Political clash over AAA and farm relief shapes 1936 race
The article argues the AAA constitutional issues drive the 1936 campaign in the middle west with President Roosevelt defending farm aid. It contrasts war outcomes, debt, and need for stable agriculture while warning against bureaucratic dictatorship and loss of liberty. A side note reports on the Parole racket probe and ongoing DOJ inquiries with Hamilton.
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Supreme Court
AAA
Middle Est
Middle West
Roosvelt
American Arm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Agriculure
Roosevelt addresses 12000 at Chicago stockyards rally
President Roosevelt denounces political profiteers and defends the Canada trade pact before a packed Chicago stockyards audience. Secretary Wallace and Farm Bureau leaders sit behind him as he pledges farm program gains and receives the federation’s distinguished service award.
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Chicago
INS
Roosevelt
Edward O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Henry Wallace
Farm Bureau Federation
Edward ‘A
Eee
Federa
Farmers and cities tied by a seamless economic web
Three years ago the speaker told farmers that the U S economy is a seamless web where farm prosperity depends on city prosperity and vice versa. He notes its relevance to farmers as representatives of the nation. Continued on Page 3, Col. 1.
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United States
Tunnel Escape From Washington Prison Nets Five Recaptured
Eight long term convicts dug a tunnel under the state penitentiary in Walla Walla. Five were nabbed by guards within hours. one captured while trying to steal a bakery truck, four others later near Page on the Columbia River. The tunnel ran forty to fifty feet under the walls.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Washington State
Toon
Monay
Page
Here
Columbia River
James M. McCauley
Murder of Dentist Admitted by Woman
In Los Angeles police found Dr. Walter F. Hammond aged 62 beaten to death with a hammer in his home. Arrested is Mrs. Mabel Willys, 38, who admitted the slaying. Patrolmen said she confessed to killing Hammond Sunday in a drunken rage after eight years living with him.
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Los Angeles
Walter F. Hammond
Mabel Willys
Lloyd Hurst
D. R. Patton
Hammond
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1935
A brief note records traffic toll data for Cedar Rapids in 1935, asking for counts of accidents injuries and deaths. The fragment provides no specific figures or dates.
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Cedar Rapids
Everyday Retorts and Witty Exchanges in a Small Town
A wealthier citizen who tried to critique a minister's prayer faced swift rebuke when the minister reminded him the prayer was not for him. The piece also notes blunt exchanges at a club and a superior officer’s harsh rebuke to a clerk. Quotations reflect sharp social humor from Newton 1936.
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Meek
Winslow
Anderson
Berry accuses industry foes of sabotaging national conference
Major George L. Berry denounces a small group of alleged obstructionists aping communists as the industrial conference to address unemployment battles further. He warns the meeting against disruption while A P Haake urges election of a new chair man, John O Leary, as boos greet the call.
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Washington
George L. Berry
Berry
A. P. Haake
Chicago
National Association of Furniture Manufacturers
John O’leary
Haake
O'Leary
Machine and Allied Products Institute
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Federal Hall
Britain and France push new peace plan for Ethiopia crisis
London reports cabinet approved an Anglo French peace plan to split Ethiopia with Italy. Paris says Mussolini has three days to decide if the League oil embargo will be delayed. Laval and Hoare present a last ditch proposal offering Italy half of Ethiopia as a basis for discussion.
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London
Italy
Ethiopia
Paris
Ins
Benito Mussolini
League of Nations
Il Duce
Pierre Laval
France
Samuel Hoare
Britain
Mussolini
League of Nations Committee of Eighteen
Geneva
Rand Fifty
League
Ps" Inwanteconomie
Strugale
Eea
Bolden Nether
Anes Ledgdern
Amay
Amay“Approve’ the Scheme, Even If It: ‘Duce
WPA job stalemate leaves 54 men idle at Dairy Dale sewer site
Fifty four men reported for WPA Dairy Dale sewer work Monday but found no tasks. An inspection at 9 30 a.m. showed no workers on site within 100 yards. The delay stems from the WPA's failure to supply sewer pipe, halting progress after a 168 foot trench. operations cannot continue until pipes arrive and backfilling begins.
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WPA
Dairy Dale
Blast Damages Penick Plant in Cedar Rapids
An explosion at 12 20 pm in the dry starch building of the Penick and Ford plant caused shattered windows and a loosened roof. No one was inside during noon hour. J Max Widmer, assistant general manager, said damage was slight and discounted a metal spark theory. Firemen arrived promptly. no fire started.
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Penick and Ford
J. Max Widmer
Widmer
Philippine Clipper Sets Off on Second Transpacific Mail Run
The Philippine Clipper left Alameda at 3 17 p m for Honolulu the first leg of the second transpacific airmail flight to Manila. It carried about 15 000 letters for the Hawaiian Islands Guam and the Philippines on a 2400 mile hop with an arrival expected Tuesday morning in Honolulu.
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Alameda
Calif
Honolulu
Manila
Hawaiian Islands
Guam
Philippines
Admit Report Of State Agent At O Conor Trial
A state agent's memo and related expense records were admitted as evidence in the gambling conspiracy trial of Attorney General Edward L. O'Connor. The documents include an interview with Postville cafe owner Ellis about slot machines and a man named Atwood.
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C. V. Warren
Sioux. City
Postville
Edward L. O'Connor
Frank Brady
Glen Schmidt
State Bureau of Investigation
W. H. Zelinsky
Wm. Arthur
C. W. McNaughton
Joe Gagen
Des Moines
Sioux City
Anne Rance
Martin Hotel
West Hotel
J. P. Gagen
Peters
Alma Berry
Bureau
Investiseepeb
Brady
State of Iowa
Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation
James E. Risden John
Fletcher
Baxter
Mr. Ellis
Blue Arrow Cafe
Atwood
Roosevelt Voices Religious Freedom At Notre Dame
President Roosevelt reaffirmed religious freedom as a torch of human liberty during ceremonies at Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. Cardinal Mundelein praised his courage to lead through chaos and aid the forgotten man while Philippine independence exercises awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws.
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Notre Dame University
South Bend
Ind
Roosevelt
Notre Dame Gymnasium
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Philippine
Our Republic
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
United States
Carlos Pena Romulo
Trial of Saunders Delayed to Jan 8
The trial of jockey Willie Saunders who rode Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby and Walter Schaeffer the exercise boy on charges linked to the death of Evelyn Slivinski was postponed until January 8 by agreement of counsel in Louisville Kentucky.
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Louisville
Willie Saunders
Omaha
Walter Schaeffer
Evelyn Slivinski
Supreme Court refuses review in Hauptmann case
The U S Supreme Court, in a one word ruling, refuses to hear Hauptmann's appeal of his Lindbergh kidnapping murder conviction. In New Jersey Gov Hoffman says he discussed fingerprint expert Erasmus Hudson's testimony with defense witnesses who said no Hauptmann fingerprints were found on the Lindbergh ladder.
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Washington
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Supreme Court
Tiny Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Erasmus Hudson
New York
Hauptmann
Bronx
New
Jersey
A. New
Noble
Hauptmann Learns Supreme Court Denies Review
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, near the electric chair in the Trenton death house, learns the U S Supreme Court has blocked further appeals. Attorney Rosecrans delivers the news as Hauptmann contemplates a possible new trial on fresh evidence or a commutation to imprisonment.
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Bruno
State Prison
Trenton
Bruno Richard
Hduptmann
United States Supreme Court
Flemington
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Hauptmann
Egbert Rosecrans
Supreme Court
Sabotage Rumor Tangles Loss on U S Cruiser Quincy
In Quincy Massachusetts Harry E D Gould general manager at the Fore River shipyards said serious damage to reduction gears connecting turbines of the new U S cruiser Quincy with the propeller shaft was reported. He noted an investigation was in progress to determine if sabotage caused the issue.
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Quincy
Mass
U. S
Harry E. D. Gould
Fore River
Gould
Supreme Court Hears Defense of Farm Act
The Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of the agricultural adjustment act as Solicitor General Reed defends the New Deal farm aid program. Justices question the tax authority backing processing taxes while Pepper argues for Hoosac Mills.
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Supreme Court
Defense of
Washington
New Deal
Stanley Reed
Oli Oe
Cummings
Britain
York
Rudy - Vallee
Reed
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
AAA
Hoosac Mills
Massachusetts
Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Sutherland
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
McReynolds
Iowa Tax Law Upheld in Personal Income Case
Marshalltown IA AP Judge Carl B Stiger upholds state personal net income tax law in Ray P Scott suit. Court dissolves injunction on funds tied to the tax and review board. Scott appeals to the state supreme court claiming conference report failed final passage.
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Marshalltown
Carl B. Stiger
Ray P. Scott
State Board ‘of Assessment and Review
Scott
Supreme Court
Stiger
Tragic Omaha case ends in murder suicide after note
Charles A. Cobb 31 killed wife Rose and two sons Robert 12 and Charles Jr 11 then killed himself in Omaha. An eight page note cites money woes and debt as motive, detailing perceived failures and tensions before the killings.
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Omaha
Charles
A. Cobb
Rose
Robert
Cobb
Walter Liggett Shot in Alley Near Home
Walter Liggett publisher of the Midwest American, a Minneapolis weekly, was shot three times in an alley near his home. His wife Edith and daughter Marda were in the car. two men fled after the attack. Liggett had recently backed Governor Floyd Olson but his stance later cooled. The assailants remain unidentified.
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Minneapolis
Walter Liggett
Midwest American
Liggett
Floyd B. Olson
Farmer
Farmer-Laborite, Recently Was Acquitted In St. Paul
Frank Ellis
Austin
Minn
Edith
Marda
Olson
Howard Guilford
Jal
Guilford
Skagway
Pasco, J. Washington
Fargo Courier. News
New ‘York Call
New York Times, Post
News and Sun
Plain Talk
New Deal Spreads Work Relief Funds Despite Closure Plan
The federal relief program continues distributing funds for white collar and construction projects after the Dec. 1 closure notice. Comptroller General McCarl reports 14.1 million for educational and clerical work and 1.4 million for construction in eleven states, with about 22 500 workers to be employed nationwide. Iowa receives 161 880 for local assignments.
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Washington (Lp
New Deal
John R. McCarl
Washington
Iowa
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Newton
Copyrisht
Duce
Cedar Rapids News
Penick Plant
O’ Goinor
Saunders
Sipaccpens
New Jersey Court of Pardons
Rosecrans
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