FBI under political pressure faces reform bill
The piece critiques a new bill introduced in both houses aimed at curbing FBI authority and preventing political interference. It cites Attorney General involvement, warns of politicization, and notes Hoover’s stance against corrupt officials and use of the bureau for partisan ends. It also mentions a Ottawa news item reporting Canada’s increased exports to the U S under a reciprocal trade deal, highlighting horse shipments.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Universal Service
United States
Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Cummings
Hoover
Bureau
Night Riders blamed as Black Legion terror plot unfolds
Detroit police press the Black Legion investigation as sixteen members face possible murder charges tied to the slaying of Charles A Poole a WPA worker. Prosecutors say the vigilante group used floggings and fear to enforce a strict moral code. Urban Lipps ties the order to Ku Klux Klan lineage and hints at nationwide branches.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Wayne County
Duncan C. McCrea
Charles A. Poole
WPA
Legion
John S. Navarre
Police Homicide Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Urban Lipps
Poole
Charles
United Brotherhood of America
Lipps
Canadian Exports to United States Rise Amid Trade Shifts
Canada to U S trade shows gains in several items through early 1936. Cattle imports climb from 39 000 head in early 1935 to 75 000 this year. Cheese and maple sugar values surge, poultry imports jump under reciprocal terms, and newsprint imports increase. Lumber imports roughly double.
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Canada
United States
Canadian Trade Shifts Spark Iowa Farmer Skepticism
Iowa farmers react to figures on Canada’s imports showing steep increases in swine cattle horses poultry and cheese. They question benefits of a trade deal as Trade Minister Euler touts the data, while U S exports to Canada may offset some gains.
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Ottawa
America
W. D. Euler
Iowa
Canada
United States
Euler
Washington
Senate Prepares Revamped Tax Bill For Monday
Administration leaders finished shaping a new corporation tax bill and plan to push it through the Senate with House conference. Key issues include treasury revenue estimates exceeding 529 million, exemptions for debt ridden firms and reorganizing railroads, and La Follette’s middle bracket surtax proposal likely to fail in committee.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Roosevelt
Robert M. la Follette
Wis
la Follette
Rules Relief Officers Cannot Direct Naming Of Poor Overseers
DES MOINES AP The Iowa attorney general ruled the state emergency relief administration cannot dictate county supervisors appointments of county poor overseers. The opinion by J J Fearde and approved by AG Edward L O Connor follows a Des Moines meeting where supervisors demanded home rule and protested interference by relief officials. Scott county attorney Leon A Grapes asked if county boards may appoint overseers without relief headquarters approval and whether relief funds could be withdrawn if not approved.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State Emergency Relief Administration
J. J. Fearde
Edward L. O’connor
Leon A. Grapes
Scott County
Attorney General’s Office
County Boards of Supervisors
Ethiopian Emperor Heads to London from Haifa
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia will sail from Haifa aboard the British cruiser Capetown with eight companions. The party will travel to Gibraltar and then to London, arranged with Gen. Sir Arthur Wauchope, the British high commissioner for Palestine. He has been in contact with Wauchope since arriving in Jerusalem in exile.
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London
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Capetown
Haifa
Gibraltar
Arthur Wauchope
Palestine
Wauchope
Jerusalem
Bandits Rob Bank Branch In Michigan Heist
Two men robbed the recently opened First National Bank of Kalamazoo branch in Vicksburg, escaping with about $6000 in cash. The bank manager Ferris Oswalt described one bandit as medium height and the other as tall, after the 8 a.m. break in.
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Vicksburg, Mich
First National Bank of Kalamazoo
Ferris Oswalt
Cash Saves Home of Mrs. Eugene Field
In Hertford Junction Wisconsin on Saturday payment of a $2600 mortgage with help from friends kept the home of 80 year old widow Mrs Eugene Field from sale under foreclosure judgment.
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Cash
Mrs
Eugene Field
Hertford Junction
Wis
Friends
Secret plans to strip Hoover of FBI control revealed in Congress
A 1936 report says a bill slipped into the judiciary committees would remove most FBI authority from J Edgar Hoover, creating a National Crime Institute. It lists the training, crime lab, fingerprint division, and crime statistics as major transfers. Hoover opposed political appointees and had attacked fixers over a parole racket.
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Bill
Congress
Hoover
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate
House
Judiciary
United States
National Crime Institute
Henri de Regnier Dies at 72 in Paris
Paris report records that Henri de Regnier poet novelist and essayist died Saturday aged 72. He had been a member of the Academie Francaise since 1911 and was a prolific writer of romances.
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Paris
Ins
Henri de Regnier
Academie Francaise
Socialists Rally Against Roosevelt at Cleveland Convention
In Cleveland three top socialists Norman W. Thomas Daniel W. Hoan and Leo Krzycki urged members to stay loyal to the party in the November election. They condemned supporting Roosevelt saying it would aid capitalism and workers should oppose him.
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Cleveland
Norman W. Thomas
Daniel W. Hoan
Leo Krzycki
Thomas
Roosevelt
Krzycki
Socialist National
Hoan
Milwaukee
William Green
A. F. of L
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Nonpartisan League
Townsend Plans National HQ In Chicago On Michigan Ave
J B Kiefer Chicago representative of Dr Francis E Townsend announced an entire floor of a Michigan avenue skyscraper will be leased for the Townsend old age pension plan national headquarters. A nationwide campaign to boost membership will begin immediately with Townsend to arrive early next week to lead the effort.
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Chicago
INS
J. B. Kiefer
Francis E. Townsend
Michigan Avenue
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Townsend
Kiefer
Townsend Plan
United States
Dr. Townsend
Washington
Ruth Chatterton III Stricken by Influenza in Hollywood
Actress Ruth Chatterton III, noted for her titian hair, was confined to bed in Hollywood after relapsing with influenza while filming on Friday. The illness caused a high fever and kept her from continuing work Saturday.
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Hollywood
INS
Ruth Chatterton
Camp Good Health Needs Donations to Feed Handicapped Children
Funds are sought to support Camp Good Health which provides meals and recreation for physically handicapped and undernourished children in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Donations support food operating expenses and camp improvements while emphasizing dignity and access to fresh air and supervised activities.
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The
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Slayers Sought in Hampshire Torch Murder
Authorities pursue leads in a torch murder case as a cremated body found atop Wastastiquot mountain is linked to Lenoxdale Massachusetts resident Mrs Leona Girardey 21 who vanished from her Berkshire Hills home last Saturday. George Girardey husband of the missing woman heads to New Hampshire with two Massachusetts troopers to view the body.
Mystery of Mountain Torch Murder Deepens in Keene
Authorities sift meager clues in the Keene mountain-top torch murder of a middle aged mother. Two youths seen in the woods Wednesday night are sought as officers probe a vanity case bearing H A H initials and a Worcester revolver to trace ownership while pathologists note possible beating and arson.
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Keene
N. H
George H. Blake
Chesterfield
Blake
Wastastiquot Mountain
Osmond H. Hubbard
New Hampshire
Arthur Olson
H. A. H.” Trace
Nab 2 In Omaha On Charge Of Passing $100 Counterfeits
Omaha authorities announce the arrest of Hiram Lambert Pitner and Arlin Norman on charges tied to seven counterfeit $100 bills. Secret Service chief Harry Cooper identifies Pitner as a carnival operator who allegedly brought the bills from Montana and Norman who bought some of them.
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Omaha
Harry Cooper
Secret Service
Hiram Lambert Pitner
Arlin Norman
Cooper
Pitner
Montana
Norman
Deutschland Four-Motor Bomber Destroyed Near Dessau
Reports say Germany's largest four motor aircraft the Deutschland crashed at the Dessau airfield on Friday while landing and was almost completely destroyed. Seven people aboard reportedly escaped with minor injuries.
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Dessau
Germany
Ins
Bombs drop from U S plane in Carmichael yards
Several 100 pound bombs slipped from racks on a U S army bombing plane and fell 4000 feet before exploding without serious injuries in the yards of two residences at Carmichael east of Sacramento.
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Sacramento
Cal
Carmichael
Nazis Attack Starhemberg Castle in Austria
Two Nazis were killed and several wounded when a party attempted to storm Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg's Waxenberg castle near Linz. Police stopped the raid with eight attackers arrested. leader fled perhaps to Germany. The strike followed Starhemberg's ouster from Schuschnigg's cabinet and trip to Mussolini.
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Vienna
INS
Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg
Waxemburg
Linz
Germany
Kurt Schuschnigg
Starhemberg
Italy
Mussolini
Heimwehr
Upper Austria
Plan to shift WPA funds to Roosevelt gains Hill support
Washington report says a plan to remove the $1.425 billion WPA appropriation from Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and assign it to President Roosevelt won favor on Capitol Hill. Senator Adams of Colorado and many Democratic members on the appropriations subcommittee backing the move as it considers the $2.364 billion first deficiency bill carrying the WPA appropriation.
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Washington
INS
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Adams
Colorado
ICC Delays Freight Pickup Service on Eastern Rails
The ICC reversed itself and halted eastern railroads free pickup and delivery tariffs that would have begun May 25. The tariffs are suspended until a formal hearing reconsiders the entire issue. Trucking firms and motor shippers’ groups have protested the plan.
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ICC
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
British cabinet shakeup predicted after resignations
London AP reports the resignation of Colonial Secretary J H Thomas amid a budget leakage scandal. The move sparks talk of a major cabinet shakeup with Sir Samuel Hoare eyed for a return, possibly as dominions secretary, and Viscount Mansell seen as retiring from the admiralty post.
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London
J. H. Thomas
Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Chequers
Samuel Hoare
Thomas
Colonial Office
Baldwin
Viscount Mansell
Admiralty
Whitsuntide
Italy
Ethiopia
Siras
Edward
Guilty verdict shocks prosecutors in Tampa kidnapping case
Five former Tampa police officers were found guilty of kidnapping Eugene Poulnot, one of three labor organizers abducted in Tama last November 30. The verdict carries 1 to 10 years, with sentencing deferred as a motion for a new trial is considered.
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J. Rex Farrior
Poulnot
Sam J. Rogers
Joseph Shoemaker
Shoemaker
R. G. Tittsworth
Tampa
Robert Chappell
Robert T. Dowell
Tittsworth
Heat tempered by breeze with more rain possible
Cedar Rapids weather eases heat as a breeze cools the day after Friday showers. Temperatures ranged from 69 at 2 a.m. to 81 by midmorning with a Friday peak of 93, just shy of 1936 record. rain totaled .05 inch and cleared to 70 by midnight per Chambers Inskeep readings.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep
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