Iowa Emergency Conservation Funds Under Scrutiny
Audit findings show the emergency conservation fund spent 71 141 on land in the 1935 36 fiscal year with 12 401 in incidental expenses and 18 243 in salaries. A state senator is named for taking 2 224 from the fund, while overall admin costs reached 41 000. The report questions overpricing and governance of the two 500 000 funds and urges further investigation. The article also touches on broader financial policy shifts and SEC leadership remarks by William H. Landis.
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Rae
Iowa Emergency Consert&vation Commission
General Assembly
Herring
Emergency Conservation Fund
I. G. Chrystal
Supreme Court Fight Over Black Klan Ties Deepens
The article reports political and legal turmoil as Senator Wheeler urges an impartial board to examine charges that Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black is a Ku Klux Klan member. Legal challenges to Black’s appointment loom, with court action possible when it reconvenes.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
INS
Hugo Black
Alabama
High Court
Black
Senate
Evidence Of Vote Frauds Forces Jury Adjournment In Kansas City
U S District Attorney Maurice Milligan says new evidence of vote fraud from last November is so extensive the grand jury must halt work and allow federal agents to catch up. The jury will adjourn at noon Friday until October 5 as agents gather more precinct information for trials after indictments. Appeals were filed in six cases following federal convictions.
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Kansas City
U. S
Maurice Milligan
Milligan
Federal Appellate Court
Market Woes Echo 1929 Lessons Across Investor Ranks
The piece quotes Dean Landis cautioning small investors who watched chips skid in 1929, highlighting enduring warnings about market volatility and the dominance of dominant factors shaping stock behavior.
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Dean Landis
Pessimism questioned optimism in cyclic history
A reader asks how to stay hopeful amid dark times. The author argues history moves in spirals of prosperity and collapse, but each fall yields a new rise. Though present days feel grim, long term optimism rests on faith in human resilience and divine steadiness.
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God
Emerson
Legislators Ask Muntz for Report on Iowa Fund
A legislative retrenchment committee ordered Otto S. Muntz to prepare an itemized accounting of expenditures and contributions to the Greater Iowa commission during his chairmanship. G B MacDonald reported emergency conservation fund receipts of 501 320.85 for 1935 37 matching expenditures, with large park land purchases and Civilian Conservation Corps costs among the top outlays.
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Des Moines
Legislative Committee On
Otto S. Muntz
Greater Iowa Commission
G. B. MacDonald
Iowa State College
Emergency Conservation Fund
MacDonald
Frank C. Byers
Cedar Rapids
Muntz
Nelson G. Kraschel
Iowa Centennial Commission
State Planning Board
John H. Mitchell
I. G. Chrystal
Coon Rapids
Leo Elthan
Fertile
State Emergency Conservation Committee
Mitchell
Legislative Committee
Borah Urges Courts Independence Against Roosevelt
Senator William E Borah delivers a coast to coast radio address before 8000 Masons at Constitution Hall warning against any move to alter the Supreme Court or the Constitution. He argues for government of law with independent tribunals and cites dangers of dictatorship and religious or racial intolerance.
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Washington
INS
William E. Borah
Idaho
Constitution Hall
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Tribunals of
Senate Ieceder
Goversave
Goverr Sinatto
Borah
Hugo J. Black
Farm Conferees Homeward Bound
Washington AP reports about 120 state committeemen invited to discuss the 1938 farm program were returning home to explain details to farmers nationwide. AAA leaders say there is general approval of the attempt to tighten crop control on cotton tobacco corn potatoes peanuts and rice through special acreage limits next year.
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Washington
AAA
Eskimo Advice Urges Early Coal and Wood Purchases
Want Ad classification 39 warns readers to order coal or wood now to keep homes warm during cold days. Fuel dealers advertise coal and wood for sale.
U S Ships Obey Arms Embargo From Washington
The S S Wichita and all government vessels will not transport arms or ammunition to China or Japan, complying with President Roosevelt and the State Department policy. The maritime commission announced after talks with officials and a prior unloading incident in San Pedro. Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park as tensions ease and he conferred with ambassadors Dodd and Bingham.
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Washington
S. S. Wichita
China
Roosevelt
U. S. Maritime Commission
Commission
Wichita
San Pedro
Calif
National Maritime Union
State Department
Joseph P. Kennedy
Maritime Commission
United States
Japan
S.S. Wichita
Hyde “Park
N. Y
William “Dodd
Robert W. Bingham
U. S
Germany
Great Britain
Decline in Farm Workers Continues Across Nation
Washington AP reports a two year drop in farm employment with 209 family workers per 100 farms this month, down from 221 a year ago and 231 in 1935. Hired workers total 167, up from 111 a year earlier, as crops boosted July and August activity though the year remains 2 to 6 percent below 1935 totals.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Million Votes Cast in Gotham Primary
New York voters faced heavy police protection as million ballots were counted in a mayoralty primary. The battle split within Tammany Hall, touched off violence near East Side drugstore of Benjamin Brown, with threats against his opponent James J. Dooling. Copeland Mahoney and LaGuardia voted early and left.
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New York
INS
New Deal
Tammany Hall
Democratic Party
Benjamin Brown
East Side
James J. Dooling
State Assembly
Dooling
Brown
Paul Santangelo
Tammany
Joseph A. Greenfield
Royal S. Copeland
Supreme Court
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Johnson warns new deal aims at dictatorship
Gen Hugh Johnson former NRA head told the National Hardwood Association that the new deal seeks a government beyond the Constitution. He warned of court-packing and puppet judges while defending labor rights prices and regulation as essential to democracy. He urged acceptance of the aims of the new deal as a crusade to solve economic needs.
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Chicago
Hugh Johnson
NRA
Supreme Court
Forks of the Creek
Senator Black
Johnson
National Hardwood Association
Johnson attacks Hugo Black appointment to Supreme Court
General Hugh S. Johnson denounces President Roosevelt's selection of Hugo Black for the Supreme Court. He recalls a boyhood bank insult with a dead cat and calls Black a witch burner, narrow and prejudiced, accusing the choice of contempt for the court and legal learning.
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Chicago
INS
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Roosevelt
Hugo Black
United State Supreme Court
Hardwood Lumber Association
Johnson
Black
Supreme Court
Tall corn derby entrant reaches 18 feet
Robert E. Hurd, director of agriculture at the U.S. Indian school in Albuquerque, N.M., entered the tall corn derby with a stalk 18 feet six inches high and still growing.
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Derry
Albuquerque
N. M
Robert E. Hurd
U.S. Indian School
Baseball Scores and Box Reads from National League Matches
National League box scores show New York and Pittsburgh games with mixed results. Listings include pitchers Turner Lepes Lee Reot Lapis Parmelee and Hartnett, plus Brooklyn Cincinnati and Philadelphia with multiple relievers and scorelines.
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Pittsburgh
Isles
Mancuse
Tobin
Boston
Chicago
Turner and Lepes
Lee
Reot
Lapis
Parmelee
Shawn
Hartnett
Unauthorized solicitors collect funds for Iowa hospital pool
AP report states unautho rized house to house solicitors in Washington Iowa and other towns duped residents into contributing to a hydrotherapy pool for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. Staten Browning of Iowa City says no solicitation was approved and gifts go to the committee or Prof. Higbee. pool memorialized by the 1937 graduating class for polio patients.
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Children’s Hospital
Iowa
Washington
Staten Browning
Iowa City
F. G. Higbee
Knudsen says GM UAW deadlock broken by union pledge
William S. Knudsen of General Motors announced that the UAW agreed to curb wildcat strikes and to discuss proposed contract revisions. Homer Martin, UAW president, stated the union would discipline members and seek a 7 hour day and 35 hour week with full bargaining rights in all GM plants. Negotiations were set to begin Friday with formal acknowledgment due Monday.
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Detroit
William S. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Knudsen
Chicago
Homer Martin
UAW
Martin
General Motors
Chicago Board of Trade Moves to Halt Corn Corner Fight
The Chicago Board of Trade acted to block an apparent effort to corner the American corn market. Prices rose as Cargill Grain of Minneapolis and Farmers National Grain Corp were said to be in a dispute over control. The board expelled members failing to honor futures deliveries and ordered member houses to list September corn holdings.
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Chicago Board ‘of’ Trade
Cargill Grain? Company
Minneapolis
National’ Grain ‘Corporation
Board
Thutssday
National
Board of Trade
Indictment Dropped Against Woman In State Jobs Case
Judge Halloran dismissed an indictment against Marguerite Bach 31 who allegedly planned a sale of state jobs. Bach was arrested June 13 on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and had been jailed in Polk County on a $5,000 bond after the chief witness left the state.
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Dubuque County
Linn
Linn Board of Supervisors
Dubuque
Independence
Des Moines
John J. Halloran
Marguerite Bach
Polk County
al Agams
Bach
Chicago Invites Corn Belt's Loudest to Farm Olympiad
Chicago prepares to host the Farm Olympiad at Soldier Field. Corn belt farmers travel to compete in hog calling, poseating pitching, post driving events, with milking, husband calling and rolling pin throwing on the women’s side. A Chicago team earns a spot through trials to face the visitors.
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Chicago
Tony
Soldier Field
Corn Belt
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