Heat Wave Pushes Iowa to New Summer Records
The first sustained heat wave of the season sent temperatures toward upper 90s with a Thursday peak of 96 and a 2 pm reading of 96. Showers missed the area though relief was not expected as the 14th straight day of fair weather continued. Three drownings and more heat ailments were reported statewide with Waterloo at 100 and Ames unofficially 101 degrees.
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Mercury
Louisa County
Fairport
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Joseph S. Knowlton
Des Moines
Paisades Park
Linn County
Ernest Donahue
McGregor
Edward Balentine
Logan
Waterloo
Ames
Iowa
Court Rules School Directors May Choose Teachers
Married women instructors dropped from Muscatine public schools lost their bid for reinstatement as Judge D W Jackson ruled certiorari petitions insufficient The decision states teachers certificates show fitness not entitlement and that boards may select from qualified candidates without guaranteeing positions The judge noted a future election could merely reelect the same or different married teachers within board discretion
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Muscatine
Libel Action Seeks 50 000 From Gazette
A libel suit for 50000 was filed in Marshalltown district court by Boardman and Cartwright against the Cedar Rapids Gazette company editor Verne Marshall the Marshalltown News agency and A H Burnstein. The suit claims the May 4 1935 Gazette article defamed them by accusing stalling to delay briefs in Harold M Cooper liquor case appeals.
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Marshalltown
Boardman and Cartwright
Cedar Rapids Gazette Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Verne Marshall
Gazette
A. H. Burnstein
Cooper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Marshall
Boardman
Cartwright
H. M. Cooper
Thompson
Linn County
Harold M. Cooper
Liquor Commission
Linn
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Texas Judges Strike Down Federal Price Control Measures
Federal Judge Randolph Bryant ruled the Bankhead cotton control act unconstitutional and granted an injunction for D. C. Wallace and Texas ginners. In Houston, Judge T M Kennerly voided NRA based price fixing and shipping licenses for fruit, citing the Schechter decision and denying an injunction against Rio Valley Fruit and Vegetable Company.
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Sherman
Tex
Randolph Bryant
D. C. Wallace
Gunter Ginner
Texas
Bryant
Houston
T. M. Kennerly
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Rio Valley Fruit and Vegetable Company
Kennerly
Schechter
U. S. Supreme Court
NRA
Sentence of Life for Goodrich in Slaying of 11-Year-Old
Merton Ward Goodrich pleaded guilty to the murder of 11-year-old Lillian Galliner and received a maximum life in prison with hard labor in Michigan's Marquette branch prison. The plea followed hospital psychiatrist Dr. David R. Clark finding he was not insane.
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Detroit
Merton Ward Goodrich
Lillian Galliner
Michigan
Marquette
Trapdrummer
Recorder’s Court
David R. Clark
Goodrich
Henry S. Sweeny
Man Slain While Making Getaway in Des Moines
Des Moines police identify the slain suspect as Earl Markson alias Elmer Black of Sioux City jailed for investigation after a tip about an outside Iowa gang planning a hold up. Markson, about 35, died from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen after leaping from a rear car seat as Detective Lorin Miller tried to arrest him.
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Des Moines
Sherman E Delmege
Earl Markson
Elmer Black
Sioux City
Markson
Lorin Miller
Miller
Yrolie
Delmege
Frank M
Rioting injures 30 at John Morrell plant strike
More than 30 people were injured in a clash at the John Morrell Packing plant as union workers struck and non strikers tried to enter. Two men, Hershey Byllesby and Harry Clausen, were severely hurt. Police observed but did not intervene as clubs and pipes caused gashes and head wounds during a hand to hand confrontation near the plant gates.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
John Morrell Packing Plant
Hershey Byllesby
Harry Clausen
Byllesby
Clausen
J. P. McCoy
Chicago
Meat Workers’ Union
Sam Twedell
McCoy
Twedell
Plan
Senate Backs Ban on Tax Recovery Suits in AAA Bill
The Senate adopted an amendment to the AAA tax bill prohibiting suits to recover processing taxes unless the payer can prove no pass through to consumers or producers. The compromise passed 61 to 23 amid charges of un American conduct.
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Washington
Senate
Frank J. Wideman
Circuit Court of Appeals
Boston
House
Kentucky Mountaineer Sought in Dual Killing
Deputies with bloodhounds searched the eastern Kentucky mountains for 17-year-old Green Allen Brooks wanted for killing two Lee County Virginia deputy sheriffs Arch Redmond and Robert Bailey. Brooks allegedly fired on officers as they arrested his son in law Luther Poore on an embezzlement warrant. Sheriff R F Giles organized the chase, suspecting Brooks hid in Harlan County Kentucky.
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Middlesboro
Kentucky
Lee County
Virginia
Arch Redmond
Robert Bailey
Luther Poore
Green Allen Brooks
Poore
R. F. Giles
Brooks
Harlan County
Selassies Pilea Rouses Enthusiasm
Emperor Haile Selassie's call to Ethiopians to fight to the last man sparks enthusiasm at home and abroad.Unofficial Italian reports say he will not yield to demands while Ethiopians view the plea as a call to arms. London sees his speech aiding peace efforts and the League of Nations notes conciliation has until July 25 to decide. Tokyo papers highlight the crisis as a white versus colored race issue, with Japan watching with concern.
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TEE Associated Press
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
London
Great Britain
League of Nations
Commission of Conciliation
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Foreign Office
Japan
Bullets Fly in Streetcar Feud
Gunfire worsened the tram strike violence in Council Bluffs with five injured, including M. W. Inman who fired six shots at Richard Stencentson after pickets burned Inman's car. Two other non-striking tram workers were hurt as rioters torched a car barn and damaged a tram.
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Council Bluffs
M. W. Inman
Omaha and
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois
Iowa remains generally fair with continued warm conditions tonight and Saturday. Illinois also stays generally fair and warm with possible locally unsettled periods and continued warm weather.
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Iowa
Illinois
Council rejects call for advisory election on hydro project
Muscatine officials narrowly vote against holding a special election to seek an advisory voter opinion on a Cedar River hydro electric plant tied to a municipal light and water project. The council plans a Thursday night meeting with sponsors and attorneys to iron out details and assess feasibility. Mayor Herman Lord accuses promoters of empty promises and private funding steering the push.
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Muscatine
Municipal Light and Water Trustees
Cedar River
PWA
Herman Lord
State of
Iowa
Lord
Dubuque Gunman Dies After Fatal Barbershop Shooting
Dubuque Iowa authorities report 65 year old John Jeez died in hospital after shooting and killing Glenn Dolan a 28 year old barber and then shooting himself earlier in the week. Police said the incident followed a dispute over a gambling debt.
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Dubuque
John Jeez
Glenn Dolan
Market Stood Still and Congress Holds Back War Talk
Santa Monica notes say The Market Stood Still while Congress and rain delay any Abyssinia war. The AAA lifts prices and contemplates constitutionality as England frees chorus girls. The American Bar Association denounces unethical lawyers, signaling vindication for the speaker.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Congress
Abyssinia
England
American Bar Association
Signatures Left by Slayers of Two Gun Louie Alterie
Police disclosed fingerprints on the .12 gauge shotgun discarded after the killing and on a green suitcase trunk in the killers apartment from which they fired. Capt Gregory Moran said the prints on the gun and case form a clue in the altercation linked to Dion O Banions gang.
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Chicago
Louie Alterie
Al‘erie
Gregory Moran
Town Hall
Dion O’banion
Berlin Strife Deepens Over Racial Crackdown and Anti Jewish Tensions
Berlin reports violent anti-Semitic outbreaks as Magnus von Levetzer resigns as police chief and Count Von Helldorf is named his successor. The Nazi press justifies campaigns against Catholicism and Semitism while Goering tightens priest orders, sparking Catholic alarm.
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Berlin
Magnus von Levetzer
Count von Helldorf
Kurfuerstendamm
Third Reich
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Hitler
Bavarian
Two Sought in Missouri Kidnapping Held in Texas
Corpus Christi Texas Joe Hanley and Harold Harpin were held in Texas awaiting Omaha Nebraska agents after being charged with kidnapping two Missouri officers on June 6. They were arrested in Goliad and arraigned under the Lindbergh law before U S Commissioner A J Mount with bonds totaling 75000 dollars. Hanley also faced charges for kidnapping a Sioux City Iowa trucker in February during a robbery. San Antonio federal agents said Hanley had prior prison terms in Iowa and Minnesota.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Joe Hanley
Harold Harpin
Rockport
Omaha
Neb
Herman C. Bredensteiner
Dean S. James
South Sioux City
Goliad
United States
A. J. Mount
Missouri
Hanley
Ernest Newman
Sioux City
Iowa
Bark’ Messenger
San Antonio
Minnesota
Search Made for Illinois Woman Anna Cederquist
Mrs. Anna Cederquist, 41, wife of Emil Cederquist of Preemption Mercer county Illinois, is believed to have taken her own life by drowning in the Mississippi across from Muscatine. A search is under way after her car with clothing and a purse was found near the Muscatine high bridge.
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Anna Cederquist
Emil Cederquist
Preemption
Mercer County
Ill
Mississippi
Muscatine
Agnes Warnecke
DeWitt
Rudolph Kropp
Rock Island County
Cederquist
Theatrical Janitors' Leader Alterie Dead in Suspected Feud
Investigators theorize rival factions killed Alterie, life president of the theatrical janitors' union, amid tensions over leadership and a bid to control the wealthy motion picture operators' union.
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Alterie
Theatrical Janitors’ Union
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