Snarls Threaten Pending Bills
Washington AP Senate faces filibuster threats against the Glass banking bill and a defic iency measure as March 4 looms. House discusses processing taxes on farmer commodities to fund tax refunds and aid the producer, with Huey Long's filibuster paused. McKellar seeks board approval before refunds are paid.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Louisiana
Huey Long
Senator McKellar
Dimocrat
Tennessee
McKellar
Board of Tax Appeals
Welfare meeting reviews relief efforts and agency role
Public is invited as the Muscatine Welfare Association reports 304 families on relief totaling 4543.53 dollars. Four cases were sent to hospitals in Iowa City and Mt Pleasant, plus one juvenile case. The board discusses the agency’s shift from long term self sufficiency to emergency aid and coordination with city services.
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Cial Service Department
The
Muscatine Welfare Association
University of Iowa Hospital
Psycopathic Hospital
State Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Welfare Association
Dickinson says farm bill is dead in house wrangle
In a heated session the house debated amendments to the farm bill with provisions for five commodities wheat cotton hogs tobacco rice dairy peanuts. Chairman Jones pushed to remove peanuts and warned of a separate roll call if needed while backers argued the dairy and peanut choices keep the measure viable.
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Rainey
Jones
House
Beam
Illinois
Agriculture Committee
Representative Rainey
Japanese Seize Jehol Gateway as War Moves North
Japanese troops drive toward Jehol from Shanhaikwan using Manchurian forces pledged to Manchukuo. Tokyo asserts rights to make demands after protesting Chinese actions. Reports say 10,000 Japanese soldiers advancing into Lingyuan with artillery and cavalry, plus a landing at Chinwangtao.
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Tashih
Shanhaikwan
Jehol
Chiumenkow
Japan
Manchuria
Tokyo
China
Peiping-Shanhaikwan
Foreign Office
Tientsin
Peiping
Shanghai
Lingyuan
Suichung
Chinwangtao
Postal Receipts Fall to 1921 Low Mark
W. S. McKee local postmaster reports 1932 postal receipts for Muscatine at $76,335.58, down from 1931 by $15,752.35 and the lowest annual total since 1921. In 1932 the Muscatine post office took in $76,335.58 versus $92,087.93 in 1931, and receipts on December 31, 1921 were $73,860.04, McKee notes.
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W. S. McKee
Muscatine
McKee
Infection Threatens Young Mathewson
Physicians voiced grave concern for Christopher Mathewson Jr. after a Sunday airplane crash that killed his bride. Reports indicate a feared infection in his left leg and a compound fracture in his right arm may threaten his recovery.
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Shanghai
Christopher Mathewson, Jr
Drastic Tax Cuts Proposed in Senate
The Senate debated a set of measures including a lame duck amendment to the federal constitution by Senator O P Myers of Jasper county, Senate joint resolution No. 4, and bills by Senators Homer Hush of Essex and John N Calhoun of Keosauqua on gopher tax and a drainage bond. Petitions pressed for chain store taxes and liquor enforcement, while House actions covered clerk staffing and contest committees. The session adjourned to 10:30 a m Thursday.
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O. P. Myers
Jasper County
Senate
Homer Hush
Essex
John N. Calhoun
Keosauqua
van Buren County
Paul H. Anderson
Harcourt
Bremer
Wayne
Guthrie
Humboldt
Marion
Webster
Adair
Wapello
Allamakee
Winterset
Decatur
Marshalltown
Jackson
Lyon
Monroe
Fremont
Boone
House
Fred Augustine
Ringgold County
Lewis Harver
Paul I. D. Ostby
Worth County
Miller
I. M. Reed
Mahaska
James Burgess
Woodbury
E. H. Sabritz
S. B. Durant
Hancock
Roy J
G. C. Stanzel
Sac
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Buena Vista, Lee
Winneshiek
Pottawattamie
Iowa
Sioux City
C. E. Malone
Cass
Pres
Roosevelt
W. M. Snyder
Hamilton
School and Gym Destroyed by Fire in Cedar Rapids
The Center Junction public school and gymnasium were destroyed by a fire discovered at 3 a.m. today. Damage is estimated at $17,000, partly insured. Wind hampered firefighters. the school building is 18 years old and the gymnasium was completed a year ago.
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Cedar Rapids
Center Junction
Iowa Truckers Robbed by Five Men Early Today
Carl and Claude Sawyer of La Porte City Iowa said five men hijacked their truck loaded with butter and eggs. The brothers were held captive in their car for about an hour while en route to a warehouse.
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Chicago
Carl and
Claude Sawyer
la Porte City
Iowa
Ax Murder Victim John Dorrell Found At Winterset Home
John Dorrell 79 was found murdered in his Winterset Iowa kitchen after friends reported he had been missing since December 24. An ax lay smeared with blood in the room and officers noted a blind 37 cent coin on the floor. An inquest was planned as Sheriff Sawyer released the evidence to state authorities.
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Winterset
John Dorrell
Matt Purscell
Darrell
Dorrell
Des Moines
John K. Sawyer
Riots Strain Ireland As Elections Near
Owen O Duffy warned the army may be called in to keep peace amid riots in Cavan where meetings clashed. De Valera's party triumphed over Cosgrave and the league shooters as nominations close for January 24 elections. about 250 candidates expected to contest seats in Dail Éireann.
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Owen O'Duffy
Cavan
de Valera
Cosgrave’s
League
Dail Éireann
Stock Exchange Probe Reopened Details Hemorrhaged
President of National City Percy Rockefeller and others of note tied to a reopened inquiry into Higginson syndicates. Durant testified totals show Kreuger and Toll securities sold in the U.S. by Lee Higginson headed syndicates reached 113 million dollars, with initial sales dating to 1928.
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National City
Percy Rockefeller
Kreuger
Toll
Higginson Company
Durant
Lee Higginson
Congress Deliberations on Banking Pensions Loans and Relief
Banking committee probes Kreuger and Toll as first deficiency and Glass bills are reviewed. Judiciary subcommittee advances hearings on a five day week and beer bill. Interstate Commerce fields railroad pension measures. Joint committees hear veterans and irrigation moratorium bills. Relief hearings continue. Foreign Relations weighs Hoover embargo. House keeps Farm Bill under study.
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Banking
Kreuger
Toll
Judiciary
Interstate Commerce
Joint
Manufactures
Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Wallace Endorses Allotment Plan In Iowa Speech
Henry A. Wallace farm magazine publisher, talked of the domestic allotment plan for farm relief during a speech to the second Iowa convocation of Protestant ministers. He called it a social justice concept and urged democracy requires self policing.
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Des Moines
Henry A. Wallace
Farm Magazine
Secretary of Agriculture
Iowa
War Veteran Named Herring Messenger
Jerome M. Croak a Cedar Falls war veteran and American Legion member has been named usher and messenger in Governor Clyde Herring s office He is a Democrat and Croix de Guerre recipient with a bronze star for wartime services This marks the second appointment to the governor s staff
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Des Moines
Jerome M. Croak
Cedar Falls
Clyde Herring
American Legion
Herring
Crook
Jerseyville Prison Hit By Hazardous Device Blast
A hazardous device was hurled through a barred window of the Jerseyville village prison in Illinois blowing off part of the roof and damaging the concrete wall. The jail was empty at the time. This marks the 21st such device in Christian county mine trouble zone.
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Springfield
Ill
Jerseyville Village
Christian County
Garner seeks immediate House vote to override veto
Speaker Garner told reporters he would push for an immediate House vote on overriding any Hoover veto of the Philippine independence bill. He cautioned he had no official word Hoover would veto. Since the bill originated in the House it would act first if vetoed.
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Washington
Garner
Men Today
Hoover
House
Life Term Convicts Seeking Liberty
Des Moines AP Iowa Supreme Court heard an appeal for writ of habeas corpus to free Gerald Haberman and Raymond McCormick, youths who killed Henry Handfield in 1930. Both had been 16 and 17 at the time and are serving life terms after guilty pleas without a hearing.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Gerald Haberman
Raymond McCormick
Henry Handfield
Dyersville
Handfield
Haberman
McCormick
U S Aid Sought for Federal Land Banks Expansion
Senator Dickinson of Iowa introduced a bill to appropriate 50 million dollars to let the treasury subscribe to the paid-in surplus of federal land banks. Funds would be provided on farm loan board approval and repaid by the banks when able, extending their credit resources.
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Washington
Treasury
Dickinson
Iowa
Farm Loan Board
Libby Holman’s Baby Born in North Carolina Death Case Linked
Libby Holman Reynolds gave birth to a tiny boy in Winston Salem after a gay birthday party. A coroner’s jury linked the infant’s death to unknown parties and Libby and Albert Walker faced murder charges later dropped for lack of evidence.
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Winston Salem
N. C
Albert Walker
Carlisle Higgins
Libby
Reynolds
Cincinnatti
Albert E. Ives
Wilmington
Del
Norris W. Vaux
New York
Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman Reynolds
R. J. Reynolds, Sr
North Carolina
Pass Book Entry Not Regular in Johnson Co. Case
Johnson county treasurer's office pass book shows a $26 000 deposit not in normal bank procedure, jurors hear expert testimony. Handwriting expert J Fordyce Wood testified the January 2 1932 entry differs from regular bank practice as the county battles a $20 000 shortage. Charles L Berry is named as a defendant alongside the First National Bank.
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Johnson Co
Iowa City
Johnson County
First National Bank
J. Fordyce Wood
Fordyce
Charles L. Berry
Death Claims Lulu Hubbard
Miss Lulu Mae Hubbard aged 42 died at Mt. Pleasant state hospital after a long illness. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hubbard of Kansas street and is survived by a sister Helen Bailey of Detroit and brothers Harold and Arnold Hubbard of Muscatine. Funeral services are at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Fairbanks Home for Funerals with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. flowers are requested omitted.
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Lulu Mae Hubbard
Mt. Pleasant State Hospital
Miss Hubbard
J. L. Hubbard
Kansas Street
Helen Bailey
Detroit
Mich
Harold
Arnold Hubbard
Muscatine
Fairbanks Home
Greenwood Cemetery
Two Girls Frozen to Death in Minnesota Blizzard
In Kennedy Minnesota near the Canadian border two girls Jennie and Mildred Skjordal ages 15 and 7 died from sub zero weather after their father John Skjordal’s team of horses bolted. The storm also claimed Hugh Torrance in Crookston and left Minnesota and North Dakota with temperatures to 17 below and 8 below respectively while roads were blocked by snow drifts.
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St. Paul, Minn
Kennedy
Minn
Minnesota
North Dakota
Jennie
Mildred Skjordal
John Skjordal
Canadian
Crookston
Hugh Torrance
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