Long seeks senate seat for star Michal during session
Huey P Long plans to seat LSU halfback Abe Michal in the Louisiana Senate as part of a broader tax shift and debt relief program. Michal stayed in his dorm to study, delaying his appearance as crowds watched. The legislature sent forty four bills to the ways and means committee as Long outlines state control over municipalities and elections.
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Baton Rouge
INS
Huey P
Long
State Senate
Louisiana
Abe Michal
Louisiana State University
Senator Long
Michal
Senate
Syria
McCombs
Miss
Huey
Abe
Coleman Lindsey
John Fournet
Ways and Means
Edmund G. Burke
Orleans Parish
United States
Morley Lectures On Streamlined Literature In Iowa City
Christopher Morley spoke to hundreds of Times club members in Iowa City on Monday night. He argued that great art requires leaving out excess and emphasized streamlined writers who cut gadgets and ornament, naming Virginia Woolf Elinor Wylie Katharine Mansfield and Gertrude Stein. He redefined The Tempest as an intimate portrait of inner life and urged writers to pierce the outer fuzz of attention by noting what is subconsciously seen.
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Christopher Morley
Times Club
Iowa City
Morley
Gertrude Stein
Mr. Morley
Tax Shifting Plan Coordinates State Tax Powers
The proposal would empower the state to amend various tax laws including income taxes and grant a moratorium on debts for individuals and corporations upon application to a governor appointed board. The legislature recessed with the house at 8 pm Tuesday and the senate at 2 pm Wednesday. Senator Long led the chambers in full command, issuing orders as in the previous summer session.
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House
Senate
Senator Long
Driver Watching Children In Fatal Train Collision
J. J. Hurt of 2436 J street SW escaped injury at 3 30 p m Monday when his eastbound truck was struck by the North Western Columbine passenger train at Twelfth avenue SE. Hurt said he was watching children crossing the avenue and failed to notice the train. The truck front was damaged.
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J. J. Hurt
J Street
North Western Columbine
Twelfth Avenue SE
Hurt
Two Iowa City Girls Runaway Found Near Filling Station
Meta Gifford and Violet Dunaway, both 14 from Iowa City, were picked up by police at 7 40 a m near a filling station where they asked for road maps. They admitted running away from home and were turned over to juvenile authorities.
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Meta Gifford
Violet Dunaway
Iowa City
How to Play and Win in Contract Bridge Squeezes and End Play
The article explains pivotal techniques in bridge such as the squeeze and end play. It notes that bad breaks or strategic clues from bidding can force the declarer to choose between squeezing and finessing. A key idea is delaying decision to keep both options open until the squeeze appears as the right play, illustrated by a hand with North as dealer and neither side vulnerable.
Vienna Coup Sinks East In Six Hearts Contract
In a bridge hand from The Cedar Rapids Gazette, South clinches six hearts after a Vienna Coup. South cashes the spade ten and diamond Ace, discards clubs and diamonds, and counts to force the diamond King. East misreads, discards wrong card, and South finishes with the diamond Ace. Tomorrow's Hand. North, Dealer.
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North
South
West
East
Vienna
Survey New Route For Highway In Mt. Vernon
Highway engineers surveyed the Lincoln highway grade and right of way in Mt. Vernon to ease a dangerous overpass and curves. Elevation changes will shift setbacks to the Fred Turner property and run west of the W. E. Mathews farm while preserving the old alignment east of it.
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The
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Tenth Avenue
Fred Turner
W. E. Mathews
MacDonald Declares War Debts Reparations Dead Issue
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told the House of Commons that Britain sees reparations and foreign debts as a dead issue. He does not foresee a new debt conference or the Young Plan taking effect again and said Britain will not initiate another debt and reparations conference.
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London
Ins
J. Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
MacDonald
Britain
City Briefs and Personals Highlights Local Notices
Mrs Rose H Johnson of Phoenix Arizona visits Friday for her brother George B Nunns funeral. Mrs L D Burgus recovers at home from minor operation. City council authorizes 4658 04 to Dorr company for sewage plant section C. Healy and Whelan attend federal court in Fort Dodge. Fines for parking set at 2 with costs for R D Hunting Kvapil and Crowley. Batchellers of Gayville injured Nov 3 in crash near Cedar Rapids recovering at Mercy hospital. Mrs Marks also listed as injured.
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Rose H. Johnson
Phoenix, Ariz
George B. Nunn
Dorr Company of
New York
J. W. Batcheller
Gayville
S. D
Herman Marks
Belle Plaine
Highway 30
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Batchellers
Marks
City approves curb cut and parkway pave at bank site
The city council on Tuesday granted Peoples Savings Bank permission to cut the curb and pave the parkway along the First Street side of the bank building for 102 feet.
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Peoples Savings Bank
First Street
Bank
Y M C A Leaders Hear Trends in Work
Judson McKimm Cincinnati YMCA general secretary spoke on newer trends in YMCA work before a panel meeting. About sixty men attended as Cedar Rapids YMCA committee members met at the Y at noon Tuesday for the discussion.
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Judson McKimm
Cincinnati, Oho
Y. M
Ponel
Cedar Rapids Y
Petition seeks street lights on 6th Avenue NW segment
Seventeen residents signed a petition presented to the city council Tuesday requesting installation of street lights on 6 avenue NW from Fifteenth street to Twentieth street. The document was referred to the department of public improvements. A separate filing shows Mrs. Mary Nowadzky of 1103 Ninth street NW filing a personal injury claim against the city seeking $500.
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City Council
Avenue NW
Fifteenth Street
Twentieth Street
Department of Public Improvements
Mary Nowadzky
Ninth Street
Neglect of Constipation Warns Doctors to Act
Health guidance urges medical attention for constipation as it may trigger headaches, poor appetite, and sleep loss. Kellogg's All Bran is promoted as a practical daily cereal to aid regularity, with two tablespoonfuls advised and a reminder to consult a doctor if illness is serious.
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Kellogg’s At
Allbran
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Woman Sues Over Fall On Ellis Boulevard Sidewalk
Mrs Nowadzky alleges injuries from a fall on October 25 after stumbling over vegetable trash on a sidewalk in front of the playground garden on Ellis Boulevard NW. She claims damage for head, right arm hand wrist and right eye.
Man Who Shot Two Bartenders Hangs Self In Illinois Jail
J Allen McKee of Centerville Indiana shot two bartenders in ROCK ISLAND Illinois after they questioned a counterfeit ten dollar bill. He hanged himself in the county jail at 1 10 p m using sash cord and a steam pipe. He had escaped Spirit Lake jail in November and faced an assault charge. He claimed to have won eighty dollars and a gun in a Davenport crap game.
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Rock Island
J. Allen McKee
Centerville
McKee
Spirit Lake
Davenport
Arizona Army Nears Dam Site
Arizona's armed forces moved to the Parker dam site to protect state sovereignty as 101 national guardsmen joined a six man detachment guarding against construction crews. The force includes machine gunners and riflemen and pushed toward the isolated sector to reinforce the summer watch.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Colorado River
Parker Dam
Martial Law Quelled Work During Dam Power Fight
Troops ordered to arrest and court martial invaders as Arizona seeks half the hydro power from the dam. Gov. Moeur proclaims martial law over a three mile area near the site causing workers to retreat with their pile driving derrick to California side of the stream.
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Arizona
B. B. Moeur
California
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