Kraschel predicts end to partisanship in Iowa Legislature
Gov. Kraschel foresees harmony after opening bickerings as Iowa House and Senate set to approve committees. He cites speaker selection and party frictions easing, pledges constructive bills and a farm to market road fund without new taxes beyond trucks. He notes appointments and health, comptroller posts under consideration.
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Des Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
Iowa
Kraschel
House
Senate
Senate Journal
Committee On
State Board of Control
Robert Burlingame
Eldora
G. W. Kirtley
Harlan
Walter L. Bierring
C. B. Murtagh
Prisoner Builds Stone Model Of Cell House At Reform School
Harold Grimes, 29, completes an 11 ft 6 in by 4 ft 10 in scale model of the new cell house at the state reformatory. Warden Frazer praises the 500 hours of work and Grimes hopes to rejoin his family and work as a copy clerk after release in 18 months. He is serving time for automobile larceny, committed while under liquor.
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State Reformatory
Harold Grimes
W. H. Frazer
Grimes
Reformatory
Ed Doyle
Warden Frazer
New Cell House
Iowa Democrats And Republicans Agree On Homestead Bill
In Des Moines the Iowa legislature shows rare unity on a homestead tax relief measure. Democrats and Republicans filed Senate File No. 1, with Governor Nelson Kraschel endorsing the plan. The bill would exempt homeowners up to about 10 million dollars in sales tax receipts, applying exemptions to properties valued over 2 500 dollars.
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ES Moines
Iowa
Senate
Nelson G
Kraschel
Clyde L
Herring
C. L. Rice
Delta
House
LaMar Foster
Foster
Charles L
Zylstra
Hawarden
Albert
Beltman
Decide One Of 9 Contests For Iowa Legislature Seats
Des Moines AP The legislative committee favored the Democratic incumbent in one of nine Iowa House contests. Rep J P Gallagher chairman announced the report and said the House will be asked to adopt it. Peel conceded O Neill’s election after about one third of 6000 ballots were counted. The canvassing board had reported O Neill elected by sixty two votes.
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DES Moines
Legislative
Iowa House of Representatives
J. P. Gallagher
Williamsburg
Loren I. Peel
Keosauqua
J. K. O’neill
House
Gallagher
Peel
O’neill
Windmill Revs After Man Fires Shot At Ice Bound Gear
Farmer Charles Conrad, blocked by ice from accessing his windmill, fired four shotgun charges at the gears. The shots broke the ice on the ladder and gears, allowing the windmill to start running again.
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Lowden
Charles Conrad
Conrad
Iowa to issue 15000 unemployment tax forms Monday
Iowa unemployment insurance officials prepared 15000 blank tax forms for the 1.8 percent state tax on payrolls of companies with eight or more workers. Forms will be distributed Monday to chambers of commerce banks and business associations for Iowa employers. The Feb 15 deadline applies to state tax payments with federal deadlines under review for extension.
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DES Moines
Iowa Unemployment Insurance Administration
Louis Schneider
Commission
Chambers of Commerce
Iowa
Schneider
Federal
Social Security Commission
Plan Observance Of State Centen nial In Library Project
Iowa City plans to mark the centennial of Iowa statehood with a library program. A set of fifty readable volumes on Iowa development would be placed in public libraries. Prof. Benjamin F. Shambaugh says nine years 1937 to 1946 are needed and relies on existing historical society research.
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Iowa City
State Historical Society
Iowa
the Historical Society
Shambaugh
Laboratory models solve river control problems at Iowa
Iowa City’s hydraulic laboratory at the University of Iowa uses scaled river models to study currents erosion and effects of dams locks and spillways. The facility aids design of Pickwick Dam Keokuk locks and Missouri navigation channels with a staff of about 40 engineers led by Prof. F. T. Mavis who recently resigned to focus on other work.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
College of Engineering
Mississippi
Ohio
Tennessee
Iowa Hydraulics Laboratory
United States
Des Moines
Ottumwa
U. S. War Department
St. Paul
Mississippi River
Keokuk Dam
St. Louis
Missouri River
Pickwick
Tennessee River
University Dam
Iowa
Europe
F. T. Mavis
Institute of Hydraulic Research
Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics
Mavis
Assembly to reconvene Tuesday with broad bill push
The Iowa legislature prepares to reconvene Tuesday afternoon with a flood of proposed laws after a partisan opening week. Bills include a homestead tax exemption, unemployment insurance changes, an independent motor vehicle department, and liquor law revisions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Assembly
William S. Beardsley
New
Virginia
Senate
State Liquor Commission
Birds feed as ice blocks forage in Linn county
Birds dubbed our feathered friends receive aid from volunteers and CCC recruits. Two and a half tons of grain distributed in Linn county over two weeks. Inexpensive nail keg feeders donated by Cedar Rapids Marion and Mount Vernon stores protect grain from ice and snow and are serviced by CCC crews.
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Man
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Mount Vernon
CCC
Former Waukon Man Sentenced in Manslaughter Case
Edward Siekmeier of Madison, formerly of Waukon, was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter for the Evansville area automobile crash on November 15 that killed Miss Bessie Trunkhill and his wife Anna Siekmeier. His boyhood home was in Waukon. His elder brother died in an auto accident near Chicago a year earlier.
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Janesville
Wis
Edward Siekmeier
Madison
Waukon
Evansville
Bessie Trunkhill
Anna Siekmeier
Siekmeier
Chicago
Court Dismisses $53,000 Tax Refund Suit
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey in Des Moines dismissed a 1931 tax refund action against Davenport firm French and Hecht for $53,000. The ruling held the case barred by the statute of limitations, ending government efforts to recover the refund.
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DES Moines
Charles A. Dewey
French and Hecht Company
Davenport
Musical mouse charms Modale and Garner homes
Prized pet in Modale named Musical Mouse lives in a cake box with a common mouse. It is Iowa's second known singing rodent, joining Tiny Tim who resides in Garner with Mrs. B L Prouty.
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Modale
Paul Behm
Here
Behms
Iowa
Tim
B. L. Prouty
Garner
Fireman’s Life Full Of Close Calls On Day Off
Des Moines AP report details Fay Hatch of hose company 11 returning from day off to find his home district in a fire scene. A recruit rushed from bed to join the blaze and forgot his pants as others helped tackle the first floor damage.
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Des Moines
Fay Hatch
Hose Company 11
Company 11
Semsway
Boy Robbers Get Chance To Reform
Six boys from respectable families who formed a robbery ring and raided more than 25 Audubon stores were brought before Judge H. J. Mantz. The judge warned of continuation of investigation with rigid police surveillance and then dismissed them with a new chance. Ages listed as 14, 15, and 16.
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Audubon, Ia
INS
Audubon
H. J. Mantz
Women Rarely Hold Liquor Permits In Iowa Study
Iowa liquor commission reported that only 1.3 percent of liquor purchase permits issued by state stores went to women. Store managers in smaller towns say some have issued none. Most female permit holders are married men buy virtually all liquor.
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Des Moines
Iowa Liquor Commission
Iowa
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