Congress Completes Relief Legislation Amid Finance Hearings
Congress moves to complete emergency relief with a $116 million public works package and $45 million for breuth loans while unemployment prompts calls for stronger aid. Senate finance hearings draw attention as Blaine and McFadden push leases reform and probe securities tied to reparations.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Senate
Curtis
Longworth
White House
Hidden Word Contest Winners Named by Muscatine Journal
Clayton Boston wins the first weekly Hidden Word contest tied to the Play Better Bridge promotion. Betty Rausch and Mrs. B. H. Hafner take second and third prizes. eight contestants submitted the correct sentence. Second hidden word contest details follow with same rules.
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Clayton Boston
Holly Street
Muscatine Journal
Betty Rausch
West Eighth Street
B. H. Hafner
L. L. Allen
Spring Street
Alice C Hermann
Lucas Street
Ferne Jerelyn Siegel
Frances Day
West Seventh Street
Nida Koll
East Second Street
Road crews prepare for winter snow removal
Three new road maintainers arrived Friday night and join 11 main maintainers across the county. Three light snowplows purchased recently will be attached to trucks for high speed snow clearing. One test plow operated Friday night satisfactorily and the fleet includes an old plow for a five ton Holt tractor to be mounted on a caterpillar.
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Ma‘ntéiasee Une Gulie
F. P. G. Halbfass
County Aand
Holt
Margaret Beckman Fractures Arm After Icy Fall
Miss Margaret Beckman of 515 Grover street suffered a fracture of her left wrist after slipping on ice and falling while returning home on Friday. The accident also tore ligaments in her knee, marking a second left wrist fracture for her. Previously she was injured near Moscow in a different accident months ago when a car with three others went over an embankment into a creek.
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Margaret Beckman
Grover Street
Miss Beckman
Moscow
Shepard Case Sent 10 Jury In Murder Trial
Final arguments were completed at 12 45 p m in the murder trial of Major Charles A Shepard army medical officer accused of fatally poisoning his wife The case will go to the jury this afternoon A 2 pm recess was taken as Federal Judge Richard J Hopkins said he would charge the jury The district attorney urged conviction but did not demand the death penalty.
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Kansas City
Kas
Charles A. Shepard
Richard J. Hopkins
Sardius M. Brewster
Mercury Falls Eight Degrees Across Muscatine
Temperatures in Muscatine dropped eight to ten degrees from Friday to early today with official reading at 22. Winds came from the south as sun broke through later. River level measured 1.2 feet, down 0.3. Forecast calls for cloudy skies and snow tonight east and south, with slightly colder air in the west and far south areas.
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Muscatine
Heiress Accused in Breakup of Wedded Dance Team
Miss Adele Ryan heiress to Thomas Fortune Ryan’s large estate faces a $500000 suit alleging she seduced Robert Johnston from his wife and caused the end of their married song and dance act. The Johnston couple, once college sweethearts, married in 1923 and later pursued by the heiress across continents.
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New York
Adele Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Muriel Johnston
State Supreme Court
Miss Ryan
Robert Johnston
Ryan
Johnston
Greenwich Village
Mliss Ryan
French Riviera
London
Night Life Club
Prince of Wales
Johnstons
University of California
Berkeley
Calif
Bob
Muriel
Iowa truck crop value reaches 3.44 million in 1930
Iowa’s 1930 commercial truck crops are valued at 3 441 000 dollars, up 2 percent from 1929 despite dry summers. Leslie M. Carl notes higher acreage 76 710 acres versus 66 840 last year, with total production up though average yields and prices fell. Sweet corn dominated 72 percent of acres. total onion value rose to 527 000 dollars with stronger immediate onion prices. Strawberries remain a commercial crop mainly in southern areas.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Carl
United States Department of Agriculture
Three Die in Iowa Mishaps
Three people died and six were injured in separate Iowa accidents on Friday. In DeWitt a car collided head on with a bus injuring Langdon and Hendrickson, both listed in grave condition. Vergil Young suffered a severe arm injury requiring amputation after an accident on his Des Moines area farm.
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Jack Langdon
Chicago
Elna Hendrickson
Vergil Young
St. Charles
Langdon
Miss Hendrickson
Cedar Rapids
Turner
Moline
DeWitt
Clinton
Young
Des Moines
Weather Forecast and River Stages Report
Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with snow in the east and south portions. Slightly colder tonight in the west and extreme south. Generally fair tonight and Sunday, cloudy in the north with snow tonight and near normal temperatures otherwise. Week ahead covers upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and northern central plains with no extreme temperatures and one or two precipitation periods. Davenport 0.8, Muscatine 1.2, Keokuk 0.9 with minor changes.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Davenport
Keokuk
Guzik Freed on Vagrancy Charge in Chicago
Jack Guzik wealthy gambling house proprietor described as business manager for Al Capone was freed when the state failed to prove vagrancy in Judge Edgar Jonas's municipal court. Prosecutors, who had sought jail time, indicated no setback in their fight against public enemies. Also, Danny Stanton lost a habeas corpus bid to block extradition to Wisconsin for trial on a charge of slaying Jack Zuta.
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Chicago
Jack Guzik
al Capone
Edgar Jonas
Guzik
Danny Stanton
Wisconsin
Jack Zuta
Stanton
Edgar Smith
Maines Refuses to Probate Hein Will in Six Heirs Case
Judge W R Maines signed an order Friday refusing to admit the will of H V Hein to probate after Hein's six children and heirs filed to object. The court appointed J L Giesser as administrator with a $500 bond. Fishburn and Fishburn represent the estate.
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W. R. Maines
H. V. Hein
Hein
J. L. Giesser
Fishburn
Senate And the dumb part about it is they have played right into 's hands
Hollywood, Calif., sentence fragment shows a critical view of political strategy, accusing lawmakers of pleasing a chosen audience and implying public manipulation. The snippet hints at a broader anti establishment stance and civic frustration.
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Hollywood
Calif
Senate
City mobilizes workers on Muscatine relief projects
The Y M C A reports 165 men registered for unemployment relief in Muscatine, with 90 added to city crews on South Muscatine and riverfront projects to run through December 24. County plans include road work and brush trimming under supervisor oversight after Christmas, with authorization cards required.
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B. L. Gallaher
South Muscatine
River Front
Progress on Gedney lake bridge and Cedar river road work
Ned Burroughs contractor reports rip rapping completed on the Gedney lake bridge approaches on county road C. work moves to the west approach of the Red Slough bridge on county road W. Rip rap price is 3.25 per ton. Floor pouring underway on a permanent bridge on road R 11 2 miles west of West Liberty with a temporary detour in use.
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Ned Burroughs
Gedney Lake
F. P. G. Halbfass
Red Slough
Cedar River
West Liberty
Two Captains Brothers Dock in Sea Collision Tragedy
Copenhagen reports 45 lives lost when the Finnish liner Oberon collides with the Arcturus off Laso island in thick fog. Oberon sinks with 17 passengers among 45 aboard. Arcturus saves four passengers and 32 crew, many seriously injured.
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Copenhagen
Oberon
Cattegat
Laso Island
Arcturus
Eris Hjelt
Ossi Hjelt
Northeast Iowa Braces for Zero Temperatures Tonight
The United States Weather Bureau warned Northeast Iowa to prepare for zero weather tonight with other areas of the state facing minimums of 5 to 10 above. Snow is expected as temperatures fall.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States Weather Bureau
Farm Bureau Leader Discusses Federal Reserve Board Job
S. H. Thompson, president of the Farm Bureau federation, met with President Hoover to discuss naming a successor to the late Edward Cunningham of Iowa on the Federal Reserve Board.
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Washington
S. H. Thompson
Farm Bureau Federation
Hoover
Edward Cunningham
Iowa
Federal Reserve Board
Noted Scientist Feared Dead After Java Volcano Eruption
Prof Werner Borchardt of the Hamburg Tropical Institute is believed dead after Merapi volcano eruption in Sumatra. A native assistant fled. Borchardt vanished as the party attempted crater observations. Search efforts found no trace. Merapi's eruption reportedly killed about ninety natives and caused mass panic and flight from the area.
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Batavia
Java
Werner Borchardt
Hamburg Tropical Institute
Merapi
Sumatra
Borchardt
Hamburg Institute
Medan
Lucas Admits Using Personal Funds For Campaign Literature
Robert H. Lucas executive director of the Republican National Committee testified he paid about 4000 dollars of his own money for campaign literature aimed at defeating Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. He said he borrowed the funds and still owes 200 dollars, acted without RNC consent and denied pushing religion into the race against Gilbert M. Hitchcock.
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Washington
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Norris
Nebraska
Kentuckian
Internal Revenue
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Nye
George W. Norris
John F. Blackwell
Independen Publishing Company
Blackwell
Broken Heart Kills Mystic Clarifies Death in Poona Cave
In Poona India a coroner ruled death an act of a broken heart induced by belief that God denied him healing power. Brandon a Nashville Tennessee mystic long into occultism and mystic healing died in a cave near an old Hindu temple. Evidence cited herbs potions and magic prayers in his final days.
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Poona
India
Nashville
Brandon
God
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