Governors power battle over Iowa highway patrol firing
Des Moines AP Iowa Motor Vehicle Commissioner Lew Wallace disputed Secretary of State elect Earl G Miller s power to shake up patrol leadership and warned only the commissioner can name a Patrol Chief and officers may be dismissed only after charges and executive council action. The dispute follows Miller s dismissal notices to Hattery and several aides with Miller saying Conley would remain. The Safety Council condemned Miller s replacements as politics and urged public safety not be made a political football.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lew Wallace
Earl G. Miller
Highway Patrol
Jan. J. Wallace
Miller
John R. Hattery
State Executive Council
Executive Council
Wallace
Robert E. O’brian
Secretary of State
Horace Tate
National Safety Council
Tate
Hattery
Iowa State Safety Council
Tom Pettit
Des Moines Patrol Officers May Stay as Privates
Sec. of State elect Earl G. Miller said dismissed highway patrol officials as of Jan 1 may remain as privates if they wish to stay. He will demote them to regular patrolmen if they choose. Miller criticized Lew Wallace and W Earl Hall for opposing department changes.
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Des Moines
Sec. of State
Earl G. Miller
Executive Council
John R. Hattery
Nestle
Harry Brown
Miller
Lew Wallace
Wallace
W. Earl Hall
Iowa State Safety Council
Storm Centers In Patronage War
Des Moines Republicans clash as Earl G. Miller secretary of state elect purges officeholders to install his appointees. Wallace questions Miller's procedure citing highway patrol under his control. John Hattery slated to head patrol backed by the Iowa Safety Council denouncing Miller's plans.
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Des Moines
Republican Party
Earl G. Miller
Wallace
Miller
Highway Patrol
John Hattery
Iowa State Safety Council
New Highway Patrol Chief Vows Policy of Noninterference
Des Moines AP The new Iowa highway patrol chief Tom Pettit, a Des Moines police captain, conditionally accepts the post under Secretary-elect Earl Miller. He demands the patrol not be used politically and no dismissals except for cause, pledging no political interference and support for Miller's administration.
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Tom Pettit
Iowa State Highway Patrol
Earl G. Miller
Highway Patrol
Iowa
Iowa State Safety Council
Parent-Teacher Association
Auxiliary of the American Legion
Iowa Highway Patrol
Pettit
Miller
Starts Move To Aid Highway Patrolmen Earl Miller Fires
Mason City Iowa AP W Earl Hall president of the Iowa state safety council calls for public spirited lawyers to handle cases of highway patrolmen dismissed January 1 in a shakeup ordered by Secretary of State elect Earl G Miller. Hall says patrolmen have rights including a hearing with legal counsel before the executive council and urges attorneys to volunteer services.
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W. Earl Hall
Iowa State Safety Council
Iowa
Earl G. Miller
Hall
Executive Council
Our
Safety Council
John R Hattery
E. A. Conley
Harry Nestle
Harry Brown
Declamatory contest winners named at NEWHALL event
The NEWHALL declamatory contest held Monday announced winners Ora torical David Weichman in dramatic Bernice Hultman in humorous Jane Wheeler.
Legislators Back Consolidation Idea for Iowa Agencies
An Associated Press poll shows 45 of 158 lawmakers favor consolidating state offices in principle, with 2 opposed and 10 undecided. The plan may affect the highway patrol securities, board of assessment and review, insurance and banking, social welfare, and emergency relief. Incoming Secretary Earl Miller vows to resist consolidations in his departments. The 1940 legislature will have 89 Republicans and 19 Democrats in the House, and 38 Republicans and 12 Democrats in the Senate.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Associated Press
Senate
House
Highway Patrol
Securities Department
Secretary of State’s Department
Board of Assessment
Social Welfare Board
Emergency Relief Administration
Earl G Miller
Secretary of State
Keokuk youths plead innocent in bank night fix case
Ten youths and one more defendant indicted in Keokuk on charges of cheating by false pretenses or conspiracy in a bank night drawing fix. Police say the ring shared about 1750 dollars since December. ten arraigned pled not guilty and bond set for December term. Five admitted participation and described the scheme in which judges swapped tickets during drawings.
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Keokuk
E. G. McPherson
McPherson
Iowa Law School Plans Midwest Editors Conference
The Iowa Law Review hosts a December 3 conference in Iowa City for mid western law review editors. Three round table discussions on publishing legal periodicals precede a banquet with remarks by Des Moines attorney Vincent Starzinger and Washington University law professor Ralph Fuchs. Attending schools include LSU Cincinnati Minnesota Northwestern Wisconsin St Louis Indiana Notre Dame Chicago Missouri Nebraska Illinois Kentucky Tennessee and Detroit College of Law.
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Iowa City
Iowa Law Review
University of Iowa College of Law
Mid-Western Law Review
Vincent Starzinger
Des Moines
Ralph F. Fuchs
Washington University of St. Louis
Jovial Friends Rob Des Moines Man of 77
DES MOINES AP A market is robbed by two men who entered smiling and talking then produced a revolver. They took 77 dollars from the proceeds and the pockets of the owner Joe Rubin and fled. Mrs Rubin fainted and received medical care.
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Des Moines
Joe Rubin
Rubin
Earlville Lecture by Don Bancroft for Manchest er district
Nationally known layman Don Bancroft will speak at 8 p m Friday in the Earlville Methodist church. The address will address the men of churches in the Manchester sub district group.
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Earlville
Don Bancroft
Manchester
Maquoketa Sets Dec 12 Bond Sale for Swimming Pool
Maquoketa city council fixed December 12 to sell seventeen to nineteen thousand dollars in municipal swimming pool bonds with annual maturities of fifteen hundred dollars except the first year. A state auditor audit bill of nine hundred forty seven dollars sparked debate, while L H Sidwell received permission to build a bulk gasoline station with four tanks and a warehouse.
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Maquoketa
State Auditor
J G. Thorne
Thorne
L. H. Sidwell
Iowa City
University of Iowa to issue contracts for radio building
The state board of education will let contracts Wednesday for the University of Iowa radio building project with Moorehead and Frederickson of Cedar Rapids submitting the low bid for general construction. Other low bids include Carsten Bros Ackley plumbing and heating and W B Russell Iowa City electrical work.
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Iowa City
State Board of Education
University of Iowa
Moorehead and Frederickson Company
Cedar Rapids
Carsten Bros, Company
Ackley
W. B. Russell
Johnson Services
Des Moines
Iowa Union
Iowa Supreme Court Affirms De Bont Sentence
The Iowa Supreme Court denied the appeal of Robert De Bont of Benton County from a three year Fort Madison sentence for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The court noted prior offenses, confirming previous convictions.
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Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Robert de Bont
Benton County
Fort Madison
de Bont
B. O. Tankersley
First declamatory contest opens school year at Manchester
Manchester high hosts first preliminary declamatory contest of the new school year Monday at 7 30 pm with contestants from Coggan Oneida and Manchester. Ora torical contestants include Robert Donovan and Betty Jean Hunt. Dramatic entrants Sophie Baran Lucile Kinley Mary Rector. Humorous entrants Arlyne Diesch Patty Donovan and Arlene Hansel. P A Tracy of Wilson high Cedar Rapids will serve as cruise judge.
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Coggan
Oneida
Manchester High School
Robert Donovan
Betty Jean Hunt
Sophie Baran
Lucile Kinley
Mary Rector
Arlyne Diesch
Patty Donovan
Arlene Hansel
P. A. Tracy
Wilson High School
Cedar Rapids
LeCompte to Represent Fifth Iowa District in Congress
Karl M LeCompte a 51 year old Corydon publisher will win defense of the Fifth Iowa district in the Seventy six congress defeating Ruth Hollingshead The progressive Republican and former state senator emphasized farm problems conservation and lower taxes He endorsed a national farm program and the MacNary Haugen bill LeCompte a WWI veteran operates a Corydon farm and active in the American Legion and coal miners welfare.
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Lowa
Karl M LeCompte
Lloyd Thurston
Osceola
LeCompte
Ruth Hollingshead
Albia
Dan Turner
Iowa
the Times-Republican
American Legion
Dorothy Tye
Pleasanton
University of Iowa
Mayor Of Quasqueton Fined In Manchester Case
Fritz Benz mayor of Quasqueton faced two disorderly conduct charges in Manchester on Thanksgiving Day. He was arrested and jailed, then released, with Justice John M Brayton imposing fines of 10 dollars on each count plus additional costs and a total of 20 dollars in fines and 7 dollars in costs.
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Manchester
Fritz Benz
Quasqueton
Benz
John M. Brayton
Brayton
Mrs Lydia Fishel dies at Lafayette after long illness
Mrs Lydia Ruth Fishel widow of W D W Fishel died at her Lafayette home Monday born Lydia McMahon near Liscomb December 20 1863 daughter of Andrew and Fanny McMahon She married W D W Fishel March 7 1894 Survived by four children Fred M Sylvia Schinckle Cloe Lyman Estella Mollenhauer nine grandchildren one brother George McMahon of Waukee one sister Perle Encell of Los Angeles Funeral 2 pm Wednesday at Lafayette Church of Christ George Biersborn of Liscomb to officiate Burial in Lafayette cemetery Call Turner chapel Cedar Rapids until 10 am Wednesday
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Lydia Ruth Fishel
W. D W. Fishel
Lydia Ruth McMahon
Liscomb
Andrew
Fanny McMahon
W. D. W. Fishel
Fred M
Sylvia Schinckle
Cloe Lyman
Estella Mollenhauer
Geo. McMahon
Waukee
Perle Encell
Los Angeles
Lafayette Church of Christ
George Biersborn
Lafayette Cemetery
Turner Chapel
Cedar Rapids
Cornell Board Faces Task Of Selecting New President
Cornell board of trustees weighs a successor to Dr. Herbert J Burgstahler who leaves to lead Ohio Wesleyan University beginning Sept 1 1939. No candidate list or meeting timetable set as leaders review options and plan for the college’s future after eleven years of Burgstahler’s administration.
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Cornell Board
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Herbert J Burgstahler
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
E.dooper
L. Willian
Cedar Rapids
Cornell Board of Trustees
Plains
Burgstahler
Cornell
Buffalo Lake
Minn
Minnesota
Two Escaped Woodward Patients Captured in Nevada
WOODWARD UP Dr CE Irwin superintendent of the state hospital for epileptics and school for feeble minded announced the capture of two escaped patients by sheriff s officers at Nevada They are Allen Mason and Arthur Wilkins They escaped Sunday night with Richard Owens 21 Owens has not been apprehended.
Leverett Named Iowa Real Estate Commissioner
James R. Leverett 42 of Council Bluffs was appointed Iowa real estate commissioner effective Jan 2 by Secretary of State-elect Earl G. Miller. Leverett, an investment man and bar member in Iowa and Nebraska, will succeed Harry Crenshaw of Des Moines.
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Des Moines
INS
James R. Leverett
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Earl G. Miller
Leverett
Nebraska
Iowa State College
Texas University
Harry Crenshaw
Secretary of State
Dr A A Crabbe Dead Veteran Traer Physician
Dr A A Crabbe aged 67 longtime Traer physician and school board member died of a heart attack hours after serving as toastmaster at the Tracer high school football banquet He had practiced in Traer since 1900 and was active in civic and fraternal groups including the Congregational church Tama County Medical Society Lions Club and Shriners Funeral arrangements were not yet announced
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Tracer
A. Crabbe
Ana
All
New London
Crabbe
Jessie Segner
George Crabbe
Lillie Kunath
Washington
Congregational Church
Tama County Medical Society
The
Lions Club
Commandery
Vinton
Shrine
Cedar Rapids
Slight Change In Iowa Weather Seen
Des Moines reports fair mild weather across Iowa with little change forecast for 36 hours. Tuesday lows ranged to 28 at Mt. Ayr Charles City and Iowa Falls while Monday's high reached 56 at Mt. Ayr and temperatures averaged about seven degrees above normal.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Mt. Ayr
Charles City
Iowa Falls
Grinnell Junior Chamber to Lead Toy Drive for Needy Children
Grinnell Avery Adkins president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce says the group will collect and renovate discarded toys to distribute to children in need. The project has been carried on by the American Legion post.
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Avery Adkins
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Childdren
Citewell
American Legion Post
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