New Iowa Laws Take Effect July Fourth
Des Moines report notes 61 new laws to join 16 000 statutes with 125 in force by publication. Next Thursday 102 measures become law, including seven profession driven acts such as science law, pharmacy acts, undertakers law, osteopathy standard boost, and optometry course extension. The current 6 percent legal rate drops to 5 percent on July 4 and a trademark pill sale ban follows.
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George Mills
Des Moines
IDPA
Forty-Sixth General Assembly
Assembly
General Assembly
Forty-Sixth
Pavilion Collapse Leaves Many Injured at Luzerne Outing
A pavilion at Croop's Glen Hunlock Creek collapsed during a baby contest injuring about one hundred people gathered for the Luzerne county unemployed league outing. Rescue units rushed victims to Nanticoke state hospital as authorities battled confusion and fear among the crowd.
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Wilkes Barre
Croop’s Glen
Hunlock Creek
Nanticoke
Plymouth
Shickshinny
Nanticoke State Hospital
Hanover
Luzerne
Callan Promises and Quiet Dishonesty Across A Promise
A note on a monetary loan shows Tom failing to repay five dollars while his wife is described as decisive. The passage emphasizes trust broken and a request for repayment implicit in a domestic exchange.
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Tom
Lewis Calls Bituminous Coal Strike
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, orders a Sunday midnight stoppage in soft coal. About 450,000 miners would be affected as district presidents rush to field headquarters to direct what could be the era’s largest soft coal strike. President Roosevelt seeks extension of wages and hours until Congress acts on the Guffey bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
White House
Lewis
Wnion
Roosevelt
Congress
Guffey
NRA
International Policy Committee
Life Sentence for Murder in Minnesota Case
Walter J. Jackson of Mason City Iowa was found guilty of second degree murder in Mankato Minnesota and received a life sentence at Stillwater State Prison for the December 1 1933 death of John S Williams a 65 year old second hand store proprietor who was slugged and robbed. Co defendants Bertel Hall and Lyle Davis faced guilty pleas and await sentencing.
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Mankato
Minn
Walter J. Jackson
Mason City
Stillwater
Jackson
John S Williams
Harry A. Johnson
Johnson
Bertel Hall
Lyle Davis
River Front Improvement Plan Mapped
Levee commissioners in Muscatine held a special session to map river front improvements funded by new federal relief allotments. Southeast Iowa Conservation officials C. H. Young and Walter Hendrickson outlined projects with James C. Fry returning next week for further study of harbor lines fills riprap and parking extensions along the Muscatine riverfront.
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Muscatine River
Levee Commission
Southeastern Iowa Conservation Association
Muscatine County
C. H. Young
Walter Hendrickson
James C. Fry
Iowa State Planning Board
Fry
Lock and Dam No. 16
U. S
McKee Button Company
Rock Island Railroad
Orange Street
Mad Creek
Sycamore
Cedar Streets
Light Board
Chinese Forces Reassert Control as Peiping Quiet Restores
Reinforcements arrived in Peiping after a mutiny was crushed by loyal troops. The city gates reopened and street patrols remained tight. American secretaries Cecil Lyon and Paul Meter were praised for guiding foreign nationals into the city during the shooting but they downplayed heroism.
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Peiping
China
Fengtai
United States
Cecil Lyon
Paul Meter
Iowa Firm Linked With Chicago Rum Conspiracy
Federal grand jury indictments name seven firms including Nieman Brothers Cosmopolitan Candy Co Chicago Steel Tank Co J B Scully Syrup Co Fletcher Eichman Confectionery Supply and Clinton Sar Co from Iowa. Indicted Iowa employees Samuel Eisenstein and John Devlin. warrants prepared after a raid found a giant Chicago warehouse still. firms supplied the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Internal Revenue Law
John P. Barnes
Nieman Brothers
Cosmopolitan Candy Company
Chicago Steel Tank Company
J. B. Scully Syrup Com
Man, 3 Women Held in Murder Inquiry
A man identified as James Taylor alias William Sweitzer and also William Lee Ferris was arrested in Fort Wayne with three women, Flossie Jackson Loretta Jackson and Lillian Miller. Police tied the case to the Detroit murder of Howard Carter Dickinson with a tip involving a New York lawyer Dickinson and a taxi driver witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Carter Dickinson
Dickinson
New York
Hughes
Detroit
Elizabeth Carmichael Witherspoon
William H. Yawkey
Fort Wayne
Ind
James Taylor
William Sweitzer
William Lee Ferris
Flossie Jackson
Loretta Jackson
Lillian Miller
Ferris
Andrew J. Smygen
Detective
Officers Chosen by Iowa Eagles State Convention
R F O Haran of Waterloo was elected state President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the closing session. Ed ward L Malzahn of Sioux City A J Kemp of LeMars and Walter Appel of Burlington named to the board of trustees. Davenport will be the 1936 convention city.
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Sioux City
R. F. O’haran
Waterloo
Order of Eagles
Edward L. Malzahn
A. J. Kemp
LeMars
Walter Appel
Burlington
Olaf Carlson
Clinton
W. E. Hausafus
Marshalltown
Walter Bease
Davenport
Charles Mackland
Council Bluffs
M. J. Kelley
Hawarden
E. B. Fackler
Iowa City
White House Letter to Congress Keeps Pressure Up
The piece portrays President Franklin D. Roosevelt sending daily notes to Congress, noting a ruling that U S citizens cannot sue the government without authorization, and directing Congress to declare that limitation. The tone suggests ongoing push to limit litigation against the government.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Congress
White House
U. S
Franklin
Nine year old Helen Glenn found slain in New York
Detectives from the state police joined the Greenville search for Helen Glenn a nine year old murdered after disappearing from home. Her body was found in a marsh two days later with a knife wound and coroner notes a brutal, perverse attack as authorities pursue leads and surveillance.
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Greenville
N. Y
Scotland Yard
Helen Glenn
Yard
New Anticrime
State Police
Marsh
M. E. Atkinson
Helen
Henry Glenn
CCC Workers Find Body in Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake CCC workers recovered the body of Edward Wenner of Waterloo from Spirit Lake after a five day search. Wenner, 21, worked at a Templar Park hotel in summer and drowned while trying to swim ashore in an overturned canoe to summon help for two girl companions.
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Spirit Lake
Civilian Conservation Corps
Edward Wenner
Waterloo
Wenner
Templar Park Hotel
Weather Outlook and River Stages Across Midwest
Iowa and Illinois face thundershowers tonight and Sunday with warmer conditions in the north and extreme east central areas. The weekly outlook calls for showers in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys early week, then fair and cool midweek, with more showers to end the period. River stage readings show Dubuque 8.7 feet, Davenport 6.9, Muscatine 8.0, Keokuk 10.0, all rising during the period.
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Iowa
Illinois
Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Ottumwa Flood Recedes as Des Moines Crest Drops
Des Moines river crest moves downstream at Ottumwa after peaking Friday at 15.4 feet while Eddyville reports a drop from 20.8 feet leading to flood damage mainly to farms and gardens. About 80 families in Ottumwa live in tent city relief shelters as 50 to 75 workers battle sandbag levees and relocate stock and belongings.
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Ottumwa
Des Moines
Eddyville
County Rock
John Morrel and Co
Crest
National
Bricks Fly Against Omaha Streetcars Amid Strikes
In Omaha Nebraska bricks pelted several streetcars as strike sympathizers resist arbitration progress. Two trams had windows smashed and motormen E. C. Fuller and T. L. McCarthy were bruised. Police arrested two suspects tied to torpedo placements on tracks.
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Omaha
Neb
South
North
E. C. Fuller
T. L. McCarthy
Sub-Arbitration Board
Indicted 14 in Woodbury graft probe in Sioux City
Woodbury county grand jury returns three indictments naming 14 individuals in an official graft inquiry. The blanket indictment includes Thomas L. Taggart and 11 others. Charles Wood faces a separate gambling house charge. one other single indictment awaits naming details. The panel adjourned to continue probing state angles of the graft scandal.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Administration of Justice
Thomas L. Taggart
Caple to Face Grand Jury on Assault Charge
D Caple 75 of 937 Lucas Street waives hearing and is bound over to a grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to cause great bodily harm. Ernest Longest, his tenant, says Caple shot him in the hand during an alleged Friday night affray at the Caple home. Caple pleaded and was held on a $500 bond signed by brother H B Caple.
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Dan Caple
Lucas Street
Caple
Ernest Longest
J. C. Coster
H. B. Caple
Judge Coster
Keys Brothers Extend Endurance Flight Record
Meridian Mississippi brothers Fred and Al Key pushed their world endurance flight project forward as rain drenched the route. They planned to continue until Monday to tie the 1930 unofficial record set by Dale Jackson and Forrest O Brine in St Louis, with their families watching below.
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Meridian
Miss
Mississippi
Fred
al Key
Dale Jackson
Forrest O’brine
St. Louis
Iowa Democrats Elect New Campaign Leaders
Iowa Democrats select new leadership as E W Birmingham of Sioux City takes the chairmanship while E J Feuling resigns after a $500 fine related to campaign contributions. L H Hughes becomes treasurer succeeding Tracy R Osborn as the party reorganizes supervision to an executive committee of six members.
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Iowa
Democrats
Des Moines
Democratic Party
E. W. Birmingham
Sioux City
Congress
E. J. Feuling
New Hampton
L. H. Hughes
Cedar Falls
Tracy R. Osborn
New Sharon
Feuling
Vast Flood Devastates Osaka Kyoto Kobe Industrial Districts
The worst rainstorms and floods in half a century devastated Osaka Kyoto Kobe and northern Kyushu Shikoku while disrupting railways and communications. Casualties include at least 62 dead with hundreds missing and property damage estimated above 10 million yen. Rescue ships search flood zones as Gojo bridge washes away.
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Tokyo
Osaka
Kyoto
Kobe
Kyushu
Shikoku
Hondo
Keishohokudo
Korea
Japan
Gojo
Kamo
Fukuoka
Nagasaki
Samaguchi
J. M. Cross 74 Died After Illness At Home In Muscatine
J M Cross a Muscatine resident for 50 years died at 2 30 am at his home 214 Park avenue after an illness since last Sunday with a complication of ailments He was born July 27 1860 in Fairfax county Virginia a blacksmith here for about 45 years He married Dora Montgomery Sept 2 1885 at Springdale Ia Surviving are two daughters Mrs Ethel Berry Omaha Neb and Mrs Bessie Tarr Chicago one brother C C Cross LaSalle Ill two sisters Mrs Ella Sanders Vienna Va and Mrs MollieTriplett Alexandria Va two grandchildren and a great grandchild His wife died Aug 2 1913 One sow preceded him The body is at the Hoffman Funeral home with services 3 pm Monday by the Rev W H Stack and burial in Greenwood cemetery.
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J. M. Cross
Muscatine
Park Avenue
Mr. Cross
Fairfax County
Virginia
Second Street
Dora Montgomery
Springdale
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Hoffman Funeral Home
W. H. Stack
Musserville Methodist Episcopal Church
Greenwood Cemetery
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Claud
Callan
Publishers Syndicate
Nya
Sis Aubrey Williams
National Youth Administration
Minnesota
Indiana
Man
Iowa Eagles
CCC
D. Caple
Longest
Keys Brothers
Portugal
Lisbon
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
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