United States rejects Japan's Monroe doctrine claim in Asia
Washington reports Hull told the press that the US will defend China's territorial integrity under the nine power treaty and asked Japan to honor it. Grew conveyed the message to Tokyo, asserting treaty rights and urging other nations to do the same. Sir John Simon later said Britain saw little cause for alarm if Japan respects open door policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Japan
Asia
Cordell Hull
State Department
Hull
Joseph c. Grew
China
Foreign Office
Tokio
Sir John Simon
House of Commons
John
Far Eastern
Hard Luck Hank Shafer Breaks Arm in Mishap
Eldora Indiana AP reports humorist Hank Shafer known as Hard Luck Hank Shafer is laid up with a broken arm marking his eighteenth misfortune. His record includes near drowning, a cannon blast injuring an eye and arm, lightning strikes, coal mine burial, and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hank Shafer
Eldora
Hank
Approve Sites For Six Liquor Stores In Iowa Cities
DES MOINES AP The state liquor commission announced approval of leases for liquor stores in six Iowa cities including Waterloo Marshalltown Burlington Dubuque and Cedar Rapids Other leases are in process Monday approvals covered locations with street addresses provided for each store site
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Des Moines
State Liquor Commission
Iowa
Waterloo
Fourth Street
Marshalltown
First Avenue
Burlington
Jeffedon Street
Dubuque
Main Street
Inton
Fourth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue
Washington Day in Review Highlights Roosevelt Era Debates
Treasury records show 200 million dollars of the stabilization fund with the Federal Reserve for active use. Industrial leaders oppose reciprocal tariff bills sought by Roosevelt. Ambassador Troyanovsky and Roosevelt discuss American Russian debt talks. Senate banking panel reconsiders loans to private industry. Green and Connery urge 30 hour week. Stock market control bill debate begins in House. Roosevelt declines to decide on releasing prohibition prisoners. NRA oil case delay asked until fall. Legislation to separate oil from NRA enters. Oklahoma delegate McCandless seeks Hawaii statehood. Roosevelt forms a committee on land policy with interior agriculture and relief officers.
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Associated Press
Treasury Books
Federal Reserve System
Roosevelt
Troyanovsky
Senate Banking Committee
Reconstruction Corporation
William Green
American Federation, of Labor
Rep. Connery
Mass
I House
Texas
NRA
Supreme Court
Oil Administration
Thomas
Okla
McCandless
Hawaii
Committee of Interior Agriculture and Relief Officers
Reading Life Backwards in Everyday LIVING by Dr Newton
A reflective piece on Charles Dickens and misreading signs, showing how lives and motives appear reversed when viewed from the wrong side. The essay argues fiction reveals humanity by looking inward, with examples of misinterpretation and a note about death and life’s doors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
London
St. Martin’s Lane
House of Life
Many Lands Prepare for May Day Riots
AP reports police and soldiers Brace for May Day unrest as New York plans the heaviest security in history for parades with about 200000 expected. Parades split between communists and socialists. Europe tightens as Paris deploys 42000 guards, Spain declares alarm, Madrid fears strikes. Johannesburg? No, keep to listed items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paris
Austria
Spain
Madrid
Zionist
Histadruth — General Federation of Jewish Labor
Jerusalem
Brussels
Marines
Decorah Farmer Dies by Own Hand at Home
Decorah Iowa AP report says 42 year old William Novek prosperous unmarried farmer hanged himself at his farm home near Decorah on Monday. Police described no known motive and there were no witnesses to the act.
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Decorah
William Novek
Here
McLaughlin Linked to Big Kidnapping Ransom Network
U S Justice officials in Chicago said John J McLaughlin admitted handling part of the Bremer ransom and tied to the Dillinger and Karpis Barker gangs. McLaughlin, his son, and bartender Delaney were arraigned on conspiracy charges with hearings set for May 7.
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Chicago
United States Department of of Justice
John J. (Ross) McLaughlin
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Melvin H. Purvis
Federal Department
Harold L. Nathan
Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Washington
McLaughlin
Dillingers
Karpis-Barker
Southwest
Midwest
Purvis
John, Jr
Bremer
Dillinger
Oklahoma
Alvin Karpis
Barker Brothers
Fred and
Arthur
Philip Delaney
William E. Mead
John McLaughlin, Jr
Delaney
United States
Edwin K. Walker
George Sullivan
McLaugailins
Gunmen Capture Cops Escalate Chicago Chase
Dillinger desperadoes exchanged fire with police in a running battle Monday while federal agents said a Texas gun shop operator has been arrested, closing a source of machine guns to the gangsters. Continued on Page 12, Column 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dillinger
Texas
Bullet Riddled Car With Wounded Man Seen Near Rose Hill
An apparent drive by shooting left a man wounded in a bullet riddled car seen on a highway near Rose Hill by a Des Moines bread truck driver. The vehicle reportedly carried five men and Iowa plates. Mahaska county deputies could not locate the car or occupants.
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Rose Hill
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Hook
Mahaska County
Landslide Kills Five in Colombian Coal Mine
Five people were killed and eleven injured Monday in a landslide at a coal mine near Chocontá, about thirty miles from Bogotà. National authorities investigated the disaster and casualty details remained preliminary.
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Bogota
Colombia
Choconta
Bloomington Met Bank Problem By Co Operation
The Bloomington story mirrors Cedar Rapids in handling a bank crisis via a depositor led plan. Citizens organized a liquidation strategy, secured 80 percent of old deposits, and protected stockholders by relieving old stock liability. Officials argued against arbitrary receiverships to protect values, urging Cedar Rapids to adopt a cooperative, nonconfrontational approach for depositors and the city.
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Bloomington
Cedar Rapids
Ill
CO Ovelalion
First National Bank
Citizens
Grover C. Helm
Helm
Peoples Bank
National and
Peoples Savings Banks
Frost Meg
R.F.C
U S Wheat Crop to Be Larger This Year
A Rome based Institute of Agriculture report says U S farmers will grow about 492 million bushels of wheat in 1934, up 140 million from 1933, despite curbs on production. Europe shows reduced plantings while Soviet Russia and India add acres, with world production expected to be roughly unchanged.
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Rome
United States
Institute of Agriculture In
America
Europe
Soviet Russia
India
North Africa
Luke Lea Loses High Court Plea
Washington AP reports the U S Supreme Court denied the petition of Tennessee publisher Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr to review a Tennessee Supreme Court order sending them to North Carolina to serve sentences related to bank financing charges.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Luke Lea, Jr
Tennessee Supreme Court
North Carolina
Federal sleuths take full charge of Robles search
Federal authorities assumed complete control of the June Robles kidnapping case in Tucson as the family publicly pledged to meet a $15,000 ransom. Bernabe Robles had departed for Santa Ana, Sonora, seeking a clairvoyant, while officials halted public notices in hopes of negotiation with the abductors.
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Robles
Tucson
Ariz
Bernabe Robles
June Robles
Sonora
Mexico
Joseph Dunn
Los Angeles
Department of Justice
June
Santa Ana
Nogales
Henry Dalton
al Aguirre
Wirt Charges Effort to Hide Aims of Revolt
Dr. William A. Wirt of Gary Indiana told an American Legion luncheon that there was frantic effort to conceal Washington aims and accused notable figures including Brookhart Tugwell and Rainey of making disturbing statements. He warned of a revolution evolving under emergency legislation and cited social figures like Rose Schneiderman as part of a brain trust plot. He relayed remarks about Roosevelt as Kerensky of a future revolution and noted a dialogue about moving to a Lenin dictatorship stage.
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Chicago
William A. Wirt
Gary
Ind
Momday
Washington
Wirt
American Legion
Dr. Wirt
Smith W. Brookhart
Rexford Tugwell
Henry T. Rainey
Brain Trust
Sesa
Brookhart
Congress
Wirtists
Rose Schneiderman
Virgin Islands
Kerensky
Roosevelt
Oldest Man in the World Taken to Hospital
Zara Agha claims to be the oldest person in the world and is hospitalized at National Children’s Hospital in Istanbul with Bright’s disease. Doctors say his condition is grave and have ordered absolute quiet with visitors barred except for the patient’s 70 year old grandson.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Zara Agha
National Children's Hospital
Bright
Rayburn Pleads For Exchange Control
In Washington the House was urged by Chairman Sam Rayburn of Texas to speed passage of the stock exchange regulation bill. He warned it is needed to prevent a market repeat of 1929 and criticized opponents for "vicious" attacks and "unmatched" propaganda against the measure, the committee, and himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Rayburn
Texas
Interstate Commerce Committee
House
Acting head of Iowa favors teaching students to think
Iowa City AP The University of Iowa named Dean Eugene Gilmore as president signaling a shift toward informal education. He advocates teaching mental self-reliance so students think for themselves, with faculty providing guidance while education remains an individual achievement.
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Iowa City
Walter A. Jessup
Eugene Gilmore
University of Iowa
Jessup
Gilmore
University of Iowa appoints Gilmore acting president
Dr Eugene A Gilmore dean of the college of law and former vice governor general of the Philippines was named acting president of the University of Iowa effective July 1 Dean Jessup will remain in nominal charge until then George F Zook declined the job Governor Baker of the state board announced Gilmore accepted the post and said he would keep the university on a high trajectory The board regrets Zooks refusal and praises Gilmore as a strong interim leader with long experience in education and government
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Iowa City
Eugene A. Gilmore
College of Law
Philippine Islands
University of Iowa
Gilmore
Walter A. Jessup
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
New York City
State Board of Education
George F. Zook
George
F. Zook
Beard
Dean Gilmore
Zook
R. Jexsup
Chester A. Phillips
College of Commerce
George W.°.Brode Dard
Child Welfare
Dr. Zook
Jessup
Baker
Board of Education
Iowa
The
Philippines
Law School
Dr. William H. Welch Dies at 84 in Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. William H. Welch, dean of scientific American medicine and a core member of Johns Hopkins Hospital's “big four,” died at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore after a long illness. Born in Norfolk Connecticut, he lived in Baltimore fifty years, never married, and was survived by nephew Senator Frederic C. Walcott of Connecticut. Prostate cancer caused his death.
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Baltimore
William H. Welch
Scientific American Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hopkins Medical School
Hopkins
Norfolk
Conn
New England
United States
Frederic C. Walcott
Connecticut
Laboratory twins born by test tube method shock Long Island
The birth of laboratory twins was announced by Salvatore Lauricella and wife of Lawrence Island New York. Dr Frances Seymour reports thirteen such babies in New York City and notes two are eugenic offspring of unmarried businesswomen. She describes two methods of artificial impregnation and donor blood testing with payments of 100 to 150 dollars.
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New York
Long Island
New York City
Frances Seymoure
Salvatore Laurecella
Lawrence
L. I
Seymoure
Supreme Court Refuses Ruling on Dry Law Sentences
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court refused to decide if all prisoners serving sentences for national prohibition violations must be released. The action leaves questions about blanket clemency and potential retroactive relief unresolved.
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Washington
Supreme Court
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Britain
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Ort Newton
DR. Newton
J.J. Wlaughlin
RFC
Verne Marshall
Bulletin
Rainey
Tugwell
Phil
Ippines
Dr. Welch
Scientific U. S. Medicine
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