Johnson Brigham at 90 a grand old man of Iowa
Johnson Brigham, longtime Iowa state librarian for 38 years, turns ninety at his Des Moines home. A New York native educated at Hamilton and Cornell, he edited Cedar Rapids Republican, aimed to launch a north Mississippi valley magazine, and modernized the state library into a dignified, influential institution.
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Old Fort Des Moines
Maquoketa Resident Reports Theft By Gypsy Band Of $300
Pearl Dean reports to Sheriff Leo Heinecke that a band of gypsies—one man two women and a child—stole $300 after offering to heal him on his front porch in Maquoketa. The incident occurred Monday afternoon near his residence with a 1935 Plymouth sedan observed. The sheriff was notified about a half hour after the event.
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Maquoketa
Leo Heinecke
Pearl Dean
Dean
Iowa City man fined and jailed for liquor nuisance
IOWA CITY AP Paul Walden of Iowa City was fined $400 and costs and sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty to maintaining a liquor nuisance.
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Iowa City
Paul Walden
Two Stores Damaged By Fire At Marengo
Fire in a shed at the rear of the McCarl Harrier hardware store and the R F Share plumbing shop in Marengo caused extensive damage. Loss estimated at 7000 dollars, with partial insurance coverage. Oil in the shed fueled the blaze and hampered firefighting. Dynamite removed from the shed. rear wall and much spring stock damaged.
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Marengo
McCarl-Harrier
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Radio Schedule Highlights Name Drops In Dense Evening Lineup
A dense listing of NBC CBS and local station lineups runs through evening and afternoon blocks. Programs include Amos n Andy Myrt and Marge Lum and Abner Kate Smith Leo Reisman Orch Wayne King Orch and many others with interleaved talk shows dramas comedies and concerts across WEAF WJZ WMAQ WABC WBBM KMOX WLW WOW WHO and more.
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Marge
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Kate Smith
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Crime Clues
Frank Munn
Wabc Mox
Wayne King Orch
Edgar Guest
Ben Neri
Wae Lewis
Glen Grayne
Jimmy_ Fidler
Willson Orch
Col. Stoopnagle and
Budd
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Ozzie Nelson
Bob and Rennie
WEAP
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Happy Jack
Vaughn de Leath
Billy and
Ginger
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Lee Gordon Orch
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Herald-Tribune Round Table
J. Edgar Hoover
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American School of the Air
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Anman's Radio Review
Curtis Institute of Music
U. S. Navy Band Symphony Orch
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Ernest Gibson
Fay and Baum
Animal News Club
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Ildren
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Jackie Heller
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Tim’s Adventures
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A and Abner
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Lewis Lawes
Ray Noble
Duchin
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Enoch’ Light
Bob Crosby
Bernie Cummins
Goodman Orch
Jesse Crawford
Fletcher Henderson
Chai George Olsen
Washington Sideshow on Hull's Pan American Peace Plan
Secretaries Hull and state department aides prepare a statement approving a Pan American peace conference with Latin American backing led by Buenos Aires. Talks hint Hull may attend opening sessions. Sumner Wells or William Phillips could run the event. Potomac refit costs around 165000 with cheaper Sleeker vessel favored for optics.
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Universal
State
Savandra Lamas
Americas
Hull
Sumner Wells
William Phillips
London
Potomac
Coast Guard
Electra
Secretary of Commerce
Roper
Commerce Department
White
Wave Length of Electron Measured
New York reports Dr L H Germer of Bell Telephone laboratories announced the measurement of the electron wave length at 5.4 centimeters divided by 10 000 000 000. The finding shows a constant wave length in flight and could aid studies of atomic layers on material surfaces.
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New York
L. H. Germer
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Germer
Mae West Loses Appeal as Box Office Drops
Washington AP Mae West the film star is losing her box office appeal according to Charles C. Pettijohn of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors association. Testifying to a House interstate commerce subcommittee he opposed the Pettengill bill banning block booking and blind selling a year before production. Pettijohn said public taste is rushing away from Mae West.
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Mae West
Charles C. Pettijohn
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association
House
Interstate Commerce
Pettengill
Pettijohn
Cow’s Production Chart Balanced Then Eaten
In Iola Kansas a farmer named C V Haglund kept a chart on his barn wall showing his cow’s production in black and feed consumption in red. The red figures overtook the black, suggesting a sale was near, but the next morning the chart vanished and shredded cardboard indicated the cow had eaten it.
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Iola
Kan
C. V. Haglund
Haglund
Gatty Divorce Granted to Mrs Gatty in Los Angeles
Mrs. Elsie Louise Gatty won a divorce from Harold Gatty, famed round the world flyer, in Los Angeles after testifying he was away from home only on rare occasions.
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Los Angeles
Elsie Louise Gatty
Harold Gatty
Chicago man kills self after fearing missed chance
Bart Kiisley, 50, asked hotel clerk to call a physician fearing he might miss and wound himself. The doctor found Kiisley dead in his room from a bullet wound below the heart.
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Chicago
Bart Kiisley
Kiisley
Denver Council Weighs Poultry Damage Claim
Denver residents consider paying poultryman J. D. Clark 193.25 for damages after a city truck allegedly slid brakes and crashed into his chicken house. Fifteen laying hens fled and never laid again as hens suffered shock. Council seeks more data on hen psychology before ruling.
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Denver
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J. D. Clark
Clark
Police Confiscate Merchandise From LeMars Cellar
Police seized truckloads of merchandise from Bennett Bray arrested for grand larceny. Bray released on $500 cash bond posted by brother Oliver Bray Sioux Falls banker. Officers said Bray carried magazines worth $1 from a news stand and found items stolen up to fourteen years ago at his home including jewelry lathes drills.
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Bray
Wolves Stocked Against Russians Warn Hunters
Moscow report says more than 150 000 wolves stalk the steppes terrorizing farmers and stealing livestock. It urges raising bounties arguing 50 rubles per wolf is insufficient. Kazakhstan has under 90 000 rubles in bounties and Ukraine holds 1.5 million rubles unclaimed.
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INS
Russia
Socialist Agriculture
Commissariat of Agriculture
Kazakstan
Ukraine
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