bever avenue SE Saturday midnight from coronary occursion He was master mechanic for the Iowa Electric Light and Power company and longtime employee Also survived by wife Anna died two years ago two sons Arthur and Ralph Cedar Rapids four daughters Blanche Eastburn Hazel Sanders Margaret Prucha Chelsea Anna Parsons Waterloo two sisters S R Vedder Cedar Rapids T W Proctor Chicago nine grandchildren Funeral at Beatty chapel 3 p m Tuesday Rev Blaine Hyten burial Oak Hill cemetery Friends may call 7 to 9 p m Monday
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Elmer E. Veley
Cedar Rapids
Bever Avenue
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Des Moines
Iowa
C. R. and
M. St. Ry
Chicago
Margaret
Edward
Ralph
Scott Sanders
Robert
Joanna Veley
Jennne Prucha
Chelsea
Pearl Ann
David Parsons
Waterloo
Beatty Chapel
Blaine Hyten
Oak Hill Cemetery
Edward cancels his holiday at Cannes
King Edward VIII cancels plans for a summer holiday at Cannes due to international repercussions of the Spanish civil war. Buckingham Palace confirms the decision while noting the royal yacht Victoria and Albert could be used for a royal cruise if desired.
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London
INS
France
Edward VIII
Cannes
Spain
Buckingham Palace
Edward
Riviera
International
Fire Sweeps Massawa Port in Red Sea Disaster
London dispatch cites a vast blaze at Massawa, Eritrea Massawa a key Italian war port on the Red Sea. Reported early death tolls were denied official circles confirmed massive destruction including fifty airplanes destroyed and a gasoline plant and ammunition dump blown up.
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Red Sea
London
INL
Massawa
Italy
Reuters
Aden
Arabia
Rome
INS
Eritrea
Excessive Drinking in New York City Surges
Dr. Karl Bowman of Bellevue Hospital reports rising acute alcoholism in New York City. Admissions climbed from 7,649 in 1934 to 9,139 in 1935, with six months of 1936 showing an annual rate of 12,378.
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New York
New York City
Karl M. Bowman
Bellevue Hospital
Bowman
Bowman Quits Iowa Farm Debt Board for Nebraska Irrigation Post
M L Bowman resigns as director of the Iowa farm debt advisory board now part of the federal resettlement administration. He will leave Friday to take a cooperative irrigation role at Hastings Nebraska directing agricultural promotion along the North Platte river. Bowman, former Black Hawk county state senator, moves to Hastings.
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Des Moines
M. L. Bowman
Iowa Farm Debt Advisory Board
Federal Resettlement Administration
Hastings
Neb
North Platte River
Bowman
Black Hawk County
Grace Boston Wins Injunction Suit
Judge Scott dismisses the case finding the contract between Miss Grace Boston and Mr. Briggs at best only mutual employment with onerous terms. The court says the arrangement would starve her and cannot restrain her from toiling for a living. The hostess role with Cedar Rapids merchants is deemed non infringing and the restrictive clause invalid.
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Scott
Briggs
Miss Boston
Judge Scott
Mississippi
Cedar Rapids
Welcome Wagon Service Company
Boston
Court Refuses Writ To Halt Probe Of Investment Trusts
Justice Oscar Luhring in Washington DC refused to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the SEC from investigating investment trusts. Frederick T. Fisher, a stockholder in Equity Corporation, sought to halt subpoenas and examination of papers. A hearing is set for August 5 to consider a temporary injunction.
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Washington
Oscar Luhring
District of Columbia Federal Court
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commission
District Court
Frederick T. Fisher
Equity Corporation
Corporation
Justice Luhring
Fisher
Woman Recovers Five Educated Hens From Local Hennery
Mrs Ardella Peaslee of West Laurens entered a hennery in Oneonta New York and recovered five Rhode Island Red hens. She called the birds by names Susie and Nuisance and led them outside, while a neighbor accused a state police of involvement in the incident.
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Oneonta
N. Y
Ardella Peaslee
West Laurens
Man Jailed for Drunk Charge Gets Soup and Milk
John Yerecic, jailed on a drunk and disorderly charge at North Braddock police station, asked for food. His wife refused to feed him saying let him go hungry. A patrolman delivered soup and milk, while she kept his false teeth.
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Pittsburgh
John Yerecic
North Braddock
Golfer's shot hits man in shirt pocket at Jefferson course
J R Jamison from Greenburg Pa teed off at the Jefferson county golf course and sent the ball about 100 yards into Bernard Singleton's shirt pocket. Singleton was uninjured in Watertown New York.
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Watertown
N. Y
J. R. Jamison
Greenburg
Jefferson County
Bernard Singleton
Caidy
Singleton
Cafe patron cashes $75 check mix up
Spokane police search for a man who received a $75 cash payout at a local cafe after the proprietor agreed to cash a check for Albert Gayda. The server directed the money to the man in the front booth, but another patron in the other booth left before receiving his hamburger.
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Spokane
Wash
Albert Gayda
North crafts wire bonnets to fend off grasshoppers
Mrs. C. P. North of Cottonwood Falls Kansas grew irritated as grasshoppers devoured her vegetable garden and then attacked her tea roses. She handcrafted screen wire bonnets for each rose plant and reports the hoppers now rest on the wire all day, staring at the roses.
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Cottonwood Falls
Kan
C. P. North
Madrid Forces Claim Defeats Of Rebel Army
Madrid claims crushing defeats of rebel armies in provinces and colonies as thousands of troops attack the main insurgent column in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid. Government raids hit Seville, Cordova, Ceuta, Melilla, and other targets while rebels suffer heavy losses in Morocco and southern Spain.
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Madrid
INS
Here
Seville
Riquem
Emilio Mola
Leon Pass
Guadarrama
Mangada
Oropesa
Talavera de la Reina
Toledo
Saragossa
Cordova
Palma de Majorca
Melillan
Ceuta
Spanish Morocco
Algeciras
Morocco
Spain
Straits of Gibraltar
Melilla
Burgos
Bowers Reports All Americans Safe in Spain
Ambassador Claude G. Bowers stated there has been no American injuries in Spain’s civil war. He spoke from Fuentarrabia after relocation of embassy staff, with guards present, noting three days of no contact and five days out of touch with Madrid.
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Iran
Spain
INS
Madrid
San Sebastian
Claude G. Bowers
United States
Bowers
Fuentarrabia
Summer Villa
Indian sues for four trillion dollars in high court
A wealthy Indian sues the British government in Nagpur seeking four trillion dollars claiming his father-in-law, who died in London, appointed the secretary of state for India as trustee over Indian and foreign properties including two gold mines and three oil wells. He would accept equivalent property if cash isn’t available.
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Nagpur
India
London
Secretary of State For
Neville Chamberlain
Polish general rejects wedding rings for war chest
General Edward Rydz Smigly refused to follow Mussolini and accept wedding rings sent by a Polish couple to aid armaments. He said the donation would be like the last cartridges in a rifle and should be used only in extreme necessity.
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Warsaw
Poland
Edward Rydz-Smigly
Pilsudski
Mussolini
Ethiopia
War Office
Rydz-Smigly
Americans Evacuate Madrid Area Amid Spanish Crisis
As fighting erupts near San Sebastian the American embassy moves to Fuenterrabia. The Cayuga evacuates staff and foreign officials, leaving fourteen Americans aboard with limited food and water for two weeks while coast ships may rescue remaining nationals.
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Wendelin
Cordell Hull
Madrid
U. S
Spain
Roosevelt Heads Back to Campobello Ending Ocean Trip
President Roosevelt steers the Seawanna toward Campobello New Brunswick to end a two week ocean vacation with sons James Franklin Jr and John aboard. The flotilla includes the Potomac Hopkins and Liberty as they approach Welsh Pool near the presidential summer cottages.
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Liberty
Roosevelt
Campobello
N. B
Bay of Fundy
Seal Cove
Grand Manan Island
Maine
New Brunswick
Hopkins
Campobello Island
Passamaquoddy Bay
Welsh Pool
Sara Delano Roosevelt
James
Franklin, Jr
John
Pulpit Harbor
Fire Marshal Calls State Offices Fire Hazard Condemnation Sought
Des Moines Iowa fire marshal J Vin cent Pyle urged the state executive council to condemn the old Bryant school building housing his office the labor department and the board of parole as a fire hazard near the capitol. The council took no action pending contractor confirmation of the danger.
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DES Moines
INS
J. Vincent Pyle
State Executive Council
Pyle
Labor Department
Board of Parole
Bryant
State Capitol
Convict Escapes From Anamosa Prison Farm
Stanley Caster, 28, a convict at the state reformatory Anamosa, escaped Monday afternoon by running from the prison farm where he worked. He is 5 feet 11 inches, 173 pounds, light complexion, blue shirt. Serving 10 years for automobile theft, in prison since December 22, 1933, convicted at Waterloo.
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Anamosa
INS
Stanley Caster
State Reformatory
Caster
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids Pioneer Robert Palmer Turns 86
One of Cedar Rapids’ pioneer business men, Robert Palmer, 525 Knollwood Drive SE, celebrated his eighty six birthday with family. Active in city affairs, he came to Cedar Rapids in 1881 to found the R G Dun company branch and helped organize Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, later serving as director and vice president. He remains involved as senior warden of St John’s Episcopal Church and head of the Old People’s Reunion. Guests included his son-in-law and daughter Victor and Mrs Wright of Cleveland and his son Ralph Palmer and daughter-in-law Mrs Palmer of Chicago.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Palmer
Knollwood Drive
Palmer
R. G. Dun Company
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
Mr. Palmer
Clevenger In Jail Despite Denials
Ashe ville NC The tangled Clevenger murder case deepened as Sheriff Brown disclosed that Prof W L Clevenger uncle of Helen Clevenger NYU coed is in the county jail despite his attorney's claim he had been released The sheriff confirmed the professor is in custody when reporters asked about his whereabouts.
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Asheville
N. C
INS
Clevenger
Laurence E. Brown
W. L. Clevenger
Helen Clevenger
New York University
North Carolina State University
Brown
Stuffed Peppers and Spicy Squares Recipe Fragments
Instructions describe making stuffed peppers using large red peppers lima beans yolk celery onion parsley and seasonings then cooking in a shallow pan. Also outlines a spicy squares dough with flour baking powder salt egg milk and a spread of ingredients before baking and cutting into squares.
Woodward K. Greene Dies in New York
Woodward K. Greene a former Diamond Chemical and Philadelphia Celotex executive died in New York City. Surviving widow Ellen S. Greene, sister Mrs Eliza beth G. Mclivor, and brothers Calvin G. Greene George Greene and Francis Greene. Funeral services set for Wednesday afternoon in New York City.
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Diamond Chemical Company
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Celotex Company
Telfer Biscuit Company
Toronto
Canada
Madison Avenue
New York City
Ellen S. Greene
Elizabeth G. Mclivor
Diamond Hill
R. I
Calvin G. Greene
Cedar Rapids
George Greene
Cambridge
Mass
Francis Greene
Birmingham
Ala
Greene
Grace Episcopal Church
Princeton
Woodward Greene
Winners Crowned in Daniels Park Playground Tournaments
City wide events at Daniels park concluded with champions in horseshoe and paddle tennis. Junior boys horseshoe champ Elmer Kataska edged Alvin Kucera 25 20. Harrison players won junior doubles and senior titles. Senior boys doubles went to Ray Hatfield and Elgin Noble. paddle tennis titles awarded to Havlick over Sword in junior singles and Harrison duo Hauser and Sample in doubles. Senior girls singles Bertha Schneider and doubles Schneider Eddy claimed titles. junior girls doubles not held due to no entries.
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Playground Commission
Daniels Park
Elmer Kataska
K Street
Riverside Playground
Alvin Kucera
Harrison Playground
Robert Larson
Ninth Street NW
Tenth Street
Harry Mullin
Emory Sample
Third Avenue
Earl St. Germaine
Eighteenth Avenue SW
Frank Rocarek
N Street
Bertha Schneider
C Avenue NE
Daniels Playground
Miss Schneider
Jean Eddy
Daniels Street NE
Believe Farmhand Dies After Beer Prank Near Dunlap
Dunlap Iowa AP Authorities investigated the death of Anton Riesland 49 a farmer after Dr A T Slattery blamed it on Croton oil used as a prank in a beer bottle A state agent was assigned Brun ner of Dunlap also drank and fell ill but recovered Riesland survived by his wife and nine children
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Dunlap
Anton Riesland
A. T. Slattery
Riesland
Leonard Brunner
Herring Won’t Name Murphy Replacement Yet
Des Moines IowaAP Gov Clyde L Herring said he would not appoint anyone to fill the late Senator Murphy of Dubuque un less something comes up An appointee would serve until the November election
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Senator Murphy
Dubuque
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Abyssinia
Marseilles
Ciudad de Tarragone
Valencia
Red Madrid
Paris
Nazi
Berlin
Lindy
City
Farm Debt Board
Grace Boston
THE
Associated Press
LAW
Fuenterrabia
Mrs
Alexander George
Stuffed Peppers Somerset
Elberta Freestone
Peaches
First Ave
DIAL
Woodward K. Greene
Herring
Murphy
Oleh
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