Lewis Orders Walkout as Parley Fails
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers announced that 450,000 bituminous coal miners would strike Monday after negotiations failed to extend the truce set to expire at midnight Sunday. About 55,000 miners would remain at work, split between non union miners in Kentucky and West Virginia and the Progressive Miners’ organization in Illinois, producing an estimated 4 million tons monthly. Frances Perkins hinted a new truce may be arranged before miners leave the pits.
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Washington
INS
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Congress
Lewis
Guffey
Kentucky
West Virginia
Progressive Miners’ Organization of
Illinois
Frances Perkins
White House
Diamond Stickpin Cut Off Necktie Arrests For Larceny
Arnold Butz and his wife, both of 1024 Fifth avenue SE, held after a diamond stickpin and necktie piece were taken from John DeWalt at Hynes cafe. They waived to the grand jury. bond set at $500. DeWalt located with the Butzs at the cafe shortly after a DeWalt call to police.
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Arnold Butz
Fifth Avenue SE
John DeWalt
Twenty-sixth Street Drive
Hynes Cafe
First Avenue E
Buzz
A. S. Reed
Severe Flood Strikes Industrial Cities of Western Japan
Severe floods in western Japan kill at least seventy people with hundreds missing. Osaka and Kyoto cities are hardest hit as rain-swollen rivers flood 60 000 and 50 000 houses respectively. Thousands are homeless and relief efforts include three regiments. government allocates yen 15 million for rehabilitation.
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TOKIO
INS
Japan
Kyoto
Osaka
Fukuoka
Atuy Dies
Hirohito
Son Of Insurance Head Is Drowned
Arthur M. Collens Jr., 22, son of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance president, was found in Blythwood sanatorium pool after disappearing Thursday night. His hands and feet were bound with clothesline. police suspect suicide. He had been a patient there since last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich, Conn
Arthur M. Collens, Jr
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company
Blythwood Sanatorium
Godin Wounded in Duel With Chiappe in Paris Garden
Pierre Godin former president of the municipal council was wounded in the right thigh in a pistol duel with Jean Chiappe his successor. The two aged 60 and 57 exchanged four shots at 8 30 a m in the garden of Mme Coty’s mansion near the Bois de Boulogne with their seconds and surgeons present. Chiappe declined to shake hands as Godin fell and the enmity began after the Stavisky banking scandal last year.
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Paris
Pierre Godin
Jean Chiappe
Godin
Chiappe
Mme. Coty
Francois Coty
Avenue Raphael
Bois de Boulogne
Col
Des Isnards
Armand Massard
Stavisky
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll For 1935
Report lists accident counts for Cedar Rapids in 1935 with totals of injuries and deaths. Details show 192 accidents and 222 injuries across the year. No further context provided.
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Cedar Rapids
Food Industry Opens Fight on AAA Taxes
A national revolt by major food interests against processing taxes under the AAA gains momentum with injunction suits aimed at blocking tax revenues used for farm benefits. General Mills and its subsidiary Washburn Crosby lead lawsuits in multiple states, challenging government authority to tax grain processing and meat packing. Courts grant injunctions as AAA officials seek to reassure funds for farm programs.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
General Mills, Inc
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New Deal
Supreme Court
Des Moines
Kohrs Packing Company
Davenport
Dubuque Packing Company
Dubuque
Washington
AAA
Treasury
Congress
General Mills
Washburn Crosby Company
Federal District Court At
Buffalo
John Knight
Six Die as Italian Destroyers Collide
Six were killed and seven injured when the Italian destroyers Zeno and Marecello collided off Taranto during lights out maneuvers. The ships, badly damaged, reached port under their own power.
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Taranto
Italy
Zeno
Marecello
Senate panel probes leak over bank bill action
Washington AP reports Glass banking subcommittee members expressed concern over an apparent leak to New York bankers about the administration’s bank bill and signaled a possible investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Glass Banking Subcommittee
Senate
New York
Three-Masted Vessel Grounds Near Golden Gate in Fog
A three-masted vessel ran aground Saturday on the rock just outside the Golden Gate in dense fog. Men were visible aboard the unidentified vessel as crews worked to assess the situation.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Detroit Murder Suspect Caught At Fort Wayne
Detroit underworld figure William Sweitzer alias Ferris, wanted in the slaying of Howard Carter Dickinson, a New York attorney and Hughes nephew, was captured in Fort Wayne with three women held for questioning. Police pursued aliases, a Hupmobile sighting, and a false license plate report as part of the manhunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
William Sweitzer
Ferris
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Sweitzer
Detroit
Rouge Park
Mount Clemens
Mich
Andrew Smygen
New York State Police Seek Girl's Killer
Detectives joined by Scotland Yard anti crime unit searched Greenville for Helen Glenn who disappeared from her home Thursday and was found dead Friday with stab wounds. Coroner says she suffered a brutal assault as authorities report intensified hunt and surveillance.
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Greenville
N. Y
Scotland Yard
Helen Glenn
Yard
Marsh
M. E. Atkinson
Black rust threatens nation's wheat crop across states
Black rust and excess moisture push wheat harvest behind schedule from Texas to the Dakotas. Private estimates show Kansas, Nebraska, and Nebraska yields well below government forecasts, with rot and heavy rain causing losses and slumping prices in Chicago and other markets. J. L. Welsh reports rust in 90 percent of fields along the South Platte.
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Kansas City
Texas
Dakotas
America
South
Middle West
Kansas
Nebraska
Chicago
Omaha
Minneapolis
Department of Agriculture
United States
J. L. Welsh
South Platte
Wheat Belt
Believe It Or Not stunt night at Camp Good Health
Visitors enjoyed a Camp Good Health stunt night staged for over seventy attendees. The event featured a swimming match and a water under eaters challenge while girls from The Robin cabin performed Ella in a race style skit. Contributions to The Camp Good Health Fund were noted.
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Cedar Bafics News
Fred Samek, Jr
Camp Good Health
Fred Samek
Birmingham 15 Named to Take Feuling's Job
The Democratic state central committee named E. H. Birmingham of Sioux City as state chairman and created an executive committee of five to direct matters previously handled by the chairman. A six member group will plan for the 1936 election, with Birmingham as ex officio member and Lester Drennen of Des Moines as chairman of the new executive body.
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Des Moines
E. H. Birmingham
Sioux City
Central Committee
Vernon Vierth
Birmingham
E. J. Feuling
New Hampton
State Central Committee
Congress
Tracy
R. Osborne
New Sharon
Feuling
Jeck
G. G. Jeck
Atlantic
Erwin Larson
Charles City
Larson
Democratic Party
Lawrence C. Smith
Dyersville
Florence Lynch
le Mars
Ruth Hollingshead
Albia
Lester Drennen
Huge Federal Vault Proposed at Fort Knox to Guard U S Gold
Washington officials revealed secret recommendations to Congress calling for a large underground vault at Fort Knox Kentucky to store the United States gold holdings estimated at about 9 billion dollars. Treasury officials say the vault would secure safekeeping of gold now held in Washington and other cities.
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Washington
Ft. Knox
Treasury
Congress
United States
Washington Treasury
Want Ads Deadline In Sun Day Gazette Tonight
Closing time is 8 PM for Want Ads in the Big Sun Day Gazette. Readers have all day Sunday to view wants and offers and act on them. Call 2-1121 to place ads and qualify if listed in the telephone directory and no past due balances.
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BIG Sunday Gazette
Farm Inflation Bloc Urged to Back Utility Bill Aid
Washington reports indicate farm inflationists pressing for support from anti utility forces to back the administration backed “death sentence” for unnecessary utility holding companies. Delegates circulate petitions as Roosevelt defends the plan amid intense lobbying and public protests.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
North Western Ry Resumes Pensions After 70 Rule
Clinton AP reports the Chicago and North Western Railway reestablishes its pension system effective July 1. Three Clinton engineers John Lake John Livingstone and E E Cushman will retire Monday aged 70. The line had scrapped pensions on August 1 1934 and resumes payments with mandatory retirement at 70 due to constitutional issues with the federal plan.
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Clinton
Chicago
Western Railway Company
John Lake
John Livingstone
E. E. Cushman
Hopes for swift share the wealth tax face delays
Washington reports that administration backers of the share the wealth tax push face slow action as citizens press to testify. Ways and Means hearings, planned July 8 for two weeks, may extend amid bloc organization and requests from manufacturers and individuals. Pacific coast wine growers seek lower wine taxes, while farm groups push tariffs on dried eggs from China and other products. New England textile reps plan a fight against Japanese competition with excise taxes.
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Washington
INS
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Pacific Coast
China
New England
Muggy Cedar Rapids Weekend Weather Forecast
The Cedar Rapids area experiences rising heat and humidity with a forecast of weekend storms. Temperatures climbed from 62 to 80 degrees by early afternoon as storms developed north of the city, with a 68 degree reading later in the evening.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Sioux City Jury Indicts Fourteen in Graft Probe
A Woodbury County grand jury returned three indictments charging fourteen individuals in graft and corruption probes after weeks of deliberation. Names were withheld pending bench warrants. The panel also heard witnesses and investigated slot machine activity as it reported to Judge Robert H. Munger.
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Sioux City
Woodbury
grand _ jury
Robert H. Munger
Sioux’ City
District Court
John Gibeau
Roy McGuire
Mason City
Frank “ AL Caine
A. M. Kuhl
First National Bank
Fonda
Sam Hoffman
John Kline
Austin Hartman
Mra
Jeais
Malberg
Sec Tee
Ithe
Insurance Exchange
Hese
James
Robish
Remsen
Gibeau
Henry Kuhlmann
Public Safety
Glenn’ Scott
Oakie
McGuire
Kuhl -Hoffman
Kuhlmann
Dale Huff
Huff
Abe Kroloff
Hoffman
John McKenna
Gypsies Held for Larceny in Mount Vernon Case
Greta Gara and Marie Baker, both of Salt Lake City, members of a gypsy band, were arraigned on larceny charges in Mount Vernon after residents reported a theft of about seven dollars. They were detained by Marshal Ed Gill Friday night with sentence pending.
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Greta Gara
Marie Baker
Salt
Lake City
W.J. Grunewald
Ed Gill
Mount Vernon
Fred Vesey
Vesey
Endurance Plane Fire Fails To Bring Key Brothers Down
In Meridian Mississippi a short circuit at the instrument board ignited a fire on the endurance plane Ole Miss flown by Al and Fred Key. Fire was put out with a hand extinguisher and the aircraft continued after a brief dip over tree tops. They had logged 600 hours in flight and were within about 47 hours of the 647 hour record set five years earlier by Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine of St. Louis.
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Meridian
Miss
Mns
Instrument Board
Ole Miss
Fred Key
Dale Jackson
Forest , O'Brine
St. Louis
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Cedar Rapids News
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St. James Church
Coe College
Fred
Mary Jane Griffin
Marcella Heal
the Gazette
Iowa
Sioux Cityan
New Head
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Sheared
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Hughes
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