Contention on free speech and world affairs in brief notes
A column cites Bishop McConnell opposing nationalism in Italy Germany and Japan and warns of warfare against free speech in the United States. It also reports on Belgium resignations in Brussels and Japan’s challenge to peace and sanctions. The piece highlights Addie Van Vechten’s civic work and notes a federal debt estimate from American Coalition.
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McConnell
American Coalition
Southern Building
Washington, D. C
America
Government of
United States
Cheyenne
Roosevelt
AFL CIO peace talks skirt absorption plan in labor split
American Federation of Labor delegates draft a reply to CIO proposals seeking to absorb or control unions. The CIO favors a joint convention and jurisdictional terms that could dilute craft unions. Federation leaders warn capitulation would cede power to CIO leader John L. Lewis and delay a final settlement.
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Washington
INS
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Federation
CIIO
Sf A. F
Heid
John L. Lewis
Lee Pressman
Philip Murray
George Harrison
Lewis
Charles P. Howard
Typographical Union
Sidney Hillman
Hillman
Britain To Receive Quarantine Plan From Roosevelt
London learned Tuesday that American Ambassador Bingham will brief Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Eden on President Roosevelt’s proposed quarantine of aggressor nations. The talks aim to officially receive the President’s views on world peace.
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London
Ins
Roosevelt
Chicago
Britain
Bingham
Neville Chamberlain
Eden
Moore-Montigue Defense Cites Witness Stand Note
The defense urges the court to find Moore-Montigue innocent arguing that testimony could sway the jury. The text hints at a potential witness, Bing, offering a crooning performance to influence verdict.
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Moore-Montigue
Bing
Religion is caught not taught by a mother’s faith
A mother reflects on explaining God to young sons without formal doctrine. She warns against overemphasis on the word personal and urges keeping faith felt in the heart. The piece stresses that a child’s belief grows from a loving, emotionally conditioned approach, not scholastic instruction. DR NEWTON.
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God
Jesus
Meat production decline likely at bottom says industry head
Whitfield Woods president of the Institute of American Meat Packers said at the institute's annual convention that the decline in meat production has reached its low point. He forecast production, especially pork, to rise steadily in the next few years barring unforeseen developments.
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Chicago
Whitfield Woods
The
Institute of American Meat Packers
Institute
Woods
US Steel names youth to helm as profits rise
US Steel announces a $1 per share dividend and a management shift. Myron C. Taylor will not seek reelection, Edward R. Stettinius named future CEO, Benjamin F. Fairless elected president to take over in June. Nine months net income reach $95.35 million, or $8.77 per share.
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New York
United States Steel Corp
Myron C. Taylor
Edward R. Stettinius
Elbert H Gary
J P Morgan
Benjamin F. Fairless
William A Trvin
Jane
Irvin Wil
Farm leaders back equalizing tariffs in crop bill
Washington November plan to fund a new crop control bill by tariff equalizing taxes will channel proceeds to the general treasury to cover farm benefits, with cotton farmers exempt from the ever normal granary clause. Secretary Wallace and AAA aides tour states to rally support as Senate committees plan hearings.
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Washington
INS
House
Supreme Court
General Treasury Fund
Congress
Wallace
AAA
H. R. Tolley
New York
North Carolina
A. B. Stedman
Senate Agriculture Committee
Dodge City
Kan
J. B. Hutson
I. W. Duggan
Senate
Seattle
Maine
Middle West
Joseph Farrell
Oklahoma City
Memphis
Springfield
Columbus
Smith
South Carolina
Budget Heads Will See F. D. R. Friday
President Roosevelt will meet at Hyde Park with Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell on Friday to review the government's fiscal condition. The plan was announced Tuesday.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Daniel Bell
Activity In G O R Resembles Report Of Life In Mummies
This 1937 column by Arthur Baer mocks Republican infighting and the spoils system. It compares GOP activity to life among mummies and jokes about Hoover and Landon, criticizing seniority battles and political stagnation with sharp satirical tone.
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G.O.R
G.O.P
Rameszi
Roberts wins Muscatine husking title at 36.33 bun
Alvin N. Roberts claimed the Muscatine county cornhusking title at 35.33 bushels net 2473 pounds advancing toward the state contest. Second was Charles White, then Lew Toyne, Floyd Wedekind, Robert Walker and Lester Harvey with clean husks records noted. The event took place on the Mark Collier farm near Durant.
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Durant
Alvin N. Roberts
Muscatine County
Roberts
Cedar County
Atajissa
Charles White
Muscatine
Lew Toyne
Floyd Wedekind
Robert Walker
Moscow
Lester Harvey
Cranston
Toyne
Harvey
Mark Collier
Lee Stodgell wins fourth straight Louisa county cornhusking title
Lee Stodgell of Morning Sun husked a net 2 263 pounds to win the Louisa county contest at H B Stineman farm near Grandview. Wade Stranton of Columbus Junction placed second with 2 058 4865 pounds as about 600 spectators watched the event on land yielding about 80 bushels per acre. Ralph Alexander won the Keokuk county contest with 2 145 pounds at the T F Stoner farm near South English, followed by Roscoe Courtney 2 127 pounds and others in Keokuk county.
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Columbus Junction
Lee Stodgell
Morning Sun
Louisa County
H. B. Stineman
Grandview
Stodgell
Wade Stranton
Donald Morgan
Carl -Hansen
Oakville
Harley /McGill
Charles Morgan
Charles Stodgell
Francis A’nderson
the Gazette
Sigourney
Ralph Alexander
Hedrick
Keokuk County
Joe Fuller
Brunken Confesses $1000 Theft From Burlington Bank
Des Moines police hold William Brunken 27 in Polk County Jail after he confessed stealing $1,000 from the First National Bank of Burlington. He had been charged with falsifying bank records tied to $400,000 embezzled by William C. Kurrle, assistant cashier. Brunken cited Kurrle’s easier escape as inspiration for his crime.
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Des Moines
William Brunken
Polk County
First National Bank of
Burlington
Brunken
William C. Kurrle
Polk
Kurrle
Indict 30 More In Probe Of Kansas City's Vote Fraud
Federal probes into Kansas City vote fraud led to 30 more indictments, bringing the total to 381. The grand jury named T. J. Pendergast and James Pendergast as bond providers for convicts from the November election. The jury urged a third grand jury as its term nears, with current term ending Nov. 1.
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Kansas City
T. J
Pendergast
James Pendergast
Merrill E. Otis
UAW Complains To NLRB Against Ford
The United Automobile Workers filed a complaint with the NLRB accusing Ford Motor Co of immediate discriminatory action against employees who testified at NLRB hearings in Detroit. The charge is that Ford violated the Wagner Act.
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Detroit
INS
Ford Motor Company
NLRB
United Automobile Workers Tuesday
National Labor Relations Board
Death of Mrs. Addie Van Vechten Linked to Cedar Rapids Culture
Mrs. Addie Lawton Van Vechten 91 a founder of the Home for the Friendless and a leader in cultural charities died at 9 15 p m at her Cedar Rapids home 845 Second Avenue SE Funeral services will be held at Peoples Church with cremation and ash burial beside her late husband Charles Duane Van Vechten The family includes three children and two sisters with several relatives travelling from New York and California A long illness followed a severe summer shock from a car accident She loved nature astronomy and bird watching and supported the Home for the Friendless in Cedar Rapids
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Addie Lawton van Vechten
Home For
Cedar Rapids
van Vechten
Jeader
Second Avenue SE
Melvin L. Welke
The
Peoples Church
Charles Duane van Vechten
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Oak Hill
Ralph.Van Vechten
Chicago
Emma
Shaffer
Presi
Dent
Guaranty, Bank, and ‘Trust? Company
Cari
New
York ‘City
Epidemic Strikes U I Dormitory at Iowa City
University of Iowa health officials probed an intestinal inflammation outbreak affecting over 200 of 700 men in the quadrangle dormitory. Most victims fell ill Monday night but none were reported in serious condition. Investigations focus on dorm water and food supplies with results due in two to three days.
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Speeins
The
Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Seek Two Convicts Who Escaped From Jail In Chickasaw
NEW HAMPTON AP One hundred men searched a 25 mile area southwest of New Hampton for Benjamin H Blakeley 25 of Warren Ohio and Robert Neservey 19 of Minneapolis Minnesota who escaped Tuesday morning from Chickasaw county jail Twelve state patrolmen and deputies from Howard Bremer Fayette and Chickasaw counties took part in the manhunt They had been prisoners since October 14 on car theft charges
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NEW Hampton
Here
Benjamin H. Blakeley
Warren
Ohio
Robert Neservey
Minneapolis, Minn
Chickasaw
Howard
Bremer
Fayette
Japanese Machine Reaches Heart of Shanghai Defense
Japanese forces drive into central Shanghai as defenders retreat from Chapei. Tokyo cabinet lines up to reject nine power conference invites while Japan plans a Shansi thrust toward Taiyuan Fu. Britain seeks compensation after a strike on a British soldier. U S protests gunfire against American citizens in Shanghai.
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Japan
Shanghai
Beleaeucrew
North
Peiping
Tokio
Belgium
Minseito
Seiyukai
North China
Shansi
Iwichi Terauchi
Poategh
Washington
INS
Joseph C. Grew
Clarence E. Gatss
Italian grenadier dies from shrapnel near settlement line
An Italian grenadier on duty in the defense line around the international settlement was killed by shrapnel early today.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
Montague Case in Hands of Montague’s Jury
In Elizabethtown a rural jury hears the case of Laverne John Moore, accused of taking part in a seven year old roadhouse robbery. After three hours of closing arguments, the jury retires at 6 02 p m to deliberate. Moore testified in his own defense denying the charge. If found guilty he faces 10 to 30 years.
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Laverne Moore
John Montague
Hollywood
Elizabethtown
N. Y
Bing Crosby
Moniqne
Laverne
John Montague” Moore
Tom McDonald
Jim Noonan
Moore
Russia Dissents On Intervention Plan In Spain
The international committee on Spanish nonintervention reports substantial agreement on the amended British compromise plan by all powers except Soviet Russia. Moscow again refuses to assent, though delegates urged proceeding without its cooperation. The amended plan is referred back to governments for further discussion Friday.
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London
INL
International Committee On
Russia
Spain
Moscow
Friay
Hoover Urges Party to Fight New Deal with Fresh Faces
Former President Herbert Hoover told the Massachusetts Republican Club that Republicans must abandon complacency and rebuild with new faces and new blood. He urged an affirmative program responsive to the people’s needs and warned against creeping collectivism in the New Deal. He spoke ahead of a midterm meeting in Chicago and reiterated he does not seek public office.
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Boston
Herbert Hoover
Republican Party
Massachusetts State Republican Club
Hoover
Walter Lippmann
Hoover urges new youth in Massachusetts Republican rally
Former President Herbert Hoover calls for fresh faces and vitality in the party at a Massachusetts Republican Club gathering. He urges more youth and women in party councils to revitalize the GOP nationwide.
Landon Signals Openness to Midterm Republican Convention
Former Governor Alfred M. Landon indicated he is open to favorable consideration of a midterm Republican national convention. The remark followed a conference with GOP chairman John D. M. Hamilton and hints a party leadership split with Herbert Hoover could be eased by a national policy committee.
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Topeka
Kan
Ins
Alfred M. Landon
Landon
Herbert Hoover
John D. M. Hamilton
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Home For Friendless
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