Supreme Court suspends jail terms for Newton strike leaders
The Iowa Supreme Court suspended six month sentences for CIO officials James Carey William Sentner and Hollis Hall in the Maytag strike case at Newton. Each must pay 500 in fines. failure to pay brings five months in jail. The ruling upheld contempt findings while reducing penalties.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
CIO
Maytag
Newton
James B Carey
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
William Sentner
St. Louis
Hollis Hall
W. L. Bliss
Carl B. Stiger
National Guardsmen
Jasper County
State Supreme Court
Hall
Sentner
Poweshick County
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Carter Conviction
The Iowa Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the statutory conviction of Archie Carter a Dubuque labor leader. The court reversed the manslaughter conviction of Albert Hill Ida Grove trucker in the death of Clifton Watts Arthur Jr laborer.
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Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Archie Carter
Dubuque
Albert Hillman
Ida Grove
Clifton Watts
Arthur, Jr
Vinton Installs New City Council After Election
The Vinton city government enters a new era as the newly elected council is sworn in by Mayor George W. Reynolds. Reappointments and confirmations include Frank J. Lynch as city clerk Leta Mae Doncls as assistant clerk Pat Bostrom as city marshal George Briggs as night marshal Ancel Snyder Joe Horak as special police Will Whipple Elmer Primrose as street staff G. R. Woodhouse health officer Jerry Cottrell weed patrol Sam Covington downtown caretaker Clyde Miller city dump caretaker James Milroy city attorney and council members A B Kirk Earl Ervin M G Alcorn Lester Richart Carl Kouba James Ludden.
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Vinton
George W. Reynolds
Frank J. Lynch
Leta Mae Doncls
Reynolds
Pat Bostrom
George Briggs
Ancel Snyder
Joe Horak
Will Whipple
Elmer Primrose
G. R. Woodhouse
Jerry Cottrell
Sam Covington
Clyde Miller
James H. Milroy
A. B. Kirk
Earl Ervin
M. G. Alcorn
Lester Richart
Carl Kouba
James Ludden
Iowa City Names New Chief Police and City Officials
Iowa City appoints Frank Burns as police chief at the first council meeting under Mayor Henry Willenbrock Burns, 33, six feet five and 250 pounds, has 10 years on the force He will join new cemetery sexton Ernest Shalla clerk and auditor Grover C Watson solicitor Robert L Larson engineer and street commissioner Fred E Gartake and weighmaster E J Shanahan Also mayor Willenbrock pledges to study buying the water works from the current holding company.
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Iowa City
Frank Burns
Henry Willenbrock
Burns
William H. Bender
University of Iowa
Willenbrock
Ernest Shalla
Grover C. Watson
Robert L. Larson
Fred E Gartake
E. J. Shanahan
Trial of Flowers on Escape Charge Opens
Trial of Herman Flowers of Tama began in district court with 28 jurors examined and 12 chosen to hear the case. The state claims Flowers escaped from Highway Patrolman C. J. Carlson and Tama city marshal Fred Schultz on December 4, 1938, after fleeing from Tama City Hall.
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Toledo
Herman Flowers
Tama
David Clem
Will Kasal
Leland Mathern
Emma Vitek
Frank Wayman
Ed Strohecker
Zula Bower
Harvey Lovig
Frank Yuska
Joe J. Pavlicek
Verne
Flowers
B O. Tankersley
Vernon F. Kepford
Kepford
Carnal
Carlson
Marshal Schultz
E. C. Carnal
Starling bounty bill approved by Senate
DES MOINES AP The Iowa Senate passed a bill reducing the starling bounty from ten to five cents and making payments optional by a 45 to 0 vote. It returns to the House for concurrence in minor amendments amid county complaints the 10 cent payment drained funds.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Missouri
Iowa
Mrs Walters Resigns as Millersburg Mayor Women Take City Council
Millersburg with 200 residents continues admin work as Mayor Emily Walters resigns after qualifying for office. Five council seats are held by women Ella Wolfe Lulu Gerard Letha Taylor Myrtle Shank and Elsie Smith, all housewives, following a male abstention. Walters plans a visit to her son Dr Clarence Walters in St Paul. Indications were the resignation will be accepted at the next meeting in ten days.
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Millersburg
Emily Walters
Ella Wolfe
Cledith Seaton
Dot Dyson
Lulu Gerard
Walters
Wolfe
Gerard
Letha Taylor
Myrtle Shank
Elsie Smith
One Man Injured In Collision Near Vinton
A head on collision four miles west of Vinton involving James Bergen 21 of Vinton and Joe Shivley 28 near here left Shivley with head lacerations and multiple broken ribs. Shivley was taken to a Vinton hospital. Bergen was uninjured. State Patrol reports both cars hugged the center on a gravel crest.
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the Gazette
Vinton
James Bergen
Joe Shiviey
Shivley
Bergen
M G Swords
Shirley
Ed Hansen
Hansen
Mutual Oil Company
Iowa WPA rolls cut to meet new quota of 28100 workers
Des Moines AP says Iowa WPA administrator George J. Keller announced 1778 workers will be removed from Iowa WPA projects next Saturday to hit a 28100 quota aided by a $100 million federal appropriation. Keller cited awaiting congress action and low funds as reasons for the cuts.
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DES Moines
George J. Keller
Iowa
WPA
Keller
Cal
F. C. Harrington
Congress
First Refugees To Arrive Next Week At West Branch
The first guests at a German refugee camp sponsored by Iowa Quakers are due to arrive next week at Scatergood boarding school near Herbert Hoover’s birthplace. Jay Newlin of Grimes chairs the committee and says arrivals will help recondition the buildings. The group aims to make the hostel as homey as possible to hasten Americanization.
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West Branch
Iowa
Smothers Charged with Assault in Family Quarrel
Francis Smothers faces an assault with intent to murder charge after a preliminary hearing. He was jailed in Dallas county awaiting grand jury action. The complaint was filed by his daughter Gretchen Perry, with her mother also treated for knife wounds from the family quarrel.
Marion News Swears In City Officials and Appoints New Staff
Mayor John H Pazour and the reelected council were sworn in. Appointments set City attorney Ir Smith sewage disposal operator Joseph Dumbalton and others including police chief Gene Miller and several officers. A resolution named First National Bank as city funds depository. April 24 was fixed for board of review meeting. Mrs Clara Leona Wood died aged 77. Funeral Thursday at Yocom chapel. Diana Fret club meets Thursday. Numerous local social notes and visits reported.
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John H Pazour
Ir. Smith
Joseph Dumbalton
Frank Ralston
Phillip J. Crew
L. E. Cooper
Gene Miller
J Goodyear
Jerry J Mann
P. F. Schultz
Elda M Kemp
Minnie Whitcomb
First National Bank
Lewis Weis
Pazour
E B. Castle
Des Moines
Clara Leona Wood
Linn County
Eighth Avenue
Paralta
Abraham and
Mary Foulis Hess
George W. Wood
Wood
Christian Church
Old Settlers Association
James Thomas Weiss
Grace Ellen Wall
Nellie Elydia Allen
Mary Jeanette Norris
John
Lewis Hess
Marion
Martha Allen
Long Beach
Calif
Yocom Chapel
Irving E Wade
The
Oak Shade Cemetery
Local Red Cross First Aid Class Attracts Twenty Eight
Twenty eight enroll Monday evening for a first aid course sponsored by the Marion branch of the Red Cross in the Gas company home demonstration room. The Rev Irving E Wade conducts the course open to men and women with a make up session on April 10.
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Marion
The
Red Cross
Gas Company
Irving E. Wade
Rutledge Fears For Democracy's Future
Iowa City Dean Wiley B Rutledge recently nominated to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals questioned democracy's future in a League of Women Voters speech. He warned that Britain and France face decline and suggested America may face isolation unless it reacts to global disintegration.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Dean Wiley B Rutledge
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
America
League of Women Voters
Dean Rutledge
Dean
High Court Reverses Accident Judgments in Iowa Case
DES MOINES AP The Iowa Supreme Court reversed Linn county district court rulings in favor of Roy and Sarah Newman over an auto crash near Cedar Rapids in 1935 finding Newman failed to keep a proper lookout. It also dismissed Merchants National Bank’s appeal in a separate estate claim and ordered an accounting of royalties on an auto exhaust heater patent by Joseph Eulberg.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Linn County District Court
WE Hots
Roy
Sarah Newman
Cedar Rapids
High Court
Newman
Roy Newman
H. D Evans
Iowa City
Linn District Court
Merchants National Bank of
Epworth Seminary
Jennie Baker
Charles J. Haas
Linn Court
H M. Cooper
Cooper “Maniufactorine Co
Marshalltown
Joseph Eulberg
William Peek Former Fayette Recorder Dies in California
William Peek 82 died at his Long Beach home Monday. Daughter Mrs. H. B. Arnold of Oelwein hastened to Long Beach. Peek was a longtime Oelwein resident, served three terms as mayor, and was Fayette county recorder in West Union. He also ran the Union house and is survived by his wife.
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Oelwein
William Peek
Long Beach
Calif
H. B. Arnold
Peek
Ctizens
Fayette County
West Union
Union House
Arnold
European Unrest Dampens U S Business Outlook
Special to The Gavette reports European upheaval in Central Europe weighs on U S commerce. Prof. George R. Davies notes stock market recovery stalled by world affairs uncertainty, yet Iowa shows growth with February 1939 building contracts up 143.4 percent, retail sales 6.7 percent, bank debits 4.8 percent, and industrial payrolls 32 percent, while farm prices drop 5.8 percent.
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Owa
Europe
United States
George R. Davies
University of Town
Prof. Davies
Iowa
Funeral services set for Mrs. R. E. Doty in Chicago
Funeral services will be held Wednesday in Chicago for Mrs. R. E. Doty, a former resident of Oelwein and Sumner. She died Sunday and is survived by her husband, a sister Mrs. G. Sexton of Sumner, and a brother Perry West of Cedar Rapids.
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Oelwein
Chicago
R. E. Doty
Doty
Oelwein and
Sumner
G. Sexton
Perry West
Cedar Rapids
Prize Winning Essay Links Carelessness to Highway Accidents
Des Moines reports the Town State Safety Council's contest winner Charles S. Whetstone Casey high school senior advocates driver pedestrian and cyclist carelessness as the cause of Iowa highway deaths and injuries. He urges safety education in schools and even suggests funding by sacrificing other subjects. Helen Lyons Cresco freshman secures 50 dollars and Eleanor Dykhouse Rock Rapids wins ten dollars in prizes from the statewide event with over 50 000 students participating across most Iowa counties.
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Des Moines
Town State Safety Council
Charles S. Whetstone
Casey
Iowa
Helen Lyons
Cresco
Eleanor Dykhouse
Rock Rapids
Whetstone
Tam
Elderly Vinton Farmer Burns In Grass Fire Accident
James T. Burkhart 79 suffered serious burns to hands feet and legs when his clothing caught fire while burning dry grass on his Vinton area farm. His daughter Ethel dumped water on him and he was helped to the house by his son Howard before medical aid arrived. He is noted as a pioneer farmer in the community.
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Vinton
James T. Burkhart
Ethel
Howard
Burkhart
Parnell Man Held on Charge of Arson
MareNgo Clarke Tiernan, 30, of Parnell, is charged by true information with setting fires to several barns in the Parnell area. He allegedly confessed to burning barns owned by Brennan, Bevins, Murphy, and his father T H Tiernan, plus a shed owned by John Boland. He will be taken to Iowa City for mental observation before trial.
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Gazette
Marengo
Clark Tiernan
Parnell
Harold Evans
John Brennan
Tom Bevins
William Murphy
T .H. Tiernan
John Boland
Iowa City
Paul J. Naughton
Leave Liquor Bill Off House Calendar
The Iowa House kept the liquor-by-the-drink bill off the new calendar as Republican leaders said it will not reach a floor vote this session. Chairman F J Pine opposed bringing it to the floor, citing likely amendments, after a two hour talk with Des Moines Mayor Mark Conkling. Rep Dean W Peisen warned that its appearance could trigger an amendment to allow state outlets.
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Des Moines
Iowa
F. J. Pine
Columbus Junction
Pine
Mark Conkling
Dean W Peisen
Elcora
Dr Caldwell’s Laxative Senna Syrup Pepsin Ad
An old advertising notice promotes Dr Caldwell’s Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin. It claims Pepsin breaks down undigested protein in the stomach while the laxative wakes lazy bowels. The ad urges readers to buy at their druggist and mentions pleasant family laxative taste.
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Iowa State College
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Charles A. Ward
Excelsior Springs
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Octo Club
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Third Street
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Ottosen
George Gilmore
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Susan Rae
Fourth Avenue
Eastman kodaks and _ supplies
Owen's Drug Store
Women's Progressive Club
Alfred Rinderknecht
Rinderknecht
Hutton Greenhouse
Fidelis Circle of King’s Daughters
G. A. Storck
Darrell King
Cincinnati
Japan
Rutledge
Fayette
U. S
Third Ave. and
Second St. SE
Gzya
Dr. Fi
O. Smith
Star Jewelry CO
Second Street SE
Bamboo
Hamilton Seed & Coal
General Motors
Ceneral Motors
Culver Motors
McLaughlin
Buick CO
Ind Ave. SE
Cedar St
Monticello
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