Leaders Aim to Speed Up Senate Action
Washington AP reports senate leadership pushed for quick approval of a 2.49 billion lending bill while a coalition of democrats and republicans planned to bottle it up in the house rules committee. Barkley announced night sessions would begin Wednesday to speed business, despite hours of debate over a federal judgeships bill and a Panama treaty.
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Senate
House Rules Committee
Panama
Sen
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate shelves rivers and harbors bill amid adjournment push
Senate commerce committee sidetracked the $407 billion omnibus rivers and harbors bill, delaying action to next session. President Roosevelt pressed for lending and housing measures, while a House move to double the housing authority borrowing power faced House rules hurdles and possible veto by anti administration factions. Adjournment date remained indefinite as senators plotted amendments to curtail lending and housing provisions.
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McNary
R-Ore
Senate Commerce Committee
Sen
Bailey
D-Nc
F. R
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
United States Housing Authority
House
Rules Committee
Rep. Cox
Georgia
Barkley
Senate
Democrats
Senate Banking Committee
Taft
Ohio
Tavern Owners Seek Ban on Music in Marshalltown
In Marshalltown Iowa AP report tavern owners petition the city council to prohibit all music in beer taverns including vocal and instrumental arguing it would be easier to comply with the law. The petition was sent to the council committee on ordinances.
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Marshalltown
Council Committee On
Large Posse Dives in Quest to Find Missing Boy
A 6 year old boy Russell Jensen son of an Albert Lea packing house foreman vanished after a Lake Kabekona fishing trip. A 200 strong posse plus CCC enrollees scoured Paul Bunyan state forest with bloodhounds from La Crosse set to arrive. Treacherous swamps and mosquitoes threaten survival as relatives fear further tragedy.
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Minri
Russell Jensen
Albert Lea
Paul Bunyan State Forest
CCC
Curtis
Roy Olson
Minneapolis
Lake Kabekona
la Crosse
Wis
Harlan H. Ware
Pine River
Case County
Donald Fogel
Boy 13 Frees Arm Self Set After Fall
Johnny Knipper, 13, believed his left arm was crooked after a fall so he straightened it himself. Dr. Louis LaBarre, head surgeon at Coaldale State Hospital, examined him and said the boy had set his own broken arm, remarking I couldn't have done it better myself.
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Johnny Knipper
Louis LaBarre
Coaldale State Hospital
Johnny
Weather outlook and river stages for Davenport area
Generally fair weather through Wednesday with local afternoon or tonight thundershowers in eastern Iowa and northern Illinois. Davenport and Dubuque see cooler tonight, central and eastern areas warmer on Wednesday. River stages show La Crosse 4.6 rising, Muscatine 5.3 falling, Davenport 3.4 falling.
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Iowa
Davenport
Dubuque
Muscatine
Keokuk
Hudsons London Peace Talks Stir UK Politics
Hopeful peace talks in London between Secretary for Overseas Trade R S Hudson and German adviser Dr Helmuth Wohlthat spark political furor in Britain. Chamberlain defends the talks as personal and denies cabinet knowledge, while Hudson, a junior minister, faces opposition calls for his removal and scrutiny over potential peace terms with Hitler.
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London
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Overseas Trade
R. S. Hudson
Hudson
Helmuth Wohlthat
Wohlthat
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Goering
Herr Hitiler
Germany
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Hitler
Hore-Belisha
Europe
America
Fischer Would Tax Unsafe Cars More
Des Moines AP Karl Fischer state public safety commissioner said he would back legislation to raise taxes on very old cars that pose traffic hazards. He announced the department would push to ensure vehicles using the highways are in good safe condition.
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Des Moines
Karl Fischer
Birmingham Criticizes Fischer Raids On Liquor Enforcement
Des Moines Iowa Democratic State Central Committee Chairman E H Birmingham denounces the Republican administration's liquor and gambling enforcement drive. He blasts using highway patrolmen as storm troopers and says Gov Wilson and public safety commissioner Karl Fischer fear their patrol machine cannot satisfy the people as highway deaths rise.
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Des Moines
Democratic State Central Committee
E. H. Birmingham
Republican State Administration
Fischer
Wilson dismisses Birmingham remark on raids
Des Moines Iowa Governor George A. Wilson offered a sharp reply to State Democratic Chairman E H Birmingham saying Who is Birmingham. The governors brief response focused on questioning Birmingham's authority and relevance to the raids on liquor and gambling.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
E. H. Birmingham
Birmingham
Iowa Patrol Morale Call Restores Proper Highway Duty
A historical view criticizes the Iowa patrols former nonpolitical role under Chief John Hattery. It argues officers should return to highway safety duties rather than acting as prohibition enforcers or night raid agents on taverns, praising their public service and warn and assist role.
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Fischer
John Hattery
Iowa
Prohibition
Hitler Attends Festival Opening in Bayreuth
Adolf Hitler attended the opening of the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth today, continuing his public appearances as leader of Germany.
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Bayreuth
Germany
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
How They Talk and Other Chatter in Print
A collage of quoted lines includes Ray Tucker on lawmakers and law, Sol R Friedman explaining divorce, George J Keller noting WPA project suspensions in Iowa counties, Jimmie Fidler on Peter Lorre fans, and Eddie Brietz recalling New York papers cheering for the Giants.
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Jimmie Fidler
New York
Giants
West
Eddie Brietz
Friction Grows Over British Japanese Clash in Shanghai
In Shanghai tensions rise as British protests over detention of H Rose clash with Japanese dominance in the Shanghai municipality. Reports say 100 Chinese and a Russian employees held over arrears for garbage dumping while puppet authorities press for payments. Demonstrations and propaganda plans spread from Peiping to Shansi Shantung Hopeh and Henan.
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Tokyo
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Shantung
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Chung Mei Jih Pao
Far East
China Press
Shanghai Evening Post
Mercury
Hart Takes Command of Asiatic Fleet in Shanghai
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell hands over command of the United States Asiatic Fleet to Admiral Thomas C. Hart in Shanghai aboard the Augusta. Yarnell sails home August 2 to await retirement as he turns 64, ending a 1936 experiences amid Sino Japanese tensions and the Panay incident. Capt P L Carroll becomes chief of staff, relieving Capt R F McConnell who moves to San Diego.
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Harry E. Yarnell
United States
Asiatic Fleet
China
Thomas C. Hart
Yarnell
President Coolidge
Ecru
Augusta
Tix Wiinewit
United States Navy
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Panay
Swatow
P. L. Carroll
R. F. McConnell
San Diego
Japs Warned by Russia of Naval Power Gains
Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, Soviet naval commissar, declares Russia has more submarines than any other nation and more than Japan and Germany together. He states the Soviet Union is a rising naval power and hints at increasing sea strength with Japan in view, in a Tass release from Moscow.
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Moscow
Japan
Germany
Nikolai Kuznetsoff
Soviet Union
Tass
Granddaughter of President Injured by Goat
Ruth Roosevelt five years old, granddaughter of President Roosevelt, suffered a very slight concussion and chest bruising after a goat butted her at friends in Fort Worth Texas. Physicians reported the child stabilized and her mother Mrs Elliott Roosevelt remained with her at the hospital before planning to move to the ranch.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ruth Chandler Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt
Des Moines Hit by Severe Lightning Storms
A Monday Iowa lightning outbreak killed Frank Linergan in a field near Otranto and felled Mrs. Herbert Sohm Jean Sohm and two caddies at the Des Moines Golf and Country Club. Des Moines recorded 2.36 inches of rain amid power cuts, downed lines, and damaged property.
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Iowa
Frank Linergan
Otranto
Herbert Sohm
Jean
Des Moines Golf and Country Club
West Des Moines
Blockade of Canton River Is Announced
The Japanese consul at Canton says the Canton river will close for two weeks starting at midnight Wednesday to block third power shipping. Sentries will guard Shameen island and search those entering or leaving. A U S gunboat departs Hongkong to reach Canton before the closing.
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Canton
United States
Shameen Island
Shameen
Tientsin
Kwantgtung Province
South China
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuomintang
Government Party
Munich
Generalissimo
Chamberlain
China
Britain
Japan
Tokyo
Government Puts More Agents on Louisiana Probe
John Rogge of the justice department announced an intensified federal investigation into alleged violations of federal statutes in Louisiana. He said more agents are being sent to pursue scores of leads, and that the attorney general and he mean business as they work with federal attorney Reno Viasca to try cases soon. The renewed probe targets the Huey P. Long era political empire.
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John Rogge
Justice Department
Louisiana
Rogge
Reno Viasca
Huey P. Long
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