Wheeler spurns $50,000 to defend Leche and Weiss
Washington Senator Burton Wheeler declined a $50,000 offer to serve as counsel for former Louisiana Governor Richard Leche and Seymour Weiss amid federal indictments. The pair had visited Wheeler in a Washington hospital after a prior $25,000 bid, with Weiss tied to Huey Long's machine and indicted on income tax and mail fraud charges.
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INS
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Richard W. Leche
Seymour Weiss
Louisiana
Huey Long Machine
Lewhe
Weiss
Wheeler
Congress
Leche
Long
Connally
Famed Czech Legion Dissolved By Germany
The Czech Legion, an organization of patriots who fought for an independent Czechoslovakia in Allied armies during World War I, was dissolved by order of Reichsprotector Baron Konstantin von Neurath on Wednesday night.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Konstantin von Neurath
Sino-Japan War Will Continue, Yarnell Says
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell states the Sino-Japanese conflict will last at least three years. He predicts Japan's pursuit of a new Asian order, with no clear end in sight, and confirms stable China policy under Abe despite a new cabinet. He meets naval and civic officials and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
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Washington
INS
Harry E. Yarnell
United States
Germany
Japan
Asia
America
International
Occidentals
China
Tokio
Nobuyuki Abe
Yarnell
Harold R. Stark
Paul V. McNutt
Philippine
Insular
Claude Swanson
Roosevelt
Great Wall construction deaths and Qin dynasty book burnings
The text notes thousands died from overwork while building the Great Wall and that Shi Huang Ti had their bodies buried beneath the wall. It also asserts the ruler burned all Chinese classics, including Confucian works.
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Great Wall
Shi Hwang Ti
Confucius
Store Chain Starts Campaign To Help Cut Farm Surpluses
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., a national food-store chain, launched a special ad campaign to reduce farm surpluses and stabilize income. The ads feature Department of Agriculture stamp plan surpluses like eggs butter flour corn meal dried beans rice cabbage tomatoes peas onions peaches pears and dried prunes in 700 A and P stores across Detroit Port Huron Saginaw Steubenville Pittsburgh and Butler. The campaign is a test to see how fast glutted markets can be relieved without the stamp plan.
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Department of Agriculture
Detroit
Port Huron
Saginaw
Mich
Steubenville
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Butler
Oelwein Woman Captures Iowa Crocheting Title
Mrs. A Masterpole of Oelwein won Iowa state fair first annual crocheting match with an 80 shell scallops design. About 150 women competed in heat marked event shortened to one hour. G W Reynold of Dallas Center took second, A C Osborne of Des Moines third.
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Des Moines
A. Masterpole
Oelwein
Fairgrounds
Dense 1940s Radio Schedule Fragments At Various Stations
A cluttered read lists programs and times across WMT WGN KFJB WOC WSUI WEUE and others. It names concerts diners dances and news blocks plus sports like White Sox vs. Washington and Drake University events.
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WEN
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WGN
Manhattan
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Major Bowes
White Sox
Washington
Musicaie
Univer Omen
Armchair Adventures
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Smith
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Ginsbursh
del Courtney
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Radio Parade
Drake University
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Frank Gagen
Quiz
Criminal Action Filed Against 13 Film Firms in Anti Trust Case
The Department of Justice filed criminal contempt charges against 13 motion picture companies and 54 individuals in a Los Angeles federal court. Fox West Coast Theaters and two Fox entities along with 20th Century Fox, Loew’s, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Universal, Warner, Vitagraph, and United Artists face claims of giving Fox West Coast preferential terms, securing a near monopoly of first run films in southern California, contradicting the 1930 consent decree.
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INS
Department of Justice
Federal District Court
Los Angeles
Fox West Coast Theaters Corporation
Los Angeles Exchange
Thurman Arnold
Fox Companies
20Th Century-Fox Film Corporation
Loew’s, Inc
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Rko-Radio Pictures,Inc
and Distributing Corporation
Universal Film Exchanges, Inc
Warner Brothers Picture, Inc
Vitagraph, Inc
United Artists Corporation
4-H Style Show At State Fair Won By Clarinda Girl
Dorothy Fleming 16 of Clarinda Iowa won the 4-H girls style show at the Iowa State fair with a 10.75 outfit she made and modeled. She will represent Iowa at the national 4-H club show in Chicago on December 1. Other top finishers include Charlotte Teachout Fremont county reserve champion Marian Newquist Wapello county Barbara Shive Grundy county Jeanette Brus Scott county and Mildred Giesenberg Marshall county. blue ribbon winners were named in dressmaking classes with Dorothy Fleming Emily Dohuler Des Moines county and Mildred Giesenberg among them.
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Dorothy Fleming
Clarinda
Dorothy
W. A. Fleming
Chicago
Charlotte Teachout
Fremont County
Marian Newquist
Wapello County
Barbara Shive
Grundy County
Jeanette Brus
Scott County
Mildred Giesenberg
Marshall County
Emily Dohuler
Mildred Giesen
Local figures listed in county dress contest standings
Readable OCR fragment names several contestants and counties including Marion Newquist in Wapello and Marjorie Lundell in O'Brien. Additional names include Jeanette Brus of Scott county Charlotte Teachout of Fremont and Barbara Shire of Grundy. The text hints at a best dress category using wool silk or rayon fabrics.
Chicago and North Western Gets $1.4 Million Equipment Cash
Federal Judge C. E. Woodward authorized C. M. Thomson, trustee, to pay 1.4 million dollars in cash for railway equipment. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation opposed cash use though it had lent about 40 million dollars to the railroad, alongside objections from several divisional mortgage bond issuers.
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Chicago
C. E. Woodward
C. M. Thomson
Chicago and North Western Railway
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
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