Spirit Lake canoe tragedy leaves two rescued and one drowned
Three youths faced a night in Spirit Lake waves after a gust capsized their canoe. Jack Firth reached shore. Edward Wenner drowned while attempting to swim for help. Jean Dunkelberg and Dora Bell Merkeley were pulled from the water and treated at Templar Park hospital.
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Spirit Lake
Edward Wenner
Jack Firth
Davenport
Harold Lepley
Henry Ellwood
Jean Dunkelberg
Waterloo
Dora Bell Merkeley
Sac City
Lepley
Ellwood
Templar Park Hospital
Templar Park
Summer Park
Iowa
Knights Templar
Firth
Wenner
Jean
Dora Bell
Eddie
Jack
Waterloo man Edward Wenner dies in Spirit Lake incident
Edward Wenner 21 of Waterloo drowned early Monday in Spirit Lake. He was the son of Edward J Wenner an attorney and former state senator from the Black Hawk Grundy district. Survived by his parents and a brother. Grandfather is W F Parrott president of Matt Parrott and Sons printers.
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Waterloo
Edward Wenner
Spirit Lake
Edward J. Wenner
Black Hawk-Grundy
W. F. Parrott
Matt Parrott and Sons
Polk Grand Jury Takes Up Probe Of Public Graft
Des Moines reports Polk County grand jury opened a separate corruption probe. Bank officials Horton and Davis appeared as subpoenas were sought for records from Des Moines banks. State agents testified on slot machine raids as subpoenas asked for records from Central National and Bankers Trust.
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Des * Moines
Polk County Grand Jury
Woodbury County
Sioux City
Des Moines
Polk County
Herbert L. Horton
F. C. Davis
Town-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Carl Burkman
W. E. Evans
Horace M. Havner
Herring
Nels Kraschel
Eugene Feuling
Frank Comfort
W. H. Zelinsky
W. A. Arthur
Polk Grand Jury
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Woodbury
Havner
Central National and Bankers Trust
Town-Des Moines Bank
Bodies of two youths drown in Cedar River tragedy near Cedar Rapids
The Cedar River near Cedar Rapids claimed William Gensicke 13 and Richard Reynolds 23 as searchers toiled through flood water. A rescue attempt by the boys’ companions ended when the boat capsized and Reynolds, unable to swim, disappeared. Coroner C. Z Irwin investigated as divers pressed on.
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William Gensicke
Edgewood District No. 1
Richard Reynolds
Covington
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Gensicke
C. 2 Irwin
Reynolds
Richard McCune
Robert Gensicke
Irwin
Tom Rawson
Des Moines Aide Rules Chain Store Tax Rulings
Iowa Assistant Attorney General Clair E. Hamilton issued rulings on chain store tax applicability. He said a car dealer running a used lot and reconditioning shop could not be taxed under the act, while cross town operations or interchanging employees between stores could require tax. The Ford Motor Co. and related retail divisions in other plants were noted as subject to the tax.
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Des Moines
Clair E. Hamilton
Hamilton
George R. Crane
State Board of Assessment and Review
Crane
Ford Motor Company
The Copy Book Of Life And George Crabbe
A reflective meditation on influence through example. It cites George Crabbe and Edmund Burke, noting a master and a father who warned against folly yet acted as examples. It argues that behavior shapes others more than words and urges all to be fair copies in life’s page. The piece ends with a Shakespearean image and a nod to a 1935 copyright.
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Edmund Burke
School of Life
Marcus Dodds
Edinburgh
Henry IV
Attorney General O Connor Advised to Take Two Weeks Off
Des Moines reports that Attorney General Edward L. O Connor was urged by his physician to rest for two weeks. Family said he will be away from the capital for the period with location to be decided. He had a throat infection but was said to be feeling better. He planned to visit the office briefly before departure.
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Des Moines
INS
Edward L. O’connor
O’connor
O'Connor
Trial Set for July 5 in Waley Kidnapping Case
Mrs. Margaret Waley’s federal trial on kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the $200,000 abduction of 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser was scheduled by Judge E. E. Cushman for July 5 in Tacoma Washington. Testimony to begin July 9 per defense appointee Stephen J. O’Brien.
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Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
E. E. Cushman
Stephen J. O’brien
Blast wrecks yacht of American woman
An explosion on the 102 ton yacht Sardonyx in Cannel France damaged the interior and threw owner Antoinette Converse of New York through her cabin door. Converse was pedicuring when gasoline fumes exploded. the pedicurist was knocked unconscious and English engineer George Baker suffered serious burns.
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Cannel
France
Antoinette Converse
New York City
Italy to Seek Absolute Rule Over Abyssinia
The Italian legation urged all Italians to leave Abyssinia within ten days while Rome signals plans to press for sovereignty over Abyssinia. Mussolini and Eden discuss world politics amid tensions over arms and league commitments.
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INS
Rome
Italy
Abyssinia
Benito Mussolini
Anthony Eden
Mussolini
Nane
Eden
Paris
Britain
Germany
France
League of Nations
League
Brooklyn Armored Truck Robbery Suspects Identified
Two of eight gangsters captured at a Mountain View summer camp near Joe Louis' training site were positively identified as participants in the $427,000 Brooklyn armored truck robbery last August. Edward D. Gaffney and John J. Hughes, both New York residents, were named by witnesses after a second lineup.
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N. J
Brooklyn
James Smith
Paterson Police
Edward D. Gaffney
John J. Hughes
New York
Mountain View
N. Y
CWA
Ice Company
Smith
Gaffney
Hughes
Toothache May End Endurance Flight
Meridian AP reports ground observers feared a toothache would force a landing of the plane Ole Miss in a three day short of a world endurance record. Al Key reported severe pain and expressed a wish to jump from the aircraft without a parachute just before midnight.
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Meridian
Miss
Ole Miss
al Key
Fred Key
Bank Robbery Blues Springs State Bank in Nebraska
Three masked gunmen robbed the Blue Springs State Bank in Blue Springs Nebraska between six and seven hundred dollars at about 9 30 a m Monday and fled the scene authorities investigated the heist and searched for suspects.
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Nebraska
Blue Springs, Neb
Blue Springs
Lytle Urges Graft Probe with Special Attorneys General
Sioux City in an open letter contractor and Democrat C F Lytle urges Governor Clyde Herring to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to appoint three independent special assistant attorneys general to lead a full graft and corruption probe in public office. He would impeach the attorney general if refused and calls for a Republican and two Democrats among the three prosecutors. He also proposes replacing the governor's investigators with undercover agents to gather evidence. Governor Herring said he had not read the letter yet.
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C. F. Lytle
Clyde Herring
Supreme Court
Lytle
Herring
Des Moines
Associated Press
Woodbury County
Grand Jury
Havner
H. M. Havner
Clyde L. Herring
State House
Iowa
Barrymore Ordered to Answer in California Divorce Suit
Hollywood AP reports John Barrymore must file his profile in a California court to answer divorce charges brought by Dolores Costello or give a long-distance deposition. Superior Judge Robert W. Kenny issued the ruling Monday.
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Hollywood
John Barrymore
California
Dolores Costello
Robert W. Kenny
Speedy Prosecution of Slayer Planned
Peoria Illinois state authorities moved quickly to prepare evidence for presentation to a grand jury on Tuesday against Gerald Thompson a 25 year old confessed sex slayer of Mil dred Hallmark.
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Peoria
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Planes Crash in Colombia Kills 17 Including Gardel
In Medellin, a tri motor Saco plane collided with a Scadia aircraft as one attempted takeoff for Cali. Henry Swartz, U S Universal Film manager in Colombia, died. Carlos Gardel perished with pilot Ernest Samper amid burning wreckage. Two survivors hospitalized in burns. Crowd of over 50 000 watched as flames engulfed the planes.
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Medellin
Colombia
Henry Swartz
Universal Film Company
Sociedad de Aviacion Colombiana
Saco
Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aereos
Scadia
Cali
Carlos Gardel
Ernest Samper
Gardel
Samper
New Orleans Garbage Workers Vote to Strike
New Orleans garbage collectors will strike again Tuesday rather than take FERA funded employment. Commissioner Joseph P. Skelly said fill by other workers would prevent health hazards after piles in gutters during last week’s one day strike. The city’s finances suffer from a political clash with Sen Huey P Long, as Mayor T Semmes Walmsley faces pressure from the Long administration.
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New Orleans
FERA
Public Works
Joseph P. Skelly
Huey P. Long
Kingfish
T. Semmes Walmsley
Yacht Basin Fire Kills Seaman As $1.5 Million Craft Destroyed
In Fort Lauderdale a blast and blaze at Pilkington’s storage basin killed Captain R. S. Abel, 28, master of the Seminole, and seriously injured engineer John Thomas. Two men aboard were the only fatalities. seventy-two boats, including the Mystery and Scimitar II, were damaged or ruined in the western basin five miles from town.
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Fla
Pilkington
R. S. Abel
John Thomas
New River
R. C. Pilkington
United States
Florida
Cudahy
Chicago
Scimitar II
Gar Wood
Detroit
San Cristobal
J. Wesley Pape
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Pushes Wealth Taxes In War on Tax Evasion
President Roosevelt and party leaders commit to adding wealth, inheritance, and gift taxes to the nuisance tax measure before adjournment. A White House meeting with key congressional chairmen signals swift action to tax high incomes and large estates, with Morgenthau ready to testify.
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Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Senate
Morgenthau
Treasury
Senate panel trims Bankhead tenant bill rate limit
Washington AP reports a senate amendment would cap interest rates for sharecroppers buying farms under the Bankhead farm tenant bill at 3 1 4 per cent. The change accompanies the measure as considered Monday.
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Washington
Bankhead
Senate
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