Gangsters Karpis and Fitzgerald Sentenced for Hamm Kidnapping
Alvin Kar pis and Charles Fitzgerald, Barker-Karpis gangsters, received life terms for the $100,000 Hamm kidnaping of William Hamm Jr. They pled guilty and denied Peifer’s involvement. Judge Joyce called kidnaping a crime Americans will not tolerate. Peifer’s sentencing is set for Wednesday. Bolton’s testimony helped crack the cases. Bartholmey’s sentencing was postponed.
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ST. Paul
Alvin Kar‘pis
William Hamm
Charles Fitzgerald
M. N. Joyce
John P. Peifer
Hamm
Ne. Pita
Bremer
Peifer
Karpis
Joyce
Edward C. Bartholmey
Bolton
C. R. Kelley
West Plaine
Missouri
Karpis Expected to Go to Alcatraz After Leavenworth Move
Washington authorities said Alvin Karpis, serving life for the Hamm kidnapping, will likely be sent to Alcatraz eventually due to his long outlaw record. He and Charles Fitzgerald were ordered to Leavenworth first. Karpis to be moved to Alcatraz shortly, Fitzgerald’s future at Leavenworth undecided.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Alvin Karpis
Hamm
Alcatraz
Federal Prisons Bureau
Sanford Bates
Karpis
Charles Fitzgerald
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Fitzgerald
Leavenworth
Honor Student Held In Probe Of Murder Of His Grandmother
Oklahoma City police hold 24 year old Wald Knepper described by his father as a former honor student at Oklahoma A and M. Authorities investigate the murder of Knepper’s 75 year old grandmother Mrs O N Weiser, with deputies stating the suspect appeared dazed and allegedly strangled her and cut her throat with a pocketknife at the family home while they were away.
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Oklahoma City
Wald Knepper
Oklahoma A
O. N. Weiser
Dan Kean
Pioneer family member K Greene Woodward dies in New York
Keeling Greene Woodward, 62, Cedar Rapids native and brother of Calvin Greene, died Monday in New York City. Born August 2, 1873, he studied at Coe College and Princeton, married Ellen Safely, and had a career with the BCR and N railroad, National Biscuit, and American Sugar Refining. He worked in Cedar Rapids, Decorah, Waterloo, Champaign, Danville, and San Francisco.
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Woodward Keeling Greene
Calvin G. Greene
Cedar Rapids
New York City
Mr. Greene
George Greene
Frances R. Greene
Coe College
Princeton University
Ellen B. Safely
Robert Safely
Boston
Red
Knox Plans New England Drive Start At Hampton Beach NH
Knox announces the New England campaign kickoff for August 27 at Hampton Beach New Hampshire with Lee Landon and John Hamilton arranging travel to avoid overlap. He expects Maine before Labor Day and notes strong Republican hope in New England while Townsend Coughlin and Lemke factions have some influence in Maine and Massachusetts.
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Chicago
AFP
John D. M. Hamilton
Frank Knox
New England
Hampton Beach
N. H
Alfred M. Landon
Knox
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Manchester
East
Pin Ceachnsels
Connecticut
Union Party
Townsend
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Arizona
New Mexico
Illinois Courts Join In Drive On Drunken Motorists
Illinois police magistrates, justices of the peace and constables joined Monday night in a campaign to drive all drunken motorists off highways. Revocation of licenses of intoxicated drivers was announced as an objective, described as the first of its kind in any state.
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Chicago
Illinois
Justices of the Peace
Landon Plans Drought Relief in Own State
Gov Alf Landon meets with state officials and economic advisers in Topeka to review drought relief for Kansas plains. He postpones political talks to study water and forage provisions, ahead of a key conference with Sen Arthur Vandenberg.
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Topeka
Alf
M. Landon
Kansas Plains
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Landon
Leonard
Pe Ayres
Cleveland
Benjarea Eee Banker
Magepaidint
Yakima
L. L. Straus
Kuhn
Loeb and Company
New
York
Agricultural Society
Max Epstein
Chicago
General American Transportation
Corporation
Drought Drives Corn Yield Down in Three States
Drought deepens in the corn belt with downward yield revisions from Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois officials. In Iowa, 80 to 90 percent of corn ruined across 20 western and southern counties with many areas worst than 1934. Wisconsin reports irreparable damage and minimal late rainfall help. Illinois downstate endures 100 degree heat as drought remains unbroken except in scattered pockets.
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Chicago
Iowa
Federal Agricultural
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
Wisconsin
Walter Ebling
State Federal Reporting Service
Illinois
A. J. Suratt
A World Opened By Cameras Markets And Rhetoric
A 1936 fragment reflects on a fully exposed world where media reveals all and old certainties collapse. It warns that atheism nationalism and Mammonism surface in brazen form, urging religion to be tested on a grand scale beyond petty divisions. Copyright 1936.
Tragic Train Collision Kills Nine From One Family
In Hamilton Ohio a passenger train struck a car carrying nine members of a single family after a picnic outing. Driver Norman Sweitzer and the wife Eva Sweitzer perished, along with relatives Harlan Sherlock Edward and Charles Sweitzer and Mrs. Walter Seward and Mrs. David Vogan. Patricia Jennewein survived severely injured.
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Hamilton
Patricia Jennewein
Norman Sweitzer
Walter Seward
Eva Sweitzer
Harlan Seward
Sherlock Sweitzer
Edward Sweitzer
David
Tragedy at Concord Street Crossing Claims Six Lives
In Oconomowoc Wisconsin Verna Dobratz 16 of Concord dies in a grade crossing accident that also kills her siblings Waldemar Everett and Norma and Helman Gartzke of Concord and Ralph H Rubel of Watertown. The car was struck by two Milwaukee Road passenger trains traveling in opposite directions during a band concert ride.
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Oconomowcc
Wis
Verna Dobratz
Concord
Milwaukee Road
Concord Street
Verna
Waldemar
Everett
Norma
Helman Gartzke
Ralph H. Rubel
Watertown
Department Store Sales Rise in Seventh District
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reports department store sales in the seventh district, including part of Iowa, for the first six months of 1936 rose about 11 percent from the same period in 1935. Stock turnover reached 2.29 times versus 2.12 times a year ago.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve District
Iowa
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Democrats plan nationwide revolt meeting in Detroit
Prominent Democrats opposing President Roosevelt plan a national revolt meeting in Detroit on August 7. Promoters include former Senator James A. Reed and Sterling Edmunds, with invitations sent to dissident Democrats in many states. Attendees may include former Gov. Joseph B. Ely and Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state in the Wilson cabinet. Alfred E. Smith is linked to sponsors. Smith's attendance remains unclear.
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Boston
Roosevelt
Detroit
United Press
James A. Reed
Missouri
Sterling E. Edmunds
St. Louis
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Bainbridge Colby
New York
Wilson
Edmunds
Ely
Westfield
Jsciugs
Echr
Colby
Alfred E. Smith
Reed
Daniel F. Conlan
Smith
President Roosevelt Brings Back Whiskered Look on Campobello Visit
President Roosevelt returns to Campobello with notable sideburns and bullfighter style beard growth after a two week sea vacation aboard the Seavna. His son James sports under the chin whiskers while the other boys tease light mustaches. The Sewanna anchors at Welshpool then L etang Island for a brief visit with Mrs. Roosevelt and Nancy Cook before heading back to Campobello for the cruise’s end.
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Campobello
Rooseveltg
Sevanna
James
Roosevelt
James Roosevelt
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Sewanna
Welshpool
Campobello Island
L’etang Island
N. B
L’etang
Rebel Morale High At War Front Near Madrid
From the rebel front miles from Madrid dispatches report high morale despite fear France may aid Madrid. Soldiers claim key Soma Sierra pass captured and can take Madrid tomorrow. Brezos de Abajo field report notes bombs and dust as officers celebrate victory while rear areas gloom over Franco France aid.
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Madrid
M. BR. Knickerbocker
Keme Sierra Pass
Aickerbocker
Frames
Brezo de Abajo
Soma Sierra
INS
France
Marseilles
de Burgos
Cotte
Spain
Burgos
Columon
Paris
State Defers O Connor request for Free in probe
Des Moines AP Gov Clyde L Herring said the state executive council deferred indefinitely action on Attorney General Ed O Connor s request to hire Sioux City attorney Fred Free to investigate gambling and liquor conditions in Sioux City and Iowa Free has been paid 1700 from the AG s contingent fund and could be paid 40 a day for court appearances and 4 an hour for investigation if employed by the council The council wanted to study the request further.
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DES Moines
Clyde L. Herring
State Executive Council
Ed O'Connor
Fred Free
Sioux City
Iowa
Free
O'Connor
Woodbury
Executive Council
Death by Own Action Bridge Claims Seventy-Seventh Victim
Police in Pasadena California marked the seventy seventh death by suicide at the Colorado Street Bridge. An unidentified man jumped to his death after officers reported another person was ready to jump.
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Pasadena
Calif
Colorado
Fragmentary 1900s sports notes with postponements and names
Fragmentary OCR lists names Blanton Meyt Swit and Padden with postponed matches involving Frankhesse Gautreaux Berres Cincinnati at New York. Other items mention Leaks at Beaten, Pittsburgh, and timelines unclear due to damaged text.
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Sores Soo
Breeklyn
Blanton
Meyt
Swit
Padden
Frankhesse
Gautreaux
Berres
Cincinnati
New York
Mbienrest Talladsiphia
Rairy
Pittsbarch
Britain Ready to Supply Arms If Spain Requests
London AP report states Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told MPs Britain would export arms under normal licenses if Spain asks, noting no request had been received. Gallagher pressed about aiding a friendly government in conflict. Eden cited death of mutual defense pacts with Mediterranean powers over Italy. Washington INS notes US has no objection to arms shipments by American manufacturers to Spain, but no evidence Madrid seeks purchases. Neutrality Act limits apply only where two powers are at war.
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London
Britain
Anthony Eden
House
of Commons
Spain
William Gallagher
Ay “Eden
Abraham
Lyons
Gallagher
Lona
Eden
Italy
Washington
INS
United States
State ‘Department
Department
Madrid
Congress
Edo
Tropical Storms Hit Louisiana Coast With Gale Winds
Two tropical disturbances formed in the Gulf and Caribbean. One struck the Louisiana coast with gale force winds up to 46 miles per hour and moved inland. The second system lingered near the Bahamas, about 300 miles east southeast of Miami, as warnings broadcast to ships in southern waters.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Louisiana
Bahamas
Mississippi
Miami
Fla
Charge Stanwoon Man With Extortion In Stanwood Case
Fred C. Coleman, 34, of near Stanwood, was taken into custody late Monday by US Deputy Marshal Joe Petrus. He is charged with mailing an extortion letter to Stanwood businessman Fred Hessmeyer, demanding 1000 dollars left in a culvert near a Stanwood cemetery. A hearing before US Commissioner E J McPartland is set for 9 am Tuesday. Sheriff's officials aided the post office investigation, with a dummy package observed at the scene.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred C. Coleman
Stanwood
United States
Joe Petrus
Fred Hessmeyer
R. A. Monroe
Coleman
E. J. McPartland
Hessmeyer
W. W. Christians
Tipton
Post Office
Hitler orders ships to Spain to aid German refugees
Berlin reports indicate Hitler ordered the navy to immediately assist German refugees in Spain while the battleship Deutschland has arrived in Spanish waters. 350 refugees fled the civil war area with reports of mobs threatening a German secretary in Barcelona. 328 more arrived from Munich via Genoa aboard an Italian ship. Germany vows to protect all German refugees from Spain.
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Berlin
Hitsler
Spain
Barcelona
Germany
Cologne
Deutschland
Spanish
Hitler
Madrid
Ee.tor Reine
Wfor
San Sebastian
St. Jean‘de’ Luz
France
Munich
Genoa
Ambassador Bowers to quit Spain and join Cayuga guard
Washington reports Ambassador Claude G. Bowers told the state department he planned to leave Spanish soil Tuesday and transfer to the US coast guard cutter Cayuga to stay informed on developments. He traveled to St. Jean de Lutz to notify officials after evacuating staff from the San Sebastian embassy area.
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Washington
Claude G. Bowers
State Department
United States
Coast Guard
Cayuga
State “Department
San “ Sebastian
Fuenterrabia
ST the
Farm Hand Anson Riesland Dies After Drinking Suspected Lethal Liquid
Logan Iowa AP report says Anson Riesland a 49 year old Dunlap farmer died after drinking from a bottle he thought held beer. Sheriff Cross and state agent Lacy sent a beer sample to Iowa City for analysis and suggest a prank may have caused death croton oil suspected. Funeral services were held in Woodbine.
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L. L. Robson
Dunlap
Riesland
Woodbine
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Ayres
DR. Joseph Fort Newton
Newton
Democrat Bloc
Jim Reed
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Asien
O'Conner
Sirsa Kieinhans
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