Insull Grilled as He Recounts Life and Edison Tie
In a tense Chicago courtroom Floyd E Thompson questions Henry Insull as he narrates his rise from English youth to head of a vast utility empire. Insull recalls warning investors during 1929 boom and recounts meetings with Thomas Edison and an offer from Prime Minister Baldwin while defending his business conduct.
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U S. Senate
Insull
Thomas Edison
Tril
Floyd E Thompson
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
Downing Street
London
Son
Yhs
Samuel, Jr
Hbr
Young Insull
Floyd E. Thompson
Thompson
Leslie Salter
Dwight H. Green
Chicago
Chicago Edison Company
Pamce
Ihaeis
Tennessee Vally Authority
Bilbo Returns to Capital as Senate Bid Looms
Former Agriculture Department clipper Theodore G Bilbo, confident of winning Mississippi’s senate seat, returns to Washington with a diamond horseshoe pin and a 25 cent cigar symbolizing his rise from a $6,000 helper to a potential $10,000 senator. He vows to “raise more hell” and aligns with Huey Long’s reform zeal as Congress gears up in January.
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Bilbo
Harry Ferguson
Washington
Theodore G Bilbo
Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
Caesar
Gaul
Bilbos
Huey Long
Bilbossi NA
Mosuss
Pgn
Senate
Sng Teon Tay
Monsieur Huey Long
Louisiana State University
Ol’ Mississip
Congress
Huey
Nazi Dissenters Gain Freedom in Church State Split
The piece notes the Nazi dissenters gaining room as Chancellor Hitler moves to separate church and state. It cites Bishop Nicholas Bates foreword accusing the myth of the twentieth century of unsettling Christians in Germany and warns of broader anti Christian pagan movements, while rumors swirl around Reichsbishop Mueller and Rosenberg.
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Nicholas Bates
Berlin
Germany
Rosenberg
Reichsbishop
Ludwig Mueller
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Mueller
Julius Streicher
Stormer the Women
Notre Dame student held in auto crash deaths
William Moritz a Notre Dame senior faces arrest orders tied to the deaths of Mishawaka high school students Helen Ricci and Jack Wilcox after a cottage party near Elkhart. Police say witnesses place Moritz as the driver and allege drinking by party members. investigation continues.
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South Bend
Ind
William Moritz
Notre Dame University
Mishawaka
Paul E Haley Moritz
Newark
Helen Ricci
Jack Wilcox
Haley
Moritz
Elkhart
B. Bokka
Walter McInery
Spanish Miners Plan New Revolt in Asturias
Miners in Asturias vow to rise again after their recent defeat and reportedly plan a new uprising around November 23. Arms stores allegedly remain with socialists, syndicalists and communists, not only in Asturias but in Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Asturias
Festina Savings bank depositors to receive dividend
Depositors in the Festina Savings bank will get dividend checks around 11 500 on November 8. The bank operated briefly under senate file No 11 and was closed voluntarily last June by its directors.
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Decorah
Festina
Republicans Hold Rally in Mount Vernon at City Hall
A Republican rally is planned in Mount Vernon at 8 pm in the city hall. State Senator William Beardsley of New Virginia will speak, with county and local candidates in attendance. Attorney Carl Hendrickson of Cedar Rapids will preside as Republican county chairman. a capacity crowd is expected with the high school pep band performing.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
William Beardsley
New Virginia
Speaker
Carl Hendrickson
Cedar Rapids
Northwood Man Gets Mortgage Dept Post
Des Moines Iowa AP announces Leighton D Beckett of Northwood named financial advisor in the new mortgage insurance department of the Town office of the federal housing administration. Beckett will be bank contact officer of the Iowa office and report Monday. He previously served as an Iowa bank examiner for nine years and recently worked with a farm credit association in Omaha Nebraska.
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Des Moines
Leighton D Beckett
Northwood
Federal Housing Administration
J J Hughes
Iowa
FHA
Hughes
Beckett
Farm Credit Association
Omaha
Neb
Jones And Waller Return To Greece
Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller flew from Melbourne to Tate near Athens as their plan for a non stop flight was halted by bad weather over Italy. They face a strong chance to set a notable round trip record despite the delays.
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Athens
Cathcart Jones
Ken Waller
London
Melbourne
Tate
Here
Italy
Radio Morning 1000 to Evening 600 Broadcast Schedule
A dense list of radio programs and networks across the day. Entries include CBS WBBM NBC WJZ NBC WEAF WOC WHO and WCCO with varied segments such as cooking closeups music appreciation hour marine band cadets and farm and home hour.
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CBS
WBBM
NBC
WEAP
WJZ
Marine Band
CBS Warbm
WMT
KMOX
Fields and Hall
Josef Hondlh
Weaf Crac
Honeyboy
Sassafras
WOC
Betty Hartnell
Chain Memories Garden
WABC
WCCO
Roosevelt
Red Cross
WJZ Kyw
Jack Lilith
WBRBM
Marci
WEAF
KRMOX
Marin
NIC
We Chain
Sehonl
Wwc
Judy
Jane
Epmawaks Symphony
CBS Wabc
WHC
Anne Rosette
Nerc
Betts
Mob
Doreths
SNC
Fed Women's Clubs
al Pearce
Steagall
Ftusso Erch
Willard Robison
Mildred
Wailey Inbc
WIZ
Thele Evra
NBC Weaf
Ted Davis
Hooke Carter
Frank Buck
WSM
WLW
WFAA
Grantland Klee
Jessica Deagonette
Irene Rieh
WLS
WSM Lasy Aces
WEBM
Edwin
Wweco
Duicht Fiske
Goodman Orch
Koil Wren
Aes Leman Orch
WMAQ
Phit Warris
Wccco
Inbc
WIZ Koa
Hollywood Hotel
WAAQ
Bernard
Vamont
Wren
Kate Smith
Hines Orch
WCAO
Mr Bachin Orch
Reward Orch
WABM
Fetix
WIZ Chain
Ted Floritea
Wwoc
Leafer Orch
WERBM
World’s Fair figures show record attendance and costs
Chicago report lists 1933 attendance 22,320,456 and 1934 attendance 16,306,090 for a total of 38,626,546. Payroll $10,529,431 and concessions spending $40,664,455. Employment reached 75,650. Probable deficit on $10,000,000 gold bonds $538,000.
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Chicago
Seven Charged With Hog Profiteering In AAA Challenge
Seven commission merchants faced trial over hog purchases under the AAA crop reduction program. Defense argues constitutional challenge to AAA while Judge Williams signals the case will proceed with the law presumed valid. The defendants allegedly bought hogs from farmers and sold at stockyards posing as farmers to claim AAA payments. A hearing on constitutionality may be set during the January trial.
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Muskogee
Okla
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Commission
AAA
D. Haden Linebaugh
Robert L. Williams
Supreme Court
NRA
Rubber Industry Boosts Prices Across Sector
Akron, Ohio. Rubber firms scrapped NRA floor prices and unrolled a nationwide plan to raise prices 12 to 25 percent. Goodyear led with substantial cost increases. B F Goodrich General Tire and Seiberling followed suit. Firestone silent per dealers.
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Akron
NRA
Goodyear
P. W. Litchfield
B. F Goodrich Company
General Tire and Rubber Company
Seiberling Rubber Company
Firestone
Home Office
Attorney For Bruno Barred From Jail
Harry Whitney aide to Bruno Hauptmann was barred from the Hunterdon county jail where Hauptmann faces a murder charge over Baby Lindbergh’s death. Sheriff Curtiss said the order came from Attorney General Wilentz after Whitney spoke to reporters about talking with Hauptmann. Whitney had said Hauptmann wished to speak with Dr J F Condon again and stayed longer than permitted.
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Flemington
INS
Harry Whitney
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Baby Charles Lindbergh
John H Curtiss
David T Wilentz
Whitney
John F “Jassie’ Condon
Curtiss
Kingsford Smith Flight Delayed by Oil Leak in Hawaii
Honolulu AP report says the final transoceanic hop from Australia to California was postponed 24 hours after a leak appeared in the Lady Southern Cross outline during preflight prep in Hawaii. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith had been ready for a noon takeoff.
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Honolulu
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Australia
California
Lady Southern Cross
Armstong dies of wounds in accidental shooting
Ceel Armstrong, 32, of Dayton, Iowa, died in a Fort Dodge hospital from wounds suffered when he was accidentally shot by Reynolds Nordstrom. Armstrong was examining Nordstrom's gun collection when a pistol discharged.
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Fort Dodge
Ceel Armstrong
Dayton
Reynold Nordstrom
Armstrong
Nordstrom
William Kroger Dies Founder of Kroger Chain
William Kroger aged 79 founder of the Kroger grocery chain with his brother R J Kroger of Cincinnati was found dead in his hotel room in Asheville North Carolina Thursday.
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Asheville, NC
William Kroger
R. J Kroger
Cincinnati
Kroger
Morning Sun Man Wins Husking Championship at State Meet
Morning Sun man with years of county experience tops the husking contest standings with 1,863.5 pounds net, edging out Lee Stodgell and Walter Johansen. Bockes, the defending champ, drew a large gallery as the field included veterans like Clyde Tague and E H Hendricks. The list ranks finalists by net loads with Peterson honored for the cleanest job of husking.
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Iowa
Johansen
Audubon
Peterson
Bockes
Clyde Tague
E. H. Hendricks
Grundy County
Lee Stodgell
Louisa
Walter Johansen
Allen Tuttle
Marshall
Vaundon Williams
Cedar
Henry Peterson
Webster
Arnold Brandt
Delaware
A. L
Jones
Scott
Leo Kremer
Bremer
Clarence Bockes
Grundy
Maurice Nix
Hancock
Harold Larson
Wright
Walter Tapper
Hamilton
Jess Colbert
Greene
Alvin Roberts
Muscatine
John Lindaman
Butler
Harley Hanson
Palo Alto
Cecil Davison
Washington
Oltman Wins 1934 Illinois Corn Husking Crown
Simon Oltman of Woodford county captured the 1934 Illinois corn husking championship in Earlville. He defeated eleven competitors including 1933 champion Ernest Rehn of Putnam county, husking 23 243 bushels in the 30 minute contest to take first place.
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Earlville
Simon Oltman
Woodford County
Ernest Rehn
Putnam County
Merriam Defeats Sinclair in Magazine Gubernatorial Poll
New York The Literary Digest final tabulation shows Governor Frank F Merriam of California leading Upton Sinclair by 2 1 2 to 1 in the gubernatorial race with Merriam at 90 060 votes and Sinclair at 36 857. The poll notes Merriam strongest in Riverside 82 53 percent and Sinclair his largest share from San Pedro 41 23 percent.
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New York
Frank F. Merriam
California
Upton Sinclair
Literary Digest
Merriam
Raymond L. Haight
Progressive Commonwealth Party
Sam Darcy
Milen
C Dempster
Raymond L Ratsht
Frank F Merriam
Tolal Peesvere
Fresno
Sacramento
Riverside
Sinclair
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Germany warns France over Saar threat playing with fire
Berlin officials said France would be playing with fire if it moves to occupy the Saar and warned peace could not be kept by a force party to the January 13 plebiscite. The Saar region faces a vote on joining Germany or France or remaining under League mandate.
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Berlin
France
Saar
Germany
League of Nations
War scare grips France during All Saints cemetery pilgrimages
Paris residents faced renewed fear of another war with Germany as officials and media warned of a larger German army next spring. The mood overshadowed All Saints Day tributes to military and civil dead, with defense preparations fueling dread of air invasion.
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Paris
Germany
Hitler
City briefs and personals of local residents
LeRoy G Rowray 1017 Seventeenth Street NE returns to St Marys hospital Rochester Minn for further treatments. Firemen respond to Kenneth Byers home 404 H Avenue NW for overheated smoke pipe ignition. Mo rris Plan auto refinancing ad. Henry A Koester and Nicholas H Feldaverel seek extension to pay debts in federal court. Palestine council No 26 to meet Friday no work refreshments served. Mrs Iona Weber 50 Marion treated for fractured ankle from fall on home steps. Police receipts October 883.10 fines 570.10. Carlotta Weltch Oak land Drive NE post op recovering. George Astrosky 19 fined 25 for intoxication and disturbing the peace. Frank Keating 32 Chicago fined 10 for intoxication. Stark Building Company extra work D sewage disposal plant adds 208.17. contract price reduced by 51 net increase 157.17.
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George Astrosky
Ninth Street
Frank Keating
Chicago
Stark Building Company
Illness Delays Cross Examination in Vanderbilt Custody Case
New York AP reports illness struck Mrs Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt as she prepared for cross examination in the custody dispute over her 10 year old daughter Gloria. The hearing was postponed while she recovers after collapsing at the end of Wednesday's session.
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New York
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria
Harry Payne Whitney
Fall season low hits 27 in Cedar Rapids on Halloween
The weatherman set a fall low of 27 degrees in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday night with overnight readings from 30 down to 27 by 7 am. Recovery was slow to 28 by 10 am under fair skies. afternoon highs reached 38 at 2 45 pm despite a 48 later in the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
U S Federal Employees Demand Higher Pay Reform
In Washington AP reports federal workers launched a push for higher wages than the 5 percent restoration promised by President Roosevelt. The president announced plans to restore the remaining cut on July 1.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stevens Leader Sees Chaplin and Rogers as Comedians With Great Minds
President Harvey N. Davis of Stevens Institute of Technology in Newark says Chaplin and Will Rogers show an intellectual distinction that he believes sets them apart from many great minds. He notes researchers in laboratories make discoveries yet may not have distinguished minds.
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Newark, N. J
Harvey N. Davis
Stevens Institute of Technology
Charlie Chaplin
Will Rogers
LaBatt Suspect In Special Cage In Ontario Jail
David Meisner a Cincinnati bookmaker charged in the John S. Labatt kidnapping was placed in a steel cage at the county jail in London Ontario awaiting trial. He waived extradition from Detroit and appeared before Magistrate C W Hawkshaw, remanded for eight days, claiming an alibi placing him in Kentucky at the time.
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London
Ont
David Meisner
Cincinnati
John S. Labatt
Meisner
Detroit
C. W. Hawkshaw
Kentucky
Last of Bandit Sextet Convicted in Lake County
Dominick di Nardi convicted of armed robbery in a sealed Lake County circuit court verdict. The last of six bandits who raided a party at Lake Forest three years ago and stole 150000 in gems from guests, with five confederates already serving terms in state prison.
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Waukegan, Ul
Lake Forest
Dominick di Nardi
Lake County
Burlington Road Grants Pay Raise For Motive Power
Lincoln Nebraska AP H H Urbach superintendent of motive power for Burlington railroad lines west of the Missouri river announced mechanical department employees of the Burlington received a 214 per cent pay increase Thursday under an agreement with the railway mediation board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
H. H. Urbach
Burlington
Missouri River
Railway Mediation Board
Five Engineers Drown at Hawks Nest Power Project
Five engineers from Babcock Wilcox Engineers of New York drowned when a thirty foot water power pipe burst on the Hawks Nest project near Gauley Bridge West Virginia. One victim was James Hall 30 consulting engineer. Officials did not reveal the other names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gauley Bridge
W. Va
Babcock-Wilcox Engineering Company
New York
Hawks Nest
Here
James Hall
Town Burns On Water Shortage After Main Street Fire
Ekalaka Montana firemen faced a nearly depleted water supply as flames destroyed four business buildings on Main street. The blaze left about a third of the street in ruins and losses estimated at more than 250000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ekalaka
Mont
Vinton Farmer Hurts Hand In Shredder Accident
William Harrison, 58, of Vinton, lost his right hand when his fingers were caught in a corn shredder. The hand was amputated after he was taken to a local hospital for treatment. A separate note mentions Gabriel Fahrenheit mixing snow and salt to reach zero on his thermometer.
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Vinton
William Harrison
Harrison
Gabriel Fahrenheit
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