Iowa City Fights Consolidation of Engineering Units
The Iowa City Chamber of Commerce rebutts Dean Peisen's plan to merge the University of Iowa and Iowa State College engineering departments at Ames. It cites $1,044,760 in local plant value, plus student fees funding about 24 percent of engineering education, and warns consolidation risks, costs, and loss of two-institution competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa City Chamber of Commerce
Dean W. Peisen
Eldora
State Legislative Consolidation Committee
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
Peisen
Chamber
Vernon W. Nall
Nall
College of Engineering
Feb 1 Deadline for New License Plates Announced
DES MOINES AP Chief C A Knee of the state patrol ordered deputies to begin issuing summonses February 1 to all persons or dealers using 1938 dealer registrations and cars on official plates. The same rule covers private license holders. penalties start February 1 for failure to obtain new plates. Official and dealers permits expired December 31 with no grace period.
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Des Moines
C. A. Knee
State Patrol
Tegin
Anamosa Reformatories Earnings Hit Sixty-One Percent
Warden W H Frazer of the Iowa men's reformatory, a Scotsman by birth, has rebuilt the plant to self fund through integrated industries. In the year ending June 30 1938 total expenses were 35808407 with 6144 percent covered by reformatory revenues from farms, cash transfers and industry sales totaling 22046578. Industries include soap canning printing and binding cheese tobacco and more employing inmates in shops and on farms.
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Namosa
W. H. Frazer
Iowa Men’s Reformatory
Reformatory
Iowa
The
Gazette
Conare
Rhiv Seay
Anamosa Reformatory Inmates Build, Farm, and Factory Output
The Anamosa reformatory shows inmate operated industries including a tailor shop producing clothing for state institutions, an underground power and light distribution system saving coal, a dairy herd of 79 cows producing over 11,139 gallons per cow annually, and an aluminum dish spinning shop. Inmates also pack chewing tobacco and tobacco sacks, and run a bean sorting line for fifteen institutions.
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Anamosa
Frazer
W. H. Frazer
J. Aug. Pearson
Iowa
Anamosa Reformatory
Jones County Man Dies After Losing Farm
A Jones County farmer, 53, Alyin Dirks, was found dead by his son near Langworthy and hanged himself after losing the family farm. He had been in ill health and financially strained, with nineteen years in Wayne township. Surviving are his wife Kat e Zimmerman Dirks and five children Herman, Mrs Lapken, Lizzie, Ed, and Alvin, plus brothers and other relatives. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p.m. in Wayne Zion Lutheran Church.
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Langworthy
Alyin
Dores
Arid
Rebb
Dirks
Margaret
Bodicher _ Dirks
Wayne
Jones County
Katé? Zimmerman
Herm Nan Dirks
Monticello
Hé Éi
Lapken
Cass’ Centersi
Lizeie
Alvin
Chomess
Hiss Ae Gonmatses
Gerd
Orthy
Dirks Ie
Min Tm Zimmerman
Jan Oltmann
Gein
Henry Dinka
Aimber
Will
Hikkehren
Wayne Zion Lutheran
Governor Wilson denies relief board pay hike report
Des Moines Governor George A. Wilson rejects claims that Iowa Emergency Relief Administration directors voted to boost per diem from four to fifteen dollars. He says only the chairman may receive fifteen dollars for Des Moines administration duties, and only for limited days each month.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Wilson
Virgil Hall
Sioux City
Hall
Glenwood
Paar S.genuhg
Disitan i Ep
Mogartin
C Williams
Onder i
IERA
R .Diehs
Ernor
Miller Blames Mrs Hopkins For Pension Plan Fight
Des Moines AP W F Miller Democrat chair of Iowa state board of social welfare says he wrote a sharp editorial attacking board member Mrs B C Hopkins Des Moines Republican. He links a push for an executive director of the social welfare department to Washington social workers influence and accuses Hopkins of fostering contentions with allies of federal groups. Hopkins replies with a letter to a legislator saying she and two others favor an executive director.
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DES Moines
W. F. Miller
Independence Democrat
State Board of Social Welfare
The
Independence Conservative
B. C. Hopkins
Miller
State Social Welfare Department
Washington
Hopkins
Measles Epidemic Report Near James Corrigan Family
A clipped notice notes measles spreading toward Iowa with warnings issued. The Corrigan family near Harpe Georgie is mentioned among affected locals amid the epidemic.
Iowa Lawmakers Seek Shine in Tax Evasion Gaps
Des Moines AP Iowa house members aimed to offset homestead tax refunds by closing evasion loopholes in income and corporate tax law. They discussed boosting state revenue by about 2 million dollars through changes affecting corporations trusts and capital gains.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House
Board of Assessment and Review
William P. Knowlton
Decorah
Knowlton
Proposes Transfer Of Two Ames Departments
Rep. Leo A. Hoegh considered a bill to move the commerce and journalism departments from Iowa State College to the University of Iowa as part of an economy measure. He noted duplication with similar programs and suggested possible amendments to the engineering transfer plan.
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Iowa U
Ames
DES Moines
Leo A. Hoegh
Chariton
Iowa State College
University of Iowa
Hoegh
Oegh
University Commerce Department
CIO Group Seeks Governor Support on WPA Cut Protest
A CIO affiliated Workers' Alliance delegation in Des Moines urged Gov. George A. Wilson to back their protest to Congress against restricting WPA funding. The governor opposed tying relief to politics and urged continuation of WPA until industry absorbs unemployment. The group plans to press for a one percent increase in the works fund from the legislature and Congress.
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Des Moines
Workers’ Alliance
CIO
George A. Wilson
Congress
Wilson
Fore & Pee
DeWitt Banker Kriebs Confesses Embezzlement After Flight
Harold J. Kriebs, former cashier of the First National Bank of DeWitt Iowa, confessed to embezzling about 83 000 dollars starting in 1938 to cover horse race losses. Authorities say he traveled to Chicago Florida and Little Rock where he was arrested in a private sanatorium. He had 21 000 cash in a traveling bag 20 000 in a jar and a 5000 cashier’s check with more values believed hidden. He waived arraignment and is held on 50 000 bond for removal to the southern district of Iowa.
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Little Rock
Ark
Harold J. Kriebs
First National Bank
DeWitt
H. E. Anderson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kriebs
Chicago
Florida
John Lincoln
Krebs
U. S
W. M. Rankin
Iowa
Federal Grand Jury
Davenport
U. S. District
T. C. Trimble
U. S. Marshal’s Office
DeWitt Banker Embezzler Had Grain Market Profit
Harold Kriebs former DeWitt banker stole $83,000 and made a $1,900 profit in the grain market in the 30 days before his disappearance. Friends say he earned $175 monthly salary and owned 200 bank shares. He moved to DeWitt from Elkader four years ago.
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Dewitt
Harold Kriebs
Iowa Liquor Control Commission Cannot Fund Temperance Campaign
An Iowa attorney general opinion states the state liquor control commission may not lawfully use any of its funds to finance a temperance campaign. Assistant Attorney General Horace F. Eanes wrote the opinion at the request of the commission's chairman, noting no provision in law allows such use of profits to promote temperance.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Liquor Control Commission
Horace F. Eanes
Bee Y
Dion Bine
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