Nye urges neutrality act as war talk cools in Iowa forum
United States Senator Gerald P. Nye told a capacity audience at Cornell College that it is not stylish to declare war anymore. He called for invoking the neutrality act to resist ongoing hostilities in China and Spain as President Roosevelt weighs options.
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MT. Vernon
United States
Gerald P. Nye
Capacity Forum
Cornell College
China
Spain
Roosevelt
Audubon contest draws former champions and runners-up
Audubon county corn husking contest draws entries from Carl Carlson the 1936 national champion and Walter Johannsen the 1932 runner up along with Wilmer Carlson Louis Henningson and Clifford Hansen. Entries close Oct 23 with Carl Carlson advancing to the state contest automatically.
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Audubon
Llmer Carlson
Walter Johannsen
EB. M. McGinnis
Farm Bureau
Louis Henningson
Clifford Hansen
Carl Carlson
Iowa City Auctioneer Dies in Vehicle Crash
Joan Yoder, 72, a poultry buyer and retired auctioneer of Iowa City, died of heart disease while driving five miles southwest of town. His delivery truck veered into a ditch and stopped after about 200 yards. He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
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Iowa City
Joan Yoder
Here
Yoder
Relief Inquiry Nets Widow $1015 From Insurance
Waterloo widow Minnie Goss of the relief office secured a $1015 payout from a Des Moines insurer after verifying an extended term clause kept the policy alive to November 1935. She learned her husband died in December 1933, not 1935, prompting the claim.
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Waterloo
Relief Office
Des Moines
Minnie Goss
Des Moines Woman in Critical Pneumonia Crisis
Mrs James Welborn mother of a newborn remained near death as bronchial pneumonia worsened. Doctors battled to stabilize her with her fever rising toward 103 to 104 degrees while the 21 year old financier faced a grave prognosis.
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Titonka
Will Schutter
Patty
Des Moines
James Welborn
Herever
Spencer Banquet to Feature Congressman Harrington
Congressman Vin cent Harrington of Sioux City Democrat will be principal speaker at a grain trade banquet in Spencer Friday evening. Invitations have been extended to 450 elevator dealers and other grain men in northwest Iowa.
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Spencer
Vincent Harrington
Sioux City
Iowa
Moisture favorable week boosts Iowa pastures and grains
Reports say Iowa saw 1.5 inches of rain and snow in the past week aiding pastures and sown fall grains. Corn moisture content on Oct 11 averaged 21.7 percent from 320 samples, below the 10 year Oct 11 average of 23.5 percent, with north central northeast and east central regions at about 25 percent.
Russia Italy Near a Break in Diplomatic Crisis
Moscow reports rising tensions as hundreds of Italians are expelled from Russia amid a proposed treaty breach. The Kremlin reportedly canceled a pact allowing Italians and Russians to work in each other’s countries, signaling a potential broader dispute possibly involving Germany.
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Moscow
INS
Russia
Italy
Germany
Chinese hold Shanghai fortress Chapei seen key to defense
H R Knickerbocker reports from Shanghai that Chapei, a fortress city home to about half a million, remains the pivotal Chinese defense on the Shanghai front. He notes dense fortifications, wired avenues, pill boxes, and a constant cycle of machine gun emplacements rebuilt after every Japanese shelling.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Chapei
Chapel
City to Mark Washington Streets at Intersections
Chairman Fred Reid announces street and alley committee has begun plans to mark street names at intersections in Washington. The project, overseen with C. J. Huff NYA supervisor, will be funded by the National Youth Administration and employ several youths to install painted or sturdy markers. Huff will return with further plans as similar work was done in Burlington.
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Fred Reid
City Council
Washington Streets
Reid
C. J. Huff
Davenport
NYA
Huff
Washington
Burlington
National Youth Administration
Radio failure blamed for Utah air disaster
Aviation experts cite radio failure as the probable cause of the United Air Lines crash in the Utah mountains. All radio apparatus may have failed or the radio beam marking the airway shifted, contributing to the deaths of 19 people aboard the aircraft.
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New York
INS
United Air Lines
Utah
City to repair Cemetery Road and make street signs
The city will supply white pine for signs and use a basement room in City Hall for sign making. Councilman Reid says temporary repairs on Cemetery Road will start this afternoon. Street Commissioner Alain Holmes will lead workers placing clay and crushed rock in holes and along the shoulder while engineers prepare for new surface next summer and adjust the right of way.
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Cemetery Road
Reid
Alaine Holmes
Ainsworth Plans Friday School Play Night
Ainsworth announces three one act plays to be presented Friday evening in the school auditorium. Proceeds will aid the school band’s new uniforms. The article notes the date had been corrected from November 22 in prior coverage.
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Ainsworth
Journal
Marriage License Issued to Musser and Forbes Couple
A marriage license was issued yesterday to Dana W. Musser of Lone Tree and Roberta Forbes of Nichols.
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Dana W. Musser
Lone Tree
Roberta Forbes
Nichols
Weather: Yesterday’s high 60 and low 41 degrees
Yesterday’s maximum temperature reached 60 degrees while the overnight low fell to 41 degrees. The reading notes a mild day with a cool night across the area.
Embezzling Bank Official Faces Arraignment
William C. Kurrle assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Burlington is jailed under guard after embezzling about 400000. The bank closed and federal examiners take charge as Kurrle awaits arraignment in Keokuk. He reportedly wrote a confession claiming stock market losses leaving about 40000 in brokerage funds. He could not post a 25000 bond.
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Burlington
Iowa
Des Moines
William C. Kurrle
First National Bank of
Federal
Kurrle
Red Cross Roll Call Plans Detailed by Mrs Reid
Mrs Rose Reid develops plans for the 1937 Red Cross roll call and leads local and nearby town efforts. She praises leaders for cooperation while continuing rural district organization started by Miss Irene Yard in 1936 to ease rural contributions. Roll call launches officially November 11 with Journal publicity to follow.
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Rose Reid
Red Cross
Reid
Roll Call
Eastern Star
The
Red
Red Cross Appeal Seeks Aid for China War Sufferers
The American Red Cross calls on the nation to aid wounded and homeless non-combatants in the China war zone. No regular funds are used. contributions are to be properly administered. Donations may be left at Washington Bank, the Journal office, or with county Red Cross chairman Roger B. Sherman.
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China
American Red Cross
Amer- Hedcross Bcan Red Cross
Washington Bank
Journal
County Red Cross
Roger 8. Sherman
Washington County Aged Pensioners Count 273
Washington County shows 273 people on the old age pension list with total monthly payments of 4 205 dollars and an average pension of 14 74 dollars. Keokuk County has 490 recipients at 6 146 dollars monthly and 15 37 dollar average. Louisa County lists 255 recipients with slightly lower total payments.
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Keokuk County
Washington's
Louisa County
Washington
Washington County
van Buren
Jefferson
Crose Finishes Year of Ongoing Activity
Crose has carried out about the past year. The note outlines continued effort and unspecified outcomes, reflecting ongoing engagement by Crose in the period.
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Crose
Gijon Surrenders to Franco Rebels
Rebels seize Gijon on the Bay of Biscay as loyalist forces prepare to surrender. Franco's armies sweep the outskirts while rebel planes fly overhead, signaling a decisive city seizure reported in Bayonne.
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Bayonne
France
Gijon
Bay of Biscay
Ncisco Franco
Road Deaths in State Now 415
Iowa highway fatalities rose to 415 with two more deaths. Rev. Richard Ranaghan, 45, of Bellevue Nebraska, died when his car plunged into a river six miles south of Council Bluffs. Mrs. Samuel Clemmenson, 77, of Harlan Iowa, died from injuries in an accident on April 21.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Richard Ranaghan
Bellevue
Nebr
Here
Harlan
Samuel Clemmenson
Statewide Old Age Pension Roll Figures Reported
In Iowa 41,138 people receive old age pensions, with September payments totaling 639,627 dollars and an average monthly pension of 15.55 dollars. Smaller counties include an unnamed county with 362 recipients and Henry County with 361 on the pension lists.
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Henry County
Washington
Iowa
Furious Trading On Again
The stock market resumed its recovery from this week’s collapse with rapid trading but profits-taking trimmed gains. Early advances faded in some stocks while others rose. Large blocks of up to 7,000 shares traded as frantic activity continued. Foreign markets provided stimulus with gains in London Amsterdam and Paris.
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New York
London
Amsterdam
Paris
Burned Body Found in Car in Edina
Edina Missouri October 21 embalm ed body of a man charred beyond recognition in a burned auto presented police with a grisly mystery. Coroner Keith Hudson said the man had been dead more than a week before the fire and may have been taken from a grave. Car license plates traced to Blooming Prairie Minnesota belonged to a man missing more than a month but police discount him as the victim due to mismatched description.
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Edina
Keith Hudson
Blooming Prairie
Judge Siegers Opens Washington Court Session
Judge P. J. Siegers of New ton arrived from Sigourney and is presiding a day long session during the September term. Two cases for trial by the court were assigned for today including Bankers' Life Insurance company vs. Havel and Des Moines Joint stock land bank vs. Kuhn.
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P. J. Siegers
Newton
Washington
Sigourney
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
Havel
Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank
Kuhn
Dentists Meet in Prosth enic Dentistry Clinic
The Washington County Dental Society held a meeting last evening with seven dentists present. After dinner at the North Side cafe they gathered at Dr. D. D. Davis’s office where Dr. J. R. Swartz from Kalona led a prosthenic dentistry clinic.
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Washington County Dental Society
North Side
D. D. Davis
J. R. Swartz
Kalona
Band Leader Hosts Washington Municipal Band Members
After a Tuesday rehearsal, Milo T. Sorden treated the Washington Municipal band to hot dogs buns and coffee. The annual feed, funded by the director, drew about thirty men as some members finished college work. President Garrett announced votes to admit several "sitting in" youths at the next meeting on October 26 due to their sincerity and ability.
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Milo T. Sorden
Washington Municipal Band
Garrett
Sorden
Farley dismisses Landon radio speech in Del Monte
Postmaster General James A. Farley says he did not listen to Alfred M. Landon's radio speech attacking the New Deal. He adds that public attention will be similar to Landon's previous remarks last fall.
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Doc” McGinnis
K. Hornbeck
E. Bohi
Norman H. Davis
Brussels
Belgium
H. R. Knickerbocker
International News Service
Margaret Drennan
Ge Burton
New Brunswick
N. J
Pel Reo
Reeves
George Burtea
Weeather
Keokuk
W. J. Jackson
Kentucky
Garr Brothers
Shelbyville
Henry H. Denhardt
Garr
Verna Garr Taylor
Ralph Gilbert
Jack Garr
George Willis, Jr
Roy Garr
E. S. Garr
Division of
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Chicago
Florida
Siegers
Farley
Landon
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