Memorial Day Donation for Camp Good Health Fund
Memorial day donations are requested for Camp Good Health Fund maintained by the Public Health Nursing association for physically handicapped children. Contributions from Bethany Congregational church Camp Fire Girls members and others are acknowledged in the newspaper. Send gifts to The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa with notes for Memorial day acknowledgments.
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Clarence Walsh
Frank Eddins
Jerry Metla
Wes Kremenek
Rudolph Lumer
Clair Morrow
Bob Cherry
Ed Lent
Ed Dudek
John Gallaher
Henry Geiger
Bethany Congregational Church Camp Fire
Lorraine Bliss
Ardis Mittan
Dorothy Blaine
Alo White
Enora Bailey
Ruth Williams
Harriet Satterly
Iris Omelik
Ellen Wehrand
R. Mittan
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Senate Panel OKs Hoover Pay Rise and Travel Boost
Senate judiciary committee backed a bill to raise J Edgar Hoover's salary from 9000 to 10000 dollars a year and to lift the G men travel allowance from 5 to 10 dollars a day. Attorney General Cummings defended Hoover's authority while supporting a crime information cooperation bill. He also announced plans to bring district attorneys and marshals to Washington for training.
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Washington
Cummings
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
Senate Judiciary Committee
Hoover
U. S
Torch Death Victim Identified As Wife Of Bay State Man
The torch murder victim was identified as Elizabeth Cannon Freel 50 of Clinton Massachusetts wife of Robert E Freel superintendent at Clinton based Wauchette Electric Light The body was found after the woman disappeared May 15 with clues pointing to White River Junction and Brattleboro Vermont A revolver and a gasoline can were found beside the body and authorities sought to question an elderly man seen boarding a train with her at White River Junction.
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Arthur Olson
Freel
White River Junction
Brattleboro
Vermont
Olson
Death Takes Noted Writer Winifred Black at Frisco
Annie Laurie known as Winifred Black Bonfils died at 4 30 p m in her San Francisco home. A civic funeral with state honors was planned as the city mourned one of its distinguished journalists. She leaves a daughter Mrs Winifred Barker and husband Charles A Bonfils Denver publisher.
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San Francisco
INS
Annie Laurie
Golden Gate
Winifred Black Bonfils
Winifred Sweet
Winifred Black
Winifred Barker
Charles A. Bonfils
Denver
Queen Mary Ready For Maiden Voyage
Britain’s 80,773 ton liner Queen Mary was pronounced ready for her maiden voyage to New York on Wednesday. The ship awaits 2,650 passengers to make the first crossing as it enters the Atlantic passenger service race.
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Southampton
Eng
Britain
New York
Wisconsin Bill Seeks Mississippi Bridge at La Crosse
Senate La Follette and Rep Withrow introduce legislation to enable Wisconsin to build and operate a new highway bridge over the Mississippi at La Crosse. The new structure would cost 1.5 million dollars with federal 800000, state 400000, county 200000 and city 100000 contributions. the present bridge collapsed last year.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Mississippi River
la Crosse
la Follette
Withrow
Progressives
Detroit area Black Legion linked to bombing and murder case
Investigators in Michigan, led by Ef finger and Colburn, tie the Black Legion to the Voisine home bombing and a broader Detroit river district raid. Twelve men face murder and kidnapping charges for Poole’s slaying. Dayton Dean expresses remorse and claims ignorance of the group’s aims. Local leaders call for suppression, while officials in Lansing and Detroit coordinate a statewide crackdown.
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Finger
Ku Klux Klan
Black Legion
Effinger
America
Detroit
The
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Detroit Methodist Preachers’ Association
Detroit Down River District
Colburn
Secret Society
William W. Voisine
Ecorse
Duncan C. McCrea
Charles A. Poole
McCrea
John Doe
Dayton Dean
Poole
Dean
Black Robed Society
WPA
Leo M. Franklin
Flint
Pontiac
Jackson
Lansing
David H. Crowley
Oscar G. Olander
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau
Woman Arrest Made In Three Small Liquor Raids
The first series of liquor raids since a police leadership change raided three small outlets with federal and county help. Only Mrs. Alice Wicher, 52, was arrested for illegal possession after about a half pint found in a pan and a half gallon in a picnic bottle.
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Alice Wicher
L Avenue NW
Justice A. S. Reed
Starr Pleads Guilty to Murder and Attack Charges
In Chicago Thomas Starr a 29 year old Negro rag poet and former circus roustabout pled guilty to the May 9 brick slaying of Mrs Lillian Guild 59 in her Y W C A room and to an attempted attack on Miss Lois Rickert 20 in St Lukes hospital nurses home five days later A judge ordered him held to the grand jury on murder and attempted rape charges with further indictments to be sought by the assistant state's attorney Thomas Starr faces serious felonies in the Chicago case.
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Chicago
Thomas Starr
Poe
Lillian Guild
Lois Rickert
St. Luke’s Hospital
Matthew D. Hartigan
Gordon Nash
Five Men Die in Forest Fire Across New Jersey
A massive forest fire across Barnegat and Warren Grove areas claimed five lives as crews battled 26 blazes. About 500 workers pumped water to save Waretown while residents watched from porches as flames neared Tuckerton and the Atlantic City highway. Fire wardens drafted motorists and sightseers to aid the firefight under state emergency powers.
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Waretown
Barnegat
Warren Grove
Manahawken
Parkerstown
Tuckerton
Sim Place
McKee City
Stafford Forge
Morey
Atlantic City
New York
Middle West Ripe For G O P Victory Declared
CHICAGO AP Seven prairie states in the Midwest Illinois Iowa Indiana Nebraska North Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin are ripe for Republican victories says Harrison E Spangler chief of the Republican Western headquarters He notes Democrats are split by factional strife while Republicans are more united than since 1932 He cites Iowa where the Democratic organization is split in governor and senator contests predicting a GOP state administration defeat of several Democrats and a Republican legislature victory
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Chicago
Midwest
Harrison E. Spangler
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
One American Left In British Amateur Meet
L. G. Crawley of Britain defeated John Arthur Brown of Clementon New Jersey in the third round of the British amateur golf championship four and three. Earlier E M Prain of Great Britain beat Ellis Knowles of Rye New York after a twenty hole duel. Theodore Bassett of Westchester New York remains in the field due to his second round opponent being scratched.
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ST. Andrews
Scotland
Ins
L. G. Crawley
Britain
John Arthur Brown
Clementon
N. J
E. M. Prain
Great Britain
Ellis Knowles
Rye
N. Y
Theodore Bassett
Westchester
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W. G. Russell
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