Affidavit Links Duckworth to Slot Syndicate Activities
The sworn statements describe a web of payments and influence involving Duckworth and several slot machine operators in Sioux City and Des Moines. Key figures include Sherman, Siegel, Mureneil, Brennan, Brisbane, Mayer, Gagen, and O’Connor, with payments around $50 to $200 monthly and a broader effort to control machine operations amid police raids and political funding. The testimony details prior bombings at Orpheum and Congress cigar stores, injunctions, and attempts to align operators to avoid closures.
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Sherman
Des Moines
Congress
Siegel
Gus Vagras Ne
Kaimpsever
Polce
Tony Pashah
Imm
Nebraska
Brisbane
Tom Brislane
Clyde Mayer
McNaughton
Brennan
Congress Clear
Orpheum
Walter Maley
Joe Gagen
Thee
Gagen
Sioux City
Ganblers
Sisk
Mayer
Sherff Tice
Hollar
Department of Justice
Tice
O'Connor
Maley
Iowa
Ite
Malev
Googan
Ike Sherman
Special Grand Jury
State House
Grand Jury
Kuhlmann
Sheriff Tice
O’connor
Heiress Quizzed In Friends Death Money Scandal
Testimony traces a network of payoffs tied to liquor enforcement in Sioux City during the 1930s. Max Duckworth recalls schemes to raise funds for campaigns, protect liquor interests, and settle shortages with cash payments routed through police and officials, including Kraschel Kampmeyer and Cooper. The account links Gagen Beck and others to a graft system discussed in Des Moines and Governor Herring's office.
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Cornish Beck
Beck
Francis
Herring
Sylvia Beck
Liquor Commission
Ed Birmingham
Governor Herring
Des Moines
Kraschel
Des Moines Club
Fort Des Moines
Kampmeyer
Harold Cooper
Cooper
Honor Commission
Sioux City
Mr. Cooper
Spencer
Weat
Pontralo
Senator Francis
Eiquor Commission
Pickus
Fueling
John Kampmeyer
Hollar
Kuhlmann
McBride
O'Connor
O’connor
Tice
Marshall
Max E
Duckworth
Ducke
A. D
Prohibition Era Beer Output Soars in Milwaukee 1935
Milwaukee brewers estimate 1935 beer production will reach about 2.79 million barrels in ten months with November and December additions likely. Output climbs nearly 60 percent over 1918 pre prohibition levels of 2.22 million barrels as canned beer gains popularity and Fred Pabst Jr notes cans becoming a staple.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Breweries
Milwaukee Road
Fred. Pabst, Jr
Premier
Pabst Corporation
Bishop Proposes Ban on Strangers in Irish Dance Halls
In Dublin AP report, the bishop of Kilmore urges closing Irish dance halls to all strangers. He asks priests to push a policy requiring introductions by a trusted person to curb what he calls the menace of strangers.
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Bishop
Dublin
Kilmore
Tugwell and Rugg in Washington clash over New Deal education and policy
The piece critiques Washington debates over school textbooks by Harold Rugg and the impact of New Deal programs on farmers and crops. It accuses Rexford Tugwell of pushing for class struggle and revolution, while noting reactions to Roosevelt-era policy and media reports in Cedar Rapids and beyond.
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Washington
Cedar Rapids
Harold O. Rugg
Rugg
Russia
The
Gazette
California
Hornets
Ppugwell
Trust
America
Los Angeles
Tugwell
PHE
Dr. Tugwell
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Clyde Mayes
Parteer
Jeffrey Sullivan
Waterloo
Sullivan
Howard Hotel
White Line Transfer Company
Democratic Central Committee
Beck Case
Ponttvalo
O. T. Naglestad
Woodbury County
Leroy Smith
Mary Swope Philpot
Luther F Philpot
Nicholas Salamon
Sanford
J. G. Craven
Second St
Nebraska St
Mason City
First St. SE
Grand Ave
Locust St
AAA
South America
Colonel Knox
North Carolina
Plymouth
Turkeys
Detieteus
Turkey
Duster Bros
Duster Brothers
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