World pact seals peace as nations sign ten year accord
Geneva conference closes with England France Germany and Italy agreeing to a ten year peace guarantee. Mussolini lauds collaboration including the United States and world economic recovery while U.S. policy debates unfold and banker speech confronts the New Deal. A farmer, Lars Skromme, loses his farm to foreclosures and rail traffic halts as engine derailments disrupt downtown commerce amid smoke and congestion.
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Geneva
Roosevelt son Elliott to seek Nevada divorce decree
Reports confirmed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt say Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Elizabeth plan divorce. Elliott, an airline manager in Los Angeles, will establish residence in Nevada for the filing after a six week period. Sam Platt says Roosevelt returns to Elk Point to set up Nevada domicile for divorce.
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Elizabeth
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nevada
Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt
Reno
Nev
Mk Point
Sam Platt
Platt
Roosevelt
Platts Elk Point
Cedence
Pdair Platt
Wermadenten
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Peter Arno
New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Elk Point
Baer Knocks Schmeling Out In Tenth Round Thriller
Max Baer, the young California giant, battered Max Schmeling into helplessness at Yankee Stadium before about 65,000 fans. Baer sent Schmeling to a knee, forced a late knockdown, and the referee stopped the bout 1 minute 51 seconds into the tenth round for a technical knockout after a brutal rally that left Schmeling unable to continue.
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Max Schmeling
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Schmeling
Teulon
Arthur Donovan
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Maer
Schmiling
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Jane
Ian Baer
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Smasher
Heinless
Roosevelts’ Kin Silent On Marriage Troubles
Philadelphia report says Mrs El Holt Roosevelt maintains strict silence amid publicized marital strain with Franklin D Roosevelts son. Her parents Mr and Mrs William H Donner of Villanova near Philadelphia decline comment while donor says a statement will be issued if ever. The couple's infant son William Donner Roosevelt, born November 17, remains with his mother at Camp Woods Villanova after the inauguration. Features indicate social circles were aware but no official statement was released.
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el- Holt Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William H. Donner
Villnnova
Donner
Roosevelt
Gar Wood Receives Honorary Doctor of Science
Gar Wood of Detroit, famed speed boat driver, was honored Thursday with an honorary doctor of science degree by Blackburn College at its commencement exercises in Carlinville Illinois.
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Carlinville, Il
INS
Detroit
Blackburn Coners
These Want Ads Sell Fast In The Gazette
Last week shows strong demand for items as buyers snap up a wheel chair, ice box and Frigidaire. Ads highlight quick sales with phone numbers and locations such as Marion, Second Ave SE, 608 6th St SE, and 12624 Second Ave SE as readers seek bargains and sold notices.
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Ike New
6Th St
Wwowe
First Ave West Road
When Virtue Turns Sour In Everyday Religion
Edgar Park argues that good habits and virtues misused or taken as ends in themselves lead to drabness and dullness. Conscientiousness and cheerfulness can become harmful when lacking tact or joy, producing strictness, hollow smiles, and ruined life balance.
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Edgar Park
America
Negro Held For Intent To Murder In Cedar Rapids
Sylvester Miller, 34, of 1102 Fourteenth avenue SE, was jailed at 5 pm by Constable W J Fleming on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Bond set at $1,000. Police say Miller fired two shots at Joe Houston during a disturbance at Miller’s brother’s home on May 11 after Houston arrived at 1142 Fourth Street NW and an altercation ensued reaching Houston’s wife’s report.
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Sylvester Miller
Fourteenth Avenue SE
W. J Fleming
Justice G. 5S. Lightner
Miller
Joe Houston
Fourth Street
Houston
Farm Foreclosure Riot Contempt Trial Concludes
Twenty men charged with contempt of court in a farm foreclosure sale riot faced closing pleas as Judge Earl Peterson prepared to grant a June 22 verdict date. State evidence included testimony linking an organization led by Lester Baldwin to a national group headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. A venue change request was noted as testimony detailed the courthouse riot on April 27.
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Peters
O. D. Nickile
Sioux City
Leon A. Powers
William Claussen
Paullina
O'Brien County Seventy-Sixers
Stamford
Conn
Claussen
Lester P. Baldwin
O'Brien County Court House
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Court House
Mattern Resumes Flight Across Russia
Soviet aviation officials said they believed James Mattern had taken off from Bielovo for Krasnoyarsk but could not confirm due to a rural line outage. Weather was clear after a storm, aiding a possible continuation of the Texas flyer’s round the world dash. Mattern said fumes from a leaking gas line forced a landing near Prokoplovsk and that he hoped to depart for Krasnoyarsk within hours.
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Siberia
James Mattern
Bielovo
Here
Krasnoyarsk
Associated Press
Moscow
Jimmie Mattern
Prokoplovsk
Texan
Belovo
Prokopievsk
Omsk
Youth in Michigan linked to Nashville murder case
Nashville police said a 17 year old Balfe MacDonald, from Flint Michigan, confessed to being involved in the slaying of his mother Grace B MacDonald. He admitted leaving home after arguing with her and taking $45 in cash with one of her cars, while denying the killing.
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Lewis
MacDonald
State Action Free $173,149 in Public Funds Here
State executive council orders bond issue to release about $173,149 held in banks closed under the Brookhart Lovrein act. Kenwood Park Savings dividends exceeded half the funds. Cedar Rapids school board shows about $100,000 in Corn Belt Savings. County funds $57,399 tied, plus city totals of $29,750 in Kenwood and Corn Belt. Many funds remain unreleased pending receivership or bank solvency.
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State Executive Council
Kenwood Park Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Corn Belt Savings Bank
Corn Belt Bank
Kenwood Bank
Ely
Springville
Marton
Coggon
Kenwood
Corn Belt
Executive Council
Contempt charge filed over Pugh disappearance in Cedar Rapids
Roy Pugh, a government liquor case witness spirited to Sioux City, faces contempt of court as he is to be arraigned in Fort Dodge federal court. He vanished last April before testifying, later saying he was kidnapped and told to stay away from Cedar Rapids. He was located near Memphis, Tennessee, Sunday night.
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Cedar Rapids
Roy Pugh
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Pugh
Memphis
Tenn
Tax Probe of Morgan Clan Opens Today
The Senate banking committee gains broad power to probe income tax records of J. P. Morgan partners including Thomas S. Lamont and Harold Stanley. The inquiry follows rail finance hearings and targets year end stock sales and unrealized profits. Morgan lawyer John W. Davis questions the committee’s reach while Pecora leads the investigation with $100,000 funding approved.
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Senate
Banking Committee
J. P. Morgan
Wall Street
van Sweringen
Morgan
Thomas S. Lamont
Ferdinand Fpecora
Harold Stanley
William Ewing
Pecora
John W. Davis
Committee
Lamont
Morgan firm tax records sought by Justice and senate
The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Bureau are pursuing Morgan partners tax returns, as Senate investigators press for expanded power. O. P. Van Sweringen testified on the Alleghany formation and a third corporation used in a 1927 Chesapeake and Ohio stock sale to dodge taxes. Ferdinand Pecora guided the questioning, detailing complex transactions and profits avoidance.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Morgan
O. P. van Sweringen
Ferdinand Pecora
van Sweringen
Alleghany Corporation
van Sweringen Group of Roads
J. P. Morgan
Pecora
Chesapeake and Ohio
Geneva
Germany Declares Moratorium on Early Credits
Berlin reports a general moratorium on credits to Germany from before the July 1931 bank crisis. Transfers will be made where possible on credits granted after July 31, 1931. Officials cited the 1931 bank crisis as the reason for the move.
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Berlin
Germany
37 Gold Hoarders Defy Government Policy
Attorney General Cummings said 37 hoarders holding 283,064 faced refusal to surrender. Since the campaign began last Saturday, 408 persons have returned about 6,000,000 to the treasury.
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Cummings
Treasury
Senate Keeps Licensing In Industry Bill
Washington Roosevelt wins key test vote as Senate votes 58 to 31 to retain the licensing system in the industrial control bill. Reed of Pennsylvania led the Republican opposition but administration forces rallied to defeat the motion to strike. Licensing threatened noncooperating industries, while self fashioned rules could become federal law once approved.
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LLP
Roosevelt
Senate
Reed
Rep
Old Guard
Roosevelt Keeps Promise to Hoover Gives Newton Job
President Roosevelt nominates Walter H. Newton of Minnesota to the federal home loan bank board, honoring Hoover by appointing the former Hoover secretary who retired from Congress to a judgeship chance. The administration also forwards other nominations including Russell Hawkins, George Sweeney, Robert Skinner, and several ambassadors and ministers to various countries.
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Congress
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Oregon
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Maryland
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California
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Alvin M. ‘Owsley
Texas
Roumania
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Portugal
Robert C. Bell
Bertha J. Husting
Wisconsin
William J. Keefe
Iowa
Customs Court
Breeze And Clouds Hold Mercury To Eighty Eight
Brisk breezes gave Cedar Rapids relief from heat as the temperature rose to 88 at 2 30 p m after reaching 80 at 9 a m and 78 at 7 7 a m A 79 at midnight and an 83 at 7 p m on Wednesday with clouds increasing after several hot days.
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Mercury
Japs Refuse Ban On Air Bombing At Disarmament Talks
In Geneva the disarmament conference commission accepted the British draft as a basis for a treaty over French objections. Japan's Naotake Sato warned of vulnerability to carrier-based air attacks and refused abolition of aerial bombing without concessions, urging restrictions on civil-military air use and anti-carrier measures. Paris reports say France rejected US-UK proposals, insisting on preserving heavy guns and tanks.
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General Commission of the Disarmament
Naotake Sato
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Paris
France
Germany
Edouard Daladier
Dalrymple Opposes Repeal on 3.2 Beer Impact
Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, prohibition director, told the house Ways and Means Committee that 3.2 per cent beer has reduced drunkenness and that he opposes repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. He argued that relaxing medicinal liquor laws and other modifications would undermine prohibition and restore respect for law.
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Washington
INS
Maj. A. V. Dalrymple
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dalrymple
Walsh Expected to Succeed Mitchell as Iowa Committeeman
Special to The Gazette reports T. J. Walsh a wealthy Davenport contractor is set to replace Richard F. Mitchell as Iowa’s Democratic national committeeman. He met Iowa’s congressmen in a two hour conference. Attendees declined to discuss the session but Farley’s name surfaced as a likely target for Mitchell’s resignation.
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T. J. Walsh
Davenport
Richard F. Mitchell
Iowa
Congress
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