Adair Residents Attended Memorial Ceremony in Hall
A group gathered at Adair W. hall for a Memorial Day style tribute with wreaths and an address by Dr. John 8. McVetty. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Frank lable Mim Rath Burr Des Moines and several others from Omaha Council Bluffs Norfolk and Iowa City.
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W. Hall
John 8. McVetty
F. W
le Roehhels
John
Frank Lable
Mim Rath Burr
Des Moines
Lenore Nodwitt
Harry Lutt
Omaha
Matha Lutt
En Ee Davis
Council Biluffe
Bie
Clyde
Orient
al Kerwin
Norfolk
Néb
Jane Fe Rochhels
Rochhot
Peg Ries Fala
Werle Petri
Jack Correll
Iowa City
Mery Beull
Mertlin Corral
Helen Freese
Iowa nurses sought to meet Army recruitment quota
Des Moines reports Iowa expects about 700 nurse recruiting for Army service to care for battle casualties and fill vacancies at camps posts stations in the United States and abroad. Jessie Novelius of the Iowa State Nurses Association outlines the new specialist corps needs and application steps.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa
Jessie Novelius
Iowa State Nurses Association
Army
Lesund
United States
Mise Nevelius Perts
Wn Army Nurse Corps
Reg Army Corps
Cumberland gains physician after years without a doctor
Cumberland Chamber of Commerce announces the town now has a physician and surgeon, Dr Ralph Weaver, who has moved with his family into the Grant Offord property in Marquette Nebraska. The report notes the Proctor couple from Griswold will soon graduate from Johnson Bible College and be ordained in Englewood California before returning.
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Cumberland
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph ‘Weaver
Marquette
Neb
Grant Offord
Griswold
Mayo G. Proctor
Proctor
Ve Inores Proctor
Johnson Bible College
Kimberland Heights
Tenn
Englewood
Calif
Shinto Shrines Fight For Survival Under Postwar Crackdown
In Tokyo June 2, with government funding cut, Japan’s 110000 Shinto shrines seek new incomes from fortune telling and candy sales as patrons wane. The shrinkage follows General MacArthur’s curbs on shrine financing, while critics warn of eroding reverence for the sun goddess and a broader spiritual crisis.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Dse
Ise
Asahi Graph Magazine
Kamakura
Gyoto
Earth
Taisetah Suzuki
Jun Takami
Horace Eberly Dies in Hiawatha After Car Arrival
Horace Eberly of St Louis Missouri died suddenly Saturday in his car in Hiawatha Kansas. Griswold Mrs Ross Groshong was notified and Horace Eberly was buried Sunday afternoon in Hiawatha after funeral services. He had suffered from a heart ailment.
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Griswold
Ross Groshong
Hiawatha
Kans
Horace Eberly
Eberly
St. Louis
Agriculture figures show large corn seed production losses
U S Department of Agriculture figures indicate that low fed producers lost about 765000 bushels of hybrid corn seed, enough to plant nearly half the nation’s total corn. Indiana produced around 589040 ecopodi.
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Dee Moines
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Indique
Pretty French Girl and Her Man Seek Reunion at Pier
A Parisian titled romance unfolds as Jacqueline, 28, searches a New York pier crowd for Leon Gagne of Capuscins Quebec a WWII veteran. She calls him and they plan to marry in her hometown while enduring hardships from war remnants and separations.
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New York
Jacqusts Catherinne
Leon Gagne
Capuscins
Quebec
Jacqueline
Leon
Erosion Destroys Farm as Mud Glacier Eats 80 Acres
Council Bluffs area reports a graphic erosion case on Emmett Pike farm in the Indian Creek watershed. A mud glacier advances 10 to 15 feet daily, having moved roughly 150000 cubic yards since 1938. Main ditch retreats 800 feet, with the eastern edge eroding on both ends.
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Counciil Bluffs
Emmett Pike
Council Bluffs
Indian Creek
Pike
Frank Henry
Soil Conservation Service
St Cornell Bleffs
Farm workers badly needed as wartime crop drive expands
The government calls for thousands of seasonal workers to aid farmers in planting and harvesting for wartime needs. Despite veterans returning, agriculture officials report a manpower shortage with many seasonal jobs open across American farms.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Hoover urges congress to extend Pinnace life amid proposed limits
President Hoover urged Congress to prolong the Pinnace life by two or three years and to impose limits on competition with private interests. The report notes support for extending RFC loans and questions about cheap imports from foreign sources.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Priv
Shopkeepers Cancel Protest Amid Price Ceiling Protests
Report notes no planned strike of 3,000 and that a shopkeepers meeting was canceled without explanation. Leaders had urged nationwide store closings to protest price ceilings and other government rules. A small crowd gathered at Premier Ramadier’s residence shouting for relief.
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Emall
Paul Ramadier
Danish trip noted after Copenhagen arrival of Peters Sorensen group
A cablegram reports Robert Letgill and Mrs Lai eri's father Robert Christensen with his wife and Pete and rm E Sorensen flew from New York to Denmark. They arrived in Copenhagen at 9 a m Friday Iowa time, just as the big airliner involved in Thursday’s crash departed New York.
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Denmark
Arobert Letgill
Iowan Forsakes Law for the Farm in Williamsburg
Fred Blythe of Williamsburg, holder of a Columbia University law degree, gave up practicing law after earning a degree in 1916 to become a dirt farmer. He spent three months in England under Norman Angell and chose farming over Chicago law, saying the farming life suits him and his community.
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Williamsburg
Iowa
Fred Blythe
Columbia University
Blythe
Columbia
U. S
England
Norman Angell
Chicago
Farm Credit to Dine at Har Harlan
An all co op dinner and meeting will be held in Harlan Iowa on Wednesday night June 11. Directors and officers from 18 national farm loan associations six production credit associations and 22 other farm co operatives in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska are invited. Open discussions will be featured, FCA official N G Kraschel said.
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Omaha
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Harlan
Farm Credit Administration of
National Farm Loan Associations
N. G. Kraschel
FCA
Floods Abate Rain In Iowa As Rivers Subside
Flood conditions were easing at some Iowa points while others brace for floods as heavy weekend rains push rivers downstream. Iowa Cedar Lower Des Moines Raccoon and Skunk rivers remain hazardous with high water likely in Iowa City and Des Moines area amid forecasts of flood crests.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Cedar
Des Moines
Raccoon
Skunk
Iowa River
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
Towa City Park Bridge
Towa City
Coralville
Rock Island
Milwaukee
Chicago and North Western
Weather Bureau
Fort Dodge
Burlington
Bayard
van Meter
Urges Quick U S Ratification of Peace Treaties
Washington June 3 Senator Vandenburg urged the United States to ratify peace treaties with Italy Bulgaria Hungary and Romania without delay to speed Germany Austria settlements and an integrated Europe. He warned delay could slow Soviet cooperation and Hungary’s shift from communism and troop withdrawals.
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Washington
Vandenburg
R-Mich
Senate
United States
Germany
Europe
Italy
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Austria
Tornado casualties rise in Pine Bluff death toll
In Pine Bluff Arkansas a Black man dies from injuries after his car was hurled from the highway into a cotton field by a Sunday tornado. The storm's official death toll reaches five.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Inquest Linked to fatal Minden youth fight
Police investigate a gang fight on South Main Street in Council Bluffs that left a Minden youth fatally wounded. Coroner Stanley Woodring cites numerous head blows. five young men were jailed for disturbing the peace. Funeral plans set for the victim at Neola Presbyterian church.
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Council Bluffs
Investiga
Minenia
South Main Street
First Willow Avenues
Pottawattashie County
Stanley Woodring
Munici
Allan Ardell
Pal Jy
John Arrick
Persia
Raymond T. Harman
Minden
Richard Oltmanns
Neola
Mr. Felton
Frederick Moore
James C. Moore
Cornell Bluffs
Mr. Pelton
Moore Brothers
Albert J. Vincent
Katesman Hardware
Main Street
Woodring
Felton
Don Jackson
Federated Presbyterian Church
Senate approves probe of 775 postmaster nominations
The senate civil service committee votes 6 to 3 to authorize an investigation into 775 pending postmaster nominations with a $330,000 fund. The probe will examine political activity in civil service appointments and possible coercion to pay tribute to secure posts, amid GOP accusations of repeated examinations aiding Democrats.
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Washington
Senate Civil Service Committee
Rules Committees
Senate
Patna
Econ
Ivil
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Sally
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White Sands
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Pennsylvania
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Iplan
Inquest
Eer
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Bride
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Eloise
Atlantic Hotel
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