Roosevelt weighs special session on farm laws
Senate leaders said Roosevelt will likely call Congress to a special session by October with a farm bill ready. Agriculture committees push draft work as pressure grows for a crop loan program and tighter production controls before next planting season.
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T Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Agriculture Committee
Committee
House Agriculture Committees
Ellison D. Smith
S. C
Henry A. Wallace
House
Roosevelt
Smith
A. L. Ford
Miss
One Taxi Burned and Stolen in Omaha Cab Warfare
A Yellow Cab was burned and another stolen in Omaha as a strike by union drivers escalates. Driver Paul Bonar suffered injuries fighting eight attackers. a stolen cab driver escaped unhurt but threatened with an ice pick. Five union drivers were dismissed for illegal picketing. Roscoe Dyer received 60 days for assault. The strike is a renewed dispute amid Wagner Act charges against the company.
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Omaha
Paul Bonar
Roscoe Dyer
Dyer
National Labor Relations Board
Nagging at Work and Home Draws Letters from Readers
A reader argues nagging is a harmful habit in both home and business. The letter urges patience between workers and bosses, noting mutual troubles and the futility of rage. It suggests employers consider workers’ burdens and advises restraint to avoid hard feelings. Dr. Newton.
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Hur
Former Iowa City Councilman Will McRoberts Dies
Will McRoberts, 69, a retired farmer and former Iowa City councilman, died at his home Wednesday evening from influenza complications. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m. Friday. he is survived by his widow and three sisters-in-law.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Will McRoberts
Yankee flyers to fight in China report reaches Tokio
Reports from Tokyo say a planned Yankee escadrille of 182 American aviators is being organized to fly for China against Japan. Japanese officials may lodge a formal protest, while Tokyo sources note a $5 million order for American bombing planes and ships for China’s central government.
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TOKIO
China
Japan
United States
Shanghai
Nanking
North China
Domei
Chang Tso-Lin
Los Angeles
Government project threatened by union dispute over dam
The Grand Coulee dam project on the Columbia River faces possible delays as a CIO AFL dispute questions a Mason City Washington signed agreement granting exclusive recognition and a closed shop. CIO claims 2100 of 6200 workers are CIO affiliated while 3000 have no union, fueling an NLRB election bid and intensified organizing.
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Washington
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Grand Coulee
New Deal
Northwest
CIO
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier ‘Company
Mason City
Wash
Federation
A. F
Incio
the Cio
Richard Francis
Seattle
National Labor Relations Board
Dam
Clo
Joli
Francis
Boulder Dam
Columbia River
Public Works Administration
Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation
A. F. of L
James Duncan
Dave Beck
William “Big Bill’ Hutcheson
Federation Carpenters' Union
John L. Lewis to speak at Ottumwa picnic
Des Moines dispatch reports John L. Lewis head of the CIO will address a United Packinghouse Workers picnic in Ottumwa on Sunday August 15. Van A. Bittner SWOC chair will also speak launching a five state campaign to organize packing house workers in Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska and South Dakota. Lewis speech scheduled around his Lucas Ja homecoming August 13 14.
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Des Moines
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
National Cio
United Packing House Union
Ottumwa
van A. Bittner
Chicago
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Bittner
SWOC
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Lewis
Lucas, Ja
Philadelphia Doctors Seek Caesarean to Save Unborn Child
In Philadelphia, doctors obtain permission to perform a post mortem Caesarean section after Mary Boccansini, 27, lies near death from tubercular meningitis. Husband Dominic initially refused but later consented, hoping the baby might survive during the eight-minute window before blood flow ceases, while Mary remains unconscious.
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Philadelphia
Mary Boccansini
Dominic Boccansini
Philadelphia General Hospital
Boccansini
United Press
United States
Mary
Isabelle
Serge
Hog prices surge to near eleven year high in Chicago
Hog prices climbed 25 cents at the Chicago stockyards to 13.65 per hundredweight on Thursday, an eleven year high. The peak recalls October 1926 when 13.75 was paid for choice heavy hogs around 260 pounds.
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Chicago
Fisher nets liquor using fishpole on Lexington Avenue
New York police arrested 43 year old Frank C. Fisher after he used a makeshift fishing pole with a noose to reach through a liquor store transom and pull two bottles of whisky from the shelves.
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New York
Lexington Avenue
Frank C. Fisher
Fisher
Elmer Weymer Ends Life in Field Near Marion
Sheriff James H. Smith led deputies to a cornfield on the Erwin Kemp farm where Elmer Earl Weymer, 49, of 510 Fifteenth Street SE, was found dead from a gunshot. He had been missing since Tuesday and relatives say he was in ill health and despondent. A shotgun and a nail-driven wooden tool were found with him. Coroner Dr. B L Knight ruled suicide. no inquest.
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James H. Smith
Elmer Earl Weymer
Fifteenth Street
Erwin Kemp
Marion
Mr. Weymer
B. L. Knight
Smith
Dick Payn
Roy Radebaugh
Larry Condon
Payn
Tank train overturns spilling wine onto tracks
A tank train bound for Germany overturned in Seregno Italy, with no casualties reported. About 15 000 liters of Maysala wine poured over the tracks, drawing tears from onlookers as cleanup began.
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Seregng
Italy
Germany
Court battle over custody of 31 month old Donald Horst
In Chicago an orphaned child born to Lydia Nelson and John Regan faces a legal fight with Otto and Mrs Horst over custody. Donald, age 31 months, told reporters he wants to be with his mother and father as cases move to civil court after Regan took him from Miss Nelson and surrendered him to authorities.
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Chicago
Donald Horst
Mama
Papa
John Regan
Lydia Nelson
Otto Horst
Miss Nelson
Donald
Mrs Horst
Horst
Crowley
Horsts
Regan
Polk County Board Defies Governor Over Relief Post
Polk County Board of Supervisors defied Gov. Kraschel by appointing Bertha Lane as county relief director, with four votes for and one against. Lane earns 3000 dollars yearly, while state approval remains required. County attorney Burkman backed the appointment, saying relief funds cannot be withheld from Polk.
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Des Moines
Polk County Board of Supervisors
County Social Welfare Board
Nelson G. Kraschel
Bertha Lane
A Kraschel
E. C. Greaves
Lane
County Board
Carl. Burkman
Polk
Laue
Burkman
Iowa
Franklin
Delaware
Black ‘Hawk
Scott
Linn
Webster
Dubuque
Kraschel
Col
E. R. Bennett
Polk County Board
Bennett
Polk County Emergency Relief Committee
Greaves
Krasché
County Relief
J. C. Pryor
Burlington
State Emergency Relief Administration
Pryor
Des Moines Governor Kraschel Defends County Relief Aid
Des Moines governor Nelson Kraschel criticized Polk county relief critics in a statement accusing opponents of misrepresenting aid needs. The conservative clash underscores ongoing debate over emergency funds and county support during a period of fiscal strain.
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Des Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
Polk County
Business Is Good Yet Crumbs In The Bread Box
Arthur Bugs Baer laments July budget failure and continuing deficits while praising strong business and farm income. He uses sharp humor to criticize government finances and tax burdens, noting no real surplus despite a healthy economy.
Baseball scores from the American and National League
The sheet lists multiple games with team line scores and key pitchers. Highlights include Cleveland, Detroit, and Boston scoring patterns, plus Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, New York and Chicago results in the National League. Pitchers mentioned include Auker, York, Smith, Brucker, Walters, Hartnett, and MacFayden among others.
Actress Mother Troubled Marriage Over In-Law Affair
Vic Orsatti testified that his actress wife Miss Lang faced a constant meddling mother in law including incidents at Honolulu during their honeymoon. He said the mother’s actions led to their engagement’s end and the couple’s separation. An interlocutory decree was granted by Superior Judge Ballard by default.
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Los Angeles
Marae
Sere Fas
Orsatti
Shis
Edith Winser
Honolulu
Miss Lang
Cancer Research Bill Becomes Law
President Roosevelt signed the Bone bill authorizing a cancer research institute in Washington with a $750,000 initial funding and an annual operation appropriation of $700,000.
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Washington (Ins
Roosevelt
Chrysler and unions deadlock halts Plymouth plant output
Detroit United Automobile Workers and Chrysler conferees adjourned with no agreement over the inter union dispute. The Plymouth plant shut for a second day, idling about 12,000 workers in three plants, with 10,300 to 11,000 sent home Wednesday night and 7,000 to 9,000 Briggs Plymouth body workers also idle. Chrysler plans to resume talks Friday to end the friction and resume production.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Plymouth
United Automobile Workers of America
UAW
Independent
Association of Chrysler
Briggs’ Manufacturing Company
Plymouth Bodies
Dodge
MGM Seeks 10 Keep Freddie Bartholomew In Court
Metres Goldwyn-Mayer sought a restraining order in Los Angeles superior court to prevent Freddie Bartholomew 18 from accepting a contract with another studio. The suit, brought by the guardian and Union Bank and Trust as defendants, claims Freddie’s aunt Miss Bartholomew seeks a $2,500 weekly salary, arguing his current $1,100 weekly deal should be raised. The studio says Freddie’s talent justifies the higher pay and that a move would derail his MGM contract.
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Los ‘Angeles
Goldwyn-Mayer
Superior’ Court
Freddie
Bartholomew
Star
Myllicent Bartholomew
Union ‘Bank and Trust Company
Miss Bartholomew
Trom
MGM
Nereward
London
Housewives Will Have To Increase Budget For Meats
Chicago report says the American housewife must boost her meat budget by 15 to 25 percent to keep pork chops and sirloin on the family table as retail meat prices rise. Dealers note pork chops at 40 to 42 cents from wholesale 31 cents. one shop reports sirloin at 60 cents, up from 35 cents last year. Hog prices at the Chicago stockyards jump 25 cents to an 11 year high of 13.65 per cwt.
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Chicago
Americcan
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Elmer E. Weymer
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Governor
KY Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Fort Knox
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Boston
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St. Lewis
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Liake, Chase
Millies
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Sete Pitaburgh
Hoyt and
Pheilpes
Blantes
Brandt
Weaver
Todd
Walters
Atweed
A Bryant
Reet and Hartnett
N. York
Castleman
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Grissom
W. Davis
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