Iowa plan to study convicts and crime approved
Iowa parole board seeks federal funds to chart prisoners family backgrounds police records and life histories. Justin Miller says the study goes beyond a crime census and could help determine parole readiness while aligning with a national parole system effort. The board seeks 2500 dollars state grant to obtain 30000 dollars federal allocation for the project.
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Iowa
Washington
Miller
Matt Cooney
Iowa Parole Board
Iowa Board
State Legislative Entrenchment and Reform Committee
Cooney
900 Mile Horseback Trip From Colorado To Iowa
Earnie Blohm and Delbert Aultman completed a 900 mile horseback trek from Longmont Colorado to Center Junction Iowa. They survived on three dollars and farm chores for meals and lodging, faced drought in Nebraska, kept horses fed by washing stables in Omaha, and secured entry by leaving leather gloves as security at a toll bridge. They began last February and are now husking corn near Center Junction.
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the Gazette
Junction
Colorado
Iowa
Earnie Blohm
Delbert Aultman
Longmont
Colo
Center Junction
Nebraska
Omaha
Fred Blohm
Iowa Senate seats up for grabs with party aims
DES MOINES AP Iowa democrats must win sixteen of thirty two state senate vacancies Tuesday while republicans need eighteen to secure a majority. One race is already settled with Boone Republican L H Doran unopposed. Ten non retiring seats face re election in 1938 and twelve of the incumbents are not seeking another term. The democrats hold a 28 22 edge after last term with eight Republican holdovers and ten Democratic non retiring seats listed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
L. H. Doran
Boone
Howard Baldwin
Cascade
Andrew Bell
Denison
James M. Bell
Burlington
I. G. Chrystal
Coon Rapids
T. JF. Driscoll
Farmington
Sam D. Goets
Davenport
Paul L.millhone
Clarinda
Albert J. Shaw
Pocahontas
City Approves Pool Plan Contract with Engineer Schenk
Independence city council approved a contract with Ernest E. Schenk of Waterloo as engineer to prepare surveys plans and specifications for the new municipal swimming pool. The four to two vote reflected mixed support among members.
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Ernest E. Schenk
Waterloo
Joe Siegel Sent to Prison After Court Fight
In Sioux City AP report, Joe Siegel former night club operator goes to Anamosa reformatory to serve an eight year manslaughter term after his appeal to the U S Supreme Court was denied. He killed Glenn Gross alias Lefty Havens at Valley Gardens and had argued self defense before state high court. Siegel surrendered to Woodbury County officials and was briefly jailed.
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Sioux City
United States Supreme Court
Joe Siegel
Anamosa Reformatory
Siegel
Glenn Gross
Lefty Havens
Valley Gardens
State Supreme Court
Woodbury County
Waterloo Man Chosen President of Iowa Real Estate Boards
C. E. Howard of Waterloo was elected president of the Iowa Association of Real Estate Boards at the convention in Council Bluffs. George Koser of Iowa City was elected director, and George E. Walker of Des Moines was re-elected secretary treasurer. Vice presidents named include Hugh Blackwell, Frank Buckwalter, J. N. Chamberlain, and H. G. Hedges. Allen Beck and Frank Riker will serve as directors with Koser. Mason City bids for the 1937 convention.
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Council Bluffs
C. E. Howard
Waterloo
Iowa Association of Real Estate Boards
George Koser
Iowa City
George E. Walker
Des Moines
Hugh Blackwell
Frank Buckwalter
Sioux City
J. N. Chamberlain
H. G. Hedges
Cedar Rapids
Allen Beck
Mason City
Frank Riker
Koser
Hold Up Security Act Blanks Delayed for Employers
In Des Moines Iowa Daily Press an order from Washington delays distribution of thirty thousand unemployment insurance blanks for employers with eight or more workers. The blanks are at Charles D. Houston’s internal revenue office in Iowa. Deputy collector F. M. Halpin cited Guy T. Helvering as the source of the delay until after the upcoming election.
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Des Moines
Iowa Daily Press
Washington
Charles D. Houston
Internal Revenue
Iowa
F. M. Halpin
Social Security
Guy T. Helvering
Principal Speaker at Cornell Forum Named
Bishop G Bromley Oxnam of Omaha area Methodist church and former De Pauw president will headline the third annual ministers and laymen conference at Cornell College November 22 to 24. Oxnam, a noted author and educator, has traveled widely including Russia in 1936 and Japan in 1932. He serves as bishop since 1936 and is a prolific writer on social and religious topics.
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Mount Vernon
G. Bromley Oxnam
Omaha
Methodist Church
de Pauw University
Cornell College
Oxnam
Europe
Asia
Russia
Japan
Democratic Letters Urge County Workers to Vote Democratic
Reports from Maquoketa Iowa recount a Republican rally noting mimeographed letters from Jackson County Democratic Central Committee urging road workers to back the Democratic ticket. A second unsigned letter praised county supervisors for employment and urged support, while a third advised commiteemen to report helpers, provoking Republican resentment.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County
Democratic Central Committee
OWS
Iowa Librarians Meet This Week
About 200 Iowa librarians will attend the Iowa Library Association convention in Des Moines on November 3 to 5. Speakers include Malcolm G. Wyer of Denver and administrator of the University of Iowa library in 1911 and 1912 who will discuss enduring values.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Library Association
Malcolm G. Wyer
American Library Association
University of Iowa
Denver
Wyer
Katherine Reely
Wisconsin Library School
Letha Davidson
Ames
Miss Reely
Miss Davidson
Dwight E. Porter
Omaha Technical High School
Forrest Spaulding
Mr. Spaulding
Federal Library Division
Office of Education
Congress
Mildred H. Pike
Sioux City
Carroll County Safety Drive Cuts Highway Deaths
W Earl Hall of the Iowa State Safety Council cites Carroll county Iowa as a model for reducing highway fatalities. After organizing a county safety council with about 500 members, no fatalities or serious accidents occurred in the first nine months of 1936, compared with 12 deaths in 1935.
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Organization of Safety Council
Gazette
Mason City
Carroll County
Iowa
W. Earl Hall
Iowa State Safety Council
Safety Councilor
Carroll
Safety Council
Carroll County Safety Program
Ducks Open 30 Day Season In Iowa With Plentiful Birds
The Iowa conservation commission reports a very plentiful duck population for a 30 day season opening at 7 a.m. It notes mallards and pintails abundant despite a later start and warns against live decoys and high capacity magazines. Daily bag limits total 10 ducks and 4 geese with a possession limit of one day’s bag. An interstate pact allows hunters with resident licenses to hunt on adjacent river shores in Illinois and Nebraska.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Mississippi
Missouri River
Wilson
Lansing
Illinois
Nebraska
Vinton Girl Missing Prompted Police Search
Darlene Smith a 15 year old girl last seen at 5 p m Friday near Vinton prompting police to search Saturday on notification from her family authorities issued a missing persons alert and started a check patrols in the area.
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Vinton
INS
Darlene Smith
Nonagenarians to vote in or near West Union
John T. Gager age 96 will vote at Bethel township hall near his West Union home where he moved in 1872 from Illinois. He is a Civil War veteran and a Republican with a family of Republicans extending to a great grandson voting for the first time.
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West Union
John T. Gager
Bethel Township
Iowa
DuPage County
Illinois
Gager
Ray Bemis
105Th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Maggie Gunsalus
Gottlieb Wendland
Franklin S. Downs
Auburn
Mr. Wendland
Downs
Auburn Hall
Fayette County
George Koob
Dubuque
John Calhoun
Keosauqua
Henry Wood
GOP
Halden
L. J. Dickinson
Fine Arts Center Dedication At Iowa Campus This Week
Eight states send seventeen speakers to the University of Iowa National Fine Arts conference. Dedication ceremonies for the fine arts building Friday and the new theater Saturday headline a program featuring professors, artists, and playwrights from Yale, Chicago, New York, and more.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
R. H. Fitzgerald
School of Fine Arts
John Shapley
University of Chicago
Graphic and
Allardyce Nicoll
Yale
Arthur Shepherd
Western Reserve University
Paul Manship
New York
Martin Flavin
Frederick Koch
University of North Carolina
Randall Thompson
Concord
Mass
Leon Kroll
Barret Clark
Susan Glaspell
Clarence Ward
Oberlin College
Ohio
Gilmor Brown
Pasadena Playhouse
School of the Theater
Frederick P. Keppel
Carnegie Corporation
Walter A. Jessup
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
George T. Baker
Iowa State Board of Education
Eugene A. Gilmore
The
University
Gilmore
Jessup
Baker
Thomas W. Stevens
Chicago
Glove Theater
Washington County votes on patched ballots Tuesday
Washington county residents will vote on corrected ballots after an printing error left two voting squares for President and Vice President on each ticket. Officials pasted 144 000 stickers covering the extra square to require a single presidential vote on all 16 000 ballots.
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Washington, Ia
Washington County
Port and wife celebrate golden wedding in Springville
Mr and Mrs Allce C Port observe their 50th wedding anniversary at home in Springville on November 3 1886 wedding anniversary noted. Born near Springville 1859 and 1868 they lived on a farm then retired to town in 1928. They have six children fourteen grandchildren and one great grandson. Open house noted with family guests.
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Springville
Allce C. Port
Mr. Port
John
Catherine Armstrong Port
Harriet Hakes Port
Julian
Phoebe Rudall Hakes
Martelle
Claude J
Marion
Clelland A. Port
DeVer H. Port
Mary B. Perkins
John L. Port
Martha E. Raff
Clark R. Creglow
Eugene E. Parsons
Hope State Ticket Could Be Swept Into Office
Des Moines dispatch outlines Iowa political outlook with forecasted outcomes for Landon and Roosevelt. Republicans claim strength in Seventh Fifth Sixth and possibly Third districts while Democrats project gains in Ninth Eighth Fourth and Second.
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HOPE
Roosevelt
Clyde Herring
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Weiss
Iowa Real Estate Boards
Cornell Forum
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L. C. Schroeder
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China
Maquoketa
Marco Walker
John Hickson
London
MR. and
Mrs
Allie C. Port
Montieur Photos
Darrell Garwood
Alfred M. Landon
Landon
G.O.P. Strong
Fred C. Gilchrist
Gilchrist
Ray Murray
Koob
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