Tragedy in New London Shocks a Nation
The New London Texas disaster, the school’s lethal gas incident, and the deaths of more than 500 students and staff are recalled amid nationwide mourning. The piece links gas risk to wartime fears and contrasts with editorials praising Grover Cleveland and Roosevelt. It covers labor arbitration in steel, Iowa tax battles, and rural electrification debates, highlighting public reaction and political commentary.
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New London
Tex
New York
Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
John H. Finley
New York Times
Supreme Court
C. O
Atce
Big Steel
Lewis Group
Truce Hopes Rise In Chrysler Strike Talks
Detroit reports hint at an unofficial truce as Gov Murphy and federal officials push for settlement at the conference table. Sit down strikers mass behind barricades at Chrysler plants and refuse arrest while Sheriff Wilcox weighs strategy with limited deputies.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Frank Murphy
Mich
Thomas Wilcox
Wayne County
Wilcox
Allan
Campbell
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
New York City
United Automobile Workers
Homer
Richard Frankensteen
UAW
Frankensteen
Martin
Eddystone
Fort Wayne
Iowa Senate Repeals $2 Old Age Assistance Tax
Iowa Senate votes to repeal the $2 head tax funding old age pensions after noting the levy is unworkable and evaded by many residents. The move comes as homestead tax relief would add about $5.5 million for similar pension payments, with House action uncertain.
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Iowa
Senate
Des Moines
Iowa Senate
Friends of Repeal
House
Iowa Senate approves farm to market road bill for governor
The Iowa senate passed by 37 to 19 a remodeled farm to market road bill sending it to Gov. Kraschel for signature. The measure creates the program’s administration to seek possible federal road grants while lawmakers clash over house amendments and funding diversion of four percent of primary road funds.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
Nelson G. Kraschel
House
Kraschel
Edward Breen
Fort Dodge
Compromise Backed for Crop Pest Fund to Fight Pests
A conference committee recommends a 2 million dollar revolving fund to fight insect and plant pests. The plan splits between a 5 million dollar Senate bill by Senator Guy Gillette and a 100 thousand dollar House measure plus unexpended funds. Gillette notes Rocky Mountain entomologists urged quick action ahead of the cricket hatching season.
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Washington
Senate
House
Guy Gillette
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Gillette
Rocky Mountain Region
Rocky Mountain
Columbia Wins Again In Catholic Tourney
Columbia academy of Dubuque Iowa beat St. Francis Mission of St Francis South Dakota 43 to 31 in a second round national Catholic tournament game in Chicago.
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Columbia
Chicago
Columbia Academy of
Iowa City Wins WPA Airport Grant for Runway Upgrade
City Engineer J. F. Sproatt announced WPA approved 51560 for runway construction and airport improvements. City funds add 13110, creating a second 3500 foot macadamized runway in a northwest southeast alignment. Work aims for completion by September next year with 6500 cubic yards crushed rock foundation and 65000 gallons asphalt macadam.
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Iowa City
J. F Sproatt
WPA
Midwest
Never Believe Your Night Thoughts They Lie
A 1937 reflection on fear at night, urging readers to trust faith over imagination. The piece cites Solomon and King David, noting wisdom cannot conquer fear and recommending faith as the antidote. It urges opening the mind to a higher power to let fear fade and cautions against trusting night thoughts.
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King Solomon
Solomon
David
London
Faith
Fontanges linked to French premier in diary scandal
Paris police disclosed Madeleine de Fontanges, the actress and former Rome correspondent, was friendly with a former French premier amid a diary seized from her apartment. The diary includes Mussolini references and notes two meetings arranged via an intermediary, while authorities weigh hush-up pressures over the Chambrun shooting.
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Paris
Madeleine
de Fontanges
de Chambrun
Mussolini
France
Mme. Fontanges
Benito Mussolini
Vittorio Cerutti
Yvon Delbos
Quai d'Orsay
Foreign Office
Chambrun
Rome
Liberte
Osage Drugist Fined $300 For Liquor Possession
Osage druggist Oscar Pohle was fined 300 dollars plus costs in district court after pleading guilty to illegal possession of liquor.
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OSAGE
Oscar Pohle
Iowa Farmers Plan Similar Crop Acreage to 1936
Federal statistician Leslie M. Carl reported Iowa farmers expect to plant about the same total crop acreage this year as last, or 10 percent more than 1936. Corn acreage planned for harvest reaches 11,036,000 acres, about four percent above the 10,612,000 harvested for all uses in 1936, with the 1928-32 average at 11,453,000 acres.
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Des: Moines
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Carl
Federal Crop’ Reporting Board
Iowa
Corn and spring wheat acreage up in USDA March intentions
The agriculture department on March 1 indicated a 2.2 percent rise in corn acreage to 94,840,000 and an 86.6 percent rise in spring wheat to 20,918,000 acres for harvest, with prior-year and 1928 32 averages showing corresponding production figures. Durum and other spring wheat areas and yields are provided, alongside oats and other crops, with continued note to Page 12.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Explosion kills and buries 425 in Texas school tragedy
Recovery ends as 425 bodies are recovered from wreckage of London Consolidated School after a catastrophic gas explosion. The disaster, blamed on seeping gas, prompted multiple inquiries, with death toll rising toward 550 and hundreds injured. A military board, state legislators, and Governor Allred mobilized to determine cause.
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New London
Tex
Red Cross
Associated Press
Texas
London Consolidated School
Parker
W. ©. Shaw
Gaston Howard
E. P. Schoch
University of Texas
Austin
James N. Allred
Military Court of National
Howard
Galveston
H.H.” Carlmichael
Texas Public Safety Department
Ed Clark
C. E. Parker
C. P. Kerr
Z. E. Coombes
National Guard
Highway Patrol
Walter Elliott
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Cenator Herring
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Herring
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Uncle Sam
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Martin, Lewis
Bulletin
Dally
Oklahoman
Oklahoma
Anasclated Press
Bath
Bill
Lester Gillette
Fostoria
Sam D. Goetsch
Decorah
Henry J. Grunewald
Blairstown
D. W. Kimberly
Paul L. Millhone
Clarinda
Milhone
Chamber
House Amendments and Send the Measure To Conference Committee
William S. Beardsley
New Virginia
2Cksiana
DR. Newton
Fontanges
Crop’ Reporting Board
U. S
Ralfe
East Valerine
Melrose
Newton
Names Board of Inquiry
J. I. Lynn
Oklahoma City
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