Urge That OPA Be Continued
In Des Moines Iowa retailers led by the Iowa Retail Clothiers association urged continuation of price controls noting inflation would hurt families. Congressman Cunningham faced criticism from doctors lawyers teachers and unions over amendments that weakened OPA while a civic group planned a public demonstration to pressure for extension.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Retail Clothiers Association
OPA
Walter Riepe
Burlington
Iowa
Paul Cunningham
Chester Bowles
Cunningham
Bowles
Harry Booth
Des Moines Industrial Unions Council
House
Forrest Spaulding
Spaulding
Iowa City barber boycott targets Negro haircuts
University of Iowa students found handbills attacking racial fascism urging a boycott of Iowa City barber shops that refuse to cut Negro students hair. Tom D. Olin, a Springfield Ohio sophomore and war veteran, was fined 11.50 for distributing handbills without a license.
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Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Tom D. Olin
Springfield
Ohio
Olin
Virgil McHancher
Cedar Rapids
Vets Returning From Overseas Arrive at U.S. Ports
Eastern Iowans returning from overseas include San Francisco Cape Cleare and arrival dates around April 22. Names listed: Harold W. Shuster Dyersville T/4 Joseph J. Dusil Coggan S/Sgt Henry F. Benhart Oxford Junction Sgt Paul G. Schild Belle Plaine.
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United States
San Francisco
Cape Cleare
Harold W. Shuster
Dyersville
Joseph J. Dusil
Coggan
Henry F. Benhart
Oxford Junction
Paul G. Schild
Belle Plaine
Woman Dies In Brooder House Fire Near Wagner Farm
Mrs Willard Wilson 21 died Tuesday in a brooder house fire on the Wagner farm three and a half miles southeast of town. She had gone to care for 350 five week old chicks while her husband milled in the barn. Fire linked to an oil heater explosion. Survived by husband son William Paul, parents Mr and Mrs Mervin Wood Rowley sisters and four brothers. Services planned at Vinton.
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the Gazette
van Horne
Willard Wilson
Wagner Farm
Here
Viola May Wood
Vinton
William Paul
Mervin Wood
Rowley
Marion Miller
Brandon
Leona
Betty
Barbara
David
Robert
Max
Freddie Wood
Donors File Suit Over College at Oskaloosa
In Mahaska county a special non jury trial opens May 13 before Judge Frank Bechly to decide if Kletzing college at University park should run as a Nazarene or non sectarian institution. Plaintiffs E L and Jessie M Kletzing of Chicago charge the college board seeks a strictly Nazarene charter violatio n and contend the 1936 mortgage payoff and 18000 in donations created an interdenominational understanding.
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Oskaloosa
Frank Bechly
Kletzing College At
University Park
Mahaska
E. L
Jessie M Kletzing
Chicago
College Board of Trustees
Bowling Official Admits Spending Prize Money
Des Moines bowling league official Henry M. Williams confessed he fabricated a robbery tale after being slugged and robbed of 765 dollars in prize money. He said the hoax was meant to cover spending the season's prize money on living expenses.
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DES Moines
INS
Henry M. Williams
Williams
Centennial stamp design by Iowa student drawn under university direction
University of Iowa student E K Larson Jr designed a suggested centennial postage stamp under Dr. William J Petersen. The top shows an overturned bushel basket symbolizing Iowa’s agricultural wealth, Fort Atkinson and the Dubuque shot tower. Center highlights Fort Des Moines, the old Iowa City capitol, and the first bridge over the Mississippi at Davenport. Lower section features Potawatomi Indians, the Mormon trail, and the Zion church at Burlington, site of Iowa’s first territorial assembly.
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E. K. Larson, Jr
University of Iowa
William J. Petersen
Iowa
Fort Atkinson
Dubuque
Fort Des Moines
Iowa City
Mississippi
Davenport
Missouri River
Old Zion Church
Burlington
Legislative Assembly
Territory of
State Fair seeks ideas for centennial exhibition
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa state fair board requests ideas from all Iowans for centennial exhibits and contests at the August fair. Secretary L B Cunningham notes plans include past hundred years exhibits and pioneer era contests. Meredith Willson, Mason City native and orchestra leader, will feature Iowa on radio programs and may propose a centennial song titled Iowa Its a Beautiful Name.
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Des Moines
State Fair Board
Iowa
L. B. Cunningham
Meredith Willson
Mason City
Willson
Iowa City Women Voters Call for Food Conservation
A Iowa City survey by the League of Women Voters shows residents continue high bread flour and fat usage, despite appeals by Hoover and LaGuardia to conserve food for Europe and Asia. The committee urges individual action, noting residents are well fed and faced with voluntary saving rather than rationing.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
Fiorello LaGuardia
Europe
Asia
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Argentina
Toledo Pastor's Son Speaks on Atom Bomb
Special to The Gazette Toledo Dr Leo Land Pritchard associate professor of finance at the University of Kansas spoke Sunday at the Toledo Methodist church. He is the son of Rev J E Pritchard pastor of the church. He recently toured Kansas with chemists and neurophysiists who had worked on the atomic bomb for the university’s effort to interpret its economic and social consequences.
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Toledo
Leo
Land Pritchard
University of Kansas
Pritchard
J. E. Pritchard
Toledo Methodist Church
Kansas
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