Iowa liquor row and graft probes dominate state news
The piece reports tensions over Iowa liquor law administration with questions about brand selection and campaign contributions tied to liquor purchases. It notes a five point farm program from Senator Dickinson challenging AAA policies and discusses attempts to move graft cases from Woodbury county to avoid corrupt influence, along with Father Coughlin urging removal of congressional rubber stamps.
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Towa
Iowa
Liquor Control Commission
National Distillers Products Corp
EADS
Gazette
New York
Des Moines
Dickinson Pursues Revised McNary-Haugen Export Subsidy
Iowa Senator L J Dickinson urged a revised McNary-Haugen export subsidy during a Cornell Forum session at Mount Vernon. He outlined a five point program to restore farm export markets with price adjusting tariffs and currency stabilization, noting legality of processing taxes must be settled by the Supreme Court.
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Dickinson
Cornell College Forum
Mount Vernon
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Cornell College
Cornell Forum
Ottawa
Supreme Court
Dickinson’s Plan to Stabilize Agriculture and Prices
Dickinson proposes five steps to align policy with farming needs. Eliminate contradictions between limiting crop output and subsidizing irrigation. Stabilize production via land retirement and balanced production. End artificial controls and create cooperative production and marketing. Restore export markets with a price-equalizing fee. Revise taxes to ease farm and real property burdens.
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J Ickinson
Dickinson
Five Point Farm Program Aims to Stabilize Agriculture
The statement outlines a five point plan from the present administration. Point one seeks to eliminate contradictions in policy that curb crop production while subsidized federal irrigation and drainage projects undermine agriculture. Point two calls for stabilizing production via retirements of marginal lands and diversification under an intelligent land use program.
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1935 Summary
Cedar Rapids reports 333 accidents 391 injuries and 12 deaths for the year 1935 reflecting road toll figures.
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Cedar Rapids
Everyday Living from Years Ago: Redemption After Foolish Acts
A reader reflects on the persistence of consequences from foolish deeds yet asserts that redemption is possible. Nature and experience show outcomes evolve, and with effort attitudes can transform errors into lessons, while forgiveness and a divine grace can wash away losses.
Milwaukee Bombing Ring Ends With Youth Fatalities
Police said the deaths of two youths in a dynamite trap may have saved a 16 year old girl from being killed after they warned her she would face death if she revealed their bombings of banks and public buildings. Three people died in Sunday's blast.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Hugh
Izzy) Rutkowski
Paul Chovonek
Patricia Myimarck
Alice Kalbing
Girls’ Technical High School
Rutkowski
Chovonek
Iowan Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
Vance Henderson of Cherokee Indiana pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing to a murder charge filed in Denver. He is accused of shooting his aunt Mrs Paul Wells after a quarrel when he did not arrive for dinner.
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Denver
AFP
Vance Henderson
Cherokee
Paul Wells
Henderson
Students Strip English Signs Amid War News In Brief
Northern front reports Maravigna moves toward Gondar as Makale falls under pressure. storms slow progress and airmen see white flags. Southern front cites bombardment casualties near Gorahai and Fafan river advance. Home front notes Mussolini pledge amid meatless day and anti British riots as League sanctions Britain.
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Makale
Pietro Maravigna
Gondar
Lake Tana
Ethiopia
Gorahai
Fafan River
Mussolini
League
Geneva
Italy
Rome
Mone
Milano
Benito Mussolini
Britain
England
Milan
League of Nations
Austria
Duce
Odorless Tearless Onion Promoted by Shanklin
Dr. Lloyd C. Shanklin of New York City holds claim in Modern Mechanics to an odorless tearless onion achieved by desulphurization. The article notes his past Cedar Rapids ties as a controversial evangelist and vegetarian leader, including a snakebite immunity stunt he promoted in New York.
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Cedar Rapids
Lloyd C. Shanklin
New York City
Modern Mechanics Magazine
Dr. Shanklin
Shanklin
United Brotherhood of Vegetarians
Beebe de la Fontaine
Press Association
New York
Iowa
Community Chest drive reports pledges at luncheon
The Community Chest campaign workers posted 25 896 50 in pledges by Monday noon at the first report meeting, aiming for 80 260. 210 attendees filled the Hotel Roosevelt luncheon, with overflow seating in the adjacent room. Robert Armstrong led the men’s division high with 590, and Mrs. Guy Hillier led the women’s division with 104.
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Community Chest Finance
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Robert Armstrong
Guy Hillier
Actuala
Roosevelt
Canopus Club
Horace G. "Cap" Hedges
Big Ten
Canoma Club
Kiwanis Club
P. M. Lattner Manufacturing Company
Former Greek King Prepares to Return
George II of Greece, heir to the throne after a plebiscite showing 1.49 million votes for monarchy, prepared a proclamation for an imminent return to power. He worked in a London hotel as the government and people awaited his comeback amid celebrations and official congratulations.
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London
George II
Greece
George
West End
George Kondylis
Council of Ministers
Chicago Adopts Eastern Time Year Round
The Chicago city council voted 44 to 3 to adopt Eastern Standard Time year round starting March 1, 1936. Debate stretched over more than five hours with backers urging the change to gain daylight hours, while opponents led by Alderman Oscar F Nelson vow to challenge constitutionality if enacted.
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Chicago
AAA Begins to Draft Corn Hog Control Plan
The AAA seeks a two year corn hog program to stimulate hog production in 1936 37 reduce corn acreage by about 20 percent and use retired land for soil improvement Officials outlined four key recommendations including a two year frame to let farmers plan ahead and limit next years corn acreage to 95 million acres.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Wallace
Thez
Gerald B. Thorne
AAA Livestock and Feed Grains Division
Thorne
AAA
Ohio
Richmond pool pay-off man robbed by two armed men
Hy man Krystel 29 known as pay-off man for a football pool said two armed white men held him up at gunpoint drove his car to a nearby alley and took 1500. He was not injured.
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Richmond
Hyman Krystel
Krystel
O'Connors Trial Delayed Over Venue Change Appeal
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice halted Attorney General Edward L. O'Connor's trial pending review of District Judge Earl Peters' ruling denying a venue change. Special Prosecutor Havner sought the review and ordered arguments at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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Des Moines
J.W. Kintzinger
Iowa
Supreme Court
Edward L. O'Connor
Earl Peters
H. M. Havner
Hayner
Peters
Havner Prepares in Des Moines as Threats Loom
Attorney General Edward L. O Connor revealed Havner Woodbury county graft prosecutor is "going armed." He offered Havner a bodyguard after learning Havner carries a gun. Havner had sought a change of venue claiming threats to his life and to witnesses.
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Des Moines
Edward L. O’connor
H. M. Havner
Woodbury County
Havner
O'Connor
Woodbury
Woodbury graft cases move sought from Sioux City
Prosecutor asks transfer of the Woodbury county graft trials to a court outside Sioux City. O Connor and Walter Maley among eighteen indicted men face trial in Sioux City Tuesday. If granted, review would proceed under the December term, delaying trials to the January term before five district judges. Chief Justice Kintzinger and Justices Albert and Parsons expected to hear Wednesday arguments as the supreme court weighs Judge Peters decision.
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State Supreme Court
Havner
Woodbury County
Goose
Gander
Sioux City
Woodbury
O'Connor
Walter Maley
Wells
Orequest
Kintzinger
E.G. Albert
James M. Parsons
Supreme Court
Denials on Secret US Britain Understanding Over Ethiopia
Acting Secretary of State William Phillips denied any secret understanding between the United States and Great Britain about halting Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. The denial followed a suggestion by radio priest Charles E. Coughlin that such an understanding existed.
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Washington
INS
United States
Great Britain
Ethiopia
William Phillips
Phillips
Charles E. Coughlin
Helena Jolted by More Earth Shocks
In Helena Montana an earthquake caused swaying bricks as over 800 shocks in three weeks rattled the region. The 4 23 a m jolt was felt in Helena Butte Livingston Great Falls and Bozeman prompting evacuations and officials to condemn the Denver block as unsafe.
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Helena
Mont
Butte
Livingston
Great Falls
Bozeman
Denver
Mild California quake rattles coast to Long Beach
A mild earthquake was felt along the southern California coast from San Diego to near Long Beach at 7 56 p m Sunday. A Laguna Beach water main break was the only damage reported.
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San Diego
Calif
California
Long Beach
Laguna Beach
Payroll Bandits Wound Ohio Man
In Salem Ohio two bank employees were robbed of $25,000 by payroll bandits who fled north of the city. A pursuing bystander, Herman Stratton 30, was shot in the head and critically wounded nine miles north of Salem. William Hart, cashier of Farmers National Bank, joined Stratton and followed the robbers toward the city limits before breaking off to summon state patrol. Stratton was unarmed at the time of the attack.
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Salem
Herman Stratton
Stratton
William Hart
Farmers National Bank
Hart
Five Killed as Hurricane Rips Through Florida
A tropical hurricane battered Miami with 130 mph winds killing five and injuring scores. The storm crossed toward the Everglades and threatened the citrus regions of Lake Okeechobee as Coast Guard vessels aided Key West. A fireman died aboard Hahira and a mother and child perished in Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
Florida
America
Key West
Coast Guard
Lake Okeechobee District
W. Turner Wallis
West Palm Beach
South Florida
East
Uptown
Combs
Levi
Fort Myers
Six Die in Harlem Tenement Fire Arson Suspected
New blaze found and put out Monday as police search for the firebug blamed for a Harlem tenement fire that killed six people. Fire Marshal Brophy linked the Friday deaths of Mrs. Margherita Di Donato, 36, and her five children to the same arsonist.
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New York
Harlem
Thomas Brophy
Margherita di Donato
Purvis Considers Hollywood Guard Offer After DOJ Service
Melvin Purvis former head of the justice agents in Chicago said he was considering an offer from Hollywood stars to protect them against plots and threats. He noted he has not decided what to do after retiring from the department of justice two months ago.
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Chicago
Melvin Purvis
Department of Justice
Purvis
John Dillinger
Charles
Pretty Boy” Floyd
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Mamem Toe Meentnen
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M’nary-Haugen
Mt. Vernon
Ray Anderson
Joseph Fort Newton
Dr, Newton
Il Duce
Cedar Rafids News
Sec. Wallace
Columbus
National Distillers Corp
Martin L. Davey
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Lquor
Scripps-Howard
State Liquor Department
Davey
National Distillers
O’connor
N.Y
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