Protests Save Boy From Reformatory In Nebraska
Seven year old Delbert Flynn, sentenced to a 14 year term at a Nebraska reformatory for petty thefts, nears parole to the Omaha Child Welfare Association. Officials plan to place him on a private farm under observation as his mother consents, amid national uproar over the case and remarks by Dr. Shirley Wynne condemning the sentence as medieval.
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Omaha
INS
Delbert Flynn
Kearney
Neb
Omaha Child Welfare Association
Delbert
Pearl Flynn Long
Nebraska City
Welfare Association
New York
Shirley W. Wynne
New York Child Welfare Association
Nebraska
Dell
Wynne
Backward and Forward Truth in Everyday Living
A 1936 meditation by Dr. Newton urging patience with the past and cautious optimism for the future. He argues wisdom lies in ancient insight from Greeks and prophets, Shakespeare and religious figures, more than in modern gadgetry. Time is irrelevant without truth to guide freedom and faith.
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DR. Newton
Titian
Shakespeare
Shaw
Wesley
St. Francis
St.homas
Al Cunningham Dies at 55 in Pottsville
Al Cunningham, 55, renowned stage and screen actor with a summer theater troupe near Pottsville, Pa, died Sunday. His recent film work included a role in The Petrified Forest.
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Pottsville, Pa
al Cunningham
Petrified Forest
Admits Murdering His Boyhood Chum
In Wisconsin, a manhunt grew for Robert Bernstein after a shooting on July 13 near the Embarrass river. Laverne Marks, held on theft charges in Tacoma, confessed to murdering Bernstein, saying the act was unpremeditated during a river camp encounter.
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Clintonville
Wis
Robert Bernstein
Janesville
Otto Druckery
Tacoma
Wash
Laverne Marks
Edward Marks
Salem Evangelical Church
Druckery
Marks
Bernstein
Embarrass River
Cliff Osborne
James Billings
Osborne
Edward W. Marks
Olympia
Seattle
Spain's Red Regime Seizes Churches and Industries
Madrid reports a virtual dictatorship formed by communists as all religious institutions are confiscated and an industrial control board orders resources to serve the government. The crackdown coincides with a military push in the Alto de Leon and Soma Sierra ranges near Madrid, with 12,000 loyal troops. Church education ends and clergy are barred from teaching. civil guards aiding rebels are dismissed.
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Madrid
INS
Spain
Alto de Leon
Soma Sierra
Alfonso
Death toll in Spanish civil war hits thirty thousand
A Lisbon dispatch to the Daily Mail estimated on Tuesday that the Spanish civil war has claimed about 30,000 lives so far, reflecting the grim toll of the conflict.
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London
INS
Lisbon
Daily Mail
Evacuation plan for American refugees from Madrid
About 160 American refugees in Madrid will be evacuated Thursday to the eastern Spanish seacoast under plans from the U S embassy. A special train will head to Valencia or Alicante, 300 miles southeast, with heavily armed government troops providing escort. Other foreigners will follow to the coast once spaces are arranged.
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Washington
INS
Madrid
Spain
State Department
Eric Wendelin
Valencia
Alicante
Seaboard
Chester Gra lund Leaves Home, Sends Mixed Signals
Chester Gra lund, 15, son of Mr and Mrs H E Gra lund of 1526 Sixteenth Avenue SE, packed a bathing suit and light clothes and left home Monday after leaving a note to his father. He reportedly drew about $5 from a bank and may have gone with a neighbor boy known as Cal. He stands 5 feet 8 inches, has light hair and blue eyes, and his mother says police should help locate him.
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Chester Gralund
H. E. Gralund
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Heat Wave Returns as Cedar Rapids Sees 97 Degrees
Cedar Rapids records show a continued heat spell with no rain in sight. Temperatures rose to 92 at 10 am and 97 at 1 pm and 3 pm after the coolest night since July 1. The day opened at 78 by 7 am and reached a high of 95 before cooling to 66 by 5 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Storms Sweep Parts Of 8 States Killing 6 And Injuring 20
Storms across eight states killed six people and injured twenty or more as wind rain and lightning lashed the region. A tropical disturbance formed in the Bahamas and headed toward southern Florida with a possible Wednesday night hurricane approach. Earlier storms in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia plus Louisiana Missouri and Kansas caused widespread damage. a man drowned near the Arizona California border and two others died in a prior 48 hour storm.
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Bahamas
Federal
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Arizona- California
Stanwood Man Held for Mailing $1,000 Extortion Letter
Fred C. Coleman, 34, laborer near Stanwood, was bound over to the federal grand jury after a hearing before U S Commissioner E J McPartland on extortion charges. He allegedly mailed two letters to former Stanwood mayor Haesemeyer demanding $1,000 and a flag display, with a trap set at a culvert south of Stanwood for the payment.
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Fred C. Coleman
Stanwood
Federal Grand Jury
United States
E. J. Mce Partland
Fred Haesemeyer
R. A. Monroe
Haesemeyer
Monroe
Tipton
Coleman
Father charged with abuse after horse falls on girl
In Albion New York a 47 year old man Alex Derzejewski was found guilty of third degree assault and sentenced to six months in county jail after neighbors reported he abused his 13 year old daughter when a plow horse she was guiding fell on her. Two witnesses testified witnessing him resisting his wife and son helping the girl as the horse stopped and partially fell.
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Albion
N. Y
Alex Derzejewski
Justice of the Peace
John T. Liddle
Derzejewski
Maine clue may be new angle in coed murder case
Asheville dispatch reports the Helen Clevenger case widens as Maine leads and northern tips emerge. Sheriff Brown reviews a Maine check and a hotel maid backs a theory that rooms 224 and 231 were bolted from the inside, suggesting intriguing lock evidence.
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Maine
Lightning Strikes Washington Monument During Storm
A severe electrical storm struck Washington last night hitting the 555-foot Washington monument twice. Four warning lights atop the obelisk were extinguished. A newspaper photographer captured the moment of strike with the monument in the foreground.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Eight Killed in Freight Wreck at Clay City Ill
Eight persons are known dead after a westbound Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed near Clay City Illinois. One identified victim is Wayne F Caldwell brakeman from Washington Indiana, with seven others unnamed transients missing. An inquest in Flora Illinois heard the switch buckled the rails a quarter mile east of the wreck, sending the engine and thirteen cars off the track.
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Clay City
Ill
INS
Wayne F. Caldwell
Washington
Ind
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Flora
Easley
Clay County
Custody Battle Begins In Court For Mary Astor Child
Hollywood (UP) Mary Astor opened a court custody fight for her four year old daughter Marilyn amid her ex husband Dr Franklyn Thorpe's charges of gross immoral conduct. Thorpe cites diary passages to suggest she is unfit. Astor seeks custody, damages, and an annulment to replace the 1935 divorce. Contempt summons were issued against Thorpe for deposition questions he allegedly refused to answer.
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Hollywood
Mary Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Marilyn
Miss Astor
Dr. Thorpe
Thorpe
Yuma
Ariz
Goodwin J. Knight
Reuben Schmidt
Star
Roland Rich Woolley
Florida
Lillian Miles
California
Mexico
Challenges SEC Authority In Probe
Wallace Groves, former New York investment company operator, told hearings the SEC lacks power to probe investment trusts and called the subpoena demanding his appearance illegal and void. He supported testifying but challenged the commission's authority to hold public hearings on the organizations' activities.
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Washington
INS
SEC
Wallace Groves
New York Investment Company
Groves
Lindbergh invited by Goering to wild boar hunt
Berlin report says Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife lunched with Hermann Goering and discussed a future wild boar hunt. Goering showed a hunting collection, boar trophies, long spears, and a pet lion. Attendees included American and German officials and military attaches.
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Berlin
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Air
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Col. Lindbergh
Gen. Goering
Goering
Emmy Sonneman
Reich
Koerner
Christiansen and
von Gronau
Col. Bodenschatz
Truman Smith
United States
Theodore J. Koenig
Lindbergh Lands in Germany After Storms En Route to Junkers Plant
Storms in Germany forced Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to land at Magdeburg while traveling to Dessau to visit the Junkers plant. Bavaria suffered the worst storm in years with several million marks in damage to crops and buildings from hail, wind and rain.
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Berlin
Germany
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Magdeburg
Dessau
Junkers
Bavaria
Linn Democrats Set Aug 1 Delegates Meeting at Courthouse
Linn county democratic convention reconvenes at 11 a.m. August 1 in the courthouse to name sixty five delegates to the Second district convention in Clinton on August 5. A congressman candidate will be chosen to fill the late Rep. B. M. Jacobsen seat. Chairman Joseph Mekota will preside. only delegate selection is on the agenda.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Clinton
B. M. Jacobsen
Joseph Mekota
Rude Auto to Move into New Large Garage on First Ave
Workmen began clearing 501 First Avenue East for a new garage building by W. H. Lightner to house the Rude Auto company. The cherry red brick structure, 150 by 149 feet with 225 feet frontage, will provide expanded Ford and Lincoln dealership space and service areas, reflecting rising local demand and planned growth. The first floor prioritizes service over display. entrance on First Avenue, exit to follow.
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First Avenue E
W. H. Lightner
Rude Auto Company
Ford and Lincoln Agency
Midwest
Rude Company
Lightner
First Avenue
Perry C. Rude
Democratic Town Goes Republican in 136th Election
STONINGTON Conn UP This normally democratic community went overwhelmingly Republican for the second time in fifty years in the 136th annual election Monday. William Edgar was re elected warden over Christopher Ledwith.
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Stonington, Conn
William Edgar
Christopher Ledwith
Geologic survey party in Montana forest fire deaths
A US geological survey party trapped by a 25 mile front forest fire in the Little Rockies near Zortman Montana left three dead, one missing and five injured. Victims include Cameron Baker Havre and William Brockmeier Lowell Yale student John Rowles Sandusky Otis Pewitt seriously ill. Dr John Knechtel leads crew and four others hospitalized with shock exhaustion and minor burns.
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Malta
Mont
A. U. S. Geological Survey
Little Rockies
Zortman
Cameron Baker
Havre
Northwestern University
William Brockmeier
Lowell
Mass
Yale
John Rowles
Sandusky
Otis Pewitt
James Pewitt
Firefighters Die In Cave as Ravaging Montana Forest Fire Traps Party
Washington geologist Dr Maxwell Knechtel reports two field assistants Cameron Baker of Havre and S R Brockmeier of Lowell Mass burned to death Monday night while fleeing a cave shelter during a Little Rockies forest fire near Havre Mont The wind shift created a crown that trapped the group and several others who sought safety in a small cave Also noted were Donald L Badenroth and Arthur C Mungan among Knechtel s party and John Rowles of Sandusky Mont not a member of the group.
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Washington
Maxwell M. Knechtel
Geological Survey
Little Rockies
Havre
Mont
Malta
Knechtel
Cameron Baker
S. R. Brockmeier
Lowell
Mass
John Rowles
Sandusky
Baker
Brockmeier
Donald L. Badenroth
Columbia University
Leonia
N. J
Arthur C. Mungan
Lexington
Mr. Cole
Parents oppose corporal punishment at Pittston Twp school
Wilkes Barre, Pa. AP Parents who complained that a teacher refused to whip pupils or give homework will attend a special Pittston township school board meeting Tuesday night. They argue leniency hinders students progress and demand stricter discipline.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Pittston Township
Two Women Hurt In Auto Collision Near First Avenue
Mrs Emma Mann of 112 First Avenue E and Mrs Jesse Dodge of 605 Dewey Avenue NE sustained minor injuries in a weekday auto accident at First Avenue and Eighth Street SE at 4:20 PM. Mann slowed to turn and Dodge, following behind, struck Mann’s vehicle.
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Emma Mann
First Avenue E
Jesse Dodge
Dewey Avenue NE
First Avenue
Eighth Street SE
Robbers Hit West Side Hotel Guv in $4226 Loot
Two masked robbers entered the Hotel Guv on the west side Tuesday night and held up a night clerk and two other employees. They escaped with 3266 dollars in cash and 1000 dollars in jewelry.
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Chicago
West Side
Guv
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