Roosevelt Names Committee to Study Farm Tenancy
President Roosevelt appointed a special committee headed by Secretary Henry Wallace to report by February 1 on improving the farm tenancy system. The group includes L. C. Gray executive secretary, plus A. G. Black D. C. Gentry Edward F. McGrady W. I. Myers Edward A. O Neal Ruth Suckow Louis J. Taber R. G. Tugwell Fred Wallace W. W. Waymack and M. L. Wilson.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
L. C. Gray
Resettlement Administration
Bankhead
Jones
Wallace
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Rep
Marvin Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Gravy
A. G. Black
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Department of Agriculture
D. C. Gentry
Sinissippi Farms
Oregon
Ill
Edward F. McGrady
W. I. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ruth Suckow
Ferner Nuhn
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
R. G. Tugwell
Fred Wallace
Kearney
Neb
Farmer
W. W. Waymack
Des Moines Register and Tribune
M. L. Wilson
Agriculture
Commissioner And Mrs Burgus Injured In Wapello Spill
Finance Commissioner and Mrs L D Burgus were injured when their car overturned near Wapello after the steering wheel came loose on a newly graveled road. They were taken to St Luke’s hospital. Mrs Burgus suffered a dislocated hip and Mr Burgus multiple injuries. They were en route to Burlington to settle an estate and were visiting relatives at Oakville.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Wapello
Burgus
Public Praise Gaps Highlight Everyday Courtesy
A 1936 essay recalls two tales of unacknowledged efforts to show how lack of appreciation hurts givers and workers. A donor choir trip goes unpraised after the gesture and a minister learns sermons go unsaid, underscoring a culture of complaint over gratitude.
McKeever Death Sentence Upheld by Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri Supreme Court upholds death sentences for three murderers including George McKeever who killed state highway patrol sergeant Ben Booth in Columbia. Execution dates set for Friday December 18. Remaining convicts Fred Adams and Hart Hardy Jr. face possible reprieve or commutation by Governor Park.
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Jefferson City
George McKeever
Sergt. Ben Booth
State Highway Patrol
Columbia
State Supreme Court
Fred Adams
Campbell
Dunklin County
Hart Hardy, Jr
Ste. Genevieve
Guy B. Park
Bendix Plant Faces Union Drive and First South Bend Lockout
In South Bend Indiana the Bendix Products corp faces a unionization push by the American Federation of Labor as J P Mahoney vice president and works manager dismissed more than a employee after a morning of negotiations marking the first lockout in the city.
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South Bend, Ind
American Federation of Labor
Bendix Products Corporation
South Bend
J.P. Mahoney
Tuesay
Bendix
Weatherman Kind To Local Residents
Cedar Rapids residents praised the weatherman for a mild spell as temperatures rose. Readings climbed from 35 at midnight into the day reaching 54 by mid afternoon with a Monday high of 46.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers
Famous diva Schumann-Heink gravely ill in Hollywood
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 75, famed contralto, suffered a blood ailment with throat and lung hemorrhages. Dr. Samuel Alter reported transfusions were needed to save her life as her condition remained serious.
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Hollywood
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Hollywoodland
Samuel Alter
Wisconsin
Herring Opposes Plan To Increase Iowa Sales Tax
Iowa Governor Clyde L. Herring the Democratic senator elect rejected a proposal to raise the state sales tax from two to three percent and add higher brackets. He voiced opposition to recommendations by Louis E. Roddewig of the state board of assessment and review presented at Excelsior Springs Missouri.
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Washington
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Louis E. Roddewig
State Board of Assessment and Review
Excelsior Springs
Fascists Fight Madly To Seize All Of Madrid
Nationalist troops across the Manzanares pressed toward Madrid’s heart as loyalist militias defended University City and areas near the royal palace. Leaders from the nationalist army directed the assault with 320 field guns and 102 airplanes bombing the city, signaling a climactic phase of the battle.
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Hendaye
Manzanares
Madrid
University City
National Palace
Royal Palace
Gale Strikes S. S. Tweed Bank. Three Die At Sea
A heavy Atlantic gale sank the S. S. Tweed Bank killing the captain and two crewmen. Radio reports say the ship hove to and awaited rescue while the radio operator, trapped in the radio room, could not reach the bridge. position at 37N 59.30W about 700 miles northeast of Bermuda.
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New York
Ins
Atlantic
S. S. Tweed
Radio Marine Corporation
RCA
Bermuda
Freighter S. S. Sheaf Spear in distress off Cape Hatteras
The British freighter S. S. Sheaf Spear with an awash engine room broadcast a radio plea for aid from Seiress off Cape Hatteras. The 3,050-ton vessel's position was reported as 34.55 N 56.57 W, as S. S. Tulsa raced to reach the stricken ship. Mackay radio intercepted the appeal.
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NEW York
INS
S. S. Sheaf Spear
Seiress
Cape Hatteras Tuesay
Sheaf Spear
S. S. Tulsa
Mackay Radio
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Lily Pons and Kostelanetz wed in flower decked plane
Fort Worth AP reports opera star Lily Pons and aviator Andre Kostelanetz reportedly married. Reginald Owen, a fellow passenger, said they tied the knot during a flower bedecked flight to New York, but no official details were given.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Lily Pons
Skyways
Andre Kostelanetz
New York
Reginald Owen
Labor battle moves to committee at AFL convention
At Tampa the AFL widowed by John L. Lewis factions shifted the fight over perceived rebel unions from the floor to a secret resolutions committee. CIO sympathizers charge the committee is stacked, noting missing moderates and two allied leaders kept off the panel. A well informed source says Lewis may accept arbitration if needed.
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Tampa
Fla
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Resolutions Committee
Federation Executive Council
Charles Howard
Fay Webb, Former Wife Of Rudy Vallee, Ill And Near Death
Fay Webb, ex wife of Rudy Vallee, was near death after an emergency appendectomy last Friday in Santa Monica. Doctors called her very ill and warned she might not survive the day as peritonitis developed and a transfusion failed to help.
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Nino Martini
Madame Schumann-Heink
Jesse L. Lasky
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Fay Webb
Rudy Vallee
Santa Monica
Calif
Faye Webb
Miss Webb
Clarence E. Webb
Vallee
Mercy Killer Given Life Sentence In Australia
The executive council commuted the death sentence of Michael O'Sullivan to life imprisonment at hard labor. O'Sullivan, 26, was convicted of killing his incurable infant son amid a jury verdict that strongly recommended mercy.
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Perth
Australia
Executive Council
Michael O'Sullivan
O’sullivan
Councilmen Favor Bus Lines If All Street Car Workers Are Hired
Cedar Rapids council members discussed informally the idea of replacing street car service with buses. They would support a change only if all existing street car employees were absorbed by the new system. Current officials noted buses would need a garage and staff from the street railway, and operators would come from the present workforce. The move is seen as potentially safer and easier to clean streets with the tracks removed.
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Cedar Rapids
Dave Williams
Williams
Cedar Rapids and Marion Street Railway Company
Frank K. Hahn
Hahn
W. C. Benesh
First Avenue E
Roosevelt 10 Leaves Tonight for Argentine
President Roosevelt plans a quick 12 000 mile voyage to Buenos Aires for the opening of a South American conference on antiwar aims and economic ties among 21 republics. He will also visit Brazil and Uruguay aboard the Indianapolis landing in Charleston for a monthlong trip.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Buenos Aires
Brazil
Uruguay
Indianapolis
Charleston
S. C
White House
United States
Two Are Injured In Auto Collision
Cedar Rapids farmer W J Kadlec and Sadie Kadlec of route 2 Cedar Rapids were injured Monday at 5 p m when Kadlec’s car traveling west on Wilson avenue at Sixth street SW collided with Fred Pirkl’s car from Swisher Kadlec’s car turned on its side and both Kadlecs were treated by a physician Pirkl was southbound on Sixth street Kadlec said he tried to cross the intersection and was struck in the rear by Pirkl’s car
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Cedar Rapids
W. J. Kadlec
Route 2
Sadie Kadlec
Kadlec
Wilson Avenue
Sixth Street
Fred Pirkl
Swisher
Pirkl
Pirks
Victor youth admits hoax about being shot by hiker
Howard Bohstedt of Victor, in Mercy hospital, admitted the tale of a hitchhiker shooter was a hoax. He said the .25 caliber gun discharge in the car pocket caused the wound and that he feared arrest for possessing a firearm without a permit. The sheriff noted timing could not be fixed.
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Victor
Hiker
Howard Bohstedt
James H. Smith
Smith
Bohstedt
Mercy Hospital
Lester Mitchell
Belle Plaine
Mitchell Farm
Payn
Edison Named Assistant Navy Secretary in Roosevelt Pick
President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison of New Jersey son of the late inventor as assistant secretary of the navy. He will succeed the late Henry L Roosevelt and is expected to assume the post under Secretary Swanson within weeks. Edison has been New Jersey state director of the national emergency council.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles Edison
New Jersey
Navy
Henry L. Roosevelt
Edison
Swanson
Naval Consulting Board
National Emergency Council
Roosevelt Plans Self Registration Of All Unemployed
President Roosevelt announced the administration aims to implement self-registration for the unemployed to accurately count those without work. He rejected a doorbell census and estimated self-registration would cost about ten percent of alternative methods.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Cook County Hospital Fire Triggers Panic in Patients
Panic swept 2,716 patients at Cook County Hospital when a basement record room burned in an early Tuesday blaze. Guards and firemen doused the flames without injuries or fatalities.
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Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Secret 300000 Fee Tied to Merger Case Convictions
Four former Modern Brotherhood of America officials and an insurance broker were found guilty on all six counts for using the mails to defraud in the merger scheme with the Independent Order of Foresters. They received two-year sentences on each count and $10,000 fines, to run concurrently, with appeals planned.
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Fort Dodge
Modern Brotherhood of America
Mason City Fraternal Society
Chicago Insurance Broker
United States District Court
Order of Forresters of
Toronto
Ont
Leavenworth Federal Prison
Insurance merger case widens in Scott County suit
Davenport AP reports civil suit in Scott county seeks recovery for Foresters members over funds paid during the M B A merger. Plaintiffs Frink France and Makemson of Tipton name former M B A officers and C R Parks Service Chicago as defendants. Case stalled by an Iowa Supreme Court appeal over Toronto records. ruling expected in December.
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Webster County
Fort Dodge
Scott County District Court
Davenport
Spencer Frink
Robert H. France
William Hakemson
Scott County
Spencer G. Frink
William G. Makemson
Tipton
C. R. Parks Service Company
Chicago
Forester
J. A. Hanley
Daven
Port
Iowa Supreme Court
The
Foresters
W. W. Scott
Toronto
High Tribunal
Florida Ship Canal Justified in Public Interest
Washington area board of army engineers says the proposed Florida ship canal is justified in the public interest in a revised report. A public hearing is set at the board's headquarters on December 16 for persons wishing to present facts or arguments for or against the improvement.
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Washington
Florida Ship Canal
Board of Army Engineers
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