Iowa's New Laws Take Effect on Independence Day
Iowa authorizes 242 acts to take effect Friday July 4 including beer law changes with brighter lighting and restricted C licenses to groceries and pharmacies. The old age assistance appropriation rises by 1.5 million to 8.5 million annually while other measures set license plate rules redistricting eight districts and Hoover home funding.
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Iowa
DES Moines
University of Iowa
Forty-ninth General Assembly
George A. Wilson
Principal Assembly
General Assembly
Iowa Retail Trade In May Climbs 22 Percent Over 1940
A Census Bureau report shows Iowa independent retailers up 22 percent in May compared with May 1940. Dollar sales reached 7 908 172 with department stores up 17 percent and other businesses up 23 percent.
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Iowa
Washington
Census Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Sioux City
Dubuque
Mason City
Des Moines
Sullivan scheduled to die converts to Catholicism
Ivan Leon Sullivan, 29, Iowa penitentiary convict who must die on the gallows Sept. 12 for the slaying of Guard Robert Hart has joined the Catholic church. Warden Haynes announced Sullivan's conversion during a Des Moines board of control conference visit. Sullivan escaped last summer with two others, and after a Midwest crime spree returned to kill Hart while trying to spring a fellow inmate. His appeal was denied by the supreme court.
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Des Moines
INS
Ivan Leon Sullivan
Iowa
Robert Hart
Catholic Church
Glenn C. Haynes
Sullivan
Board of Control
Midwest
Hart
Supreme Court
Hell Family to Become Hills After Name Change
Ferdinand Hell filed to change the family name to Hill due to confusion and embarrassment. The change takes effect July 5 as County Clerk Emil Peters confirmed, with Mr and Mrs Hell and their six children to be known as Hills thereafter.
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Denison
INS
Hell
Manilla
Hill
Ferdinand Hell
Emil M. Peters
Hardy dog saved after coal pile scare in Des Moines
Peggy the fox terrier was dug from under eight tons of coal by the Ralph Pugh family yet remained unharmed aside from dirt fatigue and bruising. A pet doctor treated the dog.
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Des Moines
Peggy
Ralph Pugh
Grant Wood Painting Two Free America Scenes At Iowa Studio
In a quiet Iowa City studio Grant Wood adds finishing touches to two paintings inspired by a tranquil democracy. The works titled Spring in Town and Spring in the Country depict a town scene and a rural landscape rich in detail and color. Wood discusses his ideals of an America free in a warring world, a friend of writer Eric Knight notes their nightlong conversations on life and art. Knight, a University of Iowa writer, also has ties to The Flying Yorkshireman and This Above All.
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Iowa City
Grant Wood
America
Wood
Eric Knight
Knight
Writers’ Workshop
University of Iowa
Pennsylvania
Youthful Bandit Pair Given 50 Year Terms In Montana Prison
Two youths Elmer Frederick McKinney and Walter Weston were sentenced to 50 years each in the Montana penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbery charges. Captured after a 47 day crime spree across 10 northwestern states the pair admitted to 40 auto thefts 9 robberies 3 kidnappings and a burglary earning only 329.50. Their diary described gun battles kidnappings and audacious holdups during the spree.
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Montana
Billings
Mont
Elmer Frederick McKinney
Seattle
Wash
Walter Weston
Mexico
Guy Co. Derry
McKinney
Weston
Washington
Iowa
Broadus
Claude Anderson
Purge Effort Renewed Against Iowa Birth Educator Cocking
Georgia Governor Talmadge announced a July 14 hearing by the board of regents to consider new evidence that Walter Cocking of the University of Georgia school of education advocated social equality. With two pro Cocking allies resigning, dismissal chances rise as past charges included plans for a mixed race school near campus.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Board of Regents
Walter Cocking
University of Georgia School of Education
Manchester, In
Clark Howell
Lucien Goodrich
Cocking
Talmadge
Howell
Goodrich
University of Georgia
Federal agency says no Moscow Cedar River dam application on file
Federal Power Commission officials said no application had been submitted for the $3 million Cedar River hydro dam at Moscow Iowa. They stressed they neither plan nor finance construction and only consider declarations of intent. Des Moines council denied permission after reports the federal agency planned to build the dam. First Iowa Hydro electric cooperative sought state permission.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Cedar River
Moscow
Commission
Des Moines
A. A. Couch
Iowa Federation of Labor
First
Iowa Hydro-electric Cooperative
Iowa Exemplar Highlighted By Governor Wilson
Gov George A Wilson used a radio address to portray Iowa as a model of governance by the people. He urged churches to stress the tie between faith and independence and cited social legislation gains in recent years.
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Des Moines
INS
George A. Wilson
Iowa
Wilson
Oil claim disputed at Iowa State grounds
Ames oil claim reversals unfold as consultant E. J. Whittaker from Los Angeles states no oil under Iowa State College grounds or Ames city after earlier finding a radio locator signal. He now says the state contains vast paraffin oil reserves, despite the reversal.
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Ames
INS
E. J. Whittaker
Los Angeles
Calif
Oland
Iowa State Colege
Whittaker
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