Hindenburg Makes Atlantic Flight to U S Amid Fanfare
The German airship Hindenburg arrives at Lakehurst Naval Air Station New Jersey marking the first commercial Europe to United States flight. The 62 hour voyage cuts the Graf Zeppelin record by over a day and signals regular passenger mail and freight service between continents.
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Lakehurst Naval Air Station
N. J
Europe
United States
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Graf Zeppelin
First Trade Flight Across Atlantic by Hindenburg
Aboard the Hindenburg at Lakehurst N J a 61 hour 33 minute crossing marked the first mail passenger and freight service across the North Atlantic. Fifty one passengers and fifty six crew completed the historic flight from mid Europe near Switzerland. the journey showcased the airship's comfort and quiet as observers noted the continent to coast arrival and the sight of America at 4 12 am EDT.
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Lakehurst
Hugo Eckener
Zeppelin
Ernst Lehmann
Graf
Eckener
America
Lieut
Comdr
George Mills
Mills
Scott Peck
U. S. Navy
Charles E. Rosendahl
N. J
Atlantic
Hindenburg
North Atlantic
Europe
Switzerland
Austria
Africa
Asia
Mannheim
Cologne
England
Lands End
American
Five Rescued From Snowbound Coach At Raton Pass
New Mexico state police brought five of 150 marooned travelers down from a snowbound coach atop Raton Pass after they endured 12 hours without food or water.
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Raton
N. M
Raton Pass
New Mexico
Suspect Denies Killing Two Maine Girls
James H. Folsom 39, paroled convict, denies the confession after being moved from an Augusta jail to Waterville on charges he killed Mary Proulx 7 of Waterville last Sunday and Annie Knights 12 of Fairfield last October. He allegedly confessed after being captured on a Cumberland farm and later claimed he wrote the statement under fear.
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Waterville
INS
James H. Folsom
Skowhegan
Augusta
Mary Proulx
Annie K. Knights
Fairfield
Maine
Folsom
Henry E. Burnell
Cumberland
Portland
Hollis E. Strout
Spring Brings Big Demand for Bicycles
J. J. Whalen reports at least 60 people answered his Want Ad seeking both girls and boys bicycles. He notes the ad sold the bicycle advertised. Readers are urged to call 2-1121 before 8 pm to place Want Ads in The Gazette’s Sunday section. Also mentions balloons for sale and cheap items.
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J. J. Whalen
Thirteenth Avenue SW
the Gazette
Denver Mail Theft Ring Nets Bonds Across Five States
Twelve men including a Denver banker and a prominent attorney are jailed in Denver and St Paul on conspiracy charges over a three year spree. Authorities say the gang robbed post offices and rail depots across Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota and South Dakota and moved bonds through a fence in Denver. McBride pleaded guilty to possession of stolen bonds while Oliver P. Arnold denied knowing the loot.
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Denver
INS
United States
St. Paul
Oliver P. Arnold
Leo J. Crowley
Charles Roberts
William G. West
Ralph A. Clifton
Harold P. Kennedy
John M. McBride
O. G. McClellan
Elmer F. Trower
John Edwards
Jack Segar
Winston W. Clement
Tacoma
Wash
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Edwards
Crookston
Minn
John F. Streich
Robert F. Baldwin
Minneapolis
Harold Bailey
Stillwater
Arnold
Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank
McKellar Says He Hadn't Heard of G-Men Karpis Capture
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar said he had not heard about the capture of Alvin Karpis Harry Campbell and William Mahan by federal agents. He had asked J Edgar Hoover at a Senate hearing who arrested Hoover replied Hoover said his work is in another department and he is a legislator.
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Washington
ULP
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tenn
G-men
Alvin Karpis
Harry Campbell
William Mahan
McKellar
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Senate Committee
Mr. Hoover
Hoover
Karpis
Campbell
Government
Mussolini Vows No Compromise on Ethiopia Annexation
Rome reports Mussolini declares Ethiopia must be annexed, pledging relentless campaign of "civilization" with schools hospitals and roads. Grand council to meet to proclaim annexation, article asserts Ethiopia is Italian in fact and by right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
INS
Grand Council
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Africa
Popolo D’italia
Ilduce
Italy
Italy to annex Ethiopia as colonial possession says Italian envoy
Exchange Telegraph reports from Addis Ababa quote an Italian spokesman saying Italy will annex Ethiopia, rename it, and govern as a dependent. Marshal Badoglio would become viceroy and the king proclaimed emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Iitaly
Ethiopia
Exchange Telegraph Agency
Addis Ababa
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Jockey Pronounced Dead Demands to Ride Today
Ralph Neves a 19 year old jockey who was declared dead after a Bay Meadows spill insisted on riding his five scheduled mounts the next day. He initially revived after a track hospital injection and sat up within twenty minutes demanding to ride again.
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San Mateo
Calif
Ralph Neves
Bay Meadows
Fannikins
Neves
J. A. Warburton
Gov Eugene Talmadge Wins Court Victory In Power Clash
In Atlanta the Georgia Supreme Court backed Gov Eugene Talmadge ruling his suspension of State Treasurer George B Hamilton and appointment of J B Tobe Daniel was legally authorized. The decision clears the way for the governor to run the state without an appropriation act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta, Ga
INS
Eugene Talmadge
State Supreme Court
George B. Hamilton
J. B. “Tobe” Daniel
Tornado Hits Horatio Area Killing Two
A tornado struck the Dilworth and Lone Oak communities near Horatio Arkansas on Saturday killing Mrs. Sid Orr aged 44 and her mother in law Mrs. Tom Orr aged 81. It seriously injured another person and destroyed fifteen farm homes.
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Horatio, Ark
Dilworth
Lone Oak
Horatio
Sid Orr
Tom Orr
Ickes moves toward 25 percent PWA staff cuts
Secretary Ickes ordered a 25 percent reduction in PWA administrative staff after Congress failed to earmark funds for a new public works program. Division heads must prepare lists of employees to drop and halt pay increases. About 9,000 jobs are affected, including 3,000 in Washington, with housing division staff numbering 1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PWA
Washington
Labor wage amendment boosts push for shorter work week
In Washington supporters hail a prevailing wage amendment to the work-relief deficiency bill as a step toward a federal short-work-week law. The measure requires WPA to pay prevailing wages on projects affecting about 3 million relief workers, clearing the way for final House passage and sending the bill to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LLP
Harry Hopkins
House
United States
Senate
Roosevelt
William P. Connery
House Labor Committee
Connery
WPA
Who Will Foster Adolph For Camp This Summer
Nine year old Adolph, underweight and high strung, needs backers to stay at Camp Good Health in Cedar Rapids. Five dollars a week funds his care, meals, and rest period, with funds raised through The Gazette Camp Good Health Fund.
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Adolph
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Iowa
Woman slain in Y W C A hotel room in Chicago
Mrs. Lillian Guild a 55 year old widow and gift shop manager was found bludgeoned to death in her second floor room at the Y W C A hotel on Michigan avenue. A six pound concrete bludgeon lay near the body and a locked door with a nearby fire escape suggested entry by the killer.
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Chicago
Lillian Guild
Michigan Avenue
W. T. Harsh, Jr
Nancy Titterton
New York
Guild
Attleboro
Mass
Mure
Stevens Hotel
Blanche Bloom
Midwest
Sylvester Ciskoski
Fritz Franzen
Suspect Foul Play In 3 Fire Deaths In Neb
Authorities investigate two theories in the deaths of Marlin Benstead, his wife, and their 3-year-old daughter Monica Rose, found in a burned farm home near Allen Nebraska. A coroner’s jury is set for Monday. Sheriff Sam Curry cites possible husband suicide or a triple murder with arson to destroy clues.
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Allen
Neb
Marlin Benstead
Here
Benstead
Monica Rose
Sam Curry
Dixon County
Hoover Assails Tax as Potent Robbery of Youth
Former President Herbert Hoover, in a between trains interview in Ogden Utah, calls the pending corporation profits tax bill the most potent device for robbing the youth of the nation. He says the tax would penalize growth of new industry under the guise of catching tax evaders.
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Ogden
Utah
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Fisher Dives Into Furnace Fire to End His Life
Walter Fisher a 33 year old executive of the Merchants Fruit Dispatch built a furnace fire and leaped into it to die in self harm. His body was found in the furnace room with only his head and shoulders inside the blaze as detectives noted bare footprints showing a running dive.
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Detroit
INL
Walter Fisher
Earl Switzer
Fisher
Merchants Fruit Dispatch
Switzer
Detective Switzer
Mahan Pleads Guilty in Kidnap Case Gains 60 Year Prison Term
William Mahan pleaded guilty before Federal Judge E. Cushman to kidnapping 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser and extorting 200000 in ransom. He received 60 years in federal prison. Hoover reported 135000 of the ransom recovered including 15000 in Butte and 90000 tied to Salt Lake City capture.
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Tacoma
Wash
INS
William Mahan
E. E. Cushman
George Weyerhaeuser
Mahan
Washington, D. C
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
San Francisco
Butte
Mont
Waleys
Salt Lake City
Two Americans Sent To Prison By Nazis
Samuel Goodhartz and his daughter Jenny were convicted by a Nazi court in Karlsruhe for smuggling registered marks out of Germany. Goodhartz received eighteen months in prison, Jenny six months, and both were fined a total of 3200 dollars. The American consul general attended the trial.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Samuel Goodhartz
Jenny
Goodhartz
Senator Park Trammell of Florida Dies at 60
Washington AP confirms Senator Park Trammell of Florida died at 8 35 p m Friday at his home from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 60. Trammell served four terms in the Senate and was chairman of the naval committee. He was a lawyer and former newspaper publisher. He was born April 9 1876 in Macon County Alabama and raised in Polk County Florida. He had been in ill health for weeks. He was married twice, the second wife being Mrs Louis Mesmer of Lakeland Florida.
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Washington
Senator Park Trammell
Florida
E.S.T
Trammell
Macon County
Alabama
Polk County
Louis Mesmer
Lakeland
Fla
Senate
Naval Committee
Friday Pushes Yearly Heat Record In Cedar Rapids
Clouds dimmed the sky as Cedar Rapids saw near summer heat with a 92 degree peak on Friday. Readings rose from 62 at 5 am to 85 by 10 am and 92 by 4 pm, then cooled to 78 at 7 pm and 65 at midnight per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll Numbers For 1936 Report
A Cedar Rapids toll report for 1936 notes accidents count and related figures. The document lists totals and trends from the year, with emphasis on safety outcomes and possible enforcement measures.
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Cedar Rapids
Sheriff cites two new confessions in Dan Shine murder
Sheriff L J Palas said two signed confessions from Pearl Shine and Maynard Lenox allege six people planned and carried out the killing of Dan Shine a Littleport farmer and new bridegroom. The group including Jim Hines Howard Hines Minnie Hines Albert Cornwell and Lenox is jailed as investigators seek details.
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Eleader
L. J. Palas
Dan Shine
Littleport
Pearl Shine
Maynard Lenox
East Dubuque
Manchester
Lenox
Jim Hines
Shine
Howard Hines
Palas
Shines
Tornado and Snow Sweep Rockies and Southwest Storm
A tornado, heavy rains and snow swept the Rocky Mountain and Southwest region. Farmers across Kansas Colorado Oklahoma Nebraska and Texas welcomed beneficial spring rains while a blizzard lashed southern Colorado and northern New Mexico with up to 15 inches of snow. The Hanna Oklahoma tornado injured more than twenty people six seriously. Damages exceed 75000 dollars. Communication outages halted traffic and flood fears rose as the Arkansas river neared bankfull and a Colorado bridge washed out. Amarillo Texas largely missed the heavy rains.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Rocky Mountain
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Texas
New Mexico
Hanna
Okla
Arkansas
Amarillo
Police Lieutenant Dies Watching Hindenburg Arrival
Jersey City police Lieut. Cornelius Cassidy aged 41 collapsed and died of heart disease while watching the Hindenburg arrive. Cassidy, in charge of police radio cars, went on duty with Lieut. Harry Crawford. he slumped and died a few minutes later as the airship passed overhead.
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Jersey City
N. J
Cornelius Cassidy
Cassidy
Harry Crawford
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Cats Graf
U.S
Webb Miller
Sen. McKellar
Duce
Gov. Talmadge
ICES
First Presbyterian Church
Y. W. Hotel
WM. Mahan
Sen. Trammell
Rockies
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