New York Gangster Bocci Shot Dead While Praying
Fred Bocce, a 27 year old former felon, was slain by two gunmen at the Christo ph club on Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn after declaring a prayer. Four bullets struck Bocce as others cowered and prayed. The killers warned guests to stay still and finish with prayer.
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Christoph Club
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Bocci
Bocce
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Prayer ends in Bocci shooting in street booth
Bocci dived into a phone booth as gunfire opened. A fleeing pair fired multiple shots, hitting him in the back breast and hand. The assailants fled in a waiting car, driving away.
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Bocci
Florence Rice Returns to Film After Illness
Hollywood reports Florence Rice, daughter of Grantland Rice, will resume her screen career a week after hospital discharge following an operation. She left a hospital after two months due to arthritic infection and will begin a new film assignment shortly as her current role was replaced.
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New York
Grantland Rice
Miss Rice
Italian Troops To Police Saar For Plebiscite
Paris dispatch reports powers agree to deploy German-speaking Italian forces into the Saar to reinforce local troops and maintain neutrality during the plebiscite on whether the Saar should join Germany, France, or stay under League authority.
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Germany
France
League of Nations
French Cabinet Minister Sees U S as World Leader
Paris AP Etienne Flandin minister of public works says the American continent will direct world affairs, contrasts Europe’s fate with Greece, and praises the New Deal while noting U S mistakes are better than inaction. Also mentions quinine used by poultrymen to prevent cannibalism in chicks.
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Etienne Flandin
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Edward Murray Returns Home After Turkestan Visa Trouble
Edward Murray son of Dr and Mrs F G Murray 1829 B avenue NE Cedar Rapids arrived home Wednesday after months stranded in Turkestan due to a visa dispute between the Soviet and Persian authorities He traveled from Seattle aboard a Pacific crossing and plans to enroll at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in the fall Murray a 1930 Coe College graduate previously taught at Roberts College Istanbul and had traveled in Turkestan after being invited by a former student An appeal by the US State Department to Moscow aided his release
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F. G. Murray
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Iowa City
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Coe College
Roberts College
Istanbul
American State Department
Soviet Foreign Office
Moscow
Young Murray
Mid-Continent Employees Meet Across Thirteen Towns
About sixty five Mid-Continent Petroleum company workers from Cedar Rapids Oxford Junction Iowa City Lisbon Tipton Belle Plaine Vinton Olin Toledo Muscatine Riverside West Liberty Anamosa attended a meeting Wednesday night at the Montrose hotel with loud speaker sales broadcasts from Water Street division offices. Similar sessions were held in Dubuque Ottumwa Atlantic Mason City Des Moines Storm Lake and Waterloo. Speakers included H C Wurster P I Adcock and W F Penaluna all of Waterloo and district superintendent A M Holt in charge. The Diamond club Cedar Rapids workers held its regular meeting after. Elmer Parkes is local manager. Broadcasts covered Iowa Illinois Nebraska Wisconsin Missouri Minnesota over 600 miles by 300 miles.
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Mid-Continent Petroleum Company
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Oxford Junction
Iowa City
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Vinton
Olin
Toledo
Muscatine
Riverside
West Liberty
Anamosa
Montrose Hotel
Iowa
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H. C. Wurster
P. I. Adcock
W. F. Penaluna
A. M. Holt
Diamond Club
Elmer Parkes
B Avenue NE
Ilinois
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Missouri
Minnesota
Big Family Night At Sunshine Mission Sees Large Turnout
Evangelist Eugene Palmer heads Sunshine Mission Thursday program with awards for largest family and a family Bible. A Jumbo party drew many youths Wednesday forcing a larger venue, and another event is planned next Wednesday. Music by Dykhuisen, Tremaine, Ed Carson duo, and a young men’s quartet accompanied Palmer’s magician ministry.
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Sunshine Mission
Eugene Palmer
Mission
William Dykhuisen
Mary Tremaine
Ed Carson
Chicago Conductor Fatally Shot in Street Car Hold Up
Hugh Golden, 45, a Chicago street car conductor, was killed Wednesday when a bandit tried to rob him aboard a street car. Passenger Joseph Kopkowski said the robber demanded money, Golden grabbed for the gun, and the bandit fired twice, mortally wounding him. The assailant fled after more shots were fired.
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Chicago
Hugh Golden
Golden
Frances Willard Hospital
Joseph Kopkowski
Hearing on Authority to Sell Bank Real Estate Cedar Rapids
Notice to depositors and creditors of American Trust and Savings Bank Cedar Rapids Iowa that JD Bates as Receiver seeks court authority to sell to Mary M OConnell the east half of the southwest quarter section 32 township 79 north range 10 west for 2100 dollars. September 26 1934 at 9:00 a.m. in Cedar Rapids Court House set for hearing.
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American Trust and Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
District Court
Linn County
JD. Bates
Mary M O'Connell
Iowa County
Mary M. O'Connell
W_ BATES
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