All Iowa Fair ends amid praised crowds and plans for 1939
Heavy trucks rolled away prize cattle and exhibits signaling the end of the All Iowa Fair. Manager C. D. Moore reported attendance estimates well above earlier forecasts, with daily counts totaling about 75,000 for the period. Officials praised livestock quality and expressed optimism for bigger plans next year despite missing the art hall.
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Hawkeye Downs
C. D. Moore
National Guard
Drum and Bugle Corps
Boy Scouts
Moore
Shaw
Pola Negri Rumors of German Camp Confinement Echoed
Hollywood friends fear Pola Negri has vanished with rumors she is in a German concentration camp. Reports tie her to an alleged engagement to Hitler and a famed friendship with the Fuehrer, but no confirmation exists and gossip swirls in anxious circles.
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Louella C. Parsons
Hollywood
INS
Pola Negri
la Negri
Hitler
Fuehrer
Pola
Polaj
Candidate Morrison Shot In New Orleans Area
James H. Morrison, Democratic candidate for Congress from Louisiana sixth district, was shot at his home near Covington by an unidentified man. He was wounded in the left arm and taken to Touro hospital in New Orleans. The attack occurred amid a heated race with Dr J K Griffith. booster Henry Wall was held for the other assault, and Emmett F Lewis and Preston Delcazal supported Morrison at the scene.
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New Orleans
James H. Morrison
Congress
Covington
Touro Hospital
Morrison
Hammond
Preston Delcazal
Gerald L. K. Smith
Huey Long
St. Tammany Parish
Debazal
Baton Rouge
Pride
J. K. Griffith
Emmett F. Lewis
Griffith
Natalbany
Henry Wall
Grocer’s Wife Kills Truck Driver After Attack in Clive
In Des Moines area, Carl Jones, 23, a bakery truck driver, died from a bullet wound after an altercation at B. F. Skyles grocer shop in Clive. Skyles, 53, is hospitalized with serious scalp injuries. Deputy McCarty says the man and the grocer argued over a $5.50 check found near the truck. Mrs. Skyles says she shot Jones when he beat her husband with a club.
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Carl Jones
Broadlawns General Hospital
Clive
B. F. Skyles
Skyles
Here
Jones
F. L. McCarty
Cleveland Academy of Medicine Endorses Socialized Medicine Plan
The Cleveland Academy of Medicine moved to adopt a plan embracing aspects of socialized medicine to help wage earners pay hospital bills. It would require 75 cents a month ($9 yearly) for hospital bill insurance, paying $6 a day for up to 21 days of hospitalization, aiming to curb catastrophic illness while avoiding broad physician objections.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Academy of Medicine
Academy
The
American Medical Association
Roosevelt denies moral alliance amid drive to Rochester
President Roosevelt sped toward Rochester to be with his ailing son James while denying any moral alignment with European democracies in a stop Hitler bloc. He criticized press misinterpretation of his foreign policy and emphasized his stance via speeches by Hull Bullitt and others.
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Rochester
Minn
Roosevelt
James
Hyde Park
Cordell C. Hull
Mayo Clinic notes James Roosevelt ulcer at hospital
A Mayo Clinic physician reports James Roosevelt, 30, has a large stomach ulcer. President Roosevelt travels by special train to his son’s side as the clinic says James had a comfortable night and rests well. Physician notes most ulcers are benign and in the duodenum, but James’s is at the top of the stomach.
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Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
James
Republicans Better Chance At Buckingham Palace Satirical Tale
ARTHUR Bugs Baer mocks Republicans implying they would fare better at Buckingham Palace than Washington. He riffs on tea drinking and government raps, notes Bruce Barton as keynote, and jokes about observatories and repeal promises while lampooning political life in 1934.
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British Palace
Buckingham Palace
Washington
ITU Motions Ait A.F.L. and wire services dispute debate
The International Typographical Union asks suspending AFL dues and pressing the AFL to stop attacks on a Chicago delegation resolution. It seeks federal probe of AP United Press and INS as a monopoly. Other measures push a 30 hour printing week and accuse the AFL council of labor charters and sabotaging wage laws.
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Birmingham
Ala
International Typographical Union
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L Eecetelip
Chicago
Federal Communications Commission
Associated Press
United Press
International News Service
Cincinnati
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Chamber of Commerce
Davey
Ohio
Hague
New Jersey
Motorcyclist Hit Tree Fined for Intoxication
Cedar Rapids News reports William Harmon 21 of 822 A avenue NW was fined 10 dollars and costs in police court after his motorcycle crashed into a tree on Country Club parkway SE at about 1 50 a m. His passenger Arnold Anderson 24 of 606 Fifth avenue SE was not injured and had not been drinking. Anderson would not testify, so no drunk driver charge was filed.
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Cedar Rapids
William Harmon
A Avenue NW
Harmon
Country Club Parkway
Arnold Anderson
Fifth Avenue SE
Anderson
Defense presses mistrial and refutes Hines in Dutch Schultz case
In New York, defense counsel Stryker seeks a mistrial over a Dewey remark as Pecora weighs the motion. Witnesses challenge the evidence tying Tammany Leader James J. Hines to the Dutch Schultz lottery racket, disputing torn acts and testimony about payments, a misdated check, and a faulty wire tap record.
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New York
Tammany
James J. Hines
Ferdinand Pecora
Lloyd P. Stryker
Hines
H. H. Haring
J. Hines
Schultz Mob
Haring
Jim
J. Richard
Dixie” Davis
Dewey
George Weinberg
Schultz
Joseph Shalleck
William C. Dodge
Shallack
Fate of Nine Senators Up in Next Week
National primaries set across 12 states and Maine with nine Senate incumbents up for renomination. President Roosevelt targets Tydings in Maryland and George in Georgia, backing challengers Lewis and Camp respectively, while other states vote on Tuesday and six more hold primaries later in September.
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Washington
Maine
Roosevelt
Millard E. Tydings
Walter F. George
Maryland
Georgia
Tydings
David J Lewis
Lawrence Camp
United States District Attorney
George
Eugene Talmadge
William G McRae
Atlanta
Senate
Arizona
Colorado
New Hampshire
Utah
Vermont
Adams
Colo
Carl Hayden
Ariz
Fred H. Brown
Elbert D. Thomius
Ernest W. Gibson
Homer T Bone
Wash
Louisiana
Michigan
Sen
John H. Overton
South Carolina
Connecticut
Lonergan
Conn
Congress
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Wisconsin
New Mexico
Rhode Island
PWA Grant Funds District Highway Building Start Soon
Cedar Rounds News reports a $22,500 PWA grant will fund a $50,000 brick and concrete two story garage and office for the state highway commission at Fifth street and Sixteenth avenue SW. C M Fisher says work will begin within thirty days. The building will house six offices and ten cars with district headquarters for the engineer and maintenance staff. R A Radford and Rep. W S Jacobsen announced the grant in Omaha.
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Cedar Rounds
PWA
State Highway Commission
C. M. Fisher
Fifth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Omaha
R. A. Radford
Rep. W. S. Jacobsen
Clinton
Congress
Temperature And Humidity On Rise In Cedar Rapids
Interisle humidity accentuated an 81 degree cedar rapids Saturday afternoon after a .66 inch rain in the early morning. The downpour featured sharp lightning. The day began at 71 at 6 am with Friday’s peak of 87 between 3 and 5 pm.
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Cedar Rapids
Interise
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Hopkins Denies WPA Aiding Votes in Kentucky Primary
Washington reports the Senate campaign committee plans to release findings on Maryland primary campaigns before Monday voting. Hopkins denies WPA officials sought to influence relief workers votes in Kentucky for Alben Barkley, cites registration lists as complaints’ result, orders further fact gathering for clarification. In Maryland, Tydings and Lewis renew charges over federal election involvement with Roosevelt defending intervention.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Maryland
Morris Sheppard
Tex
Joseph C O'Mahoney
Wyo
WPA
Harry J. Hopkins
Kentucky
Len Alben W Barkley
Hopkins
State Office
Sheppard
Len Millard E. Tydings
Roosevelt
David J. Lewis
Tydings
Mr. Roosevelt
New York
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Tyler
Senate probes WPA politics prompt call for independent inquiry
Senator Townsend of Delaware urged a broad congressional inquiry into Kentucky WPA officials political activity. He said independent investigations are needed to ensure WPA funds go to relief, not political campaigns, calling the conduct “the lowest thing I know.”
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Washington
Senate
Kentucky
Townsend
Del
Congress
Delaware
Actor Ralph Graves’ infant daughter dies by strangulation
Sorrow filled the Hollywood home of actor Ralph Graves and his wife after their four month old daughter Carla died from strangulation when she became tangled in her clothing. Police investigated the mishap as a tragic accident in the family residence.
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Hollywood
Ins
Ralph Graves
Carla
Open Warning Is Hurled At Czechs By Nazi Minister
Nazi Minister Goering declares outright annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten Germans and extols Germany’s air force. He warns of a splinter backed by Moscow and a Jewish mask, vows continued rearmament and rationed bread and fats.
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Nuremberg
Germany
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Soviet pledge of aid to Czechoslovakia if attacked
Moscow says the USSR would rush to aid Czechoslovakia with every last man if Germany invades and France intervenes. Zdenk Firlinger, Czechoslovak minister, asserts Russia would fulfill treaty obligations. Denials in Soviet circles follow a London rumor that concessions to Sudeten Germans would prevent USSR from honoring treaties.
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Moscow
INS
Zdenk Firlinger
Russia
Ussr
Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Firlinger
London
U.S S. R
Russian and Roumanian Talks Forecast Wartime Routes
Geneva dispatch says Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov and Roumanian Foreign Minister Nicolae Titulescu discussed on Saturday possible Russian troop movements through Roumania to aid Czechoslovakia if war erupts. The conversations centered on rapid rail and road routes and allied logistic support.
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Geneva
INS
Roumania
Czechoslovakia
Maxim Litvinov
Russia
Nicholas Petrescu
Chamberlain seeks easing of tension amid Nazi crisis
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet will confer in Geneva with Soviet and Roumanian ministers. Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, amid cabinet and party debates, urged calm over claims of new government notes or instructions to Ambassador Henderson in Nuremberg. No authentic statements or new notes were issued.
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Bulletins Paris
INS
Georges Bonnet
Geneva
London
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Hitler
No. 10
Downing Street
Foreign Office
Germany
Nevile Henderson
Nuremberg
Adolf Hitler
Lond
Quan
Benes Urges Readiness to Sacrifice in Sudeten Crisis
President Eduard Benes spoke to Czechoslovakia, urging calm and readiness for any sacrifice as tensions over the Sudeten German minority rise. He pledged to pursue peaceful development, believed minority policy would succeed, and emphasized cooperation with Europe, Britain, and America amid reports of German troop movements near the frontier.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Europe
Germany
America
England
France
Sudeten Talks Resume as First Protests Quell Quietly
In Prague the government and the Sudeten party agreed to resume negotiations on Saturday. Officials said the initial wave of incidents they protested had been liquidated with unusual suddenness, signaling a possible easing of tensions though details remained limited to page two.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Sudeten Party
You Can Rent Your Vacancies Over the Weekend
Rental want ads offer quick vacancy fills. An example ad lists a rented apartment on 2nd Ave SE with two rooms, private bath, roll-away bed, and a Frigidaire unit.
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