Letter from inmate highlights rare satisfaction with confinement
An editor receives a surprising inmate letter praising a state institution as beneficial, contrasting with typical complaints. A Sioux City missive alleges lawlessness. it questions official laxity in Des Moines. The piece notes busy political and civic issues, including road funding, Thanksgiving, Roosevelt, and Brussels talks, amid a stream of varied observations.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Metrropolis
Des Mgines
John Mitchell
Snell Attacks Roosevelt Dictatorship Charge in Senate
Washington reports roiling Capitol scene as President Roosevelt is accused of threatening dictatorship while Senate fights over anti lynching legislation. Rep Snell calls message a dictatorial threat. southern filibuster blocks wage hour vote and colleagues cite Black’s opposition. Continued on page 8.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Capitol
Senate
House
Congress
Representative Snell
New York
Congressional Record
Snell
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Connally
Black
Part Of Business Block In lh Town Is Swept By Blaze
Firemen from seven towns battled a blaze in lh town that swept through part of a business block, destroying the Brenton State Bank post office Schramm drug store and a grocery and two other stores. No damage total yet. Fire crews from Perry Adel Grimes Waukee Woodward and Minburn aided local firefighters.
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Dallas Center
Schramm Drug Store
Brenton State Bank
Perry
Adel
Grimes
Waukee
Woodward
Minburn
Farm Loan Group Heads To Convene
Executives of national farm loan associations from Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska will open a two day convention in Omaha, Nebraska, Thursday with President C. C. Hakes of Muscatine, Iowa presiding.
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Omaha, Neb
National Farm Loan Associations of
Iowa
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nebraska
C. C. Hakes
Muscatine
Scandinavia Holdings Keep Out of War by Staying Neutral
Scandinavian countries avoided involvement in the world war by remaining neutral and focusing on their own affairs, authorities noted. The policy of noninvolvement was framed as prudent keeping of distance from belligerent actions while safeguarding national interests.
Senate Group To Draft Its Own Farm Bill
Washington AP chairman Smith of South Carolina said the senate agriculture committee would push its own farm program modeled on the ever normal granary without awaiting House action. A southern group led by Bankhead will craft a cotton section while other commodities like corn wheat rice and tobacco are also scoped. The Pope McGill bill is to base the plan and a closed conference with senators Pope McGill Elfender La and Bilbo began Cotton discussion after the session. Continuous committee work is planned with Wallace explaining the bills’ meaning Wednesday.
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Washington
Smith
S. C
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Bankhead
Senate
Wallace
Pope
McGill
Elfender
Bilbo
Miss
Idaho
Kan
Mr. Roosevelt
Ground for in Rule Violation at Chicago Board of Trade
A Chicago Board of Trade special committee found there were just grounds for suspicion of rule violations by Cargill Grain of Minneapolis in a corn corner last September. Hearing set for December. names listed include John H. MacMillen Jr. and Edward J. Grimes and Phillip C. Sayles. This marks the first time a member faced action for violating orders issued by the business conduct committee.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Cargill Grain Corporation of
Minneapolis
Exchange Board of Directors
John H. MacMillen, Jr
Edward J Grimes
Phillip C. Sayles
Cargill Organization
Exchange
Plan broadening of Federal Housing Act
FHA officials prepared drastic amendments to widen the act to spur private construction and aid lagging investments. The plan includes extending FHA insurance to houses and apartments for sale or rent and raising insurance to 90 percent for homes costing 5000 or less, and clarifying operations of national mortgage associations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
FHA
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Dairy Bloc to Fight Farm Bill in House Amid Setbacks
In Washington the dairy bloc pledged concerted opposition after a second defeat in as many days in the House Agriculture Committee. An amendment by Rep. Gerald Boileau to shield northern dairy farmers from subsidized southern dairy industry was rejected 11 to 10.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Committee
Gerald Boileau
Wausau
Wis
Tax shakeup delayed until January
Washington AP says tax revision to aid business may wait until January as leaders Harrison and Doughton discuss how to modify or consolidate changes. Proposed shifts would cut roughly 93.8 million in revenue by offset rules and exemptions, with broader repeal debated but not approved.
Harrison Leads Senate Push for Budget Cuts and Tax Reform
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairing the finance committee, took a lead role in a congressional push for retrenchment and tax reduction during the second day of the special session. He urged firm action to cut emergency relief expenditures and hinted at revising the undistributed profits tax early next year, stressing that clear signs of budget balancing would aid business. He noted the drive aligns with a prior Senate bloc effort that opposed Roosevelt administration court and aid expansion programs.
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Washington
ULP
Pat Harrison
Miss
Finance Committee
Harrison
Congress
Mississippi
Senate
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Reynolds Held For Habeas Hearing In Embezzlement Case
SEWARD Neb AP District Judge E G Kroger dismissed embezzlement charges against Regan M Reynolds of Lincoln at the county attorney’s request. A habeas corpus hearing was set for Thursday at 10 am to decide whether to extradite Reynolds to Iowa after alleging he defrauded 14 southeastern Iowa residents by selling oil royalties. Authorities planned to turn him over if the writ is denied.
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Iowa
Wapello County
Nebraska
Reynolds
R. L. Cochran
Lincoln as mountain sea and star of faith and service
The piece honors Governor Fifer of Illinois known as Private Joe for Civil War service. It recalls a six year search for an anonymous Lincoln tribute read in Congress by Homer Hoch. It portrays Lincoln as mountain, sea, and star, meriting reverent national faith and unity with Waldo Frank quotes and a press of enduring values.
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Ormer
Fifer
Illinois
Joe
Lincoln
Congress
Homer Hoch
Kansas
Waldo Frank
Russia Accepts Plan For Troop Removal
London report says Soviet Russia dropped its veto on belligerent rights in Spain and backed a Nov 4 non intervention plan for withdrawing foreign volunteers. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet delegate, said Moscow would accept the definition of substantial withdrawal and let the committee decide further.
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London
Russia
Spain
Ivan Maisky
Evacuation of Nanking Under Way As Japan Advances
Chinese government ministries flee Nanking under siege as Japan's 250000 troops and air fleets push west. Foreign nationals rush evacuation to interior ports with US and UK embassies planning move to Chungking. Madame Chiang Kai-shek pledges to stay with Generalissimo. Canberra ally W H Donald remains at post. Escalating fighting erupts near Soochow while riverine evacuations strain already overburdened transport.
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Japan
Nanking
China
War Department
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
Nelson T. Johnson
Chungking
Chiag
Chiang
Air
W. H. Donald
Yangtze River
Johnson
Soochow
Husband 90 in Long Beach awarded temporary alimony
A 90-year-old husband was granted $10 per month temporary alimony by Judge Fred Miller in Long Beach as he seeks separate maintenance from his 77-year-old wife. The judge cited a reciprocal obligation in marriage as the basis for the ruling.
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Long Beach
Calif
C. B. Clayton
Fred Miller
Play On Your Harp serial begins in Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will serialize Travis Ingham's novel Play On Your Harp starting next Friday November 19. It follows spoiled yet pleasant Cobby Wells and Jean as they confront life’s grim realities and responsibilities.
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Cobby Wells
Jean
Cobby
Travis Ingham
Cedar Rapids
France Dispatches Warships After Japanese Ultimatum
Four French warships were sent to the Far East after a Japanese ultimatum threatened seizure of Hainan island unless arms shipments to China through French Indo China ceased. The move followed fears in Paris that Japan could dominate the Indo Chinese coast if Hainan were seized.
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London
Far East
Hainan
China
United Press
Brussels
Japan
Hanoi
Nanning
Iowa Senator Paid $171 Monthly for Travel Expenses
Iowa Senator I G Chrystal of Coon Rapids drew $2,792 for travel over sixteen months ending June 30, 1937, averaging $171 a month while serving as land acquisition agent for the ECW. His salary was $200 monthly. The ECW bought land totaling $181,890 with travel and land purchase expenses at $26,099, about 14.3 percent of the purchase prices.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ptate
I. G
ECW
Chrystal
Evolution to Rule in Utility Movement
Washington AP reports the securities commission will pursue evolution rather than revolution in shaping utilities into integrated systems under the holding company act. The order approves reorganization of Peoples Light and Power, with steps toward ultimate integration and a first move toward broader consolidation across Texas Mississippi Western States California Iowa Kansas and West Coast subsidiaries.
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
Commission
Peoples Light and Power System
Peoples Light and Power Corporation
Peoples ,Light and Power Company
United States District Court For
Delaware
Texas Public Service Company
Mississippi Public Service Company
Western States Utility Company
California Public Service Company
Iowa Water Service Company
Kansas Public Service Company
West Coast Power Company
Suppress Officers Poll On War Policy
Washington based Reserve Officers association suppressed a poll of its 33 000 members on a plan to renounce overseas wars scrap arms embargo and trade with warring nations on a cash carry basis after army officers discussed the poll with the association magazine editors.
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Washington
INS
Reserve Officers Association
United States
Officers
Seek Trio of Kidnappers On Northern Slope Manhunt
In Nashua New Hampshire a sighting prompted a wider hunt for three escapees from Jamesville New York city prison linked to the O'Connell kidnapping. The force swelled to eight states with a 2000 dollar reward per fugitive as guards were bound during a February prison breakout.
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Nashua, N. H
O'Connell
New England
Nashua
New York
Jamesville
N. Y
America
Alcatraz
Devil’s Island
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Albany
Cummings
Washington
G-men
J. Edgar ‘Hoover
Iaeat
William Bray
Percy
Angel Face
Oley
O’connell
Daniel P
Edward J. O'Connell
Albany County
Herbert Paddock
Geary
Crowley
Corbett
Nellie Hills
Million Ton Block Of City Slips One Inch Each 24 Hours
A massive one million ton landslide in Los Angeles continues to slip at about one inch every 24 hours along a bluff above Riverside Drive and near Elysian Park. The moving mass has already shattered a municipal water tunnel and threatens highway traffic while officials, including Dr. John P. Buwalda and Raymond A. Hill, monitor the situation with a 24 hour watch.
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Los Angeles
Riverside Drive
Elysian Parks
John P. Buwalda
California Institute of Technology
Raymond A. Hill
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Tom Connally
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