Roosevelt Pushes New Farm Legislation Amid Budget Clash
President Roosevelt urged rapid action on seed and conservation laws to stabilize agriculture and consumer protection. He proposed financing through taxes with no new federal expenditures, while arguing for farm and conservation programs to align with the budget. House and Senate committees, led by D Smith and Marvin Jones, prepare special session plans beginning November 15. The plan includes government loans backed by tax receipts to store surpluses in corn, cotton, wheat, and rice, with potential costs and storage terms outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Smith
S. G
Emate Agriculture
Marvin Jones
House Agricultomittee
Elt
Mat Roosevelt
Fed
Newspaper as mirror of world and daily life
A 1937 reflection by Dr. Newton on the newspaper's role. It chronicles how papers deliver history, today’s stories, weather, markets, sports, gossip, editorials, and pictures while noting the quiet goodness of life often not recorded. It emphasizes news as truth and daily wonder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations
Society
Congress
Ney Inperton
Jowert
Stafey
John Wesley
Campaign to close vice resorts in Champaign Urbana
Officials in Champaign and Urbana launched a campaign to shut down vice and gambling resorts after a university conference with President Arthur Cutts Willard. The move followed Daily Illini reports claiming many red light district patrons were students. Evidence claimed showed at least fourteen openly operating shady establishments on one Champaign street.
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Champaign
Ill
Urbana
Arthur Cutts Willard
University of E
Daily
Illini
Tlini
Montague Soapbed Incident Sparks Town Buzz
Elizabethtown reports John Montague faces a robbery charge with a lighthearted edge as he soap-logs the bed at the Deer's Head inn. Court session postponed to Monday, locals swarm for autographs while Montague entertains with friends Ralph Owens and Dewey Steffen amid town-wide excitement.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
INS
John Montague
Monty
Albert Fortmiller
Deer's Head Inn
Fortmiller
Montague
Ralph Owens
Utica
Dewey Steffen
Colgate
Owens
Ads contact information in Gazette office line
Fragmentary note directs readers to Dia to dial 2-1121 or call The Gazette office for advertising. No clear date or name provided.
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Dia
Gazette Office
Margaret Drennan Freed After Murder Acquittal
Margaret Drennan, 20, acquitted of murdering Paul Reeves, prepares to begin life anew. Support from neighbors follows the verdict as she plans a quiet rest and a trip. Thomas McGovern, 26, claims marriage plans and says he will acknowledge her unborn child. Reeves’s widow reacts with dissatisfaction to the verdict.
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New Brunswick
INS
Margaret Drennan
Thomas McGovern
Tom
Iselin
WN. J
Paul Reeves
New Jersey
Reeves
Grinnt
Miss Drennan
Middlesex County Court
John Drennan
New York World-Telegram
Holy Cross Church
Woodbridge
N. J
McGovern
Myra Reeves
Sugar Chemist Killed In Laboratory Blast
In Honolulu Friday a chemical lab explosion killed Dr. A. K. Das a renowned sugar research chemist at the experimental station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association and seriously hurt his laboratory assistant.
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Honolulu
T. H
INS
A. K. Das
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
Railroads Seek Far Larger Rate Increase After ICC Decision
U S rail executives plan to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a further rate rise possibly up to ten times the $47.5 million approved by the ICC. They argue wage hikes and higher operating costs require more revenue and warn rail service could be government-run without it. The plan centers on a ~10 percent increase likely targeting eastern lines and faces quick action in Chicago next week.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Ice
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Chicago
William M. Jeffers
Union Pacific
Marry Guy Taylor
Western Association of Railway Executives
ICC
Taylor
Stabbing in alley leads to arrest after hotel fray
In an alley behind the Pullman hotel, Noble D. Chapman was stabbed by J. J. McGuire after an after midnight argument. Chapman, a boilermaker, drove to St Luke's hospital with wounds. McGuire, also a boilermaker, was held for investigation on assault charges.
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Pullman Hotel
J. J. McGire
Delavan
McGuire
Noble D. Chapman
Fifth Street
Chapman
St. Luke’s Hospital
Delavan Hotel
Rites For Dr John Hamilton Held Sunday
Funeral services for Dr. John Hamilton who died Friday were set for 2 30 p m in Cedar Rapids Turner chapel Father R J Campbell to officiate Burial will follow at Mankato Minnesota at a later date Honorary pallbearers include Sutherland C Dows Roy Choate Robert S Cook Isaac B Smith Frank Chambers A W H Lenders Dr C S Krause Howard Hall O N Elliott Weaver Witwer John Drabelle M V Bolton C F Hillman John Grimm James E Hamilton Dr Max Widmer Harold Horan Dr H J Jones Dr W J Morrison and Dr N G Alcock with Dr Fred Smith of Iowa City named among them.
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Cedar Rapids
John Hamilton
Turner Chapel
R. J. Campbell
Mankato
Minn
Sutherland C. Dows
Roy Choate
Robert S. Cook
Isaac B. Smith
Frank Chambers
A. W. H. Lenders
C. S. Krause
Howard Hall
O. N. Elliott
Weaver Witwer
John Drabelle
M. V. Bolton
C.F. Hillman
John Grimm
James E. Hamilton
Max Widmer
Harold Horan
H. J. Jones
W. J. Morrison
N. G. Alcock
Fred Smith
Iowa City
Five Turkish Flyers Die In Training Plane Crash
In Ankara Turkey five servicemen two instructors and three parachutists were killed when a military aircraft crashed during training near the capital.
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Ankara
Turkey
Here
New Deadlock on Peace Issue Grips Powers
Europe’s principal powers met in London to clash over Spanish neutrality and foreign troop withdrawal. Russia opposed belligerent rights until all foreign fighters depart while Italy and Germany defended their intervention aims. The nine nation subcommittee delayed next talks to seek broader agreement.
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London
Europe
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Spain
Russia
Ivan Maisky
Dino’ Grandi
Anthony ‘Eden
Valencia
Maisky
Grandi
Rome
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Japan
Known deaths from elixir rise to thirty six in Chicago
The American Medical Association announced Saturday that the known death toll from the sulfanilamide containing elixir had climbed to thirty six and said there were clues to many more deaths.
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Chicago
The
American Medical Association
Lorimer Editor Dies at 69 in Pennsylvania Farm
George Horace Lorimer former editor of the Saturday Evening Post died of pneumonia at his King’s Oak farm in Wyncote Pa aged 69 His sons Graeme and Burford and widow Alma V Ennis survive His 37 year tenure ended in 1937 and he had built the Post into a leading magazine with a salary once reported at 100000 a year
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Wyncote
George Horace Lorimer
Saturday Evening Post
King’s Oak
Graeme
Burford
Alma V. Ennis
Chicago
Lorimer
Post
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Wesley, Winans ‘Stout
George C. Lorimér
Armour Packing Company
Colby College
Beaton Post
Curtis
Little Saturday Evening Post
Benjamin Franklin
Boy, 11, Burns Up Chicago Streets and Wrecks Limousine
Roderick Hughes aged 11 slipped into a parked limousine near a Gold Coast home and led police through Chicago north side streets at speeds near 70 mph. He nearly burned to death before police stopped him as the car sideswiped a parked vehicle and overturned, with the wreck catching fire. He was only slightly injured and taken to a juvenile home.
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Chicago
INL
Roderick Hughes
Gold Coast
Indianapolis Girl, 11, Report Card Absence Sparks Missing
Nellie Stevens, 11, has been missing since she did not return home with her report card after school on Monday in Indianapolis. Police and her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hogott, appeal for information as search efforts continue.
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Alf M. Landon
Will T. Beck
Board of Administration
Landon
Indianapolis
Nellie Stevens
Lester Hogott
Tuesday Black Friday Deception in Wall Street Gains
Arthur Baer notes a turbulent week as a Tuesday market day wore a guise of a Black Friday with a sharp drop followed by a recovery aided by a fireside chat and profit-taking. United States Steel hits 65 amid compensation concerns and the market faces questions about the durability of the rebound.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Wall Street
Train Appears to Jump Upon Bus in Iowa Crash
In Mason City a ground-beneath-train collision left a school bus crushed under a fast streamlined train. Kenneth, treated for cuts, recalls seeing the locomotive lunge onto the bus between brick piles and describes a vivid, terrifying moment before crawling free amid blood and stunned passengers.
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Mason City
Kennett Ee
Kenneth
Hahn Witnesses Tell of 3 Deaths
In Cincinnati AP report Judge Bell adduced testimony on three deaths linked to Anna Marie Hahn in a murder trial. Prosecutor Outcast introduced witnesses to detail the August 1 death of George Obendorfer and the March 24 death of Albert Palmer as part of a scheme to raid estates.
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Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Common Pleas
Jacob Wagner
Charles S Bell
Dudley M. Outcast
Denver
Colorado
October Cold Snap Recorded In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids observatory notes October air turned cold with sun and cloud. Temperatures rose from 26 to 38 degrees across the day, with Friday’s high near 36 at noon and 30 by early Saturday morning per Chambers Inskeep Company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Tragedy at Mason City as streamliner hits bus
Civil and railroad investigators probe the Mason City brick yard crash that killed ten people including a bus driver and nine Renwick High students. Nineteen injured were hospitalized. coroner plans an inquest Monday.
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Mason City
Rock Island
Renwick
J. E. McDonald
C. L. ‘Bakke
Des Moines
C. J. Rown
Kansas City
W. H. Dick
Chicago
Clarence Hefty
Mildred Whistler
Connie Black
Darlene Rhodes
Mason City Brick and Tile Company
Mason City Industries
George Simpson
Streamliner
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Yale
Hahn
RAIL
Rex Simpson
Fairment
Mins
Dorothy Ross
Eof Creston
Am Emgtieh
Leren Morten
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Lillian Cedar
Hardy
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Patsy Turner
Norman Eggerth
Lewell Kelling
Jimmy Bell
Albert Siemans
Pauline Barrett
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