State to cut property levy for 1938 in Iowa plan
Iowa property owners will pay 2.35 mills for the state government next year with a separate .35 mill soldiers bonus levy, totaling 2.7 mills. The plan, announced by State Tax Chairman Louis E. Roddewig, would raise about 6.8 million dollars for state operations and 1.014 million for the bonus bonds, against a total assessed real property value of 2.898 billion. New income from liquor profits and the use tax help offset the lower levy, as noted by board member D. L. Murrow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Louis E. Roddewig
Board of Assessment and Review
Roddewig
D. L. Murrow
Murrow
Three Men Held In Sioux City For $30000 Stock Swindle
In Sioux City three men described as successful executives face district court arraignment after a Minnesota farmer was targeted for a $30,000 stock market fraud. The suspects Harry Martin William Scarritt Furst and Daniel Wilson were nabbed in a hotel during an attempted transaction with federal agents observing.
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Sioux City
Minnesota
Harry Martin
Harry Baker
Harry Bennett
Kansas City
William Scarritt Furst
St. Louis
Daniel Wilson
Daniel Hart
Hussman
J. T. Grace
St. Paul
Slussman
Contractor Falls From Church Tower in Muscatine
Herman Luedtke a Muscatine contractor died in an 85 foot fall from the First Presbyterian church tower while inspecting masonry repairs. He climbed solo to the top and it is believed he leaned too far over and lost balance. His body was found on the church lawn with no witnesses. Workmen across the street at the post office yard alerted authorities.
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Muscatine (Ap
Herman Luedtke
Muscatine
First Presbyterian Church
Luedtke
Ban on public meetings lifted in Council Bluffs
Mayor William Guilfoyle announced the ban on public gatherings is lifted after weeks to curb polio. He cited nine days with no new cases. Omaha officials reported improved infantile paralysis conditions but kept restrictions in place.
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Council Bluffs
William Guilfoyle
Omaha
Paul Engle Writes First Novel In Seclusion Of Stone City
At Stone City a young American poet Paul Engle and his illustrator wife Mary Nissen Engle live in a stone mansion above a ghostly hotel. Engle works on a prose novel about a Midwestern student at Oxford, with illustrations by Mrs. Engle commissioned by the publisher.
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Paul Engle
Stone City
Middle West
Oxford University
England
Engle
Mary Nissen
Cedar Rapids
Thomas A. Engle
Fifth Avenue SE
Gazette Street
Washington High School
Coe College
University of Iowa
Columbia University
New York City
Oxford
Europe
Frank C. Nissen
Paul
Great Old House
Grant Wood
Old Green
Mary Engle
Green
Iowa
Gazette
Polk County Board Votes To Fight For Relief Funds
The Polk county board of supervisors, by a 4 to 1 vote, authorized the county attorney to begin court action in the Polk county relief dispute. County Attorney Carl Burkman will seek a district court ruling on whether the state relief committee can deny funds beyond lack of need. Judge QO S. Franklin may set a hearing for next Friday. Governor Kraschel expressed disappointment over Miss Flora Dunlap’s proposed relief administrator replacement and noted Pryor’s resignation as relief committee chair.
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State Emergency Relief Committee
State Comptroller
C. B. Murtagh
Kraschel
J. C. Pryor
State Relief Committee
Polk County
County Relief Committee
Bertha Lane
Board of Supervisors
Pryor
Miss Dunlap
Former Lee County Clerk Charged With Embezzlement
Keokuk Iowa Ralph C Mackie former clerk of the Lee County district court was charged with embezzlement in office. He was arraigned before Judge John M Rankin and given a week to enter a plea. Mackie resigned last July after state auditors found a $2200 shortage and was under temporary suspension at the time.
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Keokuk
Ralph CO. Mackie
Lee County District Court
John M. Rankin
Mackie
Des Moines mother improves after brain clot removal
Surgeons operated on Mrs. James Welborn to remove a left brain blood clot, reporting almost immediate improvement. She had a fractured skull from a fatal auto-train crash that claimed her husband, and delivered a healthy son four hours after the crash while unconscious.
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Des Moines
James Welborn
Urges Graduated Speed Limits To Get Cooperation
DES MOINES Iowa towns were urged to graduate their motor vehicle speed limits to obtain more cooperation from motorists The statement by P H Sproul executive secretary of the Iowa state safety council says signs should be placed with justifiable reason and warns motorists ignore distant limits The advisory notes a 25 mile limit may be too low in some areas and suggests 35 or 45 miles could be better as a means to improve compliance.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
P. H Sproul
Iowa State Safety Council
Sproul
Sproul Advocates Gradual Speed Reducing Plan
Sproul argues that lowering speed limits gradually earns motorist cooperation. He proposes moving from 45 to 35 mph, then to 25 mph to enforce compliance.
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Sproul
Kraschel Gets Stay Order In Muntz Commission Fight
In Des Moines the Iowa Supreme Court will review a writ petition as Justice Parsons grants a temporary stay in the Muntz Kraschel Greater Iowa Commission dispute. The fight centers on removing the commission from a Des Moines hotel to the state house and Governor Kraschel's appointment of Prof. Or. Sweeney of Ames to succeed Muntz.
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Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Muntz-Kraschel Greater Iowa Commission
Muntz
Commission
State House
John Mitchell
J. M. Parsons
Kraschel
Prof. Or. Sweeney
Ames
Iowa's Coal Preference Law Hits University Budget Hard
Des Moines AP Gov Kraschel says Iowa coal preference law will raise the University of Iowa coal costs by 42000 dollars annually based on current bids. He notes Iowa miners would gain 250 jobs, but higher coal prices could push 250 families onto relief. The law requires tax supported institutions burn Iowa coal, with price differences due to freight rates. The board of education may seek contingency funds to cover the gap.
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DES Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
Iowa
University of Iowa
State Board of Education
Western Illinois
Theuniversity
Ilinois
Illinois
Board of Education
Attorney General Presses Davenport County Attorney on Liquor Laws
Des Moines AP reports Attorney General John Mitchell ordered Scott County Attorney Leon Grapes to enforce Iowa liquor laws or face removal. Mitchell cites that Davenport’s liquor-by-the-drink plan licenses about 130 taverns and that enforcement rests with Grapes as head of county liquor control enforcement.
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Des Moines
John H. Mitchell
Scott County
Leon A. Grapes
Davenport
Tate
Grapes
Mitchell
Merle F. Wells
William Stark
Wells
Sam Kelly
Iowa
Liquor Control Commission
Liquor Control’ Commission
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
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