Motives Questioned in Walker Hearing Draws Iowa Debate
Governor Roose rules that motives behind the charges against Walker are irrelevant to the hearing. The piece notes ongoing charges against the Jessup administration and cites George T. Baker’s past promises of revealing motives. It also covers Field’s Cedar Rapids campaign presence and Nebraska Legion's Norfolk convention stance on the veterans’ bonus.
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Vusy Wieves Es Wereeser Yy Ter
Albany
Walker
State Board of Education
George T. Baker
People of
Iowa
Jessup
University of Iowa
Baker
Nebraska
Japs Deny Violation Of Peace Pact In Manchuria Feud
The state department signals Japanese stance on Manchurian affairs while observers debate whether Manchukuo is spontaneous or puppet. In Illinois, 4,000 miners abandon Coulterville action after a line of 600 deputies repels a 15,000-strong march. dozens injured and hundreds of vehicles abandoned as clashes near the Franklin county coal mines subside. Senatorial hopeful Henry Field campaigns in Benton with a car-based speaker system amid crowding fairs and claims broad Iowa support.
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Washington
State Department
Count Uchida
League of Navy
Lytton Commission
Benton, Ill
Franklin County
Scotch plumber turned banker fails in Chicago
Old John Bain, a 73 year old Scotch plumber in Chicago, built a bank chain and became a millionaire but used it for self aggrandizement. When difficulties hit, his banks collapsed in a $13 million failure and he was imprisoned for a short term.
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John Bain
Chicago
John
Sauk Center writer calls both sides fatheaded in prewar jab
A Sauk Center Minnesota writer aboard a voyage to Europe labels both presidential candidates as fatheads. He asserts support for a return to old fashioned saloons and leaves readers to decide who is truly fat headed.
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Sinclair Lewis
White House
Sauk Center
Minn
Europe
Vienna institute offers psycho analysis to the rich elite
The article notes a Vienna institute provides expert psycho analysis to the poor may be analyzed, while many who need it do not seek help. It argues the well off in public office may seek attention, contrasting with Iowa’s scene.
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Vienna
Austria
Iowa
Blockading Iowa Highways Rises to Climax Amid Farm Dispute
Western Iowa farmers stage intense protests to prevent farm products from being sold at a loss. The drive follows long delays and failed hopes of political remedies. The situation signals a tense and potentially unpleasant culmination as prices and markets remain stubbornly unfavorable.
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Iowa
Farm Holiday Aims at Higher Prices Faces Violence Risk
The piece notes farmers use a peaceful farm holiday to push prices higher, but doubts its success and fears violence could escalate. It calls on Iowa to hope violence stays contained while awaiting broader relief.
Editor Alfred Smith Brings New Era to Outlook
The Outlook editor Alfred Emmanuel Smith, once a happy warrior, promises a fresh and markedly different contribution to the literary world. He notes that predecessors would grimace from their graves if they knew of his chair but dismisses the thought as he embraces a modern era with his own approach.
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Outlook
Alfred Emmanuel Smith
Cig— 4
Will Rogers Encourages Desert Retreat Over Politics
In a Mojave Desert letter, Will Rogers argues the desert offers health and escape from political hype. He jokes about Hoover Roosevelts era influence and muses on retiring to the desert, contrasting politics with living simply in a rugged landscape.
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Mojave
Calif
Senate
Japan defends Manchukuo policy in Diet speech
Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida proclaimed recognition of Manchuria as part of Japan’s nation system, defying League of Nations pressures and U.S. policy critiques. He argued Japan acted in self defense and denied territorial ambitions while noting Manchurian leaders seek an independent state.
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Tokio
Japan
Yasuya Uchida
League of Nations
Manchukuo
Uchida
League
Special Commission
Manchuria
Japanese Society of Nations
China
Early Shower Adds Quarter Inch Rain
Cedar Rapids saw morning showers bring nearly a quarter inch of rain. Brisk winds followed with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures rose to 87 by 4 pm Wednesday, then fell to 64 by 6:30 am Thursday, with total rainfall 0.23 inches by 6:30 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Divorcee Victoria Flazak Found Slain in Chicago
Police hunt her former husband after the body of 34 year old Victoria Flazak was found on a stairway at the rear of a Chicago apartment building with a heavy blunt force trauma to the skull. The murder appears to be connected to her recent divorce proceedings.
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Chicago
INS
Victoria Flazak
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
The Cedar Rapids traffic toll tally for the current year reports accidents and injuries. It lists numbers for killed, injured, and total incidents, highlighting road danger trends in the city.
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Cedar Rapids
Local Holdup Suspects Captured in Iowa City
Two men charged with a daylight robbery in Iowa City July 27 were identified as Paul Heslop, 20, and Over Trimble, 22, of Cedar Rapids. They were jailed in Johnson County after being picked up Aug. 17 and gave false names Ray Selby and James Stull. A true information filed July 28 accuses them of robbing Joe Dvorak at 1330 Third Street SE and taking $5.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnson County
Iowa City
Paul Heslop
Trimble
Joseph A. Petrus
Lloyd Kent
Ray Selby
James Stull
Davenport
Oskaloosa
Ed Fordyce
Heslop
Joe Dvorak
Third Street
Tenth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Dvor
Bain gets prison sentence for fraud
John Bain, who built a chain of 12 banks, was sentenced to one to five years in Joliet penitentiary. His two sons Robert A. Bain and John H. Bain and son-in-law W Merle Fisher were ordered to pay $1000 fines. The convictions involved conspiracy in the collapse causing a $13,000,000 loss to depositors.
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Chicago
John Bain
Joliet
Robert A
John H. Bain
W. Merle Fisher
John M. O'Connor
Bain’s
City Clerk Urges Timely Voter Registration in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids city clerk L. J. Storey warns more than 26 000 voters must register before the November 8 election. Only about 2 500 have responded with registration sessions held daily at the city hall third floor office to speed the process and ensure lifelong eligibility with regular four year voting.
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Cedar Rapids
L. J. Storey
Storey
Mills Briefed on Administration Plans for Credit
Secretary Mills met with industrial committees from the 12 federal reserve districts to present administration plans for stimulating bank credit use. The session in the Federal Reserve board room precedes the President’s economic conference to be held Friday at the Commerce Department. Mills said the administration has a program to present but would not reveal details.
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Washington
Illinois Leaders Propose May Special Session Call
A committee of senate and house leaders, summoned by the executive, recommended calling a special session in May to address employment relief.
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Illinois
Senate
House
Scrip Issued by Farm Co operatives in Iowa
Iowa counties issue scrip to pay farmers for farm and creamery products. The scrip is accepted by many merchants at full face value. Producers store goods in warehouses until a market develops, as part of the movement with striking farmers to improve price conditions.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Dolly Curtis Gann Accepts Campaign Speech Invite
Mrs Dolly Curtis Gann sister and official hostess for Vice President Charles Curtis accepts an invitation to deliver a republican campaign speech in Shenandoah AP reports.
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Shenandoah
Dolly Curtis Gann
Charles Curtis
Renting time in Cedar Rapids Gazette Want Ads
Families seek houses rooms near a school furnished and unfurnished apartments and garage space wanted during renting time. Gazette Rental Want Ads reach 99 percent of homes. ads cheap with special 3 and 7 day rates. Call 2-1121 to place.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Gazettes Rental
Cedar Rapids Hosts Rental Week Event Window
The Cedar Rapids area marks rental week from August 28 to September 4 showcasing local properties, promotions, and housing options for renters and landlords.
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Cedar Rapids
Denies Walker Corruption In Bus Franchise
John H. Delaney testifies for Mayor Walker claiming the Equitable Coach bid was the best received for a New York City bus franchise. Samuel Seabury argues the company was not fit, while the council notes Walker influenced for a friend tied to the firm. The board recommended the franchise and the city approved it.
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Albany
N. Y
John H. Delaney
New York City Board of Transportation
Walker
Equitable Coach Company
Samuel Seabury
Hofstadter Legislative Committee
Roosevelt
Equitable
John A. Hastings
Board of Transportation
City Board of Estimates and Apportionment
Government Grants Clemency to Spanish Rebel General
The government granted clemency to General Jose San Jurjo, commanding general of the Spanish army, who had been sentenced to death for leading the monarchist revolt. Premier Azana announced the decision after a long cabinet session, with applause. Officials noted the mercy discharged all officers to allow a full army reorganization.
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Madrid
Jose San Jurjo
Azana
Million Missing In Funds Of Manitoba Univ
Government auditors found endowment fund shortfalls near 1 million dollars at the University of Manitoba. About 900000 vanished in bursar J A Machray’s office, amid a total endowment and trust fund of 1,661,311 including a 500000 Rockefeller foundation gift. Machray has been seriously ill and chairs the board.
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Winnipeg
Man
University of Manitoba
J. A. Machray
Rockefeller Foundation
N. Y
Machray
Amelia Earhart Putnam Sets Transcontinental Flight Record
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to make a nonstop transcontinental flight. She left Los Angeles Wednesday and landed in Newark at 9 31 a m local time, duration 19 hours 4 minutes 6 seconds, short of Hawks’ overall record but beating previous women’s distance and setting a cross continental speed mark. Her route covered about 2435 miles, surpassing the prior 2000 mile benchmark by Miss Ruth Nichols.
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Newark
N. J
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Atlantic
West
Frank Hawks
Falls To Escape After Stolen Motorcycle Wreck
Woodrow Brown 17 was arrested for larceny after crashing a stolen motorcycle near the west city limits on Highway 30 and fleeing into a cornfield. Police were alerted of the crash at about 9 p m and Brown later appeared at a sandwich shop where officers had paused. Local deputies identified the machine as stolen in Norway and Benton county authorities connected Brown to the theft.
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Woodrow Brown
Hines
Morningstar
Brown
Benton County
Stanley Lubbock
Norway
Heriff
Larry Condon
Mrs. Edith McCormick Near Death in Sudden Relapse
CHICAGO SNS Edith Rockefeller McCormick remained unconscious and critically ill Thursday as doctors abandoned hope for a rally. Family members waited nearby including Harold McCormick Fowler McCormick Fifi Stillman Mathilde Oser Muriel Hubbard and Elisha Hubbard while John D Rockefeller Jr kept in touch by phone. The sinking spell began at 5 o clock Thursday morning.
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Chicago
SNS
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Fifi Stillman
Mathilde McCormick Oser
Muriel McCormick Hubbard
Maj
Elisha D. Hubbard
Iowa's Wholesale And Retail Trade Tops Two Billion
Iowa shows over 2.03 billion in wholesale and retail trade and more than 925 million in manufacturing and mining output. Buel A Williamson of the commerce bureau notes Iowa's purchasing concentration with data from the national market guide. The report details county industrial output, savings deposits, passenger cars, income tax returns, residential telephones, and almost 38 thousand wholesale and retail establishments.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Buel A. Williamson
Maines
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Flyers Begin Transatlantic Hop Toward Oslo Norway
Clyde A. Lee of Oshkosh and John Bochkon of Brooklyn depart Harbor Grace NF at 4 02 am Iowa time en route to Oslo with the Green Mountain Bay. Other flyers include George Hutchinson and crew aiming for Labrador and London while Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen pursue a rival to Oslo.
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Harbor Grace
Clyde A. Lee
Oshkosh
Wis
John Bochkon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Iowa
Oslo
Norway
Associated Press
Aviation
Green Mountain Bay
Barre
N. F
Clyde Lee
Olso
George Hutchinson
Anticosti Island
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Labrador
London
Thor Solberg
Carl Petersen
New York
Darby’s Harbor
J. A. Mollison
England
William Ulbrich
Leon M. Pisculli
Edna Newcomer
Devastating Philippine Quake Hits San Fernando City
Manila dispatch reports thousands flee as a severe quake sequence since 1880 rocks San Fernando capital of La Union. Hundreds of homes and many churches and convents are destroyed, seismographs overwhelmed by the tremors. Manila notes a 50 minute tremor with no further damage.
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Manila
P. I
INS
San Fernando
la Union
Oklahoma Governor Halts Executing Nathan Rightsell
Mrs Mamie Rightsell of Carbondale Til led a plea that moved Governor Murray to stay Nathan Rightsell’s death sentence. The postponement for sixty days allows a review of the case in the wake of the mother’s appeal.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Mamie Rightsell
Carbondale
Til
W. H. Murray
Nathan
Illinois
Murray
Sioux City Sheriff Arrests 90 Picketers Blocking Highways
Sioux City Iowa Sheriff John A Davenport arrested 90 more picketers blocking road progress to keep highways open for farm produce traffic. They face either thirty days in jail or a fine of 100 dollars.
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Sioux City
INS
John A. Davenport
Deputies Mobilized as Farmers Holiday March Threatens Jail
Sheriff P. A. Lains on Thursday mobilized all deputies at the Courthouse amid rumors 1000 Farmers Holiday Association members from nw Iowa were en route to free 61 strikers from Pottawattamie jail. About 200 picketers returned to Highway 34 as clashes continued. two deputies were wounded, one near death, and another special deputy Joe Ludwig was lightly hurt.
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Council Bluffs
P. A. Lains
Court House
Farmers Holiday Association
Iowa
Potttawattamie County
Lainson
Cre Ie
Ben Satek
Highway 34
Claude Dan
Joe Ludwig
Farmers massed on highway to press for higher prices near Spencer
More than 400 farmers gathered on U S 71 two miles south of Spencer to renew picketing in a farm price strike led by Eric Carlson who said he expected up to a thousand by nightfall to block incoming goods. Sheriff Fred E Erickson and County Attorney Gilbert S James pledged patrols to maintain order.
Pipestone County Farmers Move to Halt Market Shipments
Farmers in Pipestone County pledged to halt marketward shipments of grain and livestock starting next Monday as part of a sellers holiday movement begun in Iowa. They said milk cream and eggs would still be sold during the protest.
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ST. Paul
Pipestone County
Iowa
Council Bluffs picket line eased after daylong standoff
Highways into Council Bluffs were cleared of Farmers Holiday Association picketers except one as Sheriff P A Lainson and deputies used tear gas and armed escort to protect truckers. About 61 demonstrators were jailed after clashes, with 12 sentenced to fines or jail and hearings underway.
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Council Bluffs
Farmers Holiday Association
Teat She Amaenee
P. A. Laingon
Lainson
Farmers' Holiday Association Plans Meetings in Several States
Oklahoma City report notes higher prices for farm produce and state convention plans for Sept 8. Stillwater, Minn announces an organization meeting by word of mouth and telephones, with counties around the Twin Cities and St. Croix County, Wisconsin, invited to attend Thursday night.
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Oklahoma City
R. Rickard
Nee Ae
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Stillwater, Minn
Twin Cities
St. Croix County
Wisconsin
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