Iowa Schoolmen to Meet Saturday to Form Association
Iowa schoolmen plan a Saturday constitutional convention in Des Moines to draft a Town High School Activities Association uniting the Boys and Girls Athletic unions, State Declamatory, and State Music groups. Delegates from seven districts will craft a plan modeled on Minnesota and Nebraska with district committees and a central board.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Town High School Activities Association
Boys’ Athletic Association
Girls’ Athletic Union
State Declamatory Association
State Music Association
State Teachers’ Association
Activities Association
Minnesota
Nebraska
State Board of Control
Court of Higher Appeal
Plan One
Homecoming Queen Named at Mount Vernon Game
Rosalie Mulherin, popular Mount Vernon high senior and daughter of Mr and Mrs J M Mulherin, was crowned 1937 homecoming queen at the Mount Vernon high vs Iowa City University high football game. Attendants were runners up Elizabeth Sullivan Jane Travis and Anne Culbertson.
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Mount Vernon
Rosalie Mulherin
Mount Vernon High School
J. M. Mulherin
Mount Vernon High
University High
Iowa City
Mulherin
Elizabeth Sullivan
Jane Travis
Anne Culbertson
Iowa girls elect president at Ames meeting
Five hundred Home Economics club representatives from Iowa high schools and colleges elected Margaret Gardner of the University of Iowa as president. Floribel Anderson of Penn College Oskaloosa was named vice president and Dorothy Keep of Belle Plaine High School was chosen secretary.
E L Magruder of Maquoketa Dies at 50
Special to The Gazette Maquoketa E L Magruder 50 a Jackson County Bar Association member died at noon Saturday in an Independence hospital after a three week stay Funeral services will be held Tuesday He is survived by one daughter two sons in Maquoketa and his parents in West Virginia
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Gazette
Maquoketa
E. L. Magruder
Jackson County Bar Association
Independence
West Virginia
Ose Out Of Five Falls In First Driver's License Test
Des Moines AP. One in five Iowans failing the first try at the driver’s license exam in the first eight months of the year. Ed Murray reports 83,156 licenses issued after passing. 26,275 failed initially, with reasons including vehicle inspection failure 14,186 and improper driving 2,952. Other causes include road law knowledge 8,504 and vision issues 602. Fewer fail the vision test. state notes rising compliance.
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Des Moines
Murray
Coroner's Jury Probes Fatal School Bus Crash
A three-member coroner's jury in Mason City surveyed the bus train crash site that killed ten people and injured nineteen at a grade crossing. They viewed the victims’ bodies before adjourning until Monday for the inquest. seven victims were Renwick high school students, two were instructors, and one was the bus driver.
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Mason City
Vern P. Kirk
Harry P. Hanson
Frank ‘F. Shepler
J. E. McDonald
McDonald
Renwick High School
Parole Reform Call for More Field Workers in Iowa
Prof. Rollin M. Perkins of the University of Iowa urges adding a staff of field workers to the Iowa parole system to study each applicant’s case history. He argues extended supervision after release improves rehabilitation and public safety, noting most rehabilitation occurs outside prison walls.
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Iowa
Robert W. Houston
Owa
Rollin M. Perkins
University of Iowa
Parole Board
College of Law
United States Department of Justice
Prof. Perkins
Perkins
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
WPA
American Bar Association
University
First Lady Hosts Wednesday Tea at Iowa University
Mrs. Eugene A. Gilmore, wife of the university president, entertains students and faculty every Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the campus White House. The gatherings mix local guests with visitors from other states, while she also juggles charity work, interior decorating, letter writing, and family life.
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University of Iowa
White House
OWA
Iowa
Eugene A. Gilmore
University
Stuents
Gilmores
Iowa City
Hans Muenzer
University Music Department
Charles Wilson
Chester Phillips
College of Commerce
Iowa Citians
Martha Enochs
Jackson
Miss
Miss Enochs
American Association of University Women
President Gilmore
Gilmore
Genevieve Hendricks
Washington, D. C
Miss Hendricks
Philippines
Edward
Prince of Wales
Kraschel Plans Slow Action on Death Row Appeals
Des Moines AP Gov Kraschel said he will delay ruling on all five death row appeals from Fort Madison penitentiary. The inmates are Allen Wheaton John Mercer Marlo Heinz Franz Jacobsen and Walter Rhodes. Rehearings and executive clemency requests have not been acted on yet with decisions unlikely before March.
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Des Moines
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Nelson G. Kraschel
Fort Madison
Allen Wheaton
John Mercer
Tipton
Marlo Heinz
Franz Jacobsen
Walter Rhodes
Wheaton
Supreme Court
Heinz
Mercer Resigns After Death Penalty Delay
John A. Mercer, awaiting execution for murder, indicated no further action will be taken toward a rehearing before the Iowa Supreme Court as the time for filing a new petition expired. Mercer was convicted of killing a Tipton vigilante during a holdup.
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Mercer
Des Moines
INS
John A. Mercer
Iowa Supreme Court
Tipton
Parole Violator Surrenders At Davenport Station
Harry Anderson 42 of Burlington walked into the Davenport police station on a Saturday afternoon asking to be jailed again after admitting parole violation. He had been sentenced to five years at Fort Madison for larceny in 1935 from Sioux City and was paroled about a month earlier.
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Davenport
Fort Madison
Harry Anderson
Burlington
Anderson
Sioux City
Dedicate Library as Memorial to Poet Kilmer
Campion Academy in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin will dedicate a new library building as a memorial to Joyce Kilmer on October 31. The library bears the name Joyce Kilmer Library and features a Kilmer portrait, personal letters, notebooks, and an identification tag. Kilmer’s son Kenton Kilmer of New York will attend, honoring Kilmer who called Campion his adopted alma mater.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Campion Academy
Midwest
Joyce Kilmer
Campion
Kenton Kilmer
New York
Kilmer
Three Iowa Farmers Fined 2000 Each in Bond Case
Federal Judge George C. Scott ruled that Guy D. Doty James Byers and William Rabe must pay 2000 dollars each plus one third of costs for signing a 25000 dollar bond for Oscar M Hartzell the Drake estate swindle promoter Hartzell was confined to a Springfield Missouri institution for the mentally incompetent at the time of the ruling The bondsmen were found not entirely blameless for Hartzells failure to surrender but should not be punished beyond the assessed shares The defendants reside in Lake City Hartley and Odebolt respectively.
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Sioux City
George C. Scott
Guy D. Doty
James Byers
William Rabe
Northwest
Iowa
Oscar M. Hartzell
Drake
Hartzell
United States
Springfield
Scott
Carlos Goltz
E. G. Nmn
Doty
Lake City
Byers
Hartley
Rabe
Odeboit
Towans Invest 39 Million in U S Savings Bonds
Iowans have invested more than 39 million dollars in United States savings bonds since they went on sale March 1, 1935, according to post office department records. The "baby bonds" totals rose near a million dollars monthly in the past year, with 14 months of sales listed by month and a cap on individual ownership at 10 thousand dollars per calendar year.
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Washington
United States
Post Office Department
Iowa
Treasury Department
Cost Of Handling Old Age Pensions In Iowa
Iowa reports 5.15 percent administrative cost on 5.99 million in pension expenditures for year ending June 30. Monthly state checks total 38 148, with current pensioners exceeding 42 000 and applicants above 50 000. About 2 600 deaths reduced rolls. funeral claims exceeded 174 000. County costs 167 895 across 99 counties, averaging 3.6 percent of pensions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State
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Ames
Iowa II
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Kraschel
Jacobsen
Rhodes
August Liebauer
Towans
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