Bank Accounts of Herring Kraschel Feuling Exposed
The Cedar Rapids Gazette details bank losses charged off against Herring and Kraschel tied to notes from Herring Motor and Gibson Motor companies. It traces cash deposits, safe deposits, mortgage payoffs, and currency payments by Gov. Clyde L. Herring, Nels Kraschel, and others, questioning sources of funds and urging enforcement of law over graft and corruption.
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Bankers’ Trust Company
Des Moines
Herring Motor Company
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa-Des Moines National
Herring
Iowa
Gibson Motor Company
C. L
Pearl S. Herring
Iowa-Des Moines
Nels
Kraschel
Feuling
Cooper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Wage-Tax Move Under New Deal Cuts Paychecks
The Employer's Wage-Tax Protection league declares a flat deduction will start January 1, not hidden tax but in-spot cash. It states the law blocks future pay raises by forcing employers to pay the government cash equal to payroll deductions. A table shows cuts from 50 cents weekly on a $200 monthly income to $1.50 weekly by 1949, totaling $2,520 over 40 years. Governor Alf Landon pledges to amend the act to share the burden more evenly if elected.
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League
Alf M. Landon
Pacific strike ties up ships across West Coast
Secretary Perkins said union reps on the Pacific coast agreed to resume settlement talks. The coastwide maritime strike halted about 150 vessels in coast ports, disrupted cargo, and threatened 20,000 more idle workers amid delayed mail and passenger plans. Seattle, San Pedro, and Honolulu ports reported heavy tieups as emergency steps were planned.
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Washington
Perkins
West Coast
New York
San Francisco
San Diego
Seattle
Atlantic
Gulf Marine Commerce
Alaska
Hawaii
North Pacific
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
San Pedro
West Coast Lumbermen’s’ Association
Oregon
International Seamen’s Union
London
Peter N Lane 85 Dies in West Liberty Home
Peter N Lane age 85 died Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Morrison where he had lived for several months He was born September 11 1851 in Wapsie township son of John G and Jane Brisbane Lane He never married and spent years living alone on the land his father homesteaded
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West Liberty
Peter N. Lane
Charles Morrison
Wapsie Township
John G
Jane Brisbane Lane
Madrid bombardment sparks loyalty militant mood for Toledo strike
After a brutal Madrid raid casualties rose to 125 killed and 200 wounded with many women and children among the dead. Nationalists bombed Malaga while threats to strike Talavera de la Reina Salamanca and Seville target suspected arms ships. Government seized 22 merchant vessels. Hospitals overflowed. morgues and radios sought missing relatives. Planes flew so high many citizens barely heard the blasts.
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Talavera de la Reina
Salamanca
Seville
Madrid
Malaga
Toledo
Getafe
Stork Derby Ends Amid Legal Bids and Chaos in Toronto
Toronto one day spectacle as Charles Vance Millar’s ten year 750000 baby derby closes with six women and nine children each in dispute. three expectant mothers jump into the scramble to gain a final advantage. government plans to curb legal fights as Premier Hepburn weighs new legislation.
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Toronto
Charles Vance Millar
Millar
Ontario
M. F. Hepburn
Roy Allen da Foe
Charley
Peter Rosas
Martin Kenny
Grace Bagnato
Catalonia Mobilizes 200000 More Men After Coastal Attack
In Barcelona area on Saturday Catalonia ordered 200000 additional troops after a nationalist attempt to land along the coast. A defense decree ordered urgent fortifications and mass transport to move loyalist militiamen to key points. A nationalist cruiser fired on Rosas bay near the French frontier, prompting the mayor to raise a 70-man volunteer force with ten machine guns.
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Barcelona
Spain
Catalonia
Ministry of Defense
Catalonian
Rosas Bay
Rosas
Landon denounces New Deal appeals at campaign rally
Governor Landon tours Ohio Kentucky and Missouri arguing against an all powerful federal government and the New Deal. He questions voters on liberty and economic security, urging support for a return to the American way and planning an election eve broadcast from Topeka.
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America
Maysville
Landon
Huntington
Congress
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Topeka
Roosevelt silent on NRA intentions at New York rally
President Roosevelt spoke to a 4,000 crowd on a special train trip from Washington, praising social security and NRA cooperatives while avoiding a stance on a future NRA. He rebutted Republican attacks and highlighted support for social security, noting 77 House Republicans and 15 Senators backed it. Lehman followed with remarks on old age pensions and unemployment insurance.
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Landon
House
Senate
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
Alany
Queen Mary Confined By Cold At Marlborough House
London report says Queen Mary widow of George V aged 69 is kept indoors at Marlborough House with a cold. Doctors say illness not serious but could keep her from attending the first state opening of parliament by her son Edward VIII next Tuesday.
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London
Mary
Marlborough House
George V
Buckingham Palace
Edward VIII
Miss Viola Erger Leaves Mercy Hospital for Chicago
Miss Viola Erger 1040 Third Avenue SE resigns as night supervisor at Mercy Hospital to pursue obstetrics study at Chicago Lying-In hospital starting Monday. Also, Mrs Monicta Edaburn 38 of 720 Central Avenue Marion fractured her left wrist after a fall, taken to St Luke's Hospital for treatment.
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Viola Erger
Third Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
Fire at Petersen Baking ruins rubbish cart. minor house fire follows
Firemen extinguished a blaze in a rubbish cart at the Petersen Baking company located at 306 Sixth Avenue SE at 7 44 p m on Friday. Earlier a spark from a chimney set the roof of a home at 1011 Second Avenue SW occupied by Glenn Darrow. Damage described as slight.
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Petersen Baking Company
Sixth Avenue SE
Glenn Darrow
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids woman given suspended stop sign sentence
Constance Watkins of Cedar Rapids received a $10 suspended sentence in Justice A S Reed's court Friday for failing to stop at a stop sign on highway 161 south of here. She was issued a summons Wednesday by State Patrolmen Hallgren and Martin. The piece also notes upcoming mission talks by Rev Ray P Adams and other small court updates including Frank Du Bois pledging not guilty to intoxication and disturbing the peace, with a case continued, and Leo Pence fined $10 for intoxication.
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Constance Watkins
Cedar Rapids
Frank du Bois
Ottumwa
Leo Pence
Sixth Street
Mrs. Sherrard to Represent A N Palmer at Minnesota Ed Assn
Mrs. H. E. Sherrard of 130 Twentieth Street NE will leave Sunday for St Paul to represent the A N Palmer company at the Minnesota Educational Association convention, set for November 5 6 and 7.
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H. E. Sherrard
Twentieth Street
St. Paul
A. N. Palmer Company
Minnesota Educational Association
Held For Investigation In Wisconsin City
Earl Woods or Earl Weston of Glenwood City Wisconsin is held in the city jail for investigation after an arrest Friday evening when he came to the police station seeking lodging and acted peculiarly. He carried several letters in his pocket addressed to the state hospital at Mendota Wisconsin.
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Earl Woods
Earl Weston
Glenwood City
Wis
State Hospital
Mendota
Traffic fines from Saturday police court session
W R Misner of 1714 F avenue NE paid $5 plus costs for failing to stop at a school sign. Don L Swartout of 1421 First avenue E received a $2 suspended fine on payment of costs for not halting at a stop sign. M H Curtis of 123 Third street NE was fined $1 and costs for parking in an alley and paid $1 plus costs for overtime parking. Mrs J R Haney of 2220 Upland drive SE J E Burns of Des Moines and E H Pottle of 3100 E avenue NE were listed in the report.
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W. R. Misner
F Avenue NE
Don L. Swartout
First Avenue E
M. H. Curtis
Third Street NE
J. R. Haney
Upland Drive
J. E. Burns
Des Moines
E. H. Pottle
E Avenue
Salvation topic outlines sevenfold grace in Maine lodge talk
Adlai Loudy Bible lecturer spoke Friday night in the Maine lodge I O O F hall at 838 First Avenue E on Salvation. He announced Sunday meetings at 3 p.m. and 7 45 p.m. with topics What Is Our Hope and Faithful Steward ship of Gods Secrets. Open to the public.
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Ransom Adlai Loudy
Maine Lodge
I. O. O. F. Hall
First Avenue E
Loudy
Italy to Double Naval Personnel Amid Mediterranean Tension
Rome authorities said Italy plans to double its naval personnel from 60,000 to about 100,000. The move aims to counter Britain’s rearmament and keep Italy’s fleet ratio aligned with the British in the Mediterranean, alongside plans to expand the war fleet.
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Rome
Italy
England
Mediterranean
Britain
Wegman Attacks Gazette Editor At Iowa City Rally
At a Democratic rally in Iowa City Leo Wegman accused Cedar Rapids Gazette editor Verne Marshall of assembling witnesses to back graft charges against the state administration. Wegman defended the executive council's probe into the graft as legal and said Marshall spread his own hallucinations through his columns.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Zioncheck Marshall
Iowa
Leo Wegman
Wegman
State Executive Council
Sioux City
Marshall
Woodbury County
Horace Havner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Supreme Court
Havner
Grand Jury
State of Iowa
Republican State Central Committee
George A. Wilson
Senate
Rural teachers institute set for Friday in Washington county
In Washington county a rural teachers institute will be held Friday November 20 at the county courthouse. University of Iowa speaker Pearl Ritter and Iowa State Teachers college’s F E Fuller will address the gathering. An evening program is planned for town teachers of the county.
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Washington, Ia
Washington County
Pearl Ritter
University of Iowa
F. E. Fuller
Iowa State Teachers College
Editor Declares Marshall Lied in Iowa Campaign Denunciations
Iowa political uproar centers on Verne Marshall accusations against state officials. A Democratic counterattack accuses Marshall of fabrications and ties to racketeers, challenging the Republican campaign's methods and urging voters to judge by records and conduct.
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Verne Marshall
Iowa
George Wilson
Republican State Central Committee
Du Pont Blames Roosevelt for Money Misuse
Lammot du Pont, head of E I du Pont de Nemours and Liberty League ally, urged voters to oust the Roosevelt administration in favor of Lan don and pro-Landon Congress candidates. He charged the New Deal with worsening unemployment, higher taxes, deflation, and class conflict, calling Roosevelt careless with money as government spending outpaced revenue.
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Philadelphia
INS
Lammot du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company
American Liberty League
Alfred M. Landon
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
du Pont
Roosevelt
Halloween vandalism arrests stagger Cedar Rapids youths
Police detained about 35 boys Friday night after Halloween vandalism in Cedar Rapids. Eggs shattered a resident’s porch and a fire was started against a hotel entrance as postfixes from Hill Park were uprooted. One youth was ordered to report to a probation officer. Parents retrieved their children as cars freed to take them home.
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Cedar Rapids
Louis Dvorak
Eighteenth Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Stanley Jonas
Hill Park
Roosevelt High School
Robert Vlach
Purses and Money Stolen From Office and Two Residences
The report details thefts across three locations. Mrs. Kenneth Madden’s purse containing $35 vanished from Dr. Pfeiffer’s office between 4 and 5 p.m. Friday. Mrs. Iola Davis lost $22.83 from cash on a piano Thursday. an unlocked door aided the loss. Two men allegedly took $12 from Mrs. George Goodwin’s coin purse around midnight Friday, seen entering her room by neighbor Art Wilson.
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Kenneth Madden
Carroll Drive
H. E. Pfeiffer
Merchants Bank
Madden
Iola Davis
Tenth Avenue SE
George Goodwin
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Hollywood Actor Becomes Heir To Mine Stock Fortune
Hollywood actor Robert Cummings, once a struggling star, inherits a 1.6 million dollar fortune from old gold mining stock found in the family trunk. The stock, bought for 80 thousand dollars seven years ago in Goldfield Nevada, rose after a strike and a $20 million mine sale to a New York syndicate. Cummings and his mother, Ruth K. Cummings of Joplin Missouri, will share the proceeds after the syndicate traced the holdings.
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Hollywood
Robert Cummings
Movietown
Cummings
Ruth K. Cummings
Joplin Mo
Cc. C. Cummings
Nev
Dr. Cummings
New York
Legion Commander Condemns Post For Entering Politics
DES MOINES Iowa G M Brown of Whiting Iowa commander of the Iowa department of the American Legion said Saturday he learned a Legion post in the Fourth district urged support for a candidate for congress and condemned the opposing candidate. He regrets any post would take part in partisan politics in violation of the Legion constitution which forbids campaign activity. Brown noted a letter signed by the post adjutant endorsing a congressman had been circulated through the mails.
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DES Moines
G. M. Brown
Whiting
Iowa
Iowa Department of the American Legion
Legion
Fourth District
Congress
Brown
Politi
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H. M. Cooper
Nels Kraschel
Democratic State Central Committee
Gene Pomee
Democratic Campaign
Executive Council
Gene Feuling
Gene
Pacific Strike
NRA
Gram
Ashington
al Smith
Mr. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Ray P. Adams
Japan
China
Sunshine Mission
T. J. Hinkin
Lynch
Warrior
Bert Rollinger
Fort Madison
Rollinger
Warrior Hotel
Bollinger
South Dakota
Tru-Art
State Printing Board
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