Britain Probes Blast Damaging Ship Off Spain
Britain investigates a submarine or torpedo blast that crippled the destroyer Hunter off Algeciras Spain during patrol. The vessel, launched in 1936, suffered major damage with casualties and crew injuries while the government denies insurgent involvement and notes Spain’s internal turbulences.
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Britain
Spain
TONDO
Hunter
Fridovo
Altoera
Spa
Bertain
Poe
Agate Or Anethar
Amne
Mmn
Toe Brotash
Salamanca
John Burke Recounted in Dakota Statesman Death Toll
The Dakota Statesman reports a mass casualty event with fifteen people named John Burke among the deceased. Officials confirm casualties and ongoing investigations as communities mourn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burke
Dakota Statesman
Glacier Priest To Use Cedar Rapids Radio on Arctic Expedition
The Rev. Bernd Hubbard plans a year long Arctic expedition from King Island beginning May 20. Cedar Rapids supplies include a Collins Radio setup and weather reporting from the ice. Forty tons of equipment and three thousand five hundred square feet of shelter materials prepare for a harsh winter and a life among King Islanders and Eskimo tribes.
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Cedar Rapids
Arctic
Seattle
Bernd R Wubbard
King Island
Wil Te Man
Chile
Orig
North America
Will
Hubbard Wil
Det Ailand
Collins
Asia
United States
Bering Strait
Father Hubbard Wk
Bellarmine Lafortune
Marquette University
Father Hubbard
Kohler
Wis
Chicago
Haven
Pittburgh
House Battles Over Roosevelt Relief Fund Debate
Washington debates Roosevelt’s proposed 1.5 billion dollar relief fund with aims to cut to 1 billion. Rep Woodrum pushes for smaller total while Hopkins, Wallace, and the budget bureau clash over allocations and agency funding.
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Washington
INS
House
Woodrum
Virginia
Roosevelt
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
Appropriations
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Agriculture
Wallace
Budget Bureau
Hopkins
Secretary of Agriculture
National Youth Administration
Resettlement Administration
London Fans Decry Cuts In Coronation Films
London moviegoers vented anger as censorship by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Norfolk trimmed the coronation footage. King George appears for nine minutes, while seven hours of procession and ceremony are reduced. Poor lighting left royal faces barely visible as the king swayed under the crown and robes.
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Mary Fentress
London
Archbishop of Canterbury
Duke of Norfolk
King George
Donald Duck
Luther Defeats Columbia In Eleven Innings
Luther College edged Columbia 5 to 4 in eleven innings at Decorah. Finley Harris pitched the complete game for the Norsemen with 15 strikeouts, while clutch plays in the tenth and eleventh frames produced the decisive run scoring on a wild throw and an error.
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Luther
Columbia
Harris
Norsemen
Tuther
Grossmans
Geisler
Kcehock
Creasler
Morem
Leste
Oe Sud
Creosmons
State Function For Queen Elizabeth I Ends In Dancing
The report notes a state function honoring Queen Elizabeth I with dancing at a gold ballroom. Attendees include notable figures and a procession featured marching, ceremonies, and party revelry in a formal hall setting.
Dr Erskine Named President-Elect of Iowa Medical Society
Dr A W Erskine of Cedar Rapids was elected president for 1938 of the Iowa State Medical Society on the first ballot at the Sioux City convention. He is known internationally for x ray work and has held multiple leadership roles in medical education and cancer control. The 1938 convention will be in Des Moines.
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A. W. Erskine
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Medical Society
Sioux City
Jennings Crawford
Linn County Medical Society
Thomas F. Suchomel
Linn County
J . von Lackum
Erskine
Radiological Society of North America
Boone
Associated Press
Kenneth Johnston
Oskaloosa
Arch O'Donoghue
Oliver J Fay
Des Moines
Fred Moore
American Medical Society
W. A. Sternberg
Mount Pleasant
Felix A Hennessy
Calmar
C. W. Ellyson
Water Joe
GC. O Hennessey
Council Bluffs
Robert L Parker
Commercial sea hops praised as practical cross Atlantic service
Floyd Bennett discusses Atlantic flight as a scheduled, businesslike operation not a stunt. He notes engines and gauges performed well under challenging weather, credits experienced crews, and compares airliners to past heroic flights while stressing normal reliability and plans for future longer flights.
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Floyd Bennett
Lamite
Eastern Airlines
Great American Airlines
Reburial Ends The Lurid Will Of Rich Eccentric
The wealthy LeMars lawyer T M Zink who left a wife and two daughters disinherited in a $50 000 to fund a womanless library was buried beside his first wife in Manchester after a secret interment. The will was contested in 1930 and court actions followed including forged note allegations against Sumner and Mrs Knox of LeMars. The reburial was arranged by Mrs Becker and her husband Clarence Becker.
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Manchester
T. M. Zink
LeMars
Zink
Vermillion
Marguerite T. Becker
Los Angeles
Calif
George Donahoe
Cherokee State Hospital For the Insane
Donahoe
WCTU
Sumner Knox
Ira
Kansas City
Knox
Plymouth County
Sioux Falls, S. C
Irene Brown
Eckener Tours Hindenburg Wreck Silent and Somber
Dr. Hugo Eckener, head of the German Zeppelin inquiry, viewed the mangled Hindenburg wreck at Lakehurst with a silent party. He examined photos of the May 6 disaster that killed 35, while German officials study evidence for the Commerce Department probe and seek to clarify whether hydrogen caused the blaze.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Hugo Eckener
Naval Air Station Landing Field
Zeppelin Company
Eckener
Commerce Department
Threeman Department of Commerce Inquiry Board
Navy
New York Harbor
Road use transfer to state cited for public highway
Oldrich Rigel transfers land to the State of Iowa for road purposes and public highway use in section 34 township 82 range 7, at a price of 106 dollars 25 cents, dated December 19, 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oldrich Rigel
State of
Iowa
Settlement Ends Major SWOC Steel Strike at Jones and Laughlin
The first major SWOC walkout ends as negotiations secure a settlement with Jones and Laughlin in Pittsburgh. Picket lines dissolve across the south side and Aliquippa as production ramps to 90 percent capacity. Murray remains hopeful yet wary while Jones and Laughlin plans mass strategy against other independents after a Supreme Court loss on Wagner act challenges.
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SWOC
Pittsburgh
Lewis
Jones and Laughlin Corporation
Aliquippa
Ohio
Murray
Jones and Laughlin
Supreme Court
Losses by U S investors in foreign bonds exceed one billion
The Securities and Exchange Commission told Congress that American investors have lost over 1 billion dollars in foreign bonds. It urged legislation to grant the government control over foreign bondholders committees and tighter supervision of new issues, accusing fraud and deceit on a wide scale.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Congress
Commission
Girl Bride Kills Indian Mate After Threats In Gawanda
Justice Julius J. Flogans said a 16 year old Indian girl bride confessed to shooting her Seneca husband Ivory White near Gawanda on Thursday night after he threatened to tie her to a railroad track. White died shortly after the incident.
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Gowanda
Justice of the Peace
Julius J. Flogans
Ivory White
Release of Feeble Minded Patients Sparks Alarm
Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins told the American Psychiatric Association that 102 patients from a Maryland home for the feeble minded were released to multiply their ills. He cited 165 children produced, 33 illegitimate, and 108 feeble minded, calling for stronger state laws to curb indiscriminate habeas corpus releases by courts.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Maryland
American Psychiatric Association
Leo Kanner
Johns Hopkins University
Kanner
Commonwealth
Stolen Cash Recovered by Federal Agents
Federal agents recovered 208,600 in cash stolen from Denver widow Mrs Martha Blous. Joseph T Watson, a 26 year old nephew and former medical student, is under arrest after leaving Denver as $133,000 in currency and $86,000 in bonds vanished. Watson was arrested aboard an ocean liner near Los Angeles on May 6.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Martha Blous
Denver
Colo
Blous
Joseph T Watson
Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Watson
Los Angeles
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