Union party wedding tops news as Lemke tied to movement
Rep resentative William Lemke of North Dakota was the bridegroom in a wedding dramatized around a new Union party with Father Coughlin as officiant. The ceremony attracted Townsend supporters and Huey Long followers amid talk of a $24 billion pension plan and a looming third party challenge. The second item reports the Iowa highway routing dispute over the Lincoln highway and Linn county contracts, with the state highway commission delaying awards despite prior assurances.
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Townsend
State Highway Commission
Linn County
Lincoln
Cedar Rapids
Highway Commission
Ship subsidy bills clear hurdle as adjournment looms
The House approved the ship subsidy bill by 225 to 21 and the Senate swiftly backed the subsidy and treasury post office appropriation measures, sending them to the White House. Debate raged over the tax bill as Sen. Byrd condemned it as a mongrel compromise, while opponents warned of endless talk to kill the Guffey coal bill.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury-Post Office
White House
Harry Byrd
Eley
Guffey
Byrd
Congress
Borah
Cedar Rapids Route Debate Delays Highway Plan
Fred White chief engineer of the highway commission says local Cedar Rapids residents wasted weeks arguing over the new route, leaving insufficient time for the commission to complete its planning.
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Fred White
The
Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Public Works Plan Faces Summer Start
After an argument over a disputed project, White and Highway Commissioner Hagerman say the plan will proceed this summer. Woodbury county won approval for an $850,000 project not previously scheduled for June, while Linn county’s listing was missing. The dispute warned Cedar Rapids to end local squabbling or funds may be diverted to other counties.
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White
Fred Hagerman
Waverly
Highway Commission
Woodbury County
Sioux City
Special Commission
Linn County
Hagerman
Cedar Rapids
Burdick brands Farley Huey Long deal a second Louisiana purchase
Rep Usher L Burdick accused Postmaster General Farley of secretly striking a deal with Huey Long heirs to secure Louisiana for New Deal control In exchange Long forces would help defeat Frazier Lemke inflation farm mortgage bill and Long figures would face no tax prosecutions while New Orleans patronage would be restored The Long family reportedly knew nothing of the agreement and Burdick logged the charge in the Congressional Record.
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Washington
Usher L. Burdick
N. D
Union Party
James A. Farley
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Burdick
Rep
William Lemke
Charles E. Coughlin
Louisiana Purchase
Long Forces
Frazier-Lemke
Long Machine
Roosevelt
New Deal
Seymour Weiss
Long
New Orleans
Warm Night Follows 98 Degree Day In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids sweltered through a 98 degree peak on Friday with a daylong heat wave. A 19 year old, Jim Penrod, collapsed while seeking farm work near Cedar Rapids and was hospitalized but improved by nightfall.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Linn County
Fairfax
Jim Penrod
Penrod
Capone Denied Parole From Alcatraz
The Justice Department said Al Capone has been denied parole from Alcatraz. He is eligible for parole after September 3, 1935, with minimum-term hopes by January 19, 1939, and a full term expiring May 3, 1942. Prison officials note his record as a "good prisoner" despite public-enemy notoriety.
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Washington
Justice Department
al Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz Island
Capone
Alcatraz
Bureau
Lemke Leads Third Party Ticket Backed by Coughlin
William Lemke heads a new Union Party ticket challenging Roosevelt and Landon in November. Backing it are Rev. Charles E. Coughlin and his National Union for Social Justice with possible endorsements from Dr. Francis Townsend and Huey Long remnants. The move, seen as inflationary and radical, aims to siphon western Roosevelt votes and disrupt major party unity.
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Washington
William Lemke
N. D
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Francis E. Townsend
Townsend Old Age Pension Clubs
Huey P. Long
Coughlin
Lemke
Gov. Landon
Philadelphia
James A. Farley
Thomas
Norman Thomas
Union Party of the United States
Cleveland
National Committee
Louis Schmeling
New York
Veterans receive 477 400 in bonus checks in Cedar Rapids
Checks totaling 477 400 dollars were issued to 1 241 veterans who cashed adjusted service bonds. The Cedar Rapids post office announced the sum on Saturday, covering Tuesday to Friday deliveries with 49 late checks. Undelivered checks may be picked up Saturday at general delivery until 6 30 p.m and will go to residences on Monday for those not claimed.
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Cedar Rapids
Mangrum Keeps Sizzling Pace in Western Open
Ray Mangrum of Dayton Ohio fired a 66 in the opening round and stood strong on the back nine Saturday to reach 34 after nine. Lawson Little of California posted a 36 on the front and 67 overall Friday for a 103 total through 27 holes as other contenders waited for afternoon starts.
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Davenport
Ray Mangrum
Dayton
Ohio
Lawson Little
California
Riots Flare in Harlem After Louis Defeat
Riots erupted in Harlem after Joe Louis was knocked out by Max Schmeling. Police guarded the area as mobs clashed injuring whites and blacks, with at least one gunshot, several stabbings, and numerous damaged stores and vehicles.
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New York
INL
Harlem
Joe Louis
Max Schmeling
Louis
William Moss
Joe
Wilmer Cooper
Joseph King
Samuel Kulim
WPA
Schmeling
Yorkville
Chicago riots flare after Schmeling defeat in New York
Three disturbances erupt in Chicago's Little Harlem after Joe Louis loses to Max Schmeling in New York. Bands of youths stone street cars and break windows, but no injuries are reported and police quell the unrest. Chief Walter Storms links the protests to the boxing result.
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Chicago
Harlem
Joe Louis
New York
Max Schmeling
Walter Storms
Roosevelt Signs Chain Store Bill
President Roosevelt signed the Robinson Patman chain store measure into law, aimed at ending price discrimination among buyers of similar goods. The act seeks to aid independent merchants against chain stores and curb false advertising allowances, stemming from a House inquiry into the American Retail Federation and chain store operations.
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Washington
LLP
Robinson-Patman Chain Store
Roosevelt
House
American Retail Federation
Democrats to Abolish Two-Thirds Rule at Roosevelt Nomination
Philadelphia AP report from the Democratic convention scene notes James Farley announcing that 1100 votes will back Franklin D Roosevelt’s renomination and that the party will replace the two-thirds rule with a majority for renomination. Rumors swirl about a Lemke led third party and Coughlin’s backing.
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Philadelphia
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Measure For 2320 New Planes Awaits Roosevelt Signature
Washington dispatch reports a bill authorizing 2320 new airplanes for the army air corps awaiting President Roosevelt's signature. The measure is among more than 100 bills rushed to the White House in 48 hours. It aims to raise air corps strength to 4000 machines in five years.
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Washington
INS
Army Air Corps
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Air Corps
Camp Good Health Camp Fund Still Short of Goal
Mrs. Vogel Schell Harley appeals for used dining room chairs to equip Camp Good Health where donations total 2 238 67. Local firms aid as boys stage stunt night and feature a pipe organ, Crusader swords, and sandpile fun. Cedar Rapids Sheet Metal Works donated a galvanized ventilator and Joe Wendl J W Ballard installed it with splash pans. Lynch Transfer provided a truck and moved the new water tank. Bob Smythe donated a sign marking the camp entrance.
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Cedar Rapids
Lynch Transfer Company
Bob Smythe
Camp Good
Bandit Slain In Duel With Omaha Sleuth
Police in Omaha identified the slain gunman as 23 year old William R. Harris of Detroit who came to the city two years ago. Detective Sergeant Harry Fielding, in disguise as a soda clerk, shot Harris five times after Harris fired and missed. Harris worked as a Union Pacific railroad clerk since September 1934.
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Omaha
William R. Harris
Detroit
Harris
Harry Fielding
Fielding
Burlingame Avenue
Union Pacific Railroad
Minnesota court rules paper grain deals gambling
The state supreme court held that purchases of wheat futures with no intention of delivery are gambling. Becher-Harrett-Lockerby sued Munster Equity Elevator Co and Joe Hilbert for 1637.76, alleging the elevator guaranteed the account. Hilbert, a New Rockford farmer, bought durum wheat for December delivery in 1929, then the dates moved, losses grew to 5000, and the broker closed out in 1930.
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Minneapolis
State Supreme Court
Becher-Harrett-Lockerby Company
Munster Equity Elevator Co
Joe Hilbert
New Rockford
N. D
Hilbert
Seven Dead in Bronx Apartment Collapse
Four bodies were recovered Saturday from the wreckage and two more were found, bringing known deaths to seven. Police and fire squads seek five others buried in debris as eleven workers remain hospitalized. More than twenty workers were on site when the center wing collapsed Friday afternoon, sending wreckage from basement to third floor.
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New York
Bronx
Tommy Troy Fined for Sale of Lottery Tickets
Thomas Troy, 36, of 915 Seventh Street NE, was arrested at 8 p.m. Friday by Cedar Rapids police after detectives identified him as a baseball pool ticket salesman. He was fined $50 in district court by Judge A. B. Clark for selling lottery tickets. A raid at 329 Ninth Avenue SE led to Ellis Brown, 50, being charged with illegal possession of liquor. bond set at $500.
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Cedar Rapids
Thomas Troy
Seventeenth Street
Earl Stanley
Troy
Stanley
A. B. Clark
Ninth Avenue SE
Ellis Brown
Wallace report reveals maze of data on AAA payments
Washington The Wallace memo on 1934 1935 AAA pay ments shows a jumble of figures with only one payment over 1 million to a Hawaiian sugar company. The largest beets and sugar cane payments went to U S Sugar Florida and others, with five states receiving funds for reducing cotton and sugar production.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Senate
United States
U. S. Sugar Corporation of Florida
Lee Wilson and Company of
Arkansas
Fontana Farms
California
Louisiana Irrigation and Mill Company
California Packing Corporation
Sutter Basin Corporation, Ltd
Sutter Basin Improvement Company, Ltd
American Sumatra Tobacco Company
Florida
Thomas Campbell
Montana
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Alabama
Hawaii
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. Ltd
R. D. Mead
Miniature Gold Rush Starts in Nevada at Cimarron
TONOPAH Nev UP a miniature gold rush began at Cimarron 30 miles north as prospectors staked claims near the original strike by veteran prospector E M Booth. Tonopah mining experts said the ore uncovered shows a highly promising development after Booth spent a month exploring an old silver region once worked by Mexicans.
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Tonopah
Nev
Cimareron
Here
E. M. Booth
Booth
MacMurray and Lamonte wed in Las Vegas private ceremony
Fred MacMurray, a tall film star, and Lillian Lamonte, a New York model, who had spoken of a trial engagement in 1934, married privately in the county clerk's office in Las Vegas. They departed for Hollywood aboard a commercial air liner after the ceremony. Witnesses included Mrs. Melota MacMurray and Las Vegas journalist John F. Cahlan.
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Nev
Fred MacMurray
Lillian Lamonte
New York
Hollywood
Melota MacMurray
John F. Cahlan
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Cedar Rapids News
Mangrum
Farley Avers
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Elmer A. Higley
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Tommy Troy
SEC. Wallace
Amana Society
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