Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty in Tracy Case
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Reginald Tracy of Manchester must pay the death penalty for conspiring to murder his wife with an accomplice’s help. Tracy pled guilty. the court found no error or abuse in the lower court’s maximum sentence. The decision was among fifty five handed down, with other rulings covering workers compensation, banking judgments, city power sales, and municipal contracts.
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Des Moines
Reginald Tracy
Manchester
State Supreme Court
Tracy
Supreme Court
Flossie Fear
John Kintzinger
Farmer
J. LeRoy Farmer
Tipton
Jesse J. Hamilton
State Banking Department
Citizens State Bank of Mount Vernon
Willard C. Stuckslager
Cedar Falls
Readlyn
Martin Carroll
Iowa
Rap Grundy
Grundy Center
Fairbanks Morse Company
Northwestern
Jackie Coogan Sued For $500000 In Car Crash
Two damage suits totaling 500000 were filed in Los Angeles against actor Jackie Coogan over the May 4 auto crash that killed four people including his father. Plaintiffs allege John H. Coogan drove at excessive speed while intoxicated and Jackie failed to remonstrate.
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Los Angeles
Jackie Coogan
Young Coogan
Anna V.horner
Robert J. Horner
Grave Durkin
Trent Junior Durkin
John H. Coogan
Jackie
They Say What Do They Say Let Them Say
A reflective piece urges not to be ruled by others words. It notes self talk harms more than outside chatter and encourages gentleness in speech toward others. It cites a Scotland motto and poses three questions for evil when encountered.
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Scotland
Charity
Senate Liberals Move to Pass Taxes in Session
Twenty two liberal senators from diverse states join in a pledge to keep Congress in session until action on Roosevelt's tax program is taken. Bob La Follette leads a bipartisan push to extend talks, while discussions center on a proposed constitutional amendment to tax future bond proceeds.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Congress
Bob” la Follette
Wisconsin
Sumners
Tex
House Judiciary Committee
la Follette
Boys given 99 years for kidnapping in Indiana case
Bascom Ray Jr. aged 14 and Maurice Sheridan, 17, were sentenced to 99 years in the state reformatory after admitting kidnapping the Dubois county sheriff in a stolen car. They confessed to breaking into houses and stealing cars in Huntington West Virginia before the Indiana crime.
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Jasper
Ind
Bascom Ray, Jr
Maurice Sheridan
State Reformatory
Dubois County
Huntington
W. Va
Indiana
Bar Opposes Plan for Less Than Unanimous Juries
Cedar Rapids Iowa Bar Association voted against Section E of the law reform report proposing constitutional change to allow less than unanimous verdicts in criminal and civil cases. The dispute sparked by Casper Schenk centered on public trust in justice with finite support from local and state lawyers.
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Casper Schenk
Des Moines
Iowa State Bar Association
Cedar Rapids
Law Reform Committee
State Bar Association
Oy Re 2 Bt
Dwight McCarty
Emmetsburg
Harley H. Stipp
Schenk
Raymond N. Klass
E. A. Johnson
Supreme Court
Illinois Boy Escapes Kidnapping Near Canton
Eight year old Billy Borah, relative of Senator Borah, was kidnapped near Canton while visiting grandparents. After hours of driving the kidnapper released him on a country road six miles north of Canton. The boy is son of Mr and Mrs John Borah of Peoria.
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Canton, Ill
Billy Borah
Here
John Borah
Peoria
Canton
Borah
Attacks Communism In Bar Asia At Iowa Bar Association
Don Barnes Cedar Rapids attorney spoke at the Iowa State Bar Association annual banquet in Memorial Coliseum about communism in the United States. He cited Amanas history to claim capitalist systems provide progress and higher living standards, arguing 25 percent noncooperation doomed communal efforts. He urged readers to reject communism and pursue capitalism, with continuation noted on Page 2.
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United States
Don Barnes
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Bar Association
Memorial Coliseum
Amanas
Mr. Barnes
Estherville Man Elected President of Iowa State Bar
J. W. Morse of Estherville was elevated to the presidency of the Iowa State Bar association at the closing session of the forty first annual meeting at the Cedar Rapids Country club. The Davenport 1936 meeting and officials including J. C. Pryor of Burlington as vice president were announced along with elected officers and delegates.
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Cedar Rapids News
J. W. Morse
Estherville
Iowa State Bar Association
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Thomas J. Guthrie
Des Moines
Davenport
J. C. Pryor
Burlington
Pryor
Mason Ladd
Iowa City
American Bar Association
Los Angeles
Guthrie
A. B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
Miles W. Newby
Onawa
Morse, Pryor
R. F. Clough
Mason City
Conference of Bar Association
C. F. Wennerstrum
Chariton
H. C. Kenline
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll Vote For 1935 Refund
Cedar Rapids voters consider a 1935 auto toll measure in a local ballot. Officials from LBA 213 outline the proposal aims and potential impact on city traffic and revenue.
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Cedar Rapids
Roper Defends Mitchell Removal in Senate Hearing
Commerce Secretary Daniel Roper told the Senate Commerce Committee that removing Assistant Secretary Mitchell was needed for efficiency in government. He denied graft and favoritism charges and said Mitchell had a suspicious temperament and treated rumors as truth. Mitchell cited two cases of alleged inspection lapses and gratuities in Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Senate Commerce Committee
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Mitchell
Roper
Committee
Department
Steamboat Inspection Service
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Senate
Morro Castle
Copeland
Wall Street Hears Roosevelt Tax Plan Details
News of President Roosevelt's proposed 1 billion dollar tax on inheritances moved Wall Street to gauge market impact as Congress prepared to consider the plan. Senate action signals possible tax shifts with hearings and coalition efforts shaping early action, while leaders debate how to tax wealthy estates and corporate income.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wall Street
Street
Congress
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Coalition To Seek
Polk Grand Jury To Resume Graft Probe On Monday
Polk county grand jury will continue its graft investigation on Monday with testimony from C F Lytle Sioux City contractor recorded in its files. Lytle urged Gov Clyde Herring to purge the democratic party and appoint Sioux City officers as graft investigators for Sioux City and Woodbury county. The governor initially declined but later approved officers after a Woodbury county graft grand jury request. More witnesses are expected to be called.
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Des Moines
Polk Grand Jury
C. F. Lytle
Sioux City
Lytle
Clyde Herring
Woodbury County
Hopkins pledges substantial farm to market road program
AP report says Harry L. Hopkins vows a large farm to market road project under the new works relief program. He declines to estimate crew size or mileage but promises development of a substantial rural road plan separate from state and federal highway work.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Relief and Works Progress Administrator
Hopkins
Middlewestern
Atterback
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Former Sioux City Chief Promoted To Detective Sergeant
Sioux City Patrolman John McKenna, recently resigning as chief, is promoted by Police Commissioner Gordon Hollar to sergeant of detectives succeeding Maurice E. Farley, who is demoted to detective. Farley had been sergeant since Hollar’s early tenure. McKenna had once led the department. A new raiding squad is created under the commissioner, with Ed Becker and ex jailer William Howes as members to target bad conditions.
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Sioux City
John McKenna
Gordon Hollar
Maurice E. Farley
Hollar
Farley
H. C. Kuhlmann
Commissioner of Public Safety
McKenna
Kuhlmann
Ed Becker
William Howes
Profitable Pickup Finds Diamond in Shoe Sole
Q E Herman a Hickory architect discovered a shining object in the sole of his shoe and, after taking it to a jeweler, was told it was a perfectly good diamond.
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Pickory
N. C
Q. E. Herman
Hickory
Senate Seeks Full Report on Alaska Colony
The Senate asked relief director Harry Hopkins for a full report on the Alaska colonization project amid reports of want and danger to life of colonists. Senators Vandenberg Shipstead and La Follette sponsored the resolution, citing complaints from transported settlers about unmet promises and poor care.
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Washington
Senate
Harry L. Hopkins
Alaska
Hopkins
Vandenberg
Mich
Shipstead
Minn
la Follette
Wis
Texas Democrats Seek Ouster of Elliott Roosevelt
Dallas county Young Democrats plan to adopt a resolution to oust Elliott Roosevelt from the post of vice president of the Young Democrats of Texas. If approved, the measure goes to the state executive committee meeting in Fort Worth on July 16. The effort cites his brief Texas residency and cites his Amarillo convention speech as fueling opposition to centralized national policy.
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Dallas
Tex
INS
Amarillo
Baptists Reject Missionary Merger in Colorado Springs
The Northern Baptists convention rejected the plan to merge four missions societies into two bodies during sessions in Colorado Springs. The vote ended a contentious move seen as central to church structure and funding.
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Colorado Springs
Northern Baptists Convention
Rockefeller denies $5 million windfall at 96th birthday
A family spokesman denied reports that John Rockefeller would receive five million dollars from paid up insurance policies when he turns 96 on July 8.
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New York
INS
John Rockefeller
House Passes TVA and Buildings Bill
The House approved a 224 477 562 deficiency appropriation bill financing new public buildings in many districts. It includes 64 million for new buildings outside DC, 10 million for river and harbor work, 9.85 million for Army construction, about 20 million for naval public works and armament, 20 million for veterans hospitals, 14 million for Boulder Canyon, and 1 million for an air mail link to Asia.
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Washington
House
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
District of Columb
Veterans
Boulder Canyon
Post Office Department
United States
Sia
Judge Denounces Woman's Acquittal in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron denounced the jury verdict acquitting Mrs Gladys Carter 28 of manslaughter finding her temporarily insane at the time she shot Frances Walker 20 a boarder in her home The judge criticized Dr Paul Bowers alienist report saying Carter is sane now and always has been sane warning the verdict could erode public faith in law.
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Los Angeles
Gladys Carter
Frances Walker
Fletcher Bowron
Court rejects guilty plea by hs wife in kidnap case
In Tacoma federal court Judge Cushman rejected Margaret Waleys guilty plea while her husband Harmon Waley faced 45 year sentence for his role in the Lindbergh style kidnapping of 9 year old George Hunt Weyerhaeuser. Prosecutors say the couple conspired with William Mahan. Mrs Waley claimed no knowledge until after the crime.
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Tacoma
Wash
Harmon Metz Waley
George Hunt
Thej
Waley
Spokane
Air Clipper Returns From Hawaii
The Pan American Airways four motor amphibian Clipper started its 8000 mile return flight from Honolulu at 5 30 p m Friday bound for Alameda California on the final leg of its Pacific crossing Captain Musick chose a northerly route to study weather and flight conditions flying at 10000 to 12000 feet most of the way Honolulu reports overcast skies with a 2000 foot ceiling and a 16 mile per hour northwest wind at takeoff the warm air hit 86 degrees.
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Honolulu
T.H
United States
Alameda
Calif
Pacific
Pan American Airways
Musick
Pearl Harbor
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Iowa Supreme Court
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Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
BAR
Illinois
Vames
Bar Asia
Hint Wall
Robert M. la Follette
Sergt
Texas
Elliott Roosevelt
Baptists
Rockefeller
TVA
Salt Lake City
Hawaii
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