Debating Taxes and State Purchases Mark Iowa News
The editorial notes President Roosevelts stance on tax increases and the national economy. It discusses borrowing by Finland, beer laws, and local politics including Cedar Rapids beer parlors and election officials. It highlights Huey Long censorship at Iowa State University and concerns over tuberculosis cattle and state purchasing practices at Ames and the Iowa Board of Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rooses
Sam
Ves
Isiana State University
Huey Long
Long
Reveille
State House
Iowa Board of Education
University
Agri-Cultural College
Ames
Pernally
State Board
Unirsity
Iowa City
Eastern Iowa delegates back 1935 corn hog program changes
Eight resolutions from 125 delegates in Cedar Rapids urge strengthening the 1935 AAA plan. They call for adjusting 1934 bases, higher hog payments, fairer corn taxes, faster Washington admin, county based benefits, regional AAA conferences, continued CCC grain loans, and pledge support to Wallace. Main aim is to bolster the program and ease farm balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Iowa
Hotel Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
A. G. Black
Washington, D. C
AAA
R. M. “Spike” Evans
Laurens
Iowa Corn and Hog Board
A. E. Hursh
Marengo
Ben Neal
Mount Vernon
Linn County
George Friedman
Turkey River
Clayton County
M. T. Humphrey
Waterloe
Black Hawk County
R. C. McElhinney
Biker
Tama
Frank’.B. South
Washington
Kansas City
St. Paul
Iowa
Commodity Credit Corporation
Henry A. Wallace
Van Evera Named State Manager of HOLC Group
Des Moines, AP report. H Hawley Van Evera of Des Moines is appointed state manager of the Home Owners Loan Corporation to succeed Geis Botsford who resigned. The appointment was approved by John H. Fahey of the federal executive board. Van Evera, from Blue Grass Indiana, has lived in Des Moines since 1896 and spent twenty years as a special agent for an insurance company gaining mortgage and loan knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
H. Hawley van Evera
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Geis Botsford
John H. Fahey
Federal Executive Board
Washington, D. C
Blue Grass
van Evera
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1934
Summary unavailable due to incomplete readable text. No clear numbers for accidents injuries or deaths. Reference to 1934 Cedar Rapids auto toll appears alongside a phone number but lacks verifiable details.
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Cedar Rapids
Candle of Patience Helps Polly Through Dark Times
In a Lucas Malet story Polly seeks guidance after life grows dull and harsh. An uncle advises lighting a candle called Patience to steer steps by faith, noting many noble people carry similar candles. The narrator urges calm resilience, patience, and trust to endure blows and find light again. Copyright 1934.
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Lucas Malet
Polly
Patience
Bunyan
Plan Changes in State Purchasing in Des Moines
The interim legislative committee on governmental reorganiza tion discussed possible changes to a bureau of state purchases. Proposals would let the four agencies Board of Education State Highway Commission Board of Control and State Liquor Commission handle technical purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Bureau of State
Board of Education
State Highway Commission
Board of Control
State Liquor Commission
University Hospital
Iowa City
Fort Madison
Highway Commission
C. M Updegraff
The
State University
Peruvian Revolt Crushed Across Three Cities
A revolt against the Peruvian government across three cities was crushed Tuesday. More than 200 rebels were jailed as authorities moved to quell the uprising.
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Lima
Peru
Iowan admits killings in two states
Corydon Iowa official says Francis McNeilly 23 of Allerton told state agents he aided the Fretty Boy Floyd gang in killings in Missouri and Minnesota. He admitted participation in the June 1933 murder of Sheriff Roger Wilson and Sgt. Ben Booth in Columbia Missouri and said he robbed a neighbor’s farm Sunday. McNeilly waives extradition and will be sent to Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Park Tindley
Iowa
Gruber
McNeilly
Missouri
Louis Means
Missouri Highway Patrol
Findley
Iowa Students Named to Phi Beta Kappa Honor List
Twenty one University of Iowa students were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Named from Iowa include Erna Hanson Clear Lake Tom Yoseloff Mason City Lucille Smith Iowa City Caspar Carrigues Iowa City Boni Druker Marshalltown Kenneth Hazlet Iowa City John Stull Fergusson Mo Francis Palmer Iowa City Margaret Farrish Wisconsin Rapids Wis Elizabeth Mayne Evans ton Wyo Carla Boyd Bassett Ellen Cacchalan Cherokee Helen Hendricks Spirit Lake Frances Senska Iowa City Marion Boatman Des Moines Marjorie Larson Iowa City Delma Reynolds Willow Lake S Dakota Harriett Stull Ferguson Mo Berendina Teeuwen St Louis Mo.
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Iowa City
Twentyone
University of Iowa
Phi Beta Kappa
Erna Hanson
Clear Lake
Tom Yoseloff
Mason City
Lucille Smith
Caspar Carrigues
Boni Druker
Marshalltown
Kenneth Hazlet
John Stull
Fergusson
Francis Palmer
Margaret Farrish
Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Elizabeth Mayne
Evanston
Wyo
Carla Boyd
Bassett
Ellen Cachalan
Cherokee
Helen Hendricks
Spirit Lake
Frances Senska
Marion Boatman
Des Moines
Marjorie Larson
Delma Reynolds
Willow Lake
S. Dak
Harriett Stull
Ferguson
Berendina Teeuwen
St. Louis
Britons Seek Injunction Over U S Efficiency Experts
British wire workers petitioned a London chancery court to bar their employer from using American efficiency experts. The workers claim stop watches and notebooks intrude on the craft of wire drawing and breach their contract.
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London
Fanchester Wire Works
Chancery Court
Crippled Paris Vets Demand Pensions in Street Protest
In Paris, around 300 disabled veterans blocked the Place de l Opera as 100 mobilized guards and 200 police reinforcements responded. The veterans lay or sat in the roadway shouting for pensions, disrupting traffic and closing nearby theaters as crowds formed.
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Paris
Place de L’opera
Serdes Sentenced Eight Years for Manslaughter
Mike Serdes a 34 year old coffee shop co proprietor at 216 Fourth Street SE was sentenced to eight years in Fort Madison state prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of Joe Catanzaro 1538 First Avenue East. Catanzaro was struck with a pop bottle and a hammer handle during a disturbance at the cafe and later died.
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Mike Serdes
Fourth Street
Joe Catanzaro
First Avenue East
Fort Madison State Prison
John T. Moffit
Serdes
G. K. Thompson
Catanzaro
Geners
Shueyville
Child killed and a dozen injured in gas blast in Chisago
A gas explosion on the west side destroyed two apartment buildings late Tuesday wounding a dozen people and killing three month old Rubert Lee Robinson, son of Jennie Belle Robinson, with other children among the injured.
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Chisago
Feds
Caerarodan
Rubert Lee Robinson
Jennie Belle Robinson
Nelson
Lester M. Gilles
Dillinger
Department of Justice
John Dillinger
Little Bohemia Roadhouse
Wisconsin
Soutter will cre ates memorial funds and large bequests
The will and codicils of Mrs. Fannie Thompson Soutter, Cedar Rapids pioneer, died Oct 29 in Aiken South Carolina, was admitted to probate. Executor Robert Soutter Sinclair bonds for 59000. Gifts include memorial funds to St Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids Grace Episcopal church in Ralston Spa and Coe College English Dept. Rest to relatives and institutions with numerous fractional shares and named legatees.
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Fannie Thompson Soutter
Cedar Rapids
Aiken
S. C
H.C. Ring
Robert Soutter Sinclair
St. Luke’s Hospital of
Fannie Thompson
Sow@ter
Grace Episcopal Church
Ralston Spa
N. Y
Soutter
Sara A. Thompson
Robert Sinclair
Kate H. Reeder
Samuel Smith
Ballston Spa
A. Page Smith
Albany
Emma T. Smith
Mildred Maude Smith
Rowland Wright Smith
Julius J. Thanner
John Falconer Sinclair
Agnes Sinclair Vincent
Fanny Soutter Woods
Caroline Campbell Soutter
Charles Henry Soutter
Robert S. Sinclair
Death tied man in Carlisle hillside case identity confirmed
A man found dead in Duncansville Pa was identified as Horate Hughes by Larry Carney of Philadelphia. Police linked the corpse to three girls found suffocated on a Carlisle Pa hillside. Hughes claimed two daughters and a son and said the girls were in California.
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San Francisco
Horate Hughes
Duncansville
Larry Carney
Philadelphia
Hughes
Carlisle
California
Carney
Harrisburg
South Mountains
Cheildren
Three Blonde Carlisle Girls Died Likely By Violence
Official autopsy reports indicate the three sisters aged about 15, 10, and 7 died after external asphyxia or strangulation. A severe forehead blow likely knocked the eldest unconscious, while a cross-like mark on the 10 year old’s forehead raises cult-related speculation and mystery.
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A. E. Haegele
Cumberland County
Vance Rothrock
Haegele
L. A. Zech
Deny Reduction In Back Assessments
DES MOINES AP The state board of assessment and review voted to deny reductions of individual assessments for 1933 and prior years. The ruling sets policy for all but current year appeals with exceptions for extraordinary circumstances and good reasons for late relief requests.
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Des Moines
State Board of Assessment and Review
Ray Murphy
Crusoe Fugitive Banker Sentenced in Chicago Federal Court
Nicholas A. Schwall, 40, once a Wilmette bank cashier who fled to live as a Robinson Crusoe in northern Wisconsin woods, received a two year term in federal penitentiary after his Tuesday sentencing in federal court.
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Chicago
Nicholas A. Schwall
Wilmette
Injured man injured by explosion in Waverly incident
Alfred Strottman of Denver suffered a dislocated elbow after fumes from a tank car exploded when he touched a trolley wire in Waverly. The blast threw him twenty feet from the scene on Tuesday.
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Waverly
Alfred Strottman
Denver
Strottman
Hunt Baby Face Nelson for killing Hollis and wounding officer
Federal agents trapped the Dillinger era fugitive Lester Gilles known as Baby Face Nelson after a gun battle in Illinois. Deputy George Hollis was killed and Samuel Cowley critically wounded as the suspect fled in a car with a woman and another man. The chase ended with Nelson escaping as authorities pressed the manhunt across Illinois and Chicago.
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Hunt Baby Face Nelson
Hollis
Crowley
Barrington
George
Nelson
John Dillinger
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Department of Justice
Dillinger
Des Moines
Herman E. Hollis
Samuel P. Cowley
Melvin H. Purvis
Justice Department
Sherman Hospital
Elgin
Cowley
Deni Pied Waid
Illinois
Chicago
Department
Wilmette
Evanston
Nora Smith
Glenview
Washington
Purvis
Pretty Boy" Floy
Ast
Liverpool
Federal relief drive pressures states over unemployment costs
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration begins a campaign to make states contribute more for winter unemployment relief. Illinois Governor Horner returns from a fruitless bid for extra funds, receiving only December allotment and a Jan 15 tentative carry load. Hopkins warns more money is required, a move affecting fourteen states as Illinois faces a $3 million demand of its $12 million monthly relief cost.
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Washington
Ins
Federal Relief Administration
Horner
Illinois
FERA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
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