Former Iowa girl denies bandit charge
Norma Millen, 19, former Iowa minister's daughter, testified she feared for her life as Morton Millen fled across cities after a Needham Trust bank raid. She denied helping burn the stolen Packard or aiding in the robbery, and said she was unaware it had been burned. She collapsed from strain during cross examination and was later refreshed by testimony about threats Morton made.
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Dedham
Mass
Norma Brighton Millen
Iowa
Morton Millen
Nelson P. Brown
Norma
Mort
Forbes McLeod
Needham Trust Company
Irving
Abraham Faber
George A. Douglas
Edmund R. Dewing
Arthur *Worthington
Needham Bank
Murt
Needham
New York
Murton
Saul Messinger
Brooklyn
Messinger
New Heat Wave Lifts Cedar Rapids Temperatures
Cedar Rapids faced a blistering heat wave with temperatures reaching 102 degrees by mid afternoon. The day started at 76 at 5 am, rose through the morning, and peaked around 230 pm under a blazing sun as humidity rose and the heat intensified.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapid
Mercury
Gleneerss
Poe
Unlocking the Imprisoned Splendor of Living Art
A 1934 Dr Newton meditation on unlocking inner talent and graceful living. It uses Richard Mansfield as an example of early struggle, growth, and mastery through persistent effort, urging readers to persevere in self-improvement and imitate admired artists to become their best.
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Browning
Richard Mansfield
Beau Brummel
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan
Uae
Mansfield
St. Paul
Milwaukee Utility Strike Threatened
Milwaukee street cars with wire mesh on windows moved through the city as a utility workers strike loomed. Fences with barbed wire rose around the street car offices and power plants, and searchlights were installed for potential violence.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Boston sighting confirms Agnes Tufverson in missing case
Boston shop employee Ruth Hall positively identified photos of Miss Agnes Tufverson as the woman who had garments cleaned there in May and June. The New York police bureau provided images. Hall recalled a dress matching the one seen at the Boston plant and suggested Dorchester as a possible area.
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Boston (Ap
Agnes Tufverson
Boston
Ruth Hall
Tulverson
Bureau of Missing Persons
New York Police Department
Miss Turverson
Hitler Rules Germany by Divine Right, Hess Says
Cologne Germany Adolf Hitler rules Germany by divine right Rudolf Hess one of the chancellor s chief aides hinted in an address Monday night Hess attacked critics of the Nazi regime and declared the leader is guided by a voice from on high In shaping Germany s destiny There can be no criticism Hess revived the divine right concept during a broadcast across the Reich He warned vigilante critics and mocked monarchy and conservatives while praising the leader as the tool of a higher will
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Cologne
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Rudolf Hess
Hess
Hitler
Reich
Franz von Papen
Marburg Lastern
Wwe
Gettle Receives Two Extortion Notes Threatening Home Destruction
Los Angeles authorities disclosed Monday night that William F. Gettle, a Beverly Hills millionaire oil promoter who was recently kidnapped and held for $60,000 ransom, received two extortion notes threatening dynamite damage to his home unless he paid 6000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
William F. Gettle
Daddy Browning in Critical Condition After Stroke
Edward W Browning 63 real estate figure known as Daddy Browning suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was described as slightly improved yet still critical after a difficult night. He was found unconscious in his hotel suite Friday and only taken to a New York hospital Sunday as Frances Browning sought details from his press agent.
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New York
Edward W “Daddy" Browning
Hospital For
Frances Heenan
Peaches” Browning
Dorothy Sunshine
Chicago
Frances
Peaches
Browning
Cinderela
Edward
Daddy) Browning
Long Chaco Battle Still Unfinished
In Buenos Aires AP report a bloody Chaco battle continues with Paraguay and Bolivia clashing over Port Ballivian and jungle front lines. Dispatches say Paraguayan forces seek to extend their left flank toward the Picomayn river to encircle the fort and surrounding positions.
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Buenos Aires
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chaco
Port Ballivian
Bolivias
Asuniton
Exposition Week Celebrates Cedar Rapids Progress
Exposition Week in Cedar Rapids features Made in Cedar Rapids goods and a full program. A Monday baseball game pits Cedar Rapids Raiders against Topeka Senators after Sunday open motorboat races. Tuesday vaudeville and Wednesday balloon scramble highlight the free ten act show on Second Avenue with Edna Dieman dancers and Max Berlin acts. Volunteers string colored lights, Robertson Electric stages, Cervenka's orchestra provides music, and Walter Bechtel oversees lighting while the International Harvester truck serves as dressing room. Plant inspections run Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and afternoons with tours of city factories.
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Cedar Rapids
Robertson Electric Company
International Harvester
Second Avenue
Enzler
Second Avenue SE
Edna Dieman
Donald Graham Palmer
Max Berlin
Marion
Cervenka
Vaudeville
Walter Bechtel
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Labels Scrambled in 1934 Campaign Mix of Parties
Washington INL reports a chaotic off year as campaign labels blur with party lines. Roosevelt plans limited involvement and will back candidates on progressivism rather than labels. Endorsements surface for California Senator Johnson and Wisconsin’s Young Bob La Follette among others while Republicans and Democrats rethink lines ahead of August speeches.
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INL
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D Roosevelt
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Congress
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California
Johnson
Hoover
Roosevelt
Bob” la Follette
Wisconsin
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
White House
Byrd
Virginia
Hawaii
Portland
Green Bay
Wis
Bob
Democratic Party
Roosevelt Winds Up Work Before Tour
President Roosevelt held talks with Postmaster General James Farley about selecting two key commissions on stock market regulation and communications. He planned an intensive week to prepare for his Hawaii and west coast cruise, reviewed last congress bills, and allocated drought relief funds and direct aid.
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INS
Roosevelt
James Farley
Hyde Park
Hawaii
West Coast
Congress
Stork Exchange and Communication
Hosiery Mills Close Factory Blame Johnson NRA
A large hosiery mill halted operations at 3 30 pm Monday citing General Hugh Johnson and the NRA as wrecking the business. Six hundred fifty three workers were laid off and the company refused to rehire strikers. The mill removed the blue eagle and claimed the government demanded unjust concessions while asserting no code violation.
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Harriman
Blue Eagle
Hugh Johnson
NRA
T. Asbury Wright, Jr
National Labor Board
Mills
United Textile Workers Union
Department of Justice
Johnson
Tugwell admits he's dirt farmer
In Chicago Prof Rexford Guy Tugwell, en route to Des Moines to speak, was asked if he would prove he is a dirt farmer. He replied that he does not have to prove it, stating he has already.
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Tugwell
Chicago
Des Moines
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Canadian Court Bars Public at Premier Trial
Spectators were barred from the supreme civil courtroom in Edmonton as a jury was seated to hear Vivian MacMillan and her father A D MacMillan sue Premier John E Brownlee for seduction and enticement spanning 1930 to 1933. Brownlee counters with a £19,000 suit alleging defamation by Caldwell and Vivian.
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Alberta
INS
Supreme Civil
Vivian Mac- Millan
A. D. Mac- Millan
Edson
John E. Brownlee
Crown
Albert
Vivian
Dominion
Brownlee
MacMillan
MacMillans
Statesman
John Caldwell
University of Alberta
Caldwell
Rotarians Gather 10,000 From 80 Nations in Detroit
In Detroit, 10,000 Rotarians from 80 nations convened for the twenty fifth Rotary International convention. Delegates spoke in nearly as many languages and shared varied political philosophies as they gathered to discuss global service projects and community leadership.
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Detroit
Rotarians
Three British Flyers Die In Midair Collision
In Bristol England three flying officers were killed when two planes collided 2000 feet above the Bristol flying school. One man bailed out with a parachute and landed only slightly injured according to officials.
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Bristol, Eng
Bristol Flying School
TONI by Julie Anne Moore to Start Next Thursday
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will begin serializing TONI next Thursday June 28. Julie Anne Moore writes a romance about a girl who questions whether marrying a million dollars can bring happiness, a tale noted as more gripping than her Loveless Lady.
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Toni
Julie Anne Moore
Cedar Rapids Gazette
The
Gazette
15 000 Throng Sees Speedy Regatta Here
A crowd of about 15 000 witnessed the second annual outboard racing regatta on the Cedar river at Ellis park as part of Cedar Rapids Exposition events. Stars like Dick Neal and Joe Thorne competed in class B and F races with speeds near 38 to 48 miles per hour, while Rogers suffered a propeller injury and could not restart.
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Young Men's Bureau of
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Cedar River
Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids
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Jimmy Rogers
Melrose Park
Ill
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Dixon
Frank Vincent
Sidney
Joel Thorne
New Rochelle
Neal
Minneapolis
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George Martin
South Bend
Ind
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Chicago
Martin
Meyer
Rutgers College
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Thorne
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Vincent
H. W. Pennington
Rockford
Dewey Ruder
St. Louis
Howard Frazier
Rantoul
Rogers
Red Niemeyer
Ruder
Dick Neal
Dixon, II
McClanahan
Entire Cuban cabinet resigns as ABC presses reforms
The full Cuban cabinet handed in resignations to President Mendieta amid intra party dissension aimed at overthrowing the government. ABC bloc pushes for a parliamentary style cabinet with ABC majority, police chief Pedraza ouster, police reorganization, and navy dissolution, signaling a crisis without a congress to hold cabinet to account.
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Havana
Carlos Mendieta
Mendieta
A B.C
Col
Jose Pedraza
France
Geverals
ABC
Roosevelt to Grant Powers for Emergency Board
Washington AP reports President Roosevelt plans to announce a new federal labor board with emergency powers to initiate settlement of disputes, under the one year labor bill. The move aims to curb strife in steel, Pacific coast longshore, Great Lakes suspensions, and copper mining, with three or five members possibly named and a central agency role.
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Roosevelt
New England
Wagner
N. Y
National Labor Board
NRA
NRA Labor Board
Institute of Law
Johns
Hopkins
University
Mrs Almon Reed Cedar Rapids resident dies at 54
Mrs. Almon S. Reed wife of Justice Almon S. Reed longtime Cedar Rapids resident died at 9 45 am Monday after a lengthy illness. She was 54 years old on October 21 1933 born in LeRoy Minnesota daughter of Arthur L Sylvester and Mrs Sylvester. Survived by her husband she was a member of Malta chapter Eastern Star funeral arrangements by Turner’s mortuary announced later.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Beers Reed
Almon S. Reed
Fifth Avenue
Reed
LeRoy, Minn
Arthur L. Sylvester
Monday Major League Results Recap
Baseball scores from the American League show Chicago Boston Detroit St. Louis Washington and Philadelphia matchups with detailed inning results and listed pitchers. Notable outcomes include New York edging Chicago 13 to 18 and Philadelphia defeating Pittsburgh 7 to 4.
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New York
Earnshaw
Gallivan
Minzy and Shea
Fehring
Bronca
Dickey
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