May Suspend Duckworth Monday in Woodbury County
A Woodbury county grand jury study of public corruption continues while County Attorney Max Duckworth faces removal proceedings. District Judge F H Rice directs immediate action using special prosecutors Goltz and Naglestad to pursue ouster. Goltz says a petition will be filed Monday.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Woodbury
Tocity
Tom Taggart
Duckworth
F. H. Rice
Granada
Henry
Ole.Naglestad
Carlos W. Goltz
Max Duckworth
Goltz
Naglestad
Rice
Kuhlmann
Board of Supervisors
May Prosecute Men On Relief Refusing Road Jobs
Lake county authorities warned on Saturday they will prosecute 23 Warren township relief recipients who refused road construction work. Married men face failure to support charges, single men face vagrancy. relief will be cut off unless wages rise to 50 cents an hour.
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Waukegan
INS
Lake County
Warren Township
Okel Fuqua
Weather Outlook for Chicago Region May 13 Week
Weather outlook for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the northern and central Great Plains. Occasional showers with temperatures mostly near or below normal.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Retiring in Life and the Lure of Continuous Interest
The piece argues that retiring from active life without purpose leads to aimlessness, boredom, and depression. It urges maintaining curiosity and building inner resources through study and dreams, citing a 1935 reflection on vitality, passion, and treasure that lasts beyond time.
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Gir
London
Dr. Johnson
Jesus
Bergdoll Offers to Return for Trial in U.S.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a Philadelphia brewer, says he would surrender to U S authorities for trial if court martial proceedings are nullified. He hopes his wife’s appeal to President Roosevelt may win a pardon while his four children remain in the United States. He dismisses kidnap threats as fanatic ramblings.
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Weinsberg
Germany
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Philadelphia
United States
Roosevelt
Bergdoif
Alyce McHenry, Omaha Girl, Celebrates Eleventh Birthday
Alyce Jane McHenry, an Omaha girl known for her upside-down stomach condition, turned eleven on Mother's Day. She arrived in Fall River for an operation about eleven weeks ago and is now convalescing after the procedure.
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Fall River
Mass
Alyce Jane McHenry
Omaha
Neb
New Ethiopian Crisis Alarms Nations League Report
Wallace Carroll reports from Geneva that the League of Nations fears imminent war between Italy and Abyssinia. Italy mobilizes over a million troops and presses for action while European powers worry about broader European balance and the council’s ability to intervene before May 20.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Italy
Abyssinia
League
Benno Mussolini
Council
Bremer Kidnap Case Likely Goes to Jury This Week
In St Paul the Bremer kidnapping trial nears verdict with jury expected next Thursday. One defendant plans to plead guilty and another considers same. US attorney George F. Sullivan notes pleas and dismissals have cut defendants from twelve to eight, with six remaining for jury action.
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ST. Paul
Bremer
George F. Sullivan
United States
Painter claims he is Charlie Ross kidnap victim
Gustav Blair of Marengo Illinois says he is the Philadelphia kidnaped Charlie Ross and cites affidavits, witnesses, and medical tests. Blair alleges he was raised by Rienar Miller’s family after being taken near Compton Illinois and asks for recognition of a $469000 trust fund his “father” set up.
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Chicago
Gustav Blair
Marengo
Ill
Riverdale
Charlie Ross
Philadelphia
Blair
Compton
Rienar Miller
Miller
Hawk
Ross
Walter Ross
Gray
European diplomats seek security amid new European arms drive
Eight European nations held three conferences to safeguard peace and security after Hitler's decision to rearm. Balkan pact members Czechoslovakia Romania Yugoslavia and Greece urged a broader six nation security pledge as Austria opposed by territorial revision. Mussolini and Schuschnigg met amicably and signaled support for Austrian rearmament. Laval reassured Poland about the Franco Russian pact and its role in a wider security plan as he prepared to travel to Moscow.
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Bucharest
Czechoslovakia
Roumania
Jugoslavia
Greece
Bulgaria
Hungary
Europe
Austria
Florence
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Kurt Schuschnigg
Rome
Warsaw
Piere Laval
Poland
Laval
Moscow
Alfred E. Burton Dies at 78 Noted Educator and Scientist
Boston reports the death of Dr. Alfred E. Burton 78 longtime MIT dean 1902 1922 friend of Admiral Peary died in his sleep at a Gloucester home attributed to heart disease He mentored polar expeditions organized the Cape Yorn meteorite voyage and solar eclipse observations He attended Bowdoin College had three sons and two daughters
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Boston
Alfred E. Burton
Massachusetts ‘Institute of Technology
Robert E. Peary
Gloucester
Burton
Bowdoin College
Admiral Peary
Peary
Greenland
United States
Washington
Sumatra
Cedar Rapids Shoppers See Evening Showers Cooler Temperatures
Fresh showers moved through Cedar Rapids Saturday evening as mild temperatures held. The day’s high reached 69 degrees at 3:30 p.m., with 66 at 7 p.m. and 64 by 9:30 p.m. Readings were reported by the Chambers Inskeep company.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers
Senator Huey Long Urges Telegram Campaign for Bonus Bill
Huey Long called on national supporters to flood Congress with telegrams urging passage of the 2 000 000 000 Patman bonus bill despite a likely veto. He urged focusing on senators while dismissing Roosevelt, noted Roosevelt's World War I service, and compared war records as he spoke from NBC radio time and a Washington address. Roosevelt was at a Maryland fishing lodge as bloc leaders touted Dennis Chavez’s Senate appointment to help defeat the president.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Louisiana Kingfish
NBC
Senate
Navy
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Patman
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Bronson Cutting
New, Mexico
3000 Farmers in Caravan to Washington
Groups of midwestern and southwestern farmers move toward the national capital to urge continuation and strengthening of the AAA. About 500 started Friday. leaders say 2,000 to 3,000 may be there by Monday or Tuesday. Delegations from Minnesota Nebraska Texas Iowa Missouri join as they head to Washington with plans to address Congress.
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DES Moines
National Capital
Washington
D. H. Day
Plainview
Texas
Texas Cotton Advisory, Council
Henry Wallace
Chester*Davis
Congress
Minnesota
iNebraska
F. W. White
Marshall
Minn
Co-Operative -Dairy- Marketing’ Association
Chicago
Missouri
Mississippi County
Poplar- Bluff
Farm’ Organization
Help Adolph Eight-Year-Old Regain Health Camp Good Health Fund
An appeal details Adolph a Cedar Rapids eight year old malnourished boy needing health support. The Public Health Nursing Association seeks a foster father to donate $50 to fund his recovery and a summer at Camp Good Health, with milk already provided by the Gazette Fund.
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Adolph
Public Health’ Nursing Association
Cedar. Rapids
Public Health Nursing Association
Linn County
Injured In Crush At Buckingham Palace Jubilee
London AP reports more than 500 people injured as King George and Queen Mary appeared on Buckingham Palace balcony. Crowds surged at gates causing many to fall or faint. ambulance units rushed to assist. Twelve transported to hospitals. field ambulance treated over 500. The monarchs waved as chaos continued for minutes.
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George
Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
Victoria Memorial
Chavez Appointment Expands Democrats to 69 Senate Seats
SANTA FE N M AP Dennis Chavez a Roosevelt aligned Democrat with prior service in two houses was appointed by Governor Clyde Tingley to fill the vacant Senate seat of the late Bronson Cutting. Chavez plans to drop his contest of Cutting’s election and will serve until 1936. The appointment boosts Democratic seats to 69, leaving Republicans at 24, their lowest in over fifty years. Chavez’s New Deal stance drew Roosevelt administration support during his campaign.
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N. M
Dennis
Chavez
Senate
Ors
Bronson Cutting
Clyde Tingley
Hevtan
Hce
Cutting
Roosevelt
Roosevelt puts US in power business
President Roosevelt through an executive order created the Rural Electrification Administration under the Works Progress Administration to fund and supervise generation transmission and distribution of electric power in rural areas. The unit could potentially back power lines to TVA plants, with initial funding of 50 million dollars and a possible 900 million dollar scope under flexible transfer powers. Separately a ruling ends subsistence homesteads under the rural resettlement program as recovery funds expire.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New Electrification Administration
REA
Tennessee Valley’ Authority
TVA
Congress
J. R. McCarl
McCarl
Ickes
All Honolulu Lights To Be Extinguished For War Drill
Hawaii amid wartime secrecy expects a huge night air raid on Honolulu by hundreds of service planes from naval air craft carriers. Lights will be out and civilians urged to extinguish illumination as anti air defenses train on the invading air armada. Officials say the plan includes a sudden radio warning to simulate real wartime alerts and tease public nerves during the mock attack.
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Honolulu
T. H
Hawaii
United States Navy
Army
Navy
Oahu
The
Sam
Pacific
Midway Island
Four Little Girls Drown In Sand Pit
Four girls age six to eight drowned after entering a nearly dry Kansas river sand pit in Hutchinson. W S Straight, a local fisherman, saw them laughing and playing before they vanished. Police and firemen recovered bodies after about an hour using grappling gear.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas
Lorrain Metz
Thelma Metz
Esther Metz
George Metz
May Blower
David’ Blower
W. S
Pal Of 'Hamilton Nabbed In' South
Sheriff R F Hayes of Neshoba county said he arrested T E Kelly 31 former companion of Raymond Hamilton executed southwest outlaw Kelly was taken Friday night at a roadhouse near Stalo west of Meridian Mississippi AP report
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Philadelphia
Miss
R. F.’Hayes
Neshoba County
T. E.' Kelly
Raymond Hamilton
Kelly
Stalo
Meridian
St Paul Editor Gustav Wollan Dies at 58
Gustav B. Wollan political editor of the St. Paul Daily News died at his home in St. Paul Saturday aged 58. Born in Glenwood Minnesota he graduated from Luther College Decorah Iowa and served as executive secretary of the St Paul association and as secretary to Major J A O Preus during his term in office.
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ST. Paul
Gustav B. Wollan
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