Iowa Graft Probes Stir Public Pressure and Inquiry
The Gazette questions executive council action on Woodbury county grand jury graft probes and warns of potential intimidation of Polk county officials. It notes federal $4 446 for liquor outlet survey to check tax evasion and cites internal revenue efforts and a federal liquor control order.
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Iowa Executive Council
Bazette
Woodbury County
Bbecame
Executive Council
Polk County Grand Jury
Acton
Capitol Hill
Jk County
the Gazette
Sf County
Carl Burkman
Attorn
Iowa
Jr. Burkman
Associatedess
Washington
Federal Works Progress
Orig 1
Rkers
PHE
Internal Revenue Bureau
Ale
St. Paul
Quale
A Liquor Control Commission
House Votes Tax Bill Passes in House by 282 to 96
The House approved the administration tax bill by 282 to 96 amid Republican pushback and anticipated Senate amendments. The bill raises individual and corporate taxes, imposes excess profits taxes, and includes inheritance and gift taxes, with Roosevelt wealth tax goals guiding the measure.
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Washington
House
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
LaFollette
Wis
Roosevelt
Balance Of Farmers Labor And Industry Urged By Wallace
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, urged a balance among agriculture, labor and industry to stabilize the economy at a meeting of eastern New Mexico farmers in Clovis. He warned that inequality among these three sectors causes ongoing instability and hinders recovery, and he suggested farmers might cede their corporate form to aid unity.
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Wallace
Clovis
N. M
Henry A. Wallace
New Mexico
Lawrence of Arabia remembered as free spirit and thinker
A 1935 memorial tribute extols Lawrence of Arabia as uniquely free from worldly fetters. It lauds his independence from money and power, notes his ascent as a soldier and thinker, and cites his final seclusion and claimed lack of boredom.
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Lawrence
Arabia
St. Paul
Damascus
Spangler heads Midwest grass roots group in Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler of Cedar Rapids Iowa Republican national committeeman was elected chairman of a forty delegate Midwest meeting to form a permanent grass roots organization. The group defied Roosevelt to discuss AAA polices and potential western tours.
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Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Roosevelt
AAA
Topeka
Kan
Spangler
Sioux City
James A. Farley
Hayes Loses Two Motions At Ouster Trial
Sioux City Iowa AP District Judge W W Scott continued the ouster trial of Mayor W D Hayes until Thursday amid defense objections and prosecution motions. The case centers on alleged liquor violations and gambling house visits with the grand jury recommending removal for failing to enforce liquor laws.
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Sioux City
W. W. Scott
W. D. Hayes
Fred H. Free
Chris N. Jepson
Drew
Maurice E. Rawlings
Horace M. Havner
Hayes
Havner
Woodbury County
Fred’ H. Free
Chris ‘N. Jepson
Tice
Henry C., Kuhlmann
Public Safety
Kuhlmann
Smalls
Scott
M. E. Rawlings
H. M. Havner
Ole T. Naglestad
District Court
Motorcyclist Killed in Angola Crash
Leslie Boyd age 24 from Kennedy New York a student at Tri State College died when his motorcycle collided with a car on a curve near Angola Indiana Monday.
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Angola
Ind
Leslie Boyd
Kennedy
N. Y
Tri-State College
Here
Hog Prices Reach Five Year High at Chicago Market
Chicago reports hog prices climbing to a five year peak with prime medium weight hogs at 11.35 per hundredweight. Analysts predict tighter fed lamb supplies and rising consumer demand will push prices higher than the 1934 35 season as the Agriculture Department cites a small 1935 sheep and wool crop.
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Chicago
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Edison Firm Fires Cramer Over Whisper Campaign
Edison's West Orange plant discharged E P Cramer after he urged utility officials to run a whispering campaign to discredit President Roosevelt and the New Deal. The firing came in a statement signed by Charles Edison, company president and son of the late inventor. Cramer, an ad department assistant, was cited for advocating an unacceptable plan.
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West Orange
N. J
E. P. Cramer
Utility
Roosevelt
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Edison
Cramer
Ethiopia to Receive Major Arms Shipments From Jage
United Press reports Ethiopia poised to gain a large arms and ammunition flow from Japan via Jage with a military mission to Addis Ababa. Emperor Haile Selassie thanks President Roosevelt but fears Geneva resolutions give Italy pretexts for aggression. Geneva and officials note Ethiopia seeks pacific resolution while Britain Italy and France push 1906 treaty talks to avert war.
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United Press
Addis Ababa
Haile ‘Selassie
Roosevelt
East Africa
Foreign Office
Geneva
Italy
London
Japan
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
League of Nations
Paris
France
Britain
Senate approves bus and truck regulation bill sends to Roosevelt
The senate accepted house amendments to the bus and truck regulation bill and sent the measure to President Roosevelt for signature.
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Washington
LLP
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Controversial Farm Aid Aims Backed by Conferees
Senate and House conferees sent amendments to bolster the New Deal farm program while keeping two main goals intact. The pact preserves measures against unconstitutionality and empowers Secretary Wallace to enforce marketing agreements on select commodities. Affected items include processing taxes and suffrage for lawsuits over the taxes, with a year extension for the cotton and tobacco control acts.
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Washington
Wallace
House
Senate
Commissioner of
Sinternal Revenue
AAA
NRA
Congress
Lusitania survivor recalls torpedo and wreck during salvage scan
On the Orphir salvage ship the crew marks a 21st day of charting near the Lusitania site south of the Old Head of Kinsale. Robert Chisholm, second steward aboard the Lusitania, recounts spotting the torpedo and witnessing the sinking amid stormy seas and difficult navigation.
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Lusitania
Orphir
Kinsale
Russell
J. A. Bestie
Robert Chisholm
Chisholm
Orphin
Vanderbilt
France Faces Severe Crisis Under New Deal Plans
Paris reports France braces for a harsh winter as Laval tests a deflationary New Deal aimed at cutting state aid. High prices and soaring government spending have swollen the debt beyond 300 billion francs, risking unrest if the plan fails.
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France
Paris
Place de la Concorde
M. Pierre Laval
National Union
Roosevelt
Laval
California Supreme Court Refuses One Million Bond for Mooney
The California Supreme Court denied a petition seeking a one million dollar bond for Tom Mooney to be temporarily released from San Quentin. The motion aimed to transport him east for depositions in his ongoing legal battle for freedom.
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San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Tom Mooney
San Quentin
Rufus Lee Former Cedar Rapids Leader Dies in Omaha
Rufus E. Lee a developer of public utilities in Iowa Nebraska and Missouri and father of Mrs. Carl D. Thomas died at his Omaha home after a heart illness Funeral services are set for 10 a.m Tuesday in Omaha He had moved to Omaha thirteen years ago and was a prominent business figure born in Wahoo Nebraska and long associated with Cedar Rapids businesses including Hubbard Ice company He was married to Helen M Collette in 1895 and had two daughters Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Clark Halway.
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Cedar Rapids
Rufus E. Lee
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Carl D. Thomas
Washington Avenue
Omaha
Hubbard Ice Company
Lee
Homewood
Fairacres
Thomas
Wahoo
Neb
A. L. Killian
Superior, Neb
Helen M. Collette
Clark H. Galloway
Council Bluffs
Lees
Clarinda
Rotary Club
First Presbyterian Church
Coe
Huey Long Calls for Roosevelt Debate in Louisiana
Senator Huey P. Long challenged President Roosevelt to a public debate in Louisiana before the January senate election. He urged a head to head exchange on national policy and the election campaign.
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Washington
LLP
Huey P. Long
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Senate
Executive council orders graft grand jury checkup in Woodbury
Des Moines AP report says Iowa Executive Council authorized Attorney General Edward L. O Connor to appoint a special assistant AG to probe the Woodbury County graft grand jury inquiry. Findings to be presented to September grand jury. petitions questioned motives. prior removals and resignations noted.
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Executive Council
Woodbury County Grand
F Council
Iowa
Des Moines
Woodbury County
Sioux City
Clyde L. Herring
Grand Jury
Secretary of Agriculture
Edward L. O’connor
Council
Woodbury
O'Connor
Walter F.maley
Henry C. Kuhlmann
Max Duckworth
W. D. Hayes
Kuhlmann
Duckworth
Hayes
Gov. Herring
Will Attorney General’s Activities Be Probed Too
Verne Marshall of The Cedar Rapids Gazette calls for a thorough inquiry into the Attorney General’s office and the Woodbury County grand jury probes. He questions the appointment and independence of a special investigator and urges full disclosure of actions since the investigation began.
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O'Connor
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Attorney General’s Office
Woodbury County
Grand Jury
Vandenberg Denies Dickinson Charge
Washington AP report says Senator Dickinson accuses the senate munitions committee of promoting socialism. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan rebukes him, saying he does not know what he is talking about. The pair, potential 1936 Republican candidates, clash before a delighted Democratic majority.
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Washington
Dickinson
Senate Munitions Committee
Vandenberg
Michigan
Vandeberg
Senate Democrats
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Utterback
Gilchrist
Gwynne
Thurston
Biermann
Wearin
Jacobsen
Eicher
Edison
Home Institute
The
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New Home Institute
Mooney
Rufus Lee
Huey
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Auth
Orize O’connor
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