Huge Portion Of Till Collapses In Nighttime Slide
A massive portion of Elysian Park's hill collapsed in the Los Angeles night, thrilling crowds and injuring no one. Three workers narrowly escaped as debris endangered Riverside drive and the Dayton avenue bridge approach. Fire, police, and power outages followed while engineers assess the epic fall of about 1.5 million tons of dirt and boulders.
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Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Riverside Drive
Los Angelés
River Valley
Tumblin
Dayton Avenue
Life as a Wheel: Recurrent Change and Human Nature
A 1937 reflection argues life repeats themes but not details. It contrasts the wish for change with the comfort of sameness, noting history shifts stage and cast while core truths persist. The wheel metaphor frames social dynamics and personal growth as guided by a greater force.
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Goethe
Ed Howe
Gloria Stuart Illness Delays Headline Huntress Shoot
Gloria Stuart of Hollywood is confined to home with influenza delaying the production of the film Headline Huntress. The setback postpones shooting activities and disrupts the schedule in Los Angeles.
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Hollywood
Calif
Gloria Stuart
Biermann Heads Farm Bloc On Corn Marketing Quota Plan
Rep Fred Biermann of Decorah Iowa was named to a three member committee by a farm belt bloc of thirty congressmen to draft amendments to a new house farm bill. Other members include S W Lucas and James G Polk. The group aims to reduce the corn marketing quota and add mandatory loans on corn. Earl Smith of the Illinois Agriculture Association called the bill impotent and urged lowering the quota from 2 927 000 000 to 2 618 000 000 bushels with estimated demand at 2 380 000 000 bushels.
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Washington
Fred Biermann
Decorah
Iowa
S. W. Lucas
Havana
Ill
James G Polk
Highland
Ohio
Chester W. Thompson
Rock Island
Agriculture Committee
Marvin Jones
Texas
Earl Smith
Mlinois Agriculture Association
Smith
Wife Kills Husband With Paring Knife
In Toledo in a domestic incident, Joseph Myneder, 26, was stabbed to death. His wife Betty Myneder, 24, confessed to attacking him with a small paring knife after a quarrel over his drinking. Edward Beahm, 29, admitted presence but did not witness the stabbing.
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Toledo
Joseph Myneder
Betty
Ralph Murphy
Shirley Ross to Wed Director Edgar Anderson
Shirley Ross of the movies and Edgar Anderson assistant director said Saturday they will marry likely within a month.
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Shirley Ross
Hollywood
Calif
The
Movies
Edgar Anderson
Talbot Resigns as Head of Modern Woodmen of America
A. R. Talbot of Lincoln Nebraska resigns after thirty four years as national president of the Modern Woodmen of America effective January 1 Oscar E Aleshire of Chicago becomes national treasurer and Henry F Turner of Paducah Kentucky is named to replace Aleshire as national treasurer
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Rock Island, I
A. R. Talbot
Lincoln
Neb
Modern Woodmen of America
Oscar E. Aleshire
Chicago
Henry F. Turner
Paducah
Aleshire
Congress and Farmers Should Visit Each Other
A 1937 column by Arthur Baer argues Congress and farmers should exchange six month visits to better align agriculture and legislation. Baer jokes that farmers need patent medicines and decent crops to keep showgoers away, urging direct, on‑the‑ground problem study between lawmakers and farmers.
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Congress
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Fog Endangers Lives and Ties Up British Traffic
A vast England fog halted trains and buses, delayed shipping on the Thames, and endangered pedestrians for a third day. At least ten deaths were attributed to the blackout as London residents navigated with torchlight and warnings of continuing disruption.
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London
England
Thames
Croydon
Nottingham
Nine Civil Suits Seek 7.5 Million From Trainmen Union
Greyhound Lines filed nine federal suits seeking 7.5 million dollars from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and twenty officers and members. The action followed arrests in several cities as a bus drivers strike demanding closed shop and higher wages continued. Authorities cited tire and equipment damage and threats to employees and passengers. The union counts members in both transportation sectors.
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Cleveland
Greyhound Lines
Brotherhood of Railroad
Brotherhood
Anna Hahn Sentenced to Die in March Electric Chair
Cincinnati AP Mrs Anna Marie Hahn 31 was sentenced Saturday to die in the Ohio electric chair March 10 for the murder by poison of Jacob Wagner a gardener acquaintance. The judge overruled a new trial motion saying the evidence was overwhelming and the verdict correct.
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Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio
Jacob Wagner
Charles S. Bell
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
New Albany Man Freed After Refusing Child Bus Walk
Harry Farnsiy, 48, was released from jail in New Albany Indiana after serving time for refusing to allow his children to walk along a busy highway to reach a school bus.
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New Albany
Ind
Harry Farnsiy
Roosevelt urges farm bill costs kept within budget
President Roosevelt asked that farm program expenditures stay within 540 million dollars annually to balance the budget. He noted Senate talks on costs and urged revenue steps if spending exceeds the limit, warning deficits will continue without proportional revenue.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Barkley
Senate
Man Held After Inability To Explain City Presence
Russell Westberg 33 of Waterloo a moulder was arrested by Detectives Condon and Kadina after being found wandering around Fifteenth street and First avenue E in the early hours. He could not explain his presence in the vicinity and was held for investigation. Westberg had registered at the Royal hotel and gave Cedar Falls as his address though he claimed Waterloo as his home.
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Russell Westberg
Waterloo
Condon and
Kadina
Westberg
Fifteenth Street
First Avenue E
Royal Hotel
Cedar Falls
England weighs terms for Nazi colonial concessions
London reports Britain ready to offer Germany a return of Togoland and the Cameroons under League of Nations mandates as part of a European peace settlement. France may join Britain in concessions, but Paris will oppose a free hand for Hitler in Austria.
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Germany
Nations League
London
Great Britain
League of Nations
Camille Chautemps
Neville Chamberlain
France
Britain
Austria
Chautemps
Hitler
Togoland
Cameroons
Africa
Great Brit
Another Motorist Gets 90 Day Term For Drunk Driving
Charles McHugh aged 30 of 709 Eighth Street SE was arrested at 6 36 pm on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He pled guilty before District Judge H C Ring and received ninety days in county jail and a three month driving ban. Police said McHugh was driving erratically on Thirteenth Street and A Avenue NE before being arrested between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. The vehicle reportedly had no brakes.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles McHugh
Eighth Street
H. C. Ring
Ring
McHugh
DeVore
Bukacek
Thirteenth Street
First Avenue
Eleventh
Twelfth Streets
Temperature Slides As Cedar Rapids Sees Drizzle
Cedar Rapids weather turns damp and cool with slow rain data from Cedar Rapids Gas readings. Temperatures fall from 41 at 9 a.m. to 32 by noon while Friday’s peak of 57 at 2:30 p.m. drops to 44 by 7 p.m. and 41 at midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
What City Dweller Should Know About Livestock Terms
Chicago AP offers a glossary for city dwellers to interpret results at the International Livestock Exposition opening Saturday. Terms defined include feeders, fat animals, steer, heifer, wether, carcass, and carload, with examples for counts like fifteen head of cattle or twenty head of feeders.
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Chicago
Blood Offered for Malady Victim in Windsor Fight for Life
In Windsor Ontario Grace hospital doctors seek a type 4 blood donor recovered from the same streptococcus veridans illness as 28 year old Weston W Fletcher. More than 2500 volunteers offered blood with hopes of saving him before a midweek deadline. A Chicago woman Miss Margaret Morton prepared to fly in with her type 4 blood while Edgar Stanford in London England offered his blood sample if needed.
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Windsor
Ont
INS
London
Chicago
Army of Volunteers
Weston W. Fletcher
Grace Hospital
Fletcher
H. A. Simpkins
Edgar Stanford
Motor Company
England
Dr. Simpkins
Simpkins
United States
Canada
Stanford
Margaret Morton
Roosevelt Hospital
New York
Poison plot target woman inventor in Pasadena
In Pasadena California 23 year old James Womack a lab assistant was jailed on suspicion of attempted murder amid a possible plan to seize one million dollars of inventions. Mrs Louis L Morey 45 an inventor near death in hospital alleged two men knew her processes and that she had been slowly poisoned through the same glass in the laboratory.
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Pasadena
INS
James Womack
Womack
Louis L. Morey
Morey
Five Million Dollars Worth of Livestock at Chicago Exposition
The thirty-eighth International Livestock Exposition opened with almost 13 000 head of cattle swine sheep and horses on display. Delegations from 44 states 5 Canadian provinces and Australia contributed 5 000 grain samples and 500000 expected attendance.
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Chicago
Australia
Farmers of Tomorrow
Canada
Kansas State
Warner
Okla
Michigan
Minnesota
Britain and U S Protest Japanese Shanghai Actions
The United States and Britain protested Japan over the seizure of Shanghai customs. Ambassador Grew delivered Washington’s note to Tokyo, while Sir Robert Craigie asserted Britain’s right to be consulted on Chinese customs arrangements. London closely coordinated with Paris and Washington on Shanghai’s revenue and debt implications.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
Shanghai
Tokio
Joseph C. Grew
Cordell Hull
London
Britain
Robert L. Craigie
France
Craigie
China
Customs Service
Japan moves to take over Shanghai Chinese government functions
In Shanghai the Japanese authorities begin control and close supervision of all former Chinese government functions in the international settlement and French concession. A Japanese spokesman says Japan will exercise rights immediately over China’s communications system and radio administration. U.S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson reaches Hankow as Beijing ministries relocate from Nanking.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
Japan
China
Radio Administration
American Commercial Pacific Cable
Radio Corporation of America
Mackay Radio
MacDonald Buried In Scotland After Funeral
In Lossiemouth Scotland the ashes of James Ramsay MacDonald were buried on a hill beside his wife. Almost the entire population lined the streets as the cortège moved to the cemetery with shops closed and curtains drawn along the route.
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Lossiemouth
Scotland
James Ramsay MacDonald
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