Republicans Cut State Jobs In Des Moines Welfare Units
The Iowa Republican administration moved to cut costs nationwide in Des Moines by eliminating or informing off around 100 jobs across three downtown commissions. Welfare tallies show 25 positions cut, about 60 at the State Tax Commission, and around 25 fewer on the Unemployment Compensation payroll. Officials say final figures depend on completing reorganizations, with most cuts effective July 1 or June 15.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Republican
State Tax Commission
Unemployment Compensation Commission
King R. Palmer
Welfare Board
Tax Commission
Commission
Tax Board
Compensation Commission
Claude Stanley
Governor Wilson Improves at Home in Iowa
Des Moines AP says Governor George A. Wilson, housebound by influenza, showed improvement Saturday though not yet able to return to the state house.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Mercury Hits 98 At Clinton In Heat Wave
DES MOINES AP Iowa endured extreme heat as summer approached with Clinton registering 98 degrees near 3 p.m. Des Moines reached 90 to 92 on official readings while other cities reported 91 to 96. The Weather Bureau cited a dry stationary low in Nebraska and a high over the southeast as factors fueling continued heat.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Clinton
City Weather Bureau
Muscatine
Council Bluffs
Waterloo
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Ottumwa
Iowa City
Davenport
Charles City
Mason City
Weather Bureau
Dubuque
Nebraska
Mother waits alone on Iowa farm for twin sons
In Emmetsburg Iowa a 17 year old twin mother watches the lane from her farm home for Lloyd and Lyle Hagerman who vanished after taking the family car during a shopping trip. The abandoned Hagerman car was later found in Cheyenne Wyoming, but no trace of the brothers has been found. Neighbors helped cultivate the corn while she waited.
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Emmetsburg
Ins
Edward Hagerman
Lloyd
Lyle Hagerman
Emmeetsburg
Cylinder
Cheyenne
Wyo
Hail Damage Loss In Iowa Last Year
DES MOINES AP Hail damage to Iowa crops fell to 1599000 in 1938, down 300000 from 1937. Five counties Floyd Clayton Hardin Jones Monroe reported no losses. Scott County reported the year's high with 153000 in damage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Floyd
Clayton
Hardin
Jones
Monroe
Scott County
Safe From The Gestapo At Scattergood
Immigrants at Scattergood hostel near West Branch recount Nazi lineage and religious changes among ten Jews who escaped persecution. The group includes Lutherans by faith or heritage, with only one true synagogue Jew. Records trace pedigrees through church and state archives, yet some deny lineage to avoid persecution as citizens displaced by war.
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Scattergood
West Branch
der Fuehrer
Nazi
Germany
Hitler
Iowa G O P Leaders Take River Cruise for Chief Search
Burlington AP report says members of the Republican state central committee led by James Milroy boarded the cruiser of the forty second naval division for an overnight trip to Keokuk. The party included Harrison Spangler DeWitt H A Grantham and others. They made a preliminary stop at lock and dam No 18 north of Burlington amid talk the cruise mixed pleasure with politics and possible plans to replace Milroy as state party chair.
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Republican State Central Committee
James Milroy
Forty-Second Naval Division
Keokuk
Milroy
Harrison Spangler
Cedar Rapids
H. A. Grantham
DeWitt
R &. Hill
Oxford Junction
Shannon B. Charlton
Manchester
George Bemis
Garner
B. B Hickenlooper
Walker Hanna
No Policy Changes, Palmer Indicates No Policy Changes
DES MOINES AP Iowa Welfare Chairman King BR Palmer Saturday night replied to statements by dismissed aged pension officials declaring no changes to state old age assistance policies. The department will dissipate insinuations by using demonstrations rather than promises as a gauge of its actions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
King Br, Palmer
Governor Says No To Salary Boosts
DES MOINES AP Gov George A Wilson opposes pay raises for state government employees. The state comptroller’s office says no increases have been approved since Republicans took the statehouse last January, despite several requests being made.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
State Comptroller’s Office
Statehouse
Postpone Miller Judgment Action in Des Moines
A judgment debtor action against Secretary of State Earl G. Miller was postponed to June 24 due to inability to bring in more witnesses. H. S. Dugan, who holds a $4,500 judgment from a 1932 false arrest suit, sought the delay. Miller testified he has no property or income beyond a $408 monthly salary exempt from execution.
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DES Moines
Earl G. Miller
H. S Dugan
Miller
Welfare workers clash over Iowa pension shakeup
Byron G. Allen, former Iowa old age pension chief, is ousted along with 24 others as the state reorganizes social welfare. The move consolidates old age pensions, emergency relief, and related aid, with King R. Palmer promising economies and steadier support for assistance amid the purge. Allen and assistant E. R. Meredith condemn the policy as surrender to Elizabethan-era relief.
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Byron G. Allen
Iowa
Allen
E. R. Meredith
King R. Palmer
Old Iowa Emeregency Relief Administration
Welfare Board
Pocahontas County
Republican Party
New Deal
Benes guarded intently at Grinnell Institute
Eduard Benes visited Grinnell Institute of International Relations under heavy security with fourteen armed policemen and state troopers. Guards patrolled entrances and the Nollen home as Benes urged democracy against totalitarianism. He later spoke in Norman, okla, and planned honorary degrees at Trinity Yale and Harvard before sailing to London.
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Grinnell
R. Eduard Benes
Grinnell Institute
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Lations Institute
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John Nollen
Dr. Benes
F. Wilhelm Sollmann
Norman Thomas
Grinnell Institute of International Relations
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Rheinische Zeitung
Grinnell College
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Glenn Bell
Grinnell Police Department
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J. F. Cochran
William Welsh
Montezuma
Nollen
J. C. Ciccarelli
State Bureau
R. F. Gregson
Sam Kelly
Glen C. Johnson
Ed Speth
Norman
Okla
America
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Yale
Harevard
Trinity
London
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