Political row over Hopkins waste charge echoes Dawes bank loan case
Senator Borah denounces Hopkins and the New Deal as wasteful. RFC sues to recover 60 million of the 80.8 million loaned in 1932 to the Dawes Bank amid reorganizations. Narcotics case linked to high school girls prompts police probes and calls for cooperation. Comrade Sinclair faces fallout as Townsend pension discussion and Father Coughlin notes spark reader reactions. A doctor cites better diets improving the American race.
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RFC
Dawes Bank
Chicago
Mral Republic
Sam
United States Tightens Secrecy on Naval Developments
The Navy and related industries face strict orders from Secretary Swanson restricting information on new naval devices, aircraft carriers, and warship improvements. The move aims to curb unofficial espionage via Congress, annual defense bills, reports, and films, while safeguarding visitor access to Yorktown Enterprise Ranger class ships.
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Washington
United States
Navy Department
Swanson
Congressional Investigation
War and Navy
Congress
Navy
Yorktown
Enterprise
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Norfolk
Ranger
South America
Begin Today A Call For Daily Kindness
In this 1934 reflection the author urges amending the Golden Rule with an immediate start to daily acts of kindness. He laments shy manners and small talk while urging readers to lead by example and practice compassion today.
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Shell
Making sense of progress in diets and civilization
The text argues that rapid mental development and long life are useless without applying intelligence to current civic issues. It suggests science must advance our diets to achieve genuine maturity and meaningful longevity.
Fear Man Kidnapped for 100000 Dollars Slain
William Weiss a prominent sportsman and reputed aide of Max Boo-Boo Hoff was abducted October 26 in Philadelphia from in front of his home. A ransom note demanded $100000, reportedly paid but no trace of Weiss since. J Edgar Hoover said federal agents joined the probe as a nurse witnessed the abduction. The case is described as a professional kidnapping linked to pre repeal gang war reprisals.
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Philadelphia
William Weiss
Max “Boo-Boo” Hoff
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Weiss
Hoover
700 Men Added To Iowa PWA Payrolls
Des Moines AP reports October PWA payrolls rose by 700 in Iowa. Hans C Pilund, director of the National Re employment Service for Iowa, cites 5 525 PWA workers in October versus 4 875 in September.
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Iowa
PWA
Des Moines
Hans C Pilund
National Re-employment Service
Oil magnate to sail for Galapagos mystery
Capt G Allan Wancock of Los Angeles with a scientist crew will sail Friday aboard the Valero III toward Charles island in the Galapagos to solve the death of two castaways. Bodies were found on Maichena island 180 miles south of Charles island by a tuna clipper skipper.
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Los Angeles
G. Allan Wancock
Galapagos Group
Ecuador
Hancock
Valero III
Charles Island
South Seas
Lonely Maichena Island
Galapagos Mystery Deepens Over Missing Baroness and Lorenz
Reports from the Galapagos describe the disappearance of Baroness Eloisa Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn Lorenz and Philippson with a Norweigian yachtsman and others missing. Two bodies found on Maichena Island in the Galapagos are believed possibly to be Alfredo Rudolph Lorenz, a German living in Paris, amid tension between Lorenz and the baroness over a relationship with Philippson.
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Maichena
Sland
Galapagos
Alfredo
Rudolph Lorenz
Paris
Floreana
Charles
Nuggerud
Guayaquil
Lorenz
Dinamita
Eloisa Bosquet de Wagner
Wehrborn
Austria
France
Robert Philippson
Arthur
Margaret Wittmer
Floreana Island
Philippson
Galapagos Islands
Baroness
Rolf Blomberg
Martin Voegel
Widow sues fruit market for ten thousand dollars
Mrs Rose Primach filed a $10000 lawsuit against a Chicago fruit market claiming negligence after she slipped on a string bean. She alleges the store owners failed to maintain a safe premises.
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Chicago
Rose Primach
Boulder Teen Confesses To Campus Slugging Spree
Jack Churches an 18 year old Boulder high school student admitted to police he slugged about a dozen University of Colorado coeds last month. Authorities say the attacks occurred on or near campus between Oct. 12 and Oct. 27.
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Boulder, Colo
Jack Churches
University of Colorado
Churches
Rolla C. Prater
Boulder, Cole
R. C. Prater
Boulder
Prater
Boulder Preparatory School
Santa Claus Parade Planned for Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids chamber of commerce received word that Santa will parade through Cedar Rapids on Friday November 30. The mercantile bureau invites Santa to park his North Pole cabin downtown for visiting children and hints at a surprise including storybook characters like Cinderella the Big Bad Wolf and Mother Goose for the parade.
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Cedar, Rapids
Santa Claus
Cedar Rapids
Toyland
Sanita
Better Diet Boosts Americans According to Doctor
Cleveland AP reports Dr. H. C. Sherman of Columbia University says improved diet over the last forty years is yielding faster growth earlier mental maturity and possibly longer life for Americans. He cites benefits especially in well educated old native American families during his NAS address.
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H.C Sherman
Columbia University
Dr. Sherman
Cleveland
H. C. Sherman
Sherman
National Academy of Sciences
Industries Seek Pact to Curb Labor Power
Washington reports confidential advice that steel auto and textile makers plan a gentlemen's agreement to limit organized labor. The move risks destabilizing industrial peace as unions push for elections and stronger bargaining power, with fears of renewed textile strikes and disputes over NRA code enforcement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mrs Rockefeller Attacks Charity Self-Glory In Public Appeal
New York AP Mrs John D Rockefeller III decried wealthy blue bloods for charity efforts driven by publicity and self glory. In her debut speech at a conference on family life and national recovery she criticized ticket buying and name dropping while urging genuine social work and thoughtful giving.
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J. D. Rockefeller III
New York
John D. Rockefeller III
Rockefeller
More Arrests Expected In Cedar Rapids Drug Trade
Cedar Rapids police chief Earl Stanley said investigations into marijuana selling would continue and lead to more arrests within 24 hours. Thomas Sotelo pled guilty to narcotics selling. sentence deferred. Authorities found marijuana plants near his home and identified multiple distributors tied to Negro night spots and a high school.
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Cedar Rapids
Earl Stanley
Thomas Sotelo
Thirteenth Avenue SE
John T. Moffit
Sotelo
Stanley
WITNESS HELD IN $427000 ROBBERY CASE
Attorney Geoghan seeks bail for Thomas Quinn 32 held as material witness in a $427 000 robbery case. Deputy Chief Inspector John J. Ryan notes Quinn’s address is withheld and bail asked at 50 000.
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Cr Ae Mets
Tapas
William
Geoghan
John J. Ryan
Brooklyn Detectives
Thomas Quinn
Ryan
Quinn
Hook to Bring American Liberty League Under Federal Rules
Representative-elect Frank E Hook of Michigan announced his first bill in Congress to place the American Liberty League under the provisions of the federal corrupt practices act. The plan signals partisan oversight as Hook begins his congressional tenure.
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Washington
Frank E. Hook
Mich
Congress
American Liberty League
Pardon for Money Urged by Moley
Raymond Moley in an open letter to California Governor Merriam urges a pardon for Tom Mooney. He argues justice must be untainted by errors or corruption, warning a tainted justice endangers public peace and that Mooney’s trial was tainted by perjury.
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New York
Raymond Moley
Frank Merriam
California
Tom Mooney
Supreme Court
Moley
Roosevelt
Brain Trust
Ace Sleuths Join Hauptmann Probe
Internal revenue bureau investigators Frank Wilson and Arthur P. Madden were ordered to New Jersey to aid state authorities in the prosecution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh baby murder case.
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Washington
Frank Wilson
Arthur P. Madden
Internal Revenue Bureau
Intelligence Unit
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Butler Charged Over Plot to Establish Fascist Rule
The House committee on un American activities opened a probing session into a reported plan to install a fascist dictatorship in the United States led by General Smedley D Butler. Gerald P MacGuire denied involvement while McCormack pledged full testimony and witnesses to uncover the truth. Dickstein warned more testimony and bigger names to come.
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New York
John W. McCormack
House Committee On un-American Activities
United States
Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
Gerald P. MacGuire
Grayson Mp, Murphy and Co
Washington
MacGuire
McCormack
General Butler
Butler accused of fascist plot denied by financier
Major General Smedley Butler's charge of a funded fascist takeover plot in the United States was denied by Gerald P. McGuire of Grayson MP Murphy and company. McGuire said he never offered Butler money or support to raise a half million man army or to advocate a return to the gold standard. He also disputed Butler's claim of a Roosevelt-Mussolini like coup and said he did not visit Europe last summer. Congresswoman Dickstein’s committee plans probe continues.
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INS
Smedley Butler
Marine Corps
United States
Gerald P. McGuire
Grayson
Murphy and Company
McGuire
Butler
Washington
Exmarine
American Legion
Chicago
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Italy
Europe
Germany
Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein
Congressional Committee
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