Bank Directors Named for Guaranty Bank Trust Opening
Seven men will steer Guaranty Bank and Trust Company which opened Saturday and began paying 50 percent of deposits from American Trust and Cedar Rapids Savings banks. Directors include Van Vechten Shaffer president George J. Laird vice president Reginald B. Figge cashier along with Fred J. Figge Ernest R. Moore Weaver Witwer H Earle Muzzy Robert Sinclair and G Stewart Holmes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Gazette
van Vechten Shaffer
George J. Laird
Reginald B. Figge
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
American Trust
Cedar Rapids Savings Banks
New Bank
Fred J. Figge
Ossian
Ernest R. Moore
Cedar Rapids
Weaver Witwer
H Earle Muzzy
Quaker Oats Company
Robert 8. Sinclair
Indianapolis
Quota Talks Hint U S May Yield Wheat Share to Argentina
International wheat talks in London threaten to reallocate export quotas to Argentina as Canada and the United States face pressure to concede. Officials warn the four major producers Canada Argentina Australia and the United States must reach a compromise to stabilize prices and honor the world export pact. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham will oversee the sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Argentina
Canada
Australia
Rome
States
Els
Robert W. Bingham
Ambulance Hit While En Route to Accident Scene
A collision in Cedar Rapids left Frank Fremmer with a fractured leg and head gash after an ambulance en route to an incident was struck by a street car. Don Withers, driving east on First avenue, swerved to avoid Fremmer, striking him before the ambulance sideswiped a street car and toppled onto the curb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Frank V. Fremmer
Airedale
Donald Withers
First Street NW
First Avenue
Fifteenth Street E
Fremmer
Thirteenth Street
St. Luke's Hospital
William Conway
Thirty-fifth Street
Withers
Fifteenth Street
Weather Outlook for May 7 to 12 in Midwest Plains
Chicago forecast notes period May 7 through 12 with no widespread rain. Local showers possible mainly in northern areas. Temperatures expected to run above normal across the upper Mississippi valley lower Missouri valley and northern central plains.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Future AAA Cuts Focus On Crop Acreage
Des Moines Iowa Dr A G Black head of the corn hog section says future production control programs may center on crop acreage adjustments. He notes plans for a busy period with about a million corn hog contracts expected and cotton contracts similarly timed. He adds Iowa suggestions to use government corn for acreage reductions are under serious consideration.
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Des Moines
A. G. Black
AAA
Black
State
State Board of Review
Washington
United States
Iowa
Roosevelt Attends Woodin Funeral and Plans Weekend Cruise
President Roosevelt sails Sequoia at 9 06 PM to mourn William H Woodin and consider recovery program steps. In New York he attends Woodin funeral at Fifth Ave Presbyterian Church with Mrs Roosevelt and leaders including Garner Rainey Morgenthau Perkins Dern and Roper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Sequoia
Potomac
William H. Woodin
New York
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fifth Street
Wiliam H. Woodin
Anthony
Pennsylvania Station
John N. Garner
Henry T. Rainey
Joseph T. Robinson
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Woodin
Frances Perkins
George H. Dern
Daniel C. Roper
Claims King Albert was tapped on the head not killed
London reports Lieut Graham Seton Hutchison a war time intelligence officer and spy novelist questions the kings death as accidental saying he has substantial evidence. He insists Belgians say the king was murdered and plans to include the claim in an upcoming book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Albert
Graham Seton Hutchison
Europe
Paris
Belgium
Hutchison
Mansfield
Scandal Gossip and the World and His Wife
A Maine island couple becomes the target of ghastly gossip after the husband dies during a storm. An autopsy clears the wife, but the tale wrecks her life. The piece condemns false witness and the harm of rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Socrates
Tragedy at Little Rapids Pulp Company Claims Worker
Peter Janssen a 28 year old from Lawrence was killed at the Little Rapids Pulp Company in Green Bay when he was caught and dragged by a conveyor shaft on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene and his death is under investigation by local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Bay
Wis
Peter Janssen
Lawrence
Stantly
Little Rapids Pulp Company
Little Rapids
Depositors Get Half Back as Guaranty Bank Opens
Depositors at American Trust and Cedar Rapids Savings receive about 50 percent of long frozen funds through the new Guaranty Bank and Trust company. Many skipped Saturday claims to aid those most in need. others opened new accounts to cover obligations. The bank will be open 9 30 to 2 daily starting Monday and offers phone check for service wait times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Trust
Cedar Rapids Savings Banks
New Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Silverites Confer With Roosevelt On Silver Legislation
A 45 minute conference with President Roosevelt aboard a speeding train to New York gave silver bloc leaders hope for a compromise before adjournment. They outlined proposals including nationalization at about 50 cents an ounce, a 70 percent gold 30 percent silver currency reserve, and participation in international efforts to raise world silver prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Senate
White House
Baltimore
William H. King
Utah
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Elmer Thomas
Oklo
Wheeler
Conklin And Invalid Wed In Culmination Of 2 Year Romance
Hollywood AP reports film comedian Chester Conklin married Margerita Rouse an invalid who had ridden in a portable bed. The ceremony took place at St Albans Liberal Catholic church as the pair begin a hopeful recovery from arthritis.
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Conklin
Invalid
Hollywood
Margerita Rouse
Chester Conklin
St. Alban's
Miss Rouse
Grand Rapids
Mich
Eee
Oskaloosa, Tia
Borah Calls for Republican Revival Amid Labor and Trade Talks
Senator Borah urged a rebirth of the Republican Party free from old economic interests. Hugh S. Johnson agreed to have his labor advisory board nominate worker representatives to industrial relations boards. The AP summary notes various 1930s reforms and international debt opinions.
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Borah
Idaho
Republican Party
Hugh S. Johnson
Labor Advisory Board
American Federation of Labor
NRA
Cummings
Soviet Union
United States
England
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Washington man nabbed in Denver
Raymond Zinn of Washington Iowa was arrested by Denver police on Saturday at the request of Iowa county attorney George T Morrison. Zinn claimed to be a bank examiner from Washington Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Denver
Colo
Raymond Zinn
Zinn
George T Morrison
Iowa City
Congress approves sweeping federal crime bills
The House rapid fire passed ten DOJ backed measures to fight gang crime. New federal offenses cover harming officers, aiding prison mutinies, fleeing prosecutions, extortion via communication, interstate theft, and robbing federal banks with penalties up to twenty five years and fines to ten thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
John Dillinger
Department of Justice
Federal Reserve of National Bank
Hero Decorated For Disarming Maniac
Fort Crook Nebraska AP reports Sergeant Thomas C. Watson received the soldier's medal for peace time heroism after disarming a deranged man and subduing him. The decoration was presented by Major General Frank R. McCoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Crook
Neb
Thomas C. Watson
Frank R. McCoy
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1934
In Cedar Rapids a toll measure for 1934 is noted with data on traffic incidents. The record lists numbers for accidents injuries and deaths, though the details are partially obscured in the OCR text.
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Cedar Rapids
Italian Naval Budget Expanded By Forty Million
Rome reports Mussolini's government boosts the Italian naval budget by 40,992,000 dollars citing urgent need. The measure funds five-year construction from 1935 to 1940 with yearly increases of 50, 150, 120, 100, and 60 million lira.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Hull warns of arms dangers among nations
Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned against undue pessimism over the arming trend and urged peace stabilization. He spoke to Cumberland University alumni in Lebanon Tennessee, stressing that despite volcanic tensions, civilized peoples must act to prevent a new period of war and avoid a long night.
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Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
Cumberland University
Lebanon
Tenn
Rumor Insull May Bust Things Open in Return
Chicago buzzes from Gold Coast penthouses to back street tenements as Samuel Insull nears return. Officials promise a speedy trial on charges carrying up to 150 years and 250000 in fines, while rumors swirl he will name others and trigger a wider case.
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Chicago
Gold Coast
LaSalle Street
Insull
Dwight H. Green
Flght
Insull Extradition Watch Pauses as Secrecy Deepens
New York reports a hush from the department of justice over plans to receive Samuel Insull the former utilities chief in the United States on Monday. Samuel Insull Jr arrives from Chicago to greet his father but faces uncertain access to a possible audience before extradition to the Midwest.
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New York
Samuel Insull
America
Mediterranean Sea
Department of Justice
United States
Chicago
Mid-West
Young Insull
Jury frees all defendants in Chicago racketeering case
A Chicago jury acquitted 17 defendants after four months of trial in a case charging extortion schemes across laundry, dyeing, cleaning and beverage industries. Noted figures Capone and Humphries were not tried. Acquittals included Squires, Kaplan, Klein, Canfield and several union leaders and business agents. Oscar Nelson, previously charged, was cleared earlier.
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Chicago
Capone
Humphries
Alephonse
Scarface al’ Capone
Murray Humphries
Benjamin M. Squires
University of Chicago
Aaron, Rapiro
York
Oyase
Une
Squires and
Sapire
Morris I. Kaplan
Trade Association
T. Henry Klein
Chicago Laundry Association
Arthur L. Canfield
Chicago Beverage Institute
Walter Crowley
Master Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Institute
Joseph Bush Swaniee
Laundry and Dyehouse Drivers’ ‘Union
George J. Bendel
George L. Knott
Drivers’ Union
Robert Rado
Charles Goldstein
Jean Franks
James P. Gorman
Retail Cleaners and Dyers’ Union
al Boris
Ben Abrams
Dyehouse Workers
Jerry Donovan
Carbonated Beverage Drivers’ Union
Marshall Rose
Cook County Hand Laundry Association
Oscar F. Nelson
City Controller of New York Dies During Ride
New York City controller W Arthur Cunningham died of a heart attack while horseback riding near Northport Long Island on Saturday. He was a key figure in Mayor LaGuardia's fusion administration and died minutes before medical help arrived.
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New York
INS
Northport
L. I
W. Arthur Cunningham
LaGuardia
Officers Elected By Baptist Group
DeLoris Lowney of Dubuque was elected president of the Mid-Eastern Iowa Baptist young people's association at the spring rally in Cedar Rapids. Fred Parlis Cedar Rapids was the predecessor. Raymond Eckhart Marion was chosen vice president and Norma Diltz Iowa City and Howard Sunday Anamosa were secretary and treasurer. The Rev. E E Dierks Iowa City was re elected as adult adviser.
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DeLoris Lowney
Dubuque
Iowa Baptist Young People's Association
First Baptist Church
Cedar Rapids
Miss Lowney
Fred Parlis
Raymond Eckhart
Marion
Norma Diltz
Iowa City
Howard Sunday
Anamosa
E. E. Dierks
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Guaranty Bank
Tru
Witwer
Robert Bee Sinclair
Montleur
H. Earle Muzzy
Bulletin
King Albert
DR. Newton
THE
Associated Press
Hull
Rumor Insull
Sapiro
Squires
Cedar Rapids News
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