Third Term Issue Faces State Democratic Convention Saturday
More than 2 000 Iowa Democratic delegates will decide if Henry A Wallace remains a feasible favorite son for the presidential nomination. The convention will select 44 delegates with half a vote each for the July 15 national session in Chicago, with discussions of Roosevelt’s third term and Wallace’s possible support shaping the outcome.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Henry A Wallace
The
Secretors of Agriculture
Gut Mo Gillette
Roosevelt
Wallace
Chicago
White House
Clyde L. Herring
E. I. Birmingham
Frederick Stock Leads 42nd May Festival at Cornell
At Cornell College the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Frederick Stock drums up the forty second annual May music festival with a Pomp and Circumstance finale. The program features Wagner Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Brahms variations among other works. The afternoon concert starts at 2 15 and the evening program at 8 15 with overture Karelia Ontis and Sibelius Nati Minor Muradel.
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Mount Vernon
Waener
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Stock
Cornell College
Wagner
Alaestasa
United States
Joseph Haydn
Brahms Siesfried
Herring to Recommend Iowa Southern District U S Attorney
Senator Clyde L. Herring announced he will recommend a permanent U S attorney for the southern Iowa district upon returning to Washington. The post was vacated when John K Valentine resigned to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Ben McCoy of Oskaloosa was named acting U S attorney by Judge Charles E. Dewey.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
United States
Washington
John K Valentine
Centerville
Trush Ben McCoy
Oskaloosa
Charles E. Dewey
Des Moines Shop Reports $100 Sibberware Theft
A department store reported the theft of sibberware valued at 100 dollars. Police were notified by the store management.
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Des Moines
Fim
Judge Eichendorf Named Clayton Bar President
Clayton County Bar association elected officers Judge W L Eichendorf of McGregor as president with B W Newberry of Strawberry Point as emeritus and M N Geske of McGregor as vice president FE Sharp of Elkader as secretary and D W Meier of Monona as treasurer. Executive committee members are C F W Neylan Elkader E G Gross Strawberry Point and G W Hunt Guttenberg. District bar association meeting set for May 25 in Backbone State Park near Strawberry Point.
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Eleader
Clayton County Bar Association
B W Newberry
Strawberry Point
W L. Eichendorf
McGregor
M .N. Geske
Sharp
Elkader
D. W Meier
Monona
Tom Sawyer Joins Upper Mississippi Barging Fleet
McGREGOR The Tom Sawyer has moved from the lower river to the upper Mississippi to meet higher towing demand this season. It passed the Pontoon Bridge Thursday afternoon northbound on its first trip with a heavy coal and farm machinery tow.
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McGregor
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Huck Finn
Upper Mississippi
Lower River
Sawyer
Fatally Stabs Wife Then Kills Self in Muscatine
Rudolph Mendez 33 fatally stabbed his wife Neola 36 and then killed himself with a butcher knife in their apartment. Neola staggered downstairs bleeding from eight wounds. she died before officers arrived at 1:30 am. Mendez died minutes later, had threatened to kill his wife previously. The couple were married 13 years and had no children.
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Muscatine
Rudolph Mendez
Neola
Fred Nesper
Muscatine County
Mendez
Fort Atkinson Restoration Study Under Way
Des Moines IA UP M L Hutton says the state conservation commission is researching the background of old Fort Atkinson to decide on restoration. A Decorah delegation seeks restoration for a centennial celebration and an appropriation of 10000 dollars was requested earlier. The fort built in 1840 included a stone blockhouse and barracks. original structures also had log barracks a stockade a school and other buildings. The fort protected Winnebago and others from whites and neighboring tribes. The commission also weighs buying 87 acres to connect Bellevue state park at sixty dollars per acre was deemed too high.
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Des Moines
M L Hutton
State Conservation Commission
Fort Atkinson
Decorah
State Executive Council
Hutton
Bellevue
Asked By Boss To Juggle Books Embezzlement Trial
Dorothy Luepke testified in Storm Lake that A L Pollock, a local motor dealer, ordered her to juggle books to hide transactions from his wife. She said she resigned due to his improper advances, while Pollock maintained he was unaware of the manipulated figures until an audit followed her posteal.
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Boss
Storm Lake
INS
A. L. Pollock
Dorothy Luepke
Tete Court
Storm Lake Friay
Luepke
Pollock
Prefers Prison To 18 Hour Work Day
A parolee, Donald H Jay, 25, asked to be sent back to Anamosa reformatory after claiming an 18 hour daily work routine for a charity group. The parole board agreed to his return to prison following an investigation. Jay had been on parole last month after serving three years of a 10 year sentence for motor vehicle larceny.
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Des Moines
INS
Donald H Jay
Anamosa
Parole Board
Ieaieane
Jay
Des Marines
Wash Streets To Pay For False Fire Alarm
Mount Vernon officials fined two Cornell freshmen William Holch Hinsdale Jr and Lewis Carter Lehigh for attempting to turn in a false fire alarm. The two were ordered to aid in washing Mount Vernon's main street with a fire hose and brush as punishment, a task tied to the season’s multiple false alarms this spring.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Harold Current
Cornell
William Holch
Hinsdale, Jr
Lewis Carter
Lehigh
Keystone Couple Are Married Fifty Years
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Hennings celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with an open house on Tuesday marking fifty years of marriage.
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Keystone
Nick Hennings
Body of Capt Sank Found Near Buzzards Island
The body of Capt William Sank who drowned April 29 in the Mississippi River was recovered 12 miles below Keokuk at Buzzards Island on Thursday. He was believed to have fallen from a boat.
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Keokuk
Willam
Andy
Mississip River
Buzzards Island
Fayette Pioneer Honored On Her 98th Birthday
Mrs. R J Ruhens, pioneer resident of West Union and Fayette, celebrated her ninety eighth birthday. Born May 9 1842 near Wheeling Pennsylvania she married John Kuhens in 1861 and served as a nurse early in the Civil War. The couple later settled near West Union and family ties linked to Upper Iowa University. Her children include George 78 Delbert Ben Kuhens Dr Vern Kuhens Warren Culbertson Dan Hall Pearl Winrick and Ethel Cousins with a daughter deceased.
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Fayette
R J Ruhens
West Union
Ruhens
Iowa
Wheeling
Kuhens
John Kuhens
St. Louis
General Grant
Warren Culbertson
Dan Hall
Pearl Winrick
Mason City
Ethel Cousins
Stanley
Gillette Will Back Iowan For Judgeship
Washington Senator Guy Gillette said he will insist on one of the two new circuit judges for the Eighth District being an Iowan as Congress moves toward appointing six district judges and two circuit judges. He noted Arkansas and North Dakota lack circuit bench representation and listed six Iowa possibilities including T E Diamond, Richard Mitchell, John Mitchell, Frank A. O Connor, Carl Pryor and Leon Powers.
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Congress
Iowa
Guy Gillette
Gillette
House
Senate
Senator Clarke
Missouri
Senator Gillette
Fort Dodge
John Mitchell
Frank A. O'Connor
Dubuque
U.S
Carl Pryor
Burlington
Leon Powers
Denison
Federal Land Bank
Omaha
Maybe He Should Have Stayed Home
Clarence Briggman is jailed in West Union on a $40 fine from Judge Dan Woods for driving without a license, faulty brakes and steering, no horn, obscured plates, and speeding. He was arrested Wednesday.
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Oelwein
Clarence Briggman
West Union
Dan Woods
Briggman
Ossian Girl Killed by Falling Tree Stump
Funeral services for Luella Bohr 3 were held at St Francis de Sales Church by Rev Jerome Bohr. She died when a hollow five foot stump dislodged by her brothers near a bridge fell and broke her neck as her father carried her home. Survived by parents and siblings Arthur Mark Carl Carita Lucy and Norma Jean.
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Luella Bohr
John Bohr
St Francis de Sales Church
Jerome Bohr
Luella
Bohr
Arthur
Mark
Carl
Carita
Lucy
Norma Jean
Defendant Wins Damage Action In Washington
Judge Patterson directed a verdict for Washington county in a $2,650 damage suit by Clara and Henry Prymek against the county over a road vacation. The jury was told to find for the defendant after the plaintiffs failed to prove their land abutted the vacated highway. Prymek has filed notice of appeal to the supreme court.
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Gazette
Washington
J. G Patterson
Clara
Henry Prymek
Highland Township
Washington County
Prymek
Patterson
Supreme Court
Hofmann Acclaimed At Cornell May Festival Fete
Joseph Hofmann, at 65, wowed the Cornell May Festival audience with a classical and romantic program. The pianist displayed flawless technique, sculptural tone, and Lisztian virtuosity in Bach transcriptions, Chopin, Liszt, and a Don Juan Fantasy encore. The performance drew a long, eager audience response.
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Mount Vernon
Joseph Hofmann
Cornell
Hofmann
Chopin
Listz
Earlville Adds New Illinois Central Foreman
Wil Frost formerly of Masonville assumed the role of Illinois Central railroad section foreman at Earlville this week. He succeeds Nick Gingeler of Dyersville who had been acting as temporary foreman.
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Earlville
Wil Frost
Masonville
Illinois Central Railroad
Nick Gingeler
Dyersville
Holland Invaded Yet Pella Tulip Festival Continues
Holland faced Nazi incursions as Pella observed its annual tulip festival honoring the 1847 settlement. Town leaders stressed America first while Tulips, dances, the Tulip Queen Leona Schindler, and a speech by Gov. George A Wilson highlighted the day for more than 3,000 attendees.
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Pella
INS
Holland
Pagean
America
Netherlands
Leona Schindler
George A Wilson
Two Turkey River Dams Planned at Elkader
A survey by the state conservation commission indicates two low dams will be built below Elkader on the Turkey River. Dr L A Meder says the channel will be cleared and two two foot cement and rock dams planned. NYA project funding is sought pending approval.
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Elkader
Turkey
State Conservation Commission
L. A Meder
Commission
NYA
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