NRA Act Extended to Next April 1 in Quick House Vote
The House approved Senate amendments to extend a limited NRA agency to April 1 next year and sent the measure to President Roosevelt. Debate lasted about 40 minutes as Republicans argued the plan should either continue or die without codes, amid anti trust considerations and remarks on constitutional issues.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Michener
Michigan
Representative Jenkins
Ohio
Jenkins
NRA
Long
Louisiana
Borah
Idaho
Dead feared as blast at Reinsdorf munitions works spread
Nazis fought through wreckage at Reinsdorf where a massive munition plant exploded killing and wounding many. Officials cited 52 dead and 75 seriously hurt, but unofficial counts reached as high as 1000 with evacuated survivors and widespread fires. A town censorship clamp limited details.
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Associated Press
Reinsdorf
Germany
Board Elects Teachers for 13 Openings
Thirteen Muscatine County residents were elected to the Muscatine public schools as teachers in a special city hall session. The action followed a court challenge over previously dropped married instructors and aims to fill vacancies before further hearings on the board’s records.
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Muscatine County
Muscatine Public
Board of Education
Hearing on writ of certiorari for teachers postponed
Eleven married teachers seeking a writ of certiorari in their action against the board of education will have a hearing at 10 a m Tuesday instead of Saturday. The postponement was agreed by counsel today.
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Board of Education
Dismissal Proceedings Set for District Court Hearing
Proceedings on the dismissal of 13 married teachers proceed to a district court hearing on Saturday. The writ of certiorari seeks to restrain the school board from hiring replacements. New teachers' salaries total 900 annually, except for Katherine Sample Virgil Godfrey and Edwin De Camp at 450 each.
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Katherine Sample
Virgil Godfrey
Edwin DeCamp
Miss Sample
Goi
DeCamp
Margaret E Bobling
Iowa State Teachers College
Marian Chamberlin
Cornel College
Edwin de Camp
University of Arizona
State Uni
Probe of Train Crash Arranged Morning Sun
An official investigation will be held Saturday into the Thursday wreck near Morning Sun Iowa that killed one and injured eight. Representatives from the Rock Island and Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads the state railroad commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission will conduct it. The accident involved an M and St L freight ramming a Rock Island passenger at a track crossing controlled by an automatic signal. All but two of the injured have been released from hospital.
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Morning Sun
Rock Island
Minneapolis and St. Louis
State Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Efforts Advance to Avert Coal Strike
President Roosevelt urged postponement of the bituminous coal strike until July 1 after talks with John L. Lewis and other leaders. Operators and miners agreed to recommend the pause to labor conferences, aiming to stabilize the industry amid-Guffey bill efforts and avoid work suspension.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
White House
Lewis
Guffey
NRA
Insull and Aides Cleared in Bankruptcy Case
Federal Judge John C. Knox directed the jury to acquit Samuel Insull Sr. Samuel Insull Jr. and Harold L. Stuart in a trial alleging transfer of about 2.5 million dollars of assets from Corporation Securities to favored creditors before bankruptcy. The defense argued innocence and the judge echoed the uncertainty of guilt.
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Chicago
John C. Knox
Samuel Insull
Samuel Insull Jr
Harold L. Stuart
Knox
Insull Sr
Corporation Securities Company
Ancient Law Principle May Spare Mrs Waley in Kidnapping Case
Tacoma attorneys invoked an old English law that a wife is a husband’s chattel to suggest Mrs. Harmon Waley could avoid a life sentence for kidnapping George Weyerhaeuser. Mrs Waley and her ex-convict husband are jailed in Olympia while a nationwide hunt for suspect William Mahan continues and a mountain cabin near Butte is searched for clues.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
Harmon M. Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Butte
Mont
Finger
Mahan
Margaret Waley
George
Spokane
Harmon
Department of Justice
Waley
Death takes Gen Findley in Kentucky
Des Moines AP reports Iowa bureau of investigation chief Park A Findley 60 died in Louisville Ky of heart trouble while visiting with his new wife Grace Miller 37 whom he married nine days earlier in Miami Fla. The acting IBI chief Glen Schmidt will continue as head until a new appointment. funeral plans and family details noted with arrival of the body in Des Moines expected tonight.
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Des Moines
Ed O'Connor
Glen Schmidt
State Bureau of Investigation
O'Connor
Park A. Findley
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
Louisville
Iowa National Guard
Grace Miller
Findley
Miami
Fla
Reika Findley
John Findley
Williamsburg
Can
New York City
Miller
Final Chapter in Cow War Penned
Anamosa Iowa reports the Cedar county cow war ends with the trial costs of J W Lenker and Paul Moore paid. Clerk Lee Byerly received a 1457.27 dollar check from Auditor Herman Oaken to cover expenses after the pair were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct bovine tuberculosis testing, served 40 days at Fort Madison and were paroled.
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Anamosa
Cedar County
Lee Byerly
Jones County District Court
Herman Oaken
Cedar Courts
J. W. Lenker
Paul Moore
Lenker
Moore
State Supreme Court
District Court
Fort Madison
Weather Report Shows Fair North and Thunder Showers East
The bulletin notes Iowa: northwest generally fair with afternoon or tonight thunder showers in the east and south, cooler north tonight, Saturday generally fair. Illinois: thunder showers in the north today or tonight and likely Saturday in the south with north being cooler Saturday. Mississippi River stages updated for Davenport Muscatine Keokuk and St. Louis with small declines.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi River
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
St. Louis
J. E. Kennedy Dies in Farm Blast Accident
West Liberty Joseph E Kennedy 56 died instantly Thursday when blasting stumps on his 350 acre stock farm three miles west of West Liberty. Coroner W S Norton ruled accidental death. Kennedy had spoken with son Arlis about burning stumps and bringing seed later. No witnesses and details uncertain.
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West Liberty
Joseph E. Kennedy
Here
W. S. Norton
Kennedy
Arlis Kennedy
Gale
William Hormel
Iowa Marriages Clear Lead Over Divorces In 1934
Iowa records show 20,240 marriages in 1934 versus 4,334 divorces, with divorces up 15.6 percent and marriages up 20.9 percent from 1933. R L McLaren notes 8.1 marriages and 1.7 divorces per 1 000 people based on 2 485 000 population.
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Des Moines
Iowa
R. L. McLaren
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Department of Health
Dan Cupid
Japanese Officers Demand Peace Through Compliance in China
Japanese army officers in China presented three demands to Chahar authorities in Tientsin and Peiping replacements arrived from the border. They call for an end to anti Japanese actions, punishment of those detaining officers, and an apology with reassurance no repeats will occur. General Sung Cheh Yuan received the notes from Lt. Col. Gen Nosuke Matsui. Shanghai plans to send a special envoy to the United States and England for a delicate mission seeking broader eastward contact.
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Tientsin
China
Chahar Province
Peiping
Changpei
Chahar
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Gennosuke Matsui
Kwangtung Army
Kalgan
Shanghai
United States
England
East
Herring Proclaims Better Housing Day in Iowa
Des Moines Gov Clyde Herring designates Saturday as Better Housing Day urging citizens to join in expanding the housing program. He says the program helps citizens build and maintain homes and supports industrial and business recovery by putting men back to work.
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Des Moines
Clyde Herring
Iowa
Banks Plan for Payment of 111000 to Trust Certificate Holders
Approximately 111000 will be paid immediately to holders of trust certificates in the former Hershey State and First Trust and Savings banks. First Trust certificates receive 75255.50 and Hershey certificates 35674.94. Payments available June 20 at Central State Bank. Checks are ready but must be endorsed and certificates presented for delivery. Trustees note the merged banks date to 1933.
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Hershey State
First Trust and Savings
First
Hershey
Central State Bank
Savings Department
Mary A Karr 84 Taken by Death
Mary A Karr 84 died after a heart attack at home 707 West Front Street. Born July 1 1851 in Muscatine daughter of Michael and Mary Siebert adopted by Antone Fritz. Survived by four children many grandchildren and great grandchildren. husband W Karr preceded in death. Funeral arrangements pending at George Wittich Funeral Home.
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Mary A. Karr
West Front Street
Muscatine
Michael
Mary Siebert
Antone Fritz
W. Karr
St. Mathias
Arthur J. Karr
Hillsboro
Ill
Emmett
Marie
Christina Karr
George Wittich
Cedar Street
State Eyes Interest on Federal Relief Deposit
Iowa officials review whether the state should receive interest on federal relief funds totaling an average daily balance above 4 million dollars over October 1934 to May 1935. The funds sit in a Des Moines bank in the governor’s name, with 2 percent statutory interest on most of the balance, now reduced to one percent since June 1. Wegman notes potential federal and state rulings on interest eligibility.
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Des Moines
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Leo J. Wegman
Iowa
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Clyde L. Herring
Terest
Edward L. O’connor
Executive Council
Wegman
Inquest Set Over Grimstead Death Near Princeton
Mrs. Carl Grimstead sought sheriff aid to verify if her husband’s abandoned car in West Liberty was stolen. Authorities found Grimstead’s body in timberland near the Fred Stitcher farm, with a single bullet wound. An autopsy and coroner’s jury were planned to determine cause and link to the revolver found.
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Journal News Service
Letts
Carl Grimstead
Rock Island Railroad
Wapello
George Oakes
West Liberty
Grimstead
Fred Stitcher
Princeton
McGinnis
Davenport
W. D. Shelley
Frank Martin
Scott County
Omaha Riots Prompt Mayor to Consider Guards
Rioters injure 11, loot a grocery, damage street cars and batter police cars as 2,000 march in south Omaha amid a street car strike. Mayor Rov N. Towl may call national guardsmen. council meets as injuries include policemen Boesen Kaiser Pershhe Vinci Krenek Levin and tram operators Shadden Colonel Crick Clark Stanley.
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Omaha
South
Rov N. Towl
Henry Boesen
Robert Kaiser Jr
Joseph E. Pershhe
Joe Vinci
William Krenek
Melvin Levin
A. M. Steel
Council Bluffs
Charles H. Crick
R. E. Clark
C. M. Stanley
Arthur Shadden
Colonel
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen
Aunt Het is described through a light local column voice with a sharp, folksy remark on Jennie and her grown daughters. The quip hints at generational friction and maternal influence in a small town setting.
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Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
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Hookey
Brownell Hall School
Insull
Mrs. Waley
Gen. Findley
Kentucky
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Beverly Hills
Calif
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Oelwein
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