106 ASK FOR CLASS B BEER PERMITS
One hundred six applications for class B beer licenses were filed by 2 30 p m Thursday the final day for beer cigarette and fireworks permits Forty two sought class C beer permits 101 cigarette licenses and sixty six licenses to sell fireworks The city beer ordinance caps class B holders at eighty two and at least twenty four applications must be rejected before July 1 when new licenses issue A cap of 130 exists for cigarette licenses but few rejections are expected unless a last minute rush demands it
Farley challenge alarms Farley supporters in 1936 GOP
New Gi O P chief Samuel? Farley faces questions as tensions rise over party leadership. Hamilton, preparing a press conference after a finances meeting, plans to rest and write his speech. Gen. Hugh Johnson arrives in Newark predicting Roosevelt, while Hamilton downplays the bet and maintains focus on campaign duties.
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York
Chicago
Hamilton
Father Coughlin
Cleveland
Farley Rejects Hamilton Six-State Roosevelt Plan
James A. Farley, veteran Democratic National chairman, ridiculed John Hamilton's six-state list predicting Roosevelt victory. Farley called the plan ridiculous and refused to concede any state, insisting he is not in a guessing contest.
Five Shot In Strike Clash At Kent Ohio
At least five men were shot when open warfare erupted Thursday outside the strike closed plant of Black & Decker Co. in Kent Ohio. Company officials asked Adjutant General Emil F. Marx to send national guard troops to restore order.
City Briefs And Personals
The Cedar Rapids Airhawks meet Friday at 7 p.m. in city hall basement club rooms. Prof Myron L Koenig of Coe College will address High Twelve Friday night at the Roosevelt hotel on the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. Mr and Mrs R R Henecke have moved to Paducah Kentucky where he will work for the government. Rev Thomas J Hinkin of Lincoln Nebraska will speak at Sunshine Mission on If God Should Leave Us Alone. The Business Men's Gospel Team quartet will provide musical selections. Wednesday evening’s subject was The World’s Sin Bearer.
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Cedar Rapids Airhawks
City Hall
Myron L. Koenig
Coe College
Roosevelt Hotel
Ethiopia
R. R. Henecke
Nineteenth Avenue SW
Paducah, Ky
Henecke
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Thomas J. Hinkin
Lincoln, Neb
Sunshine Mission
Cedar Rapids Gas OKs mains on SW streets action
The city council granted Cedar Rapids Gas company permission to lay gas mains in Sixth street SW between Twentieth and Twenty-second avenues, in Twenty-second avenue SW between Sixth street and Fourteenth street, in Fourteenth street SW from Twenty-second avenue to Wilson avenue, and in Wilson avenue from Fourteenth street 3 275 feet west.
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Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Sixth Street
Twentieth
Twenty-second Avenues
Twenty-second Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Wilson Avenue
Miss Scott Delegate to Nurses Convention in Los Angeles
Stella S. Scott of 512 Third Avenue SW departs for Los Angeles to serve as Fifth District delegate to the biannual American Registered Nurses' Association convention. She is a University of Iowa hospital nurse and Fifth District president, planning summer study in public health supervision at the University of California.
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Stella S. Scott
Third Avenue
Los Angeles
Fifth District
American Registered Nurses’ Association
Miss Scott
University of Iowa Hospital
Nurses’ Association
University of California
City to Oil Additional Streets Next Week With Oil Purchase
The city council approved spending for a car of oil to seal three local streets next week. Fourth Street SW from Milwaukee tracks to Twelfth Avenue, Second Street SW from Twenty first Avenue to the alley south, and Twenty first Avenue from A Street to C Street SW will receive the oiling.
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Fourth Street
Twelfth Avenue
Second Street
Twenty-first Avenue
C Street
Coughlin To Reveal Plans Friday Night
Father Charles E. Coughlin prepared to announce a new third party backed by the National Union for Social Justice Townsendites and labor groups in a late Friday radio address at 8 45 p m CST. Reports said he may have sought talks with United Mine Workers President John L Lewis to join.
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New York
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Townsendites
CST
United Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Son of Bay State Governor Injured in Car Collision
Paul Curley son of Governor James M. Curley was slightly injured when his car collided with another vehicle and hit a telegraph pole. The other driver Miss Alice Stevens 25 Roxbury was also slightly injured and driven by Charles R Holeman.
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Boston
INS
Paul Curley
James M. Curley
Alice Stevens
Charles R. Holeman
Roxbury
Escape at Fort Madison Prisons Man Captured Near Tourist Park
Otis Price, an Independence prisoner from Fort Madison, escaped from the state hospital for the insane Wednesday forenoon. He was recaptured later the same day near the east town’s tourist park. Price, serving a five year larceny sentence, had been sent here as a trusty from Pottawattamie County and returned to Fort Madison to finish his term.
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Independence
Otis Price
Fort Madison
State Hospital For
Price
Pottawattamie County
Landon Leads Early Campaign Push From Topeka
Gov Alfred Landon plans an early Republican campaign with Col Frank Knox and national figures. Knox to speak June 24 in Manchester New Hampshire. Landon to begin early notification in Topeka possibly late July and will call a special session for social security act amendments.
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Topeka
Kan
INS
Alfred M. Landon
Estes Park
Colo
Landon
Frank Knox
Col
Knox
Manchester
N. H
John Hamilton
Roosevelt
New York City
Finance Committee
Gov. Landon
Col. Knox
Kansas
Free June Marriage Offer In Cross County Region
Parkin Ark June offer by Justice of the Peace W G Cook grants free marriage ceremonies to couples who purchase their licenses in Cross county. The promotion follows a nearby county official slashing marriage fees to one dollar.
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Parkin
Ark
North Arkansas
W. G. Cook
Justice of the Peace
Cook
Cross County
Hypnotism Ends Students Fears Of Dental Drill
London study shows Royal dental hospital patients undergo fillings, extractions, and drill work with no anesthetics via hypnosis. William Lovatt reports 70 percent of patients are suggestible and feel no pain during or after procedures. He cites 3 000 cases supporting hypnosis as a medical tool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Royal Dental Hospital
William Lovatt
Lovatt
Funeral for Mrs. James Holahan in Waukon
Funeral services at St Patrick church will honor Mrs. James Holahan 88 a longtime Waukon resident who died Tuesday at Mercy hospital Dubuque She was born in Ireland and came to America with her parents in 1863 She leaves four sons and five daughters including W J Holahan Mason City Mrs William Hart Waukon John Galesburg Ill James Richland Center Wis Thomas J Seattle Anna Holahan and Gret a Doyle Los Angeles and Sister Benoit Chicago
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Waukon
St. Patrick’s Church
James Holahan
Mercy Hospital
Dubuque
Ireland
America
John Fenelon
W. J. Holahan
Mason City
William S. Hart
John
Galesburg
Ill
James
Richland Center
Wis
Thomas J
Seattle
Anna Holahan
Gretta Doyle
Los Angeles
Benoit
St. Francis Xavier Academy
Chicago
Canada Supreme Court overturns parts of Bennett New Deal
Canada's New Deal faced mixed rulings as eight reform laws were reviewed by the dominion supreme court. Two acts upheld, two invalid, three tied, with appeals to the Privy Council. Key outcomes include upheld criminal code provisions on unfair business practices and farmer credit act, while unemployment insurance and labor measures were struck down.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion Supreme Court
Bennett
Farmers’ Credit
Dominion Trade and Industry Commission
Privy Council
London
Quebec Marks 100 Years Rail History In July
Montreal dispatch notes Quebec will celebrate the centennial of Canada’s first railroad train on July 21. The event recalls 1836 when the inaugural trip from St Johns to La Prairie used horse power before steam. Officials plan reenactments and festivities with provincial leaders attracting visitors from Canada and the United States.
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Montreal
Canada
Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence
St. Johns
Quebec
la Prairie
Samuel de Champlain
United States
Public Dance License Rules Regulated by City Council
The council considers an ordinance governing public dance licenses with restrictions on minors, license revocation for violations, and penalties up to 100 dollars or 30 days. Applicants must show good moral character, comply with fire and health laws, and maintain floor space for dancing. Debate included separating beer from dancing, deemed impractical after extensive discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Iowa
Playing Cards Used As Money In Old Quebec
In historic Quebec, pioneers turned playing cards into legal tender signed on the back by provincial administrators. Exhibits at McCord National Museum and Château Ramesseay show card money and a land transfer written on a jack of hearts, illustrating scarce paper and money in early Montreal society.
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Montreal
McCord National Museum
McGill University
Chateau de Ramesay
Old France
Northwest
Pioneer
Swedish Immigrants Will Millions To Home Folk
In Stockholm the foreign office runs an inheritance bureau to handle legacies of Swedish emigrants in the United States and Canada. Within four years 8,000 heirs have received 4.25 million dollars, and about 40,000 heirs have been located and paid. Most funds come from North America. one will pays sixty six persons, with the smallest bequest seven cents.
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Stockholm
United States
Canada
Foreign Office
Sweden
America
Bureau
Century Cedar Produces 30-Foot Telegraph Pole
A cedar tree reaches over a hundred years before maturing into a 30 foot pole used for telephone lines. The story notes slow growth and long natural cycle for timber heritage.
Tax Against J L Farmer Cancelled After Supreme Court Ruling
Des Moines AP reports the federal excise tax of 729.16 against J LeRoy Farmer of Cedar Rapids was canceled. He had been convicted of illegal liquor possession and paid 18.43 retail tax for six months ending June 30, 1935, plus a 1000 state fine. A 1934 raid found liquor, 200 state seals, triggering a probe and the resignation of Harold Cooper, liquor commission chairman.
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Des Moines
Federal
Internal Revenue Collector’s Office
J. LeRoy Farmer
Cedar Rapids
United States Supreme Court
Farmer
Farmer’s
Harold Cooper
State Liquor Commission
The
Liquor Commission
Cooper
Kansas Praises State Toward Roosevelt Nomination
Philadelphia AP James A Farley head of the Democratic National Committee in town to approve convention plans and praise Kansas as a splendid state He defended his remark about Governor Landon as a typical prairie state saying Kansas should stay as splendid as it is Farley projected easy renomination prospects and hinted at platform work by Senator Wagner of New York Foggy notes on the two thirds rule abrogation and Roosevelt reelection odds.
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Philadelphia
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Kansas
Landon
Prairie
Farley
Roosevelt
Wagner
N. Y
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Smith
Rioters Fire On Bethlehem Police Station In Jerusalem Strife
In Jerusalem riot violence continued with attackers firing on the Bethlehem police station. Police cars faced gunfire near Quatmania in North Palestine but no casualties were reported.
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Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Quatmania
Palestine
Trade Commissioner for India Based in Calcutta
A United States trade office operates a commissioner in Calcutta to handle India trade matters. The post focuses on promoting U S exports and monitoring bilateral commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
India
Calcutta
Democrats and Republicans Debate 1936 Convention Tactics
Alice Longworth summarizes fading plans for a Democratic walkout and a third party vice nomination. She notes that Governor Smith may seat his alternate and that public opposition to the New Deal would struggle to gain traction.
Muriel Vanderbilt Awarded Divorce in Reno
Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps, prominent New York and California society figure, won an uncontested divorce from Henry Delafield Phelps of Newport Rhode Island. District Judge Benjamin F. Curler granted the decree on cruelty grounds after a brief private hearing in Reno Nevada.
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Reno, Nev
Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps
New York
Henry Delafield Phelps
Newport
R. I
Benjamin F. Curler
Beating of Wife of Cultist Tied to Black Legion Probe
Detroit authorities pledged protection to informants as 41 suspected Black Legion members remain in custody amid a widening probe into night riders. Dorothy Guthrie, 33, said her husband printed anti religious material for the group. A second informant, James Stewart, received police guard after a morning visit by three strangers. Bond set at $50 for several defendants as trials loom.
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Detroit
Dorothy Guthrie
William H. Guthrie
Black Legion
James Stewart
Ecorse
Michigan
William Moore
John S. Navarre
Navarre
John L. Bielak
Hudson Motor Car Company
United
Guthrie
Daily Streamline Trains Begin Tonight Denver to Chicago
The Daily Streamline will operate tonight between Denver and Chicago via Cedar Rapids with the City of Denver’s first Cedar Rapids run at 9 42 p.m. westbound on the Northwestern. Another City of Denver train arrives Cedar Rapids at 5 55 a.m. Friday en route to Chicago. The schedule becomes daily and the trains are billed as the world’s fastest long distance passenger service.
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Denver
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
North Western Railroad
Birth Announcement for June Onalee Allen
Born June 18 to Mr and Mrs L A Allen 1017 Eleventh Street NE a daughter named June Onalee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Allen
Eleventh Street
June Onalee
Brazilian States Engage in Natural Silk Production
Eleven Brazilian states are actively producing natural silk, signaling a broader regional effort to develop the fiber industry. Local farms and weaving workshops report growing output and increasing demand from domestic manufacturers.
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Hugh Johnson
Newark Airport
Washington
Waldorf-Astoria
J. K. Bradley
Connecticut
Young Republicans
A. L. Shultz
Charlton McVeagh
Armonk
Robert Burroughs
New Hampshire
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Republican National Committee
Children’s Society
Ermelinda Questell
Questell
Bernard Botein
Carmen Vilella
Botein
Kent
Associated Press
Jay Berwanger
University of Chicago
Donald MacMurray
Coughlin
Bay State
U.S
J. L. Farmer
Sia
Dro WH
Okinow
Wrdair Rapids
Alice Longworth
Muriel Vanderbilt
Okinaw
Anns
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