Security Bill Pass Likely In Intact Form Despite Debates
The House rejected major amendments to the Roosevelt security bill, backing the administration plan including the Townsend old age pension and unemployment provisions. Key votes defeated attempts to raise pension levels and broaden federal aid, signaling the bill's passage in current form late this week or next.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Democratic House
Standeen “Redistribution of
Townsend-Lundeen
House
Scrugham-Greenways
W. M. Colmer
Miss
Colmer
A. L. Ford
T Atlan Treadway
Mass
Treadway
Harold Knutson
Minn
Knutson
Townsend
John Steven McGroarty
Calif
Charles Truax
Ohio
The Double Self and The Power of a New Life
A meditation on the inner shadow self that hinders growth and happiness. The essay cites Shelley and St. Paul to argue that embracing a nobler inner self defeats the double, with life unified by the power of an endless life.
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Shelley
Lee
St. Paul
Johnson Urges NRA Changes With Strong Oversight
Gen Hugh S Johnson outlined eight recommendations for reforming the NRA. Proposals include better small business representation on code authorities, a clear labor policy, limiting codification to interstate activities, ending price fixing, continuing production control, creating an agency to enforce anti monopoly suspensions, outlawing unfair competition, and strengthening code compliance.
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Washington
New Deal
Hugh S. Johnson
Dust Storm Barriers Sought Across Five States
Soil erosion experts from five plains states urged extending Kansas dust barrier efforts across the dust prone area. The group, meeting with M. L. Wilson, outlined policies to combat wind erosion, including cropping methods and re seeding blown lands with grasses.
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Garden City
Kan
Kansas
Johnson Days Own Mistakes Hampered NRA
Former president Herbert Hoover era official Hugh S. Johnson defended the NRA before the Senate Finance Committee as the recovery act faced renewed scrutiny. He warned against abandoning the program, acknowledged administration errors, and urged framing a new law while noting the act’s role in stabilizing industry.
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Johnson
Washington
NRA
Hugh
Congress
Blue Eagle
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
Senate
Solons Favor Long Dictatorship Acts
A Baton Rouge senate committee approved bills making Huey P. Long Louisiana supreme dictator. Long personally explained the measures and instructed votes, finishing the work quickly.
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Baton Rouge
INS
Senate
Sen
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Mercury Climbs in Cedar Rapids on Partly Cloudy Day
Temperatures rise through the day in Cedar Rapids with 42 at midnight and 7 am, 45 by 9:30 am, and 59 at 2:15 pm as the sky clears.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Gazette Editor Defends Sioux City Probe Start
Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette explains to readers why his charges sparked a Sioux City grand jury inquiry into graft. He cites threats, press opposition, and a statewide payoff system tied to Des Moines, urging action while noting exhaustion and commitment to printing the news.
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Gazette
Sioux City
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Bob Toms
John Battin
Des Moines
Liberal Bank Bill Advances to House Vote
The administration won a decisive victory as the House Banking and Currency Committee agreed to report the 1935 banking act intact. The bill would make permanent deposit insurance and allow 7,500 insured banks to opt out of joining the Federal Reserve.
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Washington
LLP
House Banking and Currency Committee
Henry B. Steagall
Federal Reserve
Senate Delivers New Budget Bill For Early Adjournment
The Iowa Senate will take up a biennial budget bill totaling 13,969,278 dollars for the new session. The measure, introduced by the appropriations committee, was set as a special order at 2 a.m. Friday with a chain store bill following and the House highway patrol bill left for unfinished business.
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DES Moines
Iowa Senate
Senate
Appropriations Committee
House State Highway Patrol
Second Wife Sues Son of Col. Stewart
Phyllis Shaw Stewart, daughter-in-law of Col. Robert W. Stewart, former chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Indiana, filed for divorce. She alleges Giffen Stewart, her husband since November 22, 1922, deserted her on February 1, 1934.
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Chicago
Sns
Phyllis Shaw Stewart
Robert W. Stewart
Sandard Oil
Indiana
Giffen Stewart
Powers warn Nazis to avoid Rhine trouble
Britain and Italy pressed Germany to respect the demilitarized Rhineland. Ambassadors from the Stresa powers presented a joint decision to maintain the status quo, while Germany protested to the League of Nations over rearmament. Hitler met with party leaders in Munich to plan his response and an official protest was forecast.
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Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Rhineland
Stresa
League of Nations
Reich
Geneva
Foreign Office
Munich
Konstantin, von Neurath
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Germany protests to Britain and Italy over Stresa Geneva stance
Acting swiftly the League of Nations criticism of German rearmament prompted a protest lodged with Great Britain and Italy. Foreign Secretary Von Buelow delivered the note to Sir Eric Phipps and the Italian envoy, clarifying guarantor responsibilities of the Lo Carno treaty and possible action against France or Germany if aggression occurs. Meanwhile Adolf Hitler faced pressure as the Union of National German Jews urged firmness amid League censure.
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Berlin
League‘ of
Reich
Great Britain
Italy
Stresa
Geneva
von Buelow
Foreign ‘Office
Eric Phipps
Germany
France
Hitler
Reichsleader
Adolf Hitler
Union of
League of Nations
League ‘of National
Brown
Attorney Lorenzo Silliman dies at 30 from appendicitis
Lorenzo M. Silliman 30, of 1971 Second Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, died at a local hospital at 1 20 am after an appendicitis operation. Born November 14 1904 in Boone he studied at Coe College and Washington University Seattle and finished at Iowa University 1928. Survived by widow Betty Fernow and son James Dean, parents A B Silliman, Boone, and three brothers. Funeral arrangements pending. Friends may call Turner chapel.
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Second Avenue SE
Boone
Coe College
Washington University
Seattle
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Betty Fernow
Marion
James’ Dean
A. B. Silliman
B. D. Silliman
la Mont
Silliman
Los Angeles
de Lancey Silliman
Des Moines
The
Peoples Church
Cee
Beta Phi Omega Fraternity
Phi Kappa Psi Social Fraternity
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
Turner Chapel
Farmer Trampled To Death By Cattle
Waverly AP reports 35 year old Joe Howard of Shell Rock died after being trampled by cattle in a barn on his family farm. He suffered a broken neck in the incident occurring early Thursday.
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Waverly
Joe Howard
Shell Rock
Defendants Named In Ouster Probe Of Sioux City Official
A special prosecutor will likely be chosen to handle the ouster action against Henry C. Kuhlmann, Sioux City's public safety commissioner, following a grand jury graft probe. Special prosecutors Marshall and Shull request removal due to practice demands. Judge Rice postponed a decision on a replacement, with a ruling expected soon.
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Sioux City
Henry’ C. Kuhlmann
Public ‘Safety
District Court
Grand Jury
Henry C. Shull
Jesse E. Marshall
F. H. Rice
Marshall
Shull
Rice
Borah Demands Ban on European Loans
Senator William E Borah assails Allied debt collateral insecurity and blasts the League of Nations as a tool of European powers. He proposes a bill to cut private foreign loans and restrict American financial involvement while warning war remains likely.
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Washington
United States
Lewis
Illinois
League of Nations
Germany
William E.borah
Council
League
Foreign Affairs Committee
Borah
Idaho
Homestead tax exemption bill killed in House vote
In Des Moines the house failed to override Gov Clyde Herring veto by ten votes 62 for and 46 against ending the bid to amend the three point tax program. The measure originally passed 91 to 14 in the house and 39 to 9 in the senate.
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DES Moines
House of Representatives
Renewne
A Chiefs
Senate
House
Clyde Herring
A. H. Avery
Clay
Teter
Ben B. Doran
Boone
John H.taylor
Mihaska
Avery
Towans
Iowa
Congress approves $2 million for Pan Pacific airline aid
Washington lawmakers agreed to provide a $2,000,000 appropriation in the treasury postal bill to assist the establishment of an American airline to the Orient following the Pan-American Clippership flight to Hawaii. The action aims to fund development of Pacific air service.
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Washington
INL
Hawaii
Congressional
Treasury-Post Office
Farm Finance Bills Backed by House Group
The house agriculture committee reported favorably the Frazier Lemke inflation farm mortgage bill and the Jones agriculture credit bill. The Frazier Lemke plan would refinance farm mortgages at 1.5 percent interest and 1.5 percent amortization charges funded by federal reserve votes, though administration leaders oppose the measure.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Federal Reserve
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