SIOUX CITY SAYS SQUARE DEAL NEEDED FOR OZZIE SIMMONS
Iowa columnist urges fair treatment for Ozzie Simmons amid rough play and biased officiating. He notes Simmons, a Texas born Negro star at Iowa, rose from freshman to key contributor, yet faced persistent roughing and calls for consistent rule enforcement to protect him. The piece argues strong officiating and public demand should ensure proper penalties and equal opportunity, noting football finances rely on fan support and Simmons drawing crowds.
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News Room
Mr. Coughlin
Coughlin
Ozzie Simmons
Texas
University of Iowa
Duke Slater
Chicago
Ozzie
Simmons
Iowa
Iowa corn husking state meet held near Davenport
Johnson county corn husking results appear on page 16. Nearly two thirds of county contests were held Monday and Tuesday as about 60 county winners are narrowed to 20 for the state title at the Grover Hahn farm near Davenport. The national nubbin derby is Nov 8 in Attica Indiana. The Iowa meet starts at 10 30 a m Friday and lasts 80 minutes with 20 contestants on 30 acres amid 20 000 expected spectators.
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Davenport
Grover Hahn
Griem wins Martelle corn husking contest with record haul
Special to The Gazette Chris Griem 29 of Clarence tops a Jones county corn husking event near Martelle on the Jack Armstrong farm with 2635.5 pounds and 37.6 bushels to qualify for the state contest near Davenport. Joe Ladehoff runner up, followed by John Mortensen and Frank Remington.
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Martelle
Chris Griem
Clarence
Jones County
Davenport
Griem
Jack Armstrong
Joe Ladehoff
Scotch Grove
John Mortensen
Anamosa
Frank Remington
Ralph Becker
Mechanics
Waterloo teen wins county corn husking contest
Roger Whitney of Hudson paced a field of four teens at the Black Hawk county contest on the Ed Entz farm. He husked 1,887.4 pounds net to claim first, with Herman Mordhorst second at 1,759.1 pounds and Harry Wrage third at 1,717.4 pounds. Last year’s champion Jack Horan finished fourth among a larger turnout.
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Waterloo
Roger Whitney
Hudson
Black Hawk County
Ed Entz
Here
Whitney
Herman Mordhorst
Waterloo Township
Harry Wrage
Lincoln Township
Jack Horan
Henry Herren
Alvin Brown
Howard Stirling
Ed Haney
Lyle Davis
Everett Rasmussen
Dallas Stirling
Charles Wambaugh
Charles McLaughlin
Byron Hamer
Roberts retains Muscatine County corn husker title
Alvin Roberts of Atalissa defeated 12 competitors to husk a net 2,259 pounds and keep his Muscatine county champion corn husker crown, a title he first won in 1933.
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Muscatine
Alvin Roberts
Atalissa
Muscatine County
Roberts
Buchanan Champ Repeats as County Husker Champion
Henry Naylor of Independence retained his county corn husking title in Buchanan with a net of 1,942 pounds. The 1934 winner repeated the victory in the Independence area, with the county contest continuing later in the page.
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Buchanan
Independence
Henry Naylor
Court stenographer writes 100000 word novel in spare moments
White Plains N Y UP in thirty years court stenographer William Heincke has written 300000000 words averaging 50000 words per working day. A friend urged a novel and he completed a 100000 word book in his leisure time saying he would rather write than eat.
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White Plains
N. Y
William Heincke
Heincke
Packers Ordered to Post $4,000,000 for Processing Tax
Federal judges Wilkerson and Woodward issued a joint order directing Chicago packers and other processors to deposit 4 million dollars in banks to cover September processing taxes. The cash remains tied up pending a court decision on the tax's constitutionality.
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Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Charles E. Woodward
Chicago Packers
Sioux City Names Fifth Police Chief Since Investigation
Sioux City appointed Detective Maurice E. Farley acting chief of the police department, the fifth chief in six months amid the Woodbury county graft probe. Farley, 21 years in the force, replaces Ray C. Todd after Todd resigned to focus on his plumbing business. Todd’s resignation follows a crackdown by Mayor W. D. Hayes as city leaders weigh rumored bootlegger payoffs and liquor-law violations.
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Sioux City
Maurice E. Farley
Sioux City Police Department
Woodbury County
Farley
Gordon C. Hollar
Public Safety
Ray C. Todd
Hollar
Todd
Wild Geese Depart From Niagara Falls
About 1,000 wild geese that rested on the upper Niagara river over the weekend remained at Niagara Falls Tuesday as others departed at dawn in large flocks spaced about 15 minutes apart. Conservation agents said the remaining birds were not in danger and would resume flight when leaders lift off. Roughly 10,000 geese settled on the river over the weekend, with many swept over the falls.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Niagara River
State Conservation Department
Upper River
Budget Plan Keeps AAA Tax Assumption Amid Court Case
Washington officials warn that Supreme Court ruling on AAA processing taxes could derail the 1937 budget. Officials say they will proceed on the assumption the law survives, but a mid January decision may complicate revenue projections. Since July 1, $49.38 million has been collected while $168.86 million in benefits have been paid to farmers, creating a shortfall if revenues drop.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Quins Get Contract To Appear In Films
Boston AP reports the Dionne quintuplets have been signed as movie actresses and will appear in Flicker Fiction as soon as they are old enough. David Arnold Croll Canadian labour and welfare minister and quints foster father revealed the signing Tuesday.
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Dionne Quintuplets
Flicker
David Arnold Croll
Labor and Public Welfare
Canada
Quints
Japan crackdown on North China officials in North China
Japanese soldiers will begin autumn army maneuvers along the Peiping Tientsin railway as Chinese officials study Japan’s demands to eradicate anti Japanese elements in North China. Tokyo lodged a formal note demanding prompt measures against Kuomintang blueshirts and anti Japanese groups. Chinese officials at Nanking Responded defiantly amid rising military activity.
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China
Peiping-Tientsin
Japan
Peiping
Haruo Tada
Orient
S. Kawagoe
North
Yoshijiro Umetsu
Ho Ying-Shin
Kuomintang
North China
Shang Chen
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Chinese Nationalist Party
Nanking
Two Viola Boys Burned by Acid at School
Edwin Gorius six or near Viola was badly burned on the face by acid believed to be thrown by a playmate at the Viola school. He was taken to Mercy hospital and may lose sight in his right eye. John Rinel la five was also burned but did not stay in the hospital. Miss Sybil Post, the teacher, said the acid was from a soldering kit and likely thrown from a window.
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Viola
Edwin Gorius
Mercy Hospital
John Rinella
Sybil Post
Miss Post
Two Injured In Plane Crash Near National Guard Airport
In Philadelphia two men piloting a dual control plane were critically injured when the aircraft went into a tail spin from 200 feet and crashed near the national guard airport. John Curtis suffered a possible skull fracture and multiple cuts while Nunzio Sorrentino had a concussion and facial injuries. Neither could identify the pilot. The plane was badly wrecked.
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Philadelphia
National Guard
John Curtis
Nunzio Sorrentino
Ellen Glasgow novel reviewed as old fashioned creed
A critic questions Ellen Glasgow’s Vein of Iron for clinging to romantic love, family virtue, gentility, and sturdy self-reliance amid disaster. While praising tranquil prose and vivid portraits, he argues the book’s faith may be an outdated moral fanaticism, contrasting it with enduring belief in God and decency.
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Ellen Glasgow
Virgginia
Ana Figh
Steven Sk
Vaheee
Roe
Maniac killer strikes Chicago lawyers three dead
Attorney William L. Hawthorne, 42, died in a hospital as the third victim of an apparently deranged ex convict who shot a former municipal judge and wounded another attorney after killing himself in a loop office building. A fourth victim, Nathan Waintroob, 29, was reported out of danger.
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Chicago
William L. Hawthorne
Nathan Waintroob
William R. Fetzer
Raymond Lamming
Fetzer
Lamming
Rusty
Midget Slayer Ends Life in Chicago
Henry J. Fernekes known as the Midget Slayer killed himself in a Chicago detective bureau cell after being re-arrested for bank robbery and alleged slayings. Coroner confirmed death from poison. police pondered how he hidden the dose. He had escaped Joliet last August and feared returning to Joliet more than facing New York charges.
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Chicago
Henry J
Fernekes
State
Joliet
Detective Bureau
Chemiz Nekes
Palice
Thomas J. Courtney
New York State
Pearl River
Joliet Penitentiary
John L. Sullivan
New York
Herring Silent On Becks Accusation In Iowa Graft Case
Des Moines AP reports Gov Clyde L Herring returned to the statehouse and declined to comment on testimony by H M Hayner that Cornish Beck will claim in the Woodbury county graft cases. Beck alleged officials including Attorney General Edward L OConnor and former state liquor chairman Harold M Cooper conspired to arrange liquor sales to bootleggers. Cooper called Hayners statement absurd and outlandish in a letter.
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Clyde L. Herring
Statehouse
H. M. Hayner
Cornish Beck
Woodbury County
Hayner
Beck
Sioux City
Herring
Edward L. O’connor
Walter Maley
Harold M. Cooper
State Liquor Commission
Cooper
Havner
Gloucester City High School players strike for shorter hours
The Gloucester City High School football team and 125 students walked out Tuesday demanding earlier hours. Players cited late practice times and others joined in sympathy, with the school day currently running from 8 40 a.m. to 3 30 p.m.
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Gloucester City, N. J
City High School
Experts Fail To Reach Plan For Ending War
London reports confirm Anglo French experts failed to agree on a settlement plan for the Italo Ethiopian war. Anthony Eden prepares to travel to Geneva to push sanctions against Italy, with no peace scheme to present to the league. Sir Samuel Hoare will follow, signaling no shift in Britain’s firm policy and no three power talks with France and Italy.
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Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Geneva
League
Eden
League Affairs
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Hoare
Britain
France
Haly
Maurice Peterson
British Foreign Office
Paris
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House of Commons
Haile Selassie
Mussolini
Attestiis Sre
Africa
Rome
Addis Ababa
Palle Selassie
Geneva — League
Italy
Ethiopia
WPA funds approve Iowa job programs and projects
AP reports state WPA headquarters approved additional allocations of 37 366 to provide jobs for 239 persons in seven Iowa counties. Earlier 48 148 for six projects to employ 305 on relief rolls. Projects total 113 297 including Allamakee county farm to market roads for 13 workers and 2 346 allocated, Buchanan county farm to market roads for 22 workers and 4 660 allocated, Butler county repair water tower at Bristow for 10 workers and 495 allocated, Fayette county clearing and grubbing roads for 102 workers and 14 300 allocated.
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Bede Psn Rel Des Moines
WPA
Iowa
L. S. Hill
Hill
Allamakee
Buchanan County
Butler County
Bristow
Fayette County
South Dakota Judge Upholds Chain Tax Ruling
Mitchell South Dakota AP Judge E B Wagner upheld the annual chain store licensing fee as an occupation tax while ruling the graduated gross sales tax unconstitutional and denying an injunction against collection. The decision notes taxpayers have no remedy to delay tax collection if an adequate alternative exists.
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Wagner
Benner Details Growth as He Challenges Iowa Chain Tax
A. J. Benner of Benner Tea, Burlington Ind, testifies in a federal suit challenging Iowa's chain store tax. He recounts his company expanding from a single store and wagon route in 1899 to a 39 store chain, as three major actions against the tax proceed in Des Moines.
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DES Moines
A. J. Benner
Benner Tea Company
Burlington
Iowa
Benner
Frank S. Shankland
Italy Tightens Restrictions As War Stirs Plans
Italy strengthens economic defenses amid Ethiopian campaign and League sanctions threats. Mussolini decrees meat and fuel limits, promotes self discipline, and urges substitutes for imports. An unofficial boycott targets French goods as nations discuss peace moves in Africa.
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Hasestint
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