Questioning the Kraschel Beh Indictments and Iowa Graft
The piece details an Associated Press analysis of the Kraschel and Beh indictments, alleging forged documents and conspiracy to steer public works funds. It questions misconduct, political interference, and demands accountability from Ickes and federal prosecutors.
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Beh
Ottumwa
State Highway Commission
Des Moines
Associated Press
Iowa
Ickes
Kraschel
Heaven and Earth
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Davenport
United States
Robert W. Colflesh
Des Moiines
Nhile
Washington
Joseph B. Keenan
Associated General Contractors
Interior
Roosevelt
Public Works
Public Works Advisory Board
PWA
Public Works Board
Ottumwa Grand Jury
Public Works Administration
Gravis
Justice Department
Calflesh
Carletom Beh
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Homer Cummings
Department of Justice
Colflesh
Carleton Beh
Kraschel and
Robert W. Calflesh
Southern District of
Southern District of Iowa
Robert Colflesh
Bob Colflesh
Robert Calflesh
United States Department of Justice
Landon Holds Fire At Charleston In Presidential Challenge
The speech tour continues with Wendell Willkie style rebuttals as Landon visits Charleston and Huntington to attack the Roosevelt administration. He argues for agricultural reform within a balanced budget and stronger anti trust laws while promising jobs and a government free of bureaucracy.
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Landon
Gage
Charleston
Huntington
W. Va
St. Louis
Topeka
Independence
Kansas
Madison Square Garden
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Rider
Hamilton
London
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
William F. Bleakley
New York
Charles E. Coughlin
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Urbana High to Stage Annual Carnival and Fall Festival
Urbana High School will host its carnival and fall festival tonight at the school. The event features a program, concessions, seed corn exhibit, quilts, rugs, and baked goods with the Band Booster Club running the refreshment stand. Robert Ford won the prize awarded by Dr. M. E. Dingman for the best essay on "Why I Like Urbana High School" exceeding fifty words.
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Urbana
Urbana High School
Robert Ford
M. E. Dingman
Belle Plaine Business Man J C Maxson Dies Sudden
J C Chet Maxson a Belle Plaine businessman of sixteen years died suddenly Thursday after weeks of ill health. Born December 4 1888 in Shellsburg he had married Laura Ainsworth in 1917. He and wife raised two daughters and were active in the Commerce club and Knights of Pythias. Burial in Linwood Cemetery Cedar Rapids.
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Belle Plaine
J. C
Chet” Maxson
John
Laura Maxson
Shellsburg
Laura Ainsworth
Toledo
Cedar Rapids
Maxson
Wilcox
Commerce Club
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Maxine
Kathrine
Laura Harbert
Nellie Abbe
Center Point
Charles Maxson
Reno
Nev
S. N. Maxson
Minneapolis
Methodist Church
E. I. Selden
Linwood Cemetery
King Edward VIII expresses Spain anxiety in parliamentary address
In a long royal message read for him, King Edward VIII voices concern over events in Spain and condemns the Spanish civil war while praising Anglo Franco American currency cooperation. He notes Britain’s non intervention efforts and reiterates commitment to League covenants and a Locarno treaty, as he prorogues Parliament before openi ng of the new session.
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Edward
Florence Morsbrugh
House of Commons
Dundee
Scotland
Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Spain
Europe
Baldwin
London
INS
Edward VIII
Houses of Lords and Commons
George V
League of Nations
Roosevelt Starts New Tour With Campaign Charge
President Roosevelt opens a new campaign tour in Philadelphia and Wilmington tying social security defense to government action. He claims pay-envelope propaganda aims to wreck social reforms while recalling Lincoln on liberty to rally support.
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Roosevelt
Labor
League
New Jersey
Wilkes-Barre
Camden
Philadelphia
Market Street
Abraham Lincoln
Mollison sets new ocean hop record in solo flight
Mollison completes a west to east Atlantic crossing landing at Newfoundland landfall after ten hours of flight from Wales. He plans to reach Cape Town soon with a London overnight first. He delivers the plane to a buyer in South Africa while his wife Amy Mollison attends him.
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Feuling
Iowa
New Hampton
Wales
Mollison
Newfoundland
Capetown
London
Amy Mollison
Atlantic
Ireland
New Brunswick
Senegal
South Atlantic
Brazil
Connecticut
Scientists Describe Cold Storage Electricity Potential
At a New York gathering of about 1,000 physicists, researchers from General Electric outlined electricity stored at near absolute zero. A lead thread could transmit Niagara Falls energy to San Francisco with minimal loss, and the wire could be as thin as a spider’s web. The phenomenon shows metals losing all resistance around 458 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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New York
Jay Jeffries
E. Q. Adams
General Electric Company
Niagara Falls
San Francisco
St Mary's High elects senior and junior officers
Riverside report lists St Mary's High School senior officers as President Robert Deutsch Vice President William Dautremont Secretary Ruth Rice and Treasurer Donald Schott. Junior officers include President Donald Hotka Vice President Velma Rotenburger Secretary Frances Quinn and Treasurer Wesley Pogge.
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Riverside
St. Mary’s High School
Robert Deutsch
William Dautremont
Ruth Rice
Donald Schott
Donald Hotka
Velma Rotenburger
Frances Quinn
Wesley Pogge
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Board of Education
Sioux City
Guthrie
Bedlam
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Glavis
Louis R. Glavis
Division of Investigations
Interior Department
Nelson G. Kraschel
United States District Attorney
Attorney General’s
Hoover
Ottumwn Grand Jury
Washington, D. C
Gazette
Marcus Aurelius
Democratic
E. J. Feuling
Democratic Party
State Liquor Commission
Cooper
State House
Harold M. Cooper
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Liquor Commission
Edward L. O’connor
Mr. Cooper
The
Clyde L. Herring
Joint Legislative Committee
M. X. Geske
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Geske
H. M. Cooper
Joe Gag
Gagen
Iowa Liquor Commission
John Law
Gene Feuling
Herring
O’connor
Wegman
Maley
State Executive Council
Tes
Fort Dodge
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Alf Landon
Pres. Roosevelt
J. C. Maxson
Wilmington
Lincoln
Delaware
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