Political funding and labor warning from 1930s Iowa scene
A critical column scolds WPA deputy Aubrey Williams for urging Workers Alliance loyalty as a $5 billion relief push coincides with an Iowa election. It notes legislative fears on primary law reform and reports the Iowa liquor control commission plans to reveal cost savings vs private carriers after data from a six month period.
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John Zug
News of
Iowa
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
The
Gazette
Legislae
Governor Kraschel Opens Negotiations In Maytag Strike
Gov N G Kraschel arranged long distance talks from Wisconsin as Maytag plant strike and National Guard involvement loomed. Sheriff and mayor delivered petition to Des Moines seeking troops, 415 workers remained inside the factory, about 1,400 idle since May 9. Plant owners meanwhile occupied the site for a sixth day as the dispute neared a resolution.
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Bulletin— Des Moines
N G. Kraschel
Newton
N G Kraschel
Wisconsin
Maytag
National Guard
Earl Shields
George C. Campbell
Des Moines
Frank Bechly
CLO Mem
Mt Pleasant Woman Hurt In Truck Upset
Mrs Elma R Weston of Mount Pleasant suffered back injuries and a head wound when a light oil truck overturned on highway 30 about six miles west of Cedar Rapids. The vehicle registered to William H Weston and driven by Owen Ogg overturned while righting. Mrs Weston taken to St Luke's hospital. X rays showed two thoracic vertebrae fractures. Deputy Sheriff Dick Payn investigated.
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Cedar Rapids
Elma R. Weston
Mount Pleasant
William H. Weston
Owen Ogg
Dick Payn
Rail Labor Unready To Discuss Pay Out
Chicago. George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Labor Executives' association, said labor would not be ready to discuss proposed wage reductions until July 20. He urged railway management to maintain current pay scales until a formal meeting can be held.
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Chicago
George M. Harrison
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Railway Management
Liquor-hauling contract tied to graft probe
A senate committee heard details of a liquor-hauling contract implicated in a graft investigation. The probe suggested the Democratic campaign fund profited from the trucking deal, with potential profits possibly reaching 50 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tive Committee
Democratic Campaign Fund
Bridging failure and success through steady effort
A 1938 reflection argues that progress comes from trying and persistence rather than winning. It compares bridges of sighs and attempts, praising the value of effort over outcomes, and notes that divine judgment rewards intent and perseverance more than worldly prizes.
Head of Illinois Retail Grocers' Association Shot
Paul Poulos 41 operator and first president of the newly formed National Retail Grocers' association of Illinois was shot in the knee and assaulted by two men early Tuesday as he prepared to move his car from an alley garage behind his home. One assailant carried a shotgun while the other clubbed him with a baseball bat. Poulos cited labor difficulties initially but later declined to expand on that statement.
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Chicago
INS
Paul Poulos
Commission House
National
Third Ave paving projects move toward city bid
City Engineer Frank E. Young outlined two PWA funded plans to repave Third Avenue SE from the river bridge to Fourth Street tracks. The job splits into bridge work and a widening in the business district. Bridge costs rely on bridge bonds, while the rest would use federal aid about 45 percent and property assessments. A rough $60,000 figure is cited, with bids to follow if PWA grants materialize. The streetcar tracks will be rebuilt as part of the project.
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WPA
Williams
Workers Alliance
Stevenson
Newton
Jesus
Conyrisht
Cedar Ranide News
Frank E. Young
PWA
Third Avenue
Fourth Street SE
Third Avenue SE
Young
New Orleans CIO Clash Sparks Police Brag To Eject Communists
In New Orleans Acting Police Superintendent John Grosch vows to purge CIO organizers from town amid a nine firm drayage strike. CIO attorneys allege police beatings and threats against Bert Nelson and J R Robertson who fled the city. Federal intervention is sought as U S Attorney General Cummings is asked to send federal investigators. Local and national groups call for civil rights probes.
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New Orleans
INS
John Grosch
CIO
Grosch
Dowling
Bert Nelson
J. R Robertson
Homer Cummings
Rufus Foster
U. S. Circuit Court
Robert Macestri
Grasch
Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Louisiana League For the Preservation of Constitutional Rights
la Follette
Senate Committee On Civil Liberties
Father-In-Law Of John Jacob Astor Seeks WPA Job
Francis French, bankrupt father-in-law of John Jacob Astor, applied for any WPA job in Middletown. WPA head Roy Davis said only pick and shovel street or sewer openings exist. French hopes to pay debts and lives with wife in a small cottage while daughter and son-in-law reside at the Bellevue avenue mansion Chetwode.
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Newport
R. I
Francis French
John Jacob Astor
Middletown
WPA
Roy Davis
Newport County
French
Western Union
Prench
Chetwode
Bellevue Avenue
Roosevelt's son Jimmy earns vast insurance income
Philadelphia report cites James Roosevelt's income from his insurance business as estimated between 250000 and 2000000 dollars annually. Alva Johnston notes clients include George Washington Hill and major firms. the piece says “Jimmy's got it” reflects lucrative accounts and hints at rapid future wealth.
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Philadelphia
James Roosevelt
Jimmy
America
Alva Johnston
Roosevelt
George Washington Fhll
American Tobacco Company
Port of New York Authority
National Distillers Products Corporation
Columbia Broadcasting System
Consolidated Oil Company
Transcontinental and Western Air Inc. Armour and Co
the West Indies Sugar Corporation
Esquire Magazine
Hayden, Stone and Co
First National Bank of Boston
Johnston
Easton to fight extradition in trooper slaying case
Orelle G Easton 25 faces murder charges after his brother Clarence 27 was killed by Indiana and Illinois police while the duo were sought for the June 16 robbery of Farmers Savings Bank at North English Iowa Witnesses failed to identify Easton or the slain brother amid the bank crime probe. The case ties to the death of Indiana State Trooper Ray Dixon who died after the shooting. Easton surrendered and was jailed in Kankakee Illinois.
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Kankakee, Ill
Len Small, Jr
Orelle G. Easton
Desperado
Indiana
Kankakee
Farmers Savings Bank
North English
Orelle Easton
Clarence
Ilineis
Ray Dixon
Easton
Drowning of Horace H Lampert Tows Lumber Leader
Horace H Lampert, president of Lampert Lumber Yards, Inc., drowned last Saturday in Lake St. Croix Wisconsin while boating with Richard J. Kain. Both bodies were recovered. funeral set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. in St. Paul. Lampert was well known in Cedar Rapids and visited regularly since 1914. The Cedar Rapids Lampert yard is at 523 E Avenue NW.
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Cedar Rapids News
Horace H Lampert
St. Paul
Lampert Lumber Yards, Inc
Lake St. Croix
Wis
Barrett Mortuary
E. W. Reed
Lampert Lumber Yard
Lampert
Richard J
Often A Bridesmaid serial debuts in Gazette
A Cedar Rapids Gazette tease previews Hazel Livingston’s new serial Often A Bridesmaid about a woman facing engagement to a man earning 18 dollars a week and living on 80 dollars a month. The piece promises a vibrant, daring story and urges readers to follow first chapters tomorrow.
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Kenneth
Margaret
Hazel Livingston
Miss Livingston
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Educators Hear Sage View On USSR At Conference
At the National Education association meeting in New York a Columbia professor praised Soviet Russia as a multi-nation alliance and warned that democracies like the United States France and England are plutocracies in practice. He argued foreign policy favors plutocrats and urged genuine world cooperation through minority language and cultural rights. The remarks followed Prof William Gellerman’s attack on the American Legion and criticism of the nearby press.
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Williams& Gellermann
Northwestern University
American Legion
National Education Association
Legion
Jonger
Gellermann
New York
INS
American Educators
William Gellerman
Columbia University
Soviet Russia
United States
France
England
Goodwin Watson
Russia
Watson
Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
Ussr
Farm Girl Dives River to Save 4 Sisters
Dorothy Tidwell, 12, leapt into the swollen Mississippi River three times to rescue her four younger sisters after an automobile rolled into deep water near New Madrid Missouri. She pulled Virginia and Billie Jean from the car, then saved Norma Lee and Anna, the youngest, who was revived after resuscitation. Dorothy praised as an expert swimmer by her father Lee Tidwell.
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New Madrid
Dorothy Tidwell
Mississippi
Dorothy
Virginia
Billie Jean
Norma Lee
Anna
Lee Tidwell
Weather In Cedar Rapids Turns Mild After Cool Night
Cedar Rapids enjoyed mild June weather with filmy clouds softening the sun. Temperatures rose from 54 at 4 am to 78 at noon, then eased to 57 by midnight. Monday peaked at 81, with 78 in the evening and 57 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Count von Haugwitz-Reventlow Surrenders in London
Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, estranged husband of Barbara Hutton, decided to surrender himself at Bow Street Court to answer charges in a warrant. He is in Paris and will turn himself in at the earliest moment. The warrant seeks custody of their 2-year-old son Lance amid a growing dispute. Danish authority Slenning Repsdorph plans to travel to Copenhagen to press for a separation and custody arrangement, with the son’s custody as a key issue.
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London
INS
Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Bow Street Court
Paris
Lance
Denmark
Slenning Repsdorph
Copenhagen
US to probe spy ring in France in peacetime push
United States Attorney Lamar Hardy disclosed on Tuesday that he would travel to Paris on Wednesday to personally investigate espionage as the first peacetime move by the U.S. government to send an investigator to Europe for such purposes.
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New York
INS
United States
Lamar Hardy
Paris
Europe
Nabs Motorist On Charge Of Failure To Report Accident
Deputy Larry Condon chased a 1928 sedan after it struck John Pisarik injuring him on Sixteenth Avenue SW. Frank Clavier, 42, Negro, was arrested for failing to report the accident and held in county jail. Pisarik, 49, remains at home with a severe bruise on his right leg. Police said the car bore plates registered to a Mount Vernon resident and the driver had no license.
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Cedar Rapids
Sherff
Larry Condon
John Pisarik
Sixteenth Avenue
Condon
Frank Clavier
H Street
Clavier
Pisarik
James Wo Smith
Pisank
Mount Vernon
Clayter
Third Avenue Bridge
First Street
Fifth Avenue
RFC Funds Offered for Utility Buying Moves
RFC Chairman Jesse Jones unveiled a billion dollar facilities program on Tuesday to aid cities and states seeking to buy private utility lines. He stressed the plan is not a profit venture and will target areas tied to federal power and reclamation projects, with Knoxville receiving 5.8 million to purchase lines to avoid duplication by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse Jones
RFC
Jones
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate Group Calls Address Unfortunate and Political
Albany Rep Hamilton Fish demanded Roosevelt remove Aubrey Williams deputy WPA administrator. The Senate campaigning committee censured Williams for an "unfortu nate" speech to the Workers Alliance, while accepting his claim that no political implications were intended. A transcript dispute and debates over politics in relief intensified Capitol Hill tension tied to WPA affairs.
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Bulletins Albany
INS
Hamilton Fish
New York
Republican
Roosevelt
Aubrey Williams
WPA
The
Workers Alliance
Washington
Aubrey Willams
Williams
Chanmen Sheppard
Tex
Senate
Alliance
Flyers Complete 4,000 Mile Jaunt
Soviet airman Vladimir Kokkinski and navigator Briandinsky arrived in Vladivostok after a nonstop 4,000 mile flight from Moscow, completing a long cross country journey.
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Moscow
INS
Vladimier Kokkinski
Briandinsky
Vladivostok
Dame Prosperity Keeps Date Fails To Arrive
In a 1938 column ARTHUR Bug BATR humorously laments prosperity’s elusive arrival, noting a long-awaited around-the-corner date with prosperity and a now-summer forecast. The piece references Button Gwinnett and President Roosevelt, joking about cooperation on air and saving box-tops as a sign of better days.
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Arthur
Bugs” Batr
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G W Kirtley
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Illinois Retail Grocers’ Association
U. S
NLRB
Dispatch Prober
Richard Dowling
Jim Roosevelt
H. H. Lampert
Columbia
Professor Gellerman
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Count
Nabs
Sheppard
Willams
Tam
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Harry L. Hopkins
Button Gwinnett
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