Hauptmann May Evade Execution With New Reprieve
Hauptmann facing 8 p.m. March 31 electrocution for the Lindbergh Jr. murder may not be executed on schedule. Gov Hoffman’s aides report possible new evidence and a second reprieve, with court of pardons and motions for a new trial as delaying options. A 30 day reprieve would push life to June 1 if granted.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Universal Service
Harold G. Hoffman
Hoffman
Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
Wilentz
John F
Jassie’ Condon
Bronx
Condon
New Jersey
Dr. Condon
Flemington
New
Court of Pardons
Hauptmann hints at City Island intermediary in Condon link
A Hauptmann remark suggesting he believed Dr. John F. Condon resembled the man he often saw on City Island was called an admission of guilt by Gregory F. Coleman, Condon's spokesman. Coleman noted Hauptmann had previously denied knowing the doctor, while investigators had long suspected such a link. Dr. Condon, Bronx resident, summers on City Island where Hauptmann kept a boat.
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New York
Bruno Hauptmann
John F. Condon
City Island
Bronx
Jassie’s
Gregory F. Coleman
Coleman
Hauptmann
Dr. Condon
C. Lloyd Fisher
Spring jacket ensemble pattern for frock and swagger
The Cedar Rapids Gazette promotes Anne Adams sewing pattern 2533 for a frock with a monoto ne swagger jacket in sizes 34 to 46. Includes illustrated instructions and fabric details. book and pattern together priced at 25 cents.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
WPA Theater Chief Accused Of Communist Tendencies
The Federal Theater Veterans league demands the removal of Hallie Flanagan from the WPA theater project over alleged communistic and anti-Semitic propaganda. They claim project boards posted communist placards and invited organizers, tied to the play Triple A Plowed Under which attacks the Supreme Court.
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New York
Hallie Flanagan
Grinnell
WPA
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Federal Theater Veterans League
League
Flanagan
Supreme Court
Earl Browder
Reception For Former Scout Executive In Cedar Rapids
Former Cedar Rapids area Scout executive Mr. Carroll C. Thomas of Santa Fe New Mexico hosted a Saturday evening informal reception at the YMCA. About fifty attendees saw motion pictures of his Scouting work across northern New Mexico and scenes from the national executive conference at French Lick Springs Indiana. Arie Poldervaart, his assistant and former Coe College student, attended with Mrs. Thomas and their daughter Mary Carroll. Thomas administers seventy troops serving 1200 Scouts across a 64 000 square mile region aided by life aboard a trailer-equipped automobile.
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Carroll C. Thomas
Santa Fe
N. M
Cedar Rapids Area
Thomas
New Mexico
Arie Poldervaart
Coe
French Lick Springs
Ind
Poldervaart
Mary Carroll
Aurora
Ill
Nelson C. Dreier
Cedar Rapids
Sister of Texas Governor Is Killed in Accident
Tyler dispatch reports Mrs. W. B. Stokes Jr, 26, sister of Governor James V. Allred, died when the car she rode in with her husband was crushed against a bridge by a gasoline truck ten miles east of Mineola. The Stokes car was en route from Gladewater to Dallas. the truck driver appeared ill or asleep before the collision.
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Stokes
Congressmen Reveal High Salary Lists From Major Firms
A 1934 calendar year salary report shows Will Rogers at Fox Film with 324314, Janet Gaynor 252583, IBM head Thomas J Watson 364432, Shirley Temple 23064, and executives at Chrysler General Motors and Socony-Vacuum among many others. The document covers payments to Reed more than movie stars and industry leaders, including Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and J. S. McCarrens of The Plain Dealer.
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Washington (Ap
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
Will Rogers
Fox Film Corporation
Janet Gaynor
Fox Films
Thomas J. Watson
New York
International Business Machine Corporation
Shirley Temple
Chrysler
Sloan
Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors
Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallee Orchestra Units Corporation
The
Plain Dealer Publishing Company
Cleveland
John S. McCarrens
Paul Bellamy
George G. Booth
Booth Newspapers, Inc
Detroit
H. H. Fish
Western Newspaper Union
Colby H. Chester
General Foods Corporation
Local Woman Injured In Collision Of Cars
Mrs Abe Dectar 65 of 619 Seventh avenue SE injured her elbow at 3 30 pm Saturday when a car driven by Max Dectar at the same address collided with a car driven by A W McGregor of 1910 avenue NE at Second avenue and Seventeenth street SE. No one else was injured.
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Abe Dectar
Seventh Avenue SE
Max Dectar
A. W. McGregor
Avenue NE
Second Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Canopus Club Honors Unsung Heroine of Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Fred H. Niemeier, 1936 Higley Avenue SE, named Unsung Heroine by the Canopus club. For fifteen years she taught sewing at the Community House and helped women and mothers, offering counsel to all races, aiding King’s Daughters projects, and collecting clothes for Mesquakie Indians at Tama.
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Fred H. Niemeier
Higley Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Canopus Club
Open Boat to Deport Five Desperate Deserters
Port of Spain authorities plan a second attempt to cast off five escaped convicts from Cayenne in an open rowboat. The first towout failed as the craft flooded, passengers were rescued, and provisions were prepared for a 21 day voyage. The government refuses to return them to the penal colony and Haiti is not an option.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
Cayenne
French Guiana
Nemesis
Constabulary
Cipriani
Haiti
Man Who Prolonged Rockefeller's Life Dies At 47
Dr. Harold E. Dishbrow, 47, personal physician to John D. Rockefeller for years, died Saturday after four days of apoplexy. Rockefeller, whom the doctor is credited with prolonging, is nearly 97 and in good health in Florida, with his July 8 birthday approaching.
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Rockefeller
Lakewood
N. J
INS
Harold E. Dishbrow
John D. Rockefeller
Dishbrow
John D
Florida
Scout Honor Court To Be Held Tuesday In Cedar Rapids
Scout honors night unfolds at Woodrow Wilson high school auditorium Tuesday at 7 30 p m with Troop 2 hosting. Rev W C Grant of John Huss Methodist church to speak on handicraft and present second class awards. Troop 19 from Lincoln PTA to present a play A Scout is Loyal featuring Rev O C Gatrelle Robert Stolba Warren Rinderknecht and Carl Huff. First class awards conferred by Bert Watkins, Star Richard Grout, Life Richard Jadrnicek, and civic service J W Walterick. N Harold West to present advancement and achievement awards. Ed Drew to certify archery. Paul J Veva n to present National Rifle Association awards.
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John Huss Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids Area
Woodrow Wilson High School
W. C. Grant
Lincoln P. T. A
Ed Drew
Paul J. Vevin
National Rifle Association
Aylward Named By Missouri Democrats
James P. Aylward of Kansas City was elected national committeeman by Missouri Democrats at a meeting in Columbia. He succeeds W. T. Kemper who resigned weeks ago. Joplin chosen for the state convention set for May 5.
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Columbia
James P. Aylward
Kansas City
W. T. Kemper
Joplin
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll For 1936
The notice records a toll amount related to Cedar Rapids in 1936. It lists a figure of 125 and a figure of 69, with no accompanying context or dates in the fragment. Further details are unavailable from the readable text.
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Cedar Rapids
Mussolini to Unveil Corporative Parliament Plan
Premier Mussolini is expected to announce a move to abolish the chamber of deputies and replace it with a corporative legislature. Delegates from corporations will legislate as experts, marking Italy’s first corporative state and a shift beyond conventional parliamentary politics.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Duce
Chamber of Deputies
Italy
Mussolini
Russia
Kruidenier Tops in Stage Characterization at Iowa Festival
Dan Kruidenier former Cedar Rapids patrolman and now commissioner of public safety was rated one of three outstanding individual performances for his policeman role in Back of the Yards at the Iowa play production festival in Iowa City. Also cited were Mrs Charles L Gunn and Mrs C H Mc Mahon for notable acting in the same show.
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Dan Kruidenier
Cedar Rapids
Public Safety
Iowa City
Dan
Kruidenier
Charles L. Gunn
Thirty-fourth Street Drive
C. H. McMahon
Marshalltown
Burlington Players Workshop
Walter Stone
Ted Hammer
Iowa City Players
Myra Sewark
Clinton Woman’s Club
Leon Watson
Shrine Palm Sunday Concert Planned by El Kahir Temple
The Shrine plans its annual Palm Sunday concert on April 5 at 3 p.m. at the Shrine temple. The El Kahir band will perform with local musicians and vocalists, directed by William Vesely, featuring Amber Mae Stanley, a leading cornetist, as soloist. Admission is free.
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el Kahir Temple of the Shrine
Shrine Temple
el Kahir
Shrine
William Vesely
Amber Mae _ Stanley
Catherine Stanley
Cedar Rapids
Plunges to Death at Sanatorium in Battle Creek
Mrs Catherine Miner Sherman 38 wife of Carl Sherman a Crawford Kansas rancher plunged to death from a fourth floor window of a Battle Creek Michigan sanitarium Saturday afternoon authorities announced.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Catherine Miner Sherman
Carl Sherman
Crawford
Kan
Italy Backed by Allies in Warning to Europe
In Rome Mussolini and allied leaders from Austria and Hungary listen as Count Costanzo Ciano warns the chamber Europe faces an entrenched crisis and peace may be impossible. Italy approves further war ministry funding and political inquiry while signaling provisional assent to Locarno terms.
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Rome
Mussolini
Austria
Hungary
Costanzo Ciano
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
Italy
Germany
Chamber
Galeazzo Ciano
Il Duce
Ciano
League of Nations
Signor Cavagnari
Schuschnigg
Berger Waldenegg
Gomboes
Kanya
S Duce
Chamber of Deputes
Believe Swanson Recovering From Recent Relapse
Washington Secretary Swanson is resting comfortably after a Thursday relapse. Navy hospital doctors say a heart weakness prompted his return to bed and are not unduly worried, with officials withholding the news until Saturday.
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Washington
INS
Swanson
Naval Hospital
Fashion Dictionary for 1936 Defines Season's Mode
New York prints a compact glossary of 1936 fashion terms with Margot Gibson Girl Directoire Mimosa Violine Cattleya London tan Culotte Camembert and Mushroom silhouettes Camisole Petticoat Chesterfield and Derby hats summarized with their style cues and revived antique pieces for the season.
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New York
Margot
Paris
Henry III
Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson
Directoire
First Empire
Paton
London
Chesterfield
Derby
Marmola weight loss remedy promises quick fat reduction
A testimonial touts Marmola tablets as the simple cure for obesity. The narrator credits the product with turning food into energy, rapid fat loss, and renewed pep. Since 1907 over 20 million Marmola packages have been sold, with calls to buy locally from dealers nationwide.
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United States
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Jersey
Vivi’ Ann Wynter
Hotel Roosevelt
Texas
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
O. C. Adams
C. A. Brooks
William Byrnes
J. A. Hartford
G. L. Hartford
R. V. Smith
Remington Rand Company
James H. Rand, Jr
Phillips Morris, Inc., Ltd
L. B. McKitterick
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
John A. Brown
Herbert L. Pratt
Charles E. Arnott
Fox
Fox Film
Lew Ayres
Richard Arlen
Warner Baxter
Edwin Burke
John Boles
Charles Farrell
Stepin Fetchit
Henry King
Edmund Lowe
Jesse Lasky
Victor McLaglen
Spencer Tracy
Helen Twelvetrees
S. J. Briskin
Columbia Pictures
Harry Cohn
Donald Cook
Jack Holt
Robert Riskin
Lee _ Tracy
Nancy Carroll
Claudette Colbert
Grace Moore
Twentieth Century Pictures
Darryl F. Zanuck
Twentieth Century
Frederick March
Wallace Beery
Ronald Colman
Maurice Chevalier
Clark Gable
George Arliss
Charles Laughton
Adolph Menjou
Edward Arnold
Jack Oakie
Loretta Young
Constance Bennett
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Chicago
L. J. Rosenwald
R. E. Wood
Anderson, Clayton and Company
Houston
Lamar Fleming, Jr
Lever’ Brothers
Cambridge
Mass
F. A. Courtnay
Filenes Sons Company
Boston
Edward Filene
Lincoln Filene
Louis E. Kirstein
Edward J. Frost
Baldridge
Aylward
Missouri
Oes
Fashion Dictionary
Dorothy Roe
ACME
Canton
Sara Park
Salon de Beaute
Merchants National Bank
Dean Grune
Lettys Ctr
Second ST
C Graankels
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