Fayett e Co man champ cowtester in Iowa contest
Fayette County’s Swenson won the tester’s records and reports contest at the cowtesting banquet, edging Albert Ratliff for a gold watch. Pioneer Cedar Falls won the standard association contest, while Elkader-Monona, Dallas-Boone and Story followed in ranking.
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Waterloo
Morris Swenson
Fayette County
Iowa
Pioneer-Cedar Falls Association
Standard Association
Iowa State College Dairy Husbandry
Pioneer Cow Testing Association
Black Hawk County
F. A. Mitchell and Son
Iowa Falls
Swenson
Arcadia
Wis
Albert Ratliff
Evert Neal
Elkader- Monona
Mitchell Wickel
Osceola-Lyon
Homer Hadley
Chickasaw
Howard Hackett
Garnaville
George Youmans
Fayette
Wendell Hunt
Dallas-Boone
E. F. Nation
Linn
Delmar March
Poweshiek-Jasper
Glenn Cavin
Wapsie Valley
James Collins
South Hardin
Pioneer-Cedar Falls Con
Larrabee
Frederic Larrabee
Iowa Dairy Association
Garnaville Association
Scott County Association
Story
Pioneer Cedar Falls Association
Pioneer Contesting Association
Pioneer Organization
Iowa State Dairy Association
Elkader-Monona Association
Clayton County
Polk No
Fremont- Page-Mills
Bremer-Butler
Scott and Garnaville
Martin Cites Danger Of Yes Man Congress In War Threats
Special to The Gazette. Thom as L. Martin of Iowa City, first district Republican candidate for Congress, warns that over centralization of power in the executive and “yes men” in Congress could lead to needless war. He argues Congress should reflect district sentiment and oppose war unless for defense, stressing the public bears the cost and should decide.
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Gazette
Tipton
America
Thomas L. Martin
Iowa City
Congress
Iowa
Wages Hours For Farm Lifted By La Follette
Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin proposes extending the minimum wage idea to farmers. He calls for a guaranteed annual income paid monthly to farm families to raise farm incomes to city levels and to cushion depressions. He sketches a federal plan for minimum income based on acres cultivated with the state funding part of losses, and suggests a parallel system for city residents. He praises Roosevelt but criticizes both major parties.
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Des Moines
Phil la Follette
Wisconsin
National Progressive Party
Iowa
Iowa Farmer-Labor Party
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Fannie Brice Sues Rose for Divorce in Hollywood
Fannie Brice filed for divorce from William Rosenberg alleging mental cruelty and desertion after seven years of marriage. The action, filed under the name Fannie Rosenberg, precedes plans involving Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm and references no formal claim about a romance between Rose and the former Olympic swimmer.
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Hollywood
Fannie Brice
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm
Broadway
Fannie Rosenberg
William Rosenberg
Brooklyn
Sioux City Mayor Seeks Settlement of Swift Plant Strike
Sioux City AP report says all operations at the Swift and Company packing plant are halted as Mayor David F. Loepp works to resolve a dispute over recognition of the CIO packing house union grievance committee. Pickets blocked a train leaving with two and a half cars of meat. two full cars were moved, one half car remained on tracks.
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Sioux City
Swift and Company Packing Plant
David F. Loepp
CIO Packing House Union
Iowa City Pleads For Vote To Buy Water Works
Residents circulate petitions to call an election on whether Iowa City should purchase the private Iowa City Water Service company. Estimated cost is 790000 with a bond issue by Stifel Nicolaus. City would not incur debt. payments come from system earnings. An engineer's appraisal would fix the price.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Water Service Company
Stifel, Nicolaus and Company
Chicago
Stanwood Child Burns Saved By Mother
Marilyn May Mott an 18 month old girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Mott, suffered burns to body and legs when a match head lodged in her clothing as she played near home. Her mother wrapped a sack around her to extinguish the flames. After treatment locally the child was rushed to the University Hospital at Iowa City where she is expected to recover.
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Beedal
the Gazette
Stanwood
Marilyn May Mott
Ed Mott
Lee Lee Says Vice Presidency Not Yet Front Burner
Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma, a Roosevelt ally who has clashed with Henry Wallace and doubts Hugh Johnson favors the “big boys,” said Friday he has no definite vice presidential plans while in Iowa addressing teachers. He highlighted his veteran, education, and farming priorities and recalled his rise from Oklahoma University speech professor to U.S. senator.
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Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Hugh Johnson
Big Boys
Northeastern Iowa Teachers Association
Sclon
University of Oklahoma
Congress
Lee
Washington, D. C
Joshua B. Lee
Oklahoma University
Legionaires
Thomas B. Gore
Herbert Hyde
Death of J A Burgstahler notables across Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa News Special reports multiple brief obituaries and notices: J A Burgstahler of Buffalo Lake Minn died at 79. funeral Sunday. Hazel Baker and Rev Glenn C Moore wed in Tipton. Mary Blair, 84, longtime county resident, funeral in Tipton. Towns report elected officers, marriages, court verdicts, and various church and community events across Traer Garrison Center Point West Union Brandon Toeldo Clarence belleville Monticello McGregor Scotch Grove Grand Mound Strawberry Point.
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Tipton
Mary Blair
Tipton Methodist Church
William Crossley
Tipton Masonic Cemetery
Donald Garrett
Earl Dunn
N. O. Walk
William H. Gardner
John E. Hookam
Merle B. Irish
Ruth Pfeiffer
Maxine E. Workman
Margaret Oster
Anita Stewart
Iowa City News Briefs Highlights University Leaders and Dividends
George Prichard of Onawa elected president of the University of Iowa Union Board with Beth Browning as vice president and Constance Fenton as secretary. Robert Osmundson named treasurer. Homecoming mass meeting planned under Prof. Harry G. Barnes and a program committee. University of Iowa pharmacy class officers elected across senior to freshman levels. A court-ordered five percent dividend of 60,789 will be paid to 3,800 depositors of the former Iowa City Savings bank. prior dividends totaling 88,927 have already been paid.
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Brandon
Methodist Sunday School
L. J. Halstead
Herbert Sturm
H. R. Alderman
Edith Stainbrook
Betty Sanders
Donald Hausner
John Mumaw
Florence Rouse
Leslie Witmer
L. R. Trezona
Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
E. E. Miller
D. H. Revel
B. F. Nabholz
Everett Weart
Frank Brooks
Toledo
George C. McCord
Marshalltown
E. J. Miller
Merle Tillapaugh
Garwin
McCord
Tillapaugh
Miller
Walker
Daniel Ossman
Sorensen Chapel
Eli Hobeger
Albert Schupbach
Geraldine Yearous
Helen Wigner
Gene Schori
Iowa City
George Prichard
Onawa
University of Iowa
Beth Browning
Constance Fenton
Jewell
Robert Osmundson
Forrest City
Harry G. Barnes
Bert
Howard L. Johnson
Chariton
Wendle Kerr
Humbolt
Irwin Sage
Gladbrook
R. Keith Smith
Alvin M. Heussner
Muscatine
Leonard Thompson
Webster City
Ione R. Card
New Hampton
Iowa City Savings Bank
James P. Gaffney
Ben S. Summerwill
Examiner
One Hundred Freshmen In Iowa U Law School
Iowa City Iowa. Dean Wiley B Rutledge reports the university of Iowa law school welcomes a record freshman class this fall with 100 first year students, just one short of the 1932 record. Total college enrollment reaches 239, two fewer than a year ago. The second year class has 72 students and the senior class 67.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Wiley B. Rutledge
College of Law
Dean Rutledge
Nazi leaflets and pro Nazi ties exposed in hearing
John C. Metcalfe of the house committee on un American activities testified that Nazi propaganda from the American Nationalist confederation urged support of the American Federation of Labor. He cited literature linking AFL and other groups to Nazi causes and noted plans by Fritz Kuhn of the German American Bund for vast camps and a 2000 acre borderland estate.
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Washington
John C. Metcalfe
House Committee On un-American Activities
American Nationalist Confederation
American Federation of Labor
Metcalfe
New Federalist
Wichita
Kan
Gerald E. Winrod
Pelley Publishers
Asheville
N. C
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
Industrial Control Reports
James True Associates
Dies
Tex
Hans Thomsen
George Deatherage
Ernst Goerner
Milwaukee
Johannes Klapproth
Germany
Karl Neumeister
New York
Fritz Kuhn
Kuhn
New York City
Bund
Old Peoples Home
Industrial Arts Work of C. R. High Schools Praised
Industrial arts work by students in Wilson Franklin Roosevelt and McKinley high schools drew praise from teachers at the Northeastern Iowa State Teachers conference. The open house at McKinley featured exhibits in woodwork metal work drafting home mechanics and junior high projects.
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Wilson
Franklin, Roosevelt
McKinley
Iowa
McKinley School
Mechanicsville Man Pleads Not Guilty To Attack On Wife
TIPTON Howard EE Wood a farmer south of Mechanicsville was arraigned in district court on an indictment charging assault with intent to murder He pleaded not guilty with counsel Donnelly Lynch Anderson and Lynch and William M Dallas of Cedar Rapids Bonds reduced from 30000 to 10000 which he posted The charges stem from an August 18 attack on his wife with a claw hammer at the farm home He was shot through the chest by his son La Verne at that time
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Tipton
Howard EE. Wood
Mechanicsville
Ring
Donnelly
Lynch
Anderson
William M. Dallas
Cedar Rapids
Wood
la Verne
United Presbyterian Synod Elects Officers
The Iowa synod of the United Presbyterian church elected Rev. A. L. Davidson of Lenox moderator. Other officers named were Rev. R. G. Smith of Ewart vice moderator, Rev. W. J. Nichol Jr. of Washington secretary, Rev. W. J. Stewart of Grinnell treasurer, and Rev. Fred C. Patterson of Tama assistant secretary.
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Morning Sun
Iowa
Iowa City Man Likely Appointed Deputy Comptroller
WASHINGTON AP A Treasury Department spokesman said Cyril B. Upham of Iowa City is likely named first deputy comptroller of the currency. Upham has served as a special adviser to Secretary Morgenthau on banking and finance.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Cyril B. Upham
Iowa City
Upham
Morgenthau
Grinnell Senior Campaigns Against Campus Evils
Adelia Woodward a Mason City senior opened a campaign at Grinnell College to abolish what she calls the evils of too much going steady dancing and necking The student social council is studying the issue and considering solutions including mixed social events and exchange dancing with stag lines at dances community members suggest mixed dinners and games to broaden social life
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Grinnell
Adelia Woodward
Mason City
Grinnell College
Miss Woodward
Read Cottage
Robert Whitley
Clinton
Czech Peace Opens Virtual Ruin for Sudeten Industry
The ceding of Sudeten regions threatens dramatic economic collapse for Czechoslovakia. Textile mills and porcelain and glass makers would lose most output, with 40 to 100 percent declines in key sectors. Prague faces fuel, electricity, and transport disruptions, plus massive banker losses.
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Prague
Schatzlar
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Republic
Reichenberg
Falkenau
Aussig
Bohemia
Germany
Sudeten
Europe
Slovakia
Sudeten Areas
Fails To Identify Suspects Held For Murder Near Traer
Sheriff FE O Harris said neither man held in Mankato Minnesota nor Fort Dodge Iowa is the murder suspect in John Lockwood death north of Traer. Gavrolese Franklin of Traer said he talked to a rifle carrying stranger near Traer two weeks ago. Franklin says neither man is the one he spoke with. Lockwood likely beaten with a broken rifle found near his body.
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Toledo
FE O Harris
Tama
Mankato
Minn
Fort Dodge
John Lockwood
Traer
Gavrolese Franklin
Franklin
Lockwood
Funeral services for Mrs Sophia M Divoky 76
Funeral services were held Saturday for Sophia M Divoky 76 widow of Nicholas Divoky born March 18 1862 in Novashdia Bohemia and came to the United States at age 30. Survived by four children Miss Mary Divoky Cedar Rapids Mrs Louise Ales California Louis and Frank Divoky Oxford Junction. She belonged to Sacred Heart Catholic church and the Rosary society. Pallbearers Louis Bisinger John Bissinger John Shedek Otto Shedek Louis Kula Anton Kula. Burial in Mayflower cemetery.
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Oxford Junction
Sophia Miler Divoky
Nicholas Divoky
Divoky
Novashdia
Bohemia
United States
Mary Divoky
Cedar Rapids
Louise Ales
California
Louis
Frank Divoky
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
The
Rosary Society
Louis Bisinger
John Bissinger
John Shedek
Otto Shedek
Louis Kula
Anton Kula
Mayflower Cemetery
Fayette Co Boys Win Demonstration At Water loo
Two Fayette county 4 H boys Laverne Gremmes and Norbert Moore will represent Town in the National Demonstration contest Oct 8 14 in Columbus Ohio after winning at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress Their team coached by William Diamond demonstrated an efficient inexpensive home made cooling tank The Waterloo meet also featured dairy production winners colt judging and blue ribbon farm bureau home project results with several eastern Iowa counties earning top marks
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Waterloo
Fayette County
Columbus
Ohio
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Iowa
Laverne Gremmes
Oelwein
Norbert Moore
Stanley
William Diamond
Monroe County
Fayette
Monroe
Keokuk County
Clayton
Linn
Dairy Club
William Hill
Polk City
Jersey
George Fraser
Tipton
Holsstein
Grover Miche
Maynard
Wright County
Eastern Iowa
Jones
Buchanan
Poweshiek
Tama
Winneshiek
Delaware
Kenneth Spangler
Eagle Grove
Farm Bureau
Sarah Ellis Porter
Ames
Marshall
Black Hawk
Benton
Jones, Cedar
Will Oelerich
Lamont
Guernsey
Allumakee
K. B. Simmons
Waukon
Paul Heitman
New Albia
A. P. Breitbach
Dubuque
Iowa Board of Control
Myers and
Reece
Dexter
Myers
Ford Gallmeyer
Stanwood
Engraver Confesses Making Plates For Bogus Securities
Chicago police say engraver Berger Hansen confessed to making master plates for counterfeit securities and stamps as part of a scheme to circulate about 400000 in counterfeit traveler’s checks linked to the American Express case. Co‑conspirator George Moran is among those indicted in the broader operation. Hansen admitted producing plates for 25000 in fake liquor stamps and 40000 in fraudulent cigarette stamps.
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Chicago
Tom Kelly
Berger Hansen
Hansen
American Express Company
George “Bugs” Moran
Kelly
Rural Clayton County teachers' pay averages sixty two dollars
County Superintendent H F Oelberg reports twelve rural schools supervise one hundred fifty two teachers. The average monthly wage across the 147 rural schools is 62.10 dollars. Ten teachers earn the minimum 50 dollars, while two teachers receive the top salary of 90 dollars per month.
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McGregor
Clayton County
H. F. Oelberg
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Embree
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W. H. Magdefrau
Frank Fanyon
Lucy Porter
U. Law School
C. R
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Fayette CO
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