Florida socialite flies away in rented plane to Atlantic
Louise Truck Stanton 32 and widow of Gordon Stanton, despondent after his death in an auto crash, rented a plane in Jacksonville and flew toward the Atlantic with a four hour fuel supply. She left notes urging dignified handling and saying she would not return, planning to crash at sea to learn what it is all about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Louise Truck Stanton
Department of Commerce
Stanton
Louise Truck
Gordon Stanton
Junior League
Raymond Truck
Venetia
H. A. Maloney
O.k
Laurie Yonge
Funds On Overton Probe Committee Near Exhaustion
New Orleans reports chairman Yom Connally said the U S senate sub committee investigating Huey P Long in Louisiana faced near exhaustion of funds. An original 25000 dollar appropriation left a shortfall to finish the two weeks of hearings. The panel also faced non responsive witnesses and urged Congress to provide more money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Yom Connally
U. S Senate
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Texas
Congress
Constabulary lieutenant killed in Moro island clash
Lieut. J. Mariano of the Philippine constabulary was killed on Jolo Island as his detachment tried to settle a dispute between Moro outlaw bands. Three Moro outlaws were reported killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
P. I. Cins
Lieut. J. Mariano
Philippine Constabulary
Jalo
Parable of Apsethus and Libyan Parrot Propaganda
Apsethus seeks godhood in Libya by parrotly declaring himself divine. Libyans rally to the claim until a detective debunks the ruse with counter parrots proclaiming his deceit. The tale serves as a warning on propaganda and living by slogans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apsethus
Libya
Aypsethus
Nebraska wins grain judging contest in Kansas City
University of Nebraska team captured first honors in the international grain judging contest held in Kansas City during the American Royal livestock and horse show. Oklahoma A and M College took second place by a single point, edging Iowa State College for third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
University of Nebraska
Oklahoma ,A. and M
Iowa State College
Soviet American Debt Deal Possible by Thursday
Washington reports a potential agreement to erase past debts and disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union. Litvinov leads talks with Ambassador-designate Bullitt and officials Morgenthau and Phillips to resolve U S debts, confiscated properties, and 1918 Archangel expedition claims.
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Doight
Washington
Russia
United States
Moscow
America
Archangel
Maxim Litvinoff
State
Treasury Departments
United Press
Litvinoff
William Bullitt
William Phillips
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
New York
Senator Borah
Europe
Alexander Troyanovsky
Paris
Berlin
Balloonists Descend Safe After NJ Stratosphere Flight
Lieutenant-Commander T G W Settle and Major Chester L Fordney landed in the marshes of southern New Jersey after a 11 mile ascent. They survived a 15 hour isolation with instruments intact though some photographic plates were damaged. Local help ferried them to safety as tides rose, with Settle leaving for Washington and Fordney planning to follow later that night.
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Fairton
N. J
New Jersey
T. G. W. Settle
Chester L. Fordney
Delaware
Cohansey
Fordney
Settle
Major Fordney
Settie
Washington
Capital
New Jersey Bayou
Chester Fordney
Bureau of Standards
Lettie
Naval Air Station
Akron
Delaware Bay
Roosevelt Keeps Silent On Ford Visit Talk
President Roosevelt continues his vacation in Warm Springs Georgia without confirming any plan for a Ford visit. Secretary Early says no arrangements exist but Ford would be welcomed if he came, with no surprise if it occurs. Rumors of a potential conference gain strength as General Johnson arrives this week, while Roosevelt enjoys relaxation from office duties.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Stephen T. Early
Ford
Hugh Johnson
Doris Duke Turns Twenty One and Gains Fortune
Doris Duke, 21, inherits a substantial one third of her late father James B. Duke’s residuary estate and becomes trustee of the Duke endowment. She will receive the remaining thirds at ages 25 and 30 respectively, with an estimated fortune near 10 million dollars and life as a public figure tempered by family tradition. She holds homes in Somerville New Jersey and New York City, plus Rough Point in Newport Rhode Island, and has led a quiet, religiously influenced life.
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New York
Doris Duke
James B. Duke
America
Doris
Nanaline Duke
Somerville
N. J
Miss Duke
Duke
Duke Town House
East Seventy-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Newport
R. 1
Rough Point
Anastasia
Greece
Myers Park
N. C
Gas Company Announces Major 060000 Project Start
Cedar Rapids Gas Company will begin construction on a natural gas change-over, with about 500 men to be employed over six weeks. More than 200 workers will lay a branch pipeline twenty miles south of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids local work will add 300 more, ahead of winter and NRA limits. Two shifts may run ten hours daily four days a week.
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Cedar Rapids News
F ‘Cedar
Rapids Gas
Mark Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Anderson
NRA
Mary McCormic to Wed Harry Bannister in January
New York AP Mary McCormic opera singer and ex wife of Serge Mdivani plans marriage to film actor Harry Bannister. The couple will wed January 29 and will live on a Connecticut farm with cows and potato patches, which she enjoys digging.
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New York
Mary McCormic
Los Angeles
Serge Mdivani
Connecticut
Miss McCormic
Harry Bannister
Ann Harding
Screen
Domestic Gold Inches Up to 33.76 a Ounce
A price of 33.76 was fixed Tuesday for RFC purchases of newly mined gold, up 10 cents from Monday and a new high for RFC. The quotation trailed the world price at 33.81 based on sterling at 5.3214, with values rising as the dollar weakened.
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Washington
RFC
Poetic Edwin Markham Embraces Air Travel
Edwin Markham, 82, arrives in San Francisco from Los Angeles by air, saying he is airminded from now on after previously vowing never to fly. The poet of The Man With Hoe makes the landmark trip by airplane.
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San Francisco
INS
Edwin Markham
Los Angeles
Huge Profit From Theater Stock Deals Boarded By Banking Group
A New York banking coalition scored about 60 percent profit by floating the first 500 000 share issue of General Theaters Equipment Corporation in 1919. Murray W. Dodge of Chase National Bank testified in the senate inquiry detailing profits of 6 000 000 on a 10 000 000 commitment. The group included Chase Securities and Shermar corporation with early involvement by Albert H. Wiggin. They unloaded stock to the public at 32 after buying at 25, then selling for around 3. The second syndicate borrowed from Chase for 2 500 000, rising to 4 000 000 in weeks.
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Washington
New York
General‘Theaters
Murray W. Dodge
Chase National Bank
Senate
Dodge
Chase Securities Corporation
Albert H. Wiggin
Shermar Corporation
Wiggin
William Fox
Fox
G. T. EB
West and Company
Pynchon and Company
Halsey, Stuart and Company
W. 5
Hammons and Company
Dillinger Gang Sought in $28000 Racine Bank Robbery
Wisconsin authorities hunted three Indiana fugitives after the American Bank and Trust Co robbery of 28000. John Dillinger with Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley were named in warrants. Dillinger and Copeland, captured in Chicago, were linked by bank witnesses and officials.
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Racine, Wis
LLP
Wisconsin
Indiana
American Bank and Trust Company
Lake Region
John Dillinger
Chicago
Harry Copeland
Dillinger
Harry Pierpont
Charles Makley
Grover C. Weyland
Ursula
Patrke
Cyril Boyard
Racine
Wilbur Hansen
Harold J. Graham
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Report on Cedar Rapids auto toll figures cites accidents and injuries with counts for the year. No additional details or context provided beyond the numbers in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Son of Oilman Slain by Wife in Quarrel at Home
Audrey Smith Clark, former stage beauty, was under police guard in Woodbury hospital after allegedly shooting her husband Shel don A. Clark 35 in their Palatial Paulsboro New Jersey home. The couple had two children Sheldon III 6 and Harry 4. Detectives said Clark struck Clark with a billiard cue during an argument, then Mrs Clark fired a pistol. Police reported she confessed but no charges were filed yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Clnayton Apgar
Clark
W. J. Mattson
Johnson
Sheldon
Honey
Lee Tracy Freed In Mexico After 500 Pesos Fine
American film star Lee Tracy was freed in Mexico City after paying a 500 peso fine for insulting military cadets and public morals during the twenty third anniversary parade. He was allowed to depart for El Paso under embassy intervention, and his passport was revoked.
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Lee Tracy
Mexico
Mexico City
INS
National Military Academy
Tracy
el Paso
Tex
United States
Immigration Department
Chapultepec
Man Drowns as Car Plunges Into Bay
An elderly man dies when a car plunges from a two deck into Los Angeles harbor. Firemen recovered the body after hoisting the submerged automobile.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor
Protests Rise Over Treasury Publicity Reforms Under Morgenthau
Treasury Acting Secretary Morgenthau orders that all department statements go through his office and top aides before release. Journalists protest via telegrams to President Roosevelt while officials cite tighter control and reduced access. Roosevelt has no comment.
Iowa Farmers Seek U S Corn Control Plan
The United Farmers of Story County urge permanent government financing to store corn on farms in community elevators until market ready. They ask delaying foreclosures amid 164 pending cases and propose government loans against stored corn as a first lien to stabilize prices and prevent shortages.
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Story County
Sprague resigns treasury post opposing dollar devaluation
Professor O M W Sprague, an executive assistant to the treasury secretary and hard money advocate, resigns and denounces Roosevelt administration policy to depreserve the dollar. He warns the gold policy risks government credit collapse as Morgenthau defends the policy amid treasury upheaval.
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Washington
O. M. W. Sprague
Secretary of the Treasury
Roosevelt
Sprague
Treasury
Woodin
Dean Acheson
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
London
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Atlantic
Overton
Iowa State
Settle and
Airminded
Ayeemaee
Sheldon Clark, Jr
The
Department
Herbert Gaston
Treasury Department No
Treasury Department
Herbert E. Gaston
Herman Oliphant
William H. McReynolds
H. Mor
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Customs Bureau
Iowa
U.S. Corn Control
Baruch
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