The Nation Faces Threats to Democracy and GOP Reform
A reader notes widespread anti American propaganda and warns that fear, distrust, and factionalism threaten democracy. He cites a Gary Indiana educator, debates about Roosevelt's third term, and South American policy while urging renewal in the Republican Party and a fresh start for national leadership. He also mentions a Ripon pilgrimage plan and the over crowded Mount Pleasant hospital fire damage.
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Washington
William Wirt
Gary
Ind
Brain Trust
Mr. Roosevelt
Hull sets six proposals for federal neutrality law
Secretary of State Cordell Hull outlined six adminis tration backed neutrality proposals in letters to Senate and House leaders. The plan would end the arms embargo, ban American ships from combat zones, restrict citizen travel, require title transfer for exports to belligerents, maintain loans policies, and curb fundraising for belligerents. Hull urged continued munitions control and licensing to keep the United States out of war.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Key Pittman
Nev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sol Bloom
N. Y
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hull
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
National Munitions Control Board
Washout Detours Rock Island Trains on Twin Cities Line
A washout three feet deep and 90 feet long on the Rock Island Lines tracks between Packard and Green Iowa was reported Saturday night. Officials said a work train was en route and the track would be repaired by 6 a.m. Sunday. Trains 61 and 62 will be detoured via Iowa Falls.
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Rock Island Lines
Packard
Green
Twin Cities
Rock Island
Iowa Falls
New Administration Building Opens with Nurses Quarters
The text notes a hospital division burned, inmates at risk, yet a fine new administration building was erected costing 43 000 dollars. The board of control visited Mount Pleasant and must award furnishings contracts. New board members found nurses and doctors quarters in the building while patients’ rooms were crowded. The governor signed enabling legislation to create soil conservation districts.
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Board of Control
Mount Pleasant
Lone Woman Shelters Pickets From Detroit Stadium Raid
In Detroit the 3,000 CID pickets faced 50 mounted police and 350 patrolmen at Briggs stadium. A 20 minute melee dispersed the crowd after injuries to several officers and pickets. About 400 sought refuge on Mrs Anne Mangan's front lawn where she declared them guests and police allowed them to stay.
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Detroit
INS
CID
Briggs Stadium
Walter O. Briggs
Detroit Tigers
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Anne Mangan
OMalley and Pendergast Sentenced for Insurance Bribe
R Emmet OMalley and political boss Tom Pendergast receive prison terms for income tax evasion tied to a $377 500 bribe in Missouri fire insurance rate case. Otis calls it bribe money while Stark moves to recover about $8 000 000 for policyholders and pursues contempt actions.
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Kansas City
R. Emmet O’malley
Missouri
Tom Pendergast
Leavenworth
Merrill E. Otis
O'Malley
Otis
Lloyd C. Stark
Pendergast
Ray B. Lucas
Stark
Elliott Roosevelt Lands Radio News Commentator Post
Elliott Roosevelt the 30 year old son of the President was signed for a weekly radio news commentator program. The show will begin next Friday on WOR and affiliated stations with sponsorship from a radio maker. He recently arrived in New York from Fort Worth Texas where he criticized the New Deal on the Texas State Network.
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New York
INS
Elliott Roosevelt
WOR
Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Texas
Texas State Network, Inc
Kuhn Offers To Resign If Band Desires
Fritz Kuhn national leader of the German American Volksbund defends his actions after being charged with stealing 14548 of the organization's funds. Speaking at a pro American rally he offers to step aside if band members deem him unfit. He arrived after a New York Tombs release on bond. He accuses prosecutors of pursuing Jewish votes and claims the case rests on an unpaid 50 tax.
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Milwaukee
Fritz Kuhn
Volksbund
Kuhn
Tombs
New York
Madison Square Garden
United States
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
George Froboese
Middle West
America
Froboese
Col
Queen of Malibu Empire Falls After Bankrupt Reorganization
Mary K Rindge, the 74 year old widow known as the Queen of Malibu, loses her vast California estate after a bankrupcy reorganization ordered by Federal Judge Leon Yankwich. The Malibu domain once stretched 30 miles along the coast and was defended by a private army of riders. Parts have been subdivided and the private railroad lies ruined as the empire dissolves.
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Los Angeles
Malibu
California
Mary K Rindge
Ruben Schmidt
Leon Yankwich
Europe
Four men and captain saved from sunk motorship France off Guiana
Four sailors and the master of the British motorship France were rescued after four days adrift off Demerara while four crewmembers and a boy remained missing. The ship, carrying dynamite for oil work, foundered after a leak and capsized. Rescue teams recovered survivors from wreckage though several crewmen were lost.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
France
Guiana
Trinidad
James Plumpton
England
West Indies
A. Simmons
Patrick
Williams
G. Simmons
Demerara
Frank Cooper
Garraway
Chapman
Victor
Henderson Confirmed to SEC by Senate
The Senate confirmed the reappointment of Leon Henderson of New Jersey to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It also approved Oscar B. Ryder of Virginia for the U S Tariff Commission.
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Henderson
SEC
Senate
Washington
INS
Leon Henderson
New Jersey
Securities and Exchange Commission
Oscar B. Ryder
Virginia
U. S Tariff Commission
Living tribute drives camp fund gifts and memorials
A list of donations and gifts honoring living people and memorials includes amounts to Camp Fund Daughters Tyler School FP Girl Scouts Beta Sigma Phi Irene Douglas circle and Jane Delano auxiliary. The record notes a total of 754.72 and mentions Judith Ellen Judy Base at one year and 18 days old.
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Tyler School
T. A
Beta Sigma Phi
Cedar Rapids Manufacturers Representatives Assn
Irene Douglas
King's
Jane Delano
Bseeleey
Judith Ellen
Judy
Remembering Heroes and a Camp for Healthy Children
A national tribute on Tuesday honors the dead and heroes while a devoted mother cares for eleven children. Three daughters, Mary Jean and Jo, are undernourished and travel long distances to school. Camp Good Health offers rest, nutrition, and medical corrections to bolster their health.
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Ily
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health
Mary
Jean
Murphy Clamps Ltd On Information From Justice Dept
Federal order directs all Justice Department files to be treated as confidential. Officers must refuse production of records unless permitted by the attorney general or his assistants. Officials are barred from disclosing or using materials for non official duties.
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Frank Murphy
United States
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Marshals
Brothers Acquitted Of Murder In Death Cab Case
In Deland Florida a circuit jury acquitted Earl and Everett Blackwelder of first degree murder in the slaying of Lee Snell a Negro taxi driver who had struck their 12 year old brother Benny Blackwelder Snell was killed roadside while being moved to the county jail by Constable James Durden who testified he believed the Blackwelders seized Snell The defense did not present witnesses.
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Deland, Fla
Earl
Everett Blackwelder
Lee Snell
Benny Blackwelder
Snell
Daytona Beach
James Durden
Durden
Temperature Zig Zag Near Cedar Rapids City
A Cedar Rapids weather sketch notes a day of fluctuating heat from 66 in the morning to 83 by 1 pm and again to 83 by 5 pm. Temperatures eased to 77 by 7:30 pm and 68 at midnight with no rain despite afternoon cloudiness.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Learning to Drive in Shenandoah Ends in Brief Spree
A 15 year old, who had never driven before, stole three cars in Shenandoah on Friday and abandoned each vehicle without mishap. He was returned to the state reformatory for parole violation.
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Shenandoah
Sidera State Reformatory
Weekly Forecast for Chicago May 29 to June 3
The outlook covers the upper Mississippi Valley with limited rain until midweek. Showers appear mainly in the north, with additional showers later in the week. Temperatures are expected to stay seasonable.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valey
Drought Threat Looms Over Midwest as Rain Delays
Weather officials warned President Roosevelt of developing severe drought in the Midwest with the Great Plains suffering subsoil moisture shortages. Agriculture Secretary Wallace organized an emergency drought relief committee. If rains fail, Congress may be urged to approve emergency drought appropriations for direct aid, livestock transfers, seed loans, and rural work relief.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Roosevelt
Midwest
Agriculture Department
Congress
Department
Henry A. Wallace
M. L. Wilson
Great Plains
Yankee Clipper Lands at Port Washington as Atlantic Clipper Sails
The Yankee Clipper delivered a mail payload from Europe to Port Washington N Y after an Atlantic crossing. Its sister ship the Atlantic Clipper departed for the Azores Lisbon Marseilles and Southampton. The Yankee diverted briefly to Bermuda due to 50 mph headwinds before returning to New York in five hours 25 minutes. Captain Harold E Gray commanded the Atlantic Clipper on the second overseas hop.
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Port Washington
N.Y
INS
Europe
Azores
Lisbon
Marseilles
Southampton
Yankee
Atlantic
Bermuda
Pan-American Airways
Clippers
British Island
New York
Harold E Gray
Elkader and Guttenberg, Jr
Expelled Broker Confesses Theft of Funds
Henry C Fifast, recently expelled from the New York Stock Exchange, confessed to misappropriating over 60 000 dollars of customers’ money. He used the funds to buy his exchange membership last year and appeared voluntarily in Attorney General Bennett’s office after detectives pursued him since last Wednesday. The probe cited more than 80 000 dollars in shortages at the dissolved firm Elfast Frisk and Company.
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NEW York (Ap
Henry C Fifast
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
State Attick
Ambrose V. Meall
Elfast
John J. Bennett
Stock Exchange
Elfast, Frisk and Company
Woman Forced To Help Road Gang Sues For 25000
Mrs. Bell Tackett, 52, sues Mc Dowell town for 25000 damages claiming her social standing was impaired after she worked off a 10 dollar misdemeanor fine with labor at 2 dollars daily. She says physical pain from hoe and shovel was caused while serving with a road gang after an arrest sparked by a horseshoes incident involving her son.
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Prestonsburg
INS
Bell Tackett
McDowell
Five Price children dead in Tama house fire tragedy
A Tama Iowa blaze killed five of eight Price children aged one to sixteen while three eldest sons escaped. Neighbors and fire officials say smoke and flames trapped youngsters on the second floor as rescue efforts failed and coroners opened an inquest.
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Tama
Tom Price
Price
Clifford Shaw
Price House
Shaw
J. Wentzien
J. M. Standefer
A. J. Havick
Wentzien
Tama County
Girl Taken East Responds Well To Tumor Treatment
Joan Menzel a 7 year old from Oldham South Dakota near death from Wilm's tumor is responding favorably to deep X ray therapy at New Rochelle hospital. She arrived Friday with her mother Mrs Beulah Menzel by air and ambulance. Dr Alexander Chilko treats her. he previously saved Harold Holt Jr from Wilm's tumor.
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New Rochelle
Joan Menzel
Oldham
S. D
Wilm
New Rochelle Hospital
Beulah Menzel
Alexander Jr. Chilko
Harold Holt, Jr
Monongahela, Pa
Today Motorists Wonder What Is Behind Billboards
A reflective piece by Arthur Bugs Baer notes drivers face the first outdoor holiday of the year as they steer along scenic routes. The essay muses on curiosity about what lies beyond billboards and invites readers to enjoy the journey rather than chase attention.
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