France and America debate security and world armaments
In Geneva France backs a Hoover plan for reduced armaments and cost savings but insists on security guarantees from other powers. The United States weighs France’s demand while domestic fears of insecurity grow as three gunmen in Illinois raid milk trucks, wasting 1000 gallons of milk amid child shortages.
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France
M. Paul Boncour
Geneva
America
M. Paul-Boncour
Europe
United States
Maryville
Ill
United States Rejects French Security Pact
Washington reports that the French government demanded a security pact amid Hoover's arms cut plan, but high government circles insist the United States will not enter such an agreement under any conditions.
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Washington
Geneva
Hoover
United States
Iowan Gardner Cowles Named to Reconstruction Finance Board
Washington AP Gardner Cowles Jr Des Moines publisher appointed to board of directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation filling the Dawes vacancy. Presidency of the corporation to be filled later.
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Hoover
Cowles
Dawes
Washington
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Des Moines
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Charles G. Dawes
White House
Hutton Lawyer Digs Past in Suit Over Love Promises
In Los Angeles a court heard that Myrtle Hazel Joan St Pierre had multiple prior names and relationships before her claim against David L. Hutton for 200000 dollars alleging he promised marriage and then betrayed her. Hutton’s counsel sought to cast doubt on her chastity and past affairs during cross examination.
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Los Angeles
David L. Hutton
Aimee Semple McPherson
Myrtle Hazel
Joan St. Pierre
St. Pierre
Myrtle St. Peters
Jean Deville
H. H. Harrington, Jr
George
Hutton
J. Pierre
Mark Jones
Edgar Ebsen
Hollywood
Hearst Attacks Convention Control by Financiers
The article portrays Mr Hearst decrying supposed domination of the Republican convention by high financiers and a Democratic minority by a Wall Street fiscal agent of the British empire. It notes Hearst’s own wealth at about $100 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hearst
Wall Street
Democratic convention opens with chairmanship fight
The Democratic convention begins with a contest to elect a chairman. Gov. Roosevelt and former Gov. Smith back different favorites, signaling a raucous process ahead as committees form the platform is drafted and the nomination follows.
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Roosevelt
Smith
Chilean socialist junta imposes nationwide night curfew
The new regime enforces a 10 pm ban on all nighttime activities with arrests and possible executions for violators. Intellectuals risk seeking inspiration outdoors at night as authorities push for tighter controls.
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Obvio Be
Spectators React to Schmeling Sharkey Fight Debacle
A prominent sports writer notes the crowd’s real thrill was realizing how many attended the fiasco for money spent. The piece casts the Schmeling versus Sharkey bout as a costly misfire and a reminder that money still changes hands despite poor outcomes.
Cedar Rapids Carnival Draws Crowds Despite Out-of-Town Spend
In Cedar Rapids a city carnival operates within limits paying a license fee and charging rents. Thousands attend nightly and spend money, reviving circulation reminiscent of 1928 29 but with funds exiting the town.
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Cedar Rapids
Carnival Proposal Sparks Debate Over City Support
Editorial writer questions why the city council refused to permit a carnival here unless the organizers paid the regular license fee plus a flat percentage of income to fund unemployed programs, arguing such an event could lift spirits despite fears.
Man completes 27000 mile solo ocean voyage aboard 37-foot boat
Ed ward Miles says he spent four years at sea aboard his thirty seven foot craft with no human company and no tobacco alcohol or profanity. He relied on an encyclopedia for stimulation when storms and waves paused his voyage.
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Edward Miles
Dictionary devotion shapes a business leader’s knowledge
W G Sibley cites ten minutes daily with an unabridged dictionary as a powerfully additive habit. The narrator recalls realizing after his grandfather Marshall’s death that much of his extensive information came from Webster’s dictionary, the elder’s favored reference.
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Chicago Journal of Commerce
W. G. Sibley
Mr. Sibley
Marshall
The Bamboozer Blasts Senate Over Agriculture Relief
The Bamboozer accused the Republican national convention of leaning toward Wall Street, forcing agriculture to the back door for relief and rights. He argued Wall Street desires relief as much as agriculture, delivering another fiery speech Wednesday night.
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Senate
Wall Street
Money Barons Control Politics and Economy Allegedly
A claim accuses money barons of pulling political, economic, and banking strings for their own gain, harming agriculture and other groups in the process. The passage portrays a drive to benefit elites regardless of widespread hardship.
France and Britain Agree Germany Not to Pay Reparations Now
Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain agreed that Germany cannot be required to pay reparations now or during the recovery from the world crisis.
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Geneva
Edouard Herriot
France
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Germany
Nations Back U S Plan For Global Arms Reduction
Twenty six nations signaled approval of the American disarmament proposals at the world conference. Japan voiced concern over naval ratios while seeking treaty revisions, with Tokio saying it would study the plan before fixed judgments. Germany Spain Russia and Great Britain showed strong support with minor reservations.
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Stewart Brown
Geneva
Hugh Gibson
Japan
Tsuneo Matsudaira
London
Washington
Matsudaira
Tokio
Germany
Spain
Russia
Great Britain
Registration On Permanent Basis Adopted By Council
The city council adopted a permanent voter registration system on Thursday. Louis Burgos outlines that the ordinance merges school city county and special registration and requires a voter to register only once if they vote every four years. The city clerk becomes registration commissioner and the system costs about $1500 with the county sharing half the installation cost.
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Louis Burgos
Roosevelts Son Reporter Plans Smith Interview
James Roosevelt, son of New Yorks governor, arrives in Chicago to cover the Democratic National Convention and says he will interview Alfred E. Smith to learn his real views on Franklin D. Roosevelt. The reporter aims to write the story for his paper.
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Chicago
Alfred E. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Smith
Brookhart Remains in Race Amid Economic Echoes
A terse political teaser questions how finance can recover until factories reopen and unemployment ends. It notes Brookhart still seeks office while the public vents about agriculture and shared economic woes.
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Brookhart
Move of Berlin for French alliance proposed
Chancellor Franz von Papen privately proposed a military alliance between France and Germany to satisfy France's security demand before disarmament. He said the alliance could ease fears at the disarmament conference and align with Premier Herriot's continental reconstruction ideas. He also helped draft a memorandum on economic collaboration presented to Britain proposing a five year consultative pact.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Franz von Papen
Germany
France
MacDonald
Great Britain
Baron von Neurath
Senate passes relief bill totaling two billion dollars
The Senate approved a $2.3 billion unemployment relief program after 13 hours of debate. Administration and Democratic senators clashed over a $500 million public works bond, but the bill progressed with a 57 to 19 vote against removing the bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Hoover
Unfrocked Minister Wins Damage Case
In Springfield the state supreme court denied a review of a damage suit in which John A. Logan Warren, an unfrocked Durand minister, was awarded $10,000 by a Winnebago County circuit court jury. Warren sued the Methodist Episcopal church board of Durand for slander over alleged improprieties with a maid in his employ.
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Springfield
Ill
INS
State Supreme Court
John A. Logan Warren
Durand
Winnebago County
Warren
Hazel Lamb
Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Durand
Refuse Change In Electric Power Tax
Washington AP The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday rejected a resolution to shift the three per cent tax on electrical energy from consumers to power companies as part of the revenue bill.
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Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means Committee
Buffalo meat sampled at Kansas Fourth of July rodeo feast
Kansans at the Topeka Fourth of July roundup and rodeo will sample buffalo meat. Three buffalo have been brought for the feast, a meat so rare it has almost vanished.
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Topeka
Kan
Cedar River Reaches New High Flood Stage
The Cedar River rose five feet above normal for June with a 12 inch night rise. The break water below the power house was submerged and flood waters crossed the dam. Flooding affected River Park and Conrad's bathing beach while park roads remained passable. The peak was seen after noon Thursday with temperatures from 66 to 86 degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Conrad
Rive Park
Gardner Cowles Nominated to Reconstruction Finance Board
Des Moines news confirms Gardner Cowles Jr. will travel to Washington to meet President Hoover after being nominated to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board. Cowles, 71, independent Republican and former member of Hoover’s public lands commission, built a banking career in Iowa and holds degrees from Grinnell Penn and Iowa Wesleyan.
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Des Moines
INS
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Hoover
Charles G. Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Cowles
Public Lands Commission
Iowa
Mr. Cowles
Oskaloosa
Penn’ College
Grinnell College
Iowa Wesleyan Coll
Mrs Keith-Miller Faces New Troubles
British aviatrix Mrs Keith-Miller was jailed in Miami on a United States Labor Department charge of illegal entry from Australia. Bond set at 1000 dollars. She remained confident she would be released once her attorney James Carson returns.
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Miami
Fla
Keith- Miller
United States Department of Labor
Australia
Keith-Miller
James Carson
United States
Camp Good Health Fund Keeps Facility Growing
Generous residents fund Camp Good Health run by the Public Health Nursing Bureau for physically handicapped children in Cedar Rapids. Volunteers and donations upgrade the camp with new plantings a bird bath a piano and improved facilities while a recuperating child awaits nourishing meals rest and sunlight to restore health. Contributions support maintenance and openings for more children in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Garden
A. C. Doubenmeier
Dad” Curtis
Iowa City
Bezdek
Cedar Rapids
Frank Matus
Stanley Klepach
Emerson-Hiltbrunner Music Company
Public Health Nursing Bureau
Camp Good Health
Camp Good Health Fund
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Patrolman Kenney’s widow remarries fellow officer
Seaford New York report says Patrolman Arthur Kenney, fatally wounded in a three year old bandit gun battle, had asked friend Patrolman Frank Donnelly to care for his wife and their three year old daughter. Donnelly fulfilled that pledge by marrying Mrs Kenney on Wednesday.
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Seaford, L. I
Arthur Kenney
Frank Donnelly
Donnelly
Mrs. Kenney
Congressional Record And Bureaus Costly To Taxpayer
William P. Helm criticizes government spending on the Congressional Record and related bureaus. He notes free distribution to Congress costs and that public subscriptions raise substantial sums while overall printing costs soar, with the government printing office employing thousands and franking costing millions annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional
Congressional Record
Congress
Garrison Road Worker Dies In Dirt Slide Accident
Wilbert Christy, 30, a Benton county road maintainer for Big Grove and Jackson townships, was fatally injured when a dirt slide buried him during bridge repair southeast of Garrison. Emmett Porter and Don Crisman escaped uninjured. Christy died after being taken to his brother’s home. Coroner called no inquest.
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Garrison
Wilbert Christy
Benton
Christy
Emmett Porter
Don Crisman
Vinton
Harlan Christy
Big Grove
Jackson
S. Christy
Rufus Noe
John R. Burrows
Brookhart Seeks Probe of New York Better Business Bureau
Senator Brookhart urged the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to investigate the Better Business Bureau of New York as part of a market speculation inquiry. He cited a $20,000 out of court settlement in a suit by a St. Louis businessman but did not disclose the stated reason for the request. The panel then continued its inquiry into Continental Shares, Inc. of Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Better Business Bureau of New York
Brookhart c
Bureau
St. Louis
Continental Shares, Inc
Cleveland
What Have You to Rent
Rental ads for Cedar Rapids housing. Advertisers urged to place Want Ad in The Gazette with special 7 day rate. Ads accepted until noon for same day publication and the department operates 7 30 AM to 5 PM weekdays, closing 8 PM Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Will Rogers Urges Debt Cancellation If Europe Arms
A Will Rogers letter to The Gazette argues for canceling debts if Europe arms, proposing five billion dollars to disarm Europe and payment if they refrain from arming. He compares bribing nations to avoid gun use with paying for restraint and questions what Europe would pay the U.S. for not arming.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
America
Europe
Will
Salvage of Egypt Liner Yields First Gold In Drama
The Artiglio II retrieved the first ingots from the sunken Egypt liner after a four year salvage, with a five claw grapple delivering gold valued at about 20 million francs. Sailors honored twelve lost crew with a minute of silence, and chief diver Mario Raphaelli prepared the wreck for further salvage. The Egypt sank in May 1922.
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Brest
France
Egypt
Mario Raphaelli
France faces battle over Egypt gold cargo recovery
Paris reports a legal battle over the $5,000,000 gold aboard the sunken liner Egypt. Less than a day after $1,000,000 was recovered off Brest, Captain Jean Davy said he will seek court impoundment of the recovered bullion found by the salvage ship Artiglio.
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Paris
INS
Egypt
Brest
Jean Davy
Artiglio
Screen Removed From Store Window Abandoned Robbery
Patrolman Frank Hrabetin reported a cellar window at Farmers Exchange grocery 119 First Street NE opened about 1:55 a.m. Thursday. The proprietor found nothing missing after a check. The intruder removed a screen but apparently abandoned the attempted robbery without entering the store.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Hrabetin
Farmers Exchange
First Street
Tumor Removed From Senora Calles in Boston Procedure
Dr Harvey Cushing removed a large brain tumor from Senora Lleonora Calles 26 wife of former Mexican President Calles in Boston Thursday. The patient was reported as recovering later.
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Boston
Harvey Cushing
Senora Lleonora Calles
President Calles
Mexico
Rescued Sea Flyer Welcomed at Miami
Stanislaus Hausner, a motion picture operator, survived seven days adrift after his plane wrecked at sea on a failed New York to Warsaw attempt. Rescued by tanker Circe Shell off Newark, he was reunited with his wife aboardCirce Shell near Miami after a city holiday was declared in his honor.
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Miami
Fila
Stanislaus Hausner
New York
Warsaw
Circe Shell
Newark
N. J
Hausner
Senate blocks Chicago relief bond amendment vote
The Senate moved toward a final vote on the relief bill and rejected an amendment that would have allowed advances to states on bonds for educational and hospital purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
First clash among Democrats on platform step
Unverified reports from Chicago convention headquarters say Newton D. Baker of Ohio is the private preference of John F. Curry, head of Tammany Hall, for the presidential nomination.
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Chicago
Newton D. Baker
Ohio
John F. Curry
Tammany Hall
McAdoo And Smith Unite At Convention Amid Roosevelt Foe
In Chicago McAdoo visited Smith at his headquarters as both vie to bar Franklin D Roosevelt from the Democratic nomination. McAdoo backs Speaker Garner while Smith pursues the nominating path for himself.
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Chicago
William G. MccAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
McAdoo
Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Garner
McAdoo Opposes Abrogating Two-Thirds Rule at Convention
William G. McAdoo denounced changing the party rule mid game and pledged to fight against any such move at the current convention. He indicated he supports steps to pave the way for adopting majority rule in 1936, while opposing immediate abolition of the two thirds requirement.
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Chicago
INS
William G.mcadoo
McAdoo
California
Alfred E. Smith
Convention Platform Fight Emerges At Democratic Meet
Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska was named chairman of the platform committee as rival factions clashed over Roosevelt plans. Oklahoma Governor Murray challenged Roosevelt proposals while McAdoo proposed a provisional seven member sub committee amid claims the full body had not arrived.
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Chicago
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Nebraska
Hitchcock
Roosevelt
William H
Bill) Murray
Oklahoma
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Murray
William G. McAdoo
California
Hull
Tennessee
Senate
Celer
Montana
Can't Pay Alimony Because His Race Horse Is Taken
In Chicago, Joseph Bertalin faces possible jail as he owes $150 in fees to his ex wife’s attorney. He tells Judge Harry B. Miller his race horse Buddy Sir is sick and he cannot race or earn money. The judge gives two weeks for the horse to improve or Bertalin may be jailed.
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Chicago
Buddy Sir
Joseph Bertalin
Bertalin
Harry B. Miller
Berve
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