Hastings Questions CBS Over Roosevelt Insurance Claim
Senator Daniel O. Hastings charged Columbia Broadcasting with possible improper dealings after asking CBS to confirm whether James Roosevelt, son of the President, recently arranged a large insurance policy for the company. The request raised questions about conflicts of interest and corporate influence.
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Wilmington
Del
Daniel O. Hastings
Columbia Broadcasting Company
James Roosevelt
Vandenberg Says Roosevelt Broadcast Incident Closed
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg told FCC official George Henry Payne by telegram that the Columbia Broadcast System interruption of the Roosevelt recorded voice last Saturday night is closed as far as he is concerned. He called claims that Roosevelt appeared in person during the broadcast ludicrous.
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New York
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Roosevelt
Columbia Broadcasting System
George Henry Payne
Federal Communications Commission
Michigan
Vandenberg to Speak Coast to Coast Tuesday Night
The Republican National Committee announced Sen. Arthur Vandenberg will address the nation via CBS from Wilmington Delaware Tuesday from 7 to 7 30 p m He will criticize the Saturday address interruption and accuse the administration of brow beating radio stations.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Arthur Vandenberg
CBS
Wilmington
Del
Vandenberg
Senator Vandenberg criticizes broadcast ethics in campaign clash
The telegram from Senator Vandenberg rebuts charges of unethical quotes from a 1932 1933 broadcast. He defends using a candidate’s own words to compare promises with performances and calls for fair play and free elections. He says the idea of a voice recorded debate is clever and beneficial to campaigns. He declines to predict the November 3 outcome.
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New York Times
United States
Vandenberg
Trenton
N. J
Radio Debate Probe Aimed at Roosevelt Interruption
The FCC's broadcast division chair Eugene O Sykes announced an investigation into complaints about an interruption during a radio debate between Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and the recorded voice of President Roosevelt. The notice indicates further details on Page 3.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Roosevelt
Eugene O. Sykes
Federal Communication Commission
Commission
Opening the mind must close on solid ground
Gilbert Chesterton argues that open mindedness without focus is meaningless. He warns that suspended judgment can kill thought and urges forming and standing by convictions while remaining willing to test new truths. DR. NEWTON.
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Gilbert Chesterton
Chesterton
Frontier justice looms as mob threat grows in Elko killings
Luther Jones 32 an ex convict confessed slaying four men in a $40 robbery and hiding their bodies in a shack near Elko Nevada District Attorney Douglas Castle planned to begin trial while guards ring the jail A state prison van with tear gas bombs was readied and Warden William Lewis offered the prison for safe keeping The victims Manuel Arrusecuda Otto Heitman Walter Godecke and Joe Stecca were shot in the head their hands bound and Stecca placed atop the others
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Elko
Nev
Luther Jones
Jones
Douglas Castle
Douglas County
Carson Valley
Walter Godecke
Joe Stecca
Stecca
Admit Tallmadge Murder Confession Admitted in Trial
In Oregon Illinois at a embalmer's murder trial Judge Harry Edwards admitted Guy Tallmadge's claimed confession that he killed his wife because his married life was a living hell.
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Oregon, Ill
Guy Tallmadge
Harry Edwards
Landon Presses NRA Question on Roosevelt In West Tour
Governor Alf M. Landon, en route to Albuquerque and later Los Angeles, called on President Roosevelt to deny his son James Roosevelt’s NRA stance and warned the father’s silence would be taken as agreement. He criticized NRA perpetuation and contrasted two versions of James Roosevelt’s remarks.
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Landon
Albuquerque
N.M
New Mexico
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
California
Los Angeles
James Roosevelt
Rockies
N. M
NRA
Gardner
Mass
Congress of the United States
Political Radio Schedules Feature 1936 Parties and Leaders
Tuesday radio listings show Republican CBS 6 and 10, William Hard and Gifford Pinchot. Democratic WOR and NY network with Gov. Lehman at 8:30. Progressive and Communist segments. Women of ’36 feature with WJZ NBC at 11:15 am.
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CBS
William Hard
Gifford Pinchot
WEAF
N. Y
W. F. Bleakley
Buffalo
Wjznec
Bainbridge Colby
Joseph B. Ely
WOR
Gov
H. H. Lehman
WABC
Frank P. Walsh
WJZ
John Littl
NBC
Anna L. Smith
Joseph Anderson
Earthquakes Kill 34 in Northern Italy and Surrounding Areas
Rescuers uncovered three more child victims in Tolcenito as the quake toll rose to 34. Over 100 injured, landslides and aftershocks hit a fifty mile zone around Venice, with damage to historic sites and several towers and castles.
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Venice
Italy
INS
Tolcenito
Austria
Jugoslavia
St. Mark’s
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz von Reventlow
Grand Canal
Caneva di Sacile
Campaniles
Cerdignano
Fregona
Conegliano
Adriatic
Stolen Old Currency Cabinet Loot At Cedar Rapids Home
Thief gained entry to the basement cabinet at H. A. Rundquist 309 Sinclair Ave SE between 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 30 a m Sunday taking 150 in old currency and gold certificates and pieces. A padlocked hardwood chest was forced open and a window pried. detectives Marshall and Hab erle investigated.
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H. A. Rundquist
Sinclair Avenue SE
Rundquist
Marshall and
Haberle
Crashes Into Store While Swerving To Avoid Truck
Mrs. C. M. Conley of 1329 Tenth Street NW drove into Alex Sheronick's grocery at 1436 L Street SW at 10 15 AM Monday. The car damaged the front porch and two show windows. she blamed a milk truck approaching from the south and said she wrenched her back and right ankle.
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Cedar Rapids
C. M. Conley
Tenth Street
Alex Sheronick
L Street
Roosevelt’s New England Campaign Planned In Detail
President Roosevelt plans a 40 hour White House stay then a six state New England push for re election. He will travel by train and automobile to Rhode Island Massachusetts and Connecticut delivering a Worcester radio address and outdoor speeches in Providence Boston and Hartford. He returns to Hyde Park after a late Thursday night arrival and resumes duties Sunday night.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
New England
Hyde Park
N. Y
Cordell Hull
Executive Mansion
Capital
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Worcester
Mass
Providence
R. I
Boston
Burdick Pleads Not Guilty in Father-In-Law Shooting
Don Burdick a 36 year old New York broker pled innocent through his attorney to a charge of shooting his wealthy father in law Harry E Byram with intent to murder His bail remained at 6000 He did not appear for his arraignment in Westport town court.
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Westport, Conn
Don Burdick
New York
Inlaw
Harry E. Byram
Burdick
Westport
Notables Arrive At Manila On Clipper
The Philippine Clipper carrying publishers and notables on a preliminary passenger trip from Alameda California landed in Manila on Monday. Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California was greeted by schoolchildren bearing placards asking for American citizenship.
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Guam
Alameda
Cal
Manila
William Gibbs McAdoo
California
Goering Named To Lead Nazi Four Year Plan
Berlin dispatch reports a decree by Adolf Hitler appointing Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering as second in command with sweeping powers to implement a four year plan for Germanys economic rehabilitation.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Supreme Court declines review of three New Deal laws
The justices denied appeals challenging the 1933 truth in securities act, the National Industrial Recovery Act provisions, and the 1935 emergency relief measure. The ruling was on procedural grounds, not merits.案件 involved Texas Utilities, Alabama Power, Duke Power cases, and other related challenges across several states.
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Washington
Supreme Court
J. Edward Jones
New York
Texas Utilities Company
Alabama Power Company
Texas
Alabama
Duke Power Company
Federal District Court
District of Columbia
Circuit Court
Duke
Jones
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington State
Grand Coulee Dam
Dirk de Jonge
Oregon
New York Mortgage Commission
John Jacob Astor
Waldorf Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Great Britain
Colorado
S. H. Kress and Company
Ekins Completes World Flight in 181 Days
H R Ekins, world circling reporter, ends his around the world dash in the New York World Telegram lobby at 10 14 a m Monday. He wins a friendly race against Dorothy Kilgallen and Leo Kieran with rivals still in Manila. Ekins logged 24 720 miles mostly by air using established transport lines, the second fastest time after Wiley Post.
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NEW York (Ap
H. R. Ekins
New York World-Telegram
Globe
Ekins
World- Telegram
Scripps-Howard Papers
Dorothy Kilgallen
New York Journal and International News Service
Leo Kieran
New York Times
Manila
California
Wiley Post
Madrid Braces For Desperate Final Defense
Madrid guards tighten siege controls as insurgents push within twenty miles. Officials mass militiamen at Torrejon de la Calzada and draft workers to fortify outer defenses while fuel and food are rationed. Fascist commands report a strong south of the capital from El Alamo to Aranjuez.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Emilio Mola
Torrejon de la Calzada
Mediterranean
el Alamo
Navalcarnero
Aranjez
Gazette editor to reveal graft probe facts on radio
Verne Marshall editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette will present new details from last year's Iowa political graft investigation in a radio address from WHO Des Moines at 9 30 pm tomorrow. The Gazette sponsors the address to inform Iowans about public corruption and the state department of justice's omission of facts.
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Iowa
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
State House
State Department of Justice
Five Injured In Auto Accidents In City
At 10 10 a m Sunday Marion B McEndree 37 and her son Bob 13 were injured when their car collided with a vehicle driven by Joe Novotny 1145 Sixteenth avenue SW at Sixteenth avenue and Eleventh street SW Both were taken to Mercy hospital Novotny said he did not see the other car A eight year old James Du Fran suffered abrasions when struck by Al Domschot driving on A avenue NE A Kemble Floral truck driver William McDowell suffered a head injury in a crash at First avenue and Crescent drive NE Stevenson said he was driving west and stopped for a school sign before the rear collision happened at Mercy hospital McEndree and Bob remain hospitalized while others were treated and released.
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Marion B. McEndree
Tenth Street
Bob McEndree
Joe Novotny
Sixteenth Avenue
Eleventh Street
Novotny
James du Fran
al Domschot
Sixth Street
Second
Third Streets
Domschot
du Fran
Mercy Hospital
William McDowell
Marion
Kemble Floral Company
Witmer Grocer
Albert Stevenson
First Avenue
Crescent Drive
McDowell
St. Luke’s Hospital
Stevenson
Kemble Company
Fire Aboard Italian Liner Vulcania Kills Four Crew
The luxury ship Vulcania arrived at Palermo with a two hour fire in third class quarters killing four crew. An orchestra member drowned after leaping overboard and two stewards died aiding the blaze. One crewman perished from asphyxiation.
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Palermo
Sicily
Vulcania
New York
Atlantic
Naples
Lisbon
Madrid
Barcelona
Stuparich
Six Killed By Train At Grade Crossing in Dayton
Six Dayton residents died when their car collided with a fast St. Louis to New York train at a grade crossing Sunday. Victims include Ollie May Hall 27 Sallie Hunter 25 Eileen McFadden 23 Daniel McFadden 26 John A Mangan 28 and Ira Towles 28. The couple hallmarks a soon to be mother.
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Dayton, O
St. Louis
Skies Are Fair And Temperatures Mild In Cedar Rapids
Sunday and Monday brought fair skies and mild temperatures for Cedar Rapids. Readings ranged from a low around 42 to a high near 70 with afternoon peaks and nighttime cool conditions recorded by Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
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