Backley Defeats Bear In Tough Cedar Rapids Wrestling Bout
Tiger Backley of Des Moines wins this state championship style match against Jimmy Bear, pinning him twice. Bear takes the second fall with an airplane spin and body slam, while Backley earns the final fall with a body scissors after a grueling 12 minutes 26 seconds. The crowd splits in support as referee Bob Rush rules Backley fair.
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Tiger” Backley
Des Moines
Jimmy Bear
Cedar Rapids
Bear
Buckley
Bob Rush
Jimmy
Backley
Grapplers
Washington Post
New Policies at Fox and State Theaters
Fox theater ends Sunday and Monday frames and adds bargain nights Tuesday and Wednesday with 16 cent admission. Fox will show Friday Saturday Tuesday and Wednesday. State theater implements Sunday program from 2:15 PM with four repeats starting at 2:16 PM and 16 cent matinee price through April 22.
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Fox
Vox
R.ick. Pratt
Poy
Pox
The
Norma Shearer
Robert Monttoomery
State Theater
Forecast Frost Hits Iowa Tonight
Forecaster Charles D. Reed of Des Moines warns a severe frost may strike parts of Iowa tonight potentially harming stored crops and delicate foliage. He notes April 21 as the average last killing frost date, with dry conditions possibly delaying damage in some areas.
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Charles D. Reed
Des Moines
Iowa
Washington
Clarinda
Iowa Falls
Securities Bill Approved to Regulate Exchanges
The Senate banking committee voted 11 to 8 to report favorably the Fletcher bill, placing the nation’s securities exchanges under government regulation.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Banking Committee
Shirt dinner provokes social quip on memory and conduct
In Santa Monica a columnist jokes that highbrows forget what happens at dinners just as common folks forget at their meals. They note two social settings where speech shouldn’t be used in court a dinner and a Washington inquiry, urging society coverage instead.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Washington
Democratic Rule in Iowa Is Criticized
Anamosa Iowa April 320 Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert W Colflesh assails Governor Herring and the Democratic administration. He denounces new state boards and agencies as political patronage and warns of continued partisan control of state government and schools.
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Iowa
Anamosa
Robert W. Colflesh
Herring
Liquor Board
State Liquor Board
State Old Age Pension Commission
State Aeronautics Board
State House
Pot
Angelus Semple
Roberta Semple Sens Th
Aimee Semple
Herson
Sailor
Los Angeles
Regular Postal Service Resumes in Town Next Week
After a monthlong curtailment ordered from Washington, regular postal service to the residence areas will begin next week. Service returns Monday with two carrier trips daily except Saturday. Tuesday remains off due to furloughs. Substitutes Ernie Louck and Burdette Westermark gain more work during the economy period. Charles Murray and family from Wapello visited local residents W S McKeown.
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Washington
Ernie Louck
Burdette Westermark
Check No 1 To Farmer At Knoxville
In Knoxville Iowa April 20 Harry Town a Marion county farmer received check No 1 from the United States government for coopera tion in the corn-hog reduction program The $69 50 payment marked the first cash issued to a corn-hog contract signer The day’s total checks reached 35585 20 with C C Converse receiving the largest 698 25 The nationwide program will pay more than 70 000 000 to participating Iowa farmers
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Knoxville
Iowa
Harry Town
Marion County
United States
Department of Agriculture
R. M. Evans
L. P. Newton
Marion County Farmers’ Corn-Hog
C. C. Converse
Three killers in Chicago executed by electric chair
John Scheck aged 21 was executed in Chicago today for murder during a break from trial. He was followed by George Dale 29 and Joseph Francis 35, a Black man, in the electric chair after juries demanded crime-fighting action last fall.
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Chicago
John Scheck
Liberty
George Dale
Joseph Francis
Vacation Bible School Opens Following Y M C A Meeting
A union plan by four churches to run a three week Vacation Bible School begins June 11 with Rev A A Vinz as director. The program mirrors last year with instructors to be announced and sessions held at the Methodist Church facilities.
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Vacation Bible School
Rev
A. A. Vinz
Methodist
Unied Presbyterian
Hantist
St Paul's Evangelical
Chburches
Schoo
United Presbyterian Churches
Carl W. Klein
van Velleal
Leigh Soule
A A. Wing
The
Baptist Church
D.C. Multos
United Presbytersity Church
Soule
D. C. Sherman
FC. Wiezigman
Methodist Church
Jeune Busby
BE. H. Messer
Negroes Circulate Book for Wilberforce University Endowment
In Kansas City Missouri a nationwide drive circulates a book of a million names to raise funds for Wilberforce University the nation’s oldest Negro higher education institution. The book stands three feet high and weighs 177 pounds.
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Kansas City
Wilbeforce University
Lytle Named on Code Authority
Milton Blau of Burlington elected chairman of the grocers code authority district No. 1. A. J. Benner treasurer and Hugh Robertson secretary. Lloyd Lytle and L. L. Gilliland named representatives for independent retailers and retailer owned wholesale houses. Meetings to be called as needed after national authority approval.
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Burlington
Milton Blau
Grocers Code Authority
Dex Moines
Lee
van Buren
Jefferson
Henry
Louisa
Washington
A. J. Benner
Hugh Robertson
Keoku
Mr. Blaul
Benner
Robertson
Lloyd Lytle
Andl. L. Gilliland
Mt. Pleasant
Harry Culkin
Keokuk State
Culkin
Blau
National Code Authority
Business permit forms for sales tax due April 20 1934
County Treasurer Marion George announces forms for an application to engage in business under the Iowa sales tax act. The notice urges owners to file by April 20 1934 and states forms are available at the courthouse for those who have not received them.
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Marion George
Washington
Court House
Martin Little Dies From Train Yard Injury in Muscatine
Martin Little nine years old son of Mrs. Tom Little of Washington died at Hershey hospital Muscatine from injuries after a fall from a train in Muscatine railway yards Tuesday. An inquest was planned. He served in the U S Navy and recently returned. Surviving are his mother and several brothers and sisters both full and half. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
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Martin Little
Tom Little
Washington
Hershey Hospital
Muscatine
L. A. Jones
Phil Louise
Donald
Clyne
Nina Mae
Edith Little
Karl
Glenn
Lee Liegd
Joan
Mra
Hazel Jennimann
St. Louis
Ely, Heael
Hickman Mills
Johnson denounces press censorship claims at NRA event
General Hugh S. Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, publicly rebukes U S editors for alleged press censorship while at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention. He defends NRA policies and argues editors overstated censorship and misrepresented agency actions.
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NRA
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
National Recovery Administrator
National Recovery Administration
Johnson
American Society of Newspaper Editors
A. J. Sinnot
Newark
N. J
Evening News
Newcomer Livesay Family Locate in Washington
Dr and Mrs F G Livesay and daughter Dorothy arrive in Washington to set permanent home. Dr Livesay purchases Miss Lyda Hellams equipment and practice, with offices over Moore's Bootery on the east side of the square. The family, trained at Battle Creek Madison and Orlando sanitariums, moved from Chicago and praise Washington residents.
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F. G. Livesay
Dorothy
Washington
Dr. Livesay
Lyda Hellam
Moore's Bootery
Aquare
Doctor Livesay
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Madison Sanitarium
Madison
Tennessee
Orlando Sanitarium
Orlando
Florida
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Wapello
W. S. McKeown
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