Woodbury County Vote Challenge Triggers Legal Battle
Robert B. Pike, Woodbury County Republican chairman, challenged governor votes in two precincts alleging unlawful returns and missing oaths. Kraschel led in both precincts with 194 to 101 and 487 to 244. Kraschel’s county win is about 5,000 in unofficial totals as canvass is temporarily delayed.
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Sioux City
Robert B. Pike
Woodbury County
Board of Supervisors
Nels G. Kraschel
George A. Wilson
Kraschel
Wilson
Pike
Election Board
Kraschel Leads Wilson in Iowa Governor Race by 2380 Votes
Democrat Nelson Kraschel held a 2380 vote edge over George A. Wilson as 77 of Iowa's 99 counties reported official counts. Kraschel made his strongest gains in Muscatine and Lee counties with totals near 523,715 to 521,335 after including unofficial tallies from the remaining counties.
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DES Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
George A. Wilson
Iowa
Kraschel
Muscatine
Lee
Sapa
Ira Billy G Acoous Nate Go
Vote Total Reduced in Linn County Election Recount
Cedar Rapids dispatch reports a recount showing a 402 vote drop for William Jacobsen in Linn County as oversight trimmed his total from 17,778 to 17,376 in the Second district race. Charles Penningroth remains at 19,854. Adjustments also shift Hugh Sheridan and John Taylor totals in Cedar Rapids townships and precincts.
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Cedar Rapids
William Jacobsen
Linn County
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Jacobsen
Charles Penningroth
Constable
Rapids Township
Hugh Sheridan
W. J. Fleming
Fleming
John Taylor
Fieming
Oliver Hardy Sued for 2500 Per Month Separate Maintenance
Los Angeles reports Oliver Hardy, the comedian, is defendant in a suit for 2500 per month separate maintenance. Myrtle Lee Hardy accuses him of extreme mental cruelty and cites an alleged late night visit to a woman’s apartment with liquor. The couple separated last July as Stan Laurel faces separate alimony claims.
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Los Angeles
INS
Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel
Laurel
Myrtle Lee Hardy
Hardy
Hardys
Indirect Paths to Happiness and Culture
A reader argues that true happiness and culture come indirectly. Direct pursuit fails. genuine influence arises from daily living and devotion to a great end beyond oneself.
Farmers press for federal crop insurance program
A group of seven farm representatives from the great plains handed a minority report to Secretary Wallace urging a federal crop insurance program. They dissent from a larger group and insist crop insurance is vital, criticizing plans to subordinate its development to other agricultural measures.
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Washington
Great Plains
Wallace
H. A. Prager
AAA Soil Conservation Committee
Kansas
William J. Vanzee
Platte, S. D
AAA
Fred Wallace
Gibbon
Neb
H. M. Ehrmanntraut
Plentywood
Mont
LeRoy K. Smith
Lamar
W. J. Maddock
St. Paul
Bismarck
N. D
Farmers Union Territorial Association
N. W. Thatcher
Washington, D. C
Co-Operative Grain Producers
Congress urged to revise soil acts expanding federal control
Farm leaders push Congress to revise the soil conservation and domestic allotment acts to give the federal government greater oversight of agriculture. The move comes with no direct administration sponsorship but not opposition from the Agriculture Department. As of now, $1,099,757 has been paid to 12,273 farmers under the soil program, with Iowa receiving $220,202 in state payments.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Administration
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Department
Iowa
Stabilization Plan Hinges On Social Security Tax Hoard
Government experts say the social security payroll tax will swell the treasury to a historic reserve by 1948 and 1975, funding a permanent stabilization force. The plan shifts debt to the government, provides quick cash for emergencies, and boosts purchasing power for 26 million workers by insuring old age security and welfare benefits. The 2 percent tax begins Jan 1 1937, rising to 6 percent.
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Washington
U. S. Treasury
Treasury
Treasury weighs large new financing to fund December program
Washington officials indicate the treasury may borrow about 1.5 billion dollars to cover the upcoming December financing plan. The move could exceed Roosevelt’s September budget projections and push beyond earlier hopes for only 300 million more in new cash.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Shaw Suggests Blowing Up London's Cenotaph
Shaw shocks Britain on Armistice eve with a remark that London's cenotaph should be blown up. He says public gestures do not satisfy his feelings and would like to blow it up and forget it. King Edward will preside over the cenotaph ceremony in Whitehall on Wednesday.
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London
INL
Britain
George Bernard Shaw
The
Daily Express
Edward
Whitehall
Four Men Killed in Train Van Collision Near Clinton
Four men from Waynesville were killed when their car was struck by the Illinois Central’s St. Louis to Chicago Green Diamond train near Clinton, Illinois. Victims named are George Cisco, his son Orval Cisco, Elijah Cisco, and Robert Edwards, George’s nephew.
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Clinton, Ill
Illinois Central
St. Louis
Chicago
Green
Waynesville
George Cisco
Orval Cisco
Elijah Cisco
George Robert Edwards
Corn Estimates for November Slightly Higher
The Agriculture Department's preliminary November forecast puts total corn production at 1,526,627,000 bushels, up from 1,509,362,000 in October. State figures list large outputs in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnesota with smaller crops in Texas and Colorado.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Iowa corn crop forecast holds steady at 218 million bushels
Des Moines with C D Palmer, federal agricultural statistician, says the 1936 Iowa corn crop totals 218 million bushels, unchanged from last month’s forecast. The 1935 crop was 373.39 million and the five year average is 438.79 million. Palmer notes 97 percent matured with little damage and 65 percent harvested for grain, up from 33 percent on average for November 1, due to favorable October weather and overall smaller crop. Western and southern counties report very little corn.
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Des Moines
C. D. Palmer
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Iowa
Palmer
Will Demand Probe of Digest Poll
Senator McKellar of Tennessee said he would demand an official investigation of the national election poll conducted by the Literary Digest in Memphis Tennessee on Tuesday.
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Memphis
Chaplin Silent On Marriage Reports
Hollywood retrieval Charles Chaplin refused to discuss reports that he and Paulette Goddard have been secretly married for over a year. The star avoided questions about the alleged union amid publicity surrounding their pairing.
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Chaplin
Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Dentists urged to drop old terms for gentler wording
In Cleveland the Ohio Dental Society at its 71st annual convention urged dentists to replace harsh words like extracting and grinding with softer terms such as removing and smoothing, citing psychological effect on patients.
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Cleveland
Ohio Dental Society
Unemployment Drops Below Nine Million, Officials Say
Commerce Department experts reported unofficially that unemployment fell to under 9,000,000 by September end, down from 11,000,000 in January and 9,550,000 in August. They advocate a $15 to $20 million census to map unemployment by industry and area.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Chloe's Christmas Carol opens in The Cedar Rapids Gazette
A new serial romance by Peggy Dern debuts in The Cedar Rapids Gazette next Friday. Chloe faces a holiday choice between Rio revelry and home town duties, with love changing the Christmas she will spend. The story promises a warm, humanizing holiday spirit.
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Chloe
Deb
Rio
Thore
Love
The
Gazette
Bombing of Madrid Deepens Spanish Civil War Tense
Report from Madrid says three large fascist bombers dropped about forty bombs including incendiaries on the southern and western districts at 3 55 p m Tuesday in the heaviest aerial attack yet on the besieged capital. Lisbon dispatches claim nationalist forces cut into the southeastern quarter and reached the Puerto del Sol terminus while advancing from the northwest toward the north railroad station.
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Madrid
Lisbon
Puerto del Sol
Insurgent forces close on Madrid amid fierce bombardment
Socialist officials in Madrid hid in cellars as fascist attackers reached within 500 yards of the city. Artillery along the Manzanares and low flying planes bombarded ministries and fortifications while militiamen retreated into streets. In Seville, Gen. Queipo de Llano predicted Madrid’s fall once ordered.
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Manzanares
Angel Gate
Toledo Bridge
Seville
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
Paris
Boy on Bike Hurt In Auto Accident And Truck Collision
Eleven year old George Engel of 144 Twenty fourth street SE sustained a scalp cut and bruises when his bicycle collided with a car driven by Frank Newcomb of 758 Ninth street Marion at 5 p m on First avenue near Twenty seventh street. Newcomb’s passenger Paul Holst and Bill Domer of Marion were present. A physician treated Engel at his home.
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Twenty-fourth Street
Frank Newcomb
Ninth Street
Marion
First Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
E. Newcomb
Engel
Seventh Street
Newcomb
Paul Holst
Bill Domer
Glen Monroe
Route 4
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Monroe
Bruce Brazauski
Third Street NW
Ben Brazauski
Joe Messinger
Fifth Street NW
K Avenue
Clark Harrington
Messinger
Fifth Street
Brazanski
Francis Messinger
Mayor orders removal of New Faces skit ridiculing First Lady
Philadelphia Mayor S Davis Wilson called a Broadway revue scene mocking the President and Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Hoover a damnable outrage and demanded its elimination or the show be closed. Producer Leonard Sillman resisted saying he would fight to keep the skit.
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Philadelphia
New Faces
S. Davis Wilson
United States
Leonard Sillman
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Gerry Probst
Patricia Mallinson
Wilson
Forrest Theater
Sillman
New York
Jim Farley
Bright Sun Drives Temperatures in Cedar Rapids
A sunny day lifted Cedar Rapids temperatures from a low of 18 at 7 am to 23 at 9 am and 37 by 2 45 pm. Monday’s high of 40 at 3 pm fell to 32 by 7 pm and 26 at midnight, per Chambers Inskeep company graphs.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Bids Opened for Cedar Rapids Highway 30 Viaduct
The Iowa highway commission opened bids for the Sixteenth Avenue SW overhead crossing rerouting Highway 30 in Cedar Rapids. Massman Construction bid 92841 for relocating the railroad tracks, Haegg Construction bid 10748 for 38 miles of paving, and W L Lundeen bid 10748 for 38 miles of grading. Bids to be approved by the Omaha bureau before contracts are awarded. Local officials aim to start work to provide winter employment.
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Sixteenth Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
Associated Press
Massman Construction Company
Kansas City
Chicago and
Milwaukee
Iowa City
Haegg
W. L. Lundeen
Montezuma
Omaha
Bureau of Public Roads
Highway Commission
Ramsay MacDonald Collapses at London Banquet
Former British Labour prime minister James Ramsay MacDonald collapsed at a London banquet for the lord mayor. He recovered quickly after treatment from Lord Dawson, royal physician, with officials attributing the episode to heat in the crowded room.
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Ramsay MacDonald
London
James Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Lord Dawson of Penn
State champs compete for national title
With two-thirds of contestants tabulated in the national corn husking contest, Carl Carlson of Iowa leads, closely followed by Adam Byczynski of Illinois. Carlson has 1472.75 net pounds, Byczynski 1466.241, as the event proceeds from Alva Oyler's farm in Licking County, Ohio.
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Alva Oyler
Licking County
Carl Carlson
Iowa
Elmer Carlson
Adam Byczynski
Illinois
Carlson
Byczynski
Thirteen Annual National Husking Championship Opens
County O. reports the start of the thirteenth national husking championship with over 100,000 spectators. Eighteen leading huskers from nine states and their runners-up begin rapid competition assigned to rows as starting gun fires.
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Alva Oyler
Licking County
Contestants Named for Corn Husking Event State Champions
The lineup lists Richard Mitchell and John Zandt from Ohio Lawrence House and Cecil Vining from Kansas Art Johnson and Ted Balko from Minnesota Richard Anderson and Earl Henry from South Dakota Nell Pokett and Jous Korte Indiana Albert Etter and John Whybrew from Indiana Layton Roberts and John Harris from Missouri Carl Carlson and Elke Hendricks from Iowa all denoting state champions for today’s contest.
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Richard Mitchell
John Zandt
Ohio
Lawrence House
Cecil Vining
Kansas
Art Johnson
Ted Balko
Minnesota
Richard Anderson
Earl Henry
South Dakota
Nell Pokett
Jous Korte
Albert Etter
John Whybrew
Indiana
Layton Roberts
John Harris
Missouri
Carl Carlson
Elke Hendricks
Iowa
Corn Patch Derby Draws Nation Wide Crowd At Farm Contest
The event features eighty minute finish time and loud din as competitors sack corn for weighing. Husker Byrzynski from Illinois leads, while Carl Carlson of Town wears white duck trousers amid muddy ground and cold wind.
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Husker Byrzynski
Illinois
Carl Carlson
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