Iowa Aide Cuts Propel Tax Burden Reduction Report
State officials report a roughly 24.6 million dollar tax burden reduction driven by campaign economy pledges. Estimates include 7 broad cutbacks from state expenses and payroll, plus 20 percent reductions in valuations and tax collections across municipalities and school districts.
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Wedreedav
Pomure.pal Econom.es
Thrones Cove
Ted Tee
Arau
Appromes
Arimes
Hauke Teotegni
Leo Werman
Bern
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Biota
Srmountirge
State Board of Assessment
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Axa
Cornwall
Tre Tota
Cours
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Decorah Business Leader C R Williams dies at 94
C R Williams age 94 prominent pioneer in Decorah dies at his home Tuesday night. He served forty five years as president of Winneshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance. Williams resided in the area since 1854. Funeral services set for Friday.
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Decorah
C R. Williams
Winneshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
Willams
Iowa
Cedar County approves 39 men for emergency conservation work
Cedar county emergency relief committee approves applications for 39 young men aged 18 to 25 to join federal emergency conservation work. Cedar county’s quota is 30, and a request was made to increase the quota. Recipients include Harold Williams Tipton Everett Kingsbury Jr Stanwood E Vincent Gruber Stanwood John Blake West Branch and others across Tipton Mechanicsville West Branch Durant and Clarence.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Harold Z Williams
Everett L. Kingsbury, Jr
E Vincent Gruber
Stanwood
John O Blake
West Branch
Lawrence P Gaylor
Lawrence Butler
Mechanicsville
MF Scott Hawley
Wilbur E. Boots
Dean MecQuillen
Roy O Wulf
Durant
Kenneth Brandt
Waldo H. Schneckloth
Elmer Kroening
John Stoecker
Kenneth
Dan C. Williams
Edward W. Woicik
Clarence
Jury Fixing Pair Convicted in Prohibition Plot Des Moines
H E Chapman and Len E Chapman of Carroll were convicted on federal conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Jury returned a sealed verdict in Judge Charles A. Dewey's court. sentencing set for Saturday morning. William Stevenson of Boone previously convicted in the conspiracy received one year and a day at Leavenworth.
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DES Moines
H. E. Chapman
Len E. Chapman
Carroll
Charles A. Dewey
W EL Bedell
Stevenson
Leavenworth
Wegman Arranges Road Debt Payment
Des Moines AP Leon Wegman state treasurer said arrangements were made to cover 6,845,279.24 dollars in county primary road bond principal and interest due last Monday. Warrants worth about 3.5 million dollars were sold for disposal in Chicago and a 3.6 million dollar motor vehicle license fund plus incoming funds cover maintenance costs. Unpaid warrants will be recalled as funds become available and anticipatory warrants are retired as scheduled through May 1.
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DES Moines
Leon Wegman
Carleton D. Bch Company
Chicago
Wegman
Lutherans Meet at Eldorado for Northeast Iowa Conference
Ministers from the northeast Iowa conference of the Minnesota district of the American Lutheran Church met Tuesday and Wednesday at St. Petri church in Eldorado. Twenty four pastors attended with Rev A Hugo Lutz organizing local arrangements. Speakers included Revs Engelke New Hampton Boese Lakota Prottengeler Charles City Mueller Rockwell Dernauer Tonia Moench Cresco Hall Mason City and E H Welke of St Paul presiding.
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West Union
Northeast Iowa
Minnesota
American Lutheran Church
St. Petri
Eldorado
A. Hugo Lutz
English Lutheran Church
E. Engelke
New Hampton
P. Boese
Lakota
C. Prottengel
Iowa Urban Home Mortgages Reach $257 Million in 1932
Urban home and real estate mortgages in Iowa at the end of 1932 totaled 257,777,657 dollars, excluding National Farm Mortgage debt. Insurance companies held 198,150,487 dollars of the Iowa urban mortgage total, with building and loan associations at 43,330,170 and banks at 16,297,000.
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Washington
Iowa
Federal Home Loan Bank
Mother's Plea May Win Leniency From Herring For Lifer
Governor Herring ordered publication of a notice on commutation of Jean Farnell a 48 year old life prisoner at Fort Madison after a visit by his mother Mrs Kate Farnell 78 Davenport Fort Madison resident who traveled by road and spent two days and a night en route, seeking clemency.
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Des Moines
Herring
Jean Farnell
Fort Madison
Kate Farnell
Farnell
Iowa News in Brief Highlights from towns across the state
Reports from Ainsworth Grundy Center Independence Maquoketa Morley Center Junction Toleda and Tama include a high school senior class play The Mystery of the Third Gable at Ainsworth and Clover Time at Morley plus student leadership at Grundy Center and St Johns High School graduates in Independence A Maquoketa junior college invite to a spring play and a Tama funeral obituary for Mary C Gageby aged 82 with Civil War veteran husband James Gareby highlighted.
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Ainsworth
Third Gable
Lyle McCaleb
Marguerite Warren
Paul Mabin
Virginia Scranton
Morris Beanblossom
John Shook
Lola Coppock
Helen Amlong
Corwin Evans
Grundy Center
Russell Plaper
L. W. Plager
Iowa State College
Ames
Cardinal Guild
Alpha Zeta Society
Independence
St. John’s High Schools
Dorothy Ampher
Virginia Assmuss
Lucila Brenan
Katharine Burke
Clement Burns
Clifford Cashen
Virginia Herrick
Gertrude Gleason
Eileen Hayes
May McAreany
Lucille McDonald
Jessamine McGonigle
Grace McGrath
Lucille McGrath
Charles McSweeney
Eileen O'Connor
Margaret O'Connor
Margaret Paul
Lucille Selzer
Mary Smith
Bernice Tellerton
Maquoketa
Justice Court
Leon Halliday
Pauline Doty
Mary K. Eaton
Delmar
Eloise Hannahs
Monmouth
Earl Beck
Baldwin
Wilton Keeney
Andrew
Regina Swift
Roberta Meineke
Frederick Swift
Albert Allen
Suthers Smith
Harold Whitaker
Harriette Reyner
Bernadine Wingert
Cedar Rapids
Morley
Supt. F S Grawe
Lee Embree
Gwelda Fairbanks
Alvin Bailey Hanna Siebels
Ivan Hempy
Virginia Yount
John Hanna
Dale MecConaughy
Alice Seeger
Irene Oldorf
Cecile Cook
Toledo
Mary C Gageby
Ray Youngman
Tama Presbyterian Church
Oliver Stevenson
Mary Catherine Cooper
Daniel and
Lavina Cooper
Crawford County
Solon
James A Gareby
Marion
Tama
Arthur Churchill Dies From Wound In St Louis
Arthur Churchill ten, brought to St Louis by air after being accidentally shot by a playmate in Burlington Iowa, died in St Louis Children's Hospital. Son of Warren Churchill, Burlington drug manufacturer, he was playing cow boy and Indian when the gun fired. The bullet lodged in his spine and an operation Sunday failed.
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ST. Louis
Arthur Churchill
Burlington
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Warren Churchill
McGregor Doctor Held On Drunk Driving Charge
Dr. E C Meggers of McGregor is held for the grand jury on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Gus McClellan after a farmer near Brandon called to report him lost and arguing about directions. Meggers posted a $600 bond and was released. he said he was en route to Walker for his mother's funeral.
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Vinton
E. C Meggers
McGregor
G. W. Burnham
Gus McClellan
Brandon
Meggers
Walker
Independence
North Liberty Bans Sale of Beer in City Action
Mrs. Ruby Stewart, owner of the Lighthouse Inn, protests the North Liberty city council decision denying beer sales. The council ruled against the beer permit application, arguing no discretion under the law. Stewart said she will appeal to the district court.
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North Liberty
Iowa City
Ruby Stewart
Stewart
Center Junction Votes May 6 On School Bonds
Center Junction voters head to the polls May 6 to approve 2500 in bonds to build an auditorium at the new school and to use 2000 from a local surplus for the same purpose. Insurance 12000 from the old building fire will finance the main part of the school. Classes have met in churches since January’s fire.
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Center Junction
Nina Koshetz to Open Cornell College Music Festival
Russian soprano Nina Koshetz will open the Cornell college music festival season with a May 12 concert in the Mount Vernon chapel auditorium. She has starred with major orchestras in the U S and Europe and has been praised by critics for interpretive intelligence and versatility. She is also slated to perform at the Ann Arbor festival later in May.
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Mount Vernon
Nina Koshetz
Cornell College i
Chapel
Madame Koshetz
Russian Imperial Opera
Paris
Koussevitzky
Boston Symphony
Chalilapin
Chicago Civic Opera Association
OlNn Downes
New York
Ann Arbor
Beat Inflation at Local Stores Stocks Sell Fast
Local grocers report high demand for flour and sugar with many customers purchasing large sacks. Shoppers say the inflation wave will not affect them as they stock up on essentials.
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