Roosevelt calls special session to push New Deal tax plan
President Roosevelt asks Congress to revise tax laws to aid trade and support farm relief and other New Deal measures. He warns against overemphasis on single fixes, urges cooperation between government and citizens, and outlines aims to balance budgets, bolster private capital, and protect small businesses while pursuing farm programs and anti trust goals.
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Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Labor policy call to curb child labor and raise wage standards
A speech urges immediate congressional action to protect wage income and purchasing power, banish child labor, prevent undercutting wages during recessions, and ensure markets absorb higher production. It argues for flexible, nationwide labor standards with enforcement, inspection, and a coordinating agency, warning against using labor as a mere commodity.
Reorganization Push Seeks Expanded Executive Agencies
In a January presentation to Congress the plan outlines five goals including creating additional departments under regular executive oversight, establishing budget and planning agencies, modest White House staff growth, independent audit to Congress, and extending merit principles across non policy posts. The President notes consideration of executive orders to apply merit system reforms nationwide under constitutional authority.
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Congress
White House
Must Cut Functions for Major Savings
Executive orders lack permanence of law and need permanent legislation to enforce merit based appointments and personnel management. Reform argues that government reorganization, aligned with modern business practice, boosts efficiency and morale but does not guarantee large savings. Major cuts to functions are required to achieve real cost reductions, prompting the question which functions would be eliminated.
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Alee
Planning for coordinated use of national resources
The speaker argues for intelligent reorganization of government spending on resource conservation and development. He calls for a definite yearly budget portion, a planned expenditure order and timing, and local regional planning to assess project value before Washington approval, ensuring money and human value are maximized.
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Congress
Washington
All Weather Farm Plan Urged By Congress
Congress called for a new and permanent national farm act to prevent surpluses and price collapse. The plan would use good weather surpluses to bridge bad years, protect soil fertility, and secure farm families’ economic welfare while keeping city factories supplied. The speech notes droughts of 1934 and 1936 as disasters to avoid in the future.
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United States
Supreme Court
Congress
Regional authorities urged for natural resource planning
Reiteration urges creation of seven regional authorities to manage conservation and development. Advocate argues natural resources divide into seven great regions, aligning governance with geographic resource distribution. references past recommendation and continued push for regional machinery.
Regions plan to centralize projects for national growth
The text argues regional authorities should craft a comprehensive regional development plan before presenting projects to the Executive and Congress for inclusion in a nationwide program. It asserts decentralization, renewed confidence in expenditures, and four subjects promising purchasing power and efficiency, underpinning industrial expansion and social contentment for security of profits and property, urging early action.
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Congress
Hollywood Cafe Owner Wounded in Close Range Shooting
Hymie Miller a 31 year old actor and Hollywood cafe owner was shot four times at near contact range while in bed in his apartment. He was wounded critically and could not identify the gunman. Miller planned to work at Warner Brothers on Robin Hood. Police see no link to a recent cafe owner murder nearby.
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Hollywood
Hymie Miller
Miller
Robin Hood
Warner Brothers Studio
Cahuenga Boulevard
New York
Train Strikes Auto Wreck Kills Fireman Near Morton Grove
CHICAGO AP A Milwaukee road football special carrying nearly 200 Beloit college students struck a stalled automobile, overturning locomotive and tender. Fireman Henry G. Timmer, 31, was pinned and died hours later. Students, mostly girls returning from a University of Chicago game, suffered minor injuries and continued their trip after two hours.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Road
Beloit
Wis
Morton Grove
Henry G. Timmer
University of Chicago
Believes House Prowler Had Woman Companion
Mrs Theola H Arnett of 1708 Sixth avenue SE said a prowler entered her bedroom around 1 a m Sunday with a light believed to be from a flashlight and stole her purse while a woman companion was thought to be with him, prompting concern over a pattern of purse thefts in residences.
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Theola H. Arnett
Sixth Avenue SE
Arnett
Robbery at Arnett Residence Sees Intruder Flee Window
Mrs Arnett startled by an intruder who fled through a bedroom window. A purse held three dollars cash a compact a checkbook and a bank book. House and bank keys lay on the floor. Neighbors reported voices in the driveway as a man and woman vanished. The only other occupant unaware was Mrs Arnett’s mother asleep in another room.
Livermore Youth Marries Secretly in Bel Air Ceremony
Jesse H. Livermore Jr. wed Baltimore-born bride in Gretna Green style at Bel Air. The couple, ages 20, received consent from the bride’s mother and left for New York to meet the stock broker father, once guardian after a 1935 Thanksgiving shooting.
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New York
Jesse H. Livermore, Jr
California
Young Livermore
Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan
Baltimore
Maryland
Gretna Green
Bel Air
H. L. Bletzer
Dorothea Livermore Longcope
G. A. Ogg
Jesse H. Livermore, Sr
Livermore
Ogg
Harford County Court House
Iowa coaches urge belief in better spirit despite rough season
Tubbs and Nevers told Rotary Club at the Roosevelt about improving Iowa spirit and predicted a strong showing against Nebraska next Saturday. Tubbs cited a poor record but said the team has improved weekly and is determined to win a big game. Nevers praised the players for fighting for playing time and predicted their best performance of the season.
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Irl Tubbs
Iowa University
Ernie Nevers
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Iowa
Nebraska
Tubbs
Lincoln
Tabbs
Cedar Rapids
Notre Dame
Nevers
Stanford University
Iowa City
Craven Shuttleworth
The Firefly and Other Theaters Lineup at Paramount Rio Palace Rialto Strand
Theaters list current films: Paramount shows The Firefly with Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones. Something to Sing About with James Cagney and Eve Lynd. Life Begins With Love with Jean Parker. New State features Live, Love and Learn with Montgomery and Russell, Carnival Queen with Wilcox and Kent. Palace presents Dangerous Number with Young and Sothern. Slim with O'Brien, Fonday, Lindsay. Rialto offers Roaring Timber with Holt and Bradley, Ken Maynard in Trailing Trouble. Strand screens China Clipper with O'Brien and Roberts, The Gay Desperado with Martini.
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Paramount
Jeanette MacDonald
Allan Jones
James Cagney
Evelyn Daw
Jean Parker
New State
Robert Montgomery
Rosalind Russell
Robert Benchley
Robert Wilcox
Dorothea Kent
Palace
Pat O'Brien
Henry Fonday
Margaret Lindsay
Robert Young
Ann Sothern
Rialto
Jack Holt
Grace Bradley
Ken Maynard
Strand
Beverly Roberts
Nino Martini
Muscatine Pastor Talks At Coe And To Ministers
Dr. David I. Berger pastor of Muscatine First Presbyterian spoke at Coe College chapel Monday morning and addressed the Cedar Rapids Ministerial association at 10 30 am He plans 7 30 pm services at Central Park Presbyterian with Cyrus Metcalf and L W Dunlap leading song services.
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David I. Berger
First Presbyterian Church of
Council Buys Furniture For Police Building
The city council purchased fifty five lockers for the new police station from Pioneer Lithographing Company for 423.73 dollars. They also bought furniture from Holden Kahler Company for 1662.98 dollars. Bids were opened last Friday.
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Pioneer Lithographing Company
Holden-Kahler Company
Chicago Police Hunt Killing Bandit Gangs
Special detective squads were ordered to track robber gangs after two businessmen were killed and a third wounded when bandits raided a poultry store and a filling station. Harry Rubin, 31, and John T. Parker were killed. Samuel Rubin wounded while resisting the attackers.
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Chicago
INS
Harry Rubin
Samuel
John T. Parker
Louisa County's Last Civil War Veteran Dies
John F. Heins 96 of Wapello Louisa countys last Civil War veteran dies in Burlington hospital Sunday He was in Company K engineers regiment Missouri Heins fell on a rug at home Nov 3 breaking his hip for the third time Born in Hanover Germany he came to Louisa county at age 10
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Burlington
John F. Heins
Wapello
Louisa County
Engineers’ Regiment
Missouri
Heins
Hanover
Germany
Births in the City: Nine New Daughters and Sons
Nine births reported from Mercy and St Luke's hospitals. Patricia Joan Pittman born to Delbert and wife at Mercy on November 14, a daughter. A son to Frank Drakozal at Mercy on November 14. A daughter to Victor Hoagland on November 15 at Mercy. A son born to Novotny at Mercy on November 15. A son to Ralph Walters at Mercy on November 15. A daughter to Myron Dolph at St Luke's on November 13. A daughter to Eldo Reid at St Luke's on November 14. A son to Ross Miller at St Luke's on November 15.
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Delbert Pittman
Thirty-first Street
Drive
Patricia Joan
Mercy Hospital
Frank Drakozal
Second Street
Victor Hoagland
Mount Vernon Road
Frank Novotny
G Avenue
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