Turner's university cleanup debate in Iowa elections
Readers react to current comment on state race. The piece critiques Governor Turner and challenger Herring over university finances, calls for administrative economies, and notes Linn county races for Congress and sheriff. It highlights Jacobsen and Elliott in federal contest and local senate candidates Tehel and Byers.
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Gov
Turner
Clyde Herring
Jessup
Herring
Board of Education
Rank Byers
William Tehel
Linn County
Senate
Bill Tehel
Wright Co. Man Tops Iowa Corn Husking Title in Colfax
Orville Wicks of Kanawha Wright county won the Iowa corn husking contest near Colfax with a net of 1,845 pounds and a 26.3 bushel yield. Runner up Walter Johansen and third Earl Harmon also earned national contest berths as rain shortened the day and weighing faced mud delays.
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Colfax
Orville Wicks
Kanawha
Wright County
Iowa
Wicks
Galva
Ill
Walter Johansen
Audubon County
Finais
Earl Harmon
Mills County
Alvin Roberts
Cedar
R. J. Stover
Iowa State
College
Leo Ockenfels
Benton
Lee Carey
Marshall County
Johansen
Roberts
Hoover to radio from Elko during Reno campaign stop
The Evening Gazette reports President Hoover will deliver a final campaign radio broadcast from Elko Nevada between 6 30 and 7 30 p m Pacific time on Monday. His special train is said to halt there for the address on the main Southern Pacific line in northeastern Nevada.
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Reno
Nev
Evening Gazette
Hoover
Elko
Southern Pacific
Nevada
Murphy Appeals Tariff Flay At Iowa Democratic Rally
Dubuque candidate for U S senator Louis Murphy led a 2000 strong Cedar Rapids rally at Memorial Coliseum attacking the Smoot Hawley tariff and prohibition. He outlined a gradual tariff cut, cited 1910 conditions, and blamed the Republican tariff for farm hardship while slamming Governor Turner and other GOP figures. N G Kraschel and Clyde Herring spoke on state issues amid a volley of criticisms of GOP policies and farm distress.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Memorial Coliseum
Louis Murphy
Dubuque
United States
Cummins
Federal Farm Board
N. G
Kraschel
Clyde Herring
Murphy
Dan Turner
Henry Field
L. A. Andrew
Hoover speech ticket demand tops 100000 in St. Paul
AP reports Republican leader says requests for President Hoover’s Saturday night address in St. Paul have surpassed 100000. The municipal auditorium seats 15000 with connected rooms using amplifiers to accommodate an additional 5000 listeners.
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Hoover
Paul
Omen for Republicans as Canfield Aids Donkey Tale
Cedar Rapids conciliation commissioner Fred Canfield a Republican helps a stalled driver in Victor Iowa. A Democratic donkey sign on the other car’s windshield was aided by Canfield’s elephant emblem as he gave assistance. This incident is told as a light political anecdote.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred Canfield
U. S. Department of Labor
Canfield
United Press
Victor
Iowa
Pabst Merger Moves Toward Beer Production
Consolidation of the Pabst Milwaukee brewery and Premier Malt Products, with Chicago ties, was announced by Fred Pabst. The merger paves the way for beer manufacture, concentrating future beer making in Milwaukee. The exchange of stock created a new Pabst entity capitalized at $1 million and a holding Comet company with $5 million authorized stock.
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Milwaukee
Pabst Corporation
Premier Malt Products Company
Chicago
Fred Pabst
Milwaukee Corporation
Pabst
Steubenville
Ohio
Decatur
Peoria
Wisconsin
Delaware
Comet Company
New
Age 109-Year-Old Canuto Alamanaza Dies in Laredo
Laredo Texas reports the death of Canuto Alamanaza aged 109. Born in Guadalcazar San Luis Potosi in 1823 or 1824, he passed away in Laredo. The obituary notes his long life spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.
Insull Arrests Persist as Athens Weighs Extradition
Samuel Insull, the Chicago utilities magnate, remains in Greek custody with extradition to the United States under review by Athens appeals court. The court will decide within two months whether he may be extradited amid a volatile financial crisis in Greece.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Insult
Legation
Greece
Chicago
Appeals Court
Insull
United States
Fide Nerathar
Interior Ministry
Christo Ladas
Supreme Court
Council of State
Panagiotis Tsaldaris
Washington
Ruth Borman And Warner Freed On Habeas Corpus Writ
Miss Ruth Borman and Milo Warner were freed on a writ of habeas corpus while Los Angeles grand jury members pause in the inquiry into the abduction of 3-year-old Nancy Ruth Buchanan. Investigators may next probe extortion notes demanding 12,500 dollars. Borman denied involvement, saying she took the child to ensure her return despite fears of court action.
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Los Angeles
Ruth Borman
Mason City
Milo Warner
Violet Buchanan
France’s disarmament plan tied to U.S. vote outcome
France’s new disarmament outline may depend on the U.S. presidential result. French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour indicated the plan gains strength if Roosevelt wins, while continued Hoover-Stimson policies are seen as unlikely to shift. The proposal calls for a mutual aid pact and a league controlled force, with Europe-focused application.
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Geneval
France
United States
Joseph Paul-Boncour
Roosevelt
Hoover
Stimson
League
Europe
Rob Bank Kidnapping Suspects Sought by Civilians
A Mississippi and Mobile County Alabama case involves a bank robbery and kidnapping aided by civilians forming a posse to pursue bandits and recover victims. The article names the vice president and school principal among those involved in the incident.
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Rob Bank
Aizsippi
Mobile ‘County
Alabama
Bomb Plot Against Pu Yi Unearthed in Manchukuo State
Shanghai dispatch reports a Chinese student woman was arrested for complicity in a bomb plot aimed at Henry Pu Yi the former boy emperor turned Manchukuo president. The device exploded prematurely wounding the palace gate keeper.
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Shanghai
INS
Henry Pu-Yi
China
Manchukuo
Changchun
Pu-Yi
Low Mood University Closes After Few Enrollees
In Washington the university shut for the second and final time as only about fifteen students could pay 250 dollars for a year of instruction. Faculty cite income inadequacy and quip that American youth favor the coonskin coat over the cap.
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Washington
Father and Son Die in Electric Chair in Georgia
Milledgeville Georgia news reports a father William Hulsey and his son Fred were executed by electric chair after being convicted of killing three men during a 1930 poker game on their Rockhart farm. The son attempted to take blame from his father and asked to join him in Heaven. Governor Russell Jr. had denied a reprieve.
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Milledgeville, Ga
William Hulsey
Fred
Rockhart
Richard B. Russell, Jr
North Carolna
Raleigh
High Point
Husseys
Hulsey
Hulseys
Glifford Jones
Lige Harper
Ernest McCullough
Counterfeit RCA Certificates Appear in Midwest
In New York AP reports counterfeit certificates for 100 share lots of Radio Corporation of America have surfaced in large numbers in the Midwest, revealed on Wall Street Friday.
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New York
Radio Corporation of America
Middle West
Wall Street
Roosevelt Urges Republicans to Vote for Recovery
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appeals to Republicans at the Metropolitan Opera House rally in New York urging support for his recovery plan and criticizing Hoover’s administration as gambling. He vows no magic but hard, common sense action and plans further speeches in Brooklyn and New York City with Alfred E. Smith.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Guess
Gamble
Metropolitan Opera House
Roosevelt
Opera House
Academy of Music
Brooklyn
Madison Square Garden
Alfred
Pennsylvania Wins HFRC Loan With Labor and Material Rules
The Reconstruction Finance Corp grants Pennsylvania a 5.46 million loan under self liquidating projects using American materials. No prison labor, 30 hour weeks where possible, preference to veterans with dependents. Total state loans reach 11.3 million as Pennsylvania receives funds across 63 counties from November 1 to 30. Pinchot had sought 6.01 million.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Reconstruction’ Finance’ Corporation
Gifford Pinchot
James J. Davis
Atlee Pomerene
Corporation
Illinois
Pinchot
London Conference To Advise Return To Gold Standard
A preliminary report for the London economic conference will urge a world return to the gold standard after certain conditions. It calls for freer trade, settlement of intergovernmental private debts, and central banks preventing gold movements from distorting normal currency policies.
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London
Geneva
Fugitive Surrenders After Turning to Faith in Prison
Russell R. Fogg, an Akron convict who escaped last year, returned to the West Virginia penitentiary to finish a term for breaking and entering after converting to Christianity and joining a Cedar Rapids church. He said conscience troubled him since his escape and that two fugitives cannot live a Christian life. He surrendered to Warden A C Scroggins.
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Moundsville
W. Va
INS
Russell R. Fogg
Akron
A. C. Scroggins
West Virginia
Cedar Rapids
Fogg
Will Rogers on Hoover Campaign and Politics
Will Rogers satirizes the 1933 campaign with jokes about Hoover and Democrats. He predicts lawn mowing cops and gloom by firesides, notes a gubernatorial race with Dave Ingalls as a leading Republican, and mentions Mr. Hoover traveling to California to vote for himself.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Hoover
Adams
Alleghanies
Dave Ingalls
Calif
Fire at Oldest Prison Building Draws Ottawa Scrutiny
In mid morning Col P A Phim the warden reports a fire at one of the penitentiary's oldest structures. Flames spread as crowds gathered outside while 15 prisoners and two guards were in the tailor shop at the blaze. All 900 inmates were locked in their cells and officials warned the incident could be serious.
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Vincent DE Paul
Que
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
St. Vincent Penitentiary
P. A. Phim
Montreal
Department of Justice
Ottawa
Crime Directors Fight for Freedom in Chicago
Murray Humphries, alleged president of Crime Inc, and nine directors held in detective bureau seek habeas corpus to return home. Court hearing transferred to Judge Desart as four other Capone era figures withdraw habeas petitions. Frank Rio, Philip D Andrea, Paul Rica, and Mike Costello are among those involved.
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Chicago
INS
Detective Bureau
Murray Humphries
Crime, Inc
Humphries
al Capone
Underworld
John M. Prystalski
Rudolph Desart
Frank Rio
Capone
Philip D’andrea
Paul Rica
Mike Costello
Hoover Say Prohibition Stance Unchanged Amid Debate
President Hoover issued a public statement during his campaign denying claims that the Democrat repeal plank signals full repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. He insisted his position on prohibition remains unchanged and pressed the contrast with Democrats who favor repeal in key southern states.
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Bt. Louis
Hoover
Brewing Center
Hoover in Midwest swing attacks Roosevelt on tariff and crash
President Hoover addresses over 200000 supporters as he tours Indiana and Illinois. He likens the Democratic campaign to Civil War choices, accuses Roosevelt of exploiting the Hawley Smoot tariff and stock market crash, and urges consistency on tariff claims, warning against neglecting the U.S. role in world economy.
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Midwest
Indiana
Illinois
West Coast
Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
United States
Johnson backs Roosevelt as American choice in Chicago
CHICAGO AP Senator Hiram Johnson of California urged voting for Franklin D Roosevelt not as a Democrat but as an American. He attacked President Hoover over farm relief unemployment the power trust foreign securities international debts the Reconstruction Finance Corporation prohibition and the bonus army. He blamed the policies on the philosophy of government rooted in big business.
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Chicago
Hiram Johnson
California
Franklin D
Gov
Roosevelt
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Pabst Merger
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