Rumors of Tariff Equalizing Taxes Cloud Farm Aid Plan
Washington rumor mill flags tariff equalizing taxes to back soil conservation and farm benefit payments. House agriculture committee ready to draft a crop control bill based on tillable acreage, preserving the ever normal granary. Hoover and Landon press for new faces and unity, while critics warn of democracy’s strain amid global tension.
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AAA
Supreme Court
Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
House Committee
Henry Wallace
Labor ParrAis Near Collapse in Peace Plan Rejected
The AFL and CIO peace talks teeter near collapse after CIO rejects AFL peace plan. Conferences adjourned to November 4 with doubts a Thursday meeting will occur. CIO accuses AFL of jeopardizing progress while Murray denounces mass production as the target of industrial organization.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Federation
CIO
A. F. of
Philip Murray
Murray
A. F. of L
Indict race track head on governor Quinn libel count
A Kent county grand jury indicted Walter E. O Hara managing director of Narragansett race track on a criminal libel charge brought by Governor Robert E Quinn. The case moves to Superior Court for arraignment with trial date to be fixed. O Hara remains free on $5 000 bail after pleading not guilty in district court to calling the governor a liar in a Sept 8 Star Tribune edition.
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Providence
R. I
Kent County
Walter E. O'Hara
Narrangansett Race Track
Robert E. Quinn
G. Frederick Frost
Rhode Island
O'Hara
O’hara
Quinn
Star Tribune
Factional Brawling Endorsed as Path Forward
A fragment notes urging continued factional brawling as a method to achieve political goals. The language reflects a resolve that confrontation will drive progress, highlighting the era’s polarizing rhetoric and strategy.
Share Your Life to Find True Joy and Connection
A 1937 essay argues that living by sharing oneself yields happiness. It contrasts hollow sermonizing with personal empathy, urging breaking down barriers to heal loneliness through genuine self-disclosure and service to others.
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Emerson
Hull Criticizes Opponents of Reciprocal Policy
Secretary of State Hull denounces foes of the reciprocal trade program as biased and insidious. He says farm support is hurt by incomplete figures and defends tariff reductions, citing farm price gains since 1932 and the broad benefits of liberal trade policies.
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Washington
Hull
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Czechoslovakia
California Quakes Felt in Salinas with Light Swings
Two minor earthquakes shook Salinas California on Wednesday at 7:50 am and 12:28 pm. No damage was reported but chandeliers swayed during the tremors observed by residents and noted by INS reporters.
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Salinas
Calif
Ins
Nd&vever
Monty Montague Freed in Not Guilty Verdict
John Montague known as Laverne Moore is acquitted of first degree robbery after a seven hour jury deliberation. He plans to return to Hollywood and study his next moves while staying near his Syracuse home to care for his mother.
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John Montague
Hollywood
Allias
Montague
Willie
Elizabethtown
N. Y
Paramount Studios
Monty
Everett Crosby
Bing
O'Roon
Happy Friends
Kin Hana
Laverne’ Moore
California
Harry E. Owen
James Noonan
Owen
Noonan
Dutch Schultz
Laverne Moore
Edward Blanchard
Albany
Syracuse
Court to seek removal order for Gaughen to Sioux City
Federal agents said a court order would be sought to transfer Martin J. Gaughen former cashier of the Community Savings bank Edgewood Iowa to Sioux City Iowa. Gaughen is held after arrest on a fugitive warrant charging embezzlement of 39610.17 dollars and his bond of 5000 dollars was not posted.
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Washington (Ap
United States
John B. Colpoys
Martin J. Gaughen
Community Savings Bank
Edgewood
Iowa
Sioux City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gaughen
Knight Paroled as Deportation Scramble In Iowa
Arthur Knight, 47, granted immediate parole by the Iowa Board amid efforts by U.S. Senator Clyde Herring and Governor Nelson Kraschel to keep the family intact. Agnes, his common law wife, faces deportation to Scotland. their 13-year-old daughter Mabel also faces deportation, while 8-year-old Jim remains in the United States. A 90-day stay on deportation is sought. board member Ernest Moore supported parole, Leslie Ross supported, while Hubert Utterback opposed. Knight had escaped a 20-year sentence from breaking and entering and fought in World War I.
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Des Moines
State Parole Board
State Reformatory
Arthur Knight
U. S
Clyde L. Herring
Nelson G Kraschel
Knight
Arthur
Agnes
Scotland
Mabel
Jim
United States
Herring
Federal Department of Labor
Kifaschel
Ernest R Moore
Cedar Rapids
Leslie O. Ross
Sidney
Hubert Utterbacik
Canada
Anamosa
Italy Plans 15th Anniversary March On Rome Celebration
Italy will mark the 15th anniversary of the March on Rome with large Fascist Pageantry led by Premier Mussolini. A blackshirt force of about 100,000 camps near Rome to reenact the historic 1922 occupation as Nazi officials observe the event signaling strengthened Italo German alliance.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Viktor Lutze
Germany
Norwich students sentenced for campus paint daubing
Officials at Norwich University announced that 40 students drew three months confinement to campus after they admitted involvement in the red paint daubing of five University of Vermont buildings.
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Burlington, Vt
Norwich University
Norwich
University of Vermont
Forces guard Shanghai foreign sector amid Japanese advance
American British French and Italian troops crouched with orders to shoot to kill any attacker in the international settlement as Japanese forces moved in to seize strategic positions. US sailors and marines opened fire in self defense as Chinese fled burning Chapei. Admiral Yarnell authorized foreign defense to fire if airplanes bombed or attacked with guns, amid a blaze consuming Tibet road and widespread destruction.
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Shanghai
United States
Chapei
Miles
Sword
International Settlement
Harry Yarnell
United States Asiatic Fleet
Tibet Road
Texas and Arkansas bandit jailed on ranch capture
Deputy sheriffs with sawed off shotguns captured a wanted jail breaker and payroll bandit at the Ralph ranch near Los Altos. They identified the prisoner as Paul Harris, 32, fugitive from Galveston Texas and Little Rock Arkansas. Harris surrendered quietly and said he had been trying to reform by working as a ranch hand.
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Calif
INS
Ralph Ranch
Los Altos
Paul Harris
Galveston
Tex
Little Rock
Ark
Harris
Sinclair Lewis Urges Free Critical Spirit For U S
Renowned author Sinclair Lewis opened the Town Hall series in Memorial Coliseum urging Americans to defend a free inquiring spirit against dictatorship. He stressed democracy hinges on speech, noted his wife Dorothy Thompson coined the phrase, and joked about losing his glasses before starting the talk.
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Lewis
Cedar ‘ Rapids
America
Sinclair Lewis
Memorial Coliseum
Dorothy Thompson
Mr. Lewis
Agai
Town Hall
Jim Winn
Memorial
the Gazette
Chris Greim Tops Huskers With High Lin Linn Score
More than 2,000 people watched Chris Greim of Marion post a top husking score at the Linn county meet on the R. P. Ink farm near Mount Vernon. In 80 minutes he netted 2,751.3 pounds or 39.3 bushels, besting Eldred Stallman of Fairfax and Vaundon Williams of Cedar Rapids who placed second and third with strong nets. Williams gathered 2,922 pounds but incurred deductions, while other top finishers included Herman Bruger of Springville Floyd Etzel of Alburnett and Robert McCullough of Lisbon with sizable nets.
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Linn County
R. P. Ink
Chris Greim
Marion
Greim
Jones County
Linn
Eldred Stallman
Fairfax
Vaundon Williams
Cedar Rapids
Williams
Herman Bruger
Springville
Floyd Etzel
Alburnett
Robert McCullough
Lisbon
Bruce McCullough
S. Burkhart
Harvey Grover Wins Jones County Corn Championship
Special to The Gazette. OLIN Harvey Grover of Wyoming won the Jones county corn championship from Frank Remington of Martelle by two pounds. Grover husked a gross 2,440 pounds with a net 2,179.2 pounds or 31.13 bushels. Remington’s gross was 2,300 pounds but he had a cleaner husk with a net 2,177 pounds. John Mortensen of Center Junction finished third.
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Olin
Harvey Grover
Wyoming
Clinton County
Jones County
Frank Remington
Martelle
Remington
John
Mortensen
Junction
Lorimer Will Leaves Estate To Widow And Sons
George Horace Lorimer former editor of the Saturday Evening Post died last Friday. His will filed for probate values the estate at upwards of $250 000 leaving most to his widow and his two sons.
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Norristown
George Horace Lorimer
Saturday Evening Post
Five subcommittees named to speed farm bill drafting
Washington AP The House Agriculture Committee named five subcommittees to study tobacco dairying wheat rice and cotton as it works toward a six point farm bill for early consideration in the special session. Chairman Marvin Jones said reports with recommendations will reach the full committee Friday. The Senate panel also plans to hasten its drafting after grass roots farm condition testimony.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Marvin Jones
Tex
Jones
Legislative Drafting Service
Senate Agriculture Committee
U S Steel Reserves Against Government Acts
U S Steel reports ninety million in earnings for the year with about nine million to common stockholders. The rest is kept in reserve to counter government actions, as author Baer comments on Roosevelt and Wall Street.
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U. S. Steel
Copyrisht
Federal Reserve Cuts Broker Margin to Forty Percent
The Federal Reserve Board ordered margin requirements on brokers loans reduced from 55 to 40 percent with a new 50 percent margin on short sales. Effective November 1, this liberalizes credit after consultations with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and President Roosevelt.
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Washington
INS
Federal Reserve Board
William O. Douglas
Securities and Exchange Commission
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Douglas
New York Stock Exchange
Securities Exchanges
Governor presses board to reverse Siegel parole
Des Moines AP Governor Kraschel met with Iowa Board of Parole to urge reconsideration of the recent parole granted to Joe Siegel of Sioux City for manslaughter in the Glenn Cross killing. He warned the action could disturb the parole system balance. board would review with open minds. no decision timeline provided.
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Des Moines
Nelson G.‘Kraschel
Iowa Board of Parole
Joe Siegel
Sioux City
Siegel
Glenn Cross
Anamosa Reformatory
Board of Parole
Kraschel
Beefore
California
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Washington Brain Trust
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Judge Upbraids Jury
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