Graft Probe In Iowa Deepens As Special A G Joins
Fred Free of Sioux City seeks grand jury action on liquor and gambling law violations while he has ties to past graft cases. The Gazette notes Free led defense in Sioux City corruption trials and defended officials like Mayor Hayes and Henry Kuhlmann. Rawlings, successor to Duckworth, previously backed Free, amid calls to reform Woodbury county law enforcement.
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Woodbury County
Iowa
Fred Free
Sioux City
Free
Hayes
Henry Kuhlmann
Kuhlmann
Edward L. O'Connor
Ax Duckworth
Graft Trial Fallout From Duckworth Confession to O'Connor Case
The long reaching state graft case centers on Attorney General Ed O'Connor and the Duckworth confession. The era's judicial maneuvers include a failed grand jury indictment after bribe claims, two O'Connor trials, a contempt jail for Duckworth, and a quashed case via an instructed verdict for acquittal. The piece hints at new investigation calls in Woodbury County by Fred Free.
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O’connor
Duckworth’s
Fred Free
Maurice Rawlings
Duckworth
Woodbury County
Rawlings
Gazette
Supreme Court
Earl Peters
Clarinda
O'Connor
Bankhead Elected Speaker After Byrns Dies in House
William B. Bankhead of Alabama was elected speaker to fill the post left by the death of Joseph W. Byrns. The House adjourned briefly for a state funeral in Washington and Byrns’ burial in Nashville. President Roosevelt planned to attend the funeral and resume his western trip per schedule.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Speaker Burns
Nashville
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
House
Joseph W. Byrns
Byrns
Congress
Cleveland
Bankhead
Tenn
Senate
John J. O'Connor
Burns
Trimble
O’connor
A. Pratt Andrew
Mass
Adolph Sabath
Associated Press
Joseph Wellington Burns
House of Repressatives
Roosevelt Signs Large Naval Bill
President Roosevelt signed the $526,000,000 naval supply bill, the largest peace-time navy appropriation in U.S. history. The measure funds ships, matériel, and base construction to bolster U S naval strength.
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Roosevelt
Washington
INS
United States
Borah Charges GOP Cash Misused in Ohio Primary
Senator Borah of Idaho accuses the Republican National Committee funds of being misused against him in the Ohio primary by the state party group and says he is reviewing possible embezzlement.
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Sen. Borah
G. O. P. Cash
Washington
Borah
Idaho
Republican National Committee
Ohio
Hoffman to Refuse Parker Extradition
Trenton New Jersey Gov Harold Hoffman said he would refuse to extradite Ellis Parker Sr to Brooklyn to answer an indictment accusing him in the kidnaping of Paul M Wendel. Parker, arrested Wednesday night, is free on bail.
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Trenton
N. J
INS
Harold Hoffman
Ellis Parker, Sr
New Jersey
Brooklyn
Paul M. Wendel
Ellis Parker
Wendel
Parker
Civic Dinner in Honor of Gazette Tonight
Newspapers of Iowa attend a 7 pm civic dinner at the Montrose hotel sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and luncheon clubs council to honor The Cedar Rapids Gazette for the 1936 Pulitzer prize. Verne Marshall will respond. Arthur Poe presides.
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Iowa
Montrose Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Verne Marshall
The
Gazette
Arthur Poe
Summer Temperatures Rise in Cedar Rapids
Summer warmth returns to Cedar Rapids with temperatures climbing from 44 at 5 a.m. to 81 by 2:45 p.m. under sunny June skies. The day followed a 73 high and a 48 midnight low, per Chambers Inskeep records.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Irecords
New Arrests in Probe of Black Legion Ordered
Detroit police disclose fifteen warrants against Black Legion members for kidnapping a fellow member Robert Penlon of Ecorse. Three legionaires confessed. four suspects were held on $50,000 bonds. The kidnapping occurred October 6, 1935 at Penlon home.
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Black Legion
Detroit
Duncan C. McCrea
Frederick A. Gulley
Earl Angstadt
Cox
Gulley
Angstadt
Common Pleas
Charles Rubiner
McCrea
Harry Colburn
Penton
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Cleverness versus sincerity in modern thought, quotes by Bronte and Barrie
Dr Newton discusses why true wisdom shows through without display of cleverness. He cites Charlotte Bronte Von Hugel and Sir James Barrie, criticizing cleverness as common, shallow, and distracting from substance. He argues genius avoids self conscious brilliance and spots.
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Charlotte Bronte
Dr. Johnson
Johnson
von Hugel
Darwin
James Barrie
Chesterton
Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Dayton Dean admits guilty plea in Poole killing case
Dayton Dean, labeled Black Legion triggerman, told reporters he will plead guilty to the kidnap and murder of Charles A. Poole as soon as permitted. Harvey Davis, described as a Black Legion colonel by Dean, counters with claims that Dean acted alone and lied about orders while Davis asserts Dean killed Poole without gang approval.
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Detroit
Dayton Dean
Black Legion
Charles A. Poole
Dean
Harvey Davis
Poole
Davis
WPA
Black Legion “General Headquarters
Lehigh Student Kills Instructor Then Takes Own Life
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania on Thursday Wesley L Clow a Lehigh University senior from Pinecastle Pa shot and killed instructor Charles Wesley Phy during an argument over a re examination before dying by suicide.
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Lehigh U
Bethlehem, Pa
Wesley L. Clow
Lehigh University
Pine Castle
Charles Wesley Phy
Payne Reappointed to Federal Communications Commission
George Henry Payne of New York was reappointed by President Roosevelt for a seven year term on the Federal Communications Commission.
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Washington
George Henry Payne
New York
Roosevelt
Federal Communications Commission
Leftist Blum Forming France's 1011th Cabinet Amid Strikes
Paris reports Leon Blum, the cultured socialist, invited to form France’s 1011th cabinet as strikes engulf about 500 000 workers. President Albert LeBrun gave Blum the mandate after Premier Sarraut resigned, signaling a shift in the republic's political leadership.
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Paris
Third Republic
Leon Blum
France
Albert LeBrun
Blum
Elysee Palace
Albert Sarraut
France metal industry leaders break off talks with strikers
Paris reports the metal industries refuse further negotiations with strikers occupying over 200 factories until plant evacuations. Employers call the strikes revolutionary and threaten to paralyze industry as tensions rise before Leon Blum's premiership. Central markets workers yielded on pay, averting a food shortage scare.
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Paris
France
Metal Industries
Leon
Albert Sarraut
Policemen donate to Camp Good Health Fund in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids officers from the police force led by the chief contribute $50 to the Camp Good Health Fund to aid Camp Good Health operated by the Public Health Nursing association. The fund pays for food and care for physically handicapped children and is built on voluntary gifts without solicitation. The Disabled Veterans chapter also gave $7.50 and urged support to help all listed children access the camp this summer.
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Gazette
Nursing Association
the Gazette
Iowa
King’s Daughters
Substitute Proposal for M. and St. L. Ry. Advances
Senator Shipstead proposes a substitute bondholders plan to reorganize the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, calling the Associated Railways blueprint risky. He argues the RFC loan package could cover six million dollars and keep control with the road’s owners, avoiding new stock ownership or complex firms.
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Road
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Frederick Prince
Boston
Jesse Jones
RFC
Shipstead
Senate Interstate Commerce
Roosevelt
Jones
Associated Railway
Capone and Waley Engage in Prison Fist Fight at Alcatraz
In Alcatraz San Francisco Bay Capone and Harman Waley a Weyerhaeuser kidnapper fought a fist fight with Capone knocked down by Waley who called him a Baby Snatcher The clash was Capone s second in prison and he had previously spent three weeks in solitary after a prior incident resulting in a broken wrist for his opponent.
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San Francisco
al Capone
Chicago
Harman Waley
Weyerhaeuser
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
Waley
Capone
America
Little George Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
Loeb slaying verdict in hands of Joliet jury
Convict James Day aged 21 from Stateville prison faces five verdict options in the Richard Loeb prison bathroom slaying case. Judge Edwin L. Wilson instructed the jury on possible outcomes including not guilty, death, life imprisonment, fixed years, or manslaughter with fourteen years minimum. The defense relented on manslaughter objections while the state sought life.
Penningroth Lead Is Reduced To 372
Revised unofficial returns from the Second district race show Penningroth 7,214. Elliott 6,842. Poston 3,099 in the Republican column. Democratic totals list Jacobsen 12,231 and lKoob 9,276.
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Des Moines
Penningroth
Elliott
Poston
Jacobsen
lKoob
Sioux City Attorney Pushes Grand Jury Probe of Local Violations
Fred Free, a Sioux City attorney and former special assistant attorney general, urged District Judges Rice and Wakefield to reconvene the May grand jury to investigate flagrant law violations. He said his secret probe, begun at the attorney general’s request, is complete and ready for grand jury presentation after recent raids on gambling and bootlegging.
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Fred Free
Ed O’connor
Woodbury County
Yye
May Grand Jury
Sioux City
Edward L. O'Connor
District Court
F. H. Rice
A. O. Wakefield
Free
Maurice Rawlings
Woodebury
O’connor
Rawling
Grand Jury
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
W. D. Ha
Grand
O'Connor
Maley
Stores To Close At 5 Except Saturdays In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids retail stores will close at 5 p m every day except Saturdays from June 15 through Labor Day. The change was announced after a Thursday morning mercantile bureau meeting.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercantile Bureau of
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Nels Kraschel
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Tennessee
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Ervin D. Lee
Payne
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