Barrymore Weds Elaine Barrie in Yuma Amid Fame Romance
John Barrymore, 55, married Elaine Barrie 21 in a late night ceremony in Yuma with family and lawyer present. The pair’s stormy romance, sparked during Barrie’s school interview of the actor, followed by a yacht trip and a sensational Hollywood pursuit scene, ends as his fourth marriage.
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Hollywood
John Barrymore
Elaine Jacobs
Yuma, Ariz
Ins
Elaine Barrie
Barrymore
E. A. Freeman
Miss Barrie
New York
Manhattan
Caliban
Yuma
Los Angeles
Louis Jacobs
Barrie
Dolores Costello Barrymore
Philadelphia
Katherine Corri
Dear Editor on Youth in a Changing World 1936
A reader defends today’s youth against claims of passivity and notes the postwar generation faces a chaotic world without past standards. The author argues the era’s upheaval reshapes youth, not their character, and expresses confidence they will adapt and lead in a better future.
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Maxine Davis
Junior League drives for nutrition center in Cedar Rapids
More than sixty Junior League members launched their fourth annual campaign to raise 3500 for the Community House nutrition center. Members, tagged with bright labels, will continue through Saturday after a Monday luncheon at the Montrose hotel. M H Morrison called the work one of Cedar Rapids finest social services and urged inform public about the center.
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Cedar Rapids News
Junior League of
Cedar Rapids
Community House
Montrose Hotel
M. H. Morrison
Morrison
Commu
Supreme Court Adds Labor Cases to Wagner Act Review
The Supreme Court added three new Wagner Act cases to its docket on Monday, continuing review of constitutionality challenges by the National Labor Relations Board. The cases involve Jones and Laughlin Steel, Fruehaus Trailer, and Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing, with prior challenges by AP and the Washington Maryland Coach Co. also under review. A Texas oil production occupation tax was upheld as constitutional.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Csass
National Labor Relations Board
Jones and Laughiin Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Canton
Ohio
Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Company, Inc
Associated Press
Washington, Virginia
Maryland
Texas
Connery proposes payroll tax elimination and power tax shift
Rep. William P. Connery of Massachusetts proposes to revise social security by eliminating the payroll tax for old age annuities and replacing it with a tax on power used in machinery to fund unemployment. He also plans to reintroduce the 30 hour week bill governing interstate shipments. The payroll tax begins January 1, covering 26 million workers and employers at one percent, rising to three percent.
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Washington
Ins
William P. Connery
Massachusetts
House Labor Committee
Connery
Congress
Social Security to Set 56 Field Offices Nationwide
The Social Security Board announced 56 field offices will be established immediately to cooperate with the Post Office Department in assigning Social Security accounts for millions of wage earners whose old age benefits begin January 1. The Des Moines office will serve Iowa under direct board supervision.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Post Office Department
Iowa
Des Moines
Woman seriously hurt in highway crash near Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Bertha Bope 52 of Brooklyn is in Mercy hospital with a fractured pelvis and ruptured bladder after an auto crash on highway 30 eight miles west of Cedar Rapids. Miller of Belle Plaine drove with Miss Wood of Vinton in a collision that involved Struve and others. one unidentifed driver was taken to Cedar Rapids for treatment.
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Bertha Bope
Brooklyn
Mercy Hospital
Highway 30
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
Bope
Maxine
Jean Bope
Miss Wood
Mr. Struve
Ray
Rena
Laura Struve
Vinton
Miller
Temperature Rebounds After Cold Sunday
After a frigid Sunday with readings below freezing the warmup set in Monday afternoon at 2 45 p m with the thermometer at 40 degrees. Low points reached 26 Sunday midnight then 27 at 6 a m and 29 at 7 a m The Chambers Inskeep thermometer showed 20 at 7 a m 16 at 10 a m 27 at 4 p m and 23 at 7 p m Snowfall remained under an inch in the area.
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Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Bishop Hopes People Will Call Coughlin Back
Detroit AP The Rev Charles E Coughlin plans retirement from radio prompting Bishop Michael J Gallagher to express hope that the people will call him back to the air. The Detroit bishop defended Coughlins right to free speech and said Rome would not interfere in a national matter. He regrets the priest ends his unique radio ministry.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Michael J. Gallagher
Royal Oak
Father Coughlin
Cardinal Pacelli
United States
Rome
Gallagher
Doctor Mayo Killed In Rail Line Tragedy Near Alma
Dr. Joseph G. Mayo 35 died in a freak crash while trying to drive along Burlington mainline tracks between grade crossings near Alma Wisconsin. His car was struck by the southbound Burlington North Coast Limited and dragged a mile before stopping. He was returning from a hunting trip and survived by his wife Ruth Rakowsky and two sons David and William.
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Alma
Wis
Joseph G. Mayo
Charles Mayo
Rochester
Minneapolis
Chicago
Burlington Railway
Mayo
Joseph Mayo
Princeton University
University of Iowa
Ruth Rakowsky
Joplin
David
William
Labor Board Right To Conduct Employee Elections Upheld
The District of Columbia court of appeals upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s right to conduct employee elections to determine bargaining representation. The ruling applied to Heller Brothers and Company of Newcomerstown and six other firms, including A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., Brown Shoe Co., Beaver Mills Corp., Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., and Pilgrim Corp.
1936 U. S. Deficit Surpasses One Billion Dollars
The daily treasury statement shows the U S deficit passing the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year on November 6. The figure stands at 1 001 214 025 dollars, versus 1 442 928 794 dollars on the same day last year.
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Washington
Treasury Statement
Democratic campaign cost and deficit estimate
New York AP reports W Forbes Morgan treasurer of the Democratic National Committee estimated the total campaign cost at about 3.3 million dollars and projected a deficit near 500 thousand.
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New York
W. Forbes Morgan
Democratic National Committee
King Edward to wed Wallis Simpson in private Buckingham Chapel
Reports say King Edward will marry Mrs Wallis Simpson in a private Buckingham Palace chapel after his coronation next May. She will be made a peeress before marriage and take a ducal title, likely Duchess of Lancaster, amid varied public opinion and palace politics.
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London
Ins
Edward
Wallis Simpson
Buckingham Palace
Simpson
Duchess of Lancaster
Duchess of Cornwall
Queen Mary
Mrs. Simpson
Church of England
Council Postpones Action On Police Station To Tuesday
City council delays formal site purchase for a police station until a special meeting Tuesday at 10 a.m. Officials say a site has been chosen and the owner notified, but leaseholder contact required. An architect may be hired Tuesday to push plans and bids ahead for a $54,000 federal grant deadline.
Bombs Rain Into Madrid as Fascists Battle City
Insurgent shells struck Madrid including Times Square area wounding thirty. Fire, artillery and air attacks hit the capital as fascist planes bombed and machine gunned central districts and government fortifications. At least twenty three killed in Puente Vallecas from collapsing buildings after bombardment.
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Madrid
Times Square
Madrid Electric Company
Gran Via
Puerto del Sol
Toledo Bridge
Puente Vallecas
Associated Press Bureau
Kraschel Extends Lead in Iowa Governor Canvass
Official canvass shows Nels G. Kraschel Democrat leading George A. Wilson Republican by 3,169 votes with Kraschel 522,229 to Wilson 519,060 after nine counties completed re checks. Legislature to decide governor’s race amid possible contest concerns.
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Des Moines
Nels G. Kraschel
George Wilson
Iowa
Kraschel
Wilson
Kraschel Gains Ten Votes in Linn County Canvass
Nels G Kraschel picked up ten votes in Linn county during the canvass by the board of supervisors on Monday raising his official Linn total to 16 770. George Wilson held at 20 692. The gain came from Linn township where unofficial Kraschel tallies rose from 126 to 136. Other office returns were still being canvassed.
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Nels G. Kraschel
Linn
Board of Supervisors
Kraschel
Linn County
George Wilson
Linn Township
Linn Board
Dr. E. E. Day Named Cornell Univ. Head
Dr. Ed mund Ezra Day, director of social science programs at the Rockefeller Foundation, was selected to succeed Dr. Livingston Farrand as president of Senna University, effective June.
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Ithaca, N. Y
INS
Edmund Ezra Day
Rockefeller Foundation
Livingston Farrand
Senna University
Senator Steiner Undergoes Gall Bladder Operation
Senator Frederick Steiner of Oregon had a gall bladder operation at St. Joseph hospital in Denver on Monday. He has been confined since November 1 after being stricken.
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Denver
Frederick Steiner
Oregon
St. Joseph Hospital
Missing Coe Girls From Toledo Found in Dallas Texas
Miss Belva Overturf and Miss Mable Elston Coe college freshmen from Toledo were located in Dallas Texas after disappearing from Voorhees hall last Wednesday. Mary Bell dean of women at Coe received a telegram from J H Elston father stating the girls were located and will be retrieved. Police in Dallas reportedly found them following a missing persons report from Iowa revealing they left to ease the financial burden on their families.
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Belva Overturf
Mable Elston
Toledo
Coe College
Voorhees Hall
Dallas
Texas
Mary Bell
Miss Bell
J. H. Elston
39 Die As Storm Links Ship Isis Off Land's End
Berlin dispatch reports 39 drowned when the motor ship Isis foundered about 200 miles off Land's End England. Fritz Roethke 17 the Isis cabin boy was the sole survivor, rescued by the rescue ship Westernland. Other ships Queen Mary and S S Mirror halted search to continue their routes.
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Berlin
Isis
Land’s End
Eng
S. S. Westernland
Westernland
Fritz Roethke
Queen Mary
S. S. Mirror
Affirm Sentence of Cas Bootleggers in Wisconsin Case
The supreme court affirmed federal convictions of Hyman Warner Louis Warner Donald Blink George Davis and Ed Lueck of New London Wisconsin for operating bootlegging ring selling alcohol in Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois and the Dakotas. Sentences ranged from six months to six years and fines up to twelve thousand one hundred dollars. They were convicted of unregistered stills defrauding internal revenue taxes and liquor business without a license.
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Washington
LLP
Supreme Court
Hyman
Louis Warner
Donald Blink
George Davis
Ed Lueck
New London
Wis
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Dakotas
Warners
Madison
Lueck
Davis
Blink
Internal Revenue
Adjourn Hearing On Shipping Strike
San Francisco AP reports Rear Admiral H G Hamlet postponed the maritime commission hearing to give Assistant Secretary Edward F Mc Grady room to resume negotiations between Pacific coast unions and shipowners.
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San Francisco
H. G. Hamlet
Maritime Commission
Edward F. McGrady
Theft report turns up missing note as owner heads to police
Anaconda Montana AP writes that R. J. Heasley, en route to police headquarters to report a $6 theft from his store, misplaced a $10 bill from his pocket during the outing.
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Anaconda, Mont
R. J. Heasley
Iowa Supreme Court Invalidates Part of Chain Tax Law
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 that the section of the chain store tax on gross receipts violates both state and federal constitutions. The ruling affirms a federal district court decision striking down the graduated levy while upholding a separate unit tax on the number of stores. The case involves Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea, Graham Department Stores, Walgreens and other chain operators.
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Washington
Iowa
Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Graham Department Stores Company
Walgreen Company
Des Moines
United States Supreme Court
Court Rebukes Probers Denies Injunction in Hearst Telegram Case
The U S Court of Appeals ruled it cannot interfere with a congressional committee. It rebuked the Federal Communications Commission for copying thousands of telegrams from telegraph firms and giving them to the Senate Black–Hearst investigation, while denying Hearst’s bid to halt the commission’s actions.
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Washington
Congress
United States Court of Appeals
William Randolph Hearst
Senate Lobby
Hearst
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Committee
Hugo Black
Ala
Commission
Sanna
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Begin Nutrition Center Campaign
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U. S
Buckingham
Council
Cedar Rapids Auto
Nels Kraschel
George A. Wilson
E. E. Day
Cornell Univ
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Edward L. O’connor
Frank Messer
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