Japan waiting to take Philippines if US withdraws
Commander Frederick Powers retired US navy officer told a Lions club luncheon he believes Japan intends to seize the Philippines once the United States exits. He cited Luzon proximity to Formosa and large Japanese settlements, plus potential British resistance if Japan extends control. He contrasted Chinese disarray with Japanese prosperity and noted pirates on Chinese rivers. Also, James M. Shimek seeks 2,500 damages from Arlo Burns in district court over alleged slander related to gasoline taxes and Kimball construction.
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Philippines
United States
Frederick Powers
United States Navy
Lions ‘Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Powers
Cedar Rapids
California
Orient
Tokio
Luzon
Formosa
Australia
China
Decorah
James_M
Shimek
Arlo E.burns
Burns
Kimball Construction Company
J. A. Nelson
Court House News Dismisses Twenty Seven Old Criminal Cases
In district court Judge A B Clark dismissed twenty seven long‑standing criminal prosecutions for lack of evidence. The list includes assaults with intent, drunk driving, liquor nuisances, desertion, robbery, vagrancy, embezzlement, breaking and entering, larceny, and fish and game violations dated between 1933 and 1935.
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A.B
Clark
John Cox
Harold, Leigh
J. R. Miller
C. B. Roberdee
Frank Alsop
Claud
H.’ Knight
Lillian Hendryxson
Jack Litze
Ed Greenway
Ada Sisco
Bertha Wart
Lawrence White
James McLaughlin
Roland Konzen
Elmer Rudd
Robert Weineke
George Steinbeck
Tom Hand
Walter Kennedy
Roy L. Rose
Robert Hicks
Jimmie Hicks
Michael J. Manion
Winston Davis
Ray Nagle
C. E
Iowa Op Ed Bans Designation Of Taprooms By Law Agency
Linn County Attorney Thompson adopts opinion from Assistant AG LeRoy Rader urging beer vendors to drop the word taproom in design and advertising. The June 18 guidance cites dictionary meanings of tap and taproom to redefine labeling practices for beer parlors in Iowa.
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Iowa
G. K. Thompson
LeRoy Rader
Linn County
Thompson
Rader
Tor
Red
Oak
Taproom Ruling Leads to Suspensions for Mann Couple
Thompson cites the term taproom in relation to hotel refreshment rooms and warns operators to conform with a ruling. Lewis Mann and Helen Mann of 609 Sixth Street SE were each given indeterminate five year sentences to state prisons after pleading guilty to statutory charges. Mann to Fort Madison and Mrs Mann to Rockwell City reform school. state suspends on condition they stay out of state. Judge H C Ring presided. Police arrested the couple after they pled not guilty on Sept 5 and then pleaded guilty Thursday.
Divorce actions filed in district court for Elliott and Griffiths
In a district court filing Opal Elliott sues Earl R Elliott and Bessie L Griffiths sues Wybro B Griffiths on grounds of cruelty and inhuman treatment. The Elliott marriage began July 26 1919 and the Griffiths on March 17 1919. Mrs Elliott seeks custody of minor children support and title to household goods. Mrs Griffith seeks restoration of her maiden name Bessie L Carver.
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Opal ‘Elliott
Earl’r. Elliott
Bessie L.' Griffiths
Wybro B. Griffiths
W C T U Blames Liquor For Social Evils At Convention
Atlantic City AP reports the 61st annual Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention blamed “appalling social conditions” on forces that brought liquor back and denounced moderation as a fallacy. Resolutions urged total abstinence and education on alcohol effects while opposing gambling, indecent movies, liquor ads, smoking, and child labor as part of a five year program leading to the 1939 Frances E. Willard centenary.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Women’s
Christtian Temperance Union
National Organization
Frances E.,. Willard
Organizing Baseball League For Older City Youths
The playground commission will hold a meeting at city hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to organize a city youth baseball league for older players. Representatives from interested teams are urged to attend or contact Nevin Nichols to be included in the 1936 schedule.
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Playground’ Commission
Nevin Nichols
Feud Over City Hall Gunfight Paralyzes St Louis
Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann investigates a Democratic factional fight that sparked a gunfight at city hall wounding four men. State Representative Lawrence Fontana is hospitalized with injuries, two police officers are lightly wounded, and City Market Master James O. Stubbs bears a facial bullet scar. The incident follows a summer factional rift that unseated Dickmann ally Robert Hannegan and installed English as head of the city committee.
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St. “Louis
Bernard F. Dickmann
Dickmann
Lawrence Fontana
James O. Stubbs
City council notes on permit transfer and zoning amendment
F E Hulen was granted a transfer of his Class B beverage permit from 1044 Mount Vernon avenue SE to 94 Third avenue SW effective Saturday at Thursday's council meeting. An amendment to the city zoning ordinance from a petition at August plan commission meeting passed first and second readings and is set for public hearing Sept 30. The amendment rezones the north sixty feet of lot 25 at 2922 First avenue E to heavy industrial. Final action awaits a public hearing delayed fifteen days after the amendment is presented. A five-property owner petition in West Highlands addition seeks return of a ten foot ground strip to adjoining property owners without cost, referred to streets department. The petition claims the ground was originally reserved for an alley in block Y of Tait's replat of lot 11.
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F. E
Hulen
Mount’ Vernon Avenue
Third Avenue
Aim
West Highlands
Department of Streets
Léges
Tait
Cedar Rapids
Thirty-seventh
First Avenue
Wilson Avenue
J Street
Nineteenth Street
Council discusses beverage permit for Roman Inn proprietor
Joe Tormbino, owner of the Roman Inn at 525 Fourth Avenue SE, appears before the council seeking a class C beverage permit after months of pending action. The council takes no action.
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Joe Tormbino
Roman Inn
Fourth‘ Avenue SE
Anamosa Station Agent Identifies Lammey Shotgun
Anamosa station agent Ray identified a sawed off shotgun found along the Illinois Central tracks as the weapon used by Donald Lammey in the murder of John LeClair. Lammey confessed and told of the Anamosa hold up, guiding a state agent to the shotgun’s location and to where he asked for gasoline after the crime.
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the Gazette
Anamosa
Will Ray
Ilinois Central
Donald Lammey
John LeClair
Des Moines J Garage
Ray
Lammey
Helen Lee Worthing Seeks Love Amid Poison Attempt
Los Angeles A PUNCH DRAMA. Helen Lee Worthing, once famed as a showgirl, recounts a life of misfortune from Broadway to hospital. She says she swallowed permanganate crystals in a suicide bid after love and race scorn haunted her. She married Dr Eugene Nelson a decade ago, later divorced, and claims $11,000 alimony but cannot access it.
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Los Angeles
Helen Lee Worthing
Manhattan
Broadway
Eugene C. Nelson
Worthing
Dr. Nelson
Rev E E Russell to Talk at Sunshine Mission
The Rev E E Russell of Church of the Nazarene is set to speak at Sunshine Mission this evening at 7 30 on The Grace of God Gus Scott will lead congregational singing with Rev A M Smith of Mount Zion Baptist church in charge of special music Also noted were remarks by Rev Warren Koon of Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle and performances by the Salvation Army quartet and a Bethel A M E girls quartet.
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E. E. Russell
Church of the Nazarene
Sunshine Mission
Grace of God
Gus Scott
A. M. Smith
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Warren Koon
Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle
Salvation Army
Bethel A. M. E. Church
Gus Scott and William Dykhuizes Ang Three Cents
Gus Scott and William Dykhuizes are noted in a compact entry referring to a three cent amount or transaction, with no additional context available in the fragmented text.
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Gus
Scott
William
Dykhuizes
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