Suspect questioned in Louisville kidnapping case here
Walter Childers 29 unemployed lineman from Cleveland awaits federal questioning after police found brunette hair in a Louisville bound car. Chief Britton doubts link to kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Stoll. officials note discrepancies in child ers accounts and a DOJ agent will investigate.
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Charleston
W. Va
Cleveland
Alice Stoll
Louisville
Walter Childers
John Britton
Childers
Margaret Smith
Charleson
W. H. Haywood
Department of Justice
Williamson
Berry Stoll
Ramsay MacDonald Celebrates 68th Birthday at Downing Street
London AP reports Premier Ramsay MacDonald marked his 68th birthday Friday by continuing to work at Downing Street in the morning and spending the afternoon with his family.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Downing Street
Court action over power plant contract in Toledo
Defendant J W Hopp and J W Hopp Construction face Iowan Electric Light and Power in Cedar Rapids in a contract and account suit. Plaintiff seeks 5 691 81 for material men claims and 156 66 for excavation costs. Defendant counterclaims 3 573 with 2 074 admitted as set off. Brick spec changes blamed for higher labor costs.
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H. C. Ring
District Court
Iowan Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Hopp
J. W
Robbery case against two youths dismissed for missing witness
A robbery charge against Leslie Skerstck 18 and Charles Numeric 17 was dismissed by Judge H C King on state motion due to inability to locate the prosecuting witness. They were accused of robbing Frank Pesek near a local beer parlor on June 16.
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Leslie Skerstck
Charles Numeric
H. C. King
Frank Pesek
Eighth Street
Elks Club To Have Wire On Iowa Nebraska Game
Elks lodge members and friends will hear a play by play account of the Iowa Nebraska football game tomorrow. A running wire from the Lincoln stadium will relay the action.
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Elks Club
The
Elks Lodge
Lincoln
Two Newborns Reported in Peoria and Seattle
Born to Mr and Mrs William Barvinek of Peoria at St. Luke s hospital on Oct 12 a daughter. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Lambert McCarthy at Mercy hospital on Oct 12 at 1449 Fourth avenue SE.
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William Barvinek
Peoria
St. Luke’s Hospital
Lambert McCarthy
Fourth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Manchester
Orris Miller
Donald
Evelyn
Bond Set At 25000 For Mrs Verne Miller In Slayings Case
Vivian Mathis 29 widow of Verne C Miller arraigned on a federal conspiracy charge in Kansas City. Bond set at 25000. she failed to meet it and was taken into custody for further questioning. She said she was arrested in Chicago after serving a Michigan sentence on harboring a criminal. Miller linked to gangsters Floyd and Richetti in the Detroit station killings. Subpoena issued for Joe Lusco to appear before a federal grand jury Oct 22 over the case.
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Kansas City
Vivian Mathis
Verne C. Miller
Kansas City Union Station
United States
Henry L. Dillingham
Frank Nash
Leavenworth
Kaw
Joe Lusco
North Side
150000 Men Share Communion At Buenos Aires Eucharist
In Buenos Aires the thirty second international eucharistic congress opened with an open air communion for more than 150000 men in Plaza Mayo. Eugenio Pacelli led the rite as papal legate with five cardinals while President Justo and his cabinet watched the procession along Avenida de Mayo. The square glowed with blue white and papal colors as Columbus Day and the Feast of the Race were celebrated in the Latin American gathering.
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Buenos Aires
Plaza Mayo
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Vatican
Augustin Justo
Avenida de Mayo
Plaza del Congresso
Plaza de Mayo
Pyramid de Mayo
Argentina
Plaza Dé Mayo
Girl 15 Kills Man Who Assaulted Her in Farm Farm near Parkersburg
Ethel Cross, 15, killed Alva Cross, 62, at his farm after charging him with a past assault. She surrendered to authorities as her father J. E. Cross, a cousin of the victim, tied the families on neighboring farms. Grand jury had not indicted Cross.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Alva Cross
Here
Ethel Cross
J. E. Cross
Alva
Cross
More Liberty Loan Bonds Converted
The federal government completed its October financing program with 1.02 billion dollars of the 1.25 billion Fourth Liberty bonds converted to lower interest obligations. Morgenthau studied plans for another billion-dollar Liberty conversion next April amid inflation rumors officially denied.
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Washington (Lp
Fourth Liberty Loan
Treasury
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Union Declines to Back Farmer-Labor Platform
In Linn county a local machinists union says it will not support the farmer labor party platform. Federation of Labor officials note they do not engage in partisan politics. A federation card party with bridge five hundred and pinochle is planned for Oct 23 at the C S P S hall. Frank Flaherty chaired briefly before Tom McAllen assumed the meeting.
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Federation of Labor
Farmer-Labor Party
Linn
Tom McAllen
Ben Hendal
Federation
Frank Flaherty
McAllen
Results shout in Cedar Rapids ad hit sales
A letter from I. Ginsberg of Ginsberg's Jewelry and Loan Office states a Tuesday Want Ad under Classification 28 sold 24 shotguns and rifles. The note is dated October 11 1934 and sent to the Gazette Want Ad Department.
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Cedar Rapids
I. Ginsberg
Ginsberg's Jewelry &’Loan Office
First St. SE
Milwaukee Officials Probe Guttenberg Wreck
Milwaukee officials take up probe into the Guttenberg train crash that killed four and injured eighteen. Coroner Delke will not hold an inquest as railroad officials take charge. relief crews assist the injured and crews clear debris.
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Milwaukee
Guttenberg
Here
Leslie Delke
Perkins Urges More Employed as Entertainers in US
Secretary of Labor Perkins spoke at the Oklahoma College for Women urging more people be employed in producing non consumed goods she called entertainers. She argued leisure supports culture and civilization, noting machinery enhances life and cultural life depends on longer leisure for individuals.
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Chickasha
Okla
Perkins
Oklahoma College For Women
America
Parisi cabinet crisis after King Alexander assassination
Reliable authority says France may resolve the cabinet crisis sparked by King Alexander's assassination on French soil by naming Andre Tardieu as interior minister and Edouard Herriot as foreign minister. Louis Barthou was killed and Gaston Doumergue assumed Barthou's duties. Albert Sarraut resigns as interior minister.
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Paris
Alexander
Andre Tardieu
Edouard Herriot
Louis Barthou
Gaston Doumergue
Albert Sarraut
Tardieu
Herriot
Doumergue
Democrats Debt Shrinks to 463 Thousand Dollars
The Democratic party reports a deficit of 463000 dollars, down from 570000 earlier. Party treasurer James W. Gerard informed President Roosevelt at the White House that progress is being made and the hole is being crawled out.
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Washington
Ins
Roosevelt
James W. Gerard
White House
Gerard
Chest Fund Passes Fifty Thousand Mark
Pledges to the Community Chest for the coming year topped $50,000 at a report meeting in the Montrose hotel. Additional promises totaled $6,298.89, bringing the total to $50,307.33 toward a $65,000 goal. Contributions included $2,233.75 from preliminary gifts, $6,868 from stores, $1,352.50 from the industrial division, $312.69 from the women's home division, $309.65 from the business and professional women, and $1,422.30 from the men's teams.
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Montrose
Cest
Five Injured By Bottles Hurled At Buses In Chicago
Five people were injured when bottles were hurled through bus windows during a strike by Chicago Motor Coach Co drivers. Two bus fatalities were cited in indictments charging 14 men, including three union officials, with murder.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Motor Coach Company
William Taber
Street Car Men’s Union
Joseph J. Kehoe
Ralph Stoltzmann
Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employee of America
Stoltzmann
Thomas Courtney
Kehoe and Taber
James Kelly
Mary Kennard
Rail plea on freight rate rise denied by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission refused farm groups motions to dismiss the case as they apply to agricultural products and rejected the railroad petition for a general freight rate increase. The Farm Rate council Northwestern Livestock Shippers Traffic league and the National Grange challenged the move while noting the railroads bring in about 170 million dollars in annual revenue.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Farm Rate Council
Northwestern Livestock Shippers Traffic League
National Grange
Baby Elephant Flies In Airplane To St Louis Zoo
Toto Tembo East African infant elephant arrived in St Louis by air then rode in a sedan to the zoo. Officials say the baby seemed dazed at first but was happy upon reaching land. The calf was sold to the St Louis Zoo by Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson who captured it hours after birth.
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St. Louis Zoo
ST. Louis
Toto Tembo
Toto
New York City
Martin Johnson
Tele scope in plane hunts bandit Floyd over Missouri
Two officers flew a high power telescope aircraft Friday to trace Charles Pretty Boy Floyd with two companions. Captain E H Kaeppel led the 31st aviation division 110th squadron National Guard and Major L M Means of troop B state highway police accompanied. They planned two way radio with Jefferson City and aimed for Moberly where Floyd was last seen.
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Columbia! Mo
INS
Charles “Pretty Boy
Floyd
Missouri
E. H. Kaeppel
31St Aviation Division
110Th Squadron
National Guard
L. M. Means
State Highway Police
Macom
Jefferson City
Moberly
Chinese Monetary Crisis Tied to Silver Market Fluctuations
Shanghai reports a severe monetary crisis as silver prices spike to a five year high then retreat sharply. Bankers and speculators fear a weekend export restriction while Washington dispatches are ignored amid unconfirmed rumors of a possible temporary embargo.
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Shanghai
China
London
Washington
Northwest protected on farm losses by the AAA
St Paul AP Chester C Davis administrator of the farm act told agricultural extension workers that security for the northwest farm income comes from AAA benefit payments. He cited 14 932 000 in corn hog payments to offset Minnesota losses and said Dakota Montana wheat payments function as crop insurance against an 98 000 000 bushel shrinkage.
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ST. Paul
Chester C. Davis
Farm Act
Agricultural Extension Workers
Northwest
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Davis
Minnesota
Dakota
Montana
Evangelical Church Abandons Time Limit for Pastors
At Akron Ohio delegates at the general conference voted to remove the seven year limit for pastors serving a single church. The change, supported by nearly all delegates, would end the time restriction and become law if approved by the thirty-one annual conferences in the next year.
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Akron
Evangelical Church
Pasors
Roosevelt says Hull Morgenthau to reply to China on silver
President Roosevelt announced that Secretaries Hull and Morgenthau agreed on a reply to China's protest over the silver purchase program. The statement will be made public in both the United States and China after Secretary of State conferred with the Chinese minister.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
Morgenthau
China
Four Million Families On Relief In August
AP reports relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins said the number of families on relief rose from 3.8 million in July to 4.0 million in August. Public funds spent on unemployment relief in August reached 147 million dollars, up from 130.863 million in July. July's 500,000 single relief recipients were not yet available for August. Hopkins cautioned against drawing conclusions from early September city reports showing almost stationary relief totals and a drop in outlays to 46.276 million from 49.308 million in August.
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Washington (Ap
Harry L. Hopkins
L . Hopkins
Hopkins
Montreal Girl Found Criminally Responsible for Bond Salesman Stabbing
Elaine Morel alias Dolores Lopez testified to six months of beatings by William Owen a Montreal bond salesman and said she stabbed him in self defense during a drunken attack. The coroner's jury ruled her criminally responsible. A doctor noted no external injuries on Morel and autopsy showed alcohol in Owen's blood but not in his stomach.
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Montreal
Elaine Morel
Dolores Lopez
William Owen
Miss Morel
Owen
Masonic Meetings Set for Fort Dodge in April 1936
Waterloo AP reports the grand council of Royal and Select Masters of Iowa will meet on the third Monday of April 1936 at Fort Dodge, followed by the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Iowa on the third Tuesday of April 1936 at Fort Dodge, as sessions closed.
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Waterloo
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of
Iowa
Grand ‘Chapter
Royal Arch Masons of
Fort Dodge
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Tehel
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Newton
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Flora M. Sampica
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