Iowa Delegation Divided Over Social Security Amendment
Protests by Iowa unemployment compensation officials met divergent views in Washington as the Iowa delegation debated Byrnes proposed amendment. Some senators favored federal authority over personnel and funding, while others urged maximum state control. Republican representatives attacked centralization and urged Iowa workers manage social security matters locally.
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Washington
Iowa
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Federal
Social Security Board
Byrnes
S. C
Federal Board
Herring
Gillette
House
Thurston and
Gilchrist
Thurston
Central Iowa Phone Co Buys Iowa Union Telephone
Central Iowa Telephone of Toledo Indiana buys the Iowa Union Telephone Co with thirteen exchanges in Iowa and Minnesota. Emmetsburg serves as Iowa union HQ. Exchanges include Rolfe Barter Swea City Forest City Ansgar Klemme Ton and Aldren Kiester LeRoy Lyle Adams Sanborn. Thomas Newman stays in Emmetsburg. some staff may move to Toledo. Local exchange valued about 85000 dollars.
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Central Iowa Phone Company of
Toledo
Retel
Central Iowa Telephone Ee
Iowa Union Telephone Company
Iowa
Minnesota
Emmetsburg Exchange
Iowa Union Group
The
Central Company
Rolfe
Barter
Swea City
Forest City
Ansgar
Klemme
Ton and
Aldren
Kiester
LeRoy, Lyle, Adams
Sanborn
Murder Witness Identifies Stevens in Madison Slaying
Roy Stevens, 40, held for questioning after extradition from Maquoketa Iowa in the December 14 killing of Oscar Bornstein at a Madison filling station. Isador Victor, witness and brother in law of Bornstein, told police he was positive Stevens was the attacker. District Attorney Beggs said charges would be filed soon.
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Madison
Wis
Roy Stevens
Oscar Bornstein
Maquoketa
Stevens
California
Bornstein
Isador Victor
Victor
Iowa
Lyall T. Beggs
Hesitant Children and the Weg Toward Normal Speech
A University of Iowa study finds children who stutter are normal in mental and physical makeup until labeled or pressured by adults. Early labeling and home correction efforts can create or worsen stuttering, while doctors advise calm, nonjudgmental handling and age appropriate therapy to reduce tension and encourage natural speech.
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Junior
Sonny
Dr. Johnson
Susie
Yeacher
University
Johnson
Iowa
Philip McCabe
Windsor
Ont
University of Iowa
C. E. Obermann
Iowa City
Independence Merchant In One Location Sixty Years
I. C. Plane, Independence Iowa largest Buchanan county tax payer, aged 81, runs a hardware store for 60 years in one location and owns ten stores, 12 houses, 20 lots. He began at 16 in his father’s shop, rebuilt after a 1874 fire, and also ran Independence Ice. A lifelong Mason, he holds many offices and leads local Masonic bodies. Plane married Elsie Sadler in 1885 and has one daughter and four sons in various professions.
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Independence
Buchanan County
I. C
Plane
Iowa
Independence Ice Company
Mr. Plane
Main Street
Masonic Temple Association
Iowa National Guard
Dubuque
Elsie Sadler
St. James Episcopal Church
C. B. Raffauf
Arthur
Ralph
Equitable Life Insurance Company
New York City
Fred
Los Angeles
Robert
San Francisco
Dead Pig Halts Keokuk Bridge Communications
A dead hog tossed from the Keokuk Hamilton bridge caused a tangle in telephone and telegraph wires suspending all communications for over an hour Friday night. Bridge officials removed the carcass after a long effort, and a truck driver was suspected.
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Keokuk
Keokuk and
Hamilton
Squires Sentenced for Stealing Mother's Washing Machine
Waterloo AP Lowell Squires a 30 year old former boxer received a thirty day county jail term after pleading guilty to stealing his mother's washing machine and selling it to a second hand dealer.
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Waterloo
Lowell Squires
New Counterfeit Coins Have More Silver Than Legal
Federal officials warned of a flood of counterfeit half dollars entering Des Moines and Omaha. The fakes are of unusually high quality, fooling even experienced bank staff. Each coin contains about 25 cents worth of silver and has a distinctive government mint ring, surpassing genuine coins which hold about 20 cents of silver.
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Des Moines
Omaha
Seize 239 Gallons Of Alcohol Near Osage
Federal agents in St Paul raided a Minnesota alcohol distribution ring extending into north Iowa. Three men Thomas F. Miller Louis Suchy and Albert Suchy were arrested on the Suchy farm eight miles north of Osage on illegal possession and removal of untaxed liquor. Each was bound over to the federal grand jury on $1000 bonds.
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Mason City
Federal
St Paul
Minnesota
Iowa
Thomas F. Miller
Austin
Minn
Louis
Albert Suchy
Suchy Farm
Osage
U.S
Charles W. Barlow
Federal Grand Jury
Ellis Wilson Dies at 76 Noted Black Hawk County Lawyer
Ellis Wilson, 76, prominent Black Hawk county lawyer, died Saturday of a heart attack. Wilson began practice in 1895 and twice ran as a Democrat for Congress. His widow and two daughters survive.
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Waterloo
INS
Ellis Wilson
Black Hawk County
Wilson
Talk To Blind Veteran By Tapping On Chest
EST LIBERTY Charles Regnier, 93, West Liberty's last Civil War veteran, has become a focus for friends who stay informed through a tapping code on his chest. Once reading headlines aloud with help, he now receives words printed on his chest as he lies in bed, using tactile communication.
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Liberty
Charles Regnier
West Liberty
Regnier
Frank Hughes
Will Davis
Omaha
School For the Deaf and Dumb
Gazette
Maebelle Sexsmith
State Board Removes Woodbury County Relief Director
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration board ousted Virgil W Hall after a grand jury probe found $50 000 in county relief funds spent illegally The Woodbury supervisors had refused to discharge him Gov Kraschel urged a full cleanup The same report indicts Clarence Coan Samuel Cohen and Ed R Davies in a separate case for alleged relief merchandise fraud with forged claims and conspiracy dates and amounts listed in five indictments
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Des Moines
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Sateurday
Virgil W Hall
Woodbury County
N S Genung
Hall
Lo Sternli
Woodbury
TERA
Woodbury County Board of Supervisors
Nelson G. Kraschel
Sioun City
Coan
Davis
Cohen
Mather
Amelia Coan
Hens Fed Yeast Produce Vitamin D Eggs
Iowa State College researcher Dr. B H Thomas reports chickens fed irradiated yeast produce eggs with about 400 units of vitamin D per yolk. The vitamin D level rivals fortified milk, and cost per hen is about 25 cents yearly.
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Ames
Iowa State College
B. H. Thomas
Thomas
William Craven
University of Wisconsin
Average Iowa worker holds job fifteen months says AP
Iowa's average worker stays at a single job for fifteen months, the unemployment compensation commission reports. Turnover runs at 20 percent each quarter, with about 60 000 workers changing status every ninety days and 20 000 becoming unemployed monthly. The panel oversees 307 000 on rolls and plans unemployment benefits after July 1, funded by a 2.7 percent payroll tax from larger employers.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State
Kies
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Iowa Commission
Bill Jones
Mary Burke
Wendell Johnson
Lee E. Travis
Psychopathic Hospital
Carl] E. Seashore
Samuel T. Orton
I. C. Plane
Iona Masons
Dead Pig
Margaret C. Jack
Mr. Regnier
Sioux City
Jim Reynolds
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