Muscatine Surges Past 98 Degrees in Heat Wave
Mercury hits 98 degrees by 2 PM in Muscatine as thermometers rise beyond 100 in outlying areas. Officials forecast brief relief within 24 hours with cooler air from the northwest and possible thundershowers tonight and tomorrow across the state. The heat persists as records fall and forecasts call for slightly cooler conditions midweek.
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Muscatine
Central Fire Station
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Bureau
Mercury
Mother Slain As Daughter Sleeps In Wichita Hotel
Mrs. Iva Mae Stull 30 of Wichita and Frank Bohatch 39 of Great Bend were found dead in a Wichita hotel room after a shooting and suicide Monday night. Their 10 year old daughter Catherine Mildred Stull awoke to discover the bodies and confirmed the hotel ownership. A note signed by both adults stated Dont blame it on Frank I wanted it this way Please send my little girl back to Wichita. The girl did not hear the shots and police believe she was drugged to sleep.
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Kansas City
Iva Mae Stull
Wichita
Kas
Frank Bohatch
Great Bend
Catherine Mildred Stull
Henry Ford Turns 72 at Bay Cottage Birthday
Henry Ford, founder of a vast industrial empire, marked his 72nd birthday today at his Bay Cottage residence set on the Huron Mountain club grounds by Lake Superior. The 16 room retreat is described as his private getaway.
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Big Bay
Mich
Henry Ford
Huron Mountain Club
Leake Superior
Nazis Relax Campaign on State Fees and Anti-Semitism
Berlin dispatch says Nazi leaders in council with Hitler ordered a halt to ultra radical actions against Jews and political Catholicism to avoid abroad backlash. In Halle seven Jews and six Gentile women were arrested for alleged violations of racial principles signaling persistent anti-Semitic pressure. The report notes a push by the propaganda ministry for nations to address their own issues.
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Propaganda Ministry
Davenport Boy of 15 Missing
Police and county officers search for Billie Donald a 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs William Donald who vanished from his Davenport home since Saturday He left on a bicycle to a barber shop wore a blue shirt blue corduroy trousers and tennis shoes He is 5 feet 7 inches tall 120 pounds with brown hair blue eyes He is son of the late Gustav Donald former editor of a German newspaper in Davenport.
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Davenport
Billie Donald
William Donald
Gustav Donald
G¢rman
Speed Sought on New Taxes By Chairman
Washington reports the House Ways and Means Committee approved a $275,000,000 tax bill. Chairman Doughton aims to bring it to the floor by Wednesday or Thursday, with hopes of passage by Saturday or Monday. The plan, echoing Roosevelt, adds new taxes on estates gifts inheritances and corporate taxes while expanding individual and corporate levies. Republicans may file a minority report opposing the bill. The vote stood 17 to 7.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D-N. C
Coughton
Roosevelt
Congress
Suspended Mayor Faces Graft Jury Removal Action
Sioux City mayor W. D. Hayes seeks to strike from a Woodbury county graft grand jury report the recommendation to start removal proceedings. He argues the report used libelous language and that no indictment was returned. District Judge W. W. Scott to hear the case Monday with special prosecutors Havner and Nagelstad pursuing removal.
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Sioux City
W. D. Hayes
Woodbury County
Hayes
H. M. Havner
O. T. Nagelstad
Maley Seeks Subpoenas for All State Peace Officers
Des Moines SDPA report says Walter Maley assistant attorney general will ask Sioux City court for permission to subpoena about 2500 peace officers statewide to testify in his slot machine conspiracy trial. He seeks to compel county attorneys sheriffs chiefs of police town marshals justices of the peace and others to appear and answer two questions about pressuring prosecutions and cooperation in stamping out slot machines. The move could include retired or replaced officers and aims to secure a separate immediate trial in Sioux City.
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Des Moines
SDPA
Walter Maley
Sioux City
Maley
Towa
Thompson Insanity Witnesses Hissed in Peoria Court
Spectators hissed as Gerald Thompson aged 26 faced testimony in Peoria Illinois alleging insanity for murder of Mildred Hallmark aged 19. Defense witnesses described obsessions and indecent materials to support an insanity claim while the courtroom crowd reacted with jeers.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Mother and Son Die in Hornick Gasoline Fire
Mrs Victor Larson 36 and her infant son Donald died in a Sioux City hospital after a gasoline explosion in their Hornick Indiana home Monday caused a blaze that also destroyed two stores. Firefighters from Hornick and four nearby towns fought the flames. three others were burned but expected to recover as sisters and a brother saved the baby from an adjoining room.
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Sioux City
Victor Larson
Donald
Larson
Hornick
Here
Deserted waters and wily natives outsmart armies in history
The author muses on military campaigns from Mussolini to Geronimo and the Boers, noting waterless deserts and native cunning outsmarting generals. He cites diverse examples like Cortez’s descendants and Yaqui struggles to suggest civilization may not guarantee success in warfare.
Robbers Make Off With Gem Necklace In New York Heist
A ruby necklace once linked to Marie Antoinette and valued at 10 000 dollars was seized with other gems totaling more than 40 000 dollars during a rush hour robbery on Fifth Avenue. Two robbers bound two clerks and, within ten minutes, fled with show windows and showcases emptied. The necklace, shown on a headless model, featured 25 flat cut rubies of one to two carats each with gold filigrees and a ruby diamond clasp.
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New York
Marie Antoinette
Nicolai Miller
Fifth Avenue
seven die in canyon crash near Fredonia Arizona
A Tucson family of seven perished when an automobile plunged over an embankment into a rock strewn canyon in Fredonia Arizona while returning from a Utah trip. Three year old Robert Bischoff was the sole survivor. The victims were the parents Raeburn E Bischoff and Mrs Bischoff, their three daughters, a granddaughter and a close kin woman.
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Fredconia
Ariz
Tucson
Robert Bischoff
Robert
Raeburn E. Bischoff
Utah
Weather outlook for the Midwest and Mississippi River levels
Iowa anticipates possible local thunder showers this afternoon or tonight with generally fair conditions on Wednesday. North and west areas may be cooler tonight. Illinois expects fair weather tonight and Wednesday, with thunder showers this afternoon or tonight in the north. Mississippi River stages rise but fall slightly at Clinton Davenport Muscatine and Keokuk with modest declines shown.
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Illinois
North
Mississippi River
Clinton
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Des Moines Officer Hunt for Slayer of John LeClair
Police found John LeClair 20 dead in a weeds patch at Guthrie and Hubbell avenues and launched a manhunt for his killer. Coroner W A Carpenter said a pointed instrument crushed his skull and broke his neck, noting the body likely came from an automobile. LeClair, a Whiteline Transfer mechanic married last April to Evelyn Euritt, 17, had no known enemies.
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Des Moines
John LeClair
Hubbell
Guthrie
W. A. Carpenter
LeClair
Whiteline Transfer Company
Evelyn Euritt
Guthrie Avenue
Frederick M. Hubbell
John
White Line
Negro Ex-Slayer Lynched by Mob in Franklin County
Sweat Ward twenty five year old Negro ex slayer of C J Stokes a Franklin county farmer was taken from the sheriff and hanged to a large oak tree by a mob half a mile from the crime scene. State patrolmen and National Guard were dispatched but could not prevent the lynching.
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N. C
Stokes
Ward
P. Bean
J. C. B. Erbinghaus
State Highway Patrol
120Th Infantry
North Carolina National Guard
Henderson
Italy Sends More Men Into Africa
Ethiopian troops of about 10 000 left Addis Ababa under ex cabinet minister Haptemikael heading toward Eritrea with field army moves shrouded in secrecy. Italy meanwhile sent 500 more officers and men from Naples on the Abbazia as diplomats travel to Geneva for League talks amid war mood rumors.
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Italy
East Africa
League of Nations
Addis Ababa
Dedjazmatch Haptemikael
War Office
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Naples
Abbazia
Geneva
Addis Baaba
Plans Advance for Grain Loans in Midwest Regions
Omaha officials of the farm credit administration announced loans up to 50 percent of local grain value would be made through federal credit agencies on stored small grains in Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming. Loans at 5 percent annual interest will be due June 1 1936 and sealed in farm bins to prevent market glut. First loans expected within a week with a Des Moines meeting to discuss quick loans.
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Omaha Farm Credit Administration
Iowa
Nebraska
South Daakota
Wyoming
Production Credit Association
Des Moines
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Farm Credit Administration
Woman Pours Kerosene in Stove Burned Badly
Mrs. Hayes Frazier aged 26 was severely burned when kerosene exploded while she tried to pour it on a cook stove fire in Clinton Iowa. Neighbors helped extinguish flames, though a second explosion damaged the home. The Frazier family home fire forced the three children to flee. all others were uninjured.
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Thomson
Ill
Hayes Frazier
Clinton
Frazier
Wesley Reynolds
Bor
Mr. Frazier
Confession Details Jung Murder Plot and Body Disposal
Evelyn Smith, once a burlesque dancer, confessed she killed Ervin Lang with help from her husband Harry Jung and bludgeoned accomplice Blanche Dunkel. Lang was lured to Smith's apartment on July 5 and killed. the body was disposed in a Hammond Indiana swamp. Prosecutors tie the tale to Dunkel's prior statements about hiring Smith amid jealousy over Lang's attentions.
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Ervin Lang
Harry Jung
Jung
Lang
Chicago
Hammond
Ind
Williams 57 Deputy Treasurer Dies in Des Moines
Roy M. Williams 57 deputy state treasurer and organizer of the Iowa motor vehicle department was found dead at his Des Moines home by his wife. Ill with tuberculosis, he had not worked since last April after 28 years in state service with a two year gap at Herring Motor. He organized the motor vehicle department in 1915 and held senior posts in the secretary of state’s office and as first deputy treasurer under three administrations. He is survived by his widow and three daughters.
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Roy M. Williams
Iowa Motor Vehicle Department
Williams
Statehouse
Herring Motor Company
William S. Allen
State Motor Vehicle Department
Ray Johnson
Johnson
Leo J. Wegman
Wegman
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