Wendel testifies on threats linked to Lindbergh case
Paul H. Wendel, a Trenton attorney, testified in Newark that Ellis H. Parker pressured him to confess to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby to aid Gov. Harold Hoffman. Wendel said Parker claimed Hoffman sought Hauptmann’s new trial and vice presidency, threatening exposure if he refused. Parker allegedly warned of no action if Hoffman stayed in power.
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Newark
N. J
Paul H. Wendel
Trenton
Ellis H. Parker
Lindbergh
Harold G. Hoffman
Wendel
Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Parker
New Lisbon
Hauptmann
New York City
Howard Eastwood
Boileau Proposes Security Corp Tenancy Plan for Farms
Rep. Gerald Boileau Wisconsin proposed a new tenancy plan creating a 500 million dollar Farmers Security Corporation to lend for land purchases and rehabilitation. County committees would nominate loan recipients to lease lands with reduced rents. Purchases to be paid over 40 years, with payments capped at 25 percent of income and 1.5 percent interest. The plan aligns with the President's farm tenancy recommendations.
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Washington
Gerald Boileau
Wis
Congress
Farmers Security Corporation
Boileau
Court Hears Age Pension Argued In Contrast Setting
In Washington the Supreme Court room hosts a clash over the social security act with nine justices, ages 62 to 80, facing Edward McClennen for the plaintiffs and Robert Jackson and Charles Edward Quzanski Jr for the government. Thomas H. Eliot, 29, serves as general counsel for the social security board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Edward Francis McClennen
Robert H Jackson
Charles Edward Quzanski, Jr
Thomas H. Eliot
Social Security Board
Lous 10 Brandeis
One Killed In Bay State Forest Fire
An overnight forest fire in Plymouth Massachusetts killed one person and scorched a seven mile by two mile stretch of woodland. Firefighters and volunteers kept watch Wednesday as the blaze was brought under control and guarded against a new outbreak.
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Bay State
Plymouth Mass
Ohio River flood breaches Indiana pocket area
The Ohio River rose to 36.2 feet in Indiana's southwestern pocket, flooding over 1 000 acres of farmland. Union township farmers and CCC workers raised earthen barriers but many homes were evacuated in Vanderburgh county. Crests expected Thursday or Friday with relief hopes tied to a forecast under 38 feet.
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Evansville
Ind
Indiana
Union Township
CCC
Vanderburg
John F. Hull
Madison
Aurora
Rockport
Ohio
Wabash
Terre Haute
Vincennes
Mount Carmel
West Fork
White River
Elliston
Edwardsport
Petersburg
Charges Filed Against 19 Motorists For Last Year Plates
Justice A. S. Reed's court heard 19 motorists cited by Highway Patrolmen Martin and Hallgren for using last year's license plates. Five were fined on Wednesday with suspended penalties. R G Eagen A L Marine Frank Foushee and Aaron Delbridge among the fined. Bob McClenahan also fined for driving without a license and had last year plates charge dismissed after denying car ownership. others avoided fines or await court appearance.
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A. S. Reed
Martin and
Hallgren
R. G. Eagen
A. L. Marine
Frank Foushee
Aaron Delbridge
Bob McClenahan
McClenahan
Hudson Co. Sitdown Strike Ends Quickly
DETROIT AP The Hudson Motor Car company operated normally after a sitdown strike ended with a company spokesman calling it a misunderstanding. Strikers left the plant Tuesday afternoon and the night shift arrived, with other workers told to report as usual today.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Company
Hopkins Defends Full $1.5 Billion 1938 Relief Budget
Washington Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee defending the administration’s proposed relief budget of 1.5 billion dollars for 1938. Aides emphasize relief aims and federal spending to alleviate unemployment and poverty.
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Washington
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
House Appropriations
Shaw Re-elected Los Angeles Mayor by 25000 Margin
Frank Shaw was re-elected mayor of Los Angeles by a majority of about 25 000 over Supervisor John Anson Ford as returns neared completion.
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Los Angeles
INS
Frank Shaw
John Anson Ford
Taft Widow Pension Approved by House
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill granting Mrs Helen H. Taft widow of former President William Howard Taft a $5,000 annual pension.
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Washington
House
Senate
Helen H. Taft
William Howard Taft
Alleged Counterfeit Ring Nabbed in Detroit Area
Detroit secret service chief announces arrest of five men linked to a counterfeit ring that passed about $2000 in fake bills in Michigan beer gardens this year. Suspects include Peter Bucceri 42 John Edmondson 33 Charles Shew 37 Leon Grants 37 and Henry Mangio 35 held in Mason City Sioux City New York City and Detroit.
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Detroit
INS
George F. Boos
Secret Service
Mason City
New York City
Boos
Michigan Beer Gardens
Peter Bucceri
United States
Sicily
John Edmondson
Charles Shew
Leon Grants
Sioux City
New York
Henry Mangio
Cedar Rapids City Briefs and Personal Items
Cedar Rapids cancels Cedar Rapids Air Hawks meeting for Thursday night as recreation chief Nevin Nichols said. Immaculate Conception school fire at 830 Fourth Avenue SE in music room. lace curtains ignited and were extinguished by occupants. Mrs Max Groth of 165 Twenty Fourth Street SE returns from Peoria after visiting her daughter and son in law Alfred Hoelzen, formerly with Lamson Brothers in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids Air Hawks
Nevin Nichols
Immaculate Conception
Fourth Avenue SE
Max Groth
Twentyfourth Street
Peoria
Alfred Hoelzen
Hoelzen
Lamson Brothers
Cedar Rapids
Waltonian Luncheon Club Meets at YMCA Speaker on Black Bass
The Waltonian luncheon club will gather Thursday at the YMCA. Early North will discuss black bass and display lures and tackle. The black bass season opens June 15, and all sportsmen and Waltonians are invited.
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Waltonian
Children’s playground garden crews asked to report with tools
Mrs L J Smith director of the children's playground gardens urged children enrolled in the playground gardens at Fillmore Cleveland Hayes and street gardens to report at their gardens with hoes rakes and seeds on a schedule starting Wednesday at 4 p m Fillmore Thursday 4 p m Cleveland Friday 4 p m Hayes and Saturday at 30 a m J street SW
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L. J. Smith
Fillmore
Cleveland
Hayes
J Street
Moose hall initiation of eleven new members
Forty three Loyal Order of Moose members gathered Monday for initiating eleven new members. Past Dictator Stewart Heath installed officers H B Warthon dictator Otto Carlson vice dictator W L Glessner prelate J W Dahl secretary William Herbie treasurer Rudolph Martinee trustee Al Akers inner guard and Lloyd Barker outer guard.
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Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
Stewart Heath
H. B. Warthon
Otto Carlson
W. L. Glessner
J. W. Dahl
William Herbie
Rudolph Martinee
al Akers
Lloyd Barker
Five motorists fined in police court for overtime parking
Henry Beck of 609 Sixteenth Street SE Carl Hummell of 2044 Fifth Avenue SE A Angoatt of 1825 Eighth Avenue SE Karl Schmidt of 321 Twenty Second Street NE and Francis Brinkman of 1335 Fifth Street NW were fined 1 and costs. N T Habib of 1216 Tenth Street SE paid 1 and costs for alley parking and Emma Delp of 2265 Meadow Brook Drive SE paid 1 for double parking.
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Henry Beck
Sixteenth Street
Carl Hummell
Fifth Avenue
Iowa woman stages sitdown strike on porch of statehouse
Mrs Katherine Rush 41 a former WPA sewing project worker staged a one woman sitdown protest on the west porch of the Iowa statehouse in Des Moines She said she has not eaten since beginning her action to demand reinstatement her pay was 40 a month She hitchhiked to Des Moines from Leon after being dropped from WPA rolls March 4
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Des Moines
Katherine Rush
Statehouse
Con
State House
Roosevelt
Kraschel
Mrs. Bush
Leon
WPA _ rolls
Brook breaks Capetown England flight record by Amy Mollison
H L Brook, English flyer, landed at 3 24 pm on Wednesday breaking Amy Johnson Mollison's Capetown to England record by over sixteen hours. He completed the single leg in four days 20 minutes. He also set an unofficial round trip solo record England to Capetown and back in nine days 9 1 2 hours.
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Heston
Eng
H. L. Brook
Amy Johnson Mollison
Capetown
England
Brook
Roosevelt Yacht Returns Toward Aransas Pass
The Potomac with President Roosevelt aboard left Brazos Santiago Pass at 6 20 am on Wednesday and appears headed back to Aransas Pass Port Isabel Texas cases indicate the voyage is underway on the Texas coast.
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Roosevelt
Aransas Pass
Port Isabel, Tex
Potomac
President Roosevelt
Brazos Santiago Pass
Local residents face court sentences for intoxication
Sidney Abbott 61 of 524 B Ave NE received a 30 day county jail term in Justice Reed's court with half suspended on a drunkenness charge. T C May 32 of Minneapolis and M S Smith 2044 Madison St NE were fined $10 and costs each for intoxication after police found them in a car near the old post office building.
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Sidney Abbott
B Avenue NE
Justice A. S Reed
Abbott
Reed
T C May
Minneapolis
M S Smith
Madison Street
Good Rehearsal Promises Fine Il Trovatore Show
Cedar Rapids prepares for Il Trovatore at Shrine auditorium with a strong rehearsal and a cast of about 200. Richard Bonelli Sonia Sharnova Marjorie Montello John Pane Gasser Teodor Lovich joined Tuesday as the orchestra, under Prof. Paul S. Ray of Coe College, praised the performance. Marianne Dvorak and Carl Zbanek, both Coe alumni, will sing Inez and Ruez respectively in the production with Chicago Festival Opera cooperation.
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Shrine Temple
Richard Bonelli
Mme
Sonia Sharnova
Marjorie Montello
John Pane-Gasser
Teodor Lovich
Shrine Auditorium
Spanish Palace
Paul S. Ray
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Cramer
Chicago Festival Opera Company
Chicago
Marianne Dvorak
Upland Drive SE
Inez
Leonora
Carl Zbanek
Second Avenue SE
Ruez
Manrico
Miss Dvorak
Congress Balks at Roosevelt Policies
Roosevelt faces opposition as Congress debates court reorganization and executive-branch overhaul. Proposals include up to six new justices, two new cabinet posts, and consolidation of independent agencies within twelve departments. Supporters argue a coordinated White House staff is needed while opponents favor slow reform.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Social Welfare
White House
Tear Clothes Off Woman Passenger on Chicago Bus
Four attackers assaulted 29 year old Jennie Modell on a crowded Chicago trolley bus as it passed under a via duct. They beat her and stripped most of her clothing. Police attributed the assault to a labor dispute at the printing company where she worked. The assailants escaped.
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Chicago
Jennie Modell
Bomb Explosion Kills One Injures Twenty On Express Train
A Bordeaux to Marseille express train explosion in Marseille killed one passenger and injured twenty others. The device, tied to a coupling, was an incendiary explosive internal machine and went off as the train reached sixty miles an hour, showering passengers with glass and luggage fragments.
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Marseille
France
Nebraskans favor unicameral plan in informal poll
In Lincoln Nebraska an informal AP poll shows overwhelming support for keeping Nebraska’s one house unicameral legislature and strong opposition to returning to a two house system.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
House Assembly
Man Who Shot Self Ends Life By Hanging
A man who shot himself five weeks ago in Cedar Rapids ends his life by hanging after arriving from Postville. Born in Germany on October 9 1880 he married Emma Friis January 2 1901 and left six children two died. Surviving widow three daughters one son two sisters and two brothers and a grandson. Body at Rohn funeral home with arrangements pending.
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Cedar Rapids
Postville
Germany
Iown
Breuer
Emma Friis
Mr. Breuer
A.R. Cornelius
Ninth Street
Ralph Owen
Rockford Road
George Kuba
Donald Owen
Rohn Funeral Home
Death of Methodist Educator Dr Frederick Eiselen
The Rev Dr Frederick C Eiselen, 64, general secretary of the Methodist board of education, died after months of illness in Evanston Illinois. An educator author and church executive he led Garrett Biblical Institute from 1924 after joining its faculty in 1902 and later became secretary of the Methodist board in 1932. He held degrees from New York University Columbia Cornell College and Lawrence College among others.
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Evanston
Ill
Frederick C. Eiselen
Board of Education
The
Methodist Church
Eiselen
Garrett Biblical Institute
Methodist Board
New York University
Columbia
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Lawrence College
Appleton, Wis
Edward Duke of Windsor to Return to England Within a Year
Court circles believe Edward Duke of Windsor will end his exile within twelve months after his brother’s coronation and make England his home at Fort Belvedere. He is to honeymoon in France and Austria with the American bride and split time between England and Austria.
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London
Edward
Duke of Windsor
England
Fort Belvedere
Duchess of Windsor
France
Austria
Wallis Dowry Tale Amid Chateaux Guard at French Estate
The report describes Princess Wallis and her husband separated at the chateau with a heavy guard, Mrs. Simpson occupying the old wing and the duke in the new wing. It notes 20 gendarmes, surete agents, Scotland Yard, and garde mobile protecting the fortress like site. The 1508 Briconet wing, powder factories, and 1833 Drake Del Castillo ownership are cited alongside a moat, crenellations, and seven lightning rods.
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Chateau
Indre
Bedaux
Simpson
Jacobsen Names Louis Murphy's Nephew As Temporary Secretary
Frank Haggerty of Dubuque nephew of the late Senator Louis Murphy has been named temporary secretary to Representative W. S. Jacobsen of Iowa. He will serve with Jacobsen until July or August when a permanent appointee will be chosen. Haggerty has worked in Washington for the agricultural administration and the farm credit administration and is currently unemployed.
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Gazette
Washington
D. C
Frank Haggerty
Dubuque
Louis Murphy
Tom Slowie
Clinton
W. S. Jacobsen
Iowa
Haggerty
Jacobsen
Agricultural Administration
The
Farm Credit Administration
Tendon Injury From Porcelain Break at Home
Tom Wright manager of the Blue Valley dairy suffered a cut tendon in the index finger of his right hand when a porcelain piece broke while he turned a faucet at his Grande Avenue Southeast home Wednesday morning. He received stitches at St Luke’s hospital and was to be discharged later that day.
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Tom Wright
Grande Avenue SE
Blue Valley
Wright
St. Lukes Hospital
Portland
Carpenter
E Avenue NW
Bandits Loot First National Bank in Plymouth
Three armed bandits looted the First National Bank of Plymouth for $7000. One assailant was nicknamed Al Brady by companions. The trio kidnapped a motorist and escaped, with police suspecting connection to the Indiana gang that previously took $20,000 from a Northville bank weeks earlier.
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Plymouth, Mich
INS
al Brady
First National Bank of
Plymouth
Indiana
Northville
Woman Burned as Whisky-Set Fire Hurts Mrs Stamay
Mrs Rose Stamay, hospitalized with burns, told police a 40 year old WPA worker threw whisky on her clothing and touched a match to it.
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Cleveland
Rose Stamay
Burns
WPA
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Mexico
Cruise Grey
Cape Codmist
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Self
Frederick Eiselen
Wallis
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