Telegraphs probe 1935 influence on legislation
The piece discusses the Senate lobby investigating committee led by Hugo Black seeking original 1935 messages aimed at swaying U S legislation. It notes possible summons for telegram senders and questions about endorsements of administration policies, plus broader concerns about free speech and anti American movements in universities.
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United States
Congress
Washington
Senate
Cap‘ital
Hugo Black
Black
Congress Delegation Fails to Reinstate Hagood in Army Row
A congressional group led by Rep McSwain and including Sen Byrnes and Rep Blanton failed to obtain assurances from Secretary Dern and Gen Craig to reinstate Gen Johnson Hagood after his removal. They argued the action harmed morale and urged reinstatement or modification, but no solution emerged.
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Washington
INS
Congress
George H. Dern
Gen
Johnson Hagood
Rep
McSwain
South Carolina
House Military’ Affairs Committee
Byrnes
Hagood
Rep. Blanton
Texas
Secretary of War
Malin Craig
Lees
Craig
Blanton
Roosevelt
March Grand Jury Set To Hear Franks Desertion Case
Linn county county attorney plans to present the James H. Franks case to the March grand jury. Franks 36 of 1106 Fifteenth Ave SE is charged with desertion for failing to report to WPA work and relief officials say he resisted relief payments. He was arrested Feb 20 and released on 200 bond after returning to the Dairy Dale sewer project. Franks has seven children in his home.
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Cudar Rapids
G. K. Thompson
James H. Franks
Fifteenth Avenue SE
Marcherm Grand Jury
Linn County
District Court
Franks
Ofanuary
Citizens’ ‘Committee
Board of Supervisors
Dairydale
Debate Over Government Change Sparks Student Involvement
The speaker argues for a broad student and public debate on the form of government. If change is desired, all bars on discussion should be lowered to allow open discourse on preferred governance. The question remains whether the current system is worth defending if it fails to meet the people's aims.
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Iowa City
Toyoto Kagawa
Ple
Japan
Kagawa
Tokio
Stu
Masaryk remembered as a sane guiding force for Czechoslovakia
In a tribute by DE NEWTON, Masaryk is hailed as a great humane statesman who led Czechoslovakia through tumultuous years. The essay recalls his early life, exile in England, long faith in freedom, and service as president for life, contrasting him with agitators and praising his modest, idealistic leadership.
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Masaryk
Czechoslovak “Republic
Austro- Hungary
City Temple
London
England
Olga
Czech Republic
Europe
Washington
Move to Transfer Land Bank Control
Congressmen move to return control of federal land banks to farmer stockholders. Rep C G Binderup says the bill shifts election power to a farm credit association bureau. Rep Guy M Gillette hints a Farm Bloc meeting to hear supporters of the change.
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Washington
Midwest
Federal Land Banks
House
C.G. Binderup
Neb
Farm Credit
Federal Land Bank
Guy M. Gillette
Lowa
Farm Bloc
National Federation of National Farm Loan Associations
Binderup
Farm Loan Association
Land Bank
Farm Credit Administration
Grain Dealer Asks Court To Dismiss Gov Appeal
Arthur W. Cutten a Chicago grain trader asked the Supreme Court to dismiss without review the government appeal from a circuit court ruling that freed him from suspension under the grain futures act. Secretaries Wallace and Roper and Attorney General Cummings, acting as the grain futures commission, had suspended Cutten from all markets for two years for manipulating wheat and failing to report his 1930 1931 holdings.
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Washington
Arthur W. Cutten
Chicago
Supreme Court
Cutten
Wallace and Roper
Cummings
Grain Futures Commission
White House hosts table on tax program with Roosevelt
Congressmen and fiscal experts met at the White House to discuss the administration tax plan. Morgenstern outlined borrowing 1.25 billion dollars as initial costs for a 2.237 billion soldier bonus, while leaders emphasized a general exploratory approach and no solid proposal yet.
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Washington
Gene Roosevelt
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenhau, Jr
Morgenthau
Therces
Congress
Autie Ettele
Jenna Garner
Joseph Wyrns
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance
Robert Deighton
Albent Barkley
Jority
House
Betee Jiam Barrersteigs
Éphen T
White
Roosevelt
New Deal
AAA
John W. McCormack
Mass
Ways and Means Committee
Garman Says Condon Talked With Kidnap Note Sender
Trenton N J AP Governor Hoffman questioned Perrone's testimony tying Bruno Hauptmann to the Lindbergh ransom note. Perrone said a Bronx man delivered the note to Condon on March 12 1932 and described Hauptmann as the giver. The note outlined contact instructions for the kidnapper.
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Trenton
N. J
Hoffman
Joseph Perrone
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
John F. Condon
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Perrone
Condon
Gunhill Road
Bronx
Hauptmann
Spurious Revenue Stamps Seized in Sioux City Raid
Federal agents with police seized 1 000 counterfeit internal revenue stamps and arrested 46 year old J C Cooper a bartender in Sioux City Iowa The stamps were found in a beer parlor in a package addressed to the Sioux City Novelty Company which did not exist and the postman was asked to deliver the package to the beer parlor.
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Sioux .City
Internal Revenue
J. C. Cooper
Sioux City
Army Insurgents in Tokyo Seek Return to Barracks
AP reports in Tokyo that a thousand army insurgents may move to restore order as four elder statesmen were assassinated. With civilian authority weakened, home minister Fumio Gotô acts as premier while imperial princes and high army officials confer with the emperor. A government cordon surrounded the area but was withdrawn as the barracks area remained quiescent.
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San Francisco
Japan
Fumio Goto
Hiroshito
Shey Ipthels Bar Wees Porns Proceei
Meisurs
Faces' Charge Of Grand Larceny In Minneapolis
Elmer J. Courteau secretary of Mayor Latimer's Minneapolis committee was arrested Thursday and charged with grand larceny. Captain James Mullen of the Minneapolis detective bureau said he did not know the basis for the charge.
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Minneapolis (Ap
Elmer J. Courteau
Thomas BE. Latimer
Greater
French Deputies Ratify Soviet Pact
Paris AP reports the chamber of deputies ratified the Franco Soviet mutual assistance treaty after a lengthy debate and a near clash. Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin predicted Senate approval next week as deputies voted 363 to 164.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Senate
Drift blockade hinders northwest Iowa travel
Des Moines reports describe frozen drifts as walllike obstacles after Wednesday’s storm. Snowplows need shovel crews and another day to clear trunk highways, while rail traffic remains limited west of Mason City. Ice jams complicate mains repair and rescuers pull stranded locals from Cedar creek and a snowbound Spencer school.
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Des’ Moines
Iowa
Ames
Mason City
Rome
Burlington
Green Bay
AL ‘Des' Moines
Raccoon River
Fairfield
John Stout
Lee Odum
Cedar Creek
Trotsky Exposes Soviet Treatment Of Loyal Critics In Exile
In a statement from Honefoss Norway to the AP, Trotsky details how political prisoners loyal to the Soviet Union face repression and exile. He cites Anton Ciliga and Zinoviev Kamenev as examples of intensified bureaucratic cruelty and punishment for dissent.
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Russia
Trotsky
Associated Press
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Committee
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Honefoss
Soviet Union
Anton Ciliga
Jugoslavian Communist Party
Comintern
Ciligan
Zinoviev
Kamenev
Lenin
Stalin
Ciliga
Tarovy
Bureau
United States
Grafts In State Politics Debated By Sioux City Prober
In Sioux City six months as special prosecutor are cited as a contrast to a statewide graft wing reaching the capitol dome. H M Hayner urges Lions club to demand nonpartisan candidates and good government, defending the grand jury probe against charges of political motive and calling for weighing facts to choose the right party representatives.
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Sioux City
Capitol
H. M
Haynet
Des Moines
Asov
Lions Club
Havner
Hiss
Arrest of Mrs La Plante and Beedle for intoxication
Patrolman Earl Davis arrested Mrs La Plante and George Beedle 36 of Des Moines on charges of intoxication near the Magnus hotel on Second Avenue. Relatives said she had been despondent over ill health after pneumonia and heart trouble, but police reported she was recovering prior to the incident.
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L. A.m
Earl“ Davis
George Beedle
Des’ Moines
Storeyjioon
la Plante
Magnus
Beedle
Davis
Record Attendance At Iowa Cooking School
The Iowa theater hosted a free public domestic science cooking session drawing about $1,500 attendees. Dorothy Ayers London demonstrated cauliflower timbales and meat pie with apple pie and cheesecake. Prizes include a Magic Chef gas range and a Grunow radio. Carolyn Nelson received the cradle cake centerpiece for her eleventh birthday. Continued on page 11 column 1.
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Iowa Theater
Cedar. Rapids
Dorothy ‘Ayers
London
Kenmore
W.C
Forsberg
Congress Backs Farm Aid Bill With $50 Million Plan
Both houses approved the conference report on a new farm aid program to replace AAA subsidies after the Supreme Court voided the old scheme. President Roosevelt expected to sign quickly to aid this planting season. The bill includes funding for subsidies and planned taxes to reimburse the treasury, with debates over dairy protection and grazing use amid broader farm measures.
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Washington
House
Senate
Supreme’court
Roosevelt
Borah
Idaho
Secretary of Agriculture
Garner
White House
Treasury
Congress
Independent’ Offices
AAA
Agriculture’ Department
McNary
Citizens Can Bring Own Liquor Across State Line
A New York resident who bought liquor in Connecticut for personal use and attempted transport across the state line was dismissed by County Judge Nolan. The judge ruled only Congress can regulate such transportation, dismissing the indictment against Joseph Ryan of New Rochelle, a local auto school proprietor, after repeated complaints by Westchester liquor dealers about New Yorkers buying liquor in Connecticut for savings.
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Connecticut
Gererald
Nolan
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Joseph
Ryan
New,Rochelle
Westchester
New Yorks
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