Midwest farmers keep loans paid as HOLC data show arrears
Federal farm credit and HOLC reports release mixed signals about loan performance. Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming farmers repay promptly while HOLC borrowers show 30 percent in arrears. some failures appear deliberate amid broader questions of debt repudiation. News notes also cover Yugoslavia Hungary tensions and local parking and liquor-law issues.
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Federal Farm Credit
Omaha
Washington
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
The
HOLC
League Indirectly Chides Hungary Over Terrorist Allegations
In Belgrade Yugoslavia resignations loom as Foreign Minister Yevitch faces pressure amid international calls for Hungary to be condemned. The League of Nations council in Geneva censures Hungary for harboring terrorists and endorses a plan favoring Yugoslavia backed by France and allies.
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Fugoslavia
League of Nations
Hungary
Alexander
Geneva
League
Marseilles
Jugoslavia
Belgrade
Yevitch
Milan Siskitch
Voya Marinkovitch
Boha Maximovitch
Justice
League of Nations Council
Ig Algeander
SFU
Wegers
Britain
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Moumania
France
Jugoslav
Bogoljub Yertich
Tibor Eckhardt
Will gives husband $5000 yearly income under daughter’s choice
A Pennsylvania will directs an annual $5000 income to the husband chosen by the heiress’s unmarried daughter. The document raises questions about the daughter’s right to wed and the fate of the estate as the settlement unfolds.
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Pennsylvania
Allots 2 Million For Employment Service
PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes announced a $2,000,000 allotment to the labor department to fund the national re employment service through July 1, 1935. The service operates employment bureaus in major cities.
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Washington
PWA
Harold L. Ickes
Labor Department
National
Bolivia Mobilizes Entire Man Power for War
Buenos Aires dispatch reports Bolivia ready to mobilize all reservists and able bodied men aged 18 to 50, potentially sending about 150,000 to the front in the Paraguay conflict while accepting League of Nations peace recommendations.
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Buenos Aires
Bolivia
Paraguay
League of Nations
Editorial on marriage prospects and suitors in modern times
The passage notes a provision causing concern about a flood of suitors though it argues the idea has merit. It references married editorial writers who say marriageable women struggle to find capable husbands, remarking there is no NRA matrimonial bureau yet.
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NRA
Wings of Faith Lift Our Hurry Up World
An essay urges renewing courage and hope through spiritual wings not just tools. It recalls the old Psalmist's faith and says modern people need wings of faith to fly beyond fear, with trust in a responsive universe and an unseen ally guiding the journey.
Britain to Default on Debt This Week
Britain formally notified the United States it will default on the $117 million debt payment due next Saturday. The note from the British embassy states the position remains unchanged from last June when it first defaulted.
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Washington
INS
Great Britain
United States
State Department
Hagemann Named to Highway Post
Fred P. Hagemann of Waverly was appointed by Gov. Clyde L. Herring to fill a vacancy on the state highway commission, succeeding the late H. A. Maine. Feuling declined after being offered the post. Hagemann, a long time Democrat, has served in the state senate and sought statewide office, and is an attorney with two sons.
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Des Moines
Fred P. Hagemann
Waverly
Clyde L. Herring
State Highway Commission
H. A. Maine
Hagemann
E. J. Feuling
New Hampton
Herring
Feuling
Democratic State Central Committee
State Senate
Bremer-Butler
Congress
Wartburg College
Mendota
Ellsworth College
Iowa Falls
University of Iowa
Bremer County
Roosevelt outlines three conditions for higher farm income
President Roosevelt told the American Farm Bureau in Nashville by long distance that 1935 may see a larger farm income than the 1934 gain, if three conditions are met: higher industrial production to expand farm markets, increased imports to support export trade, and continued agricultural price adjustments. He praised the 1934 rise despite severe drought and urged ongoing Farm Bureau support.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
American Farm Bureau Federation
Nashville
Tenn
White House
America
Teau’ Federation
Rules Broken Rail Caused Wreck Near Downey
A Rock Island passenger train wreck near Downey Ta Oct 12 killed two and wounded eight. The ICC safety bureau found a broken rail caused the derailment due to transverse fissures. Train No 14 derailed and was struck by train 23 traveling opposite.
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Washington
Downey
ICC Bureau of Safety
W. J. Patterson
Bureau
Search Continues for Star of Australia Crew
Navy vessels and coast guard cutters extended a search within 250 miles of Honolulu for the monoplane Star of Australia and Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm and two companions after their forced down six days earlier. Seaplanes were recalled to Pearl Harbor while a varnished box found 230 miles southwest was considered possibly the emergency container.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Ulm
Littlejohn
Skilling
Hawaii
California
T. H
INS
Navy
Coast Guard
Star of Australia
Charles T. P. Ulm
Pearl Harbor
Guy Turner
Oakland
Calif
Heirs Plan Equal Split for 39 Emerald Jewels
In Chicago a jeweler named Warren Piper is tasked with dividing 39 emeralds weighing 350 carats into 11 equal parts for heirs amid high security and expert craftsmanship. The study notes the gems’ exceptional size, color, and value, with prices well above standard rates, and hints at associations with Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s archives.
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Chicago
Solomon
Warren Piper
Piper
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Ford Co to Spend 8 Million More on Rouge Steel Plant
Henry Ford announced an additional 8 million dollars to upgrade River Rouge steel making and foundry facilities. The latest figure brings total new equipment spending on the project within ten months to about 20 million dollars, following an earlier 12 million dollar allocation.
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Ford CO
Rouge Steel
Detroit
INS
Henry Ford
River Rouge
Ford
Farm bloc formed to push revised agriculture bill
Six congressmen and farm leaders began organizing a new farm bloc to press a revised agricultural campaign in Congress. Chairman Guy M. Gillette said further Washington meetings would set recommendations ahead of the next session, seeking to secure farm refinancing crop control emergency relief exports and domestic allotments. Attending lawmakers included J. B. Shannon Harry B. Coffee Charles S. F. McLaughlin Otha D. Wearin and Karl Stephan.
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Sioux City
Congress
Guy M. Gillette
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Gillette
J. B. Shannon
Kansas City
Harry B. Coffee
Chadron
Neb
Charles S. F. McLaughlin
Omaha
Otha D. Wearin
Hastings
Karl Stephan
Norfolk
Tulsa Deaths Tie to Society Gang Probe
In Tulsa Oklahoma the son of an oil magnate Homer F Wilcox Jr 17 was arrested amid an inquiry into the slayings of two upper class youths. He faced a mal iceous mischief charge after he shot street lights near the Gorrell scene. A state probe linked to a society gang grows tense as witnesses hide or flee and a federal judge’s son Phillip Kennamer 19 later confessed killing John Gorrell 23.
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Tulsa
Okla
Homer F. Wilcox, Jr
John Gorrell
Wilcox
H.F. Wilcox
H. B. Maddux
Maddux
Young Wilcox
Wilcox, Oil, and Gas Company
Somana ‘ Viin
Society
Sidney Born
Tulsa University
John’ Gorrell
Charles Price
John Peebles
Glen Larkin
Born
Larkin
J. L. Freeman
Phillip Kennamer
Gorrell
Kennamer
Professor Born
Ted Bath
Truck owner thaws engine with fire as ice grips vehicle
St Louis report says Bill Jones, a Black man, started a fire under his truck to loosen ice that froze the engine. Firefighters saved the wheels and axles in the salvage effort.
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ST. Louis
Bill Jones
Cedar Rapids Sees Temperatures Near Winter Low
The Cedar Rapids area recorded a bitter cold spell with a low of 6 above zero at midnight and 7 at 7 a.m. Monday, dipping to 6 again at 8 a.m. and rising to 7 at 9 a.m. The day warmed to 15 by 2:45 p.m. as clouds cleared.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Dr Theodore Smith A Pioneer In Insect Borne Diseases Dies
Dr Theodore Smith president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research died at 75 after admission for treatment of intestinal cancer. The eminent pathologist opened the way to conquest of typhoid fever cholera malaria and yellow fever and proved for the first time that insect hosts spread certain diseases to humans. He was noted for cattle fever studies showing ticks transmit the disease between 1888 and 1893.
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NEW York
Theodore Smith
Rockefeller
Institute For Medical Research
Man
Smith
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Rescue Efforts Intensify For Trapped Worker
In Wicklow, Charles O Leary was trapped in a rock side and deep well. Rescuers worked frantically over the weekend, reaching within a foot of him before new sand falls forced a pause. He refused surgical amputation and asked to be removed as he was, after partial self amputation attempt failed.
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Wicklow
Trish
Charles O'Leary
O'Leary
Sculpted figures at Supreme Court Building labeled not portraits
New York AP reports sculptor Robert Aitken explains entrance figures for the Washington Supreme Court Building are not portraits of Chief Justices Marshall Taft or Hughes. They are type like, inspired by the men’s characters rather than exact likenesses.
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New York
Supreme Court
Washington
Marshall
Taft
Hughes
Robert Aitken
Pennsylvania backs Burns in House speakership race
The Pennsylvania delegation of 23 members unanimously pledged to Representative Burns of Tennessee, boosting his chances to be chosen as speaker of the house.
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Pennsylvania
Burns
Washington
Tennessee
Teachers Strike for Pay in Jessup Borough
In Scranton Pennsylvania, over 2,500 pupils missed classes as 66 teachers walked out demanding eight months back pay. The strike halted instruction pending resolution with local authorities and school officials.
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Scranton
Jessup
Roosevelt urges unified agencies in war on crime
President Roosevelt called for a national war on crime urging coordination of federal, state, and local law enforcement and the aid of every citizen. He pressed for an administrative structure tying all agencies together and for improved training and facilities to deter narcotics, stolen goods, and juvenile crime.
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Roosevelt
Constitution Hall
Cummings
Henry L. Stimson
Patrick J. Hurley
Narcotics Bureau
Hurley
Department of Justice and State
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