2014 Children In Year's Garden Work
Mrs L J Smith the garden director for the playground commission presents the 1936 report noting 2014 children enrolled across nine playground and home gardens. Play ground plots measure 10 by 15 ft with two acres cultivated. home gardens span varied sizes with several acres total. The First avenue Seventeenth street NW garden tops the rankings with several others in close contention.
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L. J. Smith
The
Playground Commission
Ellis Boulevard
M Street
D Avenue
Eleventh Street
J Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Sixteenth Avenue
Sixth Street
Nineteenth Avenue
First Street
First Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Fifteenth Street
I Avenue
C Avenue
Thirty-fifth Street
Seventeeth Street
WPA Recreation Project
Bever Park
Sieppel Lumber Company
Dubuque
Bell committee Townsend probe report reaches House Clerk
The Bell committee report on the Townsend old age pension organization was received by House Clerk South Trimble on Saturday. He declined to release it publicly, saying it might wait until Congress meets, though authority exists to publish during the recess.
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Washington
INS
Bell Committee
Townsend Old Age Pension Organization
South Trimble
House
Rep. Bell
Missouri
Trimble
Congress
Bell
Roosevelt Opens Parley on Pooling TV Power for Cheaper Electricity
President Roosevelt called a conference for Sept 30 to explore pooling public and private power in the southeast and beyond. Officials and industry representatives will discuss using TVA Bonneville and other public works to deliver low cost power via shared transmission networks, easing peak demand and delaying new plant needs. The move aims to expand rural electrification and extend the pooling approach after contracts expire.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bonneville Dam
White House
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tolley Defends Facts in Iowa Stock Killing Claims
Washington reports Howard R. Tolley administrator of the agricultural adjustment administration says Republicans distorted facts in charging government caused stock killings in two Iowa cases. He cites Dr B G Williams Oskalooa and John H Saucke Calhoun County claims. Tolley says Williams dealt with condemned cattle and Saucke killed hogs under his own responsibility.
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Washington
Llp
Howard R. Tolley
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Iowa
Republican National Committee
B. G. Williams
Oskaloosa
Williams
Tolley
Republican Committee
John H. Saucke
Calhoun County
Saucke
Frank Zintak to be Arraigned on Embezzlement Charge
Frank V. Zintak faces arraignment before Criminal Court Justice Michael L. McKinley on a $22,560 embezzlement indictment while serving as clerk of the superior court. He surrendered after a three day manhunt, posting $25,000 bond secured by $90,000 in real estate.
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Chicago
Frank V. Zintak
Criminal Court
Michael L. McKinley
Superior Court
Zintak
Grand Jury
Superior Court Judges
Longshoremen Reject Arbitration Across Coast
In San Francisco the Pacific coast longshoremen from Mexico to Canada voted 96 percent against arbitration of their labor disputes with employers. Current contracts lapse in ten days, ending the chance for a peaceful settlement.
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San Francisco
Dairy Show Reaches Its Peak Saturday Crowds and champions
Mrs Theodore McKee of Muscatine topped both events riding Bittersweet in the three gaited stake and Stonewall Princess in the five gaited stake. Myrl White rode for McKee in the five gaited, while Mary Lynn ridden by Steve Garner placed second in the three gaited stake. The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce sponsored the three gaited stake. Other winners included Hilltop Entry Third and various saddle and hunter classes with riders from Cedar Rapids Des Moines Iowa City and Fort Des Moines drawing large crowds. Vaudeville acts and a trained elephant entertained nearly 4000 spectators between events.
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Theodore McKee
Muscatine
Myrl White
Stonewall Princess
Mary Lynn
Steve Garner
Oskaloosa
Robert Barnes
Garner
Merrily
Russell L. Boies
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Hilltop
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Major Dare
Mate
Boies
Fortune
Raccoon Valley Stables
Des Moines
Jack Spear
al Skinner
Theodore B. McKee
Princess Stonewall
Don Raven, Jr
Barbara Ann Cox
Major Claude Cox
Miss Cox
Captain Stone
Jack Spears
Tipton
Little Bum
John J. Davis
Fourteenth Cavalry
Smokey
Trisconis
Fourteenth Cavalry Machine Gun
Barbara Cox
Lieut. Davis
Fort Des Moines
Lieut
Harper
Spears
Brandt
Sergt. Derr
Sergt. McCallister
Iowa City
Jane Alcock
Rudy
Ruth Strub
Mae West
Jane Veyem
Queen
Mary Wareham
Pete
Barbara Strub
Texas
van Donnelly
Rex
Sleepy Sam
Red Pepper
F. Lockhart
C. Lockhart
Satanic
Nelson Up
Joe Wagner
Billy Crippen
Skippy
Jackie Boy
Lonely Knight
Local man reports car theft Saturday night
Rudolph Martinec of 226 Ninth Street NW reported a theft to police at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. His Model A Ford sedan was taken earlier from the corner of A Avenue and Second Street NE.
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Rudolph Martinec
Ninth Street
A Avenue
Second Street
Swimmers Survive after Long Island Ship Sinking
Delmar George, son of the captain, recounts swimming about fifteen miles through heavy surf after the fishing schooner Long Island sank. He describes clinging to hatch covers with two Negro fishermen as rescue boats vanished, losing his father to the sea, and finally reaching Lewes by kneeling on the shore in gratitude.
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Long Island
Delmar George
Lewes
Del
Dad
Ronnie George
Peek Critiques New Deal as Not American Inspired
George N. Peek of Moline Illinois former AAA administrator denounces the New Deal in a statement for the National Student Mirror. He argues the program seeks an all powerful federal Providence US prosperity through federally planned economy and unrestrained political power, undermining liberty and constitutional limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
George N. Peek
Moline
Ill
AAA
National
Jeffersonian Democrats
Roosevelt
Peek
National Student Mirror
New York City
United States
American Aviator Refuses 3500 to Fly French Plane to Madrid
Dr James V Sparks an American World War I aviator and Paris dentist rejected an offer of 3500 to fly a French aircraft from Toulouse to Madrid The deal included 500000 francs and 10000 francs monthly if he stayed in Spain Sparks noted the Madrid government and an American intermediary approached him and others with the plan no Americans reportedly accepted the offer.
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Paris
INS
James V. Sparks
France
Madrid
Sparks
Toulouse
Spain
French
Morocco
Salm Guardians Seek Share of Rogers Estate For Peter Salm
New York lawyers report guardians of 13 year old Peter Salm will petition for cash payment of his one third share of Colonel Rogers 13 million trust fund. Salm is son of Millicent Rogers Balcom and Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten of Austria.
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New York
INS
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil
John Caldwell Meyers
Peter Salm
Col. Rogers
Will
Young Salm
Millicent Rogers Balcom
Count Ludwig Salm von Hoog- Straeten
Austria
Agreement to Humanize Spain’s Civil War Reached
Geneva authority reports a formal pact between Spanish belligerents and the Red Cross to protect noncombatants. Women and children will be evacuated from battle zones, hospitals immune from attack, and care standards upheld. Dr Junod of Switzerland negotiated with Francisco Largo Caballero and General Miguel de Cabanellas.
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Geneva
Spain
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Doctor Junod
Switzerland
Junod
Francisco Largo Caballero
Miguel de Cabanellas
Burgos
Marion Man Booked On Reckless Driving Count After Crash
Otho Garrett, 23, of Marion, was arrested at 10 40 p m Saturday by Patrolmen Funcke and Kofron on a reckless driving charge after a reported collision at Seventh avenue and Seventh street SE involving Garrett and John Dobry. Dobry requested the arrest. Garrett was described as unsteady and argumentative with a strong odor of alcohol. His car was towed to the police station where brakes and steering were found not fit for use.
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Otho Garrett
Marion
Funcke
Kofron
Seventh Avenue
Seventh Street
Garrett
John Dobry
Seventh Street SE
Dobry
Defense seeks dismissal in Detroit kidnaping trial
In Detroit AP report the state rested in the kidnapping case of 12 Black Legion members against Charles A. Poole. The defense moved for a directed verdict of acquittal for nine defendants arguing the state failed to tie them to the plot. Dayton Dean testified after pledging guilty to firing the fatal shots.
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Detroit
Charles A. Poole
Bernard W. Cruse
Joseph A. Moynihan
Harvey Davis
Ervin D. Lee
Lowell Rushing
Dayton Dean
WPA
Herschel Gill
Urban Lipps
John Bannerman
Virgil Morrow
Albert Stevens
Paul R. Edwards
Edgar Baldwin
John S. Vincent
Thomas R. Craig
Stalin Near Death From Cardiac Disease Says Berlin Paper
Berlin paper claims Joseph Stalin is gravely ill with a stricture of the cardiac artery. It notes trusted sources report his condition as extremely grave and cites a succession discussion among top Soviet officials favoring War Commissar Klement Voroshilov if he dies.
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Berlin
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Berliner Tageblatt
Moscow
Stalin
Tageblatt
Klementi Voroshiloff
Amelia Earhart to Speak for Roosevelt in New York Tour
Amelia Earhart will advocate for President Roosevelt during a Democratic women’s caravan in New York state. Miss Dewson announced Earhart will join the Sept. 24 tour through Columbia and Saratoga counties delivering speeches and backing the re election effort. Two high school players suffered injuries in a Franklin versus Oelwein game this weekend with Swift and Locke injured.
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New York
Amelia Earhart
Roosevelt
Mary W. Dewson
Democratic National Committee
Miss Earhart
Democratic State Committee
Columbia
Saratoga
New York State
James Swift
Franklin
Norbert Locke
Ocelwein
St. Luke’s Hospital
Murphy Urges Legion To Back Universal Draft
National Commander Ray Murphy urged the American Legion to back universal military service and mobilize its strength to prevent another war. He cited gains on veterans' relief and defense, pressed universal service as top legislative priority for 1937, and noted Legion enrollment at 950,228, up 105,000 from 1935.
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Ray Murphy
American Legion
United States
Murphy
Legion
Iowa City Boy 11 Seriously Hurt In Auto Bicycle Crash
Carl Brock 11 of Iowa City is listed in serious condition after a Saturday night bicycle crash with a car driven by Ed Shannon. Brock suffers a compound arm fracture a broken leg and severe shock. Harold Sweating 16 sustained cuts and bruises. witnesses say the bicycle had no lights.
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Iowa City
Carl Brock
Brock
Harold Sweating
Ed Shannon
Pennsylvania Boy Afflicted With New Malady
A 12 year old Nanticoke boy William Angel is described as living in death due to a mysterious disease. He first showed symptoms August 31 and has since suffered memory loss and complete body paralysis. Doctors report a slow deadening of responses and muscles and say they cannot explain the illness.
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Nanticoke
William Angel
Pennsylvania
Alcazar siege in Toledo intensifies as bombardment continues
The sixtieth day of the Alcazar siege sees government artillery pounding wrecked walls while fascist defenders respond with machine gun fire from towers. Civilians fill narrow streets turned into trenches as two TNT mines failed to end the stand, and defenders fortify positions amid smoke and debris.
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Alcazar
Toledo
Plaza de Zocodover
Roosevelt Shrine Erection Sparks Pennsylvania WPA Debate
Washington dispatch reports Republican charges that WPA funds in Pennsylvania funded roadside Roosevelt shrines. The GOP accuses WPA foremen of political use as Senator Davis prepares to present accusations to the Senate campaign expenditures committee on September 28.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
James J. Davis
WPA
Schuylkill County
Owlett
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Rogers
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Okinow
Eedar Rapids
Charge Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
May
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