Aftermath of relief funds leaves hungry unemployed in Cedar Rapids
The Gazette reports that despite a large federal relief appropriation of 5 billion dollars, many unemployed in Cedar Rapids and Linn county lack food and fuel. It notes delayed use of funds, calls for action, and questions the purpose of the relief bill while highlighting local struggles and a court-house demonstration with communist influence. It also covers Attorney General Walter Maley in a separate case about gambling prosecutions and the need for records from peace officers to expose slot machine activity and enforcement gaps.
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Congress
the Gazette
Court House
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Iowa
Crowd hisses witnesses for girl s Slayer trial
In Peoria Illinois Gerald Thompson faces charges for murdering Mil dred Hallmark. His mother Florence Whiteside unable to testify as planned. A defense bid to introduce a black diary of 83 assaults was denied. State witnesses rebutted teen with porn and obscene talk.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Florence Whiteside
Ben Thurman
Thompson
Joseph E. Daily
Edwin V. Champion
Champion
Spectators riot over access as Thompson insanity plea heard
In Peoria a crowd of up to 2000 clamored for courtroom admission as Gerald Thompson, accused of killing 19 year old Mildred Hallmark, testifies he is a sexual monomaniac. His grandmother and a doctor provide supportive testimony amid calls of insanity from Thompson’s defense.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Thompson
Sam Sprinkle
Grandmother
I Dreamt of Stars and Glass in a Darkness Letter
A reader recalls a late night meditation on darkness and lost stars. In a dream an old man shuffles broken glass, whispers that he is the man who lost the stars, and white flowers grow among the shards. The piece links fading starlight to urban life and electric light.
Smith admits torso murder in Lang case in Chicago
Evelyn Smith, 46, confessed to strangling and dismembering Ervin Lang after drugging him, claiming she acted alone and bought a hacksaw. She said Blanche Dunkel paid her $100 initially and promised $400 more. husband Harry Jung was not involved, and police seek the death penalty for Smith and Dunkel.
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Chicago
Evelyn Smith
Ervin Lang
Blanche Dunkel
Ervin J. Lang
Charles S. Dougherty
Dougherty
New Hope 13 Aroused for Lusitania Hunt
Aboard salvage ship Orphir off Old Head of Kinsale the crew led by Captain Russell pursues a possible Lusitania wreck. Echo sounding and buoy markers guide the search as depth and length are charted with urgency to confirm the find.
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Orphir
Russell
Kinsale
Turner
Avilas
Lusitania
William Stephens
Captain Russell
Old Head of Kinsale
John G. Robinson III Circus Owner Dies at 62
Cincinnati AP report states John G. Robinson III, 62, who ran the family circus until 1916, died at his home in Cincinnati. After selling his circus interests, he served as secretary of the United States Playing Card Co.
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Cincinnati
John G. Robinson III
United States Playing Card Company
Bees From Burleigh Seed Stingless Swarm Warns Nose
Nearly 4 000 000 stingless bees bred over six years at Henry Brown apiary in Burleigh New Jersey. Gazette Want Ads promote farm products with examples of selling 25 crates of blackberries for A Skaisky 113 Ely Ave SW and a blackberry sale listing. Dial 25204 113 Ely Ave BW.
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Henry Brown
Burleigh
N. J
Gazette
A. Skaisky
Ely Ave
Maley Seeks Broad Subpoena For Separate Sioux City Trial
Walter Maley assistant attorney general plans to seek court approval to subpoena about 2500 peace officers from all Iowa counties and retired officials to testify in his slot machine conspiracy trial in Sioux City. He will also request an immediate separate trial and question officials about prior cooperation with him on stamping out slot machines.
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Walter Maley
Iowa
Maley
Attorney General’s Office
Iowa Daily Press Bureau
Des Moines
Sioux City
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Quaker Oats Seeks Block on Federal Processing Tax
Quaker Oats filed in federal court for a restraining injunction to stop June tax payments of 75 413 dollars on corn and wheat. The suit calls the Agricultural Adjustment Act confiscatory and arbitrary. A separate order restrained tax collection from A E Staley of Decatur. Meat packers seek temporary injunctions on hog processing tax.
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Chicago
Quaker Oats Company
AAA
Springfield
U. S
Charles G. Briggle
A. E. Staley Company
Decatur, Ill
Seek Speedy Penick And Ford Hearing News
A stipulation in the Penick and Ford company suit challenging the Agricultural Adjustment Act was prepared Tuesday at Sioux City by D. C. Browning and sent to E G Runn for signature. The stipulation waives time of hearing on a motion for a temporary restraining order against payment of taxes to the government. The Penick and Ford suit was filed in federal district court here Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Penick and Ford Company
Sioux City
D. C. Browning
United States
E G.runn
Mason City
Associated Press
Dunn
Dispatch
Penick and Ford
Federal District Court
Germany protests US over Bremen flag desecration
Berlin lodged a formal protest with the U S state department accusing New York authorities of insufficient police protection against an anti Nazi mob when the ship Bremen sailed into New York last Friday. The note requested punishment for the guilty and signaled a cool reception to the protest.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Bremen
New York
State Department
New York City
Hitler
William Phillips
Rouppb
Phillips
Department
Herbert H. Lehman
State’ Department
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Works Allotment Board
Heat Kills Three in Iowa Amid Record Temperatures
Des Moines AP reports a midsummer heat wave claimed three lives in Iowa on Tuesday. Victims include Arvan Jones a Turin farmer James Tracy 41 of Casey and Theresa Fallas 68 of Sioux City as temperatures topped 100 degrees for a fourth day. The Weather Bureau forecast cooler weather and possible local storms for Wednesday.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Arvan Jones
Turin Farmer
James Tracy
Casey Farmer
Theresa Fallas
Sioux City
Mercury At 99 Ties Summer Heat Record
Cedar Rapids swelters as the temperature hit 99 degrees on July 18 at 2:45 p.m. with forecasts of new highs to come. The day began at 71 and climbed through 75, 87, and 98 by early afternoon, while relief was expected as a cool air mass approached from the northwest.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Towa
Chilean 105 year old Matilde Bello dies in Santiago
Matilde Codecide de Bello aged 105, mother of Defense Minister Emilio Bello, and among South America's oldest women, died Monday in Santiago Chile.
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Santiago
Chile
Matilde Codecide de Bello
Emilio Bello
South America
Suspended Sioux City Mayor Challenged in Removal Petition
W D Hayes the suspended Sioux City mayor asks Judge Wakefield to strike removal recommendations from the graft grand jury records contending the panel exceeded its authority. Judge Scott is assigned to hear the ouster case, opening Monday, with attorneys Jepson and Free arguing the petition.
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Sioux City
Quesh
W. D. Hayes
A. O. Wakefield
Wakefield
Supreme Court
W. W. Scott
Davenport
Chris Jepson
Fred Free
Suesday
Woodbury County
Hayes
Shusye Ja
Piervarieus
Pandceiyee
Sioux
M. Havner
Co. A Naglestad
Carolina Mob Hangs Black Ax-Slayer Near Louisburg
Sweat Ward, a 25 year old Black man accused of killing Franklin County farmer C. J. Stokes, was seized from officers by a mob and hanged to an oak tree near the scene, fatally injuring him in the act.
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Louisburg
N.C
Sweat Ward
C. J. Stokes
Franklin County
Iowa Takes Two Bank Bandits Held for Robbery Case
Two of three outlaws captured in Kansas were turned over to Iowa authorities to face charges for the Pioneer State Bank raid at Sergeant’s Bluff on July 25. Howard Vernon and Larry Kruse, aged 27 and 24, were placed in the custody of Iowa officials with an armed escort. John Meade remained for Nebraska charges.
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Lansing
Kan
Sabetha
Iowa
Pioneer State Bank
Sergeant's Bluff
Howard Vernon
Larry ‘Kruse
Paul Gruber
Iowa State Department of Justice
Leo Naughton
Woodbury
County
Kansas High
Wint*Smith
Kansas Highway Patrol
John Meade
Nebraska
Gruber
Kruse
Vernon
Meade
Devera Wygent
Saginaw
Mich
Naughton
Cleveland Gem Theft Shocks Berger Jewelry Firm
Three gunmen robbed the Berger jewelry company in Cleveland on Monday taking loose gems and jewelry valued by owner Leonard Berger at between 10 000 and 20 000 dollars and about 150 dollars in cash.
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Cleveland
Berger
Leonard Berger
Connally Pushes War Time Levy in Tax Dispute
Sen Tom Connally proposes a $300 million a year war time levy to replace excess profit tax in the house bill. Senate hearings discuss a wartime tax yielding up to $2 billion annually vs a modest house proposal. Republicans denounce the house bill as wasteful, urging sane spending before taxing the rich.
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Sen
Connally
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Tom Connally
Tex
L. H. Parker
Congressional
Senate Finance Committee
Nenr Amond
Kof
Oes
Parker
Senate’ Finance
Ways and Means
Plan Intense Hunt for Missing Utility Mastermind
U S marshal teams nationwide to pursue H ard Hopson, alleged mastermind of the Associated Gas and Electric utility empire. Senate lobby committee Chairman Hugo Black warns Hopson to surrender or face pursuit. F H Burroughs testifies he has not seen Hopson for two weeks.
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Washington
U. S
C. Hopson
Associated’ Gas
Empire
Senate Lobby Committee
Hugo Black
Ala
Black
Hopson
F. H
Burroughs
Henry Ford Dies at 72 in Michigan Cottage
Henry Ford, founder of a vast industrial empire, died at age 72. He spent his last birthday at a 16 room cottage on the Huron Mountains club grounds by Lake Superior in Big Bay, Michigan.
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Big Bay
Mich
Cary Honky
Ford
Huron
Lake Superior
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