Hanford Legion names 1935 36 executive committee
The Hanford American Legion post selects its 1935 36 executive committee after a Tuesday night nomination. Members include Robert Viach Roy Henningsen Wendl Stodola and 30 others with R J Vinch naming standing committees. Entertainment featured Mile Elsie Guittar Emil Boreo and Lee Winters of the Folies Bergere cast with Guittar and Boreo performing. A Dec 10 meeting will host national commander J Ray Murphy of Ida Grove as speaker.
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Hanford Post
American Legion
Earl Evans
R. J. Vinch
Robert J. Viach
Roy Henningsen
Wendl Stodola
Chris Beck
H. H. Wage
C. A. Fredrickson
James E. Franken
Charles Schrimper
George Si
Mile
Elsie Guittar
Emil Boreo
Lee Winters
Folies Bergere
Iowa Theater
Mademoiselle Guittar
Boreo
League of Nations
Winters
al Gerardi
al Gerardi and Company
J. Ray Murphy
Ida Grove
The
Legion
Legionaires
Atend
Borah vows hard push for anti trust stance in 1936 campaign
In Chicago AP Borah declares the 1936 race will be a bare knuckle fight over trust busting. He says he will push for the strongest anti trust platform at the Republican convention and has been named as a potential presidential candidate from Idaho.
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Sen. Borah
Chicago
William E. Borah
British Voters Prepare for General Election
About 1,300 candidates campaigned as 31.3 million electors in England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland vote Thursday to choose MPs for a likely turbulent five year Parliament. Forty seats were unopposed including the Prime Minister and Walter Runciman.
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London
House of Commons
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Stanley Baldwin
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
28 Years of Stomach Suffering Ends With Gly-Cas
Mrs. Florence Myers of Council Bluffs Iowa credits Gly-Cas with ending 28 years of stomach trouble. She says severe constipation bilious spells and indigestion disappeared within 30 days of use and attributes improved nerves and regular bowels to the medicine sold by Thrifty Drug Store in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Florence Myers
Fourth Avenue
Council Bluffs
Thrifty Drug Store
First Street
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Anthracite Mine Owners Move Against Bootleggers
In Pottsville Pennsylvania observers warn a clash may erupt as 20 000 unemployed coal bootleggers near the anthracite belt face a forceful drive by mine operators. Louis C Madeira IIT of the Anthracite Institute threatens that the bootleggers must get out with a likely push to begin within two to six weeks.
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Pottsville
Louis C. Madeira
IIT
Anthracite Institute
Association of
Marshal Sun Slain By Daughter Of Executed General
Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, 50, was shot dead this week by a woman claimed to be the daughter of a general Sun ordered to be executed. Sun, a former governor of five Yangtze provinces, attended Peiyang Military academy and studied in Japan. The killer surrendered to police after the Buddhist meeting.
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London
Sun Chuan-Fang
Sun
Exchange Telegraph
Tientsin
Marshal Sun
Peiyang Military Academy
Japan
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chang Tso-Lin
Yangtze
Next Balloon Flight 5000 Feet Higher Promised
CHICAGO AP Capt. Orvil Anderson and Capt. Albert Stevens predict a possible ascent at least 5000 feet higher than their 73000 foot record set over Rapid City. They arrived in Chicago en route to Washington with 800 pounds ballast unused and plan a closer measurement next time with National Geographic Society and the U.S. Army Air Corps aboard.
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Chicago
Orvil A. Anderson
Albert W. Stevens
Rapid City
Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
United States Army Air Corps
Earth
Millions frittered away in job making, Republicans charge
Washington AP Republicans accuse the Roosevelt administration of wasting hundreds of millions on boondoggling works relief. In a 14 page pamphlet the national committee lists alleged ridiculous projects and challenges Harry Hopkins claims the program is all good, solid stuff. The piece calls boondoggling destructive and says it turns the New Deal into an ordeal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Republican Congressional Committee
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
Government Payroll Largest Since War Times
The federal government employed 794,467 people on October 1 the highest since wartime. Including uncounted civilian conservation corps enrollees the total rises to 1,336,542 not counting military and naval staff.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Woman Pilot Starts Atlantic Flight From Dakar
Miss Jean Batten of New Zealand began a solo land plane hop from Dakar at 5 30 am heading for Natal Brazil. She aimed to set a solo record for a flight from England to America, having left two days earlier and arriving at Thies 35 miles east of Dakar at 6 50 pm yesterday.
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Dakar
Senegal
Africa
Jean Batten
New Zealand
Natal
Brazil
Thies
Here
America
England
Montana Earthquake Claims Heart Death in Butte
In Butte Montana Elsie Harmon a 23 year old Helena girl died early Wednesday of a heart attack doctors said was caused by the destruction of her parents home in the recent earthquakes The death was the ninth attributed to the quakes.
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Butte
Mont
Elsie Harmon
Helena
Birth announced for Carl John’s son at Mercy Hospital
Mr and Mrs Carl John of 1357 Twentieth Avenue SW welcome a son born November 12 at Mercy Hospital.
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Carl Johnson
Twentieth Avenue SW
Mercy Hospital
Comptroller Predicts Best Banking Half Year in Years
New Orleans AP report says Comptroller J F T OConnor told the American Bankers Association that national banks earned 3.93 percent on capital in the first six months of 1935 and that the next six months may be the most prosperous in over four years. He noted 1423 national banks still in receivership, with 593 holding deposits totaling 1 067 524 707 since March 16 1933, and joined Leo Crowley in lamenting an over banked condition.
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New Orleans
J. F. T. O'Connor
National Bank
American Bankers Association
O'Connor
O’connor
Leo T. Crowley
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Condition Of Woman Requesting Mercy Death Not Hopeless
Anna Becker 34 of Buffalo has a non hopeless condition doctors say. Dr F W Burkhardt reports she has been semi invalid due to a bladder injury from a motor collision two years ago causing spasmodic convulsions and extreme pain. Becker reportedly asked the Erie county Medical society to help end her life to end suffering.
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Buffalo
N. Y
INS
Anna Becker
Miss Becker
Erie County Medical Society
F. W. Burkhardt
Iowa News in Brief Highlights Local Disappearances and Events
MANCHESTER teens Mildred Besst and Alberta Hines are reported in Texas after a letter from Hines surfaces through a Manchester youth. the letter's city of stay is undisclosed. Fairfax hosts an American Legion auxiliary birthday party on Nov 17 with dinners planned and district conference participants noted. In Manchester, the John Kennedy Schoolmasters club discusses classroom technique with H K Bennett and others. next meeting set for Dec 9. Calmar funeral services for Andrew G Olson note birth in Norway and immigration to America with survivors listed. Central City to host Lindy Lou play with Jane Geesey and Ben O Meara in leading roles. Independence approves electric rate reduction to 5 cents per kilowatt for the first 50 kilowatts.
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Manchester
Mildred Besst
Alberta Hines
Texas
J. R. Toussaint
Miss Besst
Miss Hines
Orie Hines
Fairfax
American Legion Auxiliary
Pekomy Post
Legion Hall
Auxiliary
J. F. Listebarger
Cedar Rapids
Leonard Gibbs
Hopkinton
Calmar
Andrew G. Olson
N. N. Stromsodt
Lutheran Church
H. A. Preus
Mr. Olson
Valfjord Nordland
Norway
America
Winneshiek
Ingeborg Olson
Central City
Lindy Lou
Jane Geesey
Ben O'Meara
Lloyd Blofield
Ruth Heller
Harvey Sauer
Mark Kula
Agnes Smith
Mary Anderson
Frances Wilson
Carroll Smith
Donald Blount
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D. Leibe
Mt. Vernon Ave
E. A. Rosch
Ave
4Th Ave
George H. Currie
J. H. Waterbury
10Th Ave
Rirnith
T. H. Briney
8Th St. NW
Sunday Gazette
Oakland
Art Geass
Jerry Tellin
Oakland, Ave
Dial
Thomas Motor Co
2Nd Ave
L. R. Nichols
8Th St
Cedar Rapids Gazette
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