Indictments justify Gazette charges amid Iowa corruption claims
Gazette editor Verne Marshall notes Woodbury county grand jury indictments against Attorney General Edward L. O’Connor and associates confirm prior accusations. He urges Polk county prosecutors to pursue a thorough, fair trial, warns officials about slot machine graft and liquor politics, and calls for local electors to oust corrupt county officials.
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Edward L. O'Connor
Walter Maley
Woodbury County
Gazette
Verne Marshall
Sioux City
Mr. Marshall
Rollinger
Woodbury
Rawlings
Aasisrance
Havner
the Gazette
H. M. Havner
Kuhlmann
Per
Ion Et
Polk
Polk County Grand Jury
Iowa
The
Joe Gagen
Gagen
New Deal
Missouri
Mississippi River
Minnesota
Continue Graft Probe Study New Evidence
Woodbury county graft grand jury with 23 members including the Iowa attorney general and his first assistant prepared to present new evidence from a raid on Clyde Mayer’s home. The materials include letter files check books ledgers and seven slot machines.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Iowa
Clyde Mayer
Edward
O’connor
Walter Maley
H. M. Havner
P. G. Wilson
O'Connor
Maley
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Marshall
Duckworth
State House
Des Moines
Oof Oof County
Havner Commends Woodbury Grand Jury After Indictments
Special Prosecutor H. M. Havner thanked the Woodbury county graft investigation grand jury after they indicted 24 persons. He noted the panel included four Democrats and three Republicans, naming foreman W. E. Hall of Moville and eight members from five towns. He stressed no political affiliation influenced the probe.
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Sioux City
H. M. Havner
Woodbury County
Iowa
Grand Jury
W. E. Hall
Moville
F. B. Burns
Hornick
Board of Supervisors
W. B. Chagman
Correctionville
Louis Eppling
Thomas McGuire
Danbury
Harvey Robbins
B. M. D. Stoddard
Sloan
Grand jury probe in Woodbury corruption showdown
A Sioux City grand jury wrestles with indictments linked to official corruption in Woodbury County and the Iowa state house. The Gazette claims decisive testimony gathered against county and state officials, challenging The Sioux City Tribune’s stance while vowing to pursue justice in honest courts.
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Polk County Grand Jury
Gazette
Carl Burkman
Des Moines
Sioux City
Burkman
Polk Grand Jury
Sioux City Tribune
Supreme Court of Jews
Cedlar Rapids
Woodbury
State House
Des
Moines
Pene
the. Tribune
the Tribune
Tribune
Charles F. Lytle
The
Nebraska Street
Nelson
Nebraska
Grand
Police Capture Bandit Pair After Chase
Two Sioux City men R P Burch 40 and Burton Owen 31 were captured near the west city limits at 3 45 a m after a chase from a Ford V 8 with Woodbury county plates. They confessed to robbing a Tama filling station man Homer Mitchun and abducting him to Belle Plaine. Mitchun identified the suspects in Cedar Rapids Thursday forenoon.
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Tama
Kansas
Burke and Kansky
West City
R. P. Burch
Burton Owen
Sioux City
Bele Plaine
Homer Mitchun
Belle Plaine
Burke
Kansky
Highway 30
Woodbury County
West Highlands
Mitchun
Cedar Rapids
Burch
Belle, Plaine
Earl Stanley
Stanley
Kane county board faces tax appeal over low assessment
Kane county board of review heard a request from H. N. Wade of Batavia a manufacturer and bank director who admitted taxes were too low and offered to pay 175 more. The board rejected the offer noting the assessment was completed Wade said he would donate the money to charity because it does not belong to him.
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Geneva
Kane County
H. N. Wade
Batavia
Wade
Huey Long Bids to Keep Politics Out of Louisiana Relief
Sen. Huey P. Long vowed to jail anyone using federal relief funds for political aims as Louisiana moves to bar politics from relief spending. He sent a telegram to President Roosevelt amid a special legislative session called by Gov. O. K. Allen.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Long
Relief Administration
Senate
Washington
O. K. Allen
New Orleans
Two Fatalities Reported in Iowa on Fourth of July
A Chicago dispatch notes the Glorious Fourth peak in American accidents with 38 deaths. In Iowa, Lucille Reynolds 18 drowned in Cedar River near Charles City. Mrs. George Helms Jr. 20 died from burns in Oelwein. Clinton saw two fatalities from fireworks injuries including a 13‑year‑old burn victim and a 12‑year‑old hurt by a prank.
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Chicago
America
California
Lucille Reynolds
Ray Reynolds
Cedar River
Charles City
George Helms, Jr
Clinton
Wilbur Jurgensen
Roland Goddard
Goddard
News -York
Cunianica ‘Thorness
Park Central
New York City
Hudson River
Tarrytown
Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Alice
Samuelson Heads National Education Association
Miss Agnes Samuelson of Des Moines Iowa was elected president of the National Education Association on Thursday in Denver AP reports. Her election makes her the first woman to lead the association from the Midwest and follows her tenure as Iowa state superintendent of schools.
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Denver
Statehouse slot machine ties reach grand jury in Sioux City
An Iowa grand jury indicts Attorney General O'Conor and Assistant AG Maley amid long rumors of influence by liquor and slot machine racketeers. The editorial hopes for a full court test as the showdown approaches, stressing the indictment does not convict and awaits the petit jury.
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Woodbury County Grand Jury
The
Gazette
Iowa
Grand
Grand Jury
Statehouse
O’connor
Maley
Petit Jury
Des Moines Register
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