Three Iowa City Boys Killed by Train
Three Iowa City high school freshmen were killed when they stopped on track to chase butterflies and were struck from behind by a passenger train after a noisy freight train obscured the warning. Witness Jose Rivas and Martin Poland survived in shock. coroner ruled no inquest.
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Iowa City
Poland
Jose Rivas
Des Moines
Rivas
Bruce
Chehock
Barbara Bruce
Ott
George Maresh
Johnson County
Press Freedom Highlighted At Gazette Editor Dinner
Verne Marshall, editor of The Gazette, vows to uphold editorial principles as about 500 readers honor the paper for its Pulitzer prize. Speakers including Dr. H. M. Gage praise press independence while Marshall warns against efforts to curb truthful reporting and criticizes Washington propaganda.
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Cedar Rapids
Gage
Des Moines Engineer and Fireman Describe Iowa City Boy Tragedy
Rock Island express crew Joe Kail and Nick Miner voiced distress after the westbound train fatally struck three Iowa City youths. They were about one mile east of the depot on a curve when the boys appeared on the tracks and could not be stopped in time.
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Des Moines
Joe Kail
Nick Miner
Rock Island
Iowa City
Kail
Franklin A. Rouge
Miner
Joe
Karl
Facing Life When the Road Wends Westward
A reader critiques a 1936 piece on loneliness and aging, noting the author’s lapse in empathy for the old and ill. The letter urges readers to retain interest in life, fight fatigue, and avoid apathy as age advances, stressing duty and perseverance.
Bonds to be delivered to Cedar Rapids veterans June 16
Two thousand adjusted service bonds are scheduled for delivery to veterans at their Cedar Rapids homes on Tuesday June 16 at 5 30 p m. Carriers will conduct exclusive rounds to deliver the bonds only to the addressee or a witness known to the carrier.
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Cedar Rapids
Chicago
More Rain Falls As Temperature Wavers
Rain began Friday afternoon in Cedar Rapids after a cloudy morning. The temperature rose from 51 degrees at 5 a.m. to 75 by 10:30 a.m. then dipped to 72 at noon. By 2:30 p.m. it climbed to 78 as Thursday's high reached 81 at 3 p.m. and cooled to 70 at 7 p.m. and 65 at midnight. Readings are from Chambers Inskeep company.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Davis Named to Federal Reserve Board Seat
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of Chester C. Davis AAA administrator to the Federal Reserve Board for the unexpired eight year term from February 1 1936. Tolley becomes AAA administrator as Davis moves to the reserve post.
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Roosevelt
Tolley
Washington
Senate
Chester C. Davis
AAA
Federal Reserve System
Davis
Howard R. Tolley
M. L. Wilson
Dr. C. P. Howard Dies Noted Iowa Medic at 59
Dr. Campbell P. Howard 59 of Montreal, former University of Iowa medical faculty member and McGill internal medicine chief, died suddenly in Santa Monica while on a clinic visit. He practiced in Iowa before returning to McGill in 1924. Survived by wife, son Palmer, and daughter Muriel. Funeral in Montreal Monday.
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Campbell P. Howard
Montreal
United States
Canada
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Charles J. Rowan
Santa Monica
Calif
Howard
Rowan
Los Angeles
California Medical Association
California
University of Iowa
McGill University
Iowa
McGill
Cedar Rapids
W. R. Boyd
Dr. Howard
Chicago
Howard L. Bye
Iowa City
Palmer Howard
Muriel
Southwest China prepares to declare war on Japan
China's southwest political council moves to declare war on Japan with the anti-Japanese salvation army of Kwangsi and Kwangtung mobilizing about 200 000 troops. Canton controlled forces march north to regain lost territories as Canton, Nanking tensions rise amid reports of civil conflict and calls for united action.
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Hongkong
INS
China
Southwest Political Council
Japan
Kwangsi- Kwangtung
Canton
Nanking
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Hoffman Orders New Jersey Police Audit
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman has directed a state audit of the New Jersey Police Department. State Auditor Walter Darby has assigned 25 men to audit five years of accounts, with completion expected by Saturday night.
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Trenton
N. J
INS
Harold G. Hoffman
Walter Darby
State Police Department
Zioncheck and wife face assault warrants in Washington
Warrants charging assault were issued for Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck and his wife Rubye after a chaotic night at the Young Zioncheck apartment. Mrs. Young, author, swore out the complaints as doctors kept Zioncheck under observation at Gallinger hospital.
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Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Wash
Rubye
Benjamin Scott Young
Gallinger Hospital
Zioncheck
Zioncheck Will Be Kept In the Institution. Mrs. Young
Mulholland Charged With Theft Of Money Orders
George C. Mulholland Jr. 24, of 222 Eighth St. NE, was arrested by Chief Detectives Earl Stanley on a fraud charge for cashing post office money orders. He allegedly posed as a sub-station rep to obtain orders at Waterloo, then cashed them in Manchester Iowa City Belle Plaine Decorah and Charles City for about 187 dollars. Two orders found in a repossessed car helped prompt the arrest. He is jailed and to be arraigned Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
George C. Mulholland, Jr
Eighth Street
Earl Stanley
H. D. Allen
Waterloo
Allen
Mulholland
Manchester
Iowa City
Belle Plaine
Decorah
Charles City
van Horne
French Labor Strikes Grow as Gold Flows From France
Paris reports a widening general strike as Labor Minister Salengro vows quick progress toward a social pact with unions. Gold outflow continues with 320 million francs shipped to New York aboard the Deutschland and totaling about 225 million dollars in six weeks.
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Paris
Roger Salengro
Strikeweary France
Leon Blum
France
Popular Front
New York
Deutschland
United States
May Jobless Relief Falls 55 Percent From February
Linn county reports 529 unemployment relief cases in May, a 55 percent drop from February and 28 percent below April. The May list includes 802 WPA employment cases for comparison, with 158 medical care cases leaving 371 other relief cases. Direct aid to unemployables totaled 264, and the figures were prepared for the Linn county relief committee and board of supervisors meeting. Sadie Warner appointed as aide for the 1936 canning program, starting June 15.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Alice Ferber
WPA
Linn County Relief Committee
Board of Supervisors
Ferber
Sadie Warner
Objectives Of Health Camp Are Described
The Gazette outlines Camp Good Health aims to improve nourishment and health for handicapped and under nourished children. Miss Alma E. Hartz describes an all year program through the Public Health Nursing association with monthly weighings and cod liver oil, funded by the Health Fund contributions.
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Gazette
Alma E. Hartz
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health Fund
Camp Good Health
Hartz
Free Would Smash Liquor Protection Ring In Sioux City
Des Moines AP report says Fred Free, special assistant attorney general, has evidence to smash a liquor protection ring in Sioux City. He says investigators seized dozens of liquor bags in two months and a special grand jury could finish the case in a week.
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Des Moines
Fred Free
Sioux City
O’connor
Free
O'Connor
Woodbury County
F. H. Rice
A. O. Wakefield
Hunt for missing Washington girl graces headlines
Ednee Josephine Stephens seventeen fifteen, daughter of Winston B Stephens personnel director of the resettlement administration, has been missing two days. Police and justice agents were asked to search across Washington DC and Montgomery County Maryland after she left for school and did not reach her classroom. The family lives in Chevy Chase Maryland and the girl was last seen wearing a white dress with no coat or hat.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Ednee Josephine Stephens
Winston B. Stephens
The
Resettlement Administration
Stephens
Chevy Chase
District of Columbia
Montgomery County
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New Deal Wins Case Involving Iowa City Power Plant
Alabama Power Texas Utilities Oklahoma Utilities and Iowa Light and Power challenged $2.44 million in PWA funds for ten municipal power projects in four states. District of Columbia judge Alfred A. Wheat upheld the statutes behind the projects and ruled the private utilities may sue to question the plans. Appeals and eventual U S Supreme Court review are planned.
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Washington
Ohio
Alfred A. Wheat
District Columbia Supreme Court
Public Works Administration
Wheat
Alabama Power Company
Texas Utilities Company
Oklahoma Utilities Company
Iowa Light and Power Company
Iowa
Iowa City
Pew
Harold L. Ickes
District Court of Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
New Jersey
PWA
Alabama
Texas
Oklaoma
Ickes
Duke Power Company
Tribaunal
Newton D. Baker
Wilson
Dean Acheson
Congress Suspends Session For GOP Convention Week
The Senate agreed to a house resolution for a recess from Monday June 8 to Monday June 15 during GOP convention week.
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Congress
G.O.P
Washington
Senate
House
Congress Adopts Adjournment Resolution for June Dates
The House on Friday unanimously approved a resolution to adjourn Congress from June 8 to June 15. A concurrent resolution was required since neither chamber can recess for more than three days without the other's consent. House leaders also planned to further actions.
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Washington
INS
House
Congress
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Rock Island Rocky Mountain Limited
Herbert Chehock
Beulah Chehock
Bob Bruce
Frank Bruce
Galena
Ill
Darrell Ott
Warren Ott
H. W. Chehock
Martin Poland
Henry Poland
Train
Dr. Gage
Don Barnes
A. L. Killian
John Henderson
H. M. Gage
Coe College
James R. Rhodes
Newton Daily News
Iowa Daily Press Association
Arthur Poe
Chamber of Commerce
Marshall
Works Progress Administration
America
DR. Newton
Cedar Rapids News
Chester Davis
Montana
Illinois Agricultural Association
National Cornstalk Processes, Inc
Maizewood Products Corp
Gianini Foundation
Soil Conservation Act
Henry A. Wallace
Board of Governors
C. P. Howard
Iowa U
South China Army
Mrs. Young
G. C. Mulholland, Jr
Blum
Anzin
Denain
Lillie
Cedar Ra Gos Co
NEW Deal
OWA City Unit
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