Twelve cent cotton and hogs in Chicago price peak
The piece argues high pork and cotton prices stem from AAA contracts forcing farmers to slaughter pigs and limit cotton output. It notes Washington professors shaped these rules, taxes fund payments, and Rhode Island's pivotal election shows AAA faults. If little pigs mature, prices may fall. textile mills suffer as foreign competition rises.
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United Press
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Washington
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Rhode
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Uncle Sam
South America
America
Roosevelt Cancels Scout Jamboree Over Epidemic Threat
President Roosevelt canceled the national Boy Scout jamboree planned for August 21 to 30 near Washington due to infantile paralysis fears in Virginia. He will address Scouts nationwide by radio on August 21 at 8 p.m. EST. The decision followed a health conference with the surgeon general and other officials noting poliomyelitis outbreaks near the capital and other areas.
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Washington
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White House
Public Health Service
Hugh S. Cummings
George Allen
District of Columbia
James West
Surgeon General
Maryland
Boosie
Boy’'Scouts
Allen
West
Foulois Leaves Post as Army Air Chief
Major General Benjamin D Foulois retires as chief of the Army Air Corps after a long dispute with the War Department and House Military Committee. He is granted leave of absence until December 22, when he will turn 64 and automatic retirement follows. He had faced charges of inefficiency and misstatements amid investigations and calls for his removal.
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Benjamin D. Foulois
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House Military Committee
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Foulois
Air Corps
House Military Subcommittee
Dern Re
Farley predicts Roosevelt can carry Rhode Island
Postmaster General James Farley arrived in Honolulu and voiced scorn for the Rhode Island GOP victory. He predicted Roosevelt can win Rhode Island next year, citing NRA benefits, grateful bank depositors, higher farm prices, and saved homes as broader support for the President.
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T. H
INS
Rhode Island
James Farley
Farley
Roosevelt
White House
NRA
U. S. Supreme Court
Harlan Man Dies Of Sleeping Sickness
Harlan AP report Marvin Ferry aged 26 died Thursday after contracting sleeping sickness and brain fever Monday. He leaves a widow an infant son his parents and eleven brothers and sisters.
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Harlan
Marvin Ferry
Hog Prices Reach $12 Parity High Since 1929 Boom
Washington officials predicted hog prices would hit parity this month, with Chicago stockyards reporting $12 per hundredweight the highest since 1929. Buyers bid up to $11.90 as receipts remained short, driven by tax uncertainty, reduced packing stocks, and tighter meat supplies.
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Washington
AAA
Chicago
World Center For
Capture of four remnants of O Malley gang in Arkansas and Missouri
Federal agents announced the capture of Virgil Milton and wife Maxine, and Fred Reese and Lucille Davis in an early morning ambush in the Arkansas Ozarks near Harrison. The arrests cap a roundup of the Walter O Malley gang, with Milton and Reese identified as principal lieutenants and linked to multiple robberies including a Neosho bank theft. The four were brought to Kansas City jail, and papers say they are wanted for the Neosho robbery among about twenty five offenses tied to the gang.
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Reese
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August Luer
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E. E. Conroy
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White River
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Harrison
First National Bank
Neosho
Jack Richards
Leonard Short
Midwest
Short
Muskogee
Okla
Okemah
America
Underworld
Palo Alto farmers receive first payment check
Emmetsburg AP reports Palo Alto County in Iowa received 114,718 dollars in first payment corn hog checks. The funds will be distributed Friday to eligible farmers and may aid local farmers amid ongoing program disbursements.
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Emmetsburg
Palo Alto County
Discrediting Iowa Grand Jury Probe Draws Fire
An Iowa executive council action directing Attorney General O Connor to review the Woodbury county grand jury investigation is attacked as a disturbing attempt to undermine a probe into state corruption. Critics say the move ill serves justice, politics threaten the grand jury’s independence, and taints public trust ahead of elections.
Two Women Sentenced to 180 Years Each in Torso Slaying
Chicago AP report says Blanche Dunkel and Evelyn Smith were sentenced to 180 years apiece for murdering Ervin J. Lang, a 28 year old grocery clerk who had become the mother in law’s lover. Judge Cornelius J. Harrington imposed solitary confinement yearly on July 6 and warned parole unlikely until the mid 2060s. Dunkel sobbed. Smith smiled as they were led from the courtroom.
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Blanche Dunkel
Evelyn Smith
Ervin J. Lang
Cornelius J. Harrington
Illinois
Harrington
Smith
Dunkel
Mrs. Smith
Miss Shekelton in Critical Condition After Crash
Alice Shekelton, a Marion student nurse at St Luke's, remained critical after a relapse into a semi conscious state following a Tuesday head injury when the car she rode in, driven by Ira Hinman of Minneapolis, collided with a gravel truck on the Lincoln highway west of Cedar Rapids. Hinman was reported in fairly good condition Thursday.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
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Ira Hinman
Minneapolis
Lincoln Highway
Cedar Rapids
Hinman
Government To Shut Off The Dole Nov I
Washington plans to end direct relief by Sept. 1 and close the dole nationwide by two months later by putting 3.5 million men to work. A $4 billion employment drive aims to shift states from relief to payrolls, with several states already slated for earlier transfers and more to follow by November.
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Washington
ULP
Emergency Relief Administration
Roosevelt
Senate approves six month ban on gold bond suits
Washington AP The senate passed an administration resolution to close courts to gold clause suits against the government for six months. Opponents call it a repudiation bill as it returns to the House which already passed it. The Senate vote was 53 to 24.
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Senate
House
Hayes Ouster Trial Delayed by Judge Illness in Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa AP The removal hearing for suspended mayor W W Hayes was postponed when District Judge W W Scott of Davenport suffered a sudden flu attack and was hospitalized He is expected to recover enough to resume the hearing Friday The prosecutor moved to strike parts of Hayes answer alleging a conspiracy to gain dismissal or settlement in pending fraud suits and named several alleged conspirators none of whom admitted involvement
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Ww. D. Hayes
W. W. Scott
Davenport
Carl V. Riley
Carroll
Jurists
Scott
Riley
Iowa Supreme Court
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Stoudi
Havner
Woodbury
C. F. Lytle
Reinsurance
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Marshall
The
Gazette
Vandenberg Warns Inheritance Tax May Defeat Ford
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan condemned the proposed inheritance taxes as confiscation and warned they would drive Ford Motor Co into Wall Street hands. He estimated Ford worth half a billion dollars and Henry Ford's estate at 300 million, saying the levy could take about 270 million.
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Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
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Wall Street
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Ford Company
Michigan
Finance Committee
Henry Ford
Sioux City Names Police Chief
Sioux City council appointed Ray C. Todd a plumber as police chief on Thursday. He succeeds acting chief G. F. Wheelock, following Earl Morgan's demotion and dismissal from the post.
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INS
Ray C. Todd
G. F. Wheelock
Earl Morgan
Two More Suits Filed Against Gazette Figures
Boardman and Cartwright Marshalltown attorneys for Harold M Cooper filed the fourth libel suit seeking 50000 against The Cedar Rapids Gazette and others. The action names Dodd and the Dodds as circulation agents and accuses the publication of legal trickery.
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Gazette Company
Verne Marshall
Boardman and
Cartwright Bel
Benton County
Harold M. Cooper
Gazette
Iowa
Arrest Sioux City Man For Attack On Witness
Sioux City police held Ray Kavanaugh also known as Cabana on a murderously assault charge filed by County Attorney Maurice Rawlings. Kavanaugh allegedly attacked V C Stevens a local printer and witness in a graft grand jury case at a Sioux City cafe. Stevens was recovering from a deep head wound as motive tied to charges of local corruption against Mayor W D Hayes.
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Ray ‘Kavanaugh
Cabana
Maurice
Rawlings
Kavanaugh
V.c. Stevens
Sioux
Stevens
Paris Rioters Clash as Laval Decrees Spark Violence
Embattled strikers with red flags used guns to protest Premier Pierre Laval economy decrees. Police fired on rioters in Toulon and other ports, killing three and wounding scores. Clashes spread to Brest Saint Nazaire L Orient Cherbourg Le Havre as thousands were arrested. New decrees were signed at the Elysee to curb costs and fund public works.
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Pierre Laval
Toulon
Brest
Place de la Liberty
St. Nazaire
L’orient
Cherbourg
le Havre
Laval
Albert LeBrun
Elysee Palace
O'Connor Names Breen Probe Special Assistant General
Attorney General Edward L. O'Connor selected Maurice J. Breen of Fort Dodge as special assistant attorney general to conduct the Woodbury county graft investigation. The state executive council approved the appointment and will pay Breen four dollars an hour for office work and forty dollars per day for trial work. Breen, 46, admitted to the Iowa bar in 1913, plans to establish headquarters in Sioux City and pursue testimony and witnesses from across Iowa amid questions of political motives and purchased testimony in the probe.
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Maurice’. J. Breen
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Woodbury
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Webster ' County
Democratic Central Committee
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Sioux’City
Walter Maley
Iowa
Clyde L. Herring
Ed ‘Breen
Webster ‘ County
Herring
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Breem
Webster County
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Phoce
Sioux
Says Italian Army Has Low Morale
New York report by David Darrah, former Rome correspondent, on his return from Italy says Mussolini gives frequent pep talks to sustain morale of troops heading to Ethiopia. He notes depictions of departing troops show no real enthusiasm and describe the Ethiopian campaign as lacking gay adventure.
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David Darrah
Rome
The
Chicago Tribune
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Il Duce
Ethiopia
Africa
Bank
Manhattan
Ethiopia to Send Mission to Japan
Addis Ababa reports government plans for an Ethiopian mission to Japan, with departure from the capital set for soon. The move signals ongoing diplomatic outreach and cooperation between Ethiopia and Japan amid regional and international interests.
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Addis Ababa
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