University of Iowa Enrollment Rises as New Era Begins
The University of Iowa opens its seventy ninth year with 5800 students expected to start classes. President Eugene A. Gilmore administers the oath of allegiance at 7:50 a.m. on the first day, marking the first year under a new president since 1917 and an Oct. 4 inauguration. Enrollment shows a 10 percent gain from 1933 with notable increases in liberal arts commerce education and graduate colleges. Costs stay low due to cooperative dormitories, with annual tuition ranging from 178 to 420 dollars depending on residence and exemptions.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Eugene A. Gilmore
Gilmore
Commerce
College of Pharmacy
Law School
Law
Engineering
College of Dentistry
Cicero
O. L. Gillies
Alfred M
Law Commons Opens at Iowa to Teach Beyond Classrooms
The University of Iowa establishes the Law Commons as a student club and residence on a wooded hill north of the hospital. It emphasizes informal, outside-classroom study with 150 students housed, led by Supervisor Mrs. Ora Gayle, and connected by a new foot bridge to the Memorial Union and the Law building.
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University of Iowa
New Law
Inns of Court
England
Cambridge
Oxford
Yale
Michigan
Hospital
Memorial Union
Iowa River
Ora Gayle
Law
Law Unit
Wenig To Attend International Convention Of Labor Officials
Iowa State Labor Commissioner Frank E. Wenig will represent Iowa at the International Association of Government Labor Officials convention in Boston Massachusetts. He leaves for the Bay State Saturday night and will speak on Uniform Labor Legislation for All States. He plans to inspect employment setups in Cleveland and Detroit.
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Des Moines
Frank E. Wenig
Iowa
International Association of Government Labor
Boston
Mass
Wenig
Bay State
Cleveland
Detroit
Mich
United States
Baby suffocated as mother faints with child in arms
In Ottumwa Kenneth Eugene Miller three months old died of suffocation when his mother Eugene R. Miller fell faint at the family home. The mother’s illness that day caused the collapse and the child was beneath her when she fell, leading to the fatal suffocation.
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Ottumwa
Kenneth Eugene Miller
Eugene R. Miller
Hunting Season Opens November 15 in Iowa
The Iowa state fish and game commission announced fur bearing animals may be taken from November 15 to January 15. Beaver and otter are excluded. Muskrats may be taken only in forty northern counties, including Jones, Jackson, Clinton, Dubuque, Delaware, Black Hawk, and others.
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Des Moines
State Fish and Game Commission
Jones
Jackson
Clinton
Dubuque
Delaware
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Webster
Calhoun
Sac
Ida
Fayette
Clayton
Bremer
Butler
Franklin
Humboldt
Wright
Pocahontas
Cherokee
Buena Vista
Chickasaw
Floyd
Cerro Gordo
Hancock
Palo Alto
Clay
O'Brien
Sioux
Allamakee
Winneshick
Howard Mitchell
Winnebago
Worth
Kossuth Emmet
Dickinson
Osceola
Lyon
Tipton Attorney Reopens Four Year Vigilante Slayers Quest
Marion C Hamiel Cedar county attorney and special assistant AG continues pursuit of the four bandits who murdered Tipton vigilante R G Sproat in 1930 The pursuit led from Davenport to Tipton to Dubuque and Canton Ohio ending with Wain S Kile's 1931 conviction for first degree murder and life imprisonment at Fort Madison Taglines reference to the Lindbergh kidnaping case and ongoing cooperation with authorities.
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Grant White
Ipton
Marion C. Hamiel
Tipton
Iowa
Marion Hamiel
Cedar County
R. G. Sproat
Hamiel
Sproat
Co. H. Elwood
John Carey
Sage
Davenport
Bob” Sproat
Jack
Roy Mercer
Philadelphia
William M. Dallas
Hy Yackey
State Bureau of Investigation
Canton
Ohio
Wain S. Kile
Kile
Fort Madison
Stanwood Fair And Horse Show Opens Friday In Stanwood
Stanwood hosts a two day fair and horse show beginning Friday afternoon with 100 entries. Cash prizes total 300 across horse divisions, plus kittenball games, baseball, parades, a grand parade on the White Way, and concerts by the Little German band at the high school park and midway.
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Gazette
Stanwood
Iowa
Walter
E. R. Hicklin
East Broadway
Clarence
Cedar County
Ed Bicher
High School Park
Man who wrote longevity prescription dies at 97
Des Moines reports James Mon roe Balliet aged 97 who fifty years ago authored a longevity creed. He followed it by avoiding liquor quitting smoking at 65 keeping active with carpentry and reading the Bible. He died Saturday after a long life marked by work and faith.
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Des Moines
James Monroe Ballet
Balliet
Busy Week Ahead For Candidates Stamping State
Des Moines AP reports pace quickening as party candidates plan statewide campaigning. Republican Dana Turner schedules Keokuk events Monday and a Scott County rally in Davenport Friday while Democrat Nels Kraschel faces heavy speaking duties in Marshalltown and other locales. Governor Clyde Herring also participates in stumping as independent candidates file by Thursday.
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Des Moines
Dana Turner
Nels Kraschel
Turner
Keokuk
Scott County
Davenport
Kraschel
Marshalltown
Clyde Herring
Secretary of State
W. H. Gissell
Buchanan County
W. G. Clarke
Webster County
F. P. Edgerton
Black Hawk
Towa Librarians Gather in Des Moines for Sept Oct Conference
Iowa librarians from more than 178 libraries and college libraries will meet in Des Moines October 11 to 13 to discuss library administration and cultural roles. Leaders in library work are expected to speak. A reception for Iowa authors is planned.
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Towa
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Library Association
Julia Robinson
Iowa Lirar
Historic Old House Now Cornell Girls Dormitory
The Rood house once home of Col H H Rood Mount Vernon and gifted by Cornell’s class of 1894 is again used as a women dormitory. Nine decades after its senior women use the building housed men for four years and now seventeen upperclass girls reside in the redecorated three-story estate with Mrs Bessie Wallis as head resident.
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Ount Vernon
Rood House
Cornell College
Col. H. H. Rood
Mount Vernon
Rood
Cornell
Annabel Rood
John Itner
Santa Barbara
Calif
Grand Army
Roodhouse
Alice Betts
Pfeiffer Hall
Bessie Wallis
Murtagh Rejects Liquor Commission Insurance Premiums
Des Moines reports a dispute over the state insurance program involving the liquor commission. Comptroller Murtagh refused to pay premiums, citing the provident fund for building repairs, while Gov. Herring argued potential fire losses could exceed fund limits. Attorney General O Connor contends no insurance may be taken out under current law. decision expected soon.
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Des Moines
Attorney General’s Office
State Liquor Controll Commission
Trowa
Liquor Commission
State Comptroller Co
B. Murtagh
Murtagh
State Executive Council
Clyde L. Herring
Executive Council
Herring
Commission
O'Connor
Jury Completes For Murder Trial Of Charles James
A district court jury is seated for the Charles James murder trial in Cairo near Wapello. Myrtle James was killed April 3, 1934, with a daughter Mona as witness. James reportedly wounded himself before arrest. Judge Oscar Hale will preside this week.
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Wapello
Charles James
Cairo
Myrtle James
Mona
James
Clark Sexton
John Parks
Verne Gipple
Lyle Orr
Fred Welle
Robert Garerett
Conrad Casten
Edna Liverely
Chester Jamison
Sybil Lewis
Aner Nearhood
Leo Church
Orr
Lewis
Tony Thompson
Thompson
Martin Wolz
Oscar Hale
Child Fatally Burned as Brother Rushes to Save
In Clarinda Betty Hoffman, 4, died after a house fire sparked by a kerosene stove explosion. David Hoffman, 16, is in critical condition from burns after saving his younger brother Max, 7, who survived. The father, jailed on a liquor charge, was temporarily released.
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Clarinda
Betty Hoffeman
Clarence Hoffman
David Hoffman
Max
Bank Reopens Under Depositors Agreement in Mount Pleasant
Des Moines reports Superintendent D W Bates announced that Henry County Savings Bank of Mount Pleasant has been authorized to reopen under a depositors agreement. It is the first bank closed in the district since the March 13 1933 national bank holiday to be cleared to resume operations.
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Des Moines
D. W. Bates
Henry County Savings Bank of
Mount Pleasant
Bates
National Bank
Des Moines Woman Indicted for Murder in Sauer Slaying
Gale Johnson of Des Moines was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge tied to the May slaying of Police Captain F W Sauer in Burlington.
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Burlington
Gale Johnson
Des Moines
F W Sauer
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