Iowa corn production forecast up to nearly 293 million bushels
Des Moines AP reports federal crop statistician Leslice M. Carl estimates Iowa corn production in 1935 at 291,150,000 bushels from 9,708,000 acres, about 100,000,000 more than last year, despite floods and cool wet weather. He notes national corn prospects near 2.045 billion bushels and a larger soybean crop, with regional gains across central counties despite flood damage.
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DES Moines
Leslice M. Carl
Iowa
Carl
Department of Agricultures
Cagl
Wayne
Lucas
Appanoose
Monroe
Decatur
Clark
Four Inch Rain Falls At Algona
AP report notes four inches of rain in one hour across parts of Kossuth County near Algona. Lightning struck the Trinity Lutheran church steeple as storms lashed areas late Wednesday causing crop damage and sporadic floods.
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Algona
LGONA
Kossuth
Trinity Heron
Birds in Song Bridge Nations in Gentle Parable
The piece recalls SR Edward Grey and Theodore Roosevelt as bird lovers who shared a fondness for identifying songs. They note English birds differ from American, except the golden crested wren which matches both shores. The essay argues common humanity lies in small daily acts beyond national grandeur.
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Edward Grey
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
England
Grey
New Forest
America
North America
Hapsburg rights restored in Austria
The federal diet passed a bill revoking penalties on the Hapsburgs and restoring confiscated property. Archduke Otto would regain ancestral holdings once President Miklas signs, with reports Otto forming a monarchist brain trust and quasi-cabinet after visiting exile sites in Belgium.
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Vienna
Federal Diet
Hapsburgs
Miklas
Otto
Europe
Steeneckerzeel Castle
Belgium
Roosevelt Wins TVA Victory In Early Senate Clash
Washington UPI report says President Roosevelt gains swift Senate support for broad TVA powers. Key moves include dropping a conferees with house amendments, targeting a death sentence for utility holding firms, and probes into lobbying tied to the Wheeler Rayburn bill. House and Senate acts push administration aims forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Senate
William Dieterich
House
John N. Garner
Farmer-Laborite
Bunton
Ken Wheeler
Barkley
Ky. Zeraerm Bee Minn
Wallace “H. White
Maine
TVA
Rules Committee
Senate Audit Committee
Corcoran Attacks Brewster Over Power Legislation
Washington DC. Thomas G Corcoran youthful RFC attorney labeled Rep. Brewster of Maine as lacking courage and in bad faith during resumed testimony before the house rules committee utility lobbying inquiry. He denied threatening to withdraw funds from the Passamaquoddy project unless Brewster backed the utility holding company death sentence. Accompanied again by Judge Ferdinand Pecora of New York Supreme Court.
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Washington
INS
Thomas G Corcoran
RFC
Brewster
Maine
House Rules Committee
Corcoran
Passamaquoddy
New York Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Baer Denies Rift With Bride After 12 Days
Max Baer travels from New York to Baltimore for a hand examination and rejects reports of a quarrel with his wife Mary Ellen Sullivan. Doctors find a strained tendon. Baer plans to return to New York and then Long Branch where his wife awaits.
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Max Baer
Bride
Baltimore
New York
Washington, D. C
Broadway
Baer
William F. Reinhoff
Reinhoff
James J. Braddock
Long Branch
Mary Ellen Sullivan
Charge Tax On Wealth Would Kill Industry
Washington reports cite opposition from George L. Marklan of the Philadelphia board of trade and WE Miles of the Fair Tariff league to a wealth tax. They argued such a plan taxes earnings used to fund crime and would harm big industry including Ford and Rockefeller. The hearing included sharp exchanges with Rep. Cooper and Rep. Treadway as Miles attacked Roosevelt and Roosevelt opinions. Hugo Noren proposed abolishing most federal arms, sparking rebukes as he urged dismantling the House of Representatives.
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Washington
House
George L. Marklan
Philadelphia Board of Trade
Fair Tariff League
Marklan
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Rep
Cooper
Tenn
Marklaw
Robert L. Doughton
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Allen Treadway
Mass
Franklin Roosevelt
Miles
Coughton
Hugo Noren
Pittsburgh
Senate
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Treadway
Noren
Rules Farm Benefits Open To Creditors
In Peoria Illinois AP Federal Judge J Earl Major ruled the Agriculture Department cannot withhold corn hog reduction allotment proceeds from creditors of a bankrupt farmer. James A Wells trustee in bankruptcy for Preston Scott Mercer county farmer testified George E Platt county corn hog control association refused to surrender $1 000 due Mercer to creditors.
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Peoria, II
J. Earl Major
U. S. Department of Agriculture
James A Wells
Preston Scott
Mercer
George E. Platt
County
Seized Slot Machines Sold By Sheriff in Black Hawk County
Waterloo report notes three sheriff sales of seized slot machines totaling 397 dollars over three years. Machines were sold to Ajax Novelty company run by Zon Atwood and C O Fouts of Waterloo, funds added to the county school fund.
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Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Cass
Ajax Novelty
Zon Atwood
C. O. Fouts
Ajax Novelty Company
Ajax Company
H. T. Wagner
Ralph W. Travis
A P Files Action Against Iowa Chain Tax
Des Moines AP The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tax company filed in US district court for an injunction against the Iowa chain store and gross receipts tax law. It says the law is discriminatory and confiscatory and would tax its 135 Iowa stores on $181,000 net 1934 profit, with an estimated $444,440 tax under the act. A hearing date was not set by Judge Charles A. Dewey.
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DES Moines
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tax Company
United States District Court
Iowa Board of Assessment and Review
Iowa
General Assembly
Atlantic and Pacific Co
Charles A. Dewey
Cummings Presses Ban on Currency Suits in Devaluation Row
Attorney General Cummings urged the House Banking Committee to pass a resolution prohibiting damage suits against the government for losses from dollar devaluation. He warned that without such a ban an international agreement to establish a gold standard would be nearly impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cummings
House Banking Committee
League appeals for immediate action in Abyssinia crisis
In Geneva Gaston Jeze Abyssinian legal representative urged the League of Nations council to intervene again in the Italo Abyssinia dispute. He spoke after arriving from Scheveningen where he and the commission of conciliation failed to break the deadlock. Italy indicated willingness to a special council session on July 25 if Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov presides under the June 25 resolution. Officials warned Abyssinia’s appeal creates a crisis unseen in the League’s history and a special session could be convened within days.
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Geneva
Gaston Jeze
League of Nations ‘Council
Jeze
Addis Ababa
Scheveningen
Holland
League
Commission of Conciliation
Italy
Council
Maxim Litvinoff
Abyssinia
Secretariat
Italian government cites new Ethiopian hostilities in Harrar report
Rome reports two fresh Ethiopian incidents in Harrar on July 6. The Italian government says the Italian consul was insulted and menaced by an Ethiopian in the first case. A second incident is described as another hostile act on the same day.
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Rome
Harrar
Ethiopia
Protest in Addis Ababa Over Ethiopian Incidents
A protest has been lodged in Addis Ababa regarding two incidents in which Ethiopians were involved. Authorities have not released further details.
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Tans
Addis Ababa
Mussolini Holds War Council Amid Ethiopian Appeal
In Rome Benito Mussolini gathered 120 generals and other high ranking officers for a council as an official described Ethiopia's latest appeal to the League of Nations as another useless attempt to prolong league influence in the Italo Ethiopian controversy.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Ethiopia
League of Nations
League
Abyssinia peace talks overshadowed by looming Italian attack
Britain's cabinet debated Abyssinia peace moves as observers asked when the Italian offensive would begin. Emperor Hirohito turned his attention to possible Italian interference with Japanese interests in Abyssinia, amid ongoing international diplomacy and speculation on future actions.
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London
INS
Britain
Abyssinia
Ee Torio
Emperor Hirohito
The
Mikado
Tokio
Reuter's
Tak
Price pleads guilty in LeMars bank robbery case
John Price, about 26, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation in the LeMars Savings Bank raid that netted about $7,000. He is jailed in Sioux City after failing to post 25 000 bond and faces sentencing July 22 before Judge O S Thomas. Four gunmen involved, including Price's brother George, William Cunningham and William Cash, were arrested. Cunningham seeks a separate trial.
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LE Mars
John Price
LeMars Savings Bank
Price
Sioux City
O. S. Thomas
LeMars Bank
George
William Cunningham
William Cash
Cunningham
Douglas Fairbanks Heads to Rejoin Lady Ashley in Europe
Douglas Fairbanks flies to New York to join Lady Sylvia Ashley for a European voyage aboard the Empress of Britain. If weather cooperates he will radio ahead for a chartered plane to Quebec. otherwise he will take a train. Plane arrival at Newark is 9 27 a.m. EST.
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Hollywood
Douglas Fairbanks
Sylvia Ashley
Europe
New York
Fairbanks
Quebec
Sylvia
Newark
President Dissolves Parliament Under New Electoral Law
Warsaw AP reports President Moscicki decreed parliament dissolved citing the new electoral law in effect Wednesday. The move follows political shifts after the law’s implementation.
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Warsaw
Moscicki
Confession By State Agents Reveals Sale Of Slots
County Attorney Shaffer will lead a rigorous investigation after an affidavit by Supervisor Sondergaard alleging three deputy sheriffs sold confiscated slot machines to a gambling syndicate. Deputies Studer Deach and Wallace admitted disposing of the machines. Sheriff Robertson called it a frameup and blamed a slot machine racket.
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Mason City
Frederick B. Shaffer
County Board of Supervisors
Warry Sondergaard
Shaffer
J. M. Robertson
Cerro Gordo County
Carroll
Sioux City
Harry E. Sondergaard
Robertson
Max Studer
Board of Supervisors
Studer
J. B. Deach
John W. Wallace
Sondergaard
Towa
Miwa
Dismantled slot machines linked to quor commission probe
In a report of a local court case, three members of the state liquor commission visited an office and viewed dismantled slot machines in a vault. A woman named Slim Francis of Carroll claimed agents sent her to buy the machines, offering $150 to deputies, with no payment to the office owner.
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Squor
Colorado
Slim’ Francis of Carroll
Nquor Commission
Francis
Hill Named Acting WPA Head in Iowa
Des Moines postmaster L S Hill was named acting director of the Works Progress Administration in Iowa by Harry L Hopkins. Hill will keep his postmaster job, as the acting post lacks a salary. He expects to consult Washington before confirming plans and may serve as adviser with an assistant handling day to day work. Hill has long been active in Iowa Democratic circles.
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Des,moines
L. S
Steve) Hill
Des’ Moines
Federal Works Progress
Iown
Hill
Harry L. Hopkins
Iowa
Des Moines
Works Progress
United States
Murphy
Washington
The
Progress Administration
E. J. Feuling
Democratic State Central Committee
Mayer testifies in graft probe as grand jury nears end
Woodle county grand jury nears final actions as Clyde Mayer joins the panel for a five hour session amid allegations of slot machine protection schemes. Mayer, linked to a larger graft case including Attorney General Ed L O'Connor and others, reportedly seeks immunity in exchange for cooperation. Police recently seized letters at Mayer home detailing alleged deals with the state administration for protection at $1 per machine. Mayer is under indictment along with several others on conspiracy charges related to operating gambling houses and devices.
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Woodle
Clyde Mayer
Iowa
Mayer
Max Duckworth
State Administration
Sioux City
Mt Woody
Mayer and associates appear before grand jury in raid case
Mayer, attorney Carlos Goltz, and prosecutors Havner and Naglestad met before the grand jury. Mayer then spent over an hour in the grand jury room and was seen signing a deposition. George M. Carlin and A A McBridy testified earlier as the Eagles club raid factored in the case. Mayer and his wife and brother John Mayer were subpoenaed to appear and assert constitutional rights.
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Goltz
Mayee
H. M. Havner
Ole Naglestad
Maayer
George M. Carlin
Eagles Club
A. A. McBridy
Campbell Baking Company
Mayer
John Mayer
Clergyman Calls Pearson Liar in Virgin Islands Probe
An Anglican clergyman Rev. E. G. Anson testified in the Senate investigation accusing Island Governor Paul Pearson of being an awful liar thief and hypocrite. The affidavit labels Pearson as a poor administrator amid islands tensions and graft accusations involving appointees and native workers.
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Pearson
Washington
Senate
Virgin Islands
Paul Pearson
E. G. Anson
Paul Yates
Yates
Anson
Ivins
Fresh home grown berries and other produce advertised
The Want Ads promote buying fresh berries cherries vege tables spring fries and other edibles under classification 33. Shoppers are urged to enjoy a cooling evening ride to save money and place garden produce ads by dialing 2 1121 Ad-taker.
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DR. Newton
Hapsburg
Austria
Administra UN
Rankin
O’connor
Thomas Corcoran
John Rankin
Miss
John O*connor
N. Y
Christine Cooper
Hazel Livingston
Life
Cedar Rapids
Max
Mrs. Baer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baers
Mary Kirk Brown
A. and
Iowa Chain Tax
Africa
Duce
WAR Council
Doug
Lady Ashley
Bulletin
WPA
Carlos Goltz
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