Landon Measures Up To Presidency During Tour
An observer recounts Governor Landon’s Sunflower Special journey with Governor Lowden, praising Landon’s humanity, farm policies, and conservation interest. The visit included a Byron farm outing, reforestation observation, and endorsements, with strong support from advisers and crowds.
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Governor Lowden
Byron
Ill
Lowden
London
Waterloo
Topeka
Landon
Des Moines
Congress
Kansas
Youth Held After Driving Muscatine Man's Car In Crash
Norman Rumple 17 of Independence Missouri was held without charge in Will County jail after a car crash south of Joliet that injured four people. Rumple drove the Carpenter car with Eunice Wilson and Yvonne Covey aboard. Rowden and Kerndt were uninjured. Covey had a dislocation, Wilson a broken arm, Carpenter a concussion. all were treated at St. Joseph's hospital.
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Joliet
Ill
Norman Rumple
Independence
Will County
Rumple
Eunice Wilson
Yvonne Covey
Chicago
C. L. Carpenter
Muscatine
Kansas City
James Rowden
Whiting
Ind
Carpenter
A. H. Kerndt
South Bend
Covey
Wilson
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Rowden
Kerndt
Tracy Mitchell to Speak at Negro G O P Rally in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Tracy Mitchell of Topeka Kansas heads the Negro women division for the national Republican committee and will speak at 8 p m Friday in the Joyland ballroom Cedar Rapids to launch an intensive campaign. J G Brown of Des Moines will accompany her. The Negro campaign chorus directed by Mrs William Miller in its first appearance includes eighteen members. Headquarters for the Negro division Republican party have opened in Memorial building basement room assigned to the Negro American Legion post.
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Tracy Mitchell
Topeka
Kan
National Republican Committee
Chicago
Joyland Ballroom
Fourth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
J. G. Brown
Des Moines
Republican Central Division
William Miller
Republican
Memorial Building
Negro American Legion
Rep Jones to Speak in Waterloo Tonight
Rep Marvin Jones of Texas, chair of the House agriculture committee, will address a Waterloo Iowa audience Thursday night in response to former Gov Frank Lowden of Illinois. The Roosevelt committee announced the appearance from its national headquarters in Chicago.
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Chicago
Roosevelt Agricultural Committee
Marvin Jones
Texas
House Committee On Agriculture
Waterloo
Roosevelt Committee
Jones
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Belle Plaine Man Claims Record For Corn
Belle Plaine report says Frank Stok, local businessman, claims a 14.5 inch long ear of corn as a 1936 world record. He measured 14 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches with 1 188 kernels on the largest ear and notes his 60 acres of yellow dent corn.
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Belle Plaine
Frank Stok
Here
Stok
Community Chest Surpasses Goal Across City Divisions
The 1937 campaign led by Mr. Marshall reported all divisions over the top with total pledges exceeding targets. Key gifts came from the Challengers and Industrial division, while several groups including the Public employe and Public service divisions also surpassed their quotas.
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Marshall
Arthur Poe
Quaker Oats Company
Community Chest
van Vechten “Shaffer
Welfare Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Community House
Home For Aged Women
Public Health Nursing Association
Sunshine Mission
TV Ae
M. H. Morrison
Henry E. Haegg
Public Service Division
Thomas L. Crabbe
Robert W. Black
Sales Army
Edward E. Lowe
Landon Leads Poll In Six Of Ten Cities
Incomplete city figures released by the Literary Digest show Alfred M. Landon leading Franklin D. Roosevelt in six of ten scattered cities. Results reflect early tabulations and are subject to revision.
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Landon
Pol
New York
INS
Alfred M. Landon
Roosevelt
Literary Digest
G O P Accuses New Deal of Dodging WPA Probe
The Republican National Committee says it has sent more damaging documents to the Senate campaign funds committee over charges of politics in Pennsylvania WPA. Harry Hopkins calls the charges false. Republicans allege a bid to stall a real probe until after the election, with further unpublished evidence to be aired by William Hard.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Pennsylvania
WPA
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
New Deal
Senate Committee
William Hard
City Briefs and Personal News Update
Townsend clubs 3 and 5 meet in superior court tonight. City council refers street lights on 6 avenue NW to the department of public improvements. C. W. Cowan and Mrs. Cowan guests at the Roosevelt hotel. Cowan formerly chief clerk at General Denver hotel. Council approves resolution to assess oiling street improvements and use of cutback asphalt and calcium chloride. objections due by 10 am Oct. 19. Linn county Negro republican voters open offices in Memorial building sub-floor. telephone 23929. W. L. Black chairs group with Mrs. William Lavell directing women's division.
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Avenue NW
Department of Public Improvements
C. W. Cowan
General Denver
Wilmington
Mrs. Cowan
Roosevelt Hotel
Mr. Cowan
Linn County
W. L. Black
William Lavell
GOP Precinct Meetings Set for Cedar Rapids Thursday
Three Republican precinct organizations plan meetings in Cedar Rapids at 8 p.m. The sixth precinct meets at Kenwood School, the fourth at Benjamin Franklin School, and the seventh at Jackson School.
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Cedar Rapids
Kenwood School
Benjamin Franklin School
Jackson School
Traffic Law Violators Fined in Police Court
Robert Van Orsdal of 205 Twelfth street SE was fined 25 dollars with 15 dollars suspended for reckless driving. N M Chapman of 1129 Avenue NW and A W Peterson of 108 Second Avenue SE were each fined 1 dollar and costs for overtime parking. John Jensen of 2517 Johnson Avenue NW paid 1 dollar and costs for double parking, and George Jennings of 640 Seventh Street SE was fined 1 dollar and costs for improper parking.
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Robert van Orsdal
Twelfth Street SE
N. M. Chapman
Avenue NW
A. W. Peterson
Second Avenue SE
John Jensen
Johnson Avenue NW
George Jennings
Seventh Street SE
City approves paving openings for Cedar Rapids Gas and Iowa Electric
The Cedar Rapids Gas company and the Iowa Electric Light and Power company receive permission from the city council on Thursday to open paving for installation work. The light company will lay a strip on Third street SE between Fifth and Sixth avenues to reach the Metropolitan Supply company building. Gas mains will be installed along Shaeffer drive SW near Twenty-ninth avenue and along Twenty-ninth avenue SW east of Shaeffer drive, in N avenue NW west of Third street, and in Kenmore street NE from First avenue 275 feet west.
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Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Light Company
Third Street
Fifth and
Sixth Avenues
Metropolitan Supply Company
Shaeffer Drive
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Twentyninth Avenue
N Avenue
Kenmore Street
First Avenue
U S to Await Jap Reply on Pacific Status Quo
Washington reports the United States will answer Britain after Japan states its stance on maintaining the present Pacific defense status quo beyond January 1937. The timing hinges on Japan showing its attitude first.
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Washington
INS
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Pacific
Grinnell Professor Henry Matlack Dies at 61
Grinnell College faculty member Henry W. Matlack aged 61 died suddenly from a heart attack. A professor of organ and music theory since 1909, he served 27 years on campus and 14 years as alumni secretary. Survived by his widow Merta Johnson five daughters and a son. He authored college songs Here Come the Pioneers and Go Grinnell.
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Grinnell
INS
Henry W. Matlack
Grinnell College
Alumni Association
Oberlin College
Matlack
Merta Johnson
Keokuk
Landon Criticizes Roosevelt Farm Prices Policy
The Iowa agricultural spokesman for Governor Landon attacks President Roosevelt’s farm program, noting its impact after the AAA and predicting rising prices for wheat and cotton. He cites a 20 million bushel Argentine corn shipment and a 10 cent drop in corn prices, arguing U.S. farmers lose money while imports lower prices for cattle and hog feeders.
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Iowa
Republican Farm Program
Middle West
AAA
Supreme Court
United States
Peoria
Ill
Roosevelt
Argentina
Second assault report links to Cedar Rapids case
A 15 year old Cedar Rapids girl reported an attempted assault in a field near 6 avenue and Eighth street NW on Wednesday evening. She described a 40 year old man in a light cap blue shirt and blue overalls who threatened her with a gun and dragged her for about fifteen minutes before fleeing. The description matched a separate report of a Cedar Rapids girl assaulted earlier that day in Lincoln Heights lane near Highway No 30.
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Cedar Rapids
6 Avenue
Eighth Street
Ellis Park
O Avenue
Sheriff’s Office
Lincoln Heights
Highway No. 30
Prince Starhemberg Challenged To Duel By Major Emil Fey
Major Emil Fey who led the Vienna Heimwehr challenged Prince Ernst von Starhemberg to a duel after Starhemberg accused him of unsatisfactory conduct at the Dollfuss assassination. Fey sought to vindicate his honor in a traditional military duel. Dollfuss was killed on July 25, 1934 during a Nazi putsch at the Vienna chancellery.
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Vienna
Emil Fey
Viennaheimwehr
Ernst von Starhemberg
Starhemberg
Engelbert Dollfuss
Fey
Cardinal Pacelli Reaches New York on First U.S. Visit
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state, arrived in New York on his first U.S. visit. He declined interviews, delivering a prepared statement that his trip fulfills a wish to see the country and sense its life and labor.
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Lowden
New York
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
United States
Politicians blamed for road crash deaths at safety conference
Atlantic City AP report quotes John F. Anderson of Hartford warning that motorists pay taxes for highways but funds are diverted to other uses. He calls for safe road building and driver education rather than attempts to legislate accidents away. Thomas P. Kearns cites high construction industry death rates and accuses firms of focusing on insurance costs over accident prevention.
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Atlantic City
N. J
John F. Anderson
Hartford
Thomas P. Kearns
Ohio Industrial Commission
Government fights to retain processing taxes after AAA ruling
Federal lawyers prepared to appeal a Norfolk ruling allowing a processor to recover taxes paid before the Supreme Court invalidated the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Alabama courts had denied similar recovery, while about 180 million dollars in impounded taxes had already been returned to processors but not to the treasury.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Luther B. Way
Norfolk
Alabama
Congress
Townsend Urges Support for Landon in California
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the Townsend recovery plan, telegrammed Edward J. Margett urging the California Townsend organization to back Gov. Alfred M. Landon in the presidential race. He sent the message from Chicago after learning a statewide poll showing 62 percent favoring Landon.
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San Francisco
Sns
Francis E. Townsend
Townsend Recovery Plan
Edward J. Margett
California
California Townsend Organization
Alfred M. Landon
Townsend
Chicago
Landon
Roosevelt to Tour Eleven States on Western Campaign Drive
President Roosevelt heads west for a nine day drive through eleven states with stops from Des Moines to Denver and beyond. He plans two national broadcasts from Omaha and Chicago and numerous rear platform appearances, ending with a return to Hyde Park then a New England swing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
West
Midwest
Rocky Mountains
New York State
Omaha
Chicago
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Denver
Detroit
Hyde Park
N. Y
New England
Massachusetts
Dubuque
St. Paul
Des Moines
Norris
Neb
Afton
Lincoln
Boy on Bicycle Injured After Being Crowded By Truck
Lamir Neumeister, 14, of 131 Fourteenth Avenue SE, hit his right hand when he fell from his bicycle on Third Street East between Twelfth and Thirteenth Avenues. He says a cattle truck driven by Edwin Powell of Troy Mills crowded him toward the curb. Powell says he did not see the boy. K R Williamson rode with Powell. Powell learned of the incident later at the packing house yards.
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Lamir Neumeister
Fourteenth Avenue
Third Street
Twelfth
Thirteenth Avenues
Neumeister
Edwin Powell
Troy Mills
Powell
K. R. Williamson
Walker
Joseph Neumeister
Three Hold Up Men Escape With 2000 In Decatur Shop
Police report three men escaped with 2000 after forcing their way into a shop operated by Emmett Byers at the edge of Decatur Illinois business district. The holdup occurred Wednesday as officers described the crime and the suspect details as under investigation.
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Decatur, Ill
Emmett Byers
Decatur
Queen Victoria of Spain Prepares Escape for Sick Son
Frantic over threatening letters, former Queen Victoria plans to move Count of Covadonga from a New York hospital to Switzerland with heavy police protection. Doctors say the hemophiliac heir may bleed to death from minor wounds, fueling fears of further plots amid Spanish civil strife and a romance with Senorita Marta Rocafort.
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New York
INS
Victoria
Spain
Count
Covadonga
Switzerland
Marta Rocafort
Moe Solinsky
Senorita Rocafort
Havana
Senorita Edelmira Ampedro
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G.O.P
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Hardendorf
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Grand Rapids
Annapolis
Townsend Clubs
Superior Court Room
U.S
Henry Matlack
Prince Starhemberg
Cardinal Pacelli
Dr. Townsend
H. G. Russell
Tau AS
2Nd Ave
Cedar Rapids, Ta
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Mr. Roosevelt
Cheyenne
Wyo
Herbert Brees
Charles F. Humphrey, Jr
Fort Francis E. Warren
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la Junta
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Wichita
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St. Louis
Jefferson Memorial
Lansing
Mich
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