Kelly and wife Kelly sentenced to life in Urschel kidnapping
George Rine Gun Kelly and Kathryn Kelly received life sentences after a federal jury convicted them under the Lindbergh Law for the Urschel kidnapping. The judge ordered assets frozen and transferred to the victim’s daughter Pauline.
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Mclahoma City
George Khine
Kelly
Kryn
Charles F. Urschel
Alahoma
Millionaire
Edgar
Kellysat
Sa Ethos
Harvey Bailey
Albert Bates
R. G. Shannon
Paradise
Tex
Kidno Farm
Urschel
Shannon
Kathryn Kelly
Avenworth Federal Penitentiary
West Virginia
Kellys
Johnson Seeks Iowa Law Defining NRA Powers
Des Moines AP report says General Hugh S. Johnson sent a recommended uniform act to Governor Clyde Herring. The measure would authorize the governor to consent to use of state and local officials to carry out NRA policies, with session likely in November.
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Des Moines
NRA
Iowa
Clyde Herring
Hugh S&s. Johnson
Herring
Sharing Self and Golden Rule in Everyday Religion
A reflective piece argues that true religion and education arise from sharing oneself with others. It asserts the Golden Rule as a path to happiness and self-fulfillment, criticizing sermons that do not reveal personal experience. Published excerpt from 1933.
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Emerson
Smith Considered for Jewish Refugees High Commissioner
Geneva AP reports an official of the League of Nations said Alfred E. Smith former New York governor was being considered for the post of high commissioner of Jewish refugees. Other names mentioned include Theodore Roosevelt Jr. former governor general of the Philippines and Nicholas Roosevelt former minister to Hungary.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Alfred E. Smith
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Philippines
Nicholas Roosevelt
Hungary
Foreman Jacob Reding Fatally Electrocuted at Belle Plaine
Jacob J. Reding, 42, sub station foreman for the Town Electric Light and Power Co., died after contacting a 33 000 volt live wire at Belle Plaine. He fell 25 feet from an I beam while adjusting a switch. emmett Keough, George Rosenberger, and Mike Ferry assisted. Coroner deliberations on an inquest pending. He served since 1912 and died in a Belle Plaine hospital after the 9 20 a m incident. He left a wife and son James, age six, and is survived by his parents, siblings, and four sisters. Funeral plans not announced.
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Cedar Rapids
Jacob J. Reding
C Avenue NE
Town Electric Light and Power Company
Belle Plane
Belle Plaine
Reding
Emmett Keough
Twenty-sixth Street
George Rosenberger
Mike Ferry
J. R. Burrows
Mr. Reding
James
Nicholas Reding
George Reding
Dubuque
John Reding
Lowise Olson
San Francisco
Calif
Frank Euland
White Lakes
S. D
Peter Dondlinger
Newhall
William Burkett
Monticello
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
United States Army
Knoxville
Acquits Davis as Leader of Moose Lottery
Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania is acquitted by a federal jury on charges tied to Moose lodge lottery activities. He wept with relief, thanked the jury, and planned to address the AFL convention before returning to Pittsburgh.
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Acquits
Davis
Moose Lottery
New York
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Loyal Order of Moose
Frank J
James J., Jr
City council OKs plans for first sewage plant units
The council approved plans and specifications for units A and B of the sewage disposal plant funded by a federal loan and grant. Bids will be received October 26 in the city council rooms. Cost estimates place initial work around 300000 with total plant cost near 432386 excluding local share. The project, designed by Howard R. Green Engineering of Cedar Rapids, will issue bond installments beginning about November 1 and six months apart.
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Cedar Rapids News
Howard R. Green Engineering Company
Cedar Rapids
Green Company
Dillon Read Concealed Bond Facts Before Senators
Senate stock market investigators charged Dillon Read and Co. concealed from bondholders in June 1931 that Brazil could not remit the semiannual interest on a 25 million dollar issue now in default. Robert O. Hayward denied concealment while testifying that the State Department approved Bolivian armaments payments from a 23 million dollar loan, with over five million of investor funds sent to Vickers Ltd. for supplies. New York Stock Exchange faced a Friday deadline to comply with a senate questionnaire under threat of seizure of records.
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Washington
Dillon, Read and Company
Senate
Couzens
Mich
Dillon
Read
Robert O. Hayward
United States
Dillon, Read and Co
State Department
International Banking House
Robert C. Hayward
Dillon, Read
Vickers, Ltd
London
Eng
Hayward
INS
New York Stock Exchange
Ferdinand Pecora
Cedar Rapids Day Highlighted at Manchester Fete
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce members attended Manchester fall festival as Cedar Rapids Day. Thirty businessmen wore badges and joined the three day event’s closing program. Ed O Connor spoke for Dubuque Day and urged cooperation and faith in recovery efforts.
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Gazette
Manchester
Cedar Rapids
O'Connor
NRA
E. G. Dittmer
M. R. Kane
Dub
Macon man learns of $10,000 bequest from late brother
Nathan Lurie, receiving treatment at a hospital, learned from a newspaper that a brother who died in New York left him a $10,000 bequest. The report came from an hospital official reading the paper.
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Macon
Nathan Lurie
New York
Six Bandits Kill Sheriff and Free Dillinger in Jailbreak
Six armed men attacked the Allen County jail at Lima Ohio, fatally wounding Sheriff Jess L. Larber and freeing John Dillinger. The escapees fled in two cars toward Fort Wayne, with Dillinger later tied to prior bank robberies in Bluffton Ohio and Indiana. Authorities suspect convicted escapees from Michigan City. Deputy Wilbur Sharp and Sheriff Larber’s wife confronted the intruders before the sheriff died in hospital.
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Lima
John Dillinger
Jess L. Larber
Keys
Sharpen Dillinger
Dillinger
Fort Wayne
Ind
Indiana
Michigan City
Dayton
Allen County
Bluffton, O
Matt Leach
Indiana State Police
Iowan Public Works Board Approves 46 Projects
The Iowa Public Works Advisory Board on Thursday approved 46 projects statewide with expenditures totaling 2,235,276.46 dollars. Chairman H. M. Cooper of Marshalltown announced the action Thursday night.
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Des Moines
Iown Public Works Advisory Board
H. M. Cooper
Marshalltown
Seven More Indicted In Bond Mail Robbery Case
Chicago federal prosecutors announced seven additional indictments in the nationwide Bond mail robbery plot taking the total indicted to 22. Newly named defendants include Louis Fratto Sam Labow Thaddeus Stevens Julius Rissman Louis Perrott Alex J. Miller and Sam Davis.
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Chicago
Louis Fratto
Sam Labow
Thaddeus Stevens
Julius Rissman
Louis Perrott
Alex J. Miller
Detroit
Sam Davis
NRA Faces Challenges to Its Authority in Union Conflicts
Western Kentucky coal operators defy arbitration and refuse to deal with the United Mine Workers while New Rochelle employers resist blue eagle removals. The NRA braces for actions and hints at court-free enforcement, citing industrial act power and potential sanctions.
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Washington
NRA
Wagner
New York
National Labor Board
Western Kentucky
New Rochelle
N. Y
Plang
Eiz
Weirton
W.va
Ithe
N. C
Hugh
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Blue Eagle
Kentucky Coal
Labor Board
United Mine Workers of America
Independent Miners Union
United Mine Workers
C. F. Richardson
Sturges
Dollfuss Ties Heimwehr to Patriot Front in Government Pact
Vienna report says Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and Prince Starhemberg agreed to merge the Heimwehr with the Patriot Front. The move places Starhemberg as Dollfuss's right hand in backing the government against Nazism.
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Vienna
Engelbert Dollfuss
Prince Starhemberg
Heimwehr
Patriotic Front
Dollfuss
Home Guard
Wilko Drenth, Powers' Father, Takes Own Life
Wilko Drenth, 71, father of Henry Powers, who was once known as the bluebeard slayer and condemned for nurse murder, hanged himself last Friday at his grandson’s home near Sumner Iowa. No motive given. Powers, born Harm Dreath, was also linked to other slayings and was executed in 1932. Drenth’s death follows reports of the case from Clarksburg and Quiet Dell locations in West Virginia.
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Sumner
Wilko Drenth
Henry F. Powers
West Virginia
Bluebeard
Everett Schroeder, Jr
A Powers
Harm Dreath
Dorothy
Pressler Lemke
Northboro
Mast
Powers
Asta Buick Eicher
Park Ridge
Ill
Clarksburg
W. Va
Moundsville
Cornelius O. Pierson
Duckworth
Quiet Dell
Possibility of Bomb In Plane Blast Probed
VALPARAISO Ind. UP Possibility that a time bomb concealed in the tally may have caused the United Air Lines wreck Tuesday night killing seven. Coroner Carl Davis said investigators had no clear cause but considered the bomb theory plausible based on baggage compartment observations. Five witnesses testified they heard no explosion before impact. a second detonation at impact was reported. The coroner noted fumes from a fuel leak could have exploded in the closed cabin. The jury ruled the crash an accident with unknown cause. Bodies of five victims identified.
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Valparaiso
Ind
United Air Lines
Carl Davis
Porter County
Davis
Harold K. Tarrant
A. T. Ruby
Alice Scribner
Fred Schendorf
Dorothy M. Dwyer
H.R. Burris
E. Smith
Local man Tolson named assistant director of national parks
Hillary A. Tolson of Cedar Rapids was appointed by Interior Secretary Ickes as assistant director of national parks buildings and reservations. A 15 year government veteran and George Washington University graduate Tolson will prepare budgets direct expenditures and oversee the office. He is married with two children and his brother Clyde Tolson is assistant to the chief of the bureau of investigation in Washington.
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Hillary A. Tolson
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Tolson
Twelfth Street
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Interior Department
Clyde Tolson
Washington
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Tolson
Associated Press
Laredo
Panama Canal
Panama
George Washington University
National Park Service
Police Trial Board
NRA policy split over minimum markups in retail codes
Wallace Johnson and Peek agreed to oppose minimum retail markups. They favor enforcing anti loss-leader provisions to curb price cutting and aim to raise farm prices via parity instead of guaranteeing profits for distributors. The plan seeks to stop below-cost selling without mandatory markup limits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
George N. Peek
White House
Fea
Peek
F. OC
Howe
Farm’ Administration
Johneson
Terzo Receives Ten Year Arson Fraud Sentence
Vincent Cerame Terzo, 45, of Brooke Lyn, was found guilty by a six by six jury of arson fraud. Judge H C Ring imposed an indeterminate ten year term at Fort Madison state penitentiary after the verdict. The act involved firing an almost completed apartment building on N street SW on November 25, 1921 to defraud an insurer.
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Cedar Rapids
Vincent Cerame Terzo
Brookelyn
H. C. Ring
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Ring
Terzo
Rand
N Street
Three Minorities Named Blocking Government Progress
Dr George W Frazier president of Colorado State Teachers college labeled the American Legion Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan as three main minorities blocking government improvement. He spoke at the southwestern Iowa teachers convention in Council Bluffs. Other speakers included Dean Paul Co Packer of the University of Iowa college of education.
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Council Bluffs
American Legion
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ku Klux Klan
George W. Frazier
Colorado State Teachers College
Frazier
Iowa
Paul Co. Packer
University of Iowa College of Education
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Kathryn
Fort Worth
A. Smith
T. G. Miller
A. F. of
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Pittsburgh
Senator Davis
United States District Attorney
Moose Order
Conrad Mann
Herbert Hoover
Frank E. Herring
Eagle Magazine
Bernard C. McGuire
Miller
Public Enemy
Iowa Public Works
Barnaby Ross
Steel and Coal Chiefs
Kentucky
Weir
E. T. Weir
Parks
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