Bread and potato prices spark debate on economy
Washington officials criticize bakery cost hikes while AAA aims to raise farm prices through production controls. Mussolini and England on League issues are noted as censored war news. A highway train crash near Rockwell, Iowa, prompts faulting drivers and signals. A reader proposes daily stories of goodness to inspire civic action. David Sarnoff questions mass discernment of truth in public discourse. Arthur Henderson praised for labor leadership and disarmament efforts.
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Mussolini
England
Italy
League
Romés
London
Europe
Ruth Nichols In Serious Crash At Troy Airport
Ruth Nichols ace airwoman and five employees were injured when a big 20 passenger plane crashed at Troy airport. Nichols was taken to Samaritan hospital with serious injuries including fractures, burns, and facial injuries. Captain Harry Hub litch also seriously hurt with burns and a compound ankle fracture. Four others suffered minor injuries.
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Troy
N. Y
Ruth Nichols
Harry Hublitch
Troy Samaritan Hospital
America
Nichols
Samaritan
giShesle Tate
Ginetreer Weber
Harry
New
York
An Fe
Ray Hanes
Xenia
William Holt
Gladys Berkinheiser
West New York
N. J
Nena Berkinheiser
Gladys
Rye
Louisville
St. Johns, N. B
Court Gazette Editor Had Private Interest In Probe
Louis Salinger lawyer for Walter Maley told five Iowa Supreme Court justices that Verne Marshall Cedar Rapids Gazette editor had a private stake in Woodbury county graft probe results. Salinger argued Marshall was pressured by Havner to influence grand jury indictments and counter libel suits.
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DES Moines
Lou Salinger
Walter Maley
Supreme Court
Verne Marshall
Havner
Woodbury County
H. M. Havner
Grand Jury
Rural mail carrier robbed of $3,000 near Sparta
Three bandits held up a rural mail carrier five miles southeast of Sparta North Carolina on Monday and seized about $3,000 in cash and vouchers. Authorities pursued leads but no arrests reported at the time.
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Sparta
N. C
Here
The Power of a Voice by Walter Damrosch
An article recalls Walter Damrosch’s school talks for children and his greeting that transforms strangers into friends. It notes how voice conveys mood, character, and truth beyond faces, urging care in cultivating a kind, smiling voice.
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Walter Damrosch
Florida
Damrosch
Takeniab
Mr. Damrosch
Athey
Ian
Tax Experts Warn Heavy Middle Tax Burden Looms
Washington officials foresee a steep rise in taxation including a broader income tax base and general manufacturers sales tax to cover deficits. Treasury data show a 5 percent rise in internal revenue in the first quarter, with a possible 9 percent if court injunctions lift.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Congress
Wallace predicts potato law change by next Congress
Secretary Wallace on radio predicts modification of the compulsory potato control law by the next Congress. He cites congressional growers’ comments and a Pennsylvania farmer letter urging action. He warns against rigid enforcement and calls for farm urban cooperation to raise farmer income about 25 percent to match prewar living standards.
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Washington
Congress
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Polish aviator starts flight from Warsaw to Melbourne
Stanislaw Karpinski, Polish army aviator, took off at 6 30 a.m. Monday on a flight from Warsaw to Melbourne Australia for a long distance journey.
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Warsaw
Stanislaw Karpinski
Melbourne
Australia
Horner Calls Special Session For Oct 28
Illinois Governor James L. Horner announced a special session of the General Assembly to convene at 8 p.m. next Monday October 28. The move aims to address urgent state issues and legislative action.
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Springfield
Ill
Horner
General Assembly
Predicted Hog Production Rise in 1936 and 1937
C A Burmeister of the U S department of agriculture told the Institute of American Meat Packers that the AAA corn hog program aims to expand production substantially in 1936 above 1935 lows. He said livestock quality and meat supplies will be much improved and that cattle and western stock sheep volumes may rise, signaling a bigger and better livestock outlook for 1936 and 1937.
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Chicago
C. A. Burmeister
United States Department of Agriculture
Burmeister
Institute of American Meat Packers’ Convention
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington
Maquoketa Farmer arraigned on embezzlement charge
Henry Hempfling 50 of Maquoketa faces district court arraignment on a charge of embezzlement by bailee over 1500 in cash and 4900 in federal land bank bonds. He confessed to the county attorney after fingerprints on a safe at his home matched his own. The cash and bonds were said to belong to his uncle M C Smith.
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Maquoketa
Henry Hempfling
D. Z. Jackson
Muscatine
Hempfling
L. C. Shhraeder
M. C. Smith
J. J. McDermott
Davenport
Joe Burke
Dubuque
Leo Heinecke
Heinecke
Shraeder
Smith
Floating Peril begins in The Cedar Rapids Gazette
A rich young American millionaire Homer Wildburn becomes entangled in a vast French mystery aboard his yacht in a French harbor. Lucienne, a vivacious beauty, joins in the intrigue as a dangerous romance unfolds, all set in E. Phillips Oppenheim's dramatic novel Floating Peril.
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Homer Wildburn
Lucienne
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Hand to hand fighting dominates southern front near Dagnerie
In the southern theater details report 50 Ethiopians and 14 Italians killed as the fortified village of Dagnerie falls after an aerial bombardment and brutal infantry struggle. Rome and Addis Ababa describe the clash as the precursor to a major battle amid 300000 troops advancing into southern Ethiopia.
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Rome
INS
Dagnerie
London
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Government thanks Italian air crews for harvest aid
Addis Ababa reports a government communique on Monday praising Italian aerial gunners for assisting harvest of grain in the north. It claims no loss of men and minimal grain loss while noting readiness for recovery and considering using this rapid harvesting method in the future.
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Addis ‘Ababa
Savage hand to hand fighting in Ethiopian war
Exchange Telegraph reports the Italian army engaging about 3,000 troops and 20 aircraft in a brutal Ethiopian battle near Walwal. 1,000 wounded Ethiopian troops fled toward the Somaliland front as Italian forces pushed to disrupt the Ethiopian center and left wing with tanks and jets.
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Exchange Telegraph
Port Said
Fafan
Rodolfo Graziani
Ieft
Walwal
Gorahai
Shillawe
Graziani
Cattle Receipts On Omaha Market Near Peak
Omaha market records 29,850 cattle and calves Monday, second highest ever, surpassing 29,750 from Oct 1, 1929. All time high was 32,744 on Oct 13, 1934. Observers credit heavy western grass cattle as the fourth week of the run nears peak.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Western
Britain Eyes All League Action to Intern Italian Vessels
London reports Premier Laval’s mediation efforts as Britain keeps a firm stance on Italian ships. Authorities consider invoking all league powers to intern vessels calling at British ports, with Kenya enforcing 24 hour port stays for ships with East Africa cargo.
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London
INS
Pierre Laval
France
Rome
Britain
Admiralty
Kenya
Mombasa
Mogadiscio
Kismayu
East Africa
Marshall county Huskers win three way corn derby
Marshall county Huskers shuck 10 626 625 pounds of corn in 80 minutes to win the event at Simon Bockes farm near Grundy Center. Grundy county twins place third with 10 468 65 pounds while Audubon county team seconds with 10 560 275 pounds. Lee Carey of Laurel posts best single shock with 2 779 55 pounds.
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Marshall
Grundy
Audubon Counties
Simon Bockes Farm
Grundy Center
Marshall Huskers
Audubon
Lee Carey
Laurel
Marshall County
John van de Camp
Carey
Roosevelt's Ship Races Before Storm Toward Charleston
President Roosevelt aboard the U S S Houston with the cruiser Portland races through rough seas as a tropical hurricane follows. Winds and pounding waves slow speed to 17 knots, aimed to keep ahead of the weather while en route to Charleston South Carolina where they expect to arrive early Wednesday morning.
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U. S. S. Houston
Charleston
S. C
Roosevelt
Bahamas
Houston
Portland
S.C
Hurricane Looms Over Eastern Cuba Strikes At Santiago
Santiago Cuba reports high winds and heavy rain as a tropical hurricane nears the eastern tip of Cuba. Baracoa and Guantanamo remain reachable by radio while rivers overflow in Oriente province. U S naval station at Guantanamo warned of the storm and expected landfall after nightfall. Storm warnings issued for western Haiti eastern Cuba and eastern Bahamas with ships alerted.
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Santiago
Haiti
Cuba
Bahamas
Peoria Judges Strike Down Farm Bankruptcy Section
Federal Judges Major and Briggle ruled that a sub section of the amended farm bankruptcy act allowing farmers to live on their farms for three years after bankruptcy is unconstitutional. The decision cited the Constitution's First Section of Article Four and the Fifth Amendment. William W. Young of Fulton County, foreclosed and sold, sought reinstatement of his petition.
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Peoria
Earl Major
Charles G
Briggle
William W. Young
Fulton County
Supreme Court delays Georgia cotton control suit ruling
The US Supreme Court on Monday delayed a decision on Georgia Governor Talmadge's bid to test the constitutionality of the Bankhead cotton control act. A separate suit filed last session could still allow the court to rule on the law's validity. Attorneys argue the act could render Georgia farm land substantially worthless.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Georgia
Talmadge
State of Georgia
Court rules Frazier Lemke mortgage moratorium unconstitutional
Farm credit officials report a federal court in Peoria voids the amended Frazier Lemke moratorium, marking the first case testing the measure’s validity after the Supreme Court struck down the original law last spring.
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Washington
Farm Credit
Peoria
Supreme Court
Atlantic Entry Wins Grand Champion Steer at Royal Livestock Show
Qual ity Thickset an 1000 pound Angus steer owned by Wayland Hopley of Atlantic Indiana was judged grand champion steer at the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City Monday. Robinwood New Deal a Shorthorn steer shown by Earl E Robbins of Greensburg Indiana took the reserve championship. The animals competed against the Hereford steer from Oklahoma A and M Stillwater. Hopley said Quality Thickset is descended from Earl Marshall, the famed Angus bull. Winning this title assures a high price, as royal grand champions typically sell about one dollar per pound.
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Kansas City
Wayland Hopley
Atlantic
Robinwood New Deal
Earl E. Robbins
Greensburg
Ind
Oklahoma A
Stillwater
Hopley
Thickset
Charlie Escher
Earl Marshall
Angus Bull
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