Election reform talk widens Iowa nominating debate
Des Moines reports chairmen of both major parties call for a overhaul of Iowa primary laws for state offices, while keeping U S senator and governor nominations. Proposals include party convention nominations, convention endorsement, or cross party voting in primaries. Attorney General says changes possible in 1939 legislature. no constitutional changes needed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
E. H. Birmingham
Democratic Central Committee
Carl Cook
Republican Committee
Birmingham
Cook
United States
Agriculture
Commerce
George Brown
Iowa High School Athletic Association
B. B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
G.O.P. Wheelhorse
Harry B. Thompson
Muscatine
Earl G. Miller
Raymond P. Conner
Denison
John H. Mitchell
West Liberty to mark centennial with June parade
West Liberty will celebrate its 100th anniversary the week of June 26, centering June 29 with a 10 a.m. parade and a noon free ox roast for 12,000. An historic pageant, directed by C. F. McDowell of Cincinnati, features 200 cast members and runs June 27–29 at the fair grounds amphitheater.
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C. F. McDowell
Cincinnati
Fair Ground
Enos Nyce
Wapsie
Skliman Alger
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Logan
Grimes
Carnegie Library
Mary Nyce
Nyce
Charles J. Mackey
Ohio
William A. Clark
Martin Baker
Rochester
Cedar River
Iowa City
S. B. Sedgewick
L. A. Royal
W. J. Eichenauer
Earl Hawker
Robert Brooke
H. A. Knott
George Nichol
Paul Anderson
K. C. Smith
Another Cattle Rustler Receives Prison Sentence
SAC CITY Iowa UP Glen Liebrecht 24 one of five men accused of stealing hogs and cattle valued at 15000 from Iowa and Illinois farmers Saturday was under sentence of five years in the state reformatory He pled guilty to a charge of larceny of domestic animals Liebrecht was the second person to be arrested in connection with the case The first one taken into custody Arthur Johnson Sioux City was sentenced at Vinton Friday to 10 years in the state prison.
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Sac City
Glen Liebrecht
Iowa
State Reformatory
Liebrecht
Arthur Johnson
Sioux City
Vinton
Iowa Drownings Reach Twenty-One This Year
Iowa health officials warn of rising drowning toll as summer opens. Twenty-six days bring eleven deaths from Iowa waters including five swimming incidents, five boat or raft incidents, and one river fall. Rules urge adult supervision for children, avoid swimming after meals, limit time in water, and exit quickly if cramps occur.
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DES Moines
Iowa State Health Department
Iowa
Health Department
WASHED-OUT ROADBED SETS TRAIN WRECK IN IOWA
Sixteen cars of a Minneapolis and St. Louis extra freight train derailed and burned near New Sharon Iowa after heavy rain washed out part of the embankment at a culvert. No injuries reported. Engine and two cars cleared the washout. damage estimated at least 100000 dollars as gasoline and kerosene ignited the blaze. Sam Tucker of Oskaloosa was engineer.
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New Sharon
Minneapolis and
St. Louis Railroad
Oskaloosa
Marshalltown
E. L. Crimmen
Oska Joosa
Sam Tucker
Freight car wreck scatters wheat along line near River Sioux
Near River Sioux Iowa a freight car with a broken journal derailed several miles of track after leaving the rails. Six itinerants riding in the car were dumped into a soft earth bank but escaped injury as wheat spilled over the right of way for about a half mile.
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River Sioux
North Western
President Knapp of Texas Tech Dies at 68
Dr Bradford Knapp 68 president of Texas Technological College died in Lubbock after a heart condition. Former president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn and Oklahoma A M College Stillwater, he once led the Arkansas university agriculture division. A native of Vinton Iowa, burial likely in Ames.
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Lubbock
Tex
Bradford Knapp
Texas Technological College
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Stillwater
Arkansas University Division of Agriculture
Knapp
Washington
Department of Agriculture
States Relations Service
Vinton, Ia
Ames, Ia
Runaway youths in Iowa average one per day
Des Moines AP reports since May 1 Iowa has seen one boy a day leave home to roam the open road and about every other day a girl joins the exodus of Hawkeye youngsters chasing a hoped for pot of gold at the end of their rainbow. Most runaways are 15 to 16, though an 8-year-old left with a 15-year-old. Some plan Texas, but many return home quickly after days on the road.
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Des Moines
State Bureau of Investigation
Iowa
Bureau
Butler County
Frank Neal
Allison
Texas
Enforcement of Iowa Fireworks Ban Sought Statewide
Des Moines AP says J Vincent Pyle state fire marshal urged all municipal and county officials to enforce the new Iowa law banning fireworks. He asked for cooperation and appealed to citizens to observe the prohibition, which took effect January 1.
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Iowa
DES Moines
J. Vincent Pyle
Pyle
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