Storm Lashes Pacific Coast Killing and Damaging Several
A Pacific Northwest storm caused at least twelve deaths and widespread damage. Winds up to 95 mph sank vessels, toppled structures, and cut communications. Notable losses included the Agnes purse seiner, a couple and their daughter in Tacoma, a hotel collapse in Seattle, and the President Madison incident with the Harvester crew.
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Seattle
Wash
Pacific Northwest
Bellingham
Carl Christenson
Tacoma
Betty
Kin
Alki
Chris Paeton
Astoria
Ore
Bremerton Navy
Partly Blind Tinker Runs Amuck in L.A. Killing Self and Children
AP reports 40-year-old Robert Perez, a partly blind inventor, shot two young girls and their nursemaid in a neighborhood frenzy before killing himself. Neighbors recalls his routine tinkering to contact the spiritual world. Lupe Mesa, 11, survived, while Concha, 7, was wounded. Local police seek motive amidst chaotic scene.
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Los Angeles
Robert Perez
Perez
Lupe Mesa
Lupe
Concha
Adella Rincon
Catholic Parishes to Aid Boy Scouts in Diocese
Waterloo Iowa Catholic groups plan to nominate one representative each from the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters to the archdiocesan committee on Catholic Scouting for the Dubuque diocese. Archbishop Beckman will appoint after recommendations from K of C state deputy Dr. William H. Redmond and Foresters state chief ranger George C. Ickel. The move expands the diocesan committee from five members as part of a plan urged by Ray Wyland, national Boy Scouts director.
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Cedar Rapids
K. of C
George C. Ickel
Independence
The
Foresters
Ray O. Wyland
New York
Boy Scouts of America
Wyland
George W. Wood
Waterloo
John A. Theobald
John H. Bormann
Dr. Redmond
Knights of Columbus
J. C. Wiencke
Cedar Falls
E. J. Dougherty
Theodosious Plassmeyer
C. G. Lanner
Dubuque
Beckman
Catholic Scout Movement
Catholic Order of Foresters
Rome
Frank J. Schneider
Thomas L. Connor
Mason City
L. B. Kennehan
Mar
Black Robe and the Missionary Beneath Tecumseh’s Smile
A 1934 Just Folks tale recalls Father Gabriel a missionary priest who settled among Native Americans and befriended both white and red men. Known as Black Robe by Chief Tecumseh, he sheltered a schoolhouse, faced capture at Hull’s surrender, and was freed to continue his merciful work despite dangers and differences of creed.
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Gabriel Eee
Cadillac
Tecumseh
Hull
Black Robe
Mount Beulah Singers To Perform At First Christian Church
The Mount Beulah Singers a Negro male quartet from Edwards Mississippi and Southern Christian Institute will present plantation melodies sacred songs and Negro Spirituals at First Christian Church auditorium tonight. Admission is free with doors opening 7 30 and showtime at 8.
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Mount Beulah
First Christian Church
South
International Convention of the Disciples of Christ
Shrine Temple
Des Moines
Southern Christian Institute
Edwards
Miss
John Long
Threat Note Forces Heavy Guard At Mrs Vanderbilt Home
A letter threatening 10 year old Gloria Vanderbilt prompted a heavy police guard around the Vanderbilt residence. Detectives said the note warned a meeting in front of the Metropolitan theater in Brooklyn at 10 30 pm Friday and bore circular symbols like Lindbergh ransom marks. Police staged a decoy by assigning a uniformed officer to the meeting.
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New York
INS
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Metropolitan Theater
Brooklyn
Dll
Pavelitch And Aid Deny Killing Plot In Turin
Dr Anton Pavelitch and Egon Kvaternik deny involvement in a Marseille assassination. Police say they were grilled separately after arrest in Turin on a French police questionnaire, amid reports they led a terrorist gang.
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Turin
Italy
Anton Pavelitch
Marseilles
Egon Kvaternik
Monay
History of China echoes New Deal in 900 year old plan
A Philadelphia native cites Griffis on Wang Anshi’s 11th century Chinese reforms as proof that socialistic policies resemble the US New Deal. The author argues that corruption and human nature doomed the Chinese program, blaming individuals, not the system, for economic lows.
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China
Philadelphia
Canton
America
Imperial University
Japan
Wang
PWA
Fish From Faucets Spark Bronx Water Fun
New York dispatch reports Bronx apartment residents finding live fish in taps. Tenants in Reservoir Oval sector relying on Kensico reservoir water say the fish appear dead and about an inch to an inch and a half long.
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New York
Water Department
Bronx
Reservoir Oval
Kensico Reservoir
First Wife Reappears After 31 Years At Second Wedding
In Chicago Albert Adam age 87, separated from his first wife 32 years ago. After divorcing 30 years of solitude, he married Barbara Hurt. A warrant for non support led police to arrest him, but his second wife posted bail and offered to arrange a meeting with the first wife.
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Chicago
Albert Adam
Adam
Barbara Hurt
Adams
Lisle, Ii
Upton Sinclair Sued Over Copyright Claim
In Los Angeles Grace V. Holmes filed a federal suit accusing Upton Sinclair of copyright infringement in his book Immediate Epic. Holmes alleges Sinclair copied portions from her work A Challenge To Many Checking the low mood and Solving It Without Money Passage.
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Los Angeles
INS
Upton Sinclair
California
Grace V. Holmes
Sinclair
Sheriff Sale Notice for Linn County Iowa 1934
By special execution from the Linn County District Court a sale of real estate is set for October 1 1934 at 10 45 AM in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The property is the west half of the southeast quarter of section 27 township 84 range 8 containing 80 acres with a right of way for a railroad plantors. Andrew A McManes and Eldora K McManes are grantors and the sale is to satisfy a judgment in favor of Edith O Drake Charles L McManes and Grace A McManes against Frank Klumpar. Sale in hand cash at the courthouse door.
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District Court of Iowa
Linn County
Ida_ Kratzer
Pawnee Land and Improvement Company Inc
County of Linn
State of Iowa
Amelia W. Haskell
Pawnee Land and _ Improvement Company, Inc
District Court
Pawnee Land and Improvement Company, Inc
Park View
Cedar Rapids
State of
Iowa
Towa
Igseer
Robert L. Larson
District Court of
Iaws
Edith O. Drake
Charles L. McManes
Grace A McManes
Frank Klumpar
Andrew A. Meanes
Eldora K. McManes
Court House
Josep . Petrug
Jaws
Roy Radebaugh
Deacon
Sargent & Spangler
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Pacific Coast
Northwest
Tinker
Ato
Croemulsion
Aker
Seweler
Egad
Take
Iowa K. of C's
Order of Foresters
Fred G. Davie
Lincoln
Neb
Shalltown
S. F. McGinn
Lanner
McGinn
Maurice Tracy
Mercy Hospital
West
Bormann
Edgar A. Guest
Gujette
Pavelitch
Aid
By Claude Callan
Nora
Heaven
C. C. Hauser
Kwang
All
Crawford Burton
Centleman
Charles Daly
Marian McMichael
Glen Gray
Casa Loma Orchestra
Walter O'Keefe
Annette Hanshaw
Wabc-Columbia Network
Rex Beach
Riverside
Arthur Lorack
University Hospital
Iowa City
Peta
Steve Wood
Amana Society Farm Department
Amana, Iowa
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