Senate move would block appointment during adjournment
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg proposed a resolution declaring the senate should act on supreme court appointments before nominees start service. The rule aims to prevent a vacancy filling while Congress is out of session, prompting debate with Senate leaders and White House critics.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
Roosevelt
Justice van Devanter
Congress
White House
Cummings
Vandenberg
Ashurst
Ariz
Judiciary Committee
Barkley
Kentucky
Connally
Tex
Majority
Michigan
Hateh
Burke
Neb
Old Egyptian Reds and a Want Ad Sale Mystery
The piece notes ancient Egyptians colored people and scenes in red while birds and water appeared blue and green. It cites a Gazette Want Ad claiming strong pull, as Wiley Fruit Farm on Palo Road sold apples after three days, with at least 75 people responding and 70 bushels sold.
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Wiley Fruit Farm
Palo Road
Bothand Living Says Newton on Balanced Truths
The essay argues for choosing both rather than either/or, insisting life blends opposites. It contends fate and freewill coexist, science and religion complement each other, and individualism with collectivism balance like two wings. Insight comes from uniting truths, not selecting extremes.
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Kipling
Iowa Senators Oppose Black Connery Wage Bill
Washington AP report says Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa voted against the wage hour bill and Senator Clyde L. Herring opposed its passage by pairing against the measure. The bill passed the Senate Saturday.
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Washington
Guy Gillette
Iowa
Senate
Meehan Expelled From All Markets By SEC Action
Michael J. Meehan, once a famed New York theater ticket broker, was expelled from all market activities by the SEC for alleged manipulation of Bellanca Aircraft Corp stock on the New York curb exchange between May 16 and Oct 26, 1935. The order bars him from NYSE, NY curb, and Chicago Board of Trade memberships.
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Washington
Michael J . Meehan
New York
Securities and Exchange Commission
Meehan
Bellanca Aircraft Corp
New York Curb Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
SEC
Commission
Bellanca Amcraft
Hammons and Company
New York Fm
Aircraft Corporation
Father 2447S Airplane Baby Theft Charge
John M. Hayes of Mahwah New Jersey was arrested on a child abduction warrant after taking his daughter Patricia Ann 28 months old from California. He pleaded for custody at St Vincent's orphanage in Chicago and faces extradition to California with a bond set at 1000 dollars.
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Chicago
California
John M. Hayes
Mahwah
N. J
St. Vincent's
Patricia Ann
Hayes
John L. Sullivan
Chiarlotte E. Pendergast
San Francisco
Elizabeth
Bronx
New York
William C. “Billy” Hayes
Francis I, Maule
Philadelphia
Sibley Superintendent Killed by 6600 Volt Wire
Earl Truckenmiller, 49, superintendent of Sibley Municipal Utilities, died instantly when he touched a live wire while lifting electrical lines over a house being moved. Leon Leinen, town employee, snipped the current and grabbed the body as it fell from the roof.
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Sibley (Ap
Earl Truckenmiller
Sibley
Truckenmiller
Leon Leinen
Levnen
Des Moines Argonne Drummers Parade In Heat
The American Legion junior drum and bugle corps of the Des Moines Argonne post performed in downtown Des Moines on Monday, marching in 86 degree heat while playing Jingle Bells.
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DES Moines
American Legion
Des Moines Argonne Post
One Killed Five Hurt In Accidents At Coggon
Six people were injured or killed when a car carrying Linn county youths left the road near Coggon at 1:45 am on Sunday. Irwin Haars, 23, died at 5 am at a local hospital. The other injured include Phillip Haars, Hughgene Cook, Leonard Boone, Mrs. Boone, and Frank Ross. Cook suffered a possible skull fracture. Boone had a fractured left ankle. The group had been returning from the Coggon celebration when their car hit the curve and left the road.
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Linn County
Coggon
Irwin Haars
Center Point
Phillip Haars
Hughgene Cook
Alice
Leonard Boone
Frank Ross
Murphy Ends WPA Sitdown In His Office
Governor Frank Murphy ended a 100 WPA workers sit down at his Lansing office by sending six leaders to Detroit for a conference. The relief workers from Detroit Flint and Jackson demanded relief money and endorsed a congressional resolution to revoke a federal order cutting aliens off relief while seeking more than a billion dollars extra for WPA.
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Lansing
Mich
Frank Murphy
WPA
Detroit
Murphy
Edward Mooney
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Detroit City
Norman Hill
Capitol Lawn
Hill
Richard McMahon
Detroi
Wayne County Alliance
McMahon
Flint
Jackson
Michigan
Dr. Lowell Injured In Auto Collision
Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, 80, president emeritus of Harvard, was hospitalized in Plymouth Mass after a vehicle crash. Physicians reported a fractured nose possible fracture of the right arm and a chin laceration. Condition described as good.
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Plymouth
Mass
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Tragic CCC Truck Crash Claims Youths in Minnesota
In Red Wing Minnesota Leonard Shepherd 19 of Lyons Nebraska died from injuries after a CCC truck carrying 11 youths veered into a ditch on Thursday. Two other youths had died earlier and two more were reported improving on Monday.
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RED Wing
Minn
Leonard Shepherd
Lyons
Neb
CCC
Hog Prices Hit 13.30 Top in Nine Years at Chicago
Hog prices rose to 13.30 per hundredweight at the Chicago stockyards on Monday, a fresh high not seen since 1928. Demand and scarcity of well finished hogs push the market, with observers anticipating further gains beyond 13.50 in the current upturn.
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Chicago
J Yosh
Three Hurt In Marion Area Car Crash
L J Reed of Central City suffered hand and finger lacerations when his car collided with a car driven by L C Ellington of Viola at the junction of highways 161 and 13 east of Marion at 5 55 p m Monday. Mrs Reed and Frances Porter of Central City were riding with Reed. she had a back injury and Porter a chest injury. Reed was eastbound on 161 turning onto 13 when the collision occurred. Ellington drove west on 161. Injured were taken to Central City by state highway patrolmen and Deputy Sheriff Roy Radebaugh investigated.
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Cedar Rapids
L. J. Reed
Central City
L. C. Ellington
Viola
Marion
Reed
France
Porter
Ellington
Sherif Roy Radebaugh
Ford Workers Demand Signed Contract By Year’s End
Homer Martin head of the UAW CIO affiliate announced plans to obtain a signed Ford contract by year end. He said unions have signed pacts with all Ford parts suppliers and have organized Ford plants in multiple cities including Los Angeles Oakland Kansas City St. Louis Dallas Chicago Buffalo Louisville Somerville Edgewater and Iron Mountain. He claimed Ford River Rouge plant shows strong progress and asserted potential to shut down all plants except River Rouge if needed. He urged recognition higher wages shorter hours and better conditions, noting Ford wages lag behind General Motors and Chrysler.
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Washington
Homer
Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ford Motor Company
John L. Lewis
CIO
Ford Company
Ford
Los Angeles
Oakland
Calif
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St. Louis
Dallas
Chicago
Buffalo
Louisville
Somerville
Mass
Edgewater
N. J
Iron Mountain
Mich
River Rouge
General Motors Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
Senators clash over Wagner housing bill
In a heated Senate exchange, Senators Wagner and George argued over Wagner’s 700 million housing bill. Wagner claimed support and rural safeguards, while George warned about rural impact and potential fraud. Copeland stressed rural slums need decent housing as well as urban fixes.
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Wagner
George
Washington
Robert F. Wagner
N. Y
Walter P. George
Senate
Key Pittman
M. Neely
W. Va
Georgia
Pittman
Waener
Steam roller rips pave in Kansas City uncovering sewer lead
A 10 ton steam roller escaped control in Kansas City damaging paving by about 20 dollars. The incident uncovered a sewer lead the street department had been seeking.
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Kansas City, Kan
Runaway Congress Runs On A Treadmill Says Kaer
The columnist calls the current Congress a runaway body kept in line by party leaders, likening its actions to a treadmill. He notes the tendency to view legislatures as individuals, not as a bloc, and mocks the era’s politics with quips about stopping a forest fire for a beauty pageant.
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Congress
Sullivan Named New Chief of Tammany Hall
New York reports Rep. Christopher D. Sullivan named leader of Tammany Hall succeeding the late James J. Dooling. The selection was unanimous as opposition faded. Sullivan aims to push mayoral race withdrawals to back a compromise candidate with Copeland and Whalen prospects in flux. Copeland says Sullivan leadership will not alter his mayoral plans or withdrawals.
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New York
Christopher D. Sullivan
Jeader
Tammany Hall
James J. Dooling
Sullivan
Tammany
Grover A. Whalen
Royal S. Copeland
Manhattan
Dooling
Copeland
Whalen
Washington
N. Y
Christopher D. Sullian
Nine die in Italian plane crash near Wadi Halfa
An Italian commercial plane crashed near Wadi Halfa airfield in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan killing nine aboard. The five crew and four passengers, all believed Italian, were killed as the craft sped up for landing and caught fire after touching down and bouncing before wrecking.
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Wadi Halfa
Plan To Protest Olin Rail Crossing
Des Moines Iowa commerce commission dismissed the complaint by the town of Olin seeking protection at a grade crossing of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. The crossing is now included in the safety program, making further action by the commission unnecessary. A November 1935 incident at the crossing left one dead and one injured.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Olin
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
State Highway Commission
Federal Bureau of Roads
Commerce
Accuses landlord of brutal murder in tomato dispute
Vincennes Indiana reports that Harry Taylor a 34 year old farm tenant was shot and killed in a quarrel over the tomato crop. Mrs Taylor testified that landlord John Bey threatened with a gun and shot Taylor twice as he begged for help. Bey was seized by police.
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Vincennes
Ind
INS
Harry Taylor
Taylor
John N. Bey
Iowa City Painter Suffered Crushed Elbow From Fall
Jack O'Brien aged 37 a painter in Iowa City fell from a second story store window while painting window casings and grabbed a sign wire that gave way He suffered a badly crushed elbow but X rays showed no internal injuries The accident occurred Monday afternoon in downtown Iowa City
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Iowa City
Jack O'Brien
O’brien
Tokyo Tokyo protests raid on Soviet consulate in Tientsin
Moscow demanded arrest of raiders return of seized archives and compensation after a Sunday raid on the Soviet consulate general in Tientsin. Japan rejected responsibility while Shigemitsu noted Russians attacked in a chaotic fight for control of the city as North China war escalates toward a crisis.
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Tientsin
Russia
North China
Moscow
Tokio
Dmitri Bogomoloff
Nanking
China
Japan
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Foreign Office
White Guard
Shigemitsu
Smoke Brown Declines Opposing Duster For Legion Post
C M Smoke Brown of Whiting retiring commander of the Iowa American Legion announces he will not run against Leo J Duster for national committeeman. Iowa department endorses Rev P N McDermott Atlantic as national chaplain. National convention set next month.
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Des Moines
C. M
Smoke” Brown
Whiting
Iowa Department of the American Legion
Brown
Leo J. Duster
Duster
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
P. N. McDermott
Atlantic
American Legion
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