Des Moines Widow Reports Ransom Note After Husband Found
Mrs. Harry Ginsberg, widow of a Des Moines grocer, turned over a ransom note to police after her husband’s body was found hanging in a hotel room. The note demanded 15000 dollars in one-dollar bills, signed The Scorpions, with postmark from Des Moines. Police believe the death may have been suicide and not linked to the ransom threat.
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Des Moines
Harry Ginsberg
Ginsberg
Elliott Hotel
William Carpenter
Teacher Runs Away With Lover Arrested By Father
Mary Barcus a Guthrie Center 21 year old teacher and Virgil Helms 33 with friend Claude Stanley ran away after two years of secret dating. Barcus and Helms were taken into custody after being found at a rooming house run by Stanley's sister Pearl Franklin. The father ordered the arrest. Barcus and Helms say they planned to wed.
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Mary Barcus
Guthrie Center
Virgil Helms
Claude Stanley
Stanley
Pearl
Franklin
Miss Barcus
Helms
All Property Tax Exemptions Banned In Wapello County
OTTUMWA AP Wapello county supervisors passed a resolution banning all future property tax exemptions. Board chairman Guy Hanna said petitions were becoming too numerous and if continued there would be no taxes on the books to collect.
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Wapello
Guy Hanna
HOLC Actions 6000 Iowa Mortgage Applications
Des Moines based HOLC Iowa manager H H Van Evera reported that 6000 home mortgage applications in Iowa are under consideration. Refinancing had been halted on Nov 15 by Washington, and now HOLC is authorized to complete actions for those applicants unable to carry on and lacking alternatives.
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H. H. van Evera
Iowa
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
HOLC
Washington
van Evera
Governor Herring Baffled by Subscription Bill
Des Moines Iowa Gov Clyde Herring puzzled by a $3 bill for a subscription to a monthly magazine for former Governor Dan W Turner of Corning Iowa. He said he could not explain why he was billed.
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Clyde Herring
Dan W. Turner
Corning
Turner
Dubuque as Nation's Housing Lab Under Federal Plan
Dubuque Iowa, oldest city in the state, leads with the first applications for federal rehousing under the Roosevelt drive. City officials form a housing commission, oversee surveys, and pursue garden home projects to meet relief needs while Iowa streams plans across Fort Dodge Sioux City Des Moines and other centers as nationwide housing surveys show six months lead.
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Iowa Daily
ES Moines
Iowa
Iowa State Planning Board
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Roosevelt
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Des Moines
Davenport
Council Bluffs
State Planning Board
Mason City
Spencer
Burlington
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
United States
Mark Kane
Mayor Kane
Frederick FE. Bissell
Arthur M. Bennett
The
Trades and Labor Assembly
Robert W. Clewell
Richard F. Conlon
Edward F. Lusch
Time B. Schmid
J. M. Wolfe
Walter J. Connell
Matthew H. Czizek
Edward W. Estage
Delos F. Hodges
Charles T. Landon
John McDonald, Jr
Robert F. Woodward
William B. Zuker
Dubuque University
Public Works Administration
Subsistence Homestead Corporation
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R. M. Evans
C.F. Bartels
M Ahlfors
P. H. Elwood
Iowa State College
Planning Board
George von Tungern
H. Dale Bossert
Tree Falls on Farmer Killing Him in Iowa Home
Dietrich J. Westhoff aged 53 returns to farm life after three of his children wed. While chopping a tree Friday night to ease sorrow, the trunk fell and killed him instantly. He left a widow and two brothers.
Johnson County Couple Observe 75th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Thomas J Dvorsky of near Iowa City celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with their family. They were married February 9 1885 and have resided in Johnson County for decades. They will spend the day at their home six miles north of Iowa City with relatives.
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Thomas J. Dvorsky
Fred Smith
Otto Greazel
Frank Dvorsky
Dvorsky
Johnson County
Open Milk Depots For Needy Children in Bedford
Free milk depots opened in Bedford to supply milk to undernourished needy school children. Distribution directed by nurses from local physicians offices with support from the Bedford Welfare League and Lions Club.
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Bedford
Satuday
Bedford Welfare League
Lions Club
Diaries and Letters Reveal Teen World Study
Owa City researchers Mrs. J. J. Runner and Prof. E. B. Reuter analyze tens of thousands of diaries notes and letters from high school students across the union. They contend adolescence is focused on peers and self rather than adult world influence and emphasize that recognition, new experiences, and responsibility drive teen behavior.
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Owa
J. J. Runner
E. B. Reuter
University of Iowa
Friends Help Raise Bond To Get Alleged Slayer Out Of Jail
SIGOURNEY IOWA UP Adolph Martens a Keswick farmer recently acquitted of murder in his step daughter Maxine Abel 14 was free on 20000 bond Saturday Neighbors subscribed 8000 toward the bond and Martens awaited trial for the death of his wife Estella The trial will be held at Newton under a venue change after the acquittal Martens pled self defense Local attorneys from Sigourney Oskaloosa and Newton will represent the defense and state attorneys from Newton Sigourney and Keokuk County.
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Adolph Martens
Keswick
Maxine Abel
Martens
Estella Martens
Keokuk ‘County
Henry Martens
Gibson
Newton
R. J. Shaw
H. F. Wagner
George Baker
R. G. Yoder
H. F. Life
Oskaloo
State Board of Education
General Assembly
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Hickenlooper seeks exempt cities from sales and gas levies
Rep. B. B. Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids introduces a bill to exempt Iowa cities from sales and gasoline taxes on purchases for municipal use. He argues current practice taxes cities like other consumers and wastes tax funds. Cedar Rapids alone faces about 18000 dollars annually in sales and gasoline taxes.
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Iowa Daily Press
Des Moines
Iowa
B. B. Hickenlooper
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Governor Proposes One Cent Gas Tax in Iowa
Gov Clyde Herring proposed raising state revenue by adding one cent per gallon to gasoline taxes. He said the measure could yield about 3.5 million dollars annually and noted 33 states already taxed more at the pump. He also discussed liquor investigation and old age assistance needing 13.5 million yearly for 50 000 pensions.
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Des Moines
INS
Clyde Herring
Iowa
Iowa Senate
Officials Begin Work On Southern Iowa National Forest
Ottumwa hosts a new regional forestry office as officials arrive to oversee the 829000 acre area along the Des Moines river valley and Missouri border. David Arrivee will lead the project. acquisition aims for land only unsuitable for agriculture. Temporary offices opened in Ottumwa while permanent space is sought.
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Southern
Iowa National Forest
G. B. MacDonald
Ames
A. W. Poole
George Galliger
W. J. Stahl
Max Melick
Lands Branch
Milwaukee
David
St. Anthony
Idaho
Stahl
National Forest Reservation Commission
Washington
Des Moines River
Missouri
Ottumwa Federal Building
First White Man Born In Washington County Reaches 95
James Harvey, claimed as Washington county’s first white birth, celebrated his ninety fifth birthday in Washington Iowa. A Civil War veteran he enlisted in 1862 and took part in the Vicksburg campaign Jackson Mississippi battles the Atlanta campaign and the Sherman grand review in Washington. He travels downtown daily weather permitting and looks forward to spring gardening.
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James Harvey
Washington County
Harvey
Jackson
Miss
Atlanta
General Sherman
State Comptroller Opposes Increase in State Expense
Des Moines AP says three major state subdivisions exceeded the initial $15 million annual operating budget for 1935-36 by over $2 million. Comptroller C. B. Murtagh will present combined asks of over $17 million to the Assembly, with recommended reductions to about $12 million.
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Boards of Control and Education
C. B. Murtagh
Assembly
Murtagh
General Assembly
Clyde L."herring
House
Senate
Boards of Control and ‘Education
Board of Control
Anderson Defends Controversial Basic Sciences Bill
Iowa Senator Paul H. Anderson says the basic sciences bill hurts no class and fights misrepresentation. He notes heavy mail protests and that lawmakers have distributed more than 6,000 copies at their own expense to constituents.
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Paul H. Anderson
Harcourt
Iowa
Sateurday
Anderson
Eee
General Assembly
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