Roosevelt Issue Revives Iowa Primary Campaign
Iowa Democrats and Republicans push a Roosevelt centered fight as Otha Wearin and Guy M. Gillette clash over White House backing. In the GOP race L. J. Dickinson campaigns against Lloyd Thurston with both sides split on New Deal alignment. The battle shifts to attorney general and state superintendent races as Kraschel and Wegman’s feud dulls Democratic strength.
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Hy Jonn B. Zug
Iowa Daily Press Association
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Iowa
Otha Wearin
Hastings
Wearin
Guy M. Gillette
Gillette
Joseph J. Meyers
Carroll
Wilson G. Byerhoff
Fort Dodge
Ellsworth Richardson
Eddyville
White House
F.D.R
L. J. Dickinson
Dickinson
Lloyd Thurston
Osceola
Thurston
G.O.P
Washington
Jetter
Jobless in Iowa Told to Use Special Pocketbook
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa State Unemployment Compensation Commission says jobless recipients may carry unemployment checks in a special pocketbook. The exemption from levy or attachment applies while funds are not mingled with other money, with benefits starting after July 1.
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Des Moines
Delay Deliberation In Colemans Trial
KNOXVILLE UP The district court jury in the trial of Mr and Mrs Lee Coleman Tracy farm couple charged with second degree murder was dismissed until Monday after county attorney C L Kading completed his plea and defense attorney T J Bray spoke for two hours. Trial to resume at 9 am Monday. The Colemans are accused of fatally injuring Bert Conrey Knoxville night marshal in a street fight.
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Knoxville
Lee Coleman
Tracy Farm
C. L. Kading
T. J. Bray
Monay
Colemans
Bert Conrey
Theater costing $48,000 planned for Tipton
A. B. Heston of Mechanicsville announced a $48,000 theater to be built in Tipton. Construction to start in June. The 558-seat venue will feature air conditioning, sound proofing, and custom arm-chair seating. Heston, longtime Paramount executive, returns to Mechanicsville.
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Tipton
Gazette
B. Heston
Mechanicsville
Heston
Fifth Street
Andrew MceCormick
H. Dishman
United States
Paramount Publix Coreporation
New York
Boy 10 Hangs Self in Webster Tree Accident
Robert Lee Jacobs 10 son of Mr and Mrs Robert Jacobs accidentally hanged himself in a tree at his Webster home Saturday afternoon. He was playing with a rope around his neck and apparently slipped. Frank Jacobs, his younger brother, found him and cut him down. He was dead on arrival. Two brothers survive.
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the Gazette
Webster
Robert Lee Jacobs
Robert Jacobs
Frank
Gillette Seeks Iowa Share of Federal Health Fund
Senator Gillette said Iowa tentatively receives 29000 from a federal venereal disease program and is pursuing a larger portion of a 3 million dollar fund. He collaborates with Governor Kraschel and the Iowa board of health to secure adequate monies for the state program.
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Gillette
Iowa
U.S. Health Fund
Washington
Kraschel
WPA Workers Free To Vote Any Way In Iowa Say Officials
Des Moines WPA workers may vote as they please, George Keller, state director, announced. The joint statement by Keller and National Director Harry Hopkins asserts every WPA employee may vote for any candidate, without party or fund contributions required, and no supervisor may pressure workers or solicit campaign funds.
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Towa
Tress Assn
Des Moines
Works Progress Administration
George Keller
Keller
Iowa
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Wisconsin Collects on Maytag Estate
Judge Luce ruled the transfer of F. L. Maytag's Lake Geneva summer home to his son was a death transfer and taxed under inheritance laws. The property valued at 121 500 faced normal and emergency inheritance taxes, with additional state tax of 7 500 and another estate tax of 8 224 on related assets.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Roscoe R. Luce
Walworth County
F. L. Maytag
Iowa
Lake Geneva
Maytag
Ceylon Court
Elmer H. Maytag
Newton
Luce
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New Deal
Leo Wegman
University of Iowa
William Megorden
Waukon
John Kannaly
Thomas Hoagland
Cedar Rapids
Megorden
St. Louis
Kaneasy
Santa Barbara
Calif
Hoagland
Wauwatosa
John McDaniel
Walter Byers
Virginia Thompson
McDaniel
St. Luke's Hospital
Byers
Salt Lake City
Ellis Vaubel
Dysart
Vaubel
Methodist Episcopal Hospital
Indianapolis
James Larrabee
Clermont
Santa Clara County Hospital
San Jose
Viakin
Photos By
Vernon Putnam
Kenneth Kiesau
Kiesau
City Hospital
Arthur Smith
Rowley
Verne Schlaser
Keswick
Schlaser
Des Moines Smith
Kansas City
Jack Livesay
Toledo
Livesay
Hurley Hospital
Flint
Mich
Alexander Stearns
Manchester
Blanche Houser
Ceder Rapids
F. T. Joyce
Stearns
Miss Houser
Mercy
Edward Murray
Murray
General Hospital
Montreal
A. B. Heston
Wisconsin
Maytag Estate
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