Plan for tenant land ownership gains three point proposal
Des Moines reports on a Friday conference led by W W Alexander head of the federal resettlement administration at the National Institute on Farm Tenancy and Land Tenure. A three point program was urged: low down payments 3 to 5 year probation and a 40 year amortization at about 2 percent with 1.8 percent extra on principal. Proposals to curb land speculation included windfall tax graduated land tax and a national land policy akin to Britain's Ireland. Joe Allen Des Moines mayor suggested constitutional basis for homesteading.
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Des Moines
W. W. Alexander
Federal Resettlement Administration
National Institute On
Washington
Ons Es Vty Alexander Premeured
Great Britain
Ireland
Joe Allen
Dubuque Cops Suspended Over Prisoner Death
City manager Roger Evans suspended three policemen Ed Vosberg Ray Horsfall and Ernest Breithaupt for thirty days in relation to the death of John Powers who died in a cell after being picked up for intoxication and left without medical examination. John Giellis the police chief recommended the suspensions. Physicians attributed Powers death to a likely stroke.
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Dubuque
Roger Evans
John Powers
Evans
Ed ‘Vosberg
Ray Horsfall
Ernest Breithaupt
John Giellis
Powers
United States and El Salvador Sign Trade Treaty
The United States and El Salvador signed a reciprocal trade agreement in San Salvador. The pact marks the sixteenth such agreement, though details were not immediately released by the State Department.
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U. S
el Salvador
Washington
State Department
United States
San Salvador
The World Should Not Be Solemn All The Time
A 1937 essay argues solemnity often masks ignorance and prejudice. It contrasts Lincoln Twain and Holmes with humor, urging cheerfulness and wit over pompous gravity. Real religion should lift spirits and clear poison from wild flowers.
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Lincoln
Ornel
Dr“ Holmes
Mark Twain
Sidney Smith
Illinois Leads Iowa On 1936 Corn Crop
Illinois produced about 218 million bushels of corn to top Iowa's 212 million, ending Iowa’s long reign as king corn. Drought hit Iowa harder, accounting for the shift. Illinois also supplied much of the white corn used in breakfast foods, with prices from August to date the highest since mid-1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Illinois
Iowa
A. J. Surratt
Ilinois
Federal
Departments of Agriculture
Surratt
Paroled Convicts Sentenced To Die For Cop's Slaying
In Chicago, Frank Doc Whyte and Stanley Murawski, both paroled convicts, were found guilty of murdering Policeman Michael Toth. A jury sentenced them to die in the electric chair after just over an hour of deliberation. A new trial motion was set for March 1 before Judge John Prystalski, with execution date pending that ruling.
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Chicago
Frank “Doc” Whyte
Stanley Murawski
Michael Toth
John Prystalski
Metal Parley Rumbles Over Recognition at Fansteel Sit-Down
In Waukegan Illinois a Friday night mediation attempt stalled over union recognition for Fansteel Metallurgical workers after a two hour eviction battle. CIO attorney Joseph Jacobs rejected outside organizers while officials from city state and federal labor offices attended. North Chicago officials warned sympathy actions could draw in lager plants. The meeting included Fansteel counsel Max Swiren Mayor John Dromey CIO organizer Meyer Adelman and U S labor conciliators as talks continued.
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Waukegan
Chicago
Max *Swiren
John’ Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Iron
Ee Ee Eines
Tans
Joseph H. Jacobs
CIO
Jacobs
Swiren
John “Dromey
Meyer Adelman
Robert _ Pilkington
John &. O'Connor
U. S. Department of Labor
Leo Krzycki
Paterick Cullen
A. L. McInerney
Frank M. Opeka
North Chicago
Opeka
Lager Lock Corporation
Chicago Hardware Foundry
Quaker Oats Boosts Dividend To Five Dollars Per Share
The Quaker Oats company raises its annual common stock dividend from 4 to 5 dollars a share. Directors set a quarterly 1.25 dollar dividend payable March 25 after reporting 1936 earnings the best in five years. Consolidated net income was 5,733,956 with earnings 6.63 per share after preferred dividends.
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Chicago
Quaker Oats Company
Quaker Oats Company and Subsidiaries
Carmody Confirmed as Head of Rural Electrification Administration
The Senate on Friday confirmed John M. Carmody of New York as administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration for a term through 1946.
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Carmody
REA
Washington
LLP
Senate
John M. Carmody
New York
Rural Electrification Administration
Europe moves to isolate Spain with frontier patrols
Twenty six European nations with Portugal agreed to station frontier guards and warships to cut foreign aid to Spain. A Russo Portuguese Basque coast patrol and British Gibraltar supervision would merge with French Balearic patrols as observers watch Pyrenees and Strait routes awaiting final approval.
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London
Portugal
Spain
Neutrality Committee
France
Great Britain
Pyrenees
Gibraltar
Britain
Basque
Straits
Balearic Islands
Morocco
Valencia
Pontepee Pechuee
Burgos
Ice Gorge Flooding Threatens Iowa Lowlands
An ice gorge on the East Nishna River between Riverton and Hamburg released flood waters Friday night, inundating 500 to 1,000 acres of lowland and threatening Burlington railroad tracks. Officials used dynamite to stabilize the gorge and suspended service on part of the branch from Red Oak to Nebraska City. Three to four miles of track were flooded, while Sidney officials said the danger to farms and homes was not yet serious.
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Sidney
Nishna River
Riverton
Hamburg
Burlington Line
Burlington
Red Oak
Nebraska’ City
Neb
Death toll rises as Wyoming blast kills seven aboard ship
At Los Angeles harbor a deadly gunnery accident on the battleship Wyoming claimed seven lives and injured eleven. The latest fatality was Pienney Emsley of Atlantic City New Jersey, dying aboard the Relief hospital ship. Navy officials ordered inquiries as crews prepared for investigations into the premature shell detonation in gun turret No. 13 during a secret San Clemente island exercise.
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Los Angeles
Wyoming
Pieney Emsley
Atlantic City
N. J
Relief
Mussolini to Launch Italy into Great War Prep
Mussolini moves Italy toward vast military buildup reacting to Britain's rearmament drive and U S policy shifts. The fascist regime plans secret large appropriations to accelerate army navy and air force expansion, framing a broader arms race.
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Rome
Mussolini
Britain
Italy
Universal Service
Iu Duce
Grand Council
Washington
United States
Ilduce
Europe
Nab Suspect Sought in Rail Agent Death in St Louis
Detective Lieut Leonard Murphy said Edwin Huckenstine 21 was arrested as he left the Chevrolet Motor plant. He is sought by Kansas City police as a suspect in the slaying of Gayland W Linhart, a railroad agent shot after a brief argument at his apartment.
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St, Louis
Leonard Murphy
Edwin Huckenstine
Kansas City
Gayland W. Linhart
Huckenstine
Chevrolet Motor Company
Murphy
Linhart
Daughter Of Senator McAdoo Files For Divorce In California
Ellen McAdoo de Onate daughter of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo filed for divorce from Rafael Lopez de Onate in Los Angeles charging non-support. She seeks custody of their son Richard born during their 1934 marriage in Albuquerque New Mexico after a California marriage dispute.
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Los Angeles
Ellen McAdoo de Onate
United States
William Gibbs McAdoo
Wilson
Rafel Lopez de Onate
Richard
de Onato
California
Albuquerque
N. M
W. J. Heleher
McAdoo
de Onate
Philippine Islands
Lindys Hop Across Indo-Persian Border to Gwadar
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh flew from Bushire Persia across the Indo-Persian frontier to Gwadar for the night. They left Friday morning skirting the Persian Gulf coast and refueled en route before continuing eastward toward Karashi and beyond.
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Gwadar
India
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bushire
Persia
Persian Gulf
Karashi
Virginian Peggy Garcia in $500000 suit in supreme court
Peggy Garcia a Virginia native testified in a New York court about alleged romance with violinist Rubinoff. Abrupt adjournment followed as Halprin pressed to prove marriage promises amid denials and cross examination.
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New
YORK
Peggy Garcia
Supreme Court
Dave Rubinoff
Rubinoff
Virginia
Astoria
Abraham Halprin
Peggy
Bat Rubineff
Rubineff
Mayr
Supreme, Court
Salvatore Cotillo
Halprin
Bernard’ Sandler
Brooklyn
Miss. Garcia
Exonerated: Woman Arrested by Husband in Manslaughter Case
Mrs. Edward Kelly a 30 year old Chicago woman was exonerated by a coroner s jury after admitting she fled the scene of an automobile collision that killed attorney Henry L Chatroop. Police husband had originally arrested her on manslaughter charges. Prosecutors said the manslaughter count would be dropped and she would face a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
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Chicago
Edward Kelly
Five Years for Hog Theft Sentenced in Farragut Case
Aliie Smith of Farragut was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to stealing a $15 hog from Mrs. Fannie Smith of Riverton.
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Sidney
Aliie Smith
Farragut
State
Fannie Smith
Riverton
Indictment Returned Against 19 Auto Workers in Anderson
Madison County grand jury returned indictments charging 19 automobile workers in Anderson with malicious trespass riot and other counts tied to labor strife. Bonds set at 100 to 250 dollars. preliminary hearing likely Saturday before Circuit Judge Charles E. Smith. Union attorney Milton Siegel said bonds would be offered then.
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Anderson
Ind
Madison’ County
United ‘Automobile
McDaniel
Charles E. Smith
General Motors
Milton” Siegel
Indianapolis
Union
House Passes Huge Airmail and Treasury Bills in One Action
Government measures approved by the House authorize large sums for treasury post office and debt sinking funds. The package includes 718 million for treasury activities and 782 million for the post office, with about 1.468 billion for debt interest and sinking fund purposes. It also funds a transatlantic airmail project starting next November with four round trips weekly between Southampton and New York, shared by American and British firms.
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Treasury
Post - Office
Southampton
Eng
New York
Senate clash over Roosevelt court plan sparks broad debate
In Washington Senate leaders and opponents argued over Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator Robinson warned of a hidden drive to control publicity and institutions to cry down the president, as Sen. Ashurst defended the administration bill. Opponents warned of dictatorship while progressives backed court enlargement as constitutional amendment route deemed slow.
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Washington
Senate
Ark
United States
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Robinson
Henry Fountain ‘Ashurst
Ariz
Senate Judiciary Committee
High Tribunal
America
Sen
Burton
K. Wheeler
Mont
U. S. Guyer
House Judiciary Committee
House
Gardner Withrow
Wis
Withrow
Iowa Senate backs property tax relief bill with tax receipts plan
The Iowa Senate approved a tax exemption bill to use sales and income tax receipts to cut property taxes for about 300,000 farm and city homeowners. It would allocate funds for pensions, unemployment relief, and admin costs, with most revenue directed to property tax reduction.
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Des
Moines
Towa Senate
House
Senate
Homestead Tax Credit Proposals Move Through Senate
Drafted by the senate bill would grant a tax credit equal to each dollar invested by homestead owners, with county supervisors deciding refunds. Action on the homestead bill accompanied a bill to enact a sales tax set to expire this year, the major revenue source for the three-point region.
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Scom
Senate
Mae
Dizallow
Accord Seen Near in Rail Industry Pension Talks
White House sources expect an imminent announcement from the railroad retirement board on a tentative understanding between railroad management and labor. President Roosevelt spoke at a press conference amid two months of pension talks and ongoing legal challenges to retirement laws, involving about 2.2 million carriers and workers in a $26 billion industry.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Railroad ‘Retrement Board
Nave
Union Official Is Shot Dead In Auto
Teaneck New Jersey police report Nora man Redwood 44 business manager of the Compressed Air Workers union of New York was shot and killed while seated in his car outside his home Friday night. Investigators consider labor trouble as a possible motive. assailants fled the scene.
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Teaneck
Noraman Redwood
Compressed Air ‘Workers Union of
New York
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