NRA Victory Parade Planned In Muscatine County
Arrangements for a NRA victory parade in Muscatine County on or before Monday Sept 4 were started by the Muscatine county NRA committee led by May or Herman B Lord who returned from Des Moines after conferring with the state recovery board.
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Muscatine County
NRA
Muscatine Committee
Herman B. Lord
Des Moines
State Recovery Board
Lord
Shaw
State Board
F. M. Myers
Muscatine
Marengo
U S Aid Sought for Michael Creek District 13
The Muscatine and Louisa counties joint boards request federal funding to clean out Michael creek in drainage district No 13 and to install gravity pipes at Parker's outlet and the lower pumping plant. They seek two thirds of the project cost and aim to reduce maintenance by pumping through gravity lines.
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Joint Boards of Supervisors
Muscatine
Louisa
Michael Creek
Parker's
Michael] Creek
Mortgage on Car Sparks Family Money Moves
A parent reveals paying off a son named Joe’s car loan to clear the mortgage. The following day Joe re mortgaged the same vehicle to raise cash, showing continued financial strain and quick repeated borrowing.
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Joe
Meet Your Own Senator Week Movement Proposal
A dated satirical letter recounts Huey Long being targeted by a man in a dress suit on Long Island and mocks U.S. senators for staying abroad while campaigning. The writer proposes an annual "Meet your own senator week" to force senators to visit their home states.
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Long Island
New York
Huey Long
Huey
Louisiana
U. S
Congress
Senator
U S and Japan Move Warships Toward Foochow
American and Japanese warships head toward Foochow to safeguard nationals as communist forces advance in Fukien province. U S consular authorities seek Asiatic fleet protection while Chiang Kai-shek offers a bounty for communist leaders.
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Foochow
Fukien Province
China
North Fukien
Yenping
Kiening
United States
State Department
Washington
Tulsa
Sacramento
Swatow
Hong Kong
Nanchang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chu Teh
Mao Chetung
Police Chief Hit Long at Long Island Party Denied
The Brooklyn Eagle reports it learned the man who slapped Senator Huey Long at a Saturday night Long Island party was Port Washington Police Chief Steve Webber, a former boxer and Army drill sergeant. Webber denied striking Long when asked.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Brooklyn Eagle
Huey Long
Long Island
Steve Webber
Port Washington
Webber
Long
Second St Paul Cop Wounded in 30000 Holdup
Bandits in a five man raid roped two bank messengers of a 30000 payroll at the South St Paul post office in front of the stockyards bank. Policeman Leo Pavlek was slain and John Yeaman wounded as a smoke screen obscured the getaway car. Witnesses said the bandits used machine guns shotguns and pistols during the raid and fled.
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South St. Paul
Leo Pavlek
John Yeaman
Joseph Hamilton
Herbert Cheyne
Swift Tayroll
Stockyards National Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapolis
Swift and Company
Pavick
Hamilton
Cheyne
Yeaman
Pavlek
Pavlick
Death of Muscatine high school first graduate Miss Sinnett
Miss Sarah Jane Sinnett 84, last surviving member of Muscatine high school class of 1866, died at 7 a m at Octagon Place Bloomington township after two and a half years of poor health. Born November 22 1848 she was daughter of Samuel and Sarah A Sinnett and sister of Samuel T Sinnett. Funeral 2:30 p m Friday at Octagon Place residence with Rev J B Rendall of First Presbyterian Church. Burial Greenwood Cemetery.
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Sarah Jane Sinnett
Muscatine High School
Octagon Place
Bloomington Township
Miss Sinnett
First Presbyterian Church
Hollywood War on Gangland Ties Four Suspects Named
Hollywood leaders install guards as police announce a gang crackdown. Chief James E. Davis forms a gangster squad while Detective Joseph Taylor names Charles Sherman Morris Solivinsky Henry Sherman and Jack Weinstein as murder suspects in the Mackley Keller killings. The slayings are linked to a Moll gang feud with narcotics and machine guns cited at the culprit scene.
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Hollywood
Los Angeles
Harry Mackley
Frank Keller
New York
St. Louis
Filmland
James E. Davis
Detec
Tive Joseph Taylor
Charles Sherman
Morris Solivinsky
Henry Sherman
Jack Weinstein
Mackley-Keller
Morris Moll
Morris Marks
Taylor
Moll
Searcy
Mackley
Keller
Golden State Wreck Death Toll Up to 8
In Tucumcari New Mexico the Golden State Limited wrecked in a flooded arroyo killing eight and injuring more than twenty. A board of inquiry from railroad officials and the New Mexico State Corporation Commission will investigate Tuesday's crash as salvage work begins and assistance reaches hospitals and hotels.
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C. J. Croft
Tucumcari
Improvements to Cedar River Levees to Begin
Muscatine county levee district No. 17 will start the Cedar River levee improvements including repairing flood damage and building a higher levee. Peterson and company of Mt Sterling Indiana won the contract after a special board session with engineer C H Young. about 26 000 yards of moving and 15 acres of clearing work and 6000 yards of fill funded by 1500 federal dollars. The project will take 30 to 40 days and raise the levee roughly three feet above the last flood stage.
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Cedar River
Muscatine County
Board of Supervisors
C. H. Young
Peterson and Company
Mt. Sterling
Young
Weather roundup for Iowa Illinois and Mississippi River regions
Iowa reports generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday with slight warming especially in central and western areas. Illinois forecasts partly cloudy tonight and generally fair and warmer Thursday. Mississippi River readings show St Paul 1.4 rising 0.1, St Louis 1.0 falling 0.7, Cairo 10.3 rising 0.1, Memphis 4.7 falling 0.2.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi River
St. Paul
St. Louis
Cairo
Memphis
Washington Becomes 24th State to Vote Wet
Washington voters backed repeal of the 18th amendment as 316,064 to 132,359 favored wet by precinct totals from 1,924 of 2,682. Delegates chosen by legislative district will meet Oct. 3 to ratify. only one rural eastern district voted dry.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Olympia
J. C. Herbsman
Washington State Emergency Committee
Favorites Win in Golf Meet at Exmoor Country Club
Enid Wilson of England and Virginia Van Wie of Chicago led the favorites into the quarterfinals of the women's national golf championship at Exmoor. The defending champion and other top players advanced with easy triumphs as the field narrowed toward the title.
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Exmoor Country Club
Highland Park
Ill
Enid Wilson
England
Virginia van Wie
Chicago
Exmoor
America
Miss Wilson
Want Ads prove easy way to secure tools and gear
Extra work is easy with the proper equipment as Journal Want Ads promote a quick economical method to find tools. Readers are urged to use the classified section to locate the gear they need for jobs and projects.
Last of Stricken Wilson Family Dies of Typhoid Fever
Warren Wilson six, third child of Elwood and wife, died at University Hospital Iowa City from a virulent typhoid after brothers Joseph four and Allen two died earlier from the same illness. The trio were among five children in the Wilton area stricken last Thursday after suspected tomato poisoning. Funeral services for Joseph and Allen occurred Tuesday at Rochester Methodist Church.
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Wilton
Warren Wilson
Elwood Wilson
University Hospital
Iowa City
Joseph
Allen
Robert E. Neff
Wilson
Muscatine County
Rochester Methodist Church
Tipton
Iowa man fatally shoots wife after party near Le Claire
Bert G. Smith, caretaker at Iowa Tile Works near Pleasant Valley, shot his wife in the head during a fight that followed a drinking party. He confessed, said he planned suicide but failed, and is jailed in Davenport. He cited her threats to leave him and expressed remorse.
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Smith
Scott County
Davenport
Football equipment issued for Muscatine lettermen Thursday
Muscatine high school will issue football suits to major and minor lettermen at the Jefferson building at 10 a m Thursday according to Coach Neal Sands.
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Muscatine High School
Jefferson P
Neal Sands
Two Minneapolis Men Are Killed in Crash Near Boyd
Montevideo Minn. two Minneapolis men Casi mir Laviske 20 and A C Wilson 64 were killed in a head on auto and truck collision near Boyd 12 miles from here late Tuesday. H F Newmann of Minneapolis was critically injured.
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Montevideo
Minn
Casimir Laviske
A. C. Wilson
Minneapolis
Boyd
Here
H. F. Newmann
Newlywed Admits Theft Wins Court Clemency
Lysle Newton 29 admitted larceny in district court for stealing five head of cattle from John Swanson. Judge D W Jackson gave a sentence not to exceed five years at Anamosa reformatory with parole to I M Buser. Swanson was reimbursed. Newton’s marriage followed the offense. neighbors testified to his character.
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Lysle Newton
D. W. Jackson
Newton
Anamosa
I. M. Buser
Brockway Place
Buser
Tak
John Swanson
Conesville
Nichols
West Liberty
Thomas Newton
Swanson
Missouri
Dan Miller
Auto Magnate Still Outside of NRA Fold
The article notes Hugh S. Johnson leading a campaign in Boston while NRA efforts push coal and auto codes. Ford is pressured to join the automobile code, with Henry Ford reportedly set to subscribe or be excluded. Roosevelt seeks a Johnson report on Ford’s enrollment as he considers action before a vacation.
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NRA
Ae Press
Hugh S. Soleo
Blue Eagle
Boston
Reconstruction Corporation
Treasury
General Johnson
Appalachian
Johnson
Henry Ford
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Washington
Mrs. John Hill Taken by Death
Mrs. John C. Hill 49 died at her mother’s home in Mulberry avenue after a year long illness. She came from California with her brother Edward to attend her dying father Edward Barnard who died in 1933. Survived by husband Earl J. Hill son and her mother plus a brother Edward G. Barnard of Wilmington California. Funeral at Barnard residence Friday then First Baptist church with burial at Conesville cemetery.
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John C. Hill
Edward Barnard
Mulberry Avenue
Hill Ca
California
Edward
Olive Barnard
Muscatine
Meyers Funeral Home
Barnard
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Moley
New Associates
Raymond Moley
Roosevelt “Brain Trust
Vincent Astor
W. A. Harriman
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Publishers Syndicate
U.S
Japan
Crown Feld
Death
Sarah Sinnett
Golden State
Board of Inquiry
James Randall
W. H. Varley
Quincy
Varley
F. D. Cook
Southern Pacific Employe
el Paso
Mary Cecilia
Tucson
Ariz
Mary Rosa
Chauncey Depew
Trai
Journal News Service
John Hill
Robert Quillen
Edith
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