Iowa Democratsopen 1934 campaign urge re election for state
The Iowa Democratic state central committee endorsed the Roosevelt administration and Governor Clyde L. Herring, urging elected officers to seek re election. It praised progressive legislation and urged congressmen Gillette Biermann Willford Eicher Wearin and Jacobsen to run again in their districts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Democratic State Central Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Clyde N. Herring
Clyde L. Herring
Alex Miller
C. W. Storms
Leo J. Wegman
Edward L. O'Connor
Ray Murray
M. P. Conway
Central Committee
Gillette
Biermann
Willford
Eicher
Wearin
Jacobsen
Budapest String Quartet To Give Cornell Concert
Mount Vernon report announces an additional engagement for the Cornell college artist course. The Budapest String Quartet, completing its fourth annual U S tour, will perform at Cornell Chapel at 8 pm next Thursday. The quartet lists Josef Roisman, Alexander Schneider, Stephen Japolyi, and Mischa Schneider among its members.
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London
Paris
Australia
Des Moines
Josef Roisman
Alexander Schneider
Volin
Stephen Japolyi
Mischa Schneider Ceilo
Iowa liquor commissioners named by governor awaiting senate approval
Appointed Iowa Liquor Commissioners will oversee the administration of Iowa liquor law including sale of intoxicants in state stores. Thornard E. Manley president of Manley Brothers Mason City Democrat. Harold M. Cooper Democrat from Marshalltown. Dick R. Lane Republican Davenport hotelier attorney. Salaries set at 4500 dollars annually.
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Iowa
Clyde Herring
State Senate
Thornard E. Manley
Manley Brothers
Mason City
Harold M. Cooper
Marshalltown
State Public Works Advisory Board
Dick R. Lane
Black Hawk Hotels Corporation
Davenport
Joe R. Lane
Iowa liquor bill creates state monopoly with permits and stores
Provisions establish a state sale monopoly on liquor and wine retail with vineyardists selling only off premises. A three member commission is named by the governor with senate consent and salaries of 4500 a year. The plan allows original package sales only, sets store defendants, and caps permits and revenues, with penalties for bootlegging and Sunday or holiday sales.
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Des Moines
Givce
Senate
Columbia College Players To Present Days Without End
Columbia College Players stage Eugene ONeill drama Days Without End at the Columbia college auditorium Dubuque in two Sunday performances on March 11. It is the western premiere and marks the first nonprofessional company to present the play west of New York. The work follows John Loving an educated businessman who abandons his Christian faith and seeks peace in new beliefs before returning to his childhood parish.
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Dubuque
Eugene O'Neill
Columbia College Players
Columbia College
New York
O'Neill
John Loving
Loving
Debate Tournament Begins At Iowa U
University of Iowa debaters opened initial arguments to defend the intercollegiate title in a tournament hosting teams from eight states. Participants include Ansel Chapman Town City Wallace Ashby Rob ert Blikely Onawa Johnson Roswell Johnson Jack Moon Ottumwa Jack Siddens Coleman Audelson Caine Blaiffs Russell Mekhar Tagan Arthur Barnes Eagle Grove Harry Kotlar Davenport.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
University
Ansel Chapman
Town City
Wallace Ashby
Oelwein
Robert Blikely Onawa
Roswell Johnson Wid Jack Moon
Ottumwa
Jack Siddens
Coleman Audelson Caine
Blaiffs Russell Mekhar
Tagan Arthur Barnes
Eagle Grove
Harry Kotlar
Davenport
Dad Fiderkin
Cedar Rapids
University of Town
Towa State
Towa
H Dakota Notre Dame
Denver
Washington University of St Tous
Wyoming
Texas
Nebraska
Colorado
Fikader Maquoketa
Muscatine
Waukon
Three Suspects Held In Wolz Murder Investigation
Louisa County Sheriff George Oakes reports three men tied to the slaying of Martin Woz Tousa, a farmer killed July 22. Eddie Tallent remains at large in Missouri on larceny charges. Paul Hake of Port Louisa confesses and implicates Tallent and Tor Thompson. Thompson is jailed in Muscatine and faces murder charges for John Link’s case in St Louis.
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Louisa County
George Oakes
St Louisa
Martin Woz
Tousa County
Eddie Tallent
St Louis
Oakes
Paul Hake
Port Louisa
Tallent
Tor
Thompson
Muscatine
John Link
Grant Wood and Christian Peterson to discuss dairy building art plans
Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids and Danish sculptor Christian Peterson, both CWA art directors, will visit Iowa State College on Friday to draft plans for a terra cotta frieze and a fountain for the court of the dairy industry building.
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Ames
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
CWA
Christian Peterson
Iowa State College
Court of the Dairy Industry
Dubuque Voters End City Manager Trial To Keep System
In a special election Dubuque voters approved the city manager form by 8805 to 5006, rejecting a return to mayor and alderman rule. The 14 year trial ends for at least six years, as Iowa law blocks another referendum in that period.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Farmers Tax On Federal Aid Cash, Iowa Says
DES MOINES UP Farmers who receive cash under the federal agricultural adjustment plan must pay income tax on the money Iowa collector of internal revenue Charles D Huston says Washington has ruled. Taxable amounts include reductions in acreage and hogs with corn loans exempt until corn is sold Deductions allowed include rent paid in crops interest on farm mortgages tools machinery state and local taxes food bought for laborers and fertilizers.
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Des Moines
Charles D. Huston
Iowa
Internal Revenue
Huston
Washington
Golden Wedding Celebrated By Monona Couple
Monona Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lembke marked their golden wedding with a noon dinner for 20 relatives and friends and a surprise evening party. Pastor A Davgs of St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran preached at the couple’s Monona home. The couple, married 50 years ago by Rev J G Gass at the Henry Lembke farm, have six grandchildren and five living children. They resided on a Monona farm since 1917 after 33 years on the old timber-cleared plot. he was 82 in 1933 and she 72 in 1934.
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Monona
Fred Lembke
A. Davgs
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lembke
Wiliam Grube
Weta
William Kregel
John Kramber
Charles Johnningmeir
J. S. Rupp
Henry Lembke
Charles Klingemann
Charles Lembke
J. G. Gass
Postville
Ilving
Ed Montour
John A. Lembke
Karl Erb
Emil G. Lembke
Sigmund L. Koehler
Arthur F. Lembke
Ramona
I. D
Lembkes
Iowa City Sees Blanche Bates Admission As Mystery
Mayor Harry D. Breene laments Iowa City not knowing Blanche Bates noting theater article claims Bates has toured many towns but was unfamiliar with the city. He contrasts Bates with household names Helen Menken Helen Hayes and Katharine Cornell as he comments on touring fame.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Blanche Bates
Harry D. Breene
Theater
Miss Bates
New York
America
Helen Menken
Helen Hayes
Katharine Cornell
Towa City
Breene
800 Iowa Towns to Get Aviation Signs
Des Moines reports a CWA project to paint town names ten feet high on the highest building in 800 Iowa towns. Four painters per county will work through May 1 to place the names and add a north arrow on the roof to aid aviators in poor visibility.
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Des Moines
James Keeffe
CWA
Department of Commerce
Keeffe
Cornell Receives 587 Manuscripts in State High School Contest
Mount Vernon reports 587 manuscripts entered in the Cornell college creative writing contest for high schools, spanning seventy schools across seven states. Judging will start soon with winners in prose and poetry to be published in the March Husk. The previous year's poetry winner was Miss Charlotte Radcliff of Minneapolis.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Clyde Tull
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
March Husk
Cornell
Charlotte Radcliff
Minneapolis
Baldwin Woman Leaves Ninety-One Descendants
Mrs. Orville Current 84 died after a six week illness of flu and pneumonia. Funeral services were held at Smith town church conducted by Rev. F. E. Mastin. Born Nancy McAnich March 23 1849 at South Grove Jackson county she married Orville Current Jan 17 1860. They farmed in Clinton county fifty-one years before moving to Baldwin. She had twelve children nine of whom survived with thirty-four grandchildren forty-four great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
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Baldwin
Orville Current
Smithtown
F. E. Mastin
Nancy McAnich
Peter McAnich
South Grove
Jackson County
Clinton County
Mr Current
Dean George F Kay Hospitalized With Pneumonia
Dean George F Kay head of the University of Iowa college of liberal arts remained in a critical condition after pneumonia led to hospitalization. His three children Cal vin Kay and Mrs Charles McLaughlin Jr of Philadelphia and Dr Marshall Kay of New York arrived in Iowa City to be at his bedside.
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Iowa City
George F Kay
University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts
Kay
University Hospital
Calvin Kay
Charles McLaughlin, Jr
Philadelphia
Marshall Kay
New York
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Bernard E. Manley
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Pinny
Iowa U
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