Iowa War Casualties and Local Notices Summary
The page reports list of Iowans killed or dying of wounds or disease in World War II, with names and hometowns such as Keokuk Des Moines Mason City and Council Bluffs. Also notes letters to families, a railway robbery in Des Moines, faculty estimates on education funding, and Gertrude Darrell as a pioneering federal deputy marshal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester ‘Harter
Keokuk
Sergis
William L. Crane
Montrose
Herman E. Heft
Independence
Louis ©. Schindler
LeMars
John Thompson
Des Moines
Jeonard A. Burrows
Goodell
Charles M. Ford
Council Bluffs
William Bardsley
Iowa City
Clyde Thomas
Marshalltown
August J. Jansen
Mason City
Roy DeCamp
Waterloo
Elmer G. Guenther
North English
Oscar Shadrock
Thayer
Arnold J. Schmieg
Charley A. Workmaster
Odebolt
William L. McTurk
Traer
Albert W.malmberg
Stanhope
Helmer Peterson
Decorah
Fred W. Dannenbring
Ireton
William J.heldenreich
Rockford
Lieut
Warren B. Leonard
Creston
Clifton Wier
Story City
Leo E. Waddle
Vinton
Charles A. Lucas
Kekuk
Vernon C. Purvis
Cumberland
Walter Johnson
Agony
Herbert E. Danielson
Storm Lake
James D. Raver
West Liberty
Stuart
James P. Kegley
Monmouth
Lewis F. Schindler
Leonard A. Burrows
Corncil Bluffs
Marshallfom
Laka
Ernest R. Talbott
Elliott
Prank Hall
Ralph E. Dray
McDale
Greene County
Mourney
H. G. Kersey
Ground Junction
War Department
Albert R
Dover
D. W. Anderson
Bagley
Charles
France
G. W. Egermayer
Northwestern
Egermayer
Iowa State Teachera College
Iowa
Congress
Gertrude Darrell
Ottumwa
United States
Patrick Gallagher
Waukon
Fort Dodge
L. A. Fisher
H. M. Terrill
Jack Frand
Dee Moines
National Pleece Wool Association
J.8. Walker
National
Kenyon
Twen‘tyrfive
Sean UE Hag
Turbulent times glaze amid war and policy notes
Reported items include a Nebraska bill for a 6000 mile concrete highway system, demobilization of the Tenth division at Camp Funston, casualties in Buenos Aires strikes, and a German commission recommending the Kaiser face trial. Also covered are Wilsonian diplomacy, ship funding, labor protests, and food price forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
State Budget Seeks Higher Pay Across State Offices
Governor Harding’s biennial message proposes nearly twenty million dollars for maintenance of all state departments, with most increases aimed at higher salaries. Key requests include raises for board of control, railroad commission, insurance, executive council staff, and deputies, plus higher pay for university and Ames college. The package notes 19,980,888 requested versus 16,858,542 two years prior, and hints at broader legislative battles over millage taxes and committee chairmanships in the Thirty-eighth General Assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
General Assembly
Board of Control
Railroad Commission
J. A. Taake
R. E. Bales
Executive Council
Charles E. Witt
A. L. Urick
B. W. Garrett
Supreme Court
W. B. Barney
State
Forrest Treat
State University
State College
Ames
Kimball
Ways and Means
Foskett
Committee
Fellows
Newberry
Rule
Parker
Thompson
Whitmore
J. B. Weaver
Des Moines
Dallas Center
H.M. Smith
Winterset
Iowa
Ottumwa
Commission
National Food Administration
Epps
Jowa'a
Thirty‘eighth- General Assembly
Anita
Ane
Maer
Conferees Finish War Revenue Bill Section on Incomes
Washington reports conferees completed work on the income tax section of the two year war revenue bill. The 1918 rate is 12 percent on net income over credits with a 6 percent first bracket for US residents, rising to 8 percent thereafter plus surtaxes. Personal exemptions include $1,000 for single filers and $2,000 for married couples or heads of families, with additional dependents eligible for $200 each.
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Washington
United States
War Finance Corporation
Ship Brings 2445 Yankees to New York
A damaged naval dispatch reports a state cruiser arriving in New York on January 2 with 154 officers and 416 men from Ohio Washington and other units. The convoy included 15 officers and 1,626 men in transit, comprising two companies and a training detachment.
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New York
States
Breat
Ohio
Washipgton
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Hawkeye State News
Petrograd
Home and Foreign Intelligence
Holland
Kaiser
Camp Funston
Kansas
Buenos Aires
State Department
Federal Trade -Commission
Senate Agricultural Committee
Wilson
Pelca
Paris
South Dakota
Prezmysl
Galicia
Messina Strait
America
Far Rockaway
N. Y
Key West
Fla
Labor Congress
Chicago
Organized Labor
Thomas J. Mooney
Howard N. Hurley
Shipping Board
Ward Turner
Dennis Flynn
Turner
Maquoketa
Iowa Federation of Woman's Clubs and Labor Organizations
Europe
Baker
Army
Burleson
The
National Guard
National Army
Treasury Department
Glags
Rudkin
Spokane
Wash
Industrial Workers of the World
John B. Densmore
Federal Employment Service
House Immigration Committee
Henry Clews
Civic Forum
League of Nations
Fuel Administration
Luxemburg
Vienna
Prince John
George
England
Mary
Premier Clemenceau
Des Molines
James Norman Hall
Colfax
Lafayette Escadrille
Robert Cecil
League’ of Nations
Germany
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Coblens
M. Noulens
Rnssia
Bolshevist
Entente
Ashay
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Claude R. Porter
Centerville
E. R. Moore
Frank Whitaker
Hillsboro
Moore
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Iowa House
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