Farmers watch Washington battle over new farm relief plan
Secretary Wallace leaves a senate agriculture subcommittee meeting amid revision of Henry's farm relief proposal. Democratic senators and Farm Administration leaders question constitutionality as conferences, hearings, and revisions unfold. The Town Gazette notes farm prosperity depends on lawful, lasting measures, urging thoughtful legislation and broader farmer input. Herbert Hough of Oelwein praises careful writing for a paper.
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Wallace
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Henry
Davis
Senate
AAA
Washington
New Deal
Roosevelt
Dr Gorman Found Dead In Car Snow Dr Fairfax Drive
Dr. T C Gorman 62 of 2420 Grande Ave SE Cedar Rapids died Friday at 10 40 p m in his car in a snow drift in the driveway of the John Murphy home Fairfax while responding to an emergency. Coroner ruled he was dead on arrival from a cerebral hemorrhage likely while driving up the driveway. No inquest planned. Surviving: wife Mary Ellen two sons Edward D and Robert E a daughter Mary Ellen and three sisters. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Cedar Rapids
T. C. Gorman
Grande Avenue SE
Fairfax
John Murphy
Pioneer
Dr. Gorman
Wyoming
John
Mary Gorman
Jones County
Anamosa
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Cook County
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Gorman
Mary Ellen Gavin
Immaculate Conception Church
Knights of Columbus
Woolley Mentioned as Possible Church Moderator
Chicago delegates on Saturday indicated Mary E. Woolley president of Mount Holyoke College and US delegate to the Geneva arms conference may be elected moderator of the Congregational and Christian churches of the United States for the first time. The election will be held at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Chicago
Congregational and Christian Churches of
United States
National Executive Council
Mary E. Woolley
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke
Mass
Farmers and Wallace at odds over Gazette praise
The speaker defends Henry Wallace as a friend of farmers amid criticism from The Cedar Rapids Gazette. He argues Wallace is earnest and sincerely seeks to aid agriculture, though results may not yet satisfy critics, and predicts readers will wait to see what “Everybody’s happy” now means.
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Cedar Rapids
Wallace
Henry Wallace
Hough
Gazette
Ten Persons Arrested in Liquor Cleanup At Iowa City
Davenport AP reports ten Iowa City liquor tax law violators indicted by a federal grand jury in Ottumwa were arrested on bench warrants by U S Marshal and deputies. Nine remained in Scott County jail awaiting appearance for bond posting. bonds ranged from 2500 to 5000 dollars. Names include A L Whetstein Earl Nelson Carl Copps Mrs Gladys Hoyt Blanche Fleming Henry Herrin and others. Secor is hospitalized at Mercy hospital Iowa City.
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Davenport
Ottumwa
Charles A. Dewey
Scott County
Federal
Tare
A. L. Whetstein
Earl ‘Nelson
Carl ‘Copps
Gladys" Hoyt
Blanche ,Fleming
Henry
Herrin
Sand
Roberti
Os Arvey
Hird
G. ‘L. Antles
Whetstein
Nelson
Merriam and Lipsey Plan Immediate Riverside Wedding
Gov Frank F Merriam and Mrs Jessie Stewart Lipsey of Long Beach formerly Tipton Iowa plan an immediate wedding in Riverside County The couple filed notice of intention to wed in Riverside on Wednesday noting their acquaintance in Iowa and California
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Los Angeles
Frank F. Merriam
Jessie Stewart Lipsey
Long Beach
Tipton
Iowa
Riverside County
California
Lipsey
Merriam
Riverside
Chamber warns rising government costs threaten budget
The U S Chamber of Commerce warned that the federal government's finances face increasing concern due to huge new expenditures not in the President's budget. It urged deficit elimination through spending cuts, warned inflation risk from free spending, and questioned chances of new tax legislation, noting that revenues and unemployment relief trends offer limited relief.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Scottsboro case attack blamed on white persons
Birmingham Alabama sheriff J Street Sandlin says white persons plotted an attack on guards by Scottsboro defendants. Ozie Powell wounded by a pistol shot fired by a deputy sheriff while being moved to Birmingham. Powell faces an eleven stitches neck wound and a 3 inch knife cut. National guard and state patrols surrounded Hillman Hospital and jail to avert race clashes. Lieutenant Governor Knight disputes socialist and defense committee statements questioning Alabama officers’ conduct.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. Street
Sandlin
Scottsboro
Ozie Powell
Edgar Blalock
National Guard
Peregnal
Adjt
Coleman
Hillman
Powell
Thomas E. Knight, Jr
Norman.Thomas
Scottsboro Defense Committee
International Labor Defense
Alabama
Permanent injunctions halt processing tax collection in Iowa
Federal Judge George C. Scott issued permanent injunctions in Sioux City restraining Charles D. Huston from collecting processing taxes from Penick and Ford Inc Ltd and Rath Packing Co. The ruling follows a Supreme Court decision deeming the agricultural adjustment act unconstitutional. Penick and Ford Cedar Rapids and Rath Packing Waterloo had secured temporary injunctions last August. Other suits by Iowa Soap of Burlington and John Morrell and Co Otumwa Topeka Sioux Falls also won temporary relief. Bonds of 50000 each for Penick and Ford and Rath Packing were released.
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George C.scott
Sioux City
Charles D. Huston
Des Moines
Internal Revenue
Penick and Ford, Inc., Ltd
Rath Packing Company
Associated Press
United States Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Huston
Iowa Soap Company of
Burlington
John Morrell and Company
Ottumwa
Topeka
Kan
Sioux Falls
S. C
Scott
Penick and Ford
Rath Company
Three Die In Crash Of Plane In Texas
Three men were killed when their plane crashed five miles south of Itasca Texas on Saturday. The dead include R C Kirk pilot and operator of a private flying service at Grand Prairie Albert Boren a prominent Dallas architect and George W Carter of Dallas.
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Itasca
Tex
Here
R. C. Kirk
Grand Prairie
Albert Boren
Dallas
George W. Carter
New Farm Bill Faces Doubts in Senate Action
Washington AP reports the Senate agriculture committee deferred final action on the administration subsidy soil conservation farm plan citing doubts about constitutionality. The bill retains broad grant powers for the secretary of agriculture to aid farmers in soil improvement and efficient land use, with House changes. It adds post 1938 subsidies aimed at state action to support erosion control goals.
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Iowa
AAA
Senate Subcommittee On Agriculture
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wallace
Smith
S C
Secretary of Agriculture
Jones
Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Record Cold Wave Grips Iowa With 35 Below
A new cold wave shatters records across Iowa as temperatures plunge to 35 below in the northeast and 30 below in the northwest, with Emmetsburg and Cedar Rapids among the cold spots. Snowfalls add to travel woes while rail and road services report near normal operations despite the deep freeze. The storm traces from the Mackenzie basin drive a steady southeastward chill, as fatalities nationally rise to about 150 from subzero weather.
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The
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Associated’ Press
Weather Office
Iowa
Mackenzie River
Canada
Northwest
Emmetsburg
Sidney
Red Oak
Shenandoah
Keokuk and Leon
Council Bluffs
Keokuk
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Webster City
Decorah
Charles City
Dubuque
Spencer
Sioux City
Chicago
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Tulsa taxicab driver granted license after sight aid
In Tulsa, city commissioners ruled a taxicab driver with weak eyes must wear glasses to qualify for a license. When told he could not afford them, officials provided the funds, and he obtained the license.
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Tulsa
Okla
Two Army Bombers Die In Midair Crash At Luke Field
Two survivors will testify before a military board as authorities probe a midair collision over Luke Army Airfield Hawaii. Six airmen died when two eight plane bombers collided 500 feet above the field during night maneuvers, fire and explosions followed. Captain James D. Willson of Pearl Harbor witnessed the crash. Fire marshal Captain Frank Cook ordered hoses on gasoline tanks to prevent a larger blast.
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Honolulu
U. H
INS
Military Board
Luke Army Airfield
William “G. Beard
San Francisco
Bernard ‘F. _Sablonsky
Bruce E. Taylor
Truman J.:gardner
John.d. Hartmann
Parkhurst
Charles
Fischer
Thomas Lanagan
Lanagan
Army
Lake Field
James D. Willson
United States Navy
Pearl Harbor
Willson
Frank Cook
Oahu
Auto Crash At Crossing Hurts Man In Cedar Rapids
Earl Boyle, 38, of 3307 Oakland Ave SE, suffered a facial cut when the car he rode in with L. J. Trail, 3300 Oakland Ave NE, collided with a Milwaukee freight train at Twelfth Street NE. Boyle was treated at St Luke's Hospital and released. The other passenger Trzil was uninjured. It was the second similar accident that week at the same crossing and time.
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Cedar Rafids
Earl Boyle
Oakland Avenue SE
L. J. Trail
Oakland Avenue NE
Milwaukee
Twelfth Street
Boyle
St. Luke’s Hospital
Trzil
Al Smith Ready to Assail New Deal in Speech
Alfred E. Smith prepares to broadcast a nationwide anti New Deal address from Washington with Liberty League backing. The event aims to rally 6 000 to 7 000 listeners at a hotel dinner costing five dollars per plate. Other speakers include John J. Raskob as the campaign unfolds toward Lincoln Day talks.
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al Smith
Washington
Alfred E.smith
Smith
Liberty
League
Liberty League
New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
William E. Borah
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Brooklyn
Topeka
Lincoln
Arthur Ae Vandenberg
Michij
Hoover
Vandenberg
New York
Arrested for Drunk Driving After Car Hits Parked Auto
John Kilberger, 48, of 1708 C street SW, was arrested at 6 30 p m Friday for drunken driving after his vehicle collided with a parked car owned by Leland LeFebvre, 1219 Third avenue SW. Kilberger pled not guilty in district court Saturday. bond set at 1000. He was previously convicted in Linn county court on Oct 27 1931 for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
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Cedar Rapids
John Kilberger
C Street
Leland LeFebvre
Third Avenue
Kilberger
LeFebvre
H. C. Ring
Linn
Explosion and fire sweep Darragh Plumbing Shop
An explosion at the Darragh Plumbing Shop 121 Fourteenth Avenue SE sparked a blaze at 10:03 a.m. Saturday, igniting interior walls and a second floor. Firefighters, aided by an urgent city-wide response, fought flames as insurance covered the owner’s losses. The incident occurred amid a spate of seven fires in just over an hour and a half.
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W. Darragh
Fourteenth “Avenue
James Jasa
Darragh
Mary Novak
Floyd N. Robb
Sixth Street
Family of 12 wiped out in crossing crash
Phyllis McBride five and her large poverty stricken family perished when a speeding Wabash passenger train struck their aged car near Leo Indiana. Marion McBride 43 a WPA worker died with wife Susan 40 and seven others. The infant was found 150 feet from the mother. Witnesses said the car advanced onto the tracks as the engine blew its warning whistle.
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Fort -Wayne
Ind
Phyllis ‘McBride
Marion McBride
PWA
Marion
McBride
WPA
Susan
William. Connor
Leo
Grabill
Hej
Grhaeind
George King
Poultry Markets in Boston and Chicago Placed Under Federal Supervision
Washington AP M L Wilson acting secretary of agriculture signed an order designating Boston and Chicago as live poultry markets subject to federal supervision under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Live poultry dealers in interstate commerce must obtain licenses. Boston takes effect February 26 and Chicago on March 4. Licenses are free to qualified applicants who prove fitness and financial responsibility.
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Washington
M. L. Wilson
Boston
Chicago
Packers and
Mills Brothers singer John Mills dies at 25
Bellefontaine Ohio dispatch reports John Mills, eldest of the Mills Brothers, died at his mother's home from a lung ailment contracted after a London appearance. The Mills quartet were internationally known on radio and screen.
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Bellefontaine, O
Mills Brothers
John Mills
Ethel Mills Jacksonere
London
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Snes
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