G-Man Puts Pressure on Postal Inspectors Over Enemies Capture
FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover led a Toledo raid capturing Harry Campbell and Sam Cokar, while postal inspectors refused aid, sparking charges of professional jealousy. Congress called for hearings as rivals traded blame and officials denied coercion or collusion.
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Washington
INS
Post Office Inspection Unit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Toledo
Harry Campbell
Sam Cokar
Cokar
Campbell
Garrettville
Ohio
Hoover
Justice Department
G-men
Camp Health Fund plea and looming federal spending
A public appeal urges donations to Camp Good Health for Cedar Rapids children while a national debate over a $2.36 trillion work relief bill presses. Critics warn of immense spending, with figures cited by House Appropriations Chair Buchanan and relief plans outlined by Harry Hopkins, prompting questions about elections and inflation risks.
F B I catches top bandits but life terms may fade
The piece notes that federal life sentences often do not equal life in prison with 45 year terms and parole possible after about 15 years. It cites Hoover and editors in Washington criticizing federal sentencing as not truly lifelike.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Hoover
Uncle Sam
Governor Herring Calls May 15 Social Security Meeting
Governor Herring issues a Des Moines notice inviting residents to a May 15 gathering at 10 am in the state capitol house chamber to discuss legislative action for potential Washington social security aid. The memo reflects uncertainty about solving the problem with law and highlights public desire for social security.
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Omes
Herring
House
Capitol
Washington
Des Moines
Hoover slaps at sheriff over Campbell arrest facts
Washington AP says J Edgar Hoover accused officials of failing to recognize Campbell from his widely displayed pictures. He criticized Toledo Sheriff James O Reilly and Police Chief Ray Allen for their roles in the arrest of Campbell’s associate, and warned prosecutors would pursue anyone aiding the Barker Karpis gang.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Harry Campbell
Bob Miller
Campbell
Ray Allen
Toledo Police
Hoover
Tom
Barker-Karpis
Fourth suspect tied to Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case
Federal agents say a fourth person may be connected to the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping of 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser. William Mahan, the Waleys, and Harmon and Margaret Waley face charges. Mahan was under surveillance in San Francisco before arrest and flown to Tacoma by a Justice Department team.
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Tacoma
Wash
INS
Weyerhaeuser
International News Service
John Doe
William Mahan
Harmon
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Mahan
Waleys
San Francisco
Departments of Justice
Hindenburg En Route to U S Dock at Naval Air Station
The German dirigible Hindenburg on its first commercial U S flight is expected to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station around 3 to 4 a m CST Saturday after a naval radio message. It was about 800 miles from New York at 1 40 p m CST Friday per Mackay Radio reports.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Ins
United States
Naval Air Station
New York
Mackay Radio
Mass in the Sky Aboard the Hindenburg Maiden Flight
As the Hindenburg sails about 1,400 miles from New York for its first North Atlantic crossing a high mass is celebrated aboard. Father Schulte officiates in the airship’s social hall with the craft 800 feet above the Atlantic. Hugo Eckener and Captain Lehmann expect to pass New York Harbor around six a.m. Saturday.
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Zeppelin Hindenburg
INS
Zeppelin
Hindenburg
New York
North Atlantic
Father Schulte
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Ernest Lehmann
New York Harbor
Graf Zeppelin Lands in Friedrichshafen After South Atlantic Flight
The Graf Zeppelin, granted special permission to overfly France after damages in Rio de Janeiro, landed in Friedrichshafen, Germany, concluding another routine voyage across the South Atlantic.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
INS
France
Rio de Janeiro
Graf Zeppelin
South Atlantic
House approves relief funds and pension provisions in wartime deficit bill
Washington reports the House advanced a 2.364 billion relief deficiency measure with 308 million for continuous civilian conservation corps staffing at 350,000. It also approved 187.9 million to finance old age pensions under Social Security. Debates highlighted calls to earmark funds for Ickes and warn of a total 10.5 billion in appropriations.
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House of Representatives
Chairman Buchanan
House of Representatives Appropriations Committee
Buchanan
Washington
Congress
Civilian Conservation Corps
INS
House
Harold L. Ickes
Alfred F. Beiter
N. Y
PWA
Ickes
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Beiter
Texas
Appropriations Committee
Democratic Party
Herring to Give Linn County Information on 75 Tax Returns
Governor Clyde Herring announced he will submit a list of seventy five Linn county men to the Iowa state board of assessment and review for examination of possible omissions on state 6 mill tax returns. The governor refused to release the records to Linn county supervisors despite an attorney general opinion. The board will check the state returns against federal income tax data already accessible to the board.
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Davenport
INS
Linn County
Clyde Herring
Linn
Iowa State Board of Assessment and Review
Board of Review
Following the Light of Faith Beyond Family Pressure
A reader asks about duty to the church and breaking from a home church. Dr Newton says adults must follow their own conscience, finding a church that suits their needs, even if it causes parental friction. He warns against coercion and insists there is only one true church made of many denominations.
Three Polish Airmen Killed in Plane Collision
In Poland near Poznań three Polish air squadron planes collided during maneuvers Friday. Three airmen were killed and a fourth seriously wounded in the crash.
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Warsaw
Poland
Poznea
Selassie and family arrive at Jerusalem
Emperor Haile Selassie and the Ethiopian imperial family reached Jerusalem from Haifa as political refugees seeking asylum in Palestine. They stayed at the King David hotel while arrangements for a permanent residence were made and were received by British authorities as honored guests with a guarded journey to the city.
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Jerusalem
Haile Selassie
Haifa
Palestine
Lion of Judah
King David Hotel
Arthur Wauchope
15 Inch Snow Closes Colorado Roads and Schools
A 15 inch snowstorm buried Trinidad Walsenburg and much of southern Colorado after a blizzard hit late Thursday. Roads blocked power lines down and trains delayed. Interstate buses and private cars stranded on Raton pass. a Los Angeles bound bus with thirty passengers stalled.
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Denver
Sns
Trinidad
Walsenburg
Colorado
Raton Pass
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Temperature recurs as Cedar Rapids hits 91 again
Cedar Rapids records beat the year to date high at 91 degrees as of 3 p.m. Friday under a partly cloudy sky. The day began at 60 and climbed to 85 by 10 a.m. and 90 at 1 15 p.m. Thursday topped at 88, then cooled to 78 by 7 p.m. and 63 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Mother's Day Fund Aims to Aid Cedar Rapids Camp Good Health
A Cedar Rapids mother in poverty seeks help through a Mother's Day gift to the Camp Good Health Fund. Two children, Peter and Lois, need nourishing food and summer camp access to build strength and reduce illness risks while the mother copes with past tuberculosis and winter hardship. Contributions support the summer camp run by the Public Health Nursing association for needy disabled children in Cedar Rapids.
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Camp Good Health Fund
Cedar Rapids
Peter
Lois
Louis
Public Health Nursing Association
Gazette
The
Iowa
Paroled Gunman Jack Hines Once Sentenced for Detective Shooting
DES MOINES AP The Iowa parole board listed twenty four convicts paroled in April including Jack Hines who in 1932 was sentenced to thirty years in Fort Madison for shooting Des Moines detective Joe Loehr. Hines was wounded during the escape and later captured.
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Des Moines
State Parole Board
Iowa
Jack Hines
Fort Madison
Joe Loehr
Hines
Loehr
Paul Castelline
J. S. Remine
Knoxville
Tenn
M. D. Cooney
Dubuque
Frank Carroll
George M. Simpson
West Union
Jack Brophy
Minnie Traynor
Minnesota
Rochester
Half Billion Naval Bill Passes Senate in Peace Time
The Navy Department's $529,000,000 supply bill for 1937, the largest in peacetime, cleared the Senate on Friday. It funds the construction of two new capital battleships and sparked extensive debate.
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Washington
Navy Department
Senate
Quick truck driver saves man in clothes fire
Paul Boots Brown a Nash Fin ch company driver at 112 Elev enth street NW acted quickly at Bennett service station when Glenn Rhinehart 1649 Ellis boulevard NW was engulfed in flames from a fuel pump leak The driver rolled out the fire smothering it Rhinehart 31 was taken to Mercy hospital with extensive leg burns and facial burns while other body parts escaped serious injury
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Paul “Boots” Brown
Eleventh Street
Nash-Finch Company
Glenn Rhinehart
Ellis Boulevard NW
Rhinehart
Bennett
Brown
Mercy Hospital
Two Teens Captured in Banker's Killing Near Parish
State police said two young gunmen were captured in the Adirondack foothills about one mile east of Parish, N Y, after fatally shooting Charles M Salis bury 78 president of the Locona bank during an attempted Thursday robbery.
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Pulaski
N. Y
Charles M. Salisbury
Locona Bank
Adirondack
Parish
N. Y. Parish
Lacona
Senate Seeks Data On Tugwell Unit In Resettlement
A Senate resolution introduced by Senator Barbour of New Jersey calling on the Resettlement Administration to provide information on its wide spread activities passed Friday without a dissenting vote. The measure had previously failed as an amendment to a proposal asking Secretary Wallace for AAA beneficiary details.
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May
Washington
Ins
Barbour
New Jersey
Resettlement Administration
Senate
Vandenberg
Michigan
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
AAA
Straphanger's misstep in Chicago ends with glass and doughnut debris
Edward Skoroz attempted to board a street car in Chicago on Friday. He slipped, fell into a splintered plate glass window of a doughnut shop, and was left dazed by the impact and the sight of crushed doughnuts.
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Chicago
Edward Skoroz
Youth Admits Plotting With Victim's Bride
Maynard Lenox 18 of East Dubuque confessed to police that he and Mrs. Pearl Shine 24 plotted and executed the death of her husband Dan Shine 60 a Clayton county farmer. Lenox claimed the plot was framed over the weekend and that Mrs Shine fired the gun. he placed the weapon and rigged a string to simulate the victim's act. Mrs Shine accused Lenox, saying he said he would kill Shine then come to live with her. Lenox was arrested in East Dubuque and taken to Elkader. he said he accompanied the Shines on a wedding celebration and tavern tour the day before the killing.
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Palas
Lenox
Dan Shine
East Dubuque
Manchester
Shines
Inquest Hears Subpoenaed Witnesses in Shine Death Case
Coroner Leslie Delke held an inquest at 2 p.m. into the death of Dan Shine, 60, with twenty witnesses subpoenaed. Tim Shine, 70, brother of the deceased, sought to invalidate the transfer of the 80 acre farm to Dan’s wife, filed May 5. Prior to his April 30 marriage, Dan and Tim farmed 160 acres together, and Mrs Shine had worked as a housekeeper in their home since last fall.
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Eleader
Leslie Delke
Dan Shine
Tim Shine
Elkader
Senate To Get Navy Treaty Next Week
President Roosevelt said the London naval pact signed by the United States Great Britain and France would likely be submitted to the Senate early next week. The treaty limits sizes of certain warships and provides information exchange on construction plans.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
London
United States
Great Britain
France
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