Young Iowans Sweep Opening Livestock Event at Exposition
Iowa youths claim the top four spots in the opening event of the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Winners include Warren Held of Hinton taking first in junior livestock feeding and Shorthorn steers 750 to 857 pounds, Edith Rule of Indianola second, Russell Holt of Rippey third, and Lyle Edwards of Knoxville fourth. Arnold Panderis of Audubon placed sixth in Hereford steers 750 to 875 pounds, with Wilbert Moffet of Ottumwa second in Herefords and Cleo Yoder of Wellman second in Aberdeens Angus steers 759 to 875, followed by Donald Vanderberg of Knoxville in fourth.
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Chicago
Iowa
Warren Held
Hinton
Edith Rule
Indianola
Russell Holt
Rippey
Lyle Edwards
Knoxville
Arnold Panderis
Audubon
Wilbert Moffet
Ottumwa
Aberdeen-Angus
Cleo Yoder
Wellman
Donald Vanderberg
International Livestock Show opens with entries from three provinces
Iowa leads the parade at the 37th International Livestock Show as 30 states and 3 Canadian provinces compete for the grand beef champion. Nearly 3,000 animals and 5,000 grain and hay samples enter the seven day event with 4-H judging and youth awards highlighting the opening.
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Chicago
Iowa
Winton Wilson
Newton
Earl Stepp
Kellogg
Edwin Moffitt
Michigan
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Indiana
Toronto
Ont
Canada
Herman Trelle
Wemble
Alta
Dominion
Ontario Agricultural College of
Alberta
King Edward VIII
Japan records world leading birthrate in 1935
A completed census shows Japan had 2,190,703 births in 1935, a rise of 146,921 from 1934, at 31.63 births per 1,000 people. The survey also notes higher marriage rates and fewer divorces.
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TOKIO
Japan
Wife admits killing husband and faces six year term
Mary Taylor 25 confessed to shooting Otha Taylor 33 after he accused her of relationships with other men. She led authorities to his body and claimed self defense, pleading guilty to manslaughter and receiving a six year term at the state women's reformatory. She said she moved the body to a ravine with a rope and left her children with her mother.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Ins
Mary Taylor
Otha Taylor
Taylors
Percival
Edwin Moran
John Yeager
State Women’s Reformatory
Taylor
California
Sunday Gazette Want Ad Promotion Deadline
Dial 2-1121 before 8 p.m. tonight to phone your Want Ad for the Big Sunday Gazette. Credit is good if you own a telephone in your name and have no past due Want Ad balance. 25 percent discount per day for 3 day Want Ads.
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BIG Sunday Gazette
Soviet Navy Strength Surges Across Key Metrics
V R Orloff told the all union congress of soviets that from 1933 to 1936 submarine strength rose 715 percent other warships 300 percent naval aviation 510 percent bases 100 percent and coast defense 115 percent as Soviet Japan clashes intensify along the Manchukuo border with cross-border fire and patrol skirmishes.
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Moscow
V. R. Orloff
All Union Congress of Soviets
Russian Federation
Orloff
Germany
Japan
Russia
Italy
Far East
Gipsy Rose Lee Robbed of Jewels in New York
Broadway strip artist Gipsy Rose Lee reported a group of six men robbed her in the lobby of her Manhattan apartment house. She said jewelry valued at about 25 000 dollars was taken and insured, with items including bracelets rings and a pin. The assailants warned her not to look back as they fled.
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New York
Gipsy Rose Lee
Miss Lee
Bob Mizzi
Mizzi
Roosevelt Ship Steams To Buenos Aires For Inter-American Talks
President Roosevelt sails aboard the U S S Indianapolis toward Buenos Aires to open the Inter-American peace conference. He says no American league of nations will be discussed, signaling limits on regional groupings.
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Buenos Aires
U. S. S. Chester
Brazil
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Sugar Loaf Mountain
League of Nations
Geneva
HERRING COMMUTES LIFE SENTENCE OF PALO BANK ROBBER
Governor Clyde L. Herring commuted the life sentence of Jerry Nepovim, 30, in the Palo Savings Bank robbery case of March 23, 1928, reducing it to five remaining years to serve. Nepovim is at Anamosa Reformatory, transferred Nov. 2, 1935 from Fort Madison due to crowding. the warden had not been notified.
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Clyde L. Herring
State Parole Board
Jerry Nepovim
Linn County
Palo Savings
Nepovim
Associated Press
Des Moines
Anamosa Reformatory
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Joe Hadrava
F. L. Anderson
Edward Nemecek
Palo Savings Bank
Nemecek
Cedar Rapids
Anderson
Herring
Hadrava
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Swisher Bank
Chicago Woman Injured in Prowler Attack
A marauder broke into Mrs. Genevieve Richards 27 and tried to abduct her in her first floor Chicago apartment. Her two sleeping children did not wake as she was slashed and left in shock. Police link the suspect to another nearby assault on Miss Anna Brasy.
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Chicago
Genevieve Richards
Anna Brasy
Richards
Miss Brasy
Chicago BBB Moves Against Bank Night Prize Drawings
The Better Business Bureau warned that prize drawings in 250 Chicago theaters violate state anti lottery laws and urged theaters to stop. The bureau said schemes award sums up to several thousand dollars to ticket holders and threatened police action.
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Chicago
Better Business Bureau
Exhibitors Association of the
Allied Theaters of
Illinois
Spanish Rebels Claim Sinking of Soviet Ship
Rebels radio from Seville said one Soviet ship was sunk and a Spanish government destroyer damaged in an air raid over Malaga. The report blamed heavy rains for stalemate around Madrid. Six British MPs in Madrid telegram urged immediate neutral action to aid Madrid.
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Gibraltar
INL
Malaga
Seville
Madrid
London
Britain and France urge Spain to suspend League appeal
Sources say Britain and France may pressure the Spanish socialist government to withdraw its appeal for a League of Nations discussion of the civil war. If not, the League Council likely meets in Geneva December 7 or 8 to assess Italian and German recognition and potential international tensions.
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Geneva
Great Britain
France
League of Nations Council
London
League
League Council
Iberian Peninsula
Neutrality Committee
Madrid siege set to shift as rebel flank pressure grows
Madrid reports say two leftist columns struck rebel rear areas around Tala vera de la Reina and Carabanchel Bajo while a third attacked the Madrid front. Rebels reportedly pulled back some troops for redeployment as loyalist fire intensified near Toledo and in the northwest sector.
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Madrid
INS
Talavera de la Reina
Toledo
San Martin de Montalban
Polan
Carabanchel Bajo
University City
Boy Who Can't Stop Talking Perplexes Doctors
Four year old Emmie Wilson of Munford Tennessee has talked almost nonstop for two weeks. Doctors at Memphis hospitals have held consultations and a diagnosis remains blank on his chart.
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Memphis
Memphis, Tenn
Emmie Wilson
Mary Wilson
Munford, Tenn
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1936
Local notices list the Cedar Rapids auto toll schedules for 1936 with amounts and applicable roadways. The brief item records the fee structure and posting authority, guiding motorists on toll charges and payment locations.
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Cedar Rapids
Attendance Record Set At Cedar Rapids Auto Show
A record crowd of over 2 000 attended the opening of the Cedar Rapids Auto Show in Memorial Coliseum. The event runs today and Sunday from 2 to 11 p m with 150 people waiting at 2 p m. Miss Mary Christmas and 13 attendants, chosen from eastern Iowa, hosted the event at a Cedar Rapids Dealers association dinner at the Roosevelt hotel. Marcella Kolsto of Newhall named Miss Mary Christmas with attendants from Cedar Rapids, West Branch, Anamosa and others. Sedans remain top favorites on opening day.
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Cedar Rapids
Memorial Coliseum
Mary Christmas
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Automobile Dealers Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Ray Allen
William Culver
Cedar Rapids Show
Elmer Chapman
Des Moines
Ford Stewart
the Gazette
Marcel
Central City
Madalin Webster
Anamosa
Italy and Japan to Recognize Conquests
Rome reports authoritative sources said a statement would acknowledge Japan’s recognition of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia and Italy’s recognition of Manchukuo. Italy would appoint a consul general at Hsinking and Japan would convert its Addis Ababa legation to a consulate, with trade talks expected to begin.
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Japan
Italy
Ethiopia
Manchukuo
China
Hsinking
Addis Ababa
Fight for Zaharoff Millions Gets Start
London reports the start of a battle over Sir Basil Zaharoffs fortune with Hyran Barnett Zaharoff a 67 year old London shoemaker claiming he is the late mans son and bidding for the wealth Sir Basil known as among the worlds richest men is said to have left a fortune mainly to his step daughter with remaining portions to aviation science and literary foundations he funded
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London
INS
Basil Zaharoff
Hyran Barnett Zaharoff
Basil
Mystery Man of Munitions Dies in Monte Carlo Burial Planned
Sir Basil Zaharoff, 86, died in Monte Carlo and was moved at night to his Balincourt chateau in France. The enigmatic financier will likely be buried beside his wife, whom he waited decades to marry, in a tree shaded grave plot.
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Monte Carlo
Basil Zaharoff
Balincourt
Vallangoumard
France
Suspect Murder In Turkey Pickin s Death
Homicide detectives probe the death of 19 year old Louisa de Angioletti in Brooklyn after she ate Thanksgiving turkey remnants. Rigor mortis appeared within half an hour and a doctor ruled out turkey poisoning.
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Turkey
Pickin
New York
Brooklyn
Louisa de Angioletti
Jury Rules Mother and Two Children Murdered in Pittsburgh
A coroner's jury verdict declares the deaths of Eleonor Feely and her two children, Robert and Janice, as murder. Police disagree on whether the crime was domestic or the work of an intruder, with few clues and no motive evident at the scene.
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Pittsburgh
Eleanor Feely
Robert
Janice
Martin J. Feely
University of Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Charles Young
Feelys
Two Oklahoma convicts slain in attack on prison executioner
McAlester Oklahoma INS reports two inmates Harlan Wells serving 35 years for robbery and Roy Glasby serving 5 years for auto theft killed while attacking prison executioner Rich Owen. Guards opened fire after Wells swung a hatchet and Glasby lunged with a knife. Owen was seriously injured.
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Mcalester
Okla
INS
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Harlan Wells
Roy Glasby
Rich Owen
Owen
Wells
Glasby
Paper Warehouse Fire Destroys Charlestown Facility
A massive $250000 blaze at Hoosac docks Charlestown leveled a news print warehouse and the old grist mill. Three firefighters were injured by falling walls and chimneys as hundreds of nearby homes lost power and the tenement district faced danger from collapsing structures.
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Boston
INS
Hoosac Docks
Charlestown
Shoppers Enjoy Mild Cedar Rapids Weather Saturday
The weatherman forecast pleasant conditions in Cedar Rapids as Christmas shoppers gathered. Temperatures rose from 34 at 7 am to 39, 42 by 1 15 pm, then fell to 31 in the late afternoon before climbing to 37 at midnight per Chambers Inskee company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskee
Lindbergh Opens New Mystery Flight Route
Lindbergh lands at LYMPNE England at 1 55 p m Saturday after a delayed flight from Ireland then departs at 2 10 p m for an unannounced stop. Weather is reported good.
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Lympne
Eng
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Ireland
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