Versailles Treaty at 20 Faces War Rearmament Era
On the Versailles twenty anniversary, peace is muted as warplanes drone over France and factories turn out munitions. The treaty’s 453 pages see 214 clauses broken since Hitler rose, while many signatories fade from memory.
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Versailles
France
Europe
Hall of Mirrors
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
England
United States
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Camp Good Health Fund appeal seeks Cedar Rapids donations
The Gazette urges readers to donate to the Camp Good Health Fund to send 186 physically handicapped children to Camp Good Health this summer. Nurses from Public Health Nursing Association have examined the youngsters, who come from low income homes, and need $658 more to reach the $3,000 goal by July Fourth.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Public Health Nursing Association
the Gazette
Camp Good Health Fund
Iowa
Suspect confronts judge over escapes in car theft case
In Minneapolis, Judge Levi Hall pressed Eugene Crossley 21 on a string of escapes across facilities. Crossley admitted prior escapes from Red Wing and Glen Lake while facing automobile theft charges. The judge noted potential sentence up to three years.
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Minneapolis
Levi Hall
Eugene Crossley
St. Cloud Reformatory
Red Wing
Crossley
Glen Lake
Prayer and Moral Tones On Fidelity And Duty
A reflective verse meditation on strength for care and fidelity as a universal virtue. It contrasts the foolish boastfulness of the loud with the quiet wisdom of restraint, and urges steadfast obligation to friends and foes alike.
Minneapolis Shops May Move to Marshalltown
Testimony before the interstate commerce commission indicates the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad may abandon its Minneapolis shops if its reorganization splits the line into two companies. W. W. Colpitts testified that the Minneapolis shops probably would move to Marshalltown Iowa under the plan. Opponents warn of job losses and line abandonments across Minnesota and South Dakota.
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Minneapolis and St. Louis
Minneapolis
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Capitol
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New York
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Iowa
United States
Peoria
Albert Lea
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Des Moines
Winthrop, Minn
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Aberdeen
Leola
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Colpitts
B Company
Watertown
Minnesota
South Dakota
Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Daughter's Day Proposed For July Twenty Second
Effie Fletcher of the Los Angeles American Gold Star Mothers leads a nationwide push for Daughter's Day to be observed July 22. Priscilla Lane is named "America's typical daughter" as the first step in the campaign, with assurances that gifts to daughters are not required for the celebration.
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Hollywood
Effie Fletcher
Los Angeles
American Gold Star Mothers
Priscilla Lane
America
Charges Dropped Against Union Leader in New Orleans
In New Orleans Judge Robert H. Skinner dismissed charges of disturbing the peace filed last week against Joseph Curran of New York president of the National Maritime Union CIO, and eight seamen.
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New Orleans
Joseph Curran
New York
National Maritime Union
CIO
Robert H. Skinner
Recorder’s Court
Idea Of Chicago's Stockyards Born Just 75 Years Ago
Chicago marks 75 years since the idea of a consolidated stockyards emerged from a Packers association meeting at Tremont house in 1864. The Union Stockyard and Transit Co. was chartered in 1865, the yards opened on Christmas Day 1865, and over a century later 880 million head of livestock valued at over 21 billion dollars moved through Packingtown. From 6 million farms supplying animals to national markets, beef, pork, and lamb products fed households coast to coast.
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Chicago
Packers Association
Tremont House
Union
Union Stockyard and Transit Company
International
Film Stars Rally For Federal Theater Aid Broadcast
Hollywood stars led by Lionel Barrymore in a nationwide TV and radio appeal urging Congress to continue the federal theater project. The group urged funding to keep the arts program permanent, warning abandonment would harm American culture and national identity.
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Hollywood
Calif
Congress
House
Senate
Federal Theater Project
Lionel Barrymore
Barrymore
Edward Arnold
James Cagney
Dick Powell
Joan Blondell
Walter Abel
Edward
Maple Tree Sun Exposure Size Estimated at Half Acre
A mature maple is estimated to expose nearly a half acre of leaf surface to sunlight, highlighting the scale of its photosynthetic canopy.
Reckless Driving Case Dismissed Against Clyde Hankins
The court dismissed reckless driving charges against Clyde W. Hankins after witnesses testified that a bicycle rider, Dale Reynolds, swerved into Hankins’s path on June 16. Judge Powell found no evidence of reckless driving and noted Hankins did all he could to avoid the collision. The Reynolds case followed a separate note on dining cars in American railways.
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C. W. Hankins
Clyde W. Hankins
Eleventh Street
Dale Reynolds
Hubbard Avenue
Hankins
Reynolds
Jesse M. Reynolds
Hawkins
Dale
Avenue NE
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Rhineland
Hitler
Austria
Czechoslovakia
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Star Jewelry CO
Second Street SE
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the Poet of
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Larry Condon
National Police Academy
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