Ten senators push Iowa chain store tax bill change
Des Moines lawmakers introduced a bill to repeal the chain store tax and tax on gross business rather than units. It would require chain managers to report stock on hand dates, total merchandise value, and store operation days to base a new tax. Violations carry a $500 fine.
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Des Moines
Board of Assessment
State Supreme Court
Iowa
Levis, Berg
Baldwin
Cromwell
Zeigler
Kirkateg
Evans
Corwin
Beardsley
Harvey
Coe College Debaters Host Third Annual Tournament
One hundred thirty eight high school and junior college debaters, coaches, and visitors registered for Coe college s third annual invitational tourney. The opening dinner at the YMCA featured Dr C Ward Macy and planning remarks.
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Coe College
Y M. CA
C. Ward Macy
Mrs Moonlight
C Harve Geiger
Coe
Madrigal Singing
Music Department
Verna Hanold
Preston
Marion Bailey
Elkader
Miss Hanold
Word Puzzle Fortune Message From Hofford Case
Hofford last Dec. 12 with H. L. Garrett as defendant has been filed with Court Clerk Ed Lundquist. The note describes a daily fortune puzzle using name letter counts to produce a key number and a message read from a rectangle.
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Hofford
H. L. Garrett
Ed Lundquist
A. L. Marine
Josephine Whitacre
H. C Ring
Local Finalists Named For After-Dinner Talk Tournament
Betty Levien of Wyoming Margaret Hindee of West Liberty Betty Finch of West Union Ed Melcher of Charles City William Carran of West Branch and Bob Carmichael of Hawkeye are listed as finalists. The tournament concludes Saturday after an after-dinner speaking contest.
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Betty Levien
Wyoming
Margaret Hindee
West Liberty
Betty Finch
West Union
Ed Melcher
Charles City
William Carran
West Branch
Bob Carmichael
Hawkeye
Court House News: 90 Days For False Pretenses
Charles R McNeese 48 of Cedar Rapids gets 90 days in county jail after pleading guilty to obtaining $5 from George Hite by promising to sell an auto for $10. City detectives made the arrest. Other actions include attachment suit of $90807 pursued by C L Lamp against J F O Neal Helen O Neal and Bertha Dietz, estate and debt matters, and a divorce petition by Lottie J Politis from Nick Politis for cruel treatment. Dismissals and title quieting orders are recorded in various county cases.
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Charles R McNeese
Cedar Rapids
H C. Ring
McNeese
George Hite
Third Street
Hite
C L Lamp
J F O'Neal
Helen O'Neal
Bertha Dietz
California
Fine man Jules Bru latour fined in gun license case
New York film producer Jules Bru latour, 68, husband of actress Hope Hampton, paid a $500 fine in special sessions court for possession of a gun without a license. Justices ruled the alternative was 30 days in the workhouse, with one justice voting for the workhouse term.
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New York
Jules Brulatour
Hope Hampton
Special Sessions
States Challenge Federal Tax on Bonds
Attorneys general of thirty nine states told a senate finance subcommittee that Congress lacks constitutional power to tax state and municipal bonds. The briefing framed a broad legal challenge to proposed federal taxation of bond instruments.
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Congress
Washington
Senate Finance
Duo Pianists Vronsky and Rabin Deliver Brilliant Concert
Despite bad weather a fine crowd heard Russian duo-pianists Vronsky and Rabin perform Schumann and Rachmaninoff with synchronized teamwork and modern interpretation. They offered Babin Etudes Milhaud Scaramouche and Rimsky Korsakoff encore plus intimate encores before leaving Second Avenue and Tenth Street. In a separate note, Fire Chief Kohout announced Carter’s January bone grafting operation for tibial nonunion, with early indications of success.
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Coliseum
Vronsky
Rabin
Schumann
Rachmaninoff
Babin
Victor Babin
Milhaud
Scaramouche
City Fireman Undergoes Leg Operation After Memorial Injury
Fireman Clarence Carter of 1019 G avenue NW is improving at University hospital in Iowa City after an operation on his right leg performed last Monday. He was injured three years ago in a collision between the hook and ladder truck and an interurban.
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Carter
E. P. Kohout
Iowa City
Central Fire Station
Clarence Carter
G Avenue
University Hospital
Rapids Chevrolet low bid for Linn county eight trucks
The Rapids Chevrolet firm submitted the lowest bid of 7 695 20 to supply eight one and one half ton trucks with cabs and hydraulic dump bodies for Linn county road maintenance. Delivery is by February 25. Other bids ranged up to 10 395.
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the Rapids Chevrolet Company
Linn County
Livestock Handlers Union Postpones Meeting In Chicago
Ben Brown president of Local 567 said heads of Union Stock Yards and Transit Co agreed to meet Tuesday to discuss union demands postponing a Friday session.
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Chicago
Ben Brown
Livestock Handlers Union
Union
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