Belief Woman In Fitts Slaying Plot Emerges
The district attorney recounts a tense night at the Fitts ranch as shots rang out while Fitts drove home from a dine r party. Cushman recalled strange noises and warnings about guarding Mary Lou as the attacker fled. Fitts, aiming to press prosecutions of sitdown strikers, survived a gunshot wound with the bullet deflected by his elbow.
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Jack Cushman
Cushman
Fitts
Scottie
Byron
Mary Lou
Benjamin Blank
Committee For Industrial Organization
Santa Monica
Dice
Father Blocks Plan for Social Experiment in Beverly Ann Page Case
In Windsor Vermont a father opposed a radical social experiment intended to observe two boys suspected in the death of Beverly Ann Page, age four. Authorities had planned private tracking of the boys’ development after a younger playmate described the alleged assault and drowning. The father insisted on a court trial, demanding charges or dismissal.
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Beverly Ann Page
Beverly Ann
Hmself
Vermont
Blind Strikers Lift Voices In Prayer In Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh 107 blind workers of the Pennsylvania Association of Blind continue a sitdown strike for higher pay. Led by Rev George Marshall Thomas they prayed and sang in the factory mess hall as John Warren played piano. A mediation board will hear strikers Tuesday to resolve the week old dispute amid a deficit driven by reliance on charity.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Association of Blind
George Marshall Thomas
John Warren
Jood Waters In Illinois Recede After Rapid Rise
Flooding affected several villages as Jood waters rose rapidly prompting alerts. Residents reported damage and evacuations in areas along the river with authorities assessing risk as streams receded later that day.
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Jood Waters
Illinois
Cedar Ice Breakup Destroys Buildings and Damages Bridge
Ice breakup floods Cedar River area causing smashed windows, a houseboat driven onto higher ground, and ice jams threatening bridges and rail lines. City crews blast ice, fill sandbags, and reinforce levees as river crests near Waterloo while sources warn of higher levels ahead.
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Ralph Atherton
Manhattan Beach
North Western Railroad
Cedar River floods Waterloo area as evacuations ordered
After dropping five inches from a peak of six and a half feet above normal, the Cedar river stayed unchanged for three hours at noon. About 150 people were evacuated from low-lying homes over the weekend as the business district lay two feet below the levees.
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City Streets Department
Sheftie’s
North Western Bridge
Ellis Lane
Ellis Park
Manhattan Beach
Robins Lake
Waterloo
Cedar River
Indictment in Charlottesville Chloroform Death
A five member Charlottesville grand jury indicted Dr. Richard G. Miller for the chloroform murder of Cleo Sprouse an 18 year old high school junior.
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Charlottesville
Richard G. Miller
Cleo Sprouse
Tibetan Explorer's Son Host To Lindus
Calcutta AP report: Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh were luncheon guests of P. K. Das, son of the late Rai Dahadur Das, a Tibetan explorer and lexicographer, seated on a carpeted floor in the Indian manner.
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Calcutta
Charles A. Lindbergh
P. K. Das
Das
Rai Dahadur Das
Two Die as Wave Pounds Luxury Liner Rex Off Gibraltar
The Rex lurched on a mountainous Atlantic wave last Thursday causing two fatalities and over seventy injuries among passengers. Two Americans were treated in Naples after docking, one with a broken arm. the ship resumed to Genoa.
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Genoa
Italy
Rex
Gibraltar
Atlantic
Naples
27 Nations Approve Spain Control Scheme
The 27 nations in the non intervention committee approved the land and sea control plan in full session and set Saturday as the start date. Germany balked at paying more than 50000 of the 715000 assessment. other powers lowered their shares to that amount. A communique said Britain France Germany and Italy will begin supervision Saturday with Russia and three smaller powers invited to join a monitoring board.
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London
International Committee For Non-Intervention
Spain
Germany
Russia
Hoover and Hercules raise minimum wage to 6 2 1 4 cents
The Hoover company and Hercules Motors corporation announced pay raises setting a minimum of 621.4 cents per hour. Hoover employs 2,000 workers in Canton and Hercules 1,800, with 100 at Muskegon also gaining the raise.
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Canton, C
Hoover Company
Hercules Motors Corporation
Hercules Company
Hercules
Muskegon
Mich
Penningroth and Von Lackum Win School Board Seats
Cedar Rapids voters re elected Charles Penningroth with 1955 votes, and Dr J K Von Lackum with 1905. J C Blodgett secured 1450 votes for the third seat while Joseph Sadowsky totaled 1321 in the city school election. Other candidates Ken singer 756 Burkholder 569 McCarl 427 LeMont 194.
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Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Joseph Sadowsky
J. C. Blodgett
Central City News- Letter
Charles Penningroth
J. K. von Lackum
Blodgett
Sadowsky
J E. Kensinger
Marvin Burkholder
William McCarl
R. E. LeMont
Gladbrook War Vet Killed by Hit and Run Driver
Coroner H D Havilk scheduled an inquest Monday to identify the driver who struck Ralph Rosenberger 44 a World War veteran while crossing Main Street at 12 10 am Sunday. He died an hour later from a crushed chest at a Marshalltown hospital.
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Gladbrook
H. D. Havilk
Ralph Rosenberger
Main
Rosenberger
Marshalltown
France Fixes Provisional Gold Price Pending Parliament
The Bank of France set a provisional price of 24 509 537 francs per kilogram of fine gold and said the rate is temporary until parliament approves necessary legislation. Earlier confusion arose over whether the gold freedom followed governmental decrees or awaited parliamentary action. The rate equates to 21.78 francs per dollar and saw fluctuations within an hour.
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Bank of France
Supreme Court to Review Alabama Unemployment Insurance Case
The Supreme Court will hear an appeal challenging a federal court injunction on Alabama unemployment insurance law aimed at receiving social security benefits. The ruling could affect twenty five state laws and may influence the Roosevelt program while a decision before next fall seems unlikely.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
Alabama
High Court
New York
New York State Court of Appeals
Justice Stone
Two Bremer Case Convictions Upheld
The U.S. circuit court of appeals affirmed the January 1934 Bremer kidnapping convictions of Harry Sawyer and Cassius McDonald in St Paul. Sawyer remains serving a life term while McDonald faces a 15 year sentence for attempting to exchange ransom money for unmarked bills.
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ST Louis
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Harry Sawyer
Cassius McDonald
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Sawyer
McDonald
Moon’s Distance to Earth Cited as Short in Astronomers View
The article notes the moon lies about 240000 miles from Earth, described as a short distance by astronomers. It emphasizes how this range helps frame lunar observations and space science.
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Earth
LaGuardia Reiterates Hitler Statements in Washington
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia repeated his criticism of Adolf Hitler in Washington criticizing the German regime. He warned the world needs no chamber of horrors statue in New York and said apologies from the State Department cannot change his stance.
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Washington
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
National Capital
Adolf Hitler
State Department
New York City
Hitler
LaGuardia
Capitol
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Plans to restrain pinball operation in city
County Attorney G K Thompson said he will file an anti gambling injunction against Dan Novak proprietor of the Dan Novak pharmacy at 1505 First Avenue East. Police seized three pinball machines on a warrant Saturday amid alleged pay offs to winners.
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G. K. Thompson
Dan Novak
Pro
Prietor
First Avenue E
Ousted Judge Halsted Ritter Loses Supreme Court Appeal
Washington INL reports former Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Florida lost his appeal to the Supreme Court seeking review of the constitutionality of his Senate impeachment on April 17, 1936.
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Washington
INL
Halsted L. Ritter
Florida
Monday
Supreme Court
Senate
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