Political clashes over county relief funding in Iowa
A Davenport city and Scott County clash reveals state and federal aid strings. Gov Kraschel seeks control of county relief administration, sparking legal battle after a relief official resigns. Flynn's analysis warned that federal relief spurs a false boom. The editorial ends with reflective rider on a quiet Iowa day and road hazards.
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Pox County
Kraschel
Board of Supervisors
Des Moines
J. C. Pryor
Hull Urges Legion to Fight Subversives at Convention
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the American Legion national convention that veterans must combat foreign influence at home and uphold American ideals. He urged enlightened nationalism and peace as core goals, saying the United States cannot ignore international law violations while pursuing war avoidance.
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New York
INS
Cordell Hull
America
United States
American Legion
Hull
U. S
Silveverj
Govere
The
Aan
Legionnaires
Roosevelt
Legion
Legionaires
Mediterranean Sea
Notable Basketball Scores and Player Listings From Detroit and New York
A compact roundup lists multiple late season basketball scores with team abbreviations and player names. Entries reference Detroit New York Chicago Brooklyn St Louis and Boston lineups with scores and player mentions such as Wade Gomes Dickey Melton Brews Hubbell and Mancuse.
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Detroit
New York
Wade
York
Gomes
Dickey
Louis
Melton
W. Brews
Hubbell and
Mancuse
Welland
Harrell
Blake and Bremer
Ogredowski
Colorado Supreme Court Refuses Probe of Attorney Ben Laska
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday refused to order an independent investigation into the guilt or innocence of Ben B. Laska, a Denver attorney, convicted of conspiracy to violate the Lindbergh kidnapping law.
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Denver
Colorado Supreme Court
Ben B. Laska
Eagle Typographers Back State Board Arbitration
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle workers backed a plan by the state mediation board to arbitrate a strike by editorial and business office staff. The Eagle chapel of Typographic Union No. 6 approved the resolution on Monday.
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New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
State Mediation Board
Eagle Chapel of Typographic Union No
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A reader describes a slow journey home, noting a freight car struggle up a hill and opinions on laws. The ride ends with a student’s home life mentioned as the baby teeths while a parent hopes for rest tonight.
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John
Mankiller Bend
Divorce's toll on children in fiction and life
The piece surveys fifty years of fiction and real cases showing how divorce splits children’s lives. It cites E. M. Delafield and Sigrid Undset, contrasts contrasting outcomes, and notes how parental conflict breeds harm, even when remarriage follows.
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E. M. Delafield
Lewis calls CIO chiefs to Atlantic City confab
John L. Lewis announced a CIO union heads conference in Atlantic City on October 11. The move appears tied to pressure from the AFL Denver convention set to open October 4. The meeting will involve presidents and executives of all CIO affiliated unions to review organization work and policies.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
CIO
Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
Denver
Colo
William Green
A. F. of L
Mason-Dixon Line
Sir Hubert Wilkins In Arctic Search Unreported
Sir Hubert Wilkins and four companions, chasing six missing Russian flyers, were unreported after a Sunday landing on a lake near Aklavik. Heavy weather hindered a landing at Aklavik, and a radio message noted plans to return to New York.
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Ottawa
Ont
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Arctic
Aklavik
P.m
Transport Department
Sir Hubert
New York
Grasshoppers Stop Flying Over Nebraska Over Weekend
Hoppers rest in Lincoln Nebraska as grasshopper flights appear to have ceased statewide after swarms filled the air over the weekend.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Impeachment Threats Rise Over Black Klan Ties
Rep. Samuel Pettengill predicts an impeachment attempt against Justice Hugo L. Black in the next Congress unless Black denies Ku Klux Klan membership. Pettengill, retiring Indiana Democrat, says supporters will press the move amid Roosevelt reforms and a looming Pacific coast trip by the President.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Alamada
Rep
Samuel
Pettengill
Hugo L. Black
Ku Klux Klan
Indiana
House
Congress
Public Utility
Black
G Men Probe Source Of Narcotics Used By Miss Warburton
Federal agents opened an inquiry into the death of Mary Brown Warburton heiress granddaughter of John Wanamaker to trace the narcotics supply found in her Park Avenue apartment. Maj Garland Williams led the Narcotics Bureau team collecting prescription transcripts from the city toxicologist as detectives said no suspicion yet.
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New York
Mary Brown Warburton
John Wanamaker
Maj
Garland Williams
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
City Toxicologist
Miss Warburton
Park Avenue
Benjamin Sullivan
Franco Threatens to Oust British Consuls in Basque Cities
General Francisco Franco demanded the British embassy pull its consuls from Bilbao Santander and San Sebastian and warned he would expel them if the withdrawal was not carried out. He spoke from the Franco-Spanish frontier region of Hendaye.
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Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Bilbao
Santander
San Sebastian
Roosevelt to make western trip stop in Cheyenne next Friday
President Roosevelt outlined his two week 6 000 mile western tour starting Wednesday with a first public appearance in Cheyenne Wyoming Friday morning He will also visit Wendover Casper Gardner Yellowstone Boise Owyhee Dam and Bonneville Dam with a Canada side trip planned The only major speech is at Bonneville Dam Oregon on September 28 The trip ends in two weeks and includes a private car return to Ontario Montana station stopover details released by temporary White House offices.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
S .Supreme Court
White House
Canada
Victoria
British Columbia
C.S.T
Washington
Wendover
Casper and
Gardner
Yellowstone National. Park
Boise
Ida
Owyhee Dam
Ontario,Mont
Bonneville Dam
Oregon
Rain Pushes Forest Fire Toward Control at Warren Idaho
Rain after a Sunday night storm aided fire crews in bringing under control a forest blaze near Warren Idaho that threatened the tiny village of about 250 residents. Weather and efforts limited spread by Monday.
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Warren
Idaho
Folsom Prison Riot Wounds Warden and Guard Captain
Warden Clarence Larkin and Guard Captain William J. Ryan were badly wounded as a prison riot at Folsom State Prison left one guard and two convicts dead and several others injured. Seven convicts, led by Clyde Stevens, seized Ryan’s office using improvised weapons.
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Folsom Prison
Calif
INS
Clarence Larkin
William’ Ryan
Sacramento
Folsom State Prison
Folsom
Clyde Stevens
Bennie Kucharski
H. F E. Martin
William J. Ryan
Wallace Revamps Soil Conservation Plan for 1938
Secretary Wallace announced a revamped soil conservation program for 1938 with goals and quotas for soil depleting crops. The plan aims to balance production and maintain prices, reducing harvested acres to about 275 to 290 million with flexible targets.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Agricultural ‘Adjustment Administration
Gurphus
Grain Belt Farmers Buy Heavy Run Of Range Cattle
Grain belt farmers crowded Omaha livestock yards for a heavy stocker and feeder run from Nebraska sandhills and Wyoming and Colorado ranges. Buyers purchased many loads of stock steers at 10 dollars per hundredweight, stock steers calves at 9.25, and heifers at 8.25, with buyers from as far as Pennsylvania joining locals.
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Omaha
Nebraska Sandhills
Wyoming
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Heywood Patterson Gets Execution Stay in Scottsboro Case
The Alabama Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for Heywood Patterson, a 75 year sentence convict in the Scottsboro rape case, pending the U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Heywood Patterson
Scottsboro
United States Supreme Court
Davenport Taverns Begin Cerbing Sale Of Liquor By Drink
Davenport Iowa AP report notes most local taverns refuse to sell hard liquor by the drink to all patrons. County Attorney Leon A Grapes says a letter from Attorney General John Mitchell prompted action. Sheriff Walter Beuse and Police Chief fem Kelly plan a Monday night conference to curb liquor violations and drive to dry up hard liquor sales. Mayor Merle F Wells had stated beer license holders could sell hard liquor by the drink if they handled state store sales as required.
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Davenport
Merle F
Leon
Grapes
John Mitchell
Walter
Beuse
Fem
Kelly
Liquor’ Control - Act
Merle F. Wells
Woman Sues Wealthy Heir in Maintenance Fight
Mrs Mayme Masters Ryan files a maintenance suit in Cheyenne against Thomas Fortune Ryan heir of a New York family alleging intolerable indignities desertion and failure to provide support in the case filed Monday.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
INS
Mayme Masters
Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan
New York
Resignation Accepted at Iowa Livestock Marketing Corp
George Bruington, manager of the Iowa Livestock Marketing Corp, resigned after an investigation found policies not in accord with the board. Earl Elijah, the acting manager, said Bruington’s resignation was accepted on Aug 6 after joint probes by the corporation and Iowa Farm Bureau. Bruington now runs cattle operations in Monmouth, and a permanent manager will be chosen soon.
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Iowa . Livestock, Marketing Corporation
George Bruington
Earl Elijah
Clarence
Bruington
Francis Johnson
Monmouth
Elijah
Youth from Cedar Rapids Found Dead by Own Action
A Cedar Rapids youth registered at a Kansas City hotel as Leo Rubek and was found dead in his room from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Deputy coroner James Gleeson labeled the death as death by own action. A note to his parents accompanied the scene, and a .32 caliber pistol lay beside the body.
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Kansas City
Leo Rubek
Cedar Rapids
James Gleeson
John J. Rubek
Sixth Street
British Envoy Rejects Evacuation Request From Nanking
Reported talks in Washington detail British Ambassador Howe rejecting an immediate evacuation of British nationals from Nanking amid Japan's threat to raze the city. The State Department outlined Tokyo would be held responsible for any harm to Britons or property.
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Peiping
INS
Howe
Nanking
Japan
Tokio
Washington
Salto
Department
Secretary of
Moore
Saito
Tokyo
State Department
Johnson
Legionaire Reflects On Veteran Life In Parade Scene
The piece portrays a Doughboy aged and heavier yet unchanged in spirit as the Legion parade plans echo a barn dance. The narrator notes decades since 1917, mentions wine and cognac as lubrication, and hints at ration ties if tomorrow’s paper is missed.
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Legion
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