U. S. Tax On Cocoanut Oil Hurts Philippine Farmers
John B Gordon, secretary of the bureau of raw materials, told the National Foreign Trade convention in Houston that 100 percent duties on Philippine cocoanut oil exports burden Filipino farmers. He urged passage of the Gulfey-Dockweiler bill to remove the tax for industrial uses while protecting American edible oil producers. He noted that most imports go to soap making and that duty relief would not shift harm to farmers.
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Houston
Tex
Philippines
Commonwealth
John B Gordon
Bureau of
Gordon
United States
Congress
Roosevelt
U. S
Former University Leader Recovering From Leg Injury
Dr George MacLean 85 former president of the University of Town and former chancellor of the University of Nebraska is making progress after a leg fracture from an automobile accident. Doctors report slow but steady recovery as he receives visitors in progress notes.
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Washington
George MacLean
University of Town
University of Nebraska
MacLean
New York Textile Manufacturer Slain in Temple Wound
Harry Sweetall, president of the Hudson Short company, died after a pistol wound to the temple on Wednesday. Authorities found the weapon and believe the incident was the result of an enemy attack amid a long withering dispute. The case draws ties to New York textile industry leadership and ongoing local tensions.
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Madson
NOY Cins
Harry Swueetgall Weoolve
Hudson Short Company
Shorts
Joan Wednesday
Temple Sweettall
Ato
Waterloo youths detained by probation officials
Two Waterloo youths named Dyale White and Coards de Stace were detained by probation officials on Wednesday while awaiting their parents. Officials said the boys were found on Highway No. 161 and gave Viola as their destination before leaving Waterloo.
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Waterloo
Vondas
Testimony questioned in slot machine graft case
The article details affidavits and grand jury testimony by Max Duckworth regarding conversations with Walter Maley and Joe Gagen about a slot machine setup in Iowa. It covers immunity, pressure to testify, and potential indictments, with judges weighing whether Duckworth testified under duress and waived immunity as the supreme court reviews.
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Max Duckworth
Warrior Hotel
Walter Maley
Joe Gagen
Iowa
Havner
Gagen
Ole Naglestad
Duckworth
O'Connor
Maley
Grand Jury
Justice Kintzinger
James M. Parsons
Parsons
Garder
Miro Havener
Tutts
von Duckworth
Peters
Gorder
Supreme Court
Wagner
Kintzinger and Parsons
Maurice F Donegan
E. G. Albert
Paul W. Richards
WPA Approves Water Main Work At La Porte City
DES MOINES AP L S Hull Iowa WPA administrator approved four more works projects bringing total to 558 creating 26 411 jobs from relief rolls L S Hull announced 32 projects Wednesday morning with 130 008 allocated across 13 counties requiring 683 338 60 for completion The latest include Black Hawk county laying water mains in La Porte City 18 workers 1 896 allocated total 19 497 Wapello county gravel for Eldon city streets 25 workers 2 580 allocated total 15 600 Story county relocation of road east of Memorial Union Ames 36 workers 4 184 allocated total 11 598 and painting rooms and laboratories at Iowa State College Ames 17 workers 3 216 allocated total 16 740
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Des Moines
L. S Hull
Iowa
WPA
Hill
Black Hawk County
la Porte City
Wapello County
Eldon
Story County
Memorial Union
Iowa State College
Ames
Oelwein Grocer Dies While Hunting
Oelwein grocer John Lazio died Wednesday afternoon during a hunting outing with his son Charles and a salesman. After shooting a pheasant, Lazio allegedly suffered a heart attack from excitement and collapsed. He is survived by his widow, two sons Charles and Philip, and a daughter Anna Mare.
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the Gazette
Oelwein
John Lazio
Oelwein Grocer
Lazio
Charles
Lavies
Philip
Anna Mare
Receivers seek sale of bank’s Cedar Rapids real estate
D W Bates Receiver of Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company seeks court authority to sell parcels in Linn County Iowa described as SW quarter of NE quarter, NE quarter of Section 12, Township 83 North, Range 7 West. Hearing set November 26, 1935 at Cedar Rapids Court House to consider the application. George C. Gorman attorney for the receiver.
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Oatep
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company
Cedar Rapids Town
Ciera
District Court
Linn County
Eaid
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
Trser Company Prazine
Tounsh P Evsh Tv
Huhne
Cedar Rapids
Bates
Cedar Raps Savines Bank and Trust Company
George C. Gorman
Wis
Testimony details payoffs in Iowa slot machine graft case
Witness Mayer testifies to paying and coordinating with Joe Gagen to manage slot machine operations in Iowa. He links Brennan and other operators to a scheme paying operators about one dollar per machine weekly. The narrative includes affidavits from Duckworth and mentions influence attempts around the 1934 election and efforts to quiet scandal.
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Havner
Mayer
Gagen
Sioux City
Tom Brislane
Tom Taggart
Abe Kroloff
Red” Brennan
Glen Scott
H M. Havner
Max Duckworth
Woodbury County
Ole T Naglestad
Duckworth
O'Connor
Des Moines
O’connor
Maley
Iowa
Joe Gagen
E J Feuling
State Democratic Central Committee
Sam Pickus
Cornish Beck
Iowan Named to 8th Circuit Court Bench
Seth Thomas of Fort Dodge, former solicitor in the U S department of agriculture, was named by President Roosevelt to the circuit court of appeals for the eighth district at St Louis. He succeeds Judge Charles B Faris and fills a post once held by Judge William S Kenyon. Thomas previously served as assistant U S attorney for the northern district of Iowa and was president of the Iowa State Bar Association.
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Seth Thomas
Fort Dodge
United States Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Circuit Court of Appeals
Eighth District
St. Louis
Thomas
Charles B. Faris
Tate
William S. Kenyon
U. S
Northern
Iowa
Iowa State Bar Association
Man Recounts Meeting About Unnamed Project
A man said some boys were curious about a matter and a name like Coogen was mentioned. He advised proceeding, claiming it was fixed. TV contacted Ike Sherman and noted talk with O'Connor, implying the plan moved forward.
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Coogen
Ike Sherman
O'Connor
Lemke Attacks Judges Over Mortgage Moratorium Law
North Dakota Congressman William Lemke told the Farmers' Education and Cooperative Union convention in Kankakee that the constitution is clear and that courts declaring the Frazier Lemke mortgage moratorium act unconstitutional violate the law. He criticized judges ruling against the act.
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Kankakee
William Lemke
North Dakota
Farmers’ Education and Co-operative Union
Lemke
Easterners Sold On AAA Program Say Ray Murray
Ray Murray state secretary of agriculture told northeast Iowa warehouse committees and corn sealers the corn loan program has strong eastern support. He cited a Washington DC convention as showing optimism and said eastern buyers prefer 60 cent pork chops with funds to buy them over 20 cent pork chops with no funds.
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Ray Murray
Iowa
Chamber of Commerce
Murray
Washington, D C
AAA
G O P Convention Site To Be Chosen
New York attorney and Ernest s Weir Pittsburgh steel executive shape Republican planning as they push to fix time and place for the 1936 convention and outline delegate apportionment and selection. They criticize the New Deal, pledge openness about funds, and vow federal corrupt practices act compliance.
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New York
Ernest S Weir
Pittsburgh Steel
Republican High Command
Fletcher
National Committee
Republican National Committee
Waterloo liquor store fire destroys building and damages apartments
A Waterloo state liquor store fire early Wednesday caused extensive damage estimated at 40 000 dollars. Two explosions were heard as flames engulfed the shop, damaging upstairs apartments and forcing four families to flee in night clothing. Four trains were temporarily delayed as firefighters battled the blaze for three hours.
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Waterloo
M. R. Lamar
Irene
Jimmy
Great Western
Rock Island
Theodore W. Remington
Ray Tiller
State Liquor Commission
Andrew Stewart
Dick Lane
Bernard Manley
R. N. Cowin
Commission
Commercial Street
Waterloo Community Chest
Cedar Falls
Five Mexicans Die In Fascist Communist Riots In Mexico City
In Mexico City during the 25th anniversary celebrations of the 1910 revolution, at least five people were killed and more than forty injured as fascists and communists clashed. The fighting began with a confrontation between communists and the golden shirts, an anti-Semitic fascist group.
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Mexico City
Porfirio Diaz
Golden Shirts
Bliss Urges Twenty Year Home Economics Plan
Washington AP Bliss, extension director Ralph K Bliss of Town, urged a twenty year home economics plan to guide rural home problem work. Speaking at the land grant colleges convention he tied Ames Iowa agricultural college aims to home economics, stressing long range planning, research, and prioritizing family welfare over pig farming.
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Washington
Ralph K. Bliss
Land Grant Colleges
Bliss
Agricultural College
Ames
Iowa
Six Hunters Plead Guilty in Long Distance Plea Hearing
In Worthington Minnesota six South St. Paul hunters pled guilty to pheasant shooting violations after a distant municipal court session. Judge C B Murtry fined John B Nelson stockyards police chief and five others $15 plus costs and ordered confiscation of four guns.
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Worthington, Minn
South St. Paul
Stockyards
C B Murtry
John B Nelson
Tony Roszak
Ed Lewandowski
Otto Raspe
Thomas Hogan
R Smetzer
Mayors demand US relief cash at conference
U S municipal leaders press for an appropriation to continue relief. Secretary Morgenthau outlined tax zone concepts to simplify tax collection and emphasized supporting the social security program. The group backed federal relief and named officers including Edward J. Kelly as vice president and trustees Mansfield Rossi Walmsley Miller Hoan.
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Roosevelt
Social Security Board
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Frederick W. Mansfield
Boston
Angelo Rossi
San Francisco
T S Walmsley
New Orleans
Neveille Miller
Louisville
Daniel W. Hoan
Milwaukee
Believe Slain Man From Oregon In Centerville Case
A slain youth believed to be from Oregon was found Monday in driftwood near a stream west of here. Officers say he was beaten stabbed through the heart and strangled with cord. Three men questioned near the scene were released with no connection established.
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Gist
Here
Centerville
Two youths held in Ottumwa murder probe linked to slaying
Jesse G. Youngblood of Little Rock and Stanley Kessel of Moorefield were detained in Chillicothe for Ottumwa officers. They rode the same train as the body of an unidentified young man found Monday. Both men, arrested Wednesday, said they were in Ottumwa that day but denied knowledge of the crime.
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Chillicothe
Jesse G. Youngblood
Little Rock
Ark
Stanley Kessel
Mooresfield
W. Va
Ottumwa
Jerry Wood
Kessel
Youngblood
Reinbeck Youth Wounded While Target Shooting
Walter Braasch, 15, was wounded in the left hip when two companions fired at a target he was setting up. Noble Lauterbach and Harry Nightengale are named as involved. the shooter is not determined. The injury is not serious.
Roosevelt orders safety conference to cut accidents
President Roosevelt on Wednesday authorized a public conference to be held early in December. The meeting will seek ways to reduce accidents across land sea and air.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Arsenic Poisoning Probe Reports Possible Mass Murder
Investigators explore a poisoning case linked to salvage operations at a warehouse. Arsenic offers and altered soda samples prompt fears of mass murder as key officials contest contamination and motives while tracking 800 pounds of contaminated product in three barrels.
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Geiger
Alfred Terry
Bessie Shufelt
Terry
Mary Ogle
Clarence Lee
University of California
Health Department
J. C. Geiger
San Francisco
Bread Poisoning Across Murcia Leaves Five Thousand Ill
In Murcia province, 5000 residents fell ill after eating bread made with flour contaminated by a lead substance. Jose Merero Olmos faced 35000 bail on charges of supplying bakers with the poison flour. Authorities report 499 families affected across eleven villages with three deaths and symptoms including numb limbs and gum discoloration.
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Madrid
Murcia
Jose Mereno Olmos
Roldan
Dolorres
Jimenado
Me=rones
Hortichuela
Balchicas
San Cayetano
Hoya Manera
Camachos
Pachecho
Campana
Isaac Hernandez
Merono Olmos
Billfold and cash stolen from handbag at Blue Moon shop
Mrs Fretta M. Eckhart reported her billfold and $18 missing from her handbag while at the Blue Moon sandwich shop. Police were told Tuesday evening and she realized the loss on returning home. Two other thefts, overcoats from a cloakroom at Pla Mor ballroom, were reported by Dick Loufek and Evan Mapel.
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Fretta M. Eckhart
D Avenue NE
Blue Moon
Eckhart
Dick Loufek
H Avenue NW
Evan Mapel
Fifth Avenue SE
Pla-Mor
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