Page indicts Iowa Liquor Commission for maladministration
Floyd E. Page, attorney for a legislative investigation, accuses Iowa Liquor Control Commission members Harold Cooper Bernard Manley and Dick Lane of maladministration and wilful misconduct. He urges ouster hearings, notes contract abuses with White Line Transfer and Storage and improper purchases from Western Distributing, and finds legal advisers and lease arrangements invalid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Floyd E. Page
Denison
Page
Harold M. Cooper
Marshalltown
Bernard E. Manley
Mason City
Dick R. Lane
Davenport
Executive Council of
Iowa
Cooper
White Line Transfer and Storage Company
Town
White Line Company
Commission
Century Distilling Company
Western Distributing Company
List
Weston Distributing Company
Leslie E. Francis
Liquor Board and House Clash Over Page Report
In Des Moines Iowa the liquor control commission faced allegations of malfeasance tied to Floyd E Page as the legislative investigative panel prepared its report. House members pressed for publication of Page s report alongside their own amid calls for full disclosure and opposition to concealment.
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Page
Cooper
J. H. Collins
Fonda
Liquor Commission
Pocahontas County
DES Moines
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Floyd E. Page
Legislative Investigating Committee
W. HH. Millhaem
INS
Town House
House
Liquor Investigating Committee
Gus Alesch
Alesch
House Journal
Senate
B. B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Hickenlooper
Rep
C. L. McKinnon
New London
Committee
Soil Erosion Bill Sent To President
The House sent to the White House a bill directing the secretary of agriculture to coordinate and direct activities for the prevention of soil erosion, after agreeing to Senate amendments.
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Washington
INS
Senate
House
White House
Secretary of Agriculture
Flying Clipper completes trans pacific flight to Alameda
The Flying Clipper lands at Alameda after a 2,400 mile return from Honolulu in 20 hours 59 minutes. Captain Edwin C Musick and a five man crew disembark with 14,000 yards of mail. Spectators total about 10,000 witness the historic achievement as the monoplane makes a calm touchdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alameda
Calif
Edwin C Musick
Musick
Shakespeare and the life, death, and glory of art
The passage reflects on Shakespeare’s vast range from joy to tragedy. It praises his courage sanity and pity as the core of his music. It likens Shakespeare to a lay Bible and to Goethe in solving life’s riddles while death remains a mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Coleridge
Morley
Emerson
Stetuge
Goethe
Shakespeare
Prospero
Dionne Voices Discontent Over Quintuplet Exam
Oliva Dionne father of the quintuplets voiced dissatisfaction with an early morning examination of the five girls by Toronto physicians at the request of Dr Allan Roy Dafoe. Doctors Brown and Dafoe said the babies were in good condition and recovering from head colds, while Dionne urged Northbay doctors to examine them despite Dr Dafoe’s opposition to further exams.
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Callander
INS
Oliva Dionne
Httle
Toronto
Allan Roy Dafoe
Allan Brown
William Dafoe
Dionne
Northbay
G. W. Smith
I. Joyal
Dafoe
Toledo Chevrolet Employees Strike in Toledo Plant
A 2,200 worker strike was declared at the Chevrolet Motors plant in Toledo after negotiations with Auto Workers Federal union representatives failed. Company closed the plant without violence or a picket line. police observed the scene. A separate strike of 1,800 auto workers was noted as not sanctioned by the AFL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, O
INS
Chevrolet Motors Corporation
Auto Workers Federal Union
Washington
Toledo
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
Roosevelt creates agency to sort jobs projects
The White House outlined a new division of the national emergency council to screen and route plans for using the four billion dollar work relief fund. Frank C. Walker will oversee plans, with Donald R. Richberg directing NRA. a works allotment board will approve allocations chaired by the President.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Frank C. Walker
New York
Walker
National Emergency Council
Donald R. Richberg
Council
NRA
Ickes
Emergency Council
U. S
Divorces Son of Col. Robt. Stewart
Mrs. Phyllis Shaw Stewart received an uncontested divorce from Robert Giffen Stewart, formerly of Standard Oil NJ, in Chicago. A settlement provides her 250000 dollars in 10 years and 750 dollars monthly interim support. They wed in November 1922 after his previous divorce from Elizabeth Wallentine Stewart.
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Chicago
Phyllis Shaw Stewart
Robert Giffen Stewart
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Francis B. Allegretti
Robert Cantwell, Jr
Stewart
Stewarts
Elizabeth Wallentine Stewart
Robert W. Stewart
Indiana
Gazette Extra Plane Delivers Manley Letter to Des Moines
Des Moines received hundreds of Gazette extras containing Bernard E. Manley’s letter to state liquor store managers on evading federal limits. The issue, tied to liquor graft revelations from Sioux City, cites a forthcoming Washington inquiry into the letter.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Bernard E. Manley
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Des Moines
Sioux City
Washington
Manley
Iowa Senate Approves Chain Store Tax Bill 43 to 6
The Iowa senate narrowly passed the Burlington Harrington chain store tax bill by 43 to 6 after accepting minor amendments and sending it back to the house for concurrence. Only one amendment added new exemptions for hotels and lodging houses while the rest struck unworkable sections.
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Des ‘Moines
Iowa Senate
Burington-Harrington
House
Senate
Tower House
Andersom
Aschenbrenner
Baldwin
Hell
Crawford
Kell
Des Moines
Chrystal
Dere
Driscoll
Fisch
Geshe
Guetsch
Grunewald
Harrington
Irwin
McArthur
Malone
Mason
Meyer
Moore
Mullaney
Reese
Schmidt
Shangie
Stevens
Decatur
Valentine
Beardaley
Hillingsles
Byers
Calhoun
Corwin
Dewey
Elthon
Hopkins
Hush
Husfed
Kimberly
Knudsen
Millbone
Parker
Roelofs
Shaw
Stanley
Wilson
Pendray
Wavella
Berg
Donohue
Nelson
Patterson
Miller
Sen
Geske
Mc‘Gregor
Senis John ‘'K. Valentine
Centerville
Sioux City Gunfight Tied to Prohibition-Era Turf
Sioux City, April 27 1934 Gov Clyde Herring vowed to remove Attorney General Ed O Connor after evidence of liquor influence surfaced. Joe Siegel shot Lefty Havens at Valley Gardens as underworld ties and hijacking plots unfold linking distillers collectors and Sioux City figures to a fatal confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verne Marshall
Des Moines
Clyde’ Herring
The
Gazette
Ed O'Connor
State of
Iowa
Clyde L. Herring
O'Connor
Ed O’conner
Siégel
Gross
Max E. Duckworth
Woodbury County
Siegel
Sioux City
Valley Gardens
Sioux
Pearl Street
Illinois
Joe Siegel
Denison
Joe
Lefty Havens
Hattie Brown
Havens
Siegel Tald
Lefty
Mary
Harold Walters
Walters
Roosevelt administration blamed for shift toward federal soviet
Senator Bailey of North Carolina warned in the senate that the Roosevelt administration pursues policies that would convert the United States from a republic into a federal soviet while opposing the Bankhead farm home loan bill.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
United States
Bailey
North Carolina
Senate
Bankhead Farm
Joan Bill
McDowell Iowa U Grid Player Wed to Miss Sies
Floyd McDowell University of Iowa football guard of Jefferson married Bernadine Sies daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred W Sies of Perry. The ceremony took place Sunday at the Methodist parsonage. McDowell a junior will continue his studies in the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Floyd McDowell
University of Iowa
Jefferson
Bernadine Sies
Fred W. Sies
Perry
Methodist
McDowell
College of Liberal Arts
Iowa House Approves 12.6 Million Budget for 1936 37
The Iowa House passed a budget bill authorizing 12,551,838 annually for state departments and education boards for the 1936 37 biennium. The adjournment deadline passed with two major measures moved forward, including the chain store tax and the house appropriations bill. The vote was 87 to 11, and the bill shifts to the Senate while the chain store measure returns to the house for concurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Iowa General Assembly
Senate
House
State Departments
Board of Education
Board of Control
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Lane
Job
Fond
Executive Council
Tama
M. W. Hyland
Peoria
Francis
Mulberry
Herring Motor Company
Executive’ Council
Mulberry Building
Mulberry Realty Company
Herring
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Liquor Board
de, Newton
Chevrolet
Frank Walker
Col. Robt. Stewart
Were
Chain Store Vote
Atty. Gen
Boen
Duckworth
Supreme Court
Doe Siegel
Consignee
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