Relief bill caps relief admin with bipartisan board
The house approved next year’s relief funding at 1.7356 billion dollars but without a blank check for the WPA. A three member bipartisan board would oversee funds, with penalties for political activity by workers or administrators. The piece notes tensions with federal bureaucrats and shifts in Iowa social welfare leadership affecting Barney Allen and others, while discussing capital markets and FDIC relief for big banks.
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House of Representatives
WPA
Senate
House
Workers Alliance
Byron G. Allen
Iowa
Karney
Barney
Barney Allen
Allen
Fiel
Public Service
Manhunt Intensifies For Double Slayers Suspect
A massive Wisconsin search centered on the Chippewa flowage near Hayward as Ray Olson the 37 year old parole violator suspected in the killings of two deputy sheriffs is cornered on a land point. More than 300 armed men and additional volunteers from Sawyer County and nearby areas pressed the hunt with Olson believed trapped, while a Chicago vacationer woman connected to him remains in custody.
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la Crosse
Wis
Winona
Minn
Wilds
Lake Chippewa
George Schuctter
Sawyer County
Hayward
Chicago
Olson
Summer Sun Pushes Cedar Rapids Heat Record High
Cedar Rapids saw a peak Saturday with 97 degrees at 5 p.m., the year’s high so far, then fell to 93 by 7 p.m. The 6 a.m. low was 71, and the year’s previous high was 99 on June 7. Midnight dropped to 74.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Outlook for Upper Mississippi Valley June 19 24
Weekly forecast reports generally fair skies across the Upper Mississippi valley with temperatures near to above normal. Frequent showers are expected, especially in the extreme northern portion, where seasonable temperatures persist.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Ickes Travel Program Faces Political Strife and Lobby Row
Washington reports conflict over Harold L. Ickes interior travel program aimed at boosting the five billion dollar annual American tourist trade. A disclosure shows Mrs. Roosevelt pressed for Ruth Bryan Rohde's travel bureau post. Legislation seeks a US tourist bureau with a hundred thousand dollars yearly under the interior department.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ickes
Ruth Bryan Rohde
William Jennings Bryan
Denmark
Travel Bureau
Roosevelt
Motorist Charged With Drunk Driving After Crash
Cedar Rapids police arrested Paul Kraus, 25, of 118 Eighth Street NE, after a 5:10 pm collision on Ellis boulevard NW with H. R. Wignall, 204 Park Court SE. Witnesses say Kraus fled the scene, was traced by license, and found intoxicated. Mrs. Kraus allegedly begged him to let her drive.
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Paul Kraus
Eighth Street
Ellis Boulevard NW
F Avenue
Kraus
H. R. Wignall
Park Court SE
Wignall
Hughes
Funcke
Kofron
Steve Stolba
Stolba
Allis Strike Ends in Wisconsin Union Accepts Pact
The United Auto Workers CIO at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing ends after union members vote 97 percent in favor of a labor contract. About 5,000 of 6,500 production workers to be recalled Monday as operations resume. The strike began May 24 with formal declaration June 10. the pact mirrors last year’s terms with no union shop wage increases or blanket plant coverage.
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Milwaukee
United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Julius Heil
Harold Christoffel
Harold W. Story
West Allis
Pittsburgh
Boston
U S Fills Record Private Job Total
Secretary of Labor Perkins announced the United States employment service filled 333,185 jobs in May, with private employers adding 242,490 jobs, the most in any single month. Private job gains included 136,164 for men and 106,326 for women, up 166 percent from April and 2.3 percent above May 1938.
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Washington (Ap
Perkins
United States Employment Service
Candidacy for a Third Term Seems Likely
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt faces a likely 1940 third term bid absent a strong new-dealer substitute. Possible compromises include Hull or Garner. Wallace and Hopkins are named rivals, with Farley and Hull as middle-of-the-road options amid party tensions and efforts to avert a bitter convention clash.
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Lyle
Cordell Hull
Washington
John N. Garner
Roosevelt
Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Harry L. Hopkins
Frank Murphy
James A. Farley
Hull
Garner
Mr. Roosevelt
Headon
Convention City
Murphy
Wallace
White House
Atlantic Clipper makes 4650 mile press preview flight
Pan American Airways' 40 ton Atlantic Clipper flew from Port Washington to Horta Lisbon and Marseilles on a 4650 mile three stage press preview. With 30 aboard including 12 reporters and 4 radio network reps, the trip marked aviation history and the run up to regular Europe service starting June 28.
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Europe
Pan-American Airways
Horta
Azores
Marseilles
Pan American Airways
Washington
N.Y
Long Island Sound
Pan American
Port Washington
Lisbon
Portugal
France
Globe
North America
South America
Asia
Nazi Defies Danzig Merger Critics
AP reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels told a cheering crowd in Danzig that union with Germany is inevitable and unstoppable. He urged residents to return to the Reich while dismissing Polish sovereignty and warned against foreign efforts to block the move. Continued on page 2.
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Free City OF Danzig
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Reich
Vistula
Warsaw
Poland
Rotterdam
Rhine
Camp Good Health Camp Holds Sunday Service Schedule
Camp Good Health resumes Sunday observance with indoor service led by Miss Margaret Scott, visiting hours 3:30 to 5 pm for staff and families, then nature hunt after 5. The camp aids physically handicapped children aged 6 to 12 from low income families, funded by the Camp Good Health Fund via The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Margaret Scott
Good Health
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health Fund
Gazette
Camp Good Health
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Missing Deb Working As Waitress In Pa Tea House
Caroline Bowers Woodman 18, daughter of Yale’s ex-president James R Angell, left Smith College to work as a waitress at Wee College Inn in Krumsville Pa. She was located after writing to Yale senior Monroe Jubitz and, with parental consent, will keep the job until Sept 1.
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New Haven
Conn
Caroline Bowers Woodman
James R- Angell
Yale University
Smith College
Wee College Inn
Krumsville
Allentown
Monroe Jubitz
Yale
Warsite
Miss Woodman
Smith and Society
Angels
Katherine Stuart
Cramer Woodman Angell
Young Jubitz
Mrs Angell
Caroline
Car Kills Boy Seven Before His Father's Day Letter Is Read
In Pittsburgh a seven year old boy Charles Crowley Jr. was struck and later died after crossing a busy street while his eight year old friend Thomas Gorman watched in tears. Charles had written a Father's Day letter for his WPA worker father and a photo to carry in his pocket. The father found the note after the tragedy and the boy expressed prayers for his parents and a wish to be a good boy to bring happiness to his family.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Crowley, Jr
WPA
Charles
Thomas Gorman
Boy Killed by Car Near Farm Home
John Collins a 10 year old son of Mr and Mrs Paul Collins was fatally injured Saturday when struck by an automobile on the highway in front of the family farm home south of Rock Rapids Iowa AP report notes the tragic accident near the farm.
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Rock Rapids, In
John Collins
Paul Collins
Here
Possessor Of Mystery's Key Ends Own Life
A 26 year old Raleigh convict, David E Jones, stabbed himself in a prison cell after promising to reveal details of a mysterious drowning of an unidentified young woman in a creek two years earlier. Jones, jailed for assault with intent to kill, kidnapping and attempted robbery, had been brought in to be questioned. He had identified the woman as Marjorie Jones in a written statement. Companions of the unidentified girl were questioned. Jones or two men he named were not among them.
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Raleigh
N. C
Roy M. Banks
David E Jones
Jones
Whittier
J. H. Martin
Swain County
Marjorie Jones
N. F. Turner
Wake County
Settlement in 309000 Oil Claims Suit of Archbishop Beckman
An out of court settlement ends the 309000 suit by Archbishop Francis Beekman of Dubuque against Philip Suetter over mining loan claims. Suetter says funds were payments for three gold mines and not loans. Archbishop sought accounting and injunctions to halt further expenditures, with aims to finance a new seminary in Iowa.
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Grants Pass, Ore
Francis J. Beekman
Dubuque
Philip J. Suetter
Suetter
Joseph Lasicki
Chicago
Medford
Beckman
Towa
Reily Refuses to Testify at Payroll Hearing
AP report from Kansas City states E Mont Reily governor of Porto Rico in the Harding era declined to testify at a city payroll padding hearing. Witnesses said workers performed no city street cleaning work yet were paid and cashed in Reily's name. Reily claimed he helped men obtain street cleaning jobs to repay debts.
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Kansas City
E Mont Reily
Porto Rico
Harding
Reily
City Treasury
Public Works Department
Reily Reily
Claim Nazis Ready For Slovakian Grab
A Prague dispatch to the London Express says nearly ten German army divisions are concentrated at Maerisch Ostrau awaiting orders to seize one third of Slovakia. The move is said to be part of a secret agreement with Hungary to take over the remaining Slovak territory.
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London
INS
Prague
London Express
Maerisch- Ostrau
Slovakia
Hungary
Baer Hopes Royal Visit Avoids Another LaFayette
Arthur Bugs Baer notes a royal visit with rain in the western world and Canada offering to give a Thousand Islands to the king. He hopes the visit does not turn into a LaFayette style protracted or dramatic affair, implying history’s slow, drawn out conflicts beginning in 1776.
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Canada
Islands
Mother Confesses to Killing 10-Week-Old Baby
In Fremont Ohio Velma Baker Fink 22 sobbed at her infant son's graveside and then confessed to suffocating the 10 week old and tossing the body into Green Creek to "get rid" of him. Prosecutor Hyzer said the motive followed a date and a quarrel with her mother. The baby was found smothered after being thrown into the creek. Fink faces first degree murder charges.
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Oren Baker
Fink
Hyzer
Richard White
White
Hyver
Honer
Womean
Ervin Fink
Baker
Clyde
Hycer
Green Creek
Babs Haldon
Buster
Walter Bechtel Dies After Long Illness Funeral Tuesday
Walter W. Bechtel 57 died at his Cedar Rapids home after a lingering illness. His career spanned theatrical management newspaper advertising and lighting work with Will Rogers and other stars. Survived by Margery T. Lolly wife two sisters a brother and a nephew. Funeral Tuesday 9 am at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial Mount Calvary cemetery. Friends may call Monahan funeral home after noon Sunday.
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Cedar Rounds News
Walter W. Bechtel
Avenue NE
Old Peoples Theater
Majestic Theater
Bechtel
Will Rogers
Fannie Brice
Moran and
Mack
Cedar Rapids Republican
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Mr. Bechtel
Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Toledo
Cedar Rapids
Margery T. Lolly
St. Louis
Leo R. Brown
A. B. Cochran
L. T. Bechtel
Waterloo
C. Franklin Cochran
Immaculate Conception Church
Msgr
J. M. Molloy
Earle Nichols
Amos Scott
Charles Young
Rex Storey
Conrad Paulson
Dale D. Morgan
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Monahan Funeral Home
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Bugs" Baer
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