All Iowa Fair Attendance Sets New Record At Hawk Eye Downs
Crowds surpassed 18 000 marking Farm Bureau day as Hawkeye Downs hosted the All Iowa fair. International Auto racers led by Fred Frame were highlighted on Fridays program with Ernie Young’s Cavalcade of Hits set for tonight. Farmers packed midway attractions and 8 000 filled the grandstand for the afternoon show while 5 000 viewed the model military camp and industrial exhibits.
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Hawkeye Downs
Farm Bureau
Iowa
Fred Frame
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Ernie Young
Cedar Rapids
Rural Farm Youth Association
Young Men's Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
William Quarton
Rex Conn
Linn County
Clare Miller
Cedar County
Iowa Wpa
Iowa Rural Youth Organization
WMT
Gregory Lands
Dionne Quintuplets Report $800000 Earned
The Dionne quintuplets have earned $800000 since birth four years ago last May 28. Guardians Percy D. Wilson and Keith Munro disclosed the amount at a guardians meeting. exact details remain private.
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North Bay
Ont
Percy D. Wilson
Ottawa
Keith Munro
Board of Guardians
Pecora Rules on Hines Indictment in Lottery Case
New York AP Justice Ferdinand Pecora sustains in full the 13 count indictment against Tammany leader James J. Hines. He notes a two year limit could acquit on the conspiracy count if the Dutch Schultz racket did not extend past May 24 1936. The 12 felony counts allege contriving a lottery.
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NEW York
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Tammany
James J. Hines
Dutch Schultz
Hines
Pecora
Champion Barrow At Fair Sells For $11 Hundredweight
Cedar Rapids dealer Wilson and Co. of Cedar Rapids buys the Grand champion fat barrow in the All-Iowa fair market pig show for $11 per hundredweight. The 300-pound Duroc was shown by Dan Strauer of Jesup who also had the championship pen. other sales included Berkshires, Chester Whites, and Spotted Polands with bids around $9 to $9.50 per hundredweight.
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Cedar Rapids
Wilson and Company
Dan Strauer
Jesup
Strauer
Dean Henderson
Olin
Melvin Sievers
Wyoming
Geneva Scheer
Springville
Keith Carson
Ely
Wilson and Co
Coroner clears Mildred Gaydon in Covadonga death
A coroner's jury absolved Mildred Gaydon, 28, of responsibility for the car crash that fatally injured the Count of Covadonga, former heir to the Spanish throne. Authorities said a murder charge would be dropped.
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Miami
Fla
Mildred Gaydon
Count of
Covadonga
Farm Women Join 4-H Acts at Iowa Livestock Show
Farm Bureau day at Hawkeye Downs drew 7000 plus as Eastern Iowa 4 H girls joined Ernie Young’s vaudeville acts. A 130 girl choir from twelve counties opened the program under Tolbert MacRae with a Heritage pageant by 55 girls. Dances ranged from Swedish weaving to Irish and Scottish pieces with closing chorus by 12 girls. Rita McGivern led as pageant reader.
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Iowa
Ernie Young
Farm Bureau
Hawkeye Downs
Tolbert MacRae
Iowa State College Music
James B. Edwards
Marengo
Tama County
Tory
Benton County
Linn County
Cedar County
Temperature and Humidity Hit New Cedar Rapids High
Temperature and humidity rose together in Cedar Rapids on a sunny day. The thermometer climbed from a 71 degree low at 7 a.m. to 86 degrees by 2 30 p.m. Thursday’s high reached 86 at 6 p.m. with 73 by midnight per the Chambers Inskeep company recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Probe Takes Up Complaints On Georgia Vote
Senate campaign expenditures committee asks the National Emergency Council and RFC for their side of the story on dismissals of Earl Cocke and Edgar B Dunlap tied to support for Senator George in renomination. It also investigates irregularities in voter registration in Georgia counties and charges about poll tax payments.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Georgia
George
National Emergency Council
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Earl Cocke
E. S. Fuller
Savannah
Fuller
Fined For Drunk Driving After Auto Collision
Charles Trokosh a 55 year old resident of 1802 L street SW was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a Thursday evening crash on Sixteenth avenue SW. He received a 300 dollar fine plus costs from Judge H C Ring with a 90 day county jail term if unpaid and a three month driving ban. Francis G Young 23 of Palo drove east as Trokosh westbound. no injuries and minor damage as Young was nearly stopped and Trokosh slow was moving.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Trokosh
L Street
H. C. Ring
Trpkosh
Sixteenth Avenue
Francis G. Young
Palo
Young
Four Friends Die After 72 Hours Clinging To Boat
Holger Nelson, 19, the sole survivor, recounts 72 hours of terror as four companions vanished one by one from the overturned sailboat in San Francisco Bay. Nordstrom, Hatley, Larsen and Cole disappeared as the craft drifted. Nordstrom's body was later found tangled in the rigging.
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Oakland
Calif
Holger Nelson
San Francisco Bay
Nelson
Stanley Nordstrom
Floyd Hatley
Howard Larsen
Everett Cole
Alameda
Larsen
Hatley
Cole
Nordstrom
Baby Beef Grand Champ Sells For 244 93 At Fair
Wendell Willer of Tipton nets 244.93 after selling his grand champion baby beef at All Iowa Livestock Show auction. Honeymonad Products Co. of Cedar Rapids bought the 1010 pound Angus and resold to the Roosevelt Hotel. 82 calves sold with 3 percent shrink, Hereford and Shorthorn champions also changing hands. Tony Schmitz of Van Horne led bidding. 18 year old Elton Melberg’s steer brought 143 32 to Bishop’s Cafeteria.
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Wendell Willer
Tipton
Honeymonad Products Co
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Elton Melberg
Norway
Elton
Bishop's Cafeteria
Jack Duncan
Columbus Junction
United State Bank of
Jack
Tony Schmitz
van Horne
Paul Huston
Drunk Driving Charge Dropped In Iowa Reckless Plea
Cedar Rauids News Wendl Dvorak, 44, of 68 Nineteenth Avenue SW, was fined 100 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving. The intoxicated charge was dismissed on motion by county attorney Carl Hendrickson. Patrolman Dan Kruidenier testified Dvorak was intoxicated when he ran a stop sign. Dvorak said he drank only beer, which he asserted is not intoxicating in Iowa.
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Wendl Dvorak
Nineteenth Avenue SW
Court of Justice
H. R. Churchill
Carl Hendrickson
Dvorak
Dan Kruidenier
Iowa
Police Desk Clerk Suspended For 30 Days
Police Chief Bob Viach announced desk clerk Harvey Lodge is suspended for thirty days without pay for conduct unbecoming a member of the force. The suspension begins Sept. 1 after Lodge missed duty last Saturday with a mitigated punishment due to a day off and prior notice. This is his second suspension for the same offense since joining the force June 1, 1932. he is not a commissioned officer.
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Harvey Lodge
Bob Viach
Vlach
Lodge
Department
Civil Service
President Roosevelt to visit son before Mayo operation
President Roosevelt planned to leave Hyde Park to join family in Rochester at St Marys hospital where his eldest son James faces gastric ulcer surgery scheduled Monday. Mrs Roosevelt and Betsy Roosevelt are with him as doctors say operation is imperative after months of failed treatments. The president will stay through the operation and may return after Monday according to White House officials.
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Rochester
Minn
Roosevelt
Nyde Park
James
St . Mary's Hospital
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Betsy
White House
Hyde Park
Marvin T MelIntyre
Influx Of Europe's Gold At Two-Year High
The war scare gold from Europe reached a two year high of 87,769,152 dollars in the week ended Sept 2. The commerce department reported imports were the largest since Oct 9, 1936 and about 30 million dollars more than any week this year.
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Washington
Europe
Commerce Department
Lost items and dog found ads in Gazette
A notice listing several found items including a lady’s Bulova wrist watch in the downtown district a Parker pen a Goodrich tire and rim and five found keys. Also a red cocker spaniel found with reward offered and a note urging readers to place Lost ads in the Gazette.
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Dink
Goodrich
Corn and Wheat Crop Forecast Shows Slight Decline
The Agriculture Department on Friday projected the 1938 corn crop at 2 454 526 000 bushels and total wheat at 939 972 000 bushels, both near record levels. September 1 conditions yield per acre at 266 bushels for corn and 132 for wheat, with current estimates down from last month.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa corn crop forecast at 437 million bushels
The federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics projected Iowa corn for 437,826,000 bushels as of Sept 1, about 43 bushels per acre. The estimate matches the Aug 1 forecast, with declines in west central and southwestern Iowa offset by gains in north central and northwestern counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
West
Towa
West Central
Dubuque
Clinton
Linn
Muscatine
Johnson
Roosevelt purges to be limited to earmarked opponents
New York Times dispatch from Hyde Park reports President Roosevelt plans only to target a few pre-identified conservatives in the party primaries while aiming to back liberal candidates in November. The White House shows irritation over Nevada primary coverage and notes Roosevelt’s outreach to Senator McCarran.
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New York
The
New York Times
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Cummings
Washington
White House
McCarran
Nevada
Italy Sees Sudeten Crisis With Cautious Hope
Rome prepared for any eventualities as Germany presses the Sudeten German demand in Czechoslovakia. Italian officials stress moral support and Rome Berlin unity while avoiding commitments to armed action.
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Rome
Italy
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Mussettan
Hitler
Rumors Grow of Czech Concessions to Germany
Moscow warned Prague against yielding further to Germans and said Czechoslovakia would not receive guaranteed support in case of need. France pledged to assist Prague and warned Germany that Paris would take instant measures to counter any aggression against Czechoslovakia.
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London
INS
Czerhoslovakia
News Chronicle
Moscow
Prague
Russia
Sudeten Germans Demand Plebiscite or Union
In Prague and across Czechoslovakia enthusiastic Sudeten German demonstrations pressed for a plebiscite or outright union with Nazi Germany. About five thousand Germans massed before a police station to protest a private burial for Alfred Knoll, who died after leaping from a train to escape Czech police following a spy conviction.
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Prague
INS
Czechoslovakia
Czech Communist Party
Jaezendorf
Alfred Knoll
Sudeten leaders urge resumption of talks after incidents
Fritz Kundt, Sudeten negotiator, says his party will renew discussions for a settlement once the Maehrisch-Ostrau flareups are resolved. Demonstrations at Friewaldau and Jaegerndorf feature Horst Wessel songs and banned Swastikas as German agency reports Czech police clash with crowds in Bohemia.
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Reich
Fritz. Kundt
Maehrisch-Ostrau
Friewaldau
Jaegerndorf
Horst Wessel
Berlin
Jkorumman
Bohemia
France and Britain Prepare Joint Defense Over Czechoslovakia Crisis
London reports say Britain and France are ready to enact a joint defense plan if war breaks out. Fleets off Scotland, Brest, and Toulon stand by as high commands detail naval air and land maneuvers. Hints of Sudeten security control and possible Nazi intervention surface amid escalating tensions.
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Great Britain
France
North Sea
Scottish
Brest
Toulon
Schuschnigg Stricken With Illness Reported
Vienna Kruschnigg, former chancellor of Austria, was reported seriously ill on Friday. He suffered a nervous breakdown that could delay his treason trial.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Independent
Austria
Schuschnigg
Anti Aircraft Guns To Dot Skywriters In Park Toys
Government orders 330 anti aircraft guns to shoot down toy balloons escaped from children in the park. The piece mocks skywriters and starlings, noting the guns will be used in a harmless, whimsical effort without real danger.
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Skywriters
Washington
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