Reader questions use of existing housing vs new homesteads in Iowa
A Cedar Rapids reader questions government plans for more rural homesteads and suggests using closed properties near cities. The piece notes recalls of enforcement actions on fuel taxes, McAdoo family news, labor leader Maloy, aviation race feats, and debates over beer sale and dance halls. It ends noting New York Academy of Medicine on infant colic.
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Cedar Rapids
AN Turner
Iowa
Wii
Tate
Farley alibi in Sinclair endorsement sparks GOP jab
GOP spokesmen label a rubber stamp letter from Postmaster General Farley an alibi for a Sinclair endorsement and accuse Democratic headquarters of blame shifting to a dumb stenographer. They insist neither the President nor Farley endorsed Sinclair while noting broader political battles and a record fund by Senator Kean.
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Washington
Upton Sinclair
California
Farley
Congressional Committee
Sinclair
The
New
Deelaidéen
Isy
Democratic
James J. Farley
Democratic State Committee of
Representative Burns
Tennessee
Democratic Congressional Committee
Senate
House
Kean
N. J
Desperadoes Kill Sheriff and Escape in Dickens County
Virgil Stalcup and Clarence Brown escaped Dickens county jail after shooting Sheriff W B Arthur in the neck with his own gun. They looted the jail, fled in the sheriff’s car, and were heading toward Lubbock as posses pursued. Stalcup had earlier been jailed on a 54 year sentence and was recaptured near Clarendon.
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Dickens, Texas
Virgil Stalcup
J. H. Dobbins
Sheriff Arthur
Stalcup
Dickens County
Badlands
Clarendon
Brown
Faye Arthur
Rob Bank in Cary Illinois Looted for Five to Six Thousand
Four bandits armed with a machine gun and pistols held up the Cary State bank on Saturday and escaped with between five and six thousand dollars. The crime occurred in Cary Illinois and details indicate a quick getaway by the robbers.
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Cary, Ill
Cary State
Believing the Impossible Drives Human Progress
A reflective piece cites Char lie Chan and historical feats from Columbus to the Wright brothers to argue that impossible goals spark advancement. It urges faith that warless world and moral renewal are achievable as human effort remakes nature and society.
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Hawaii
Charlie Chan
Earl Derr Biggers
Columbus
Kitty Hawk
New York
Manslaughter Charge Filed Against Driver For Death Of Girl
Earl Kraft 20 of Van Horne faces a manslaughter charge after his car struck 7 year old Margaret Windorf at B avenue and Thirteenth street NW. Brakes were found in poor condition and witnesses say the vehicle passed the girl, who died en route to a hospital. Bond set at 5000 dollars.
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Earl Kraft
van Horne
Margaret Marie Windorf
B Avenue NW
B Avenue
Thirteenth Street NW
Kraft
G. K. Thompson
A. S. Reed
Allie Powers
Thirty-third Street
Cedar Rapids
Haberle
Wilson
Margaret Marie
Charles
Nancy Ann
Jay Windolf
F. A. King
Altoona
Beatty Mortuary
National guard calms Marianna after Florida lynching
In Marianna Florida National Guard troops with machine guns on the courthouse square restored order after a mob stormed the jail seeking a Black suspect. A Negro, Claude Neal, was lynched near Greenwood and two men faced threats amid investigations ordered by Governor Shultz as calls for federal action grew.
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Marianna, Fra
National Guard
National
Tallahassee
Panama City
Dave Shultz
Bud Gammon
Walter Cook
Gammon
J. C. Cooper
W. F. Chambliss
Claude Neal
Greenwood
Shultz
Roosevelt
Cummings
Atlanta
Commission On International Co-Operation
Florida
W. W. Alexander
Unmasked Gunman Robs Store For $7
Police report an unmasked man with a gun robbed J R Jones’s store on Third Street SW Saturday evening taking about seven dollars from the cash register and held Jones at gunpoint before fleeing. A witness, Art Livermore, corroborated the bandit’s exit and gave a similar physical description.
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J. R. Jones
Third Street
Jones
Art Livermore
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1934
Report from Cedar Rapids shows 1934 auto toll results with figures on accidents injuries and deaths. Details are incomplete with damaged or missing numbers. Officials recorded totals in a local traffic ledger and released summarized counts for public notice.
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Cedar Rapids
German Workers Threatened With Prison Camps
Berlin workers protest unpaid wages at Baer and Stein factory on Berlin's outskirts. With 500 employees unpaid for four weeks, a receiver promises action but the paymaster misses payroll. Storm troops threaten with revolvers and camp, forcing labor as workers refuse to work until pay arrives.
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Berlin
INS
Baer and Stein
Nazi Germany
Traffic Crashes Injure Five in City Saturday
Congested traffic on highway 161 and downtown streets caused three injuries and many minor collisions. Mrs. G E White head of Perry suffered head and knee injuries and was treated in Cedar Rapids. Cletus Saeugland of Elkader, riding with Arthur Saeugland, was knocked unconscious and hospitalized at Mercy. Clarence Sisco suffered chest injuries in a second crash, while Mrs H G Metge and Florence were bruised and shaken in a third. A motorcyclist Eli Abodeely injured a finger in a collision with George Benesh of Fairfax at First avenue and First street East.
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Highway 161
Minnesota
G. E. Whitehead
Perry
Whitehead
Cedar Rapids
Cletus Saeugland
Elkader
Arthur
Mercy Hospital
First Street
Avenue NE
Clarence Sisco
K Avenue NW
Sisco
Russell Myers
Ellis Boulevard
H. G. Metge
Nineteenth Street
Florence
Carl Tyerman
Second Street
Second Avenue
Tyerman
Eli Abodeely
Seventh Avenue
George Benesh
Fairfax
First Avenue
Chain Closes 400 Stores in Labor Trouble
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. announced it is discharging 2,200 employees and closing 428 stores and warehouses in Greater Cleveland after a union-led strike. Police reported union sympathizers touring stores and threatening closure if orders were not followed. The company cited delivery problems with contractors using union help and said it would withdraw from Cleveland. Union officials aim to unionize groceries and pursue a closed shop. the company denies formal demands beyond that.
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Cleveland, C
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Greater
Cleveland
Meat Cutters’ Union
Extradition Hearing on Elder Robinson Under Advisement
A Tennessee extradition case for Thomas H. Robinson Jr involving the Stoll kidnapping was taken under advisement after the government presented four photostatic messages found in his Nashville home. Defense argued the messages did not reference the abduction as Justice agent H. C. Douglas testified the communications were found the night Mrs. Stoll was released in Indianapolis.
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Nashville, Tenn
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Louisville
Stoll
Robinson
H. C. Douglas
Department of Justice
Jones and Waller Hop For Singapore
Cathcart Jones and K W Waller, English flyers, left Port Darwin for Singapore in a dash back along the London to Melbourne derby course. They aim to beat the 70 hours 58 minutes 50 seconds record set by derby winners C W A Scott and Campbell Black.
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Port Darwin
Australia
Cathcart Jones
K. W. Waller
Singapore
Melbourne
C. W. A. Scott
Campbell Black
Test Survey Aims to Gauge Cedar Rapids Housing Needs
William C. Crawford leads a test survey initiated at the request of James A. Moffett of the Federal Housing Administration. About 200 remodeling permits in the last sixty days and 100 to 200 home inspections are planned in eight to ten city blocks to assess repair needs and potential broader demand.
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Cedar Rapids
William C. Crawford
Better Housing Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
James A. Moffett
Federal Housing Administration
Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Crawford
Early House Test On Bonus Planned
Washington report notes the $2,000,000,000 soldiers bonus will be tested in the House at the start of the new session. Administration leaders plan to restrict controversial measures by revising a House rule to require direct support from 218 members. The move promises a fight over the bonus and inflation as the 74th session opens, potentially stopping the measures if the administration wins.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Huey Long Delivers Cheer at Vanderbilt Game
Senator Huey P. Long led 5,000 LSU supporters into Nashville for the Vanderbilt contest but did not announce a 1936 presidential bid. He spoke briefly on a platform then directed a field cheer with a megaphone before his train departed.
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Nashville
Tenn
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Louisiana State
Vanderbilt University
Tiger
Long
Vanderbilt
Tennessee Routers
Nashville Terminal
New Chemurgy Plan Aims to Transform Agriculture and Industry
The Chemical Foundation launches a program to turn surplus crops into industrial basics via chemical processes. Farm surpluses would feed manufacturable goods from auto parts to paints with corn starch and gluten as potential outputs. Proponent talks of vast shifts toward agricene ters and durable cellulose based materials.
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New York
The
Chemical Foundation
Francois P. Garvan
Foundation
Chemical: Foundation
William’ J. Hale
Down Chemical Company of
Midland
Mich
Agriculture Advances,” da
Hale
Weather Outlook for Great Lakes and Plains Regions
Weather outlook covers October 29 to November 3 for the Great Lakes with midweek and late week precipitation. Cold start with near normal temperatures thereafter. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys and northern central plains see generally fair conditions with occasional light precipitation and near normal highs.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
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