Waters Still Going Higher At Ottumwa
The Des Moines river rose seven feet above flood level threatening heavy damage in Ottumwa. At least 50 families fled homes as CCC workers aided levee defenses and warnings of another foot rise persisted. Rural roads blocked and salvation services prepared to aid flood victims as Des Moines forecast Ottumwa crest after more rain.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Camp Dodge
7Th Corps
Omaha
Ottumwa
CCC
Salvation Army
Wapello
Gardener Held in Death Probe
Daniel W. Nield a 61 year old Hollywood gardener was booked on suspicion of murder in the death of Frances Conklin a 42 year old Hollywood stenographer. Detectives said he confessed after the body was found near the Griffith Park bridle path following a picnic and lovers quarrel.
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Hollywood
Calif
Daniel W. Nield
Frances Conklin
Griffith Park
Roy Hurst
Ray Giese
Nield
Miss Conklin
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
Poignant monologue recalling Mrs Callan's sacrifices after marriage as the speaker reflects on unspoken gains and sighs that reveal public perception and personal sentiment. The piece centers on domestic sacrifice and the hidden costs of marriage.
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Poor PA
Claude Callan
Wide Hunt Started to Find Killer
Detroit police issued a statewide search for Lee Ferris an acquaintance of Howard Carter Dickinson after Dickinson a New York attorney was found slain in Rouge Park Detroit Ferris who checked out of a Detroit hotel at 11 am Thursday has been missing since Detectives traced the attorney’s movements after a hurried dinner and departue Police refuse to say their search details while a car believed linked to a Lansing resident is sought as a lead in the case
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Detroit
Lee Ferris
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Ferris
Charles Evans Hughes
Park
Dickinson
Rouge Park
Lansing, Mich
Keys Brothers Break Aerial Endurance Record
Fred and Al Keys piloting their plane roared over Meridian, shattering the 553 hour 41 minute 30 second endurance mark set by John and Kenneth Hunter in Chicago 1930. They planned to stay aloft as long as the aircraft remains perky, with no descent in sight.
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Meridian
Miss
Fred
al Keys
John
Kenneth Hunter
Chicago
Victory sighted for FR on utilities bill
President Roosevelt signed a resolution to extend by two months the current temporary deposit insurance system. Congress debated the Wheeler Rayburn utility holding company regulation bill as the Senate recessed. An administration spokesman voiced confidence the president would push mandatory elimination of unnecessary holding companies, while the House interstate commerce committee struck out the bill’s death sentence provision.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congressional Administration
Senate
House
Wheeler-Rayburn Utility
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Hubinger Company Resumes Operations After Strike
Keokuk reports Hubinger company plant, paralyzed for almost 48 hours by a strike, resumes some units at 8 this morning and plans full time operation. Strike settled at 2:30 Thursday afternoon with reinstatement of seven discharged employees.
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Keokuk
Hubinger Company
Two Dianne Quintuplets Take First Steps
In Callander Ontario two of the Dianne quintuplets Yvonne and Cecile, now 13 months old, rose to a standing position today for the first time since birth.
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Callander
Dianne Quintuplets
Yvonne
Cecile
Great Britain Faces Setback as Peacemaker
LondonOn the 21st anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination British peacemaking hits a snag as Captain Anthony Eden returns with Mussolini’s vow to invade Ethiopia. Britain weighs four peace moves including an eastern European pact and a Danubian treaty while Italy withdraws from the League if Geneva interferes.
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Associated Press
London
Archduke Freiny Fredinand
Sarajevo
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Ethiopia
East Africa
League of Nations
Il Duce
Eden
Mussolini
Geneva
Administration plans aid for young and old in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills officials unveil a program aimed at helping youths up to age 20 and seniors over 60, with critics noting potential costs. The column suggests the middle aged face duties like watching for women drivers as the scheme unfolds.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Workers in Zinc Mines Face Attack Near Joplin
Striking zinc field miners armed with guns clubs and rocks attacked fellow workers heading to their jobs in Joplin Missouri as National Guardsmen were withdrawn. About fifty workers gathered near a house by the Kansas Missouri line, some beaten by rocks, cars overturned and shots fired at non stopping vehicles amid reopening operations after a May 9 strike by the international union.
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Joplin
National
International Union
Kansas-Missouri State Line
Weather Forecast For Iowa Illinois And Missouri River Areas
Iowa forecasts show local thunder showers possible tonight and Saturday with slight warmth in the west and northeast. Illinois expects fair in the south with possible central and northern thundershowers tonight and Saturday and little temp change. Mississippi River stages include Dubuque 8.2 rising 0.2 Davenport 6.1 rising 0.4 Muscatine 7.2 rising 0.6 Keokuk 8.5 rising 0.4 St. Louis 25.1 falling 1.2.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
St. Louis
Graft probes in conference over Iowa graft case
Woodbury county grand jury met informally with Special Prosecutors Naglestad and Havner as a partial report on the graft investigation neared readiness. No indictments voted yet. witnesses included Maurice Hanson and Bert Bollinger. Subpoenas and bank record scrutiny target Governor Herring and four Democratic leaders.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Grand Jury
Ole T. Naglestad
H. M. Havner
Bert Bollinger
LeMars
Iowa
Rollinger
C. F. Lytle
Herring
Iowa Democratic Party
Robert Mu
State Liquor Control Commission
Alma K. Berry
Edward O'Connor
Glenn L. Schmidt
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
Des Moines
Polk County
Carl Burkman
Woodbury
Polk County Grand Jury
Nelson G. Kraschel
E. J. Feuling
Frank Comfort
Feuling Steps Down as State Democratic Chairman
Des Moines report states E. J. Feuling resigned as state chairman accepted by the state democratic central committee during its luncheon recess. Tracy R. Osborne also resigns as treasurer after 20 years, request to be relieved effective July 1 noted by delegate Ruth Hollingshead on behalf of Osborne. Possible successors discussed include G. G. Jeck Erwin Larson E H Birmingham L S Hill E H Pollard and Mat Tinley.
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Des Moines
Democratic Central Committee
E. J. Feuling
Tracy R. Osborne
New Sharon
Osborn
Ruth Hollingshead
Albia
Feuling
G. G. Jeck
Atlantic
Erwin Larson
Charles City
E. H. Birmingham
Sioux City
L. S. Hill
E. H. Pollard
Fort Madison
Mat Tinley
Council Bluffs
Lytle Answers Maley Over Court and Cedar Rapids Issue
Sioux City contractor C F Lytle issues a reply to Walter Maley denying disrespect to the Iowa Supreme Court and urging readers to consult governor letters and PWA officials for Cedar Rapids sewage plant contracts. He accuses Maley of stirring a dust storm to distract from his own office and public matters.
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Cedar Rapids
P. F. Hopkins
Iowa State
PWA
Capt. Radford
Division of Investigation
St. Paul
Cash Receipts Gain Farm Survey Shows
Ames Special Iowa farmers showed higher living money in 1934 than 1933 per a summary from 516 farms. The Iowa State College extension service and agricultural experiment station recorded average net farm income rising to 2764 dollars in 1934 from 1990 in 1933, with operator cash income and management return also up. The farms are larger and yield more, with prices rising since 1933 driving the gain while noting some of it remains paper profits.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station
Barry Sentenced to Year in Jail
Barry, a former prize fight referee and second Dempsey Tunney fight official, was sentenced to one year in Cook County jail by Judge Michael Feinberg for his role in a $50 000 bank embezzlement plot with Abraham Karatz. A stay of execution until July 12 was granted to settle business affairs. Otto Van Derck, a bank clerk, testified against them.
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Chicago
Dave
Barry
Cook County
Michael Feinberg
Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank
Feinberg
Abraham Karatz
St. Paul
Otto van Derck
van Derck
Barry and
Karatz
Man Held in West Liberty Theft Cases
A nine months search for Weed Alberson of Ottumwa ended when Sheriff Nesper and Deputy Pace captured him in Ottumwa after his arrest there. Three companions were arrested Sept. 1 in Davenport. Alberson evaded Davenport police. Items stolen included auto tires, tubes, gasoline, a blanket, and blankets found with the trio. Alberson was jailed in Muscatine county. theft charges are expected.
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Weed Alberson
Ottumwa
West Liberty
Fred B. Nesper
Jack Pace
Alberson
Allerson
Davenport
Albert Kline
Edwin Nay
Orville Howard
Jacob Weeks
Anamosa
Franklin Randall
E. Ramsall
Kline Place
Nay Machine
Muscatine
Hotel Employees Meals Taxable Ruling Declares Meals for Staff Taxable
Des Moines assistant attorney general Clair Hamilton ruled that hotels and restaurants must collect sales tax on meals provided to employees and that hotels owe tax on telephone calls made by guests. The opinions were requested by state assessment board member Louis E. Roddewig. Hamilton deemed employee meals as compensation and equated guest calls to ordinary subscriber calls taxed similarly.
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Des Moines
Clair Hamilton
Louis E. Roddewig
State Board of Assessment and Review
Hamilton
Loyal Chinese Soldiers Repulse Rebels Attack in Peiping
Martial law was declared and then lifted after loyal government troops repulsed 2000 Manchurian mutineers who seized Fengtai junction and an armored train near Peiping. The uprising cut rail links, but Chinese forces halted the attackers and restored order amid unclear motives.
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Associated Press
Peiping
China
Forbidden
Pai Chien-Wu
Fengtai
Shang Chen
North China
Lytle Urged to Reply to Five Questions by Maley
Des Moines reports Assistant Attorney General Walter F. Maley wrote C F Lytle Sioux City contractor asking if he played a part in a gigantic conspiracy against Iowa. Maley released the letter from the capitol noting five questions about bid irregularities at Cedar Rapids and urging Lytle to answer. He accuses Lytle of seeking special attorneys general to aid a graft inquiry and criticizes Lytle for pressuring the governor and court. The letter lists five pointed questions about conspiracy and possible defrauding of the state through the highway commission.
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Sioux City
C. F. Lytle
Walter Maley
Iowa
Supreme Court of Iowa
Gov. Herring
Supreme Court of
State of
Mr. Maley
Des Moines
Walter F. Maley
Lytle
Maley
State Capitol
Cedar Rapids
Herring
State Supreme Court
Woodbury County
Supreme Court
State of Iowa
Iowa State Highway Commission
Repairs Planned at Court House Muscatine County
Interior repainting and general repairs at the Muscatine county courthouse are planned under a supplementary relief project approved today. William H. Naber, engineer, says painters carpenters and common labor will be used for about 700 man hours at a total cost of 500 dollars. A storage cellar project at the county home is expected to be approved soon with detailed plans by county engineer F. P. G. Halbfass.
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Muscatine County Court House
William H. Naber
F. P. G. Halbfass
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Killer
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Wheeler-Rayburn
Burns
Steagall
Matt Rogers
Yours
Jie Roper
McNaught Syndicate
Ine
Maurice Hanson
Garner
Park A. Findley
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