Court Victories Mark W A A Work During 27
The 1927 annual report credits the NAACP with supreme court wins and active legal work against school segregation and disenfranchisement. Key cases include Texas denying negroes primary ballots and New Orleans housing race based districts. The group worked in New Jersey and Indiana on desegregation and against anti intermarriage laws. Ninety one lynchings occurred that year, mostly of Black victims, with four burned and seven shot. Rev. Broyles of Waterloo presided over the chapter.
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Supreme ‘Court
National Association ‘For the Advancement of Colored People
Texas
New Orleans
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Toms River
N. J
Gary
Ind
Coffeyville
Kaw
Jacksonville
Pla
United States
Association
Robert A. Broyles
Waterloo
Hold Theatre Man and Five Oth ers in $1,750,000 Bomb Plot
Hammond Ind April 7 U A William Kleihege theatre magnate and five other men were held on heavy bond charged with dynamiting the State theatre last Nov 6. The blast wrecked the theatre causing about 1 750 000 in damage. The case followed Joe Million's confession that he was hired by Kilethege for 2000 to bomb the theatre for his company which controlled all of Hammond's moving picture houses. Million named Harry Ames Dean Malloy Marwood Williams and James Tuto.
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Hammond
Ind
U.A
William Kleihege
Joe Million
Kilethege
Klethege
Millian
Harry Ames
Dean Malloy
Marwood Williams
James Tuto
Correction: Forty-two veterans aided by Black Hawk relief
The Black Hawk county soldiers relief commission extended aid to 42 ex soldiers in March, not four as yesterday. The 42 men received $440, enabling a fire amount from the Iowa bonus board under a special provision for distributing $65,000 and interest on the surplus Iowa bonus fund.
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Black Hawk County
Masonville Youth Charged After Mayor Assaulted
Mayor Gus Loder, 80, lay critically injured in a Manchester hospital as Leo Nolan, 22, also of Masonville, faced a hearing on a charge of great bodily injury. Nolan allegedly struck Loder with a flashlight after a dispute over a loan. Hospital said recovery doubtful due to age. Nolan pleaded guilty when arraigned yesterday and was remanded in jail for Thursday’s hearing in default of $5,000 bond.
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Masonville
Nolan
Alumnus McDonald Seeks Iowa State Senate Seat
Des Moines April 7. Lewis Mc Donald of Cherokee attorney has announced his candidacy for state senator in the Ida Plymouth Cherokee district to succeed Senator Ed Campbell who is running for congress in the Eleventh district. McDonald is a graduate of Iowa State Teachers College and studied law at Michigan and Chicago. He served four years as county superintendent of schools in Cherokee county and ten years as county attorney.
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Des Moines
Lewis McDonald
Ed Campbell
Congress
McDonald I
Towa State Teachers College
University of Michigan
University of Chicago
Cherokee County
East High Declares Dorotha Bennett Third in District
East High’s declaratory representative Dorotha Bennett won third place in the district humorous contest at Reinbeck with the selection In the Dark of the Honeymoon. Burdette Moeller of Cedar Falls captured first in the division.
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Reinbeck
Burdette Moeller
Cedar Falls
Local Drama Winners Set For State Meet
Claire Molck Reinbeck wins first in the dramatic late with The Pies for Cube. John Simgeon Janesville takes first with The Coward. Florence Brant Reinbeck second. State meet at Algona April 20 with three first-place winners. Judges from Des Moines and Coe College Cedar Rapids. Rath Packing and Edwards Longley firms head to Washington for hearing on alleged hog buying territory division with Hormel Packing.
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Clear Lake
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John Simgeon
Janesville
the Coward
Florence Brant
Algona
Harold Thomas
Des Moines
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Irene Griffin
Coe College
Cedar Rapides
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Rath Packing Company
Alfred Longley
Edwards, Longley, Ransier & Harris
Washington D. C
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
Rath Company
Hormel Packing Company
Austin, Minn
Waterloo Boy 15 First in Piano at Oelwein Contest
Entrants in Northeast Iowa high school music events were delayed by bad roads causing postponement of some morning contests. Winners include Robert Dunkerberg Waterloo first in piano, Inez Johnson Cedar Falls violin, Grace Wilder woodwinds, and Oelwein as representative in brass.
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Courier Special Service
Oelwein
Iowa
Cedar Falls
Dubuque
Hazleton
Octwein
Independence
Robert Dunker
Parsons Led Iowa Assembly Four Sessions
Former representative Thomas Parsons of Farnhamville Calhoun County died in a Fort Dodge hospital last Sunday. He served actively in the Iowa legislature for four sessions from the thirty eighth to the fortieth extra session inclusive. Born in Reigate England February 18 1855 he came to the United States in 1867 lived first in Chicago then Lee County before moving to Calhoun County in 1878 to farm.
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Des Moines
Thomas Parsons
Farnhamville
Calhoun County
Fort Dodge
Reigate
England
United States
Chicago
Lee County
Cresco Municipal Officers Installed
Cresco Iowa April 4 the last meeting of the old city council closed their term and swore in the new council with H G Addie as mayor. Newly installed councilmen: E Fields A L W Ohmacht C S Miller B E Thome and John Bolach re-elected from the First ward. George E Olson enlisted in the army assigned to infantry at Fort Leavenworth. Sgt John D Overbey recruiting officer obtained Edgar H Nixon of Hawkeye who was sent to infantry at Port Des Moines. Waterloo applicants sent to Des Moines for final exam with station choices. Army offers opportunities for young men.
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C. S. Miller
B. E. Thome
John Bolach
ARMY
George E. Olson
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John D. Overbey
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Edgar H. Nixon
Hawkeye
Infantry
Port
Des Moines
Waterloo
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