Iowa corn crop up 100 million bushels in report
Des Moines a July 1 crop report shows Iowa corn at 291 150 000 bushels nearly 100 million more than last year. Acreage up 14 per cent with 9 705 000 acres planted vs 8 986 000 last year. Yearly yield expected around 30 bushels per acre despite poor early season conditions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
Department of Agriculture
Wayne
Lucas
Appanoose
Mon- Toe
Decatur
Clarke
Quake in Japan Kills 24 People and Injures 58
A severe earthquake in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, kills 24 and injures 58, with Shizuoka city and Shimizu bearing the heaviest damage. Forty seven buildings destroyed, fires suppressed, power plants out, and darkness lingering as Hamamatsu reports a strong tremor. Shizuoka, hub of tea production, experiences the central coast quake.
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Tokyo
Shizuoka
Japan
America
Shizouka City
Here
Shimizu
Hamamatsu
Senator Norris Turns 74 Reflects On Future Democracy
Washington note on Senator George W. Norris birthday at 74. The Nebraska Republican Independent, fourth oldest in the Senate, recalls past years and focuses on two major issues for the nation: holding company legislation and taxing great wealth.
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Washington
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Sioux City Jury Hears Mayer as Grand Jury Probes Graft
In Woodbury County the graft investigating grand jury questioned Clyde Mayer and his wife for five hours, then recalled former County Attorney Max Duckworth for further inquiry. Mayer and his brother were tied to alleged slot machine syndicate payoffs and protection fees as the panel nears a potential three week recess to audit seized material.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Clyde Mayer
Max Duckworth
Mayer
Duckworth
E. L. O’connor
Walter Maley
John Mayer
H. M. Havner
Ole T. Naglestad
General Coxey Enters Campaign for President
General Jacob S. Coxey of Massillon Ohio enters a second presidential bid on a farmer labor platform advocating share the wealth inflation and technocracy. At 81 the veteran politician was nominated by acclamation by delegates at the National Farmer Labor convention in Omaha on Wednesday night.
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Omaha-7
Jacob S. Coxey
Massilon, O
Farmer-Labor Party
Oxey
Washington
National Farmer-Labor Convention
Hill to Push Iowa Public Works Set-Up
L S Hill acting director plans to implement the Works Progress Administration program in Iowa with speed. He heads to Chicago and Washington for instructions and to meet Howard Hunter and Harry Hopkins before returning to set operation, while keeping his Des Moines postmaster job without compensation.
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Hill
Iowa
Public Works
Chicago
New York
Works Progress Administration
L. S. Hill
Howard O. Hunter
Des Moines
Works Progress
Washington
Howard Hunter
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Fairfield Man Faces Charges
Fairfield Iowa Harley Carter fifty three former two term mayor was released on bond on perjury and uttering a forged instrument charges. He allegedly produced a cancelled contract in a bank suit seeking six hundred twelve dollars fifty cents and used a duplicate cancellation stamp obtained in St Louis. Affidavits from stamp firms and university crime labs supported the claim that the contract stamp differed from the bank stamp.
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Fairfield
Harley Carter
Carter
Jefferson County
J. Ernest Corey
St. Louis
Frank Ricksher
Iowa State Savings Bank of
Clair Hamilton
Iowa State Savings Bank
Hamilton
Griffin
Johnson
Northwestern University Crime Detection Laboratories
Dakota Official Warns of Illegal Slot Machines
B D Mintener superintendent of the new state justice department issued a stern decree against illegal slot machines in South Dakota. He stated that any gambling device including slot machines and related devices will not be tolerated, as the 1935 legislature licensed vending machines and strengthened gaming laws.
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Mintener
South Dakota
Sioux City
Justice Department
Bitter clash over Virgin Islands probe pits Ickes against Tydings
Figures in a tense confrontation show Harold Ickes demanding the right to question witnesses during the Virgin Islands investigation while Sen. Millard Tydings weighs the probes conduct. Paul Yates, the first witness, wore a patch over his left eye from a recent fight with Robert S. Allen as Governor Pearson accuses a spy system of monitoring island activities.
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Robert S. Allen
Pearson
Virgin Islands
Ickes and Tydings Clash Over Virgin Islands Inquiry
President Roosevelt intervened in the tug of war between Secretary Ickes and Senate Territory Committee Chairman Tydings over the Virgin Islands investigation. After a White House meeting with Ickes and leaders Robinson and Harrison, the clash centered on Governor Pearson and the islands removal.
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Washington
Senate
Virgin Islands
Tydings
Maryland
Roosevelt
O— Washington
Senate Territories Committee
Ickes
Paul M. Pearson
White House
Robinson
Arkansas
Harrison
Mississippi
T. Webber Wilson
Islands
Midwestern Heat Wave Claims 35 Lives Across Iowa
Des Moines reports 35 deaths linked to a sweeping heat wave in Iowa. Forecasters warn of possible late day thunderstorms and cooler temperatures by Friday. Record highs reached near 98 degrees in Council Bluffs with scattered showers and heavy rains in parts of Kossuth county and Booneville.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Mercury
Council Bluffs
Kossuth County
Booneville
House Votes to Augment TVA Power
The House approved broadening the Tennessee Valley Authority powers, 277 to 100, after trimming objectionable provisions for President Roosevelt. The measure returns to the Senate for conference on amendments while a lobbying probe continues. The AAA and other items drew debate as Hull noted U.S. interest in world peace and tax hearings stalled for lack of witnesses. The census bureau reported a rise in birth rate for the first time in a decade.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Gruening
Probe
Ernest Gruening
Interior Department
Thomas Corcoran
RFC
Brewster
Corcoran
Passamaquoddy
Hull
United States
Ways and Means
Census Bureau
America
Iowa Farmers Off Relief Rolls Move to Rural Rehab
Improved Iowa farm conditions remove farmers from relief. Fifteen hundred farmers now receive government aid as loans secured by notes and mortgages through the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation under the Resettlement Administration. The peak drought relief numbered 3,578 in March with livestock feed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
Resettlement Administration
Advertising Returns Revealed from Brand Study
New York advertising expert Charles C. Stech reports that advertising doubles familiarity with a brand, triples trial, and quintuples usage. He notes averages from a study of 27 bond paper brands by printers and warns small advertisers gain less while large ones gain more.
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New York
Charles C. Stech
Stech
Weather outlook and river stages across Iowa Mississippi report
Unsettled weather with afternoon or tonight thunder showers. Friday and Saturday look generally fair. cooler Friday in west and north areas, cooler Friday in central and north, Saturday fair. Mississippi River levels: Dubuque 8.5 rising 0.1. Davenport 7.0 no change. Muscatine 8.1 falling 0.3. Keokuk 7.9 falling 0.9.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Aviatrix Aims Transcontinental Westward Flight
Laura Ingalls, flying a low winged meroplane from Floyd Bennett Field New York, launches at 3 31 a m CST seeking the first east to west nonstop women’s transcontinental flight. She faces cross winds and heavy load while pursuing a record set by Amelia Earhart.
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Kansas City
Laura Ingalls
Floyd Bennett Airport
New York City
New York
Burbank
Calif
Amelia Earhart
Miss Ingalls
F. William Zelcer
Kenneth Behr
NAA
TWA
Pittsburgh City
Albuquerque
N. M
Chain Store Levy Faces Court Test
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co files federal suit in Des Moines seeking to halt Iowa’s new chain store gross receipts tax arguing it would owe about 440 440 dollars on 181 000 net Iowa profit in 1934. Company claims law is discriminatory and confiscatory.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Humboldt County Rep. Cunningham Dies at 65
John Cunningham, Humboldt county representative in the 1935 general assembly, died at his home after a brief illness. A former county attorney and auditor, he leaves a widow and eight children.
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Humboldt
John Cunningham
Humboldt County
Death Toll in Eastern Flood Region Put at 53
Flood waters in upstate New York and eastern Pennsylvania caused 53 deaths and over 26 million dollars in damage. Forty deaths in New York state, thirteen in Pennsylvania, with more than a million in property losses in Pennsylvania. National guardsmen and state troopers patrolled to deter looting as aid arrived from multiple sources.
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Associated Press
New York
Pennsylvania
Mother Nature
New York State
Yangtze River
Sun Shih-Fu
Conservancy Commission
Britain Leader Voices Limited Basis for Italian War
London reports Sir Samuel Hoare criticizes Italy for its reasons to war with Ethiopia. He pledges Britain will seek peace and hints at Anglo American cooperation. Meanwhile the government withholds munitions licenses to Ethiopia and denies rumors of blockades or coercion.
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London
Sir Samuel] Hoare
House of Commons
Italy
Ethiopia
Britain
Africa
Sir Samuel
League of Nations
England
Great Britain
Waley Expected to Take Stand in Kidnapping Case
In Tacoma Washington 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser testified about his May 24 abduction and June 1 release for 200000. The trial of Margaret Thulin Waley continues with the boy likely to be the final government witness and Harmon Waley to be called as the sole defense witness from McNeil Island prison.
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Federal
Tacoma
Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
Kide Naper
Margaret Thulin Waley
George
J. Charles Dennis
Harmon
McNeil Island
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the Interior
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Islands Investigation
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Paul Yates
Sistant
Paul Pearson
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Weyerhaeuser
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