Political shifts loom in Iowa libraries and taxes
Governor Kraschel signals potential non‑merit based employment talks at the Iowa state library and historical department. Separately, a storm Lake couple challenge the Iowa income tax as discriminatory against out‑of‑state business, while a Townsend era forecast warns of a 1980 Social Security reserve of 47 billion dollars and pay‑as‑you‑go viability.
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Ao Storm Lake
Iowa
Messrs. Wilfrons
Supreme Court
Doc Townsend
Senate Finance Committee
Sit-Down Settlement Ends Fry Products Strike
Detroit AP report shows a four day sit-down strike at Fry Products Inc makers of auto seat covers ended with an undisclosed settlement. Alfred R. Glancy mediated and said terms were not revealed. 350 workers, mainly women, to resume work at 8 am Thursday. Fry declined to discuss terms and to meet UAW organizers.
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Detroit
Fry Products, Inc
Alfred R. Glancy
Oakland Motor Car Company
General Motors Corporation
Walter L. Fry
Fry
Glancy
United Automobile Workers of America
UAWA
Rhetoric on Congress and Free Speech Debate
The writer questions the sanity of critics and contests prior election assurances about constitutional overreach. They warn against a spineless congress and defend free speech and press, arguing that democratic leaders will resist attempts to erode liberties for another term.
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Supreme Court
Congress
Government regulation and Iowa liquor bills loom large
The piece argues for increased federal government role in business while noting uncertainty about how much. It notes Iowa's local option liquor bill and liquor by the drink measure as steps toward prohibition or saloon revival, warning that either would invite troubles if state control is weakly administered.
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Washington
Iowa
Italians Execute Ethiopians in Mass Firing
Rome reports a terse communique saying all Ethiopians found with arms in their homes were shot. Unofficial counts place the dead at about 100 with hundreds more detained or released after questioning. The policy shift follows an attempted assassination of Viceroy Graziani in Addis Ababa.
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Rome
Ethiopia
Rodolfo Graziani
Addis Ababa
Ilduce
Sit-Down Strike Hits Douglas Aircraft Plant
In Santa Monica the Douglas Aircraft factory with about 6,000 workers and $10,000,000 in government orders was seized by a sit-down strike on Tuesday. In Decatur Illinois, Century Wallpaper Mills workers joined a similar action with more than thirty employees occupying the plant.
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Santa Monica
Sns
Douglas Aircraft Factory
Decatur, Ill
Century Wallpaper Mills
Ind
Springfield strike at Crowell plant prompts sit down action
Union pressmen at Crowell Publishing in Springfield began a sit down strike on Tuesday, demanding recognition by the company and adjustments to wages and hours.
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Springfield, Ill
Crowell Publishing Company
Church of Silence A Chapel for QuietReflection
The article recounts an Englishwoman's healing journey from sorrow to faith after visiting a chapel in Rome. She builds a Chapel of Silence in London, a minimal place with no pulpit or service, where visitors learn to be still and listen, especially during wartime.
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Rome
London
Last Of Blocked Car Lines Cleared On Cedar Rapids Route
The Cedar Rapids and Marion City railway cleared its snowbound lines Tuesday after a Sunday storm. The Grande Avenue line reopened by noon with crews using picks and shovels. earlier the North Thirteenth Street and Oak Hill routes were restored. Other lines including Vernon Heights Third Avenue W and West End opened Monday. traffic slows as cars push through loose snow.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion City Railway
Grande Avenue
North Thirteenth Street
Oak Hill
Vernon Heights
Third Avenue W
West End
South Third Street
Ellis Park
Sixteenth Avenue
Kenwood
Marion
Bever Park
Twentieth Street SE
Twentieth Street
Cleveland Torso Murder Case Emerges on Lake Erie Shore
In Cleveland on the east side a decapitated torso of a woman was found on Tuesday, the eighth headless body mystery in about two and a half years. Police Lieutenant William Sargent said the torso had been in the water only a day or two.
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Cleveland (Ap
Lake Erie
Cleveland
East Side
William Sargent
Craemer to Build $100,000 Cedar Rapids Department Store
H. N. Craemer company plans a new three story fireproof department store at 208-210 Second Ave SE merging with the existing First Avenue building. The $100,000 structure will feature green soapstone, dual entrances, air conditioning, two elevators, an 18 foot foyer with ten display windows, and a sky bridge linking the two units. The project follows a 44 year family history with N P Craemer to lead after Herman N Craemer.
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H. N. Craemer Company
First Avenue E
Second Avenue SE
First
Second Avenues
N. P. Craemer
Second Avenue
First Avenue
Craemer’s
Deacon
Herman Nicholas Craemer
Non-Operating Rail Unions Seek 20 Percent Wage Increase
Delegates from sixteen non operating railway brotherhoods representing about 800000 workers voted to demand roughly a 20 percent wage rise. They will serve notice on railroads but set no date for formal presentation. The demands include a general 20 cent per hour increase, full time employment guarantees, two thirds full time coverage for stand-by workers, and a joint national conference to handle wage proceedings.
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Chicago
George M. Harrison
Harrison
Health Board Seeks Better Relief Housing in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Health Board and city council endorsed a plan proposed by Mayor Frank K. Hahn to require relief investigators from Linn county relief to inspect all houses before a relief family moves in. The measure aims to prevent placement in unfit or hazardous dwellings and ensures notice and inspection if any doubt remains.
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Frank K. Hahn
Hahn
City Health Department
Cedar Rapids
Board of Health
Linn County Relief Department
Dr. Rose Wistein Dies Friend Of Czech Leader
Dr. Rose Wistein, longtime Cedar Rapids physician since 1914 and benefactor to Czechoslovakians, died at 3:45 a.m. in a local hospital. Born in Kloubdaka, Czechoslovakia, she immigrated with her mother Frances Reher before rising to a medical career and aiding her homeland during World War I. She would have turned 70 on April 7 and had suffered heart trouble for years.
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Rose Wistein
Higley Avenue
Czechoslovakia
Thomas Masaryk
Wistein
Dr. Wistein
Peggy Garcia Case Delayed One Day in Virginia Marriage Probe
Supreme Court Justice Salvatore Cotillo granted a one day postponement of Peggy Garcia's $500000 breach of promise suit against David Rubinoff after Peggy's counsel Bernard Sandler reported new Virginia evidence. Sandler said Garcia wed at age 12, a marriage now void under Virginia law, prompting potential grand jury scrutiny and further legal maneuvering by both sides.
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New York
INS
Supreme Court
Salvatore Cotillo
Peggy Garcia
David Rubinoff
Virginia
Bernard M. Sandler
Peggy
Miss Garcia
Sandler
District Attorney’s Office
Wee
Roanoke
Rubinoff
Von Lackum Files Candidacy for School Board Seat
Formal nomination papers for Dr. J. K. Von Lackum of 326 Twenty third Street SE were filed for the board of education. Paul N. Clark of 2315 Ridgeway SE withdrew. Clarke had friends circulate papers but will not appear on the March 8 ballot. Filing deadline is noon February 26.
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J. K. von Lackum
Twenty-third Street Drive
Board of Education
C. D. Hedberg
von Lackum
Hedberg
Paul N. Clark
Ridgeway Drive
Clark
Eight Dollars Stolen In House Breakin Reported
Mrs Bertha Shanklin’s home at 1422 First Street NW was broken into while she was away from 4 to 8 40 pm. A black handbag’s contents including 831 dollars were taken. The crime scene showed ransacked buffet and drawers and open doors. A separate theft at Cities Service station on Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE involved a boy about 12 taking 1 dollar from a cash register. he escaped through a window as the attendant chased him.
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Bertha Shanklin
First Street
Chris Nelson
Nelson
Dickinson Undergoes Second Operation After Relapse
Former Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, recovering from an illness, relapsed Tuesday and was required to undergo a second operation. He was to leave the hospital Tuesday after the procedure.
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Dickinson
Washington
Sns
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Buchanan Dies Leads House Budget Panel
Rep James P Buchanan of Texas, longtime House appropriations chair, died Monday night in Naval Hospital. His death puts Rep Edward T Taylor of Colorado, the committee's oldest member, in line to chair the panel and oversee major budget matters including the work relief program and defense costs.
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Washington
LLP
House
James P. Buchanan
Texas
House Appropriations Committee
William B. Bankhead
Tex
Edward T. Taylor
Colo
Appropriations Committee
Taylor
Buchanan
Naval Hospital
Appropriations
Senate Advances Supreme Court Retirement Measure
Senate judiciary subcommittee chair Pat McCarran reported favorably the House passed full pay retirement bill for supreme court justices at age 70 after ten years on the bench. The House warned it will kill any Senate amendments, signaling likely early enactment without change. President Roosevelt supported the legislation amid debate over retired justices serving in lower courts.
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Washington
Pat McCarran
Senate
Supreme Court
House
INS
Circuit Courts of Appeal
Roosevelt
Borah
Idaho
Admiral Mayo Dies World War Commander at 80
Admiral Henry T. Mayo retired U S N former commander in chief of the United States fleet in World War I died at 80 in Portsmouth N H after a long illness. He was a Burlington Vt native and one of the last five Annapolis class of 1876 survivors. He is survived by his wife Caroline Wing Mayo and two sons Captain Chester G Mayo and Major George Mayo. Funeral services will be held in Portsmouth this week with burial later in Burlington Vt.
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Portsmouth
N. H
INS
Henry T. Mayo
United States
Chester G. Mayo
Burlington
Admiral Mayo
Annapolis Naval Academy
Horace Greeley
Labrador
Caroline Wing Mayo
Portsmouth Navy Yard
George Mayo
United States Army Engineer Corps
Washington
Townsend Contempt Trial Nears Verdict in Pension Case
Government rests against Dr Francis E Townsend as witnesses testify to his walkout from a DC federal hearing. Townsend's lawyer moves for acquittal arguing rights were violated while Townsend seeks complete exoneration. Witnesses include Townsend aides Wunder and Kiefer with Weber and reporters present. Conviction risks up to one year in prison or a $1000 fine.
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Washington
Francis E. Townsend
District of Columbia
John B. Kiefer
Townsend
Elisha Hanson
House
Hanson
Kiefer
Clinton Wunder
Wunder
William A. Weber
Long Beach
Calif
Snow cleanup speeds Cedar Rapids return to normal traffic
Cedar Rapids crews pushed snow removal across eastern Iowa, with primary roads opening and secondary routes being cleared. Four plows, three tractors, and four trucks from Linn county were deployed. City crews added forty workers, with eight city plows and a private plow operating, as temperatures rose from 10 below to 23 degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Minnesota Line
Linn County
Cedar River
Rock Island Railroad
Chambers Inskeep Company
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