Farm price support plan prompts debate and questions
The article discusses a Federal price support loan for corn up to 45 cents a bushel with Iowa likely to benefit, possible $150 million RAC guarantee, and concerns about government storage of surplus. It also critiques WPA relief administration and political influence in Iowa, noting public officials quitting and graft concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Secredary Wallace
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Gazette
Tate
Italian Troops Trapped and Massacred in Danakil Desert
Italian forces face a brutal push westward across the Danakil in Ethiopia as Ethiopian scouts report a wiped out supply train and a night attack by Ansai Mara warriors near the Eritrean frontier. The Italians shift base toward Dessye as forces move to cut the Djibouti Addis Ababa railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Knickerbocker
Addis Ababa
Ins
League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
Danakil
Mount Mussa Ali
Nesbitt
Assaimara-trie
Dessye
Mount
Mussa Ali
Djibouti
Hawas
Ogaden
Walwal
Dedjazmatch
Abde Kimael
Haile Selassie
Two Barns Burn On Oelwein Farm in Iowa
Fire at Earl Teague farm northeast of Oelwein destroys two barns and a hog house. Losses exceed 9000 dollars including alfalfa hay soybeans oats straw and a farm lighting plant. Fire started from a small gasoline engine and responders from Oelwein and Maynard fought the blaze.
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Oelwein
Earl Teague
Mr Teague
George Teague
Oclwein
Maynard
Unemployment Pact Sparks Iowa Panic Over New Deals
The writer decries the 1932 schemes including PWA CWA FERA and a plan to have 3,500,000 unemployed at work by November 1 with security wages. He warns that five more billions will be spent and questions whether promises of 1932 will ever deliver. He pleads for relief amid a pandemonium in Iowa and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodge-Podge
PWA
CWA
FERA
Iowa
Britain to keep ships in the Mediterranean amid Mussolini proposals
London reports the British foreign office will retain the Mediterranean fleet despite Mussolini’s conciliatory gestures. Conditions include ending Italian press attacks, halting anti British propaganda and reduced Italian troop concentrations in Libya. Sir Eric Drummond conveyed the note after meeting Mussolini in Venice.
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London
Benito Mussolini
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
IL Duce
Britain
Libya
Mussolini
Eric Drummond
Rome
SL Duce
Venice Palace
Eric
Sir Eric
Gibraltar
Aden
Wees
England
Egypt
League of Nations
Bodies Of Missing Flyers Found Near Baraboo Wisconsin
John North and Marvin Padley, missing since Sunday after a Lake Delton departure, were found dead Thursday in their plane wreckage on the Baraboo bluffs five miles south of Baraboo. Padley at the controls and North, a student pilot, lay nearby as rescuers reached the dense woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baraboo, Wis
John North
Marvin Padley
Lake Delton
Wis
Baraboo Bluffs
Here
William Magli
Prairie du Lac
Sauk County
Padley
North
League of Nations to set date for Italy sanctions
The League of Nations eyed Friday to set the start of international trade penalties for Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia. Forty nine members imposed an arms embargo on Italy while 47 supported financial sanctions and 46 backed economic sanctions.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Italy
Mussolini
Ethiopia
League
United States
Rome
League Penalties Committee
AAA Prepares for Adverse Ruling in Supreme Court Decision
Washington AP report says a committee of agriculture department economists and lawyers is canvassing all possible actions if the Supreme Court rules against the AAA. Officials expect a January decision but want readiness for revenue, tax, and legal challenges including possible new revenue sources.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Supreme Court
AAA
High Court
Department
Cummings
Hoosac
Mussolini Orders Italian Ships to Prepare for War
Rome dispatch reports Mussolini authorizes 500 to 600 ships to mobilize for possible war against a Franco British naval blocade. A royal decree powers the marine ministry to arm merchant craft, form armed auxiliaries, and require builders to submit wartime modification plans. Smaller freighters may become mine layers and sweepers.
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Rome
INS
Rex
Italy
Ministry of Marine
Bombs explode at Milwaukee bank and police station
AP reports bombs detonated Thursday night at the Teutonia Avenue State bank and nearby No 5 police station in Milwaukee. Nathan Belkind, a grocery operator across from the station, said his store remained undamaged but police station windows were blown out and adjacent buildings sustained damage.
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Milwaukee
Teutonia Avenue State Bank
No. 5
Nathan Belkind
Credit Due in History Governs Great and Small
The piece argues that fame often lands with the popular figure while true credit lies with overlooked contributors. It cites Handel's Messiah and its librettist Jennens, the chloride of ether discovery, Waldie, Simpson, and parallels Darwin, Wallace, Marconi. It emphasizes the virtue of rightly attributing achievement.
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Ewman Flower
Handel
Charles Jennens
Jennens
Jennes
James Y. Simpson
Scotland
Edinburgh
Simpson
Waldie
India
Asiatic Society
Calcutta
Darwin
Wallace
Marconi
Freeing of 1916 bandit Bill Carlisle marks new life
In Cheyenne Wyoming Bill Carlisle the famed train bandit from the 1910s to be released from Rawlins prison after almost 20 years. He plans to go straight with a cigar stand in a Kemmerer hotel and to invest his $1000 prison earnings as he starts a new life.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Bill Carlisle
Wyoming
Riverton
Kempmerer
Rawlins
Kemmerer
William Petrie
Plane drops parcel into Illinois prison
A dark colored airplane flew over Stateville penitentiary in Joliet Illinois on Thursday and dropped a package inside the walls. Deputy Warden Browning Robinson ordered prisoners in the area searched along with the grounds but would not say what was found.
Five Cars Derail in Burling ton Train Incident Near Alma
Five cars and the locomotive of a Burlington passenger train derailed near Alma Wisconsin on Thursday. No one was seriously hurt.
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Alma
Wis
Burlington
Carter seeks Supreme Court halt on Guffey coal code
Chief Justice Hughes denied James W. Carter’s request to halt operations under the Guffey coal code pending a constitutional ruling. The application was referred to the full court with a decision expected by November 11. Earlier, District of Columbia Judge Adkins enjoined Carter from complying with the coal code, but did not block the 15 percent tonnage tax without bond.
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Washington
INS
Charles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
James W. Carter
Guffey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Jesse C. Adkins
Carter Coal Company
Carter
Court of Appeals
High Tribunal
Graft Probe Costs Woodbury County Over Twenty Thousand
Woodbury county supervisors released bills showing the grand jury graft probe and related litigation cost $20 562 62 to date. Costs cover juror and witness fees attorney fees court costs and removal hearings for officials including Mayor Hayes and Henry Kuhlmann and travel for related proceedings.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Sear
Earl Peters
H. M. Havner
C. W. Goltz
O. T. Naglestad
Max &E. Duckworth
M. E. Rawlings
Duckworth
Rawlings
Des Moines
W. D. Hayes
Henry C. Kuhlmann
Carl V. Riley
F. H. Kemis
H. K. Ashton
E. O. Brewington
Earl W. West
R. C. Turner
S. S. Stackhouse
Anthony Curcio
St. Paul
D. P. McDougall
O’connor
Iowa Braces for Snow as Winter Storm Arrives
Des Moines reports a wintry blast sweeping across Iowa with sleet snow and freezing temperatures. Winds from the west gusted as pedestrians bundled against the cold and motorists faced icy patches. The weather bureau forecast more snow then much colder air, with readings falling statewide. Snow was observed in Spencer Spirit Lake Audubon and Denison while rainfall ranged up to 1.5 inches in Garner Waterloo Council Bluffs Humboldt and Webster City. Temperatures declined through the day.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Spencer
Spirit Lake
Audubon
Denison
Garner
Watterloo
Council Bluffs
Humboldt
Resmond Webster City
Siouxity
Stodgell Defends State Husking Title Against 19 Opponents
Morning Sun’s Lee Stodgell the 1934 state corn husking champion will defend his title Friday at 10 30 a m on the Grover Hahn farm six miles northwest of Davenport on highway No 6. He faces nineteen entrants from counties including Cerro Gordo Dubuque Story Tama Muscatine and Woodbury among others with sponsors Wallace s Farmer announcing the field.
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Davenport
Lee Stodgell
Morning Sun
Wallace's Farmer
Grover Hahn
Stodgell
Louisa County
Ezra Tebbins
Cerro Gordo
Milton Kintzle
Dubuque
Jack Viers
Story
Lester Spires
Tama
Henry Shafbach
Iowa
Alvin Roberts
Muscatine
Alton Thompson
Woodbury
Stanley Olson
Montgomery
H. Bardman
Montana Earthquakes Devastate Helena and Surrounding Areas
Two workers died at the Kessler brewery site after a chimney collapse. Dozens were treated as tremors damaged Helena's city hall and state capitol while St. Mary's and other schools suffered severe harm. Bank and mine damages reported with widespread home and building destruction across northwest Montana.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Benson Kennedy
Ed O’brien
Kessler
Jess
St. John’s Hospital
St. Mary’s Schoool
Helena High School
State Capitol
St. Joseph's
Intermountain College
St. Mary's School
Carroll College
Northern Pacific
State Highway Patrol
Shrine Temple
Federal Reserve Bank
Ohio
Keating
Rodersburg
Spring Hill
Kalispell
Missoula
Continental Divide
Spokane
Wash
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Committee of Economists
Supreme Court Invalidate Farm Act
DR. Newton
Wild Bill’ Carlisle
Illinois
Nto
Frazier Hunt
The
Cedar Rapids
Zerd
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Weral
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