Weather and local notices in Daily Record
Cedar Rapids snow covers ground as spring returns with a wet snow event. Temperatures ranged 28 to 34 degrees, with a 44 reading earlier and 31 at midnight. Local fines issued for school sign violations and a dirty truck, births at St Luke's and Mercy hospitals, a grass fire on Eleventh Street, and the death of John Jones at the Veterans Hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
Boston
Washington
Mount Ave
Tampa
New Orleans
Omaha
Galveston
Charles City
Los Angeles
Nes Moines
Milan Trancisco
Seattle
Duduque
Havre
Davenport
Bismarck
Keokuk
Detroit
New York
Chambers
St Luke's Hospital
A. D. Pollack
Springville
Mercy Hospital
Nancy Jean
John H Clark
Ninth Street
Ira Barcus
Wilson Avenue
Senate Passes Tax Commission Bills In Iowa
The Iowa senate approved thirty three bills to reorganize tax collection duties by creating a tax commission replacing the board of assessment and review. Several measures raise the commission’s revenue role and require governor approval. one bill on gasoline tax remains on the calendar. Four reform bills were also passed, including state car use control and the transfer of the securities department to the insurance commission. A special eight member farm tenancy committee was legalized.
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Des Moines
Iowa Senate
House
Senate
Tax Commission
State Board of Assessment and Review
Board of Assessment
Old State Board of Assessment
State Executive Council
State Securities Department
Secretary of State
State Insurance Commission
Highway Commission
State Comptroller
Executive Council
E. P. Donahue
Miller
Vesely
Senate Deadlock Ends as Hearings Ordered on Neutrality Law
The administration lost a Wednesday bid to keep neutrality legislation hearings secret. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to open hearings after a tie was broken by Chairman Key Pittman Nev. The administration spokesman had urged no hearings at all.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Key Pittman
Nev
Administration
Audubon County Publisher Killed in Road Accident
F C Eaton publisher of the Audubon County Journal Extra died instantly when the automobile he rode in plunged down a steep embankment near Dunlap Iowa Tuesday. The crash occurred as the vehicle left the road, trapping Eaton inside the wreckage. Authorities investigated the cause of the plunge and identified other occupants.
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Dunlap, Ia
F C. Eaton
Audubon County Journal, Extra
Dunlap
Committee reports slash relief fund as parlay battles loom
A House subcommittee cut WPA relief funds to 100 million dollars prompting swift full committee action. Democrats and Republicans clashed over parity and farm relief while Roosevelt unveiled a plan to subsidize exports of surplus cotton with a 15 million dollar request.
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Taylor
House
Agriculture Department
Bankhead
Rayburn
Rep. Sacks
Cox
Woodrum
Farmer-Laborite
Roosevelt
Jones
House Appropriations Committee
Enire
Mr. Roosevelt
County finds oversized soap stock, bills linger
County supervisors debate soap and chemical oversupply in courthouse and jail basements with an appraisal expected to reach about 12 000 dollars. Beeson cites 90 containers and full island supply drums as evidence of excess while ongoing bills tied to February report remain unsettled.
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Beeson
Wim
Earl Miller
Churchill Manufacturing Company
Galesburg
Illinois Chemical Concern
Robert M. Wesely
Miller
Nazis Tighten Grip on Evangelical Church
Berlin AP reports Friedrich Werner orders the Evangelical church to bar members from appointing any pastor other than the regular pastor for duties and religious instruction, tightening Nazi control over church leadership and ministry.
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Berlin
Friedrich Werrer
Supreme Church Council
Boland Named Line Coach for Chicago Cardinals
Pat Boland, former University of Iowa assistant football coach under Il Tubbs in 1937 and 1938, signed Wednesday as line coach for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Professional League. His Iowa contract expires July 1, he will join Ernie Nevers, backfield coach during Tubbs era, at Chicago. Nevers was named head coach of the Cardinals after Dr Eddie Anderson of Holy Cross was chosen to succeed Tubbs at Iowa last December.
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Chicago
Pat Boland
University of Iowa
Il Tubbs
Chicago Cardinals
Boland
Iowa
Ernie Nevers
Tubbs
Nevers
Cardinals
Eddie Anderson
Holy Cross
Iowa House Passes Truck Tax Bill with Weigh Limits
The measure imposes a gross weight tax on trucks over three quarters of a ton and sets license fees, with exemptions for farm-market haulers and 16,000 wagon boxes. It requires all common carriers to file rates with the commerce commission and adds per day fees for foreign trucks under 24,000 pounds.
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Iowa
Commerce Commission
Beeler
Bittner
Bowers
Broderson
Burk
Eckerman
Fishbaugh
Foster
Goode
Hathaway
Hyelt
Judd
Love
Lucas
Morrow
Peyton
Pieper
Randall
Ritchie
Ropes
Scholz
Shales
Stewart
Walter
F. J. Pine
Columbus Junction
Draft Bill Aims State Tax On Federal Salaries
Two Republican senators from Iowa announced a bill to require federal employees to pay state income tax following a Supreme Court ruling that the state may tax federal pay. The measure, by Frank Byers and E. P. Donahue, will go to the Senate judiciary committee. No estimate of the revenue was given.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Frank Byers
Cedar Rapids
E. P. Donahue
New Hampton
Senate Judiciary
Byers
Woman Carried Mile On Stretchers Through Snow
A sick woman, Mrs. Rubeck, was carried a mile on a stretcher through snow from the Palisades river road to a traversable highway. Four ambulance workers and a reporter accompanied the march as her husband bid her farewell, asking care for his horse.
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Palisades River
Rubeck
Peter Therkelsen
Cedar Falls
Hospital Group Honors Sister Mary Maura
Sister Mary Maura of Mercy hospital was elected first vice president of the Iowa Nebraska Catholic Hospital conference in Sioux City. Other officers include Sister Mary Kevin as president and Sister Placida as second vice president with Sister Mary Alberta and Sister Mary Cyril in further roles.
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Mary Maura
Mercy Hospital
School of
Iowa-Nebraska Catholic Hospital Conference
Sioux City
Mary Kevin
Omaha
Neb
Placida
Mary Alberta
Council Bluffs
Mary Cyril
LeMars
Putnam Faces Threat Over Hitler Book Plan
In Los Angeles publisher George Palmer Putnam told a civic club an anonymous caller warned him not to publish his fiction work The Man Who Killed Hitler. He said the German band forbids publication, but he will proceed with releasing the book.
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Los Angeles
George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Hitler
Putnam
Voice
Mayor Seeks Resignations Of Eight City Hall Women
Northampton mayor William H. Feiker demands the resignation by June 15 of eight city hall working wives claiming married women work to escape boredom and that babies reduce birthrate and threaten the nation.
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Northampton
Mass
William H. Feiker
Roosevelt Goes South for Ten Day Warm Springs Trip
President Roosevelt leaves Washington for a ten day stay in Warm Springs Georgia expecting talks in Alabama including Tuskegee Institute and Auburn University with stops at Opelika and possible discussions on the south’s economic ties to the north. He travels with Secretary Hopkins recovering from influenza and is accompanied by a skeleton office as telegraph lines keep the national capital connected.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Southland
Pine Mountain
Warm Springs
Alabama
Tuskegee Institute
Negro Educational Center
Auburn
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Opelika
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Ross T. McIntire
White House
Wages for Cedar Rapids Building Trades Unchanged
Cedar Rapids building trades wage schedules are expected to stay the same for most crafts with a few exceptions. Plasterers receive a 25 cent per hour increase effective March 1, while electricians seek a 5 percent raise to 1.31 an hour. Bricklayers request from 1.42 to 1.65 per hour. cement finishers seek an advance. Carpenters plumbers iron workers and laborers plan to keep last year’s scales.
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Cedar Rapids
Dismiss Alienation Suit Against Langer
A district court jury returned a verdict dismissing a $25,000 alienation of affections suit brought against former Gov. William Langer by Mandan truck driver Robert Deis. Deis accused Langer, an attorney, of misconduct involving Mrs. Deis.
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Bismarck
N. D
William Langer
Robert Deis
Deis
Langer
Corcoran Group Named for White House Executive Aides
Washington AP reports Thomas G. Corcoran and other administration legal and economic aides slated for six new White House executive assistant posts created by the government reorganization bill. Sources say changes to the bill altered the original draft and many career experts rejected the roles.
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Washington (Ap
Thomas G. Corcoran
Administration
White House
Roosevelt
Indict Cunningham For Wife Murder In Oklahoma City
A grand jury indicted Roger Cunningham for the murder of his wife Eudora a prominent society figure and matron. The indictment cites his confession alleging he choked her with his hands and a scarf and buried her beneath eight feet of earth in a sewer ditch.
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Oklahoma City
Roger Cunningham
Eudora
Cunningham
Clyde Brenton Estate Valued At $298,994 In Dallas County
An inventory filed in Dallas County District Court lists the Clyde E. Brenton estate of Des Moines banker who died September 19, and assigns the total value at $298,994.
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Adel. Ia
Dallas County District Court
Clyde E. Brenton
Des Moines
POAES Averages and Bond Prices Rise Slightly
Mixed bond quotes show gains across several sectors with 40 bonds tracked. Industrials and utilities inch higher while rails and second grade rails post small declines or modest increases.
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POAES
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