Brookhart in Senate Race and Mileage Scandals Highlight Report
A profile of Brookhart’s looming independent bid for the U.S. Senate amid a critique of mileage pay abuses by Congress and ties to the book Washington Swindle Sheet by William P. Helm. The piece notes Brookhart’s expected campaign cash needs and possible clash with Henry Field, plus Roosevelt political dynamics and Teddy Roosevelt Jr’s Philippine tour plans.
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Brookhart
United States Senate
Washington
William P. Helm
Senate
Henry Field
Iowa Farmers Threaten Blockade of Omaha Livestock Route
Iowa farmers threatening a blockade at 2 p.m. Monday to stop shipments of livestock and farm produce into Omaha. Picket lines planned across main routes No. 75 from Sioux City to Omaha and No. 3 from Missouri Valley to Blair to Omaha.
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Omaha
America
Iowa
Sioux City
Owa
Missouri Valley
Blair
Neb
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loans 46 Million in Ten Days
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation loaned 46,711,056 to banks, railroads and other agencies from July 21 to July 31. A first report shows 437 loans totaling 45,057,556 and earlier increases of 1,653,500. Details include 32,990,180 to banks and trust companies and 6,862,700 to railroads.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
South Trimble
House of Representatives
Atlee Pomerene
Lackaye Stage Star Dies Of Heart Attack
Wilton Lackaye, 70, famed for creating Svengali in Trilby and once tied to a 1923 fist fight with John J. McGraw, died of heart disease in New York after retirement from the stage. Born in Virginia, he chose acting over priesthood plans and left a son, two sisters, and a second wife, Katherine Alberta Riley, from Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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New York
Wilton Lackaye
Svengali
Trilby
John J. McGraw
New York Giants
Lackaye
Virginia
Rome
Holy Orders
Wilton Jr
Helen Lackaye
A. H. Annadale
Washington
Katherine Alberta Riley
Council Bluffs
Walker denies favors to taxi firm in state hearing
Mayor Walker presents witnesses as he contests Governor Roosevelt over his fitness. Felix Muldoon says taxi control never limited cabs. he denies orders to favor Parmalee. The Parmalee company faces license revocation affecting drivers since 1929 as Curtin prepares a Supreme Court brief. Maurice Hotchner notes board rejected cab reductions despite pressure from larger companies.
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Executive Chamber
Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Walker
Felix Muldoon
New York City
Board of Taxicab Control
Muldoon
Taxi Control Board
Samuel Seabury
Hofstadter Committee
Parmalee Company
Seabury
W. Kingsland Macy
Supreme Court
Ellis J. Staley
John J. Curtin
Staley
Curtin
Maurice Hotchner
Milk and Produce Deliveries Decline in Sioux City Area
The trace between producers and distributors of farm commodities in Sioux City appears mythical. Pickets to stop deliveries of milk, livestock, and produce have increased on surrounding highways, and actual deliveries have decreased, a trend deemed unsatisfactory.
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Sioux City
Japanese Drive Into Jehol Reported From Shanghai
From Shanghai comes cables reporting a Japanese thrust into Jehol in Mongolia near China. Artillery planes and machine guns are in use. The report suggests this may fulfill Tokio promises cited in U S explanations to Secretary Stimson and President Hoover regarding aggression.
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FRROM
Shanghai
Jehol
Mongolia
China
Tokio
Stimson
Hoover
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt Counsel Seeks to Define Mayor Walker’s Fitness
The New York Courts report that Governor Roosevelt, via counsel, asserts authority to decide Mayor Walker’s fitness. The governor hints at constitutional remedies, including impeachment, if he acts wrongly in the matter.
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Courts of
New York
Roosevelt
Hce Walker
New York City
Walker
Iowa Education Administration Attacked by Editor
A Hawkeye editor denounces state officials overseeing the state's leading educational institution as unable or unwilling to govern, calling them "too damn dumb" and saying they fail to credit the efforts of even an eighth grade graduate.
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Iowa
Hawkeye
Iowa graduate perplexed by Jessup tax policy stance
An Iowa graduate accuses Jessup of viewing taxpayers as ignoramuses and forcing his ideas on them regardless of public costs or possible waste or misappropriation.
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Iowa
Tragedy Mentioned by Graduate at Commerce College
A graduate remarks on the tragedy within the university's commerce college noting that some faculty could explain Jessup's case, prompting readers to turn to Page 7 for more detail.
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College of Commerce
Jessup
Farmers Halt Two Trains in Holiday Picketing Campaign
Sioux City low country farms extended their protest by stopping two trains en route to the area. A North Western freight train carrying livestock was detained for an hour near Moville Indiana while another Mil waukee passenger train near Jefferson South Dakota was halted five minutes. No cargo was disturbed on the freight train and the Jefferson stop used torpedoes and red lanterns but did not involve boarding the train. Earlier actions focused on stopping trucks bound for the marketing center.
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Sioux City
Moville
North Western
Jefferson
S. C
Iowa farmers extend farm holiday picket to Missouri River
Picket lines from Sioux City spread to include Omaha and Council Bluffs as about 1000 farmers meet in Dunlap Iowa to broaden the farm holiday. Organizers plan Nebraska activity next and seek a governors conference as they discuss milk price goals from 2.17 to 1.80 per hundredweight amid a Sioux City milk war.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Agricultural Mart
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Missouri River
Dunlap
Clinton P. Lavery
Logan
Farmers’ Holiday Association For
Nebraska
Red Oak
Harlan
W. O. Hayes
Farmers declare milk war as Plymouth county strike widens
Le Mars dairies faced a new complication in the Plymouth county strike as farmers picketed lines early Monday and blocked a Wells dairy truck, throwing sticks at the cab windshield. Deputy sheriffs then escorted dairy firms delivering milk to the area.
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LE Mars
Plymouth County
le Mars Dairies
Here
Wells
Nash-Finch to Acquire Cedar Rapids Commission Co
Nash-Finch of Minneapolis announces purchase of Cedar Rapids Commission Co a wholesale fruit and vegetable business. The Cedar Rapids firm will join Nash-Finch with C J Rasdal remaining as manager and Iowa HQ offices staying in the building. B T Cullen moves to Ames to head C C Taft wholesale fruit branch now owned by Harry Goldman who previously ran Cedar Rapids Commission and owns the Des Moines Hubbard Lanning unit.
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Cedar Rapids News
Nash-Finch Company
Minneapolis
Nash-Flodin Company
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Commission Company
Second Street
C. J. Rasdal
Nash- Plodin Company
Manager. Co. Co
Iowa
B. T. Cullen
Ames
C. C. Taft Company
Des Moines
Hubbard-Lanning Company
Harry Goldman
Goldman
C.C. Taft Company
Japanese Move Into Jehol Reported By Seoul Dispatches
Dispatches from Peiping and north China say Japanese forces in Manchuria launched a strong thrust into Jehol with Chinese forces falling back before artillery planes and machine guns. Bombing planes spread terror among Soudae residents as fighting rages on the Jehol eastern border. Wang Cheung-Wei resumes office as president of the executive council to resolve China's political crisis following the August cabinet retirement.
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Shanghai
Peiping
China
Manchuria
Jehol
Genshiro Ishimoto
Wang Cheung-Wei
Executive Council
Wang
Nanking
Circulation Report On Write-In Al Smith Cards
The Times reports cards urging a write in for Al Smith have circulated in three or four middle western states. Cards traced to the Smith club of Nebraska were linked to the organization formed before the Democratic National Convention. Democratic leaders note such votes would be ineffective since ballots choose electors, not the president directly.
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New York
the Times
Alfred E. Smith
Smith Club
Nebraska
Smith
Young T. R. to Tour Country for Hoover
Manila AP dispatch says Theodore Roosevelt governor general of the Philippines will sail for the United States on September 14 to aid the Hoover campaign. Mrs Roosevelt stays in Manila as her husband plans to return in December. Officials cite the Roosevelt name as valuable for rallying support.
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Manila
Roosevelt
Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Philippines
United States
Theo- Dponent
Olson backs farm strike push to martial law option
ST PAUL AP Governor Floyd B Olson voiced sympathy with the Iowa born farm strike. He said he would join other state governors if needed to declare martial law to aid the farmers.
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ST. Paul
Floyd B. Olson
Iowa
Dealers Scramble To Replenish Stocks Amid Price Rises
New York dealers race to restock as commodity and security prices climb and August sales lift late summer demand. Merchants had halted buying awaiting cheaper prices and now push into wholesalers and jobbers markets as August shows improved activity after July declines.
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New York
Warmer Weather Returns as Temperatures Edge Into Eighties
Summer's pleasant spell continues with highs near 81 on Sunday and 83 by early Monday afternoon. Skies stay clear with light breezes as temperatures rise from 58 overnight to 70 in the morning and reach the lower eighties in the afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Imitating Circus Act Ends in Boy's Arm Break
Eight year old Joe Brownlee broke both bones in his right forearm when he tried a neighbor's trapeze act copied from a Cedar Rapids show. The accident happened Sunday evening as he and other boys played near 1921 Fourth Avenue SE. He remains in St Luke's Hospital after the fall.
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Cedar Rapids
Joe Brownlee
H. J. Brownlee
Fourth Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
Brownlee
Local Folk Escape Serious Injury In Ditch Overturn
Five persons escaped serious injury when the car carrying John W. Henderson George Hise Harold Childs Ruth Katter and others overturned in a ditch on highway No 6 west of West Liberty at 9 45 p m Sunday. Henderson a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter. Hise publisher of the West Liberty Index. Childs and Katter University of Iowa students. The Henderson car avoided an eastbound Downey car driven by H L Griffin by leaving the highway into the ditch after a curve danger spot. First aid was given at West Liberty.
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Cedar Rapids
Highway No. 6
West Liberty
John W. Henderson
Wildwood Drive
George Hise
West Liberty Index
Harold Childs
University of Iowa
Ruth Katter
Henderson
Definite Business Improvement Noted In Federal Report
Washington AP reports the labor department noting in July that trade upturns were beyond seasonal. The bulletin cites first noticeable expansion in industrial activity this year with gains in boot and shoe factories returning to full time, textiles especially woolen and silk products, and anthracite mining showing thousands in gains.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Missing Chicago banker believed kidnapped
William A. Ernsting a 42 year old suburban bank vice president of First State Bank Bensonville left home for Chicago on Saturday to handle business and visit lawyers. Family and officials fear he was kidnapped as he has not been seen since. Bank officials say his accounts were in good shape.
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Chicago
William A. Ernsting
First State Bank
Bensonville
Clippings From Lindbergh Case Found With Kidnap Suspect
Police in Philadelphia detained 38-year-old Mark Miller after discovery of a large bundle of Lindbergh baby kidnapping clippings in his room. Miller, arrested climbing a rear fence, faced Magistrate Thomas Asilton and was held on $1,000 bail for a future hearing.
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Philadelphia
INS
Mark Miller
Flying Eagle
Miller
Thomas Asilton
Women Endurance Flyers Stay In Air
Valley Stream New York AP report says Frances Marsalis and Louise Thaden extended an eight day aim in the air, already passing existing women endurance flight records as they continue their flight on Monday.
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Frances Marsalis
Louise Thaden
Tomatoes Sell Out Fast In Gazette Want Ad
Martin Wiley of Wiley Fruit Farm sold thirty bushels of ripe tomatoes last Friday within two hours after his Gazette Want Ad under Good Things To Eat appeared. About seventy five people visited his Palo road location seeking produce, prompting speedy sales and a push for similar ads. Dial 2-1121 for ad placement and economy.
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Gazette Want
Martin Wiley
Wiley Fruit Farm
Palo Road
Gazette Want Ad Department
Gazette Want Ad
Evangeline Booth Foresees Hope From Salvation Army
Will Rogers notes Evangeline Booth in Los Angeles as head of the Salvation Army, calling her barometer of affairs since she deals in people not stock prices. He praises the Army as influential, nonpolitical, aiding the down and out and correcting leaders’ blunders.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Los Angeles
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Five Nazi rioters condemned to die in Beubhen murder case
A special anti-terrorist court in Beubhen Silesia sentenced five brownshirt members to death for the murder of a communist on August 9 the decree day. Instigator Lachann and four others were named with one man jailed and three others acquitted as mobs gathered outside. Police fired to clear Kaiser Franz Joseph square after the verdict.
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Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Beubhen
Silesia
von Hindenburg
Germany
Peitzruch
Hitler
Paul Lachann
Reinhold Kottish
August Graeupner
Hans Muller
Rufin Wornitzer
George Hoppen
Kaiser Franz Joseph Square
Relief worker freed after being beaten
Charles City Iowa AP A mob of 50 to 75 unemployed relief workers abducted Marion Stull Floyd county overseer of the poor from Charles City city hall drove her to a point near New Hampton where she was beaten and released after ordering her to stay out of town Seven men were arrested and two sought amid wage scale tensions between relief groups Stull had direct dealings with the men and had lived in Des Moines before moving to Charles City
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Charles City
Marion Stull
Floyd County
New Hampton
Miss Stull
G. C. Gray
Alta Vista
Floyd
Stull
Des Moines
Guthrie Center
Guthrie County
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Gains in Illness News
John D. Rockefeller Jr. left Edith Rockefeller McCormick's hospital room to take the Twentieth Century Limited back east. He expressed hope that everything possible would be done to save her life as physicians reported her condition unchanged but brighter. The Rockefeller party planned to travel to Harmon, New York, with options to return to Chicago if her condition worsens.
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Chicago
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Twentieth Century Limited
Rockefeller
Mine Picket Slain in Sudden Clash
A clash at Bell and Zoller mine No 1 near Ziegler Illinois left Dominic Lauranti dead and several wounded. A 75-strong group of pickets clashed with police as 25 000 to 30 000 miners prepared a march from Staunton in Macoupin county protesting the $5 a day wage scale.
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Gillespie, WI
Southern Illinois
Ziegler
Illinois
Staunton
Macoupin County
Arthur Hughes
Robinson
Dawes Abandons Underslung Pipe for New Curved Model
General Charles G. Dawes, en route to Chicago, discarded his famous underslung pipe before boarding a train. He remarked that his new curved pipe draws well. Dawes had been visiting friends in Westchester County.
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New York
Charles G. Dawes
Chicago
Dawes
Westchester County
Planes Continue Great Air Race Across Regions
Winston Salem and Tucson report on the national and western air races. J F Tuohy of Olean led the Cleveland derby by taking off at 10 05 a m as the second leg began. The western race started after noon with over fifty survivors launching toward El Paso 270 miles away at 1 30 p m local time and planning a bivouac there for the night.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
INS
Washington, D
Cleveland
Ohio
J. F., Tuohy
Olean
N. Y
Tucson
Ariz
el Paso
Tex
Five Youths Cross Atlantic In Ketch On 49 Day Cruise
Five Princeton undergraduates sailed a two master ketch from New York July 2 to Marseilles in forty nine days despite storms and calms. The crew included William Drewley and William L. Crow of New York Standish Backus of Detroit Ashley Hardy of Boston and Robert Keidle of Baltimore.
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Atlantic
Gibraltar
Princeton University
New York
Marseilles
William Drewley
William L. Crow
Standish Backus
Detroit
Ashley Hardy
Boston
Robert Keidle
Baltimore
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