New Opportunities for Business Seen
A real estate convention urges tax relief to ease the burden on property owners and promote growth. Speakers call for a national limit on real estate taxes, stabilized mortgage credit, and unified action by realtors and owners. George E. Johnson presided at the Cedar Rapids banquet honoring the convention.
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Rose
Canada
United States
National Real Estate Board
Herbert A. Wilson
National Association
George E. Johnson
Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board
Stanley C. Hanks
Madison
Wis
Convict Fled From Train In Iowa Leap
A posse led by Sheriff T V Lacy and U S Marshal E J Knudson searched hills south of Blockton Iowa for Harold Nevers a 25 year old Minnesota convict who escaped by leaping through a train window as the Great Western train stopped for water near 4 am He fled into darkness before guards fired and no injuries found. Blockton sits near the Missouri border in Taylor County five miles from the state line.
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Blockton
T. V. Lacy
U. S
E. J. Knudson
Here
Harold Nevers
Minnesota
Nevers
Leavenworth
Great Western
Taylor County
Missouri Line
Mother and Two Daughters Die in Fort Wayne Crash
A mother Mrs John Swisher 55 of Antwerp Ohio and her two daughters Dorothy 14 and Vesta 30 were burned to death after their overturned car trapped them following a collision in Fort Wayne Indiana. The coroner identified the victims.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
John Swisher
Antwerp
Dorothy Swisher
Vesta Swisher
Hanford Legion Post Opens Office for Bonus Applications
Robert J. Vinch, commander of the Hanford post, announced the office will operate in City Hall next Friday and Saturday from 1 to 9 p.m. to assist World War II veterans who have not filed for payment of adjusted service certificates. A fingerprint expert will assist with the application process.
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Robert J. Vinch
Hanford
American Legion
Vladh
Death of H A Smythe in Santa Monica Calif
H A Smythe died at his home in Santa Monica California as reported Saturday to Mrs Edna Shops of Cedar Rapids Iowa his widow who was formerly Mrs Clair Sands. Sands a Rock Island engineer died in a 1905 train wreck.
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H. A. Smythe
Santa Monica
Calif
Edna Shops
Fourth Street
Clair Sands
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Sands
Rock Island
Ethiopians Loot and Fire Split Addis Ababa as Emperor Flees
Reports from Addis Ababa describe looting and fires in the city as Ethiopians burn and troops pillage while foreigners seek refuge behind the British legation. Haile Selassie flees by rail to Djibouti with the empress and children. British and Italian positions loom as the capital falls and foreign interests fear for about 3,000 foreigners remaining.
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London
Haile Selassie
India
Sidney Barton
Addis Ababa
Sir Sidney
Sidney
Foreign Office
League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
Peking
Djibouti
Palestine
British Somaliland
Britain
Manchukuo
Legation
Harar
Delasoie May Seek Asylum In France Cont from Page 1
Reported Ethiopian officials and military leaders are expected to be allowed into France as political exiles. Haile Selassie may seek refuge in a Palestinian monastery before possibly moving to continental France, remaining out of reach of Italians while weighing permanent exile options.
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Delasoie
France
Haile Selassie
Palestine
Ethiopia
Snakes Linked to Woman's Pond Death Murder Case
Los Angeles prosecutors plan to seek indictment for murder against master barber Robert James over the "fish pond death" of his wife on August 3. Charles Hope confessed to providing three rattlesnakes used to kill Mrs James, with Hope alleging James supervised and aided the plot to stage the drowning as an accident.
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Los Angeles
Eugene Williams
Grand Jury
Robert James
Charles H. Hope
Robert S. James
James
Hope
Mary Busch James
Venice
Pasadena
Man Confesses After Drowning Intentions At Pond
A suspect confessed that James gave a bottle of whisky and urged him to drown a person. He said James claimed she was not dead yet and planned to drown her. They carried the body to a pond and left it in six inches of water.
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James
Sayng
Badoglio
Geras
Wasda
Dessye
Addis Ababa
Yale Professor Warns Deficit Policy May Endanger Economy
Yale economist Fred R. Fairchild told the Senate Finance Committee that deficit financing is unsound and dangerous while testifying on the administration’s 803 million dollar tax bill. He urged balancing the budget before tax increases, suggesting economies could cover deficits if revenue rises through normal business recovery.
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Washington
Fred R. Fairchild
Yale University
Senate Finance Committee
Fairchild
Tom Connally
Tex
Josiah Bailey
North Carolina
William King
Utah
Bailey
King
Treasury
Anti Roosevelt Speaker Struck At Convention
Tucson publisher William R. Matthews attacked at the Democratic state convention in Arizona by Mayor Andrew Bettwy after he began a tirade against President Roosevelt. Bettwy struck Matthews on the jaw during a platform interruption. Matthews recovered and continued speaking as delegates intervened and the PA system was silenced.
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Tucson
Ariz
William R. Matthews
Roosevelt
Andrew Bettwy
Nogales
Matthews
Bettwy
Betty
Red Cross Seeks 25000 Relief Fund For Tornado Victims
Emmet county Red Cross officials appeal for a 25000 fund to feed clothe and house tornado victims across three northwest Iowa counties and into Minnesota. Loss estimates rise to nearly a half million in Emmet county with 26 farm homes leveled and 64 dwellings destroyed.
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Spirit Lake
Emmet County
Red Cross
Iowa
Minnesota
Estherville
Champaign
Ill
Federal Resettlement Administration
W. E. Johns
New anti British outburst in Rome sparks war talk
Benito Mussolini aligned Italian press with anti British stances as Ottobre accused Prime Minister Baldwin of seeking peace while threatening war through Mediterranean naval power. Italian celebrations loom as Badoglio leads a fast push toward Addis Ababa with Ethiopian forces retreating and Selassie in flight.
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Britain
Suez Canal
Italy
Ottobre
Mussolini
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
Baldwin
Mediterranean
Minnesotan Rescued From Sandbar Off Monomy Point
The S. S. Minnesotan a 6617 ton passenger and freight vessel was freed from a sandbar 200 yards off Monomy Point Saturday night by the coast guard cutter Algonquin. It remained undamaged and sailed to Boston under its own power.
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Chatham
Mass
New York
Monomy Point
Coast Guard
Boston
Inflation Bill Sparks City and Farm Mortgage Clash
The Frazier-Lemke bill debate in the House escalates into a broad $6 billion drive to refinance both farms and city homes. Rep. Sabath may push to include HOLC refinances for city housing while Rep. Ford seeks a $3 billion addition for low priced urban mortgages. Rep. Lemke proposes a separate city mortgage refinancing bill amid backing from city dwellers.
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Washington
INS
House
Rep
Sabath
Willinois
Ford
California
Lemke
Flood Control Bill Advances in House Panel
The House Flood Control Committee approved the Senate bill authorizing 275 million dollars for Mississippi River protection works south of Memphis. Nine to four vote. Proposals for 26 reservoirs on the Arkansas and White rivers totaling about 225 million dollars were rejected.
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Washington
House Flood Control Committee
Overton
Mississippi
Memphis
House
Miller
Terry
Arkansas
White Rivers
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Imperial
Manchuria
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Yale
Associated Press
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New Orleans
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Rome
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