Townsend plan critique argues against massive redistribution
A column criticizes the Townsend plan by posing a fiction where seven percent of residents receive half the town’s income. It argues such a scheme would fail in any town from Cedar Rapids to Vinton, with 93 families bearing the burden and councils unlikely to approve the outlandish arrangement.
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Parent
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Vinton
Mount Vernon
Shellsburg
Wallet of Bonds Vanishes From Wall Street Vault
A black leather wallet containing bonds and securities worth 1.456 million dollars disappeared from a Wall Street deposit room. Morris Blanfield, 65, a longtime Bank of Manhattan messenger, left the wallet on a ledge while noting details. Police seek two other messengers as investigators weigh theft versus accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Morris Blanfield
Bank of the Manhattan Company
C. S. Devine and Company
U. S.S
Bank of Manhattan
McCarthy
Joss
U. S
Martin Conboy
Department of Justice
Blanfield
Winkleman
Devine
National City Bank
Contested Votes Loom in Clark Haas Judicial Race
In Linn county courthouse a contest court reviewed about 120 disputed ballots from Jones county in the Eighteenth district judge race between Republican A B Clark of Cedar Rapids and Democrat C J Haas of Mallon. Official totals from seven precincts and twenty-one others yield Clark 3244 to Haas 3150 with 120 ballots pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Clark-Haas
Jones County
A. B. Clark
C. J. Haas
Mallon
Clark
Sherwood A. Clock
Hampton
Carl B. Stiger
Toledo
Harold D. Evans
Haas
Lark
Vast Work Done By Iowa Farm Groups In 1934
Special to The Gazette Ames report by R. K. Bliss shows 100 county agents in 99 Iowa counties held 10 000 educational meetings on the corn hog program in 1934 drawing over 500 000 farmer attendees. about 7 000 county and township committee members were trained. The figures cover the corn hog program and exclude drought loans wheat adjustment and other activities. Regular extension sources funded most costs. AAA funds covered only part of educational work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
R. K. Bliss
Ames Extension Service
Bliss
Murl McDonald
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Towa Extension Service
Wurlds
AAA
Extension Service
Agricultural Economics Service
Denies Action Is Planned Against Mrs Hauptmann
In Flemington New Jersey George K Large special assistant attorney general denied the state planned any action against Mrs Anna Hauptmann Thus far there is no evidence linking her to the case Only if future testimony shows she had knowledge will the state pursue action Police officials at federal state and city levels have fully absolved her
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flemington
N. J
George K. Large
Hauptmann
Anna Hauptmann
Large
Reynolds Heirs Seek Compromise On Tax
The three surviving children of the late R J Reynolds contest North Carolina inheritance tax on the Smith Reynolds estate. They propose a compromise granting the state a 2 million dollar inheritance fee before division. Attorneys for R J Reynolds Jr Nancy Reynolds Bagley and Mary Reynolds Babcock filed the answer in Forsyth county court by agreement of litigants. The case may be heard soon after February 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem, N. C
R. J. Reynolds
North Carolina
Smith Reynolds
R. J. Reynolds Jr
Winston-Salem
Nancy Reynolds Bagley
Greenwich, Conn
Mary Reynolds Babcock
Greenwich
Forsyth County Superior Court
Indict Meisner For Kidnapping Of Labatt
London Ontario grand jury returns a true bill against David Meisner of Covington Kentucky for the kidnapping of John S. Labatt, a wealthy brewer. Trial set for Wednesday with about 50 crown witnesses and 25 defense alibi witnesses from Covington.
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London
Ont
INS
David Meisner
Covington
Middlesex County Grand Jury
John S. Labatt
Meisner
Labatt
Huey Long Blames Standard Oil Over Death Plot
Baton Rouge reports say Huey P Long accused Standard Oil of Louisiana of plotting his death as national guardsmen patrolled tense state capital amid a martial law atmosphere. Square Deal leader Ernest Bourgeois remains missing, his wife saying she knows his location, while militia clashes and shootings heighten the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Standard Oil Company of
Louisiana
Ernest Bourgeois
Square Deal Association
Long
Washington
Standard Oil
United States Senate
Huey
Fred C. O'Rourke
Ralaing
O’rourke
National
East Baton Rouge Parish
Ju. C. Cave
New Orleans
Senate
Standard Oil Company
Mohawk Steering System Failures Probed After Liner Sinks
Two seamen testified before a federal inquiry that the Mohawk automatic steering system failed just before the Ward liner collided with the freighter Talisman off Seagit New Jersey. The crash sank the liner, killing 35 and leaving ten missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mohawk
Jersey
Federal Board of Inquiry
Atlantic
Seagit
N. J
Everyday Living on Baffled Parents and Hurting Children
A reader recalls her childhood under distant, unaffectionate parents who withheld love and questions. She describes feeling unwanted, hiding in a dark cupboard, and later battling lasting scars. The piece urges readers to shed the shadow of hurt and affirm worth in God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Woman leads riot in British Commons against MacDonald
A woman in the public gallery shouted down the unemployment bill, crying down with the baby starving government and down with fascists. Attendants cleared the gallery as a brief clash occurred before debate resumed. Prime Minister MacDonald spoke on naval talks amid foreign crisis concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
J. Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Floor of Commons
Commons
Mac‘Donald
Japan
Saar
Britain
Germany
Senator Johnson Opposes World Court Amid Telegram Surge
Washington dispatch: Senator Hiram Johnson urges rejection of the League of Nations World Court amid a flood of telegrams to Capitol Hill. Officials report 17 extra wires and 37 000 messages arriving by noon, with hopes of reaching 100 000 before night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Hiram Johnson
California
Senate
League of Nations
Roosevelt
Capitol
Coughlin Labels World Court a Dead Horse
Detroit ap Reverend Charles E. Coughlin waited for results of his appeal to his audience to flood Congress with telegrams opposing adherence to the world court. Critics in New York called his Sunday speech false in parts as the national world court committee denounced it.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
World Court
Congress
National World Court Committee
New York
Studebaker and Rockne Motor Plan Gets Court OK
Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick confirmed a $12 million financial reorganization plan for Studebaker Corporation and the Rockne Motor Corporation in federal court in Fort Wayne Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne, Ind
Thomas W. Slick
Studebaker Corporation
Rockne Motor Corporation
Fascists uncover revolt plot of Austrian Reds
Vienna police said a radical plot to overthrow Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and establish communist rule in Austria was uncovered. Raids revealed government workers among supporters, with 29 communists arrested. most were university students clerks or government employees, nearly all Jews, tied to the Jabran society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
United Press
Schuschnigg
Jabran Society
Hiking Youth Paroled To Priest In Anderson Indiana
Edward Foster a red headed 16 year old from Anderson was paroled after a string of grocery store robberies. He chose a daily round trip to Alexandria with a 20 pound brick load as an alternative to a reform school. Judge Charles E. Smith ordered the unusual probation assigning Rev. Leo Scheetz of St Mary’s Church in Alexandria as his home pastor supervising the parole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Smith
Hauptmann Denies Writing Jafsie on Board in Lindbergh Trial
Bruno Hauptmann, under fierce cross examination in Flemington New Jersey, admits lying about past NY questioning but denies kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. He clashes with Attorney General David T. Wilentz in a tense witness stand, insisting on innocence amid a heated exchange over ransom money and the hoax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Hauptmann
Wilting
Lindbergh
David T. Wilentz
New York
Wilentz
Hauptmann
Hauptmann Faces Cross-Examination In Wilentz Duel
In Flemington Hauptmann pressed the attorney general as he answered questions with guarded memory. The court was tense, with tight admission rules and a packed audience as Justice Trenchard opened the session. The defendant returned to the witness stand amid scrutiny from federal investigators and Bronx police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flemington
H.j
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
Hauptmann-Wilentz
John H. Curtiss
Justice Trenchard
Hauptmann
Judge Lovejoy To Fill In For Ellison In Linn County Court
Judge A B Lovejoy of Waterloo and his shorthand reporter Henry W Brandt will arrive in Cedar Rapids Tuesday to assist in the January term trial work in Linn County district court. Illness of Judge F O Ellison of Anamosa and the Clark Hass election contest occasioned the assignment by the state supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
Henry W. Brandt
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
District Court
F. O. Ellison
Anamosa
Clark- Hass
Lovejoy
State Supreme Court
Indict Mothers of Barrow and Parker in Harboring Case
A federal grand jury indicted 17 people in Dallas on charges of conspiring to harbor and conceal Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The mothers and other relatives named aided the pair from May 1933 to May 1934, with trials set for February before Judge William H. Atwell.
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Dallas
Tex
Clyde
Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Southwest
Louisiana
Department of Justice
Parker
Marie Francis
L. C Barrow
Raymond Hamilton
Southwestern Desperado
John Bushden
Lillian McBride
Joe Francis
Steve Davis
S. J. Whatley
William Jones
Jack Sherman
W. H. Bybee
William H Atwell
Case at a Glance Associated Press Summary
Hauptmann, pressured by croes examiner, shouts Stop that When accused of lying admits he lied about ransom bills Denies he wrote Jassie numbers on closet board Claims ladder and window in Bronx The eyee Says window ladder details confuse Dole Admits he didn t keep semi bills when they were placed in Fisch s shoebox
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Associated Press
Hauptmann
Croes Examiner
Jassie
Bronx
Eyee
Jsppeineet
Dole
Fisch
Samuel Foley
John F. Condon
Hauptmann admits some false statements in Lindbergh ransom case
The article recounts Bruno Hauptmann acknowledging he lied about not counting ransom money and denying he drafted notes or copied Dr. Condon's address. He also denies knowing the Lindbergh child’s birth date, while facing cross examination in court amid a tense, publicized setting.
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Townsend Plan Club
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Reynolds
Standard OL
George Alessi
Tangipahoa Parish
Joe Anzalone
Alessi
Joseph Fort Newton
DR. Newton
British Commons
Coughlin
Studebaker
Jafsie
Hurl
Judge Lovejoy
Ellison
Miss Parker
Isidor Fisch
Anna
New Jersey
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