Legislature Delays Persist Amid Organization Disputes
Iowa lawmakers face slow progress as adjournment for a funeral contrasts with party fights over clerks salaries and patronage distribution. A conference committee will resolve pay gaps for 108 house clerks and 50 senate clerks, while contests and reports from four committees loom, with Governor race notes and possible action from George A. Wilson expected soon.
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House
Senate
B. B. Hickenlooper
Linn County
Professor William Koren Dies After Long Illness
Professor Emeritus William Koren 72 of Princeton University Modern Languages, longtime Luther College and Iowa Wesleyan alum, died at Princeton Hospital after a long illness. He joined Princeton in 1901, retired in 1933, and authored several textbooks.
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Princeton
N. J
William Koren
Princeton Universiy
Princeton Hospital
Luther College
Iowa
Iowa Wesleyan University
Winneshiek County Quadruples Flood Relief Fund Total
Winneshiek County subscribes four times its $90 Red Cross flood relief quota in Decorah on Tuesday. Officials expect the total raised to reach $500.
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Winneshiek County
Gazette
Decorah
Red Cross
Hart Backed As Mrs. Miller's Succeeding Secretary of State
Iowa City Democratic groups in the first district boost William R. Hart of Iowa City as successor to the late Mrs. Alex Miller. County organizations in Lee and Johnson counties join the push. Hart would be appointed by Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel to fill the secretary of state vacancy in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Alex Miller
Washington
Ila
Capitol
State Highway Patrol
Senate
House
John K. Valentine
LaMar Foster
William R. Hart
Iowa City
Lee
Johnson Counties
Hart
Miller
Nelson G. Kraschel
Kendalls Mark 55th Wedding Anniversary in Maquoketa
Mr and Mrs A W Kendall observed their fifty fifth wedding anniversary with a surprise party at their Maquoketa home. Married January 25 1882 near Delmar they lived on a Delmar area farm before retiring to Maquoketa twenty years ago. Their son Rollie died in 1918.
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Maquoketa
A. W. Kendall
Ernest
Delmar
Ben Jacobsen
Olive
T. P. Cassin
A. L. Pool
Floyd
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Stylvia Witzske
Davenport
Blairstown
Methodist Aid Society
Drake
Harold Ward
Methodist Church
Belle Plaine
Albert Baker
Helen
Ellery Willey
Marshalltown
Otis Eaton
Oshkosh
Wis
Willey
Chelsea
Thieves Ransack Stanwood Inn on Monday Night
Stanwood Highway Inn operated by Bob McClellan was broken into Monday night. Thieves took about five dollars and merchandise including money from an electric phonograph. They entered through a window and exited via a side door, returning the key after locking it.
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Gazette
Stanwood — Highway Inn
Bob McClellan
Cost Per Patient At Oakdale Falls For 1936
Des Moines reports that the Oakdale state sanatorium saw a 0.9 percent drop in cost per patient for the year ending June 30 1936 though net operating costs rose slightly over 1 percent from 1935. Auditor Co W Storms noted 343 patients that year and outlined total costs 235 995.84 with counties paying 216 897.04 and the state 19 098.80.
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Des Moines
INS
Oakdale
Co. W. Storms
Storms
Rescue of Starving Man in Shed Near Delwein
Jay Heath, 50, was found in a coal shed two and a half miles northwest of Oelwein after five days without food. He breathes through a collar button in a chest tube and was hospitalized at Fayette County jail before possible transfer to the county home. Deputy sheriff H. J. Nehring located him and provided aid including a bath to remove coal dust.
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Gazette West Union
Jay Heath
Fayette County
West Union
Heath
Jeff
Great Western Railroad
Oelwein
H. J. Nehring
State Pays Tribute to Mrs. Alex Miller
Mrs. Alex Miller Iowa secretary of state was buried in Washington Iowa beside her husband. State Highway Patrol Chief J R Hattery and other officers served as pallbearers. Both houses of the legislature adjourned in tribute. Governors and lawmakers attended the funeral. Miller founded the state patrol and an escort accompanied her remains.
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Washington, Ia
Alex Miller
Iowa
State Highway Patrol
J. R. Hattery
J. H. Nestle
E. A. Conley
Ed Murray
Jack Burnett
Harry Brown
State Drivers’ License Department
Prof James T Shotwell To Speak At Iowa City
Prof James T Shotwell a noted international peace expert and Carnegie Endowment trustee will address the University of Iowa history and social studies conference in early February. He serves on Columbia University's faculty and spoke at the Paris peace conference. He will discuss History and the Changing World on February 5 in a public session.
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Iowa City
James T. Shotwell
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
University of Iowa
Shotwell
Paris
Columbia University
Infant Thomas Ryan Found Smothered at Grand Mound
Grand Mound note: Francis Thomas two months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ryan found smothered in bed Sunday morning. Besides parents, one sister survives. Funeral services held at Saints Phillip and James church Monday with burial in Calvary cemetery.
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Grand Mound
Francis Thomas
Frank Ryan
Saints Phillip and James Church
Calvary Cemetery
Marengo
Red Cross
St. Louis
Farmers
Norway
Nellie Durow
Phoenix
Ariz
Durow
Swedenburg Church
Swedenburg
W. E. Carlson
Fred Blomker
Rutland
Laura
Elizabeth
Charles
Ocean Side
Calif
Chris
Center Point
Fred
Cedar Rapids
Elliott
Kimball
S. D. Hale
Olin High School
Ada Wood
Hale
Ruth Houstman
Leo Levsen
Dick Miles
Jack Freeman
Wynenna Schellin
Marieta Kreger
Marie
Galen Alexander
Jennie Wooder
Bernice Kammerman
Velda Blythe
Willard Houstman
Bob Mershon
Juanita Pruess
John Tudor
Ruth Murfield
Blairstown
Mary A. Conklin
W. A. Drake
Mary A. Anderson
David Anderson
George A. Conklin
Ray A. Conklin
Blanche Drake
Phyllis Faye Drake
Conklin
Dewitt
P. F. Connole
Mercy Hospital
Clinton
Margaret O’hern
Jose Kehoe
Evanston
Ill
Margaret Wolfe
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Joseph’s
Blairstown High School
Blairstown Opera House
J. L. Ewart
James Springer
Richard Stell
Jack Goss
Marie Grunewald
Charlotte Jackson
Marjorie Nieland
John David Oberthein
Milton Stoll
Rozella Thompson
Hopkinton
John Chaplin
Ray Chaplin
Parole Board Blocks Berlovich Commutation Effort
Matt Cooney of the Iowa parole board said he blocked an attempt by influential figures to commute life for Dewey Berlovich the Des Moines nightclub owner convicted of first degree murder in the 1935 slaying of Donald Merrigan. A key trial witness reportedly recanted, saying Merrigan was the aggressor. Berlovich had claimed self defense and said the governor discussed the case last December.
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Des Moines
Matt Cooney
Dubuque
Iowa Parole Board
Dewey Berlovich
Berlovich
Donald Merrigan
Valley Junction
Cooney
Merrigan
Changes Plea To Guilty In Mine Slaying Of Kin
Claude Foutch 42 confessed Christmas Eve slayer of Earl Nichols his cousin's husband pled guilty to second degree murder He admitted hitting Nichols with a hammer and dumping the body down an abandoned mine air shaft near Ottumwa He had earlier pled not guilty to first degree murder and changed his plea after a conference of lawyers before district court in Ottumwa.
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Ottumwa (Ap
Claude Foutch
Earl Nichols
Foutch
Chariton
Nichols
Here
Boy Injured At Coast ing Party In Sigourney
Donald Robison, 11, was injured at a coast ing party hosted by Wilma Wenger. He ran into a ditch at the foot of a hill, breaking a bone in his right arm above the elbow. His teacher Miss Mae Garrett and his parents took him to Sigourney hospital where the arm was x rayed and set. Donald is left handed.
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Wilma Wenger
Donald Robison
Mae Garrett
Hamill Robison
Sigourney Hospital
Donald
Train Crew Freed Of Blame In Death Of Iowa City Man
Military funeral services were set for Robert Koser 28 mourned after a car crash with a Rock Island passenger train in Tiffin. A coroner's jury ruled the crew not responsible and said the accident was unavoidable. Koser’s view was blocked by another train on a siding.
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Iowa City
Robert Koser
Tiffin
Rock Island
Koser
Postville Man Faces Bootlegging and Transport Charge
West Union John Ruckdascher Jr 41 of Postville is jailed in Fayette county charged with bootlegging and illegal liquor transportation after arrest in Clermont leaving James Triem s home. He pled not guilty and waived hearings with $1000 bonds. Triem 19 was arrested Saturday for illegal liquor possession with three gallons seized and to appear in court.
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Gazette
West Union
John Ruckdaschel, Jr
Postville
Fayette County
Clermont
James Triem
John R. Riley
Ruckdascher
Pope
Mercury Rises Slightly After Cold Snap Across Iowa
Iowa opened with a sunny sky as temperatures climbed from subzero levels. Forecasters expect a few days of warmer weather with highs in the twenties to thirties, though some northeast areas may stay below zero tonight.
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Des Moines
Iowa
The
Mercury
Charles City
Iowa Falls
Dubuque
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Mount Ayr
Davenport
Keokuk
Halstead traps nine foxes on Union farm this month
Herbert Halstead trapped nine foxes on his father W. E. Halstead’s farm in Union township within a month. Eight were red foxes and one grey. The top price paid for a pelt this year reached $9.
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West Union
Herbert Halstead
W. E. Halstead
Union Township
Home Mixed Cough Remedy Costs Less, Says Ad
An ad promotes making a cough remedy at home by mixing two cups sugar with one cup water, then adding 244 ounces of Pinex to yield a pint of medicine. It claims stronger relief than store bought products, no spoilage, pleasant taste, and a money back guarantee if not pleased.
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Phil Roan
Fort Madison
Leroy S. Mercer
Wilson
George A. Wilson
N. G. Kraschel
Carl Cook
Glenwood
Koren
H. G. Fussell
Okinow
2Nd Ave
A. W. Kendalls
Stanwood
Delwein
STATE
Mrs
J. T. Shotwell
Iowa News
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