Iowa Democrats Close to New Leadership Shakeup
DES MOINES Iowa senior party officials plan a June 28 meeting as Chairman Eugene Feuling resigns. Four factions vie for control amid graft probes and missing campaign funds, with Polk and Woodbury grand juries examining a slot machine racket and possible ties to state officials. A new chair could steer the 1936 campaign into a tougher era for the Democrats.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Democratic‘central Committee
Eugene Feuling
Feuling
Democracy
State House
Polk ‘County
Peace Feuling
Hampton
Polk District
Central Committee
State Committee
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Polk Grand Jury
Attorney General
Polk
Floyd Page
Denison
Liquor Investigating Committee
Walter Maley
Keneral
NRA codes end as Gazette notes political graft in Iowa
The Gazette reports the NRA code agreement ended with few department changes and salary adjustments. It cites Feuling pled guilty to a campaign fund reporting failure and accuses partisan allies of persecution, while calling for light on unreported contributions from liquor and state transactions.
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Gazette
NRA
Supreme Court
News Department
Iowa
The
E. J. Feuling
Iowa Democratic Committee
Secretary of State
Feuling
Polk
Des Moines
Polk County
Eugene J. Feuling
Liquor Commission
the Gazette
Wiley Post Opens Strato Hop Fourth Time Toward New York
Wiley Post starts a fourth attempt to fly to New York in eight hours or less from Union Air Terminal Los Angeles. He aims to fly at 30 000 to 40 000 feet in the Winnie Mae with oxygen for long duration, following a great circle route via Denver Omaha Chicago and Cleveland.
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Los Angeles
INS
Mars
Wiley Post
New York
Post
Winnie Mae
Denver
Omaha
Chicago
Cleveland
Muroc Dry Lake
Calif
Clevenand
Lafayette
Kirbyville Man Escapes After Gun Battle With Officers
In Kirbyville Texas a man identified as William Mahan, sought in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, escaped after a gun fight with officers near a CCC camp five miles east. Constable H L Malone said a Friday tip led to the confrontation. initial reports linking Alvin Karpis to the scene were corrected.
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Kirbyville
Tex
William Mahan
George Weyerhaeuser
Agar
CCC
Here
H. LF. Malone
Jasper
Mahan
Alvin Karpis
Malone
Local Man Held For Auto Theft
Otto Keith, 34, of 916 Eighth avenue SE, was arrested at 4 p.m. Friday on a district court bench warrant charging auto theft on June 1. He pled not guilty before Judge H. C. Ring, with bond set at $500. The stolen car belonged to Frank Witters of 2906 Oakland avenue NE and was taken near Ninth avenue and Ninth street SE. Detective William Kudina located the vehicle three days later. Missing tools were reported in the car. Keith was linked to the case by evidence from a filling station attendant who sold him gasoline on credit.
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Cedar Rapids
Otto Keith
Eighth Avenue SE
H. C. Ring
Frank Witters
Oakland Avenue NE
Ninth Avenue
Ninth Street SE
William Kudina
Keith
Body of New York boy found in river
The body of 5 year old Jackie Kaul was recovered from the East River on Saturday after a search that began June 6 when he vanished from a playground on Sutton Place Manhattan. The body was identified at Fordham hospital morgue by his father who collapsed. Police pursued two theories including accidental fall or abduction by a woman.
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New York
Jackie Kaul
East River
Sutton Place
Manhattan
Bronx
Fordham Hospital
INS
Peter Christ
Christ
Stella
Contakin Kolouras
Kolouras
Brooklyn
Daily Mirror
Perry
Man Rescued After Jump From Navy Pier in Cold Lake
Cun ning Hode, 49, jumped into the lake from Navy Pier in Chicago. Witnesses called police. Hode emerged from the water and declared the cold water too cold before walking away.
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Chicago
Hode
Navy Pier
Roosevelt to launch new NRA with O'Neill at helm
President Roosevelt abandoned a Chesapeake cruise to finalize plans for the skeletonized NRA expected to begin Monday. He will name James L. O'Neill as directing head, succeeding Donald R. Richberg, and Prentiss L. Coonley as administrative officer, with an executive order to set the new setup in motion.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Chesapeake Bay
NRA
Congress
International News Service
James L. O'Neill
New York
White House
Governor's Picture Left Behind After Cooper Resigns
AP report notes Iowa liquor board chairman Clyde L. Herring framed portrait remained in Cooper's Des Moines office when he quit. Herring had urged Cooper to resign on several occasions, Cooper refused, and he finally left the post and possessions.
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Des Moines
Harold
Cooper
Liquor Commission
Clyde L. Herring
Clyde L
Herring
Clipper Takes Off for Midway from Pearl Harbor
Pan American Airways Clipper leaves Pearl Harbor bound for Midway Island 1323 miles west at 5 57 a m Honolulu time on Saturday with a crew of six and two passengers. The flight marks the second leg of a proposed California to China commercial route after arrival from Alameda California. Naval officers ground crew and reporters witnessed the takeoff.
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Honolulu
Pan American Airways
Pearl ‘Harbor
Midway Island
Camp Good Health Opens as Staff Prepares for First Children
All summer staff at Camp Good Health in Cedar Rapids are on duty to ready for the first forty eight health scene youngsters arriving Monday. Five members of the Penick and Ford Federal Labor Union No 18619 helped finish tile drainage ditches and a water pump test shows the new 200 foot well yields pure water while Big Creek remains contaminated. Children will likely swim in the shower tank under Miss Alma Hartz supervision as a safe alternative. The Cedar Rapids Public Library loaned books for a library corner, and Mrs. Vogel Schell Harley, camp director, plans to have children paint chairs and organize the reading corner. The Public Health Nursing Association is notifying families of the first campers who are physically handicapped and from needy homes. some will stay the entire summer under doctors orders, others may be replaced as conditions improve.
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health
Monay
Penick and Ford Federal Labor Union No. 18619
Big Creek
Alma Hartz
Public Health Nursing Association
Want Ads final closing time notice
Tonight at 8 P.M. is the closing time for Want Ads in the BIG SUN DAY GAZETTE. Readers have all day Sunday to see and respond to wants and offers and advertisers can expect good results. Ad-taker notes credit is good if listed in the telephone directory and past due accounts are unpaid.
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BIG Sunday Gazette
Firing of Mitchell Triggers Washington Row in Roosevelt Era
Washington tension rose as Commerce Assistant Secretary Mitchell was abruptly dismissed after declining a resignation. He alleged corruption and derelictions across bureaus and planned a broadcast to expose abuses, while Roosevelt named John Monroe Johnson to replace him and urged Justice Department review of the charges.
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Commerce Dept
Washington
INS
Ewing Y
Department
Department of Commerce
Panthea
Ether
Commerce
Roper
Rey Genera Cummings
Department of Justice
Department (Justice
Mitchell Vlans
International News Learned
Shipping Board
Roosevelt
Bucee
Senate
John Monroe Johnson
Marion
S. C
France
Johnson
Works Administration
Commerce Department
Mercury Drops 10 Degrees By Saturday Noon
Dark clouds and light showers swept through as the thermometer fell sharply from 84 degrees at 9 30 a m to 65 degrees by 5 am Saturday. Friday’s high reached 85 at 4 p m before the rapid drop.
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Chambers
Weekly Half Holiday In Italy For Drill
Premier Musso declares Saturday half holiday across Italy to enable all workers to undergo military training. The decree requires all able bodied men to participate in drills for several hours each week before and after compulsory military service.
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Rome
INS
Mussolini
Italy
Report of Attempt to Murder Hitler Denied in Berlin
Berlin reports deny a Vienna claim of an attempt on Adolf Hitler during a stay in Bavaria. The German ministries call the report unfounded while an Vienna paper said Hitler was uninjured and an associate wounded.
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Berlin
INS
Adolf Hitler
Bavaria
Ministry of Propaganda
State
London
Vienna
Salzburger Chronik
Germany
Obersalzburg
Berchtesgaden
Delay Likely In Civil Service Hearings For Discharged Officers
In Sioux City the civil service hearings for Nile V Luke John Diebert and Kirby Kerr, discharged patrolmen, face another postponement as officials expect the hearings to be delayed until after the grand jury investigation of vice conditions. Police assign ments under Chief Earl Morgan include beat reassignments and potential traffic duty changes.
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Civil Service
Nile V
Luke
John Diebert
Kirby Kerr
Grand Jury
Police
Earl Morgan
Morgan
Paraguay and Bolivia halt fighting under ten day Chaco truce
In the war torn Chaco region both sides held positions as a ten day truce took effect. A neutral military commission moved in to supervise the cease fire while mediators planned a peace conference after ratification of the protocol by the belligerents.
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Buenos Aires
Paraguay
Bolivia
Green Chaco
Senate panel OKs seating Rush Holt at 30
The Senate elections committee voted ten to four Saturday that Senator elect Rush D. Holt of Virginia would be entitled to the Senate seat he was elected to, when he reaches the age of 30 on June 19.
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Washington
Senate Elections Committee
Rush D. Holt
Senate
Coal wage talks extend to June 30 after strike is called off
A joint conference of United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators unanimously backed President Roosevelt's plan to keep current wages hours and working conditions through June 30. John L. Lewis halted the planned strike at midnight and a June 24 meeting was set to renew wage and hour negotiations with several southern districts not officially represented.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Appalachian
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
D. C
Sheriff to close Omaha streetcars after rioting
Sheriff John Hopkins warned the Omaha and Council Bluffs Streetcar Company to halt streetcar service after a Friday night riot in South Omaha left one dead and over fifty wounded. If the company does not shut down after rush hour, he will arrest motormen and deploy the national guard to prevent further violence.
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Omaha
John Hopkins
Bluffs Street
Isque Seguich
Hopkins
National Guard
Omaha Riots Prompt Special Police Deployment in South Omaha
Omaha police chief Robert Samardick prepared a special force of officers for a South Omaha riot zone after a night of clashes left one dead and fifty bystanders injured. The unrest involved strikes and sympathizers disrupting streets and streetcars, with a $50 000 appropriation available for rapid deployment.
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Omaha
INS
Robert Samardick
South Omaha
Omaha riot left several wounded as cars burned
Twenty fourth and L streets in South Omaha saw fierce clashes with police. Dewey McCoy aged 35 died from head and chest wounds while Charles Hutter Jr. and others were injured. police and rioters clashed as deputies were urged to act. six arrests reported.
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McCoy
Charles “Hutter, Jr
Sarpy
Duster
McCoy and Hutter
William Hutter
Walter Honcik
Charles Kress
Thor Tintport
Richard ‘. Hogaboom
Arthur Rosinsky
G. W. ‘Curtis
Robert Samardick
Roy
Towl
Walter Jur~gensen
Nor~ Folk
Neb
Jurgensen
South
Omaha
O'Connors Newest Case Involves No Legal Remedy
Des Moines AP report states Attorney General Edward O'Connor ruled there was no legal remedy in a Friday night case. A doctor gave a brief examination and ordered the man home with a diagnosis of mumps.
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O'Connor's
Des Moines
Edward O'Connor
Baby Daughter Born To Norma Shearer In Hollywood
AP reports screen star Norma Shearer gave birth Friday night to an eight pound daughter. Husband Irving Thalberg, a studio executive, confirmed the birth and welcomed the child.
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Norma Shearer
Hollywood
Irving Thalberg
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