Hoover Rallies War Debt Stance Amid Congressional Clash
President Hoover pushes debt relief for Britain's postwar loans and Germany Austria Hungary while arguing Europe must bear some burden and that delaying moratorium ratification risks delay and disarmament. He counters critics who claim relief aids American bankers and argues relief serves the American public.
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Congress
Europe
Hoover
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Farm Bureau Set for December 19 Meeting in Washington County
The Washington county farm bureau federation will convene December 19 at the Methodist church starting at ten o'clock. A business session includes committee reports the county agent’s annual report and officer elections for the new year. A noon pot luck dinner precedes an address by Mrs W Van Bloom of Dayton Iowa and remarks by Joe Jones vice president of the Iowa state federation. Medals will be awarded for calf pig and sheep clubs and 4H girls will perform musical numbers.
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Washington County Farm Bureau Federation
Methodist
W. van Bloom
Dayton
Iowa
Fifth District Committee
Joe Jones
Iowa State Federation
Waire n diary excerpt from a wartime traveler
A travel note from Waire n dated December 12 describes a Japanese formation near rice fields and a flight to Dairen. The writer also visits Port Arthur, cites its wartime fame, and jokes about being two wars behind in history.
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Wairen
Gibbons
Dairen
Port Arthur
Russia
Japan
Escape at Leavenworth Prison Sparks Nationwide Hunt
Army planes circled northeastern Kansas as guards soldiers and deputies hunted Karl Thayer 65 the fugitive convict after a sensational break from Leavenworth federal prison Warden T B White was wounded and three inmates were killed three others captured and returned to the prison White hospitalized with a shattered left arm after a shotgun wound doctors said amputation would not be necessary investigators probe the plot behind the breakout.
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Leavenworth
Kan
U.P
Kansas
Leavenworth Federal Prison
T. B. White
Karl Thayer
Leavenworth County
Warden White
Leavenworth Hospital
Aen
Department of Justice
January jurors drawn for district court term
Fifty Petit jurors for the January term were drawn at the courthouse. The term opens January 4 with Judge J. G. Patterson presiding. petit jurors report January 11 at 1 30. Also twelve grand jurors for 1932 were drawn and will report January at ten in the morning.
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Court House
J. G. Patterson
Oskaloosa
Raymond Anderson
Crawford
Ollie Anwyl
G. W. Bell
Kalona Vernie Booth
Wellman
Roy Bauer
West Chester
Everett Coon
Highland
Joe A. Conrad
Charles Dickinson
Clay
Clyde Dawson
Franklin Cen
Economy in Southeast Iowa school boards meeting
Southeast Iowa boards from Burlington Mt Pleasant Fairfield Centerville Ottumwa and Washington discussed budget cuts and economy avenues at Mt Pleasant. Washington members led by A E B Atchison chaired three hours of reviews to trim expenses without harming educational standards and planned a follow up session.
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Washington
Iowa
Mt. Pleasant
A. E B. Atchison
P. L. Etter
Claude Tucker
Atchison
Boards of Education
Burlington
Fairfield
Centerville
Ottumwa
Depositors urged to back plan to reorganize Commercial Bank
Carl Jungbluth and Rev. Carl W. Klein addressed about fifty depositors detailing a plan to reorganize the Commercial Savings bank as a new institution. The proposal would make 50 percent of deposits available at opening, with the remainder liquidated via a court supervised trust, aiming to avoid rapid liquidation and preserve value for more than 3,000 depositors.
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Jungbluth
Klein
Commercial Bank
Commercial Savings Bank
Ralph Scott
Charles Schmoeller
Paul Gorham
Shirley Clark
Carl Junghuth
Carl Jungbluth
T. L. Brookhart
Mr. Brookhart
Carl W. Klein
Mr. Klein
Brookhart
J. Rothschild
Reorganization Committee
W. R. Brown
Reorganization Plans Explained to Commercial Depositors
Depositors of the closed Commercial Savings Bank gathered at the high school auditorium where officials outlined the plan for a new bank. They discussed transferring fifty percent of deposits to the new institution, with the rest liquidated by trusteeship, and signed agreements to authorize the move.
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Washington State Bank
Commercial Savings Bank
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