Chamber plans November 16 football smoker event
The Chamber of Commerce announces a informal football smoker for November 16 in the meeting rooms. Radio setups will carry the Town Notre Dame game from South Bend and other broadcasts for attendees. The event replaces the fall dinner on the membership meetings schedule and aims for light refreshment and social cheer. Committee members named include Ray L. Short S L Kemper Marvin Wright Joseph Stenner J J Shepard NP Craemer Irwin Wasta and Harry Boyd.
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Ray L. Short
Chamber
Notre Dame
South Bend Ind
Chamater
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Mr. Short
S L. Kemper
Marvin Wright
Joseph Stenner
J J. Shepard
NP Craemer
Irwin Wasta
Harry Boyd
Couple In Waukon Celebrate Golden Anniversary Today
Mr and Mrs George A Waters mark fifty years of marriage with a dinner for about 50 relatives and friends at their Waukon home. The couple wed at the bride’s parents’ home in McIntyre and spent years farming in Mitchell county before moving to Postville and finally settling in Waukon. They have three sons Robert Mark and Burall with relatives including Herbert and Mrs F L Anderson attending.
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Waukon
George A Waters
Lexi Munson
McIntyre
Waters
Robert Waters
Ludlow Township
Mitchell County
Mr. Waters
Postville
Robert
Post Township
Mark
Burall
Austin
Minn
Flynn Sees Willkie Promises Echo Hoover’s
New York AP Democratic National Chairman Edward J Flynn critiqued Wendell Willkie in Chicago, saying Willkie’s promises amount to catching birds in the air and lack details. He noted the Chicago reception occurred in the financial district, where such promises are expected to be heard.
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New York
Edward J Flynn
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicago
Willkie
Hoover
Deaths list notes several funeral services
Leona Johnson 12 dies after two day illness of infantile paralysis. Private funeral at Oak Hill Cemetery 1930 am Monday. James Lonergan services 9 30 am Monday at St Mary church Williamsburg. Rosary 7 30 pm Sunday at Brady mortuary. Warren D Remine 1546 Seventh Ave SE dies at 3 pm Saturday after illness. burial Linwood Cemetery. three survivors listed. Mrs Mary L Bishop requiem high mass 9 am Monday at St Patrick's Church. burial Mt Calvary Cemetery.
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Leona Johnson
Emma Johnson
Second Street NW
Rex Rodney G Gould
James Lonergan
Thomas O'Dowd
St. Mary Church
Williamsburg
Brady Mortuary
Marengo
Warren D. Remine
Warren D Remine
Seventh Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Presbyterian Church
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Nan
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Michel
Green Bay
Wis
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Center Point
Charles
Waterloo
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Los Angeles
Moon Chapel
E J Wykle
Linwood Cemetery
Mary L. Bishop
St. Patrick's Church
D J Lenihan
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Ninth Street
Spending Tops Revenues 4 This Year Says Byrd Warns
Senate debate centers on a projected $25 billion in expenditures against about $6.6 billion in revenues this fiscal year. Byrd urges a financial preparedness program to avert a potential bankruptcy and criticizes non military cuts. Harrison cites expected yield from the excess profits tax and tax rate increases. Byrd supports reform to prevent a collapse of the financial system.
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van Saturday
Senate
Congress
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Pat Harrison
Finance Committee
Bankhead Dies After Illness in Baltimore
Speaker Bankhead dies from a ruptured blood vessel in the abdomen after weeks of illness. Illness began Tuesday night in Baltimore. his daughter Tallulah Bankhead and wife were among those at his bedside. Bankhead served in Congress since 1917 and was elected Speaker in 1936, the second Speaker to die in session.
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Trapper Confesses to Killing Mate in South Dakota
Royal West, 29, a trapper, admitted killing fellow trapper Ralph Kinsey during a religious dispute near Pollock. He carried Kinsey's body in his car for two days while traveling to sell coyotes at Lemmon and a rodeo appearance, then disposed of the body in the Missouri River.
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Royal West
Fred Searls
West
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Lemmon
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Missouri River
London Bombardments and Aftermath Rock Britain’s Defenses
RAF foiled three thrusts at London as heavy raids battered the city for eight days. Boulogne Calais Dunkerque Ostend Antwerp were bombed. Westminster and St Pauls suffered, many lives and homes lost while London ferried through in shelters. A northwest town endured severe damage during daylong attacks with casualties feared.
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Bugs Urges Hokum Style Campaign Rhetoric
In a satire by Arthur Baer called Bugs, the piece mocks modern campaigning urging a return to blunt attack politics and old time tactics. It contrasts aggressive rhetoric with the idea that opposing sides can be wrong and calls for more direct, combative exchanges. The column ends noting 1935 Turkey census figures.
Hartzell Spence Iowa Grad Sells Book To Movies
Warner Brothers announced the purchase of One Foot In Heaven The Life of a Practical Parson by Hartzell Spence of the New York United Press staff. The biography, about his father, will be published next month after spirited bidding by film producers. Spence graduated from the University of Iowa in 1930. His name was Mason City.
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Mason City
Campaign probes study taints of slush fund and political coercion
Committee findings report affidavits of state employee solicitations for Gov. Stark's campaign and urge remedial legislation to prevent intimidation. Investigations span Missouri auctions for Senate seat, Delaware and New Jersey registration padding, and past Democratic targets in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Frank Hague
Morris Sheppard
Tex
Kentucky
A. B “Happy” Chandler
Alben W. Barkley
Crump Machine
Driver Held After Accident On Bridge
J W Burgess 68 of 1720 Center Point Road N E was arrested on an open charge after an accident on the First Avenue bridge in front of Memorial Coliseum around 7 p m Saturday. Mary Kennedy 7 sustained glass cuts while in a car driven by Raymond Kennedy.
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Center Point Road
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Memorial Coliseum
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Kennedy
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Davis
Venus Near Sun Hidden When Closest to Earth
Venus is invisible at its nearest approach due to the Sun’s glare. Astronomers explain the planet’s proximity makes it indistinguishable from the solar glare, preventing observation during this period.
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Venus
Willkie Attacks Roosevelt in Illinois Campaign Tour
Willkie pressed his charge that Roosevelt packed the supreme court and failed to defend democracy at home. He argued fear of a third term and warned of rising debt as he toured Illinois with debater rhetoric and calls for debates. He stressed the need to rebuild domestic economy and deficits. He appealed to Lincoln era echoes in Galesburg and outlined a lengthy western itinerary.
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Illinois
France
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Galesburg
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago
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Supreme Court
Romanian King Mihai Reunites With Exiled Mother Helen
At Jimbolia border station Mihai now 18 and Princess Helen meet after ten years in exile. The formal scene shows the sober king in a general’s uniform greeting Helen the Greek princess and mother at the border.
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Mihai
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Jimbolia
Navy can take draftees but prefers volunteers
The Burke Wadsworth bill allows Navy enlistment of draftees, but the service does not need them now. The Navy, smaller than the Army under defense plans, has over 8,000 would-be recruits on a waiting list and a filled quota. It may draft some for a year of training to build a reserve, but it favors four year volunteers for retention.
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Washington
INS
Navy
Army
Congress
Willkie Silent and Politically Charged Stop Draws Crowd
Theodore Bailey cites a 15 000 to 18 000 turnout at the Willkie stop in Washington county. Governor Wilson and Rep Clifford Hope speak in Fairfield urging support to “save the country from the wreckage of the New Deal” ahead of the Oct 13 Festhorn celebration.
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Washington County
Republican
Halleck
Willkie
Washington
Maple Crest
Wellman
Willkies
Robert Wiley
Ward Essley
Andrew Kelso
Robert Godlove
Fairfeld
Fairfield
Wilson
Clifford Hope
Kan
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa City
Martin
Hope
Kansas
Repair Agent Suspect In Theft Of New Sewing Machine
Detectives investigated theft of Mrs. Charles Ray's virtually new sewing machine from her kitchen on Thirty-third Street NE. The machine valued at 108 dollars disappeared Thursday evening between 6 30 and 11 p m while the residence was unlocked. One machine linked to the suspect was found at a pawn shop and had been promised for repair.
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Charles Ray
Thirty-third Street
Paper Calls London Damage Staggering
New York PM dispatch from Washington reports the London area damage to military objectives is far higher than British communiques indicate and calls the losses staggering. The PM cites information not previously available.
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New York
Washington
London
Rumania Forms Totalitarian Iron Guard State
General Ion Antonescu announced a decree establishing an iron guard led state with the Iron Guard as the sole Romanian political party. He named himself chief of state premier and minister of national defense. Horia Sima became vice premier.
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Sub Nets Laid In San Francisco Bay
Submarine nets are being laid in San Francisco Bay off Tiburon near Marin County shore of the Golden Gate. The nets are described as fairly permanent and the work was disclosed Saturday by officials.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Tiburon
Marin County
Golden Gate
Unearthed Remains Shipped, Bound in Bay Sections
A fragmentary report notes remains secured in the bay in separate sections and fastened together by shackles. The discovery details remain unclear with limited readable context.
Navy spokesman doubts San Francisco nets for precautionary pose
A navy spokesman said on Saturday night there is doubt nets are being laid in San Francisco Bay for precautionary purposes. He noted a net assembly point at Tiburon and suggested current operations likely involve underwater net assembly rather than land work.
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Washington
A_ navy
San Francisco Bay
Tiburon
Bay
Jones Confirmed as Commerce Secretary in 1940s
The Senate confirmed Jesse H. Jones as secretary of commerce to succeed Harry Hopkins. Congress had approved legislation allowing Jones to hold the cabinet post while retaining his role at the Federal Loan Administration.
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Senate
Jesse H. Jones
Commerce
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Jones
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