Woodbury County Vote Challenge Prompts Canvass Delay
Woodbury county Republican chairman Robert B. Pike challenged governor race returns from two precincts claiming unlawful returns and oath issues. Kraschel led unofficially by about 5 000 votes. official canvass may extend to other precincts with potential contests and legislature seating if Kraschel wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Robert B. Pike
Woodbury County
Board of Supervisors
Nels G. Kraschel
George A. Wilson
Kraschel
Wilson
Pike
Election Board
Christmas Shopping Volume Expected To Be Unusually Heavy
Chicago reports record tenth period Sears Roebuck sales for period ending Nov 5 at 4 900 311 and Montgomery Ward Oct sales at 45 455 404. both suggest a heavy Christmas shopping season with nine month totals for Sears and Ward reaching company highs. The National Retail Dry Goods Association notes an unusually early holiday buying movement as shoppers begin before Thanksgiving.
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Chicago
Sears Roebuck and Company
Montgomery Ward
Sears Roebuck
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Actress June Caprice Dies in California
The death of silent film actress June Elizabeth Millarde known as June Caprice was disclosed Tuesday. She died at Lebanon Hospital, and her body was taken to Forest Lawn cemetery.
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Mollywood
Calif
June Elizabeth Millarde
June Caprice
Lebanon Hospital
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Indirect Paths to Happiness and Influence
A reader reflects on how happiness and charm arise not by direct pursuit but as side effects of living well. True influence comes from daily virtue, not sermons, with culture and art serving as vessels for deeper devotion to a greater end beyond ourselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis
Jesus
Group presses federal crop insurance plan petition
A seven member group of Great Plains farm representatives signed a minority report urging Secretary Wallace to push a federal crop insurance program. They oppose the view that crop insurance is minor and should be subordinate to other agricultural plans. The signers include H A Prager William J Vanzee Fred Wallace H W Ehrmanntraut LeRoy K Smith W J Maddock N W Thatcher and others.
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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
HW. M. Ehrmanntraut
Plentywood
Mont
LeRoy K. Smith
Lamar
Lamar, Neb. W. J. Maddock of St. Paul, Minn, and Bismarcis, N. D
Partners Union Territorial Association
N. W. Thatcher
Washington, D. C
Co-Operative Grain Producers
Congress to revise acts for federal control of agriculture
Farm leaders say Congress will amend the soil conservation and domestic allotment acts to grant the federal government control over agriculture. The move aims to revive the AAA central program, with $1,099,757 paid to 12,273 farmers and payments routed through states including Iowa at $220,202.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Administration
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Department
Iowa
Iowa corn hop estimate unchanged from last month
Iowa crop estimates released by C D Palmer and Ray Anderson place 1936 corn at 218 million bushels, equal to last month’s forecast. The report notes a dramatic drop from 1935 and the five year average, with favorable October weather and half-normal state acreage cited for the smaller yield. Soybeans for grain show 72.9 million bushels, about one third of the 1935 crop, reflecting reduced acreage and poor yields.
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Ray Anderson
Gazette
Des Moines
C. D. Palmer
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Iowa
Palmer
Towa
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Crop prospects rise 2 percent for nation in October
The agriculture department reports October crop prospects up about 2 percent overall with higher estimates for corn potatoes sweet potatoes apples tobacco peanuts sugar beets and buckwheat. Cotton up 7 percent previously and pastures improve especially in drought zones.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt Orders Embargo On Planes
President Roosevelt, at a cabinet meeting, ordered an embargo on exports of American made military planes until one year after those models enter production for the army and navy. The action followed reports that Britain would place orders for 1,500 planes in the American market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Air Ministry
Armistice Day Reflections Across a Troubled World
Anxious world marks Armistice Day eighteen years after the 1918 war ending. U S President Roosevelt visits Arlington Cemetery while others recall Wilson and consider a world court. Europe debates Danzig and German Poland tensions as Britain warns of balloon nets over London.
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Associated Press
United States
Roosevelt
Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
World Court
Sea
Europe
Taledolem
Germany
Poland
Danzig
Britain
London
Paris
Popular Front
Soviets Round Up Suspected Plotters
Moscow reports mass arrests by the secret police targeting foreigners and alleged fascist elements. Five Germans accused of organizing Russians into fascist groups in the U.S. S. R. Austrians Swedes and Poles among those detained as authorities extend control over embassies and legations to root out counterrevolutionary conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Rebels’ Madrid Air Attack Ranked Deadliest Yet
Insurgent air squadrons bombarded central Madrid with 20 planes, aided by siege guns as tanks moved through outer districts. The intensa bombardment killed and wounded scores while fires raged and militia barricades fought back amid a brutal, multi-district assault.
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Madrid
W.orld
Europe
Ventes
Checkup Reveals Defeat of Iowa City Bond Issue
Iowa City mayor Thomas E. Martin announced the defeat of a proposal to issue $55,000 in bonds to rebuild the community building destroyed by fire. An official canvass showed 3,533 yes to 2,358 no, falling 16 votes short of the 60 percent needed.
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Iowa City
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa City Council
Chloe's Christmas Care starts at The Gazette next Friday
The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces a new serial Chloe's Christmas Care by Peggy Dern. Chloe faces holiday choices between Rio merrymaking and home town duties as love changes the plan. The romance promises holiday spirit and human warmth in opening chapters.
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Chloe
Deb
Rio
Thore
Love
The
Gazette
Peggy Dern
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Plan shakeup of bureaus and lower budget
President Roosevelt outlined a sweeping reorganization of emergency and government bureaus with a reduced budget and no tax increases. He cited potential consolidations of the Resettlement Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Works Progress Administration with regular departments, and hinted at changes to the farm program and corporate surplus tax, while reserving a separate message on the new work relief appropriation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tugwell
Agriculture Department
Works Progress Administration
Congress
Truckmen Challenge ICC Order Allowing Free Rail Pickup
The Master Truckmen of America filed a federal suit to block an ICC order authorizing free pickup and delivery by railroads under certain conditions. The move could threaten 8000 jobs and $8,000,000 in payroll annually. The association argues the policy violates the I C C act and antitrust law and would trigger destructive competition harming both rail and motor carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Master Truckmen of America, Inc
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Mayor objects to ridiculing Mrs Roosevelt in New Faces
Philadelphia AP report says producers of the musical revue New Faces withdrew a sketch after Mayor S Davis Wilson denounced it as a damnable outrage ridiculing the wife of the President of the United States.
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Philadelphia
New Faces
S Davis Wilson
United States
Argentine Corn Sells in Kansas City Market
Two cars of Argentine corn were sold in Kansas City marking the first successful competition with domestic grain in the market. The No 2 yellow corn brought $1.17 a bushel.
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Kansas City
Security Fund May Be Used As Stabilizer
Washington expected today that billions in social security tax revenue would boost the U S treasury a historic cash hoard. Officials say the joint employer employee old age pension tax will act as a permanent stabilizer for American business and fund rapid emergency needs. Tax revenue could total 10 billion by 1948 and 45 billion by 1975 while easing tax exempt securities and enabling pay as you go policy in downturns. The plan also aims to expand unemployment and health benefits for 26 million workers and create mass purchasing power for low income groups. The old age reserve will flow to the treasury after January 1 1937 as payroll taxes rise from 2 to 6 percent split between employers and employees.
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Washington
U. S. Treasury
Eet
Armistice Day Message Urges Peace Maintained
National Commander Harry W. Colmery of the American Legion calls Armistice Day a celebration of peace not conquest. He urges ceremonies, a moment of silence, and pledges to safeguard liberty and democracy, noting World War I sacrifices and the ongoing task of preserving peace.
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United Press
Harry W. Colmery
American Segion
American Legion
Carlson wins national corn husking contest in mud
Carl Carlson of Audubon county Iowa won the national corn husking contest in Newark Ohio amid a field of eighteen contestants as heavy rain and melted snow created a mud lake on the Alva L. Oyler farm drawing an estimated 125000 to 150000 spectators.
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Newark
Ohio
Carl Carlson
Audubon County
Iowa
Alva L. Oyler Farm
Carlson Brothers Hold Local Cornhuskers Title
Audubon county Iowa residents welcomed Carl Carlson and Elmer Carlson of Audubon with praise for corn husking skill as neighbors, friends, and well-wishers gathered Tuesday to honor the brothers described as champions in the field.
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Audubon (Ap
Carl Carlson
Audubon County
Neenne
Orother
Elmer
Corn husk grinding contest yields low national haul
Newark reports the “battle of the hangboards” drew 40 000 to 45 000 autos around Oyler farm as Carlson, 38, led with 21 039 bushels in an 80 minute husk grind. Adam Byczynski placed second with 20 946, while Lawrence House and Ted Balko followed.
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Newark
Oyler
Carlson
Elmer
Newtown
Ind
Adam Byczynski
Illinois
Bureau County
Byczynski
Lawrence House
Sherman County
Kan
Kansas
Ted Balko
Minnesota
Albert
Union Party Plans To Persist In Iowa Activities
Union party leaders in Des Moines announced continuation of party activities in Iowa after Father Coughlin’s withdrawal. Otto E. Neal was named state chairman, replacing L. M. Peet. E. M. Holstad will serve as secretary-treasurer. Neal had been Townsend Republican candidate for Congress in the Sixth district last June. Officials said campaign expenditures totaled $481.20.
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Des Moines
INS
Coughlin
Iowa
Otto E. Neal
L. M. Peet
Neal
Townsend
Congress
E. M. Holstad
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Colmery
Mad
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Union Party
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