Scrap Looms in Legislature Over Beer and Liquor Bills
Des Moines AP reports lawmakers debate liquor by the drink revival and local option beer measures. Rep Edward Burlingame Jr backs state stores as wholesalers while noting enforcement concerns in river towns. Senate had approved liquor by the drink earlier. house stalled amid party lines and compromise failures.
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Des Moines
House of Representatives
Edward A Burlingame, Jr
D-Elkader
Burlingame
G. A. Beman
R-Delta
Elmer Bass
Red Oak
Iowa Temperance League
Iowa Wct
Senate
House
Liquor Control Committee
Cuban Minister Is Iowa Visitor in Des Moines
The Cuban foreign minister Carlos Hevia and his wife are in Des Moines for a two day visit with daughter Margaret and son-in-law Dr Humberto Lopez Silvero interning at Broadlawns General Hospital Hevia will leave Sunday for Washington to handle government business before returning to Cuba Hevia previously served as Cuba's president for four days in 1934 and held several wartime and postwar government roles.
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Des Moines
Cuba
Carlos Hevia
Margaret
Humberto Lopez Silvero
Broadlawns General Hospital
Hevia
Washington
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Kosek Proposes Fee Retention By County Recorders
Des Moines Iowa AP Rep Ernest Kosek of Cedar Rapids drafts a bill to allow county recorders to keep 10 cents from each hunting or fishing license sold. He says the move offsets expenses including postage with Polk County Recorder about 3280 dollars and Tunn County Recorder about 2075 dollars annually based on past licenses sold.
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Des Moines
Ernest Kosek
Cedar Rapids
Kosek
Polk County Recorder
Tunn County Recorder
Legislature Asked To Alter Meal Pay Rules at Colleges
A bill filed in Des Moines by Rep James G Armstrong would let students in state dorms avoid paying for meals they do not eat at Iowa State Teachers College University of Iowa and Iowa State College. Current rules require dining at the college commons and no refunds for missed meals, prompting student resentment. The Iowa Restaurant Association has sued to stop enforcing the dining requirement.
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DES Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
James G Armstrong
Waterloo
State Board of Education
Iowa State Teachers College
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
College
Iowa Restaurant Association
College Food Service
Waukon Soldier Turned Over to Military Police
Keith Huffman 26 son of Frank Huffman of south of Waukon was turned over to military police from Fort Sheridan Thursday afternoon. He had been held by Allamakee county authorities since January 17 on a charge of being absent without leave.
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Waukon
Keith Huffman
Frank Huffman
Fort Sheridan
Allamakee
Cornell Dean Granted Leave to Teach in New York University
Dean Jay B MacGregor of Cornell College receives a semester long leave to serve as visiting professor of education at New York University in New York City. Administrative changes accompany his absence as Miron Merrill becomes acting dean for the January 31 semester start and Dr Chester L Rich leads summer sessions.
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MT. Vernon
Jay B MacGregor
Cornell College
New York University
New York City
Russell D. Cole
Cornell Board of Trustees
MacGregor
Miron A Merrill
Cornell
Chester L. Rich
Walter B Gray
C. D Norton
Rich
Watson Davis
Merrill
Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell
S. D
Hamline University
St. Paul
Dakota Wesleyan
College of Puget Sound
Tacoma
Wash
Mary
New York
Ropes Estate Inventory Filed in Des Moines Court
An inventory of 21100 dollars has been filed in district court for the estate of Wayne M Ropes 49 former Iowa secretary of state. The estate includes 11500 dollars in property in Onawa.
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DES Moines
Wayne M Ropes
Iowa
Onawa
Radio Jackpot Winners Face Disillusionment in Shenandoah
Clarence Lawrence returns to a seed warehouse job after his wife won a $30,000 radio jackpot. The couple say many prizes were never delivered or were sold off. They wait for tax returns and fear they cannot afford their dream acreage, noting his lingering unemployment.
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Shenandoah
INS
Clarence Lawrence
Hollywood
Lawrences
Lawrence
Truman Namesake Born During Inaugural Hour in Iowa City
The eight pound six ounce son of Mr and Mrs Orion L Frantz of Iowa City arrived at University hospital during the inaugural hour while President Harry S Truman spoke in Washington. The newborn was named Harry Truman Frantz.
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Iowa City
Harry S. Truman
Washington
University Hospital
Orion L. Frantz
Harry Truman Frantz
Iowa Student's Novel to Be Published in Feb
A 28 year old University of Iowa graduate student Oakley Maxwell Hall will publish his first novel Murder City Feb 2. He wrote about Boom Town in Los Angeles area and will be issued by Farrar Straus and Company New York. Hall is a San Diego native and ex Marine who studied at Geneva Paris and Oxford Universities after serving in the war. He earned a BA from UC in 1943 and did graduate work at Columbia.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Oakley Maxwell Hall
San Diego
Los Angeles
Farrar, Straus and Company
New York Hall
Europe
University of Geneva
University of Paris
Oxford University
University of California
Columbia University
Two Canadians Drive Open Buick to California in 1910
Conrad Augustson of Swan Lake Manitoba and George Nelson of Norwich Saskatchewan travel in an open 1910 Buick toward California stopping in Des Moines for the night. They expect to press on to Kansas City if weather cooperates. They note Iowa’s damp cold exceeds Canadian chill with their claim of 45 degrees below zero.
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California
DES
Iowa
Canada
Nelson
Fire damages Presbyterian church in Sigourney
A blaze in the Sigourney Presbyterian church caused about $10,000 damage on Thursday night. An overheated basement stove started the fire, damaging the pipe organ and much of the interior.
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Sigourney (Ap
Presbyterian
Senate Drafts Legislation Relating to Cash Surplus
Des Moines AP reports tentative Senate drafted measures on a cash surplus for Governor Beardsley. Proposals allocate 36 million for soldiers bonus partial payment, 40 million in a future-fund for low-income times, and 22 million to help fund higher school aid and other needs. Controversy centers on bonus funding and constitutional debt limits.
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Des Moines
State Senate
William S. Beardsley
Treasury
Great Western seeks end of agency service at Stanley
Iowa commerce commission sets February 11 hearing in Oelwein on Great Western railroad request to discontinue agency service at Stanley on the Chicago Oelwein line and substitute custodian service.
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DES Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Oelwein
Great Western Railroad
Stanley
Chicago-Oelwein
Road
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Ropes’ Estate
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U. of Iowa
Price News
Detroit
Packard
Stemlar-Mckibben, Inc
Fourth Avenue
Presbyterian Church
Sigourney
Beardsley
J. C. Colburn
Ways and Means Committee
Colburn
Appropriations Committee
Elec
Modern Appliance Co
Third Ave
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