Roosevelts clash over debts plan and political clash echoes
The piece notes a dispute between President-elect Roosevelt and Mr. Hoover on war debt cooperation and a proposed debts commission. It highlights Homer Seerley’s death and his impact on Iowa State Teachers College, Rowley’s tax stability, and a state audit shortfall at Anamosa reformatory. It covers railroad wage cuts, Georgia Jersey chain gang debate, and Borah Norris views on the Collier beer bill. It closes with constitutional limits on federal moral policing.
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White House
Roosevelt
Hoover
Debts policy talks loom as Hoover Roosevelt clash rises
Norman H. Davis, a leading Democrat, conferred with President Hoover and planned to meet Governor Roosevelt in Albany. Hoover offered no reply to Roosevelt’s public telegram exchange, while Roosevelt pressed for cooperative action on world debt issues and proposed a framework of preliminary studies before March 4.
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Hoover
Washington
Gov. Roosevelt
Norman H. Davis
Davis
Stimson
Albany
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids Residents Rally For Christmas Baskets
Cedar Rapids residents rally to fight Christmas distress with an eleventh hour drive. Lilian Landmesser reports cash donations totaling 264 dollars by Friday morning and a hopeful total of 600. Food donations flood in and 600 baskets will be packed tonight in the courthouse basement with Boy Scouts and volunteers for 1700 families, 300 still needing help.
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Cedar Rapids
Lilian Landmesser
Sunshine Mission
Court House
Rotary Club
Dentist Suspect in Death of Former Judge’s Mother
The body of Mrs. Josephine Elder, mother of former Missouri Supreme Court judge Conway Elder, was found in the office of south side dentist Dr. Squire Bevier. The skull was fractured, a mallet nearby appeared to be the weapon, and Bevier has been missing since Thursday.
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ST Louis
Josephine Elder
Conway Elder
Missouri Supreme Court
Squire P. Bevier
South Side
Bevier
Dr. Bevier
Youthful Robbers Steal $3800 Payroll in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia three masked youths raided the office of J. Sullivan and Sons, forcing four employees to face a wall while they emptied a cloth bag with a $3,800 payroll. No injuries reported. suspects fled.
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Philadelphia
J. Sullivan and Sons
Santa Claus Plans Umbrella Trip to Cedar Rapids
Santa Claus prepared for his annual Cedar Rapids visit as threatening clouds gathered Friday after heavy rains Thursday night. Temperature readings hovered around the mid thirties with readings of 33 at midnight Thursday 34 at 7 am and 33 at 9 am Friday. Afternoon hours rose to 37 at 1:30 and 2:30.
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Santa Claus
Cedar Rapids
Cyclist Injured When Hit By Auto in Cedar Rapids
Frank Havilik at 807 Seventeenth Street Southwest sustained a scalp wound early Friday when his bicycle was struck by an automobile driven by Frank Bomkamp of 823 Fifth Avenue Southeast at the Third and Fifth avenues and Tenth Street Southwest intersection. Havilik was taken to Mercy Hospital, treated, and released.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Havilik
Seventeenth Street
Frank Bomkamp
Fifth Avenue
Third and
Fifth Avenues
Tenth Street
Bomkamp
Havilik
Mercy Hospital
Two Women Die And One Is Rescued In Loop Leap Tragedy
In Chicago a 10 story leap killed Mrs. Mary Miller 44, a former state hospital patient who escaped eight days earlier. Another woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Wait 39, died after clinging to a Capitol building ledge and jumping from 19 stories up onto an iron screen.
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Chicago
Mary Miller
Kankakee State Hospital
Psychopathic
Ben Munn
John Arnett
Elizabeth Wait
Capitol Building
Ellis Hughes
Chicago Reformer Granted New Trial
Chicago reformer Dan L. Gilday was granted a new trial after the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a lower court judgment and remanded the case in the assault with intent to kill conviction involving Herman Knol.
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Springfield, Ill
Dan L. Gilday
Chicago
Herman Knol
Supreme Court
Abolition of Grain Collection to Be Announced in Moscow
A proposed abolition of grain collections in Russia will be announced in Moscow, with Stalin delivering the keynote. The plan shifts to a tax in kind based on acreage and farm size, aiming to ease peasant resistance and extend the first five-year plan.
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Russia
Frederick Kumberlin
Moscow
Lenin
Communist Central Committee
Josef Stalin
Central Committee
Nikolai Lenin
Want Ad Results Show Puppies Pool Table Rentals Lost Gloves
Recent Gazette Want Ad results report seven puppies sold to buyers in Cedar Rapids Strawberry Point Tama and Marion. One pool table 5x3 feet in good condition was purchased by thirteen readers while several rooms were rented close in. A lost brown kid glove pair was recovered and the Gazette ads offer contact for ad-taker services.
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Cedar Rapids
Strawberry Point
Tama
Killian
Gazette
Senate rejects immediate beer bill action in 48 23 vote
The Senate refused immediate consideration of the 3.2 beer bill. Vote tallies show 48 against and 23 for taking up the measure. Senator Bingham led the push, but faced unified opposition from Democrats and farm labor allies favoring committee study.
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Washington
Senate
Bingham
Rep
Conn
House
Democratic
Tall
Connecticut
Austin
Borah
Capper
Carey
Couzens
Dale
Dickinson
Iowa
Fess
Frazier
Hale
Hastings
Howell
Norbeck
Norris
Nye
Peterson
Robinson
Ind
Smoot
Thomas
Ida
Vandenberg
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Ashurst
Bailey
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Barkley
Black
Bulow
Byrnes
Caraway
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Costigan
George
Gore
Harrison
Hayden
Hull
Kendrick
King
Logan
McGill
McKellar
Ark
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Smith
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Schall
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Coolidge
Copeland
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Reynolds
Tramwell
Tydings
Wagner
Mass
Wheeler
NO DELINQUENT TAXES IN ROWLEY AND NO POOR LIST
Independence reports Rowley in Buchanan county has no delinquent taxes and no poor relief list this year. The town of about 60 homes and 15 businesses sits on the Decorah branch of the Rock Island railroad with a star mail route and a Farmers Cooperative creamery. The Farmers State Bank, led by president C. V. Gunzenhauser, enjoys local confidence.
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Rowley
Buchanan County
Decorah
Rock Island
Farmers Cooperative
C. V. Gunzenhauser
Farmers State
Youthful Slayer Wins New Trial In Illinois Case
Rus sell McWilliams aged 17 from Rockford, a trolley motorman slayer, twice sentenced to die, won a new trial as the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the case and ordered a venue change for a third trial.
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Springfield, Ill
Russell McWilliams
Rockford
Friday
Supreme Court
Former Head of Iowa Normal College Dead at 84
Dr. Homer H. Seerley of Cedar Falls, aged 84, known as dean of Iowa educators and president emeritus of Iowa State Teachers College, died Friday after a long illness. He led the college from 1886, transforming it from a small academy into a premier teacher training institution recognized nationally. He fathered Mrs. Atherton B. Clark of Cedar Rapids and guided numerous educational organizations during his tenure.
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Iowa
Homer H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers College
Seerley
Cedar Falls
Iowa Educators
Atherton B. Clark
Cedar, Rapids
State Teachers College
United States
Seerley’s Push For One Strong Iowa Normal School
The article recalls Homer Horatio Seerley born August 13, 1848 who led opposition to multiple subsdiary normal schools in Iowa. It highlights his belief in a single well equipped normal college and cites his famous remark during Gov. Cummins era that expanding schools must not starve the main institution.
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Seerley
Teachers College
A. B. Cummins
Cedar Falls
Homer Horatio Seerley
Indianapolis
France Reopens War Debt Talk With United States
Premier Paul Boncour visited the American embassy in Paris to seek U S backing for debt negotiations. He asked Washington to help arrange a conference to examine the war debt installment due this month, signaling possible new diplomacy before Roosevelt's inauguration.
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Paris
Joseph Paul Boncour
United States
Paul Boncour
Lord Tyrell
Roland Koester
Berlin
Walter E. Edge
Edge
France
Paul-Boncour
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Will Rogers on technocracy and leadership in 1932
Will Rogers argues in a 1932 Editor Gasette piece that technocracy may fade quickly, as the public rejects orthodox politics. He says no one today clearly knows the solution, and leaders refuse to admit uncertainty, leaving a global appetite for decisive action unanswered.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Will
Two Perish In Elevator Fire and Grain Burned
An explosion turned a six story grain elevator into a furnace. Walter Brazel 28 was killed instantly by a fractured skull and Charles Duval 38 a scale inspector for the board of trade is missing presumed dead. Eight others were burned as 200000 bushels of wheat corn barley and oats burned and nearby elevators containing over 1000000 bushels were menaced.
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Chicago
Walter Brazel
Charles Duval
Board of Trade
Grain Elevator Fire Threatens Million Bushels In Concrete Structures
A historic wooden elevator built in 1906 by the Santa Fe铁路 with Stratton Grain leasing the granary faced a blaze that could cost hundreds of thousands though insured. Fire crews sprayed water through the day to prevent ignition of vast wheat storage possibly exceeding a million bushels.
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Leas
Santa Fe Railway
Stratton Grain Company
TM Reconstruction Grants Relief Loans to Minnesota and Indiana
The TM re construction corporation authorized relief loans totaling 1 811 243 to Minnesota and Indiana for relief needs during January and February.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Minnesota
Indiana
Minnesota expert may enter Roosevelt cabinet
Albany N Y reports say Frank Murphy of Wheaton Minnesota, a renowned farms and economic expert, is under consideration for the new secretary of agriculture in President-elect Roosevelt's cabinet. Murphy is noted as one of the country’s best informed on agrarian subjects and has gained the governor’s full familiarity with his talents.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Wheaton
Wanderwell Estate Valued at $1500 after Yacht Death
A petition for letters of administration states Captain Walter Wanderwell, slain aboard his yacht at Long Beach on December 5, left an estate valued at 1500 dollars. Widow Alpha Wanderwell and two children Valli and Nile Walter Vanderwell are named heirs.
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Los Angeles
Alpha Wanderwell
Walter Wanderwell
Long Beach
Valli
Nile Walter Vanderwell
Hoover Heads South for Georgia Florida Fishing Cruise
President Hoover left Washington on the presidential train with Mrs. Hoover and seven guests en route to a ten day fishing cruise in Georgia and Florida waters. They expect to sail from Savannah shortly after arriving at 8 30 am Saturday and fish by noon.
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Savannah
Hoover
Georgia
Florida
Senate Adjourns Early For Interim Break
The Senate adjourned on Friday until Tuesday, skipping the usual ten day holiday recess.
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Washington
Senate
Mystery Surrounds Rock Island Slaying of Rose Gendler
Police hunted Friday night for a black motor car linked to the slaying of Rose Gendler in Rock Island. The girl’s body was found on the Rock River ice after a ransom note appeared at her home. Three suspects were released and an inquest was delayed pending further questioning.
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Rock Island
Pretty Rose Gendler
High Bridge
Rock River
Miss Gendler
Rose
Swork
Jacob Mark
Pranci King
Rock Island County
Death of Miss Edith Gendler Tuesday in Davenport
Authorities described Gendler's pocket book as the questioning tool with twenty five names and Chicago addresses. Two pills found in the book will be analyzed under county orders. Miss Gendler talked by telephone Wednesday night with Maurice Meyer of Rock Island before leaving a Davenport department store where she worked. Relations could not provide details, funeral services tentatively set for Sunday in Moline. Edith Padorr of Chicago will be questioned about the address book contents.
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Gendler's Pocket Book
Iin
Chicago
Ie St
Tilness
Maurice Meyer
Rock Island
Davenport
Miss Gendler
Jacob Mark
Moline
Edith Padorr
Fate Of Alleged Collicott Slayer In Hands Of Jury
Norman A. Luce, son of a Wisconsin minister, stands trial for the eight year old slaying of Ethel Collicott, a used car dealer from Davenport. The jury of nine men and three women retires after closing arguments as both sides present starkly contrasted portrayals of guilt and innocence. Collicott had previously lived in Cedar Rapids.
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Davenport
Norman A. Luce
Wisconsin
Ethel Collicott
Collicott
Cedar Rapids
Pipe Line Promoter Under $5,000 Bond
New York prosecutor records indicate Frank P. Pare ish, head of Missouri Kansas Pipe Line, surrendered on a grand larceny indictment for $127,000. The once prominent natural gas magnate faced arraignment after a Thursday indictment and was bound over on a $5,000 bond.
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New York
Frank P. Pareish
Missouri Kansas Pipe Line Company
District Attorney's
MacDonald to Visit Cannes Villa During Riviera Holiday
Reports say Jeanette MacDonald plans to occupy Maurice Chevalier's Cannes villa for a Riviera holiday and would marry the French comedian, as she already has one fiancé.
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Cap D’antibes
France
Jeanette MacDonald
Maurice Chevalier
Cannes
Riviera
Marery
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