Forecasts Clouded by Markets and Policy Debate
A Washington writer recalls past forecasts on meat storage and livestock prices, while new data show nearly 100 million pounds of cured and frozen meats added to stocks last month. Pork reserves exceed last year but stay below five year averages as plans consider expanding hog slaughter. The piece also discusses higher education funding, unemployment, crime catches in Oklahoma and Kansas City, police drives against wild driving, and ongoing federal tax and price policy debates.
Marshalltown pilot George Warner dies after takeoff crash
George Warner veteran Cedar Rapids airplane pilot dies at St. Thomas Mercy hospital after his plane failed to gain altitude and crashed near a Marshalltown home. Co-pilot Glen Neiderhauser survived with minor burns as investigators note the aircraft never rose above about fifty feet.
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Marshalltown
George Warner
Cedar Rapids
St. Thomas Mercy Hospital
Warner
Glen Neiderhauser
Neiderhauser
Poweshiek Airway Company
Grinnell
Dan Hunter
Cedar Rapids Airway Company
Poweshiek
Burton Garrett
Boeing Company
Garrett
Grinnell Company
I Avenue NW
Washington High School
Tiger
William Kelly
Five Women Injured in Rath Truck Collision west of Cedar Rapids
Five women from Waterloo and Denver Colorado were injured in a head on crash when a Rath Packing Co truck reportedly swung out to pass a horse and buggy on highway 30 about four o clock Tuesday eight miles west of Cedar Rapids. The injured were Mrs Joe Griffith Mrs Charles Greenlee Susie Griffith Sadie Emily and Ida Emily Cole all of Waterloo and Denver respectively with Virginia Griffith uninjured. Medical aid was sought in Cedar Rapids after the crash and Sheriff Petrus was notified.
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Waterloo
Denver
Colo
Cedar Rapids
Rath Packing Company of
Joe Griffith
Charles Greenlee
Susie Griffith
Sadie
Ida Emily
Cole
Virginia Griffith
Joseph A. Petrus
Machado Denies Leaving With Fortune
Gerardo Machado, exiled Cuban president, arrived in Nassau with only a few dollars. Officials said he asked for an official investigation of his finances amid rumors he deposited 2,000,000 in local banks.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Machado
Clark Charges Politics in Salary Denial
Des Moines AP report states E. W. Clark the state insurance commissioner charged the Herring administration politicized withholding his August first half salary warrant for 166.66 dollars. Charles Murtagh refused delivery on Attorney General Edward L. O Connor opinion that Clark’s 1931 appointment was void due to his senate vote to raise office pay. Clark may seek court relief to collect pay while challenging the executive council hearing in a certiorari petition set for Sept. 5.
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DES Moines
E. W. Clark
Herring
Charles B. Murtagh
Edward L. O’connor
State Senate
Clark
Mason City
State House
Murtagh
M, Parker
John Sennett
Clark I
Executive Council
William Baker
Kansas City, Kan
5000 Dressmakers Threaten to Strike
A walkout by 2500 dress workers in one division signals a larger strike planned for 55000 to 60000 members of the Dress and Waist Makers union and the International Ladies Garment workers set for Wednesday. Picketing of 3800 shops in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut is planned under NRA mediation. Julius Hochman accuses employers of using the code to decorate their showrooms.
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New York
Roosevelt
International Ladies Garment Union
NRA
New Jersey
Connecticut
United Association of Dressmaking Manufacturers
Dress Manufacturers National Association
Julius Hochman
Joint Union Board
Kenosha Band To Welcome Aimee In Public Reception
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton will be met at 2 20 Wednesday afternoon by an official welcome committee after arriving by Northwest train. Reverend Sidney Correll, Angelus Temple representative, arranged advance plans for a ten day series of meetings at Memorial auditorium beginning Thursday. A Four Square gospel band from Kenosha, Wisconsin, will play at the station.
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Cedar Rapids
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
North Western
Sidney Correll
Angelus Temple
Correll
McPherson Hutton
Memorial Auditorium
Four Square Gospel
Kenosha
Wis
As Square
Plans To Speed Up Farm Mortgage Refinancing
Washington AP reports twelve federal land banks and the farm credit administration are meeting to accelerate refinancing of farm mortgages. Talks cover expanding appraiser staffs, expanding refinancing campaigns, and extending loan programs using up to two billion dollars in bonds.
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Washington
Federal Land, Banks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
South Carolina
Kentucky
Land Bank
Murphy
Dem
Linn County Forms Advisory Board For NRA
Preliminary steps toward organizing a Linn county advisory council to cooperate under National Recovery Administration regulations were outlined. The plan includes a county council, a district council for the Second district, and a state council with members from each congressional district to disseminate information and handle complaints.
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Cedar Rapids News
Linn County Advisory Board
National Recovery Administration
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
State Recovery Board
Charles D. Manson
John C. Reid
Jury Acquits Jessie B Costello in Cyanide Capsule Case
In Salem Massachusetts a jury acquitted Jessie B Costello a 31 year old mother of three of murdering her fire captain husband by giving him a cyanide potassium capsule.
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Salem
Mass
Lns
Jessie B Costello
Wallace to Announce Hog Plan Friday
Secretary Wallace will unveil emergency pork marketing measures at the Chicago exposition announcing a 5 million pig and sow drive with a processing tax near October 1 to fund the plan. The program aims to aid feed shortages in the corn belt and feed hungry people, with bonuses for farmers and government contracts with packers pending final financing and distribution details.
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Washington
Wallace
Treasury
Harry
Hopkins
Federal
Wallace Threatens Subsidized Wheat Exports Policy
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said the United States will use subsidized exports if world wheat producing nations do not cooperate to cut crops after a meeting with Henry Morgenthau Jr and G C Haas. He avoided the term dumping and called the move a descriptive alternative.
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Washington
Wallace
United States
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
G. C. Haas
Farm Credit Administration
Machado Named In Criminal Charges In Havana
A Havana court filing accuses Gerardo Machado former president and five associates of misappropriation frauds exactions murders and firearms offenses. Lawyer Jose Garcilaso de la Vega posted a $500 bond to press the case naming Octavio Averhoff Ferrara Antonio Ainciart Octavio Zubizarreta and Jose Izquierdo alongside Machado.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Jose Garcilaso de la Vega
Machado
the Treasury
Octavio Averhoff
Orestes Ferrara
Antonio B. Ainciart
Octavio Zubizarreta
Interior
Jose Izquierdo
Gazette Denies Sunday Edition Closure Rumor
The Gazette confirms it will remain a seven day newspaper with day and night editions. Investigations show rumors were spread by aggressive salesmen from another city newspaper seeking to boost circulation.
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The
Gazette
Court Upholds Principle of Recovery Act
Justice Joseph Cox of the District of Columbia supreme court upheld the national recovery act in principle while denying a Texas refiners request for an injunction against Ickes orders prohibiting interstate oil shipments. He said the court lacked power to enjoin an executive order and urged caution in expanding judicial reach during emergencies. The refiner planned to appeal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph Cox
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Texas
Ickes
Cox
Congress
Pischer
Tyler
Cattorney
Mr. Roosevelt
Restore Quiet In Cuba Seek Plan To Adjust Debts
Warily hopeful after a general strike, Cuba considers early readjustment of foreign debt held by New York banks and U S bondholders. Finance Secretary Martinez Saenz to coordinate with U S Ambassador Sumner Welles. an American financial team may visit Havana. Port workers return. food rotting as Havana endures violence and a mistaken-fire incident leaves a lieutenant dead.
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Wavana
Cuba
New York
United States
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Martinez Saenz
U. S
Sumner Welles
Havana
Pedro Hernandez de
Franciscoria
Kansas Treasurer Surrenders on Bond Fraud Charges
Tom Boyd, Kansas treasurer, surrendered with attorneys present. He faces charges of allowing removal of bonds from state vaults and was released on a $25,000 bond for a preliminary hearing on September 8. Gov Landon requested a legislative council committee to investigate bond forgeries totaling nearly $1,000,000.
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Topeka
Kan
Tom Boyd
Kansas
State Legislative Council
Alfred Landon
Luck and effort shape a journalist's path in early life
Robert Blatchford credits luck for some success but stresses personal drive, chance meetings, and decision to act. A mother with two acting offers guides his brothers while a chance encounter with a future wife and a friend's push into journalism set his career, underscoring that luck opens doors but individuals must step through.
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Robert Blatchford
Halifax
Robert
Manchester
Thompson
Farm Women Have Their Day At Fair
The world's fair highlighted farm women with a distinctive parade and a pageant tracing two centuries of farm home making. Speakers included Dora H. Stockman of East Lansing representing the National Grange, Charles W. Sewell of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Grace E. Frysinger of the U S department of agriculture.
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Ghicago
Dora H. Stockman
East Lansing
Mich
National Grange
Charles W. Sewell
American Farm Bureau ,Federation
Chicago
Grace E. Frysinger
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Torch death rocks Rockford as wife and man held
Police held 19 year old Bruce Thompson without charge in the torch death of Earl Hanson. A penny box of matches a porcelain basin and a quart of gasoline were linked to the crime. Hanson's wife May Hanson 38 said she may have been involved and that the basin and gasoline disappeared. State's Attorney Nash planned to present the case to the October grand jury.
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Rockford, Ill
Bruce Thompson
Earl Hanson
Hanson
Rockford, I
May
Jane
Here
Nash
Escape From Arms of 300 Chicago Cops in Kidnap Plot
A gang of seven kidnap suspects fled a police trap near LaGrange after accepting decoy ransom money estimated around 50,000 dollars. An officer, disguised as a messenger, delivered the cash and signaled for ambush. gunfire scattered the group into a wooded area as more than 300 officers and federal agents hunted through the night. Two hikers were detained, several other suspects identified include Richard Philipps, Vernon Miller, Tommy Touhy, and George Kelly. A Texas license plate linked one vehicle to Paradise Texas, where Bailey and others were later arrested.
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Chicago
Charles Urschel
Oklahoma
John Factor
LaGrange
Edina
Amall
West Side
Pre Detective Bureau
Richard (Yuma) Philipps
Vernon Miller
Warvey Beiley
Tommy Touhy
Roger
William Hammer
St. Paul Brewer
George Kelly
Urschel
Texas
Ora L. Shannon
Paradise
Bailey
Shannon
Price pegging on futures removed at Chicago mart
Chicago grain trading resumes with pegged prices removed and only a 5 cent per bushel daily fluctuation limit. Board of Trade directors debated rescinding pegging but did not act. Washington says open markets will be allowed while aiding farmers by other means. Margins on wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley were raised by 1 cent per bushel.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain Mart
Board of Trade
Washington
Wallace
Chicago Board of Trade Clearing Corporation
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