Iowa county fairs get official go ahead for summer
Des Moines notes county fairs approved with dates mostly in August, some in July and September. Storm Lake reports retirement request of Zion Lutheran principal C F Guts after 41 years. A, H Stephens among POWs arriving home recalls hunger and cold. Buena Vista county to host corn detasseling program with 400 foreign workers plus local staff. DeMoines to host 29 county Poultry Trucking industry meeting with Office of Defense Transportation representatives on Wednesday.
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Des Moines
Lloyd Cunningham
Iowa Fair Board
Iowa
Storm Lake
Zion Lutheran
Grant Township
C. F. Guts
Cutz
Buena Vista County
Seed Com Company
Dea Meines
Poultry Trucking
Office of Defense Transportation Representatives
Wedev
Des Motes
Donald B. Wigten
ODT
Dell Taylor Named Mayor In Deadlock But Declines
The council recei ved the late Joseph Barnes's successor and named Dell Taylor Atlantic funeral director and Cass county Red Cross chairman to the office. Taylor refused the post and the council adjourned without a mayor. PF Saemisch also declined and acting mayor Albert Christensen remained in place.
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Joseph Barnes
Dell Taylor
Atlantic Funeral
Cass County Red Cross
Burnea
Dick Jessen
Harry Beers
Albert Christensen
Adolph Paul Sr Named Commander of Atlantic CAP
Second Lt. Adolph Paul Sr has been appointed flight leader of the Atlantic CAP announced by Lt. Col Don C Johnston head of the Iowa wing. Paul succeeds Robert Goeken as commander of the Atlantic group.
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Adolph Paul, SR
Atlantic
Don C. Johnston
Iowa
Civil Air Patrol
Paul
Robert Goeken
Weather Forecast for Iown Area
Fair and continued warm tonight and Sunday. Light scattered showers possible. Cooler in the northwest portion Sunday afternoon.
Eisenhower Declines Politics After Abilene Homecoming
General Dwight D. Eisenhower says he will rest, then return to Washington to confer with Secretary Stimson and resume duties in Europe. He dismisses any talk of entering politics, calling himself a soldier and a citizen, not a politician. He plans to be back in Europe in July and will lead American forces under the German Control Commission.
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Kan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
Stimson
Europe
Gen
Eisenhower
United States
Sherman
Truman
Middle West
German Control Commission
Elbe
Germany
Gen. Eisenhower
America
Civilian food supplies to be steadier than feared
Washington reports civilian canned fruit supplies will match last year and vegetables only 10 to 15 percent below last year. War Food Admin Marvin Jones says reductions in beef allocations for military and government needs will be smaller than earlier projected.
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Washington
War Food Adm
Marvin Jones
Truman Expects Swift Action on Peace Charter
President Truman, while vacationing in Olympia Washington, is portrayed as confident that the peace charter will gain strong Senate support. He hopes for ratification well above two thirds and aims to seal action before a mid July meeting with Stalin and Churchill. He plans a Kansas CityIndependence trip and discusses Senate scheduling with Connolly Vanderberg ahead of a San Francisco conference windup.
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Stalin
Churchill
White House
Mou C. Wallgren
George E. Allen
Washington, D. C
Mr. Truman
San Francisco
Truman
Keokuk Marooned by Landslides
Keokuk Va June 23 AP The Keokuk area lacks north south train service for a second day as Burlington crews clear a landslide seven miles north of Keokuk The work is hindered by further slides from the bluff above Lake Keokuk detouring trains of the Burlington route which connects east west and north south.
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Keokuk
Burlington Railroad
Lake Keokuk
Burlington
Connection
76 Year Old Returns to School at Drake University
Des Moines, June 23 AP George Winkrich a 76 year old Des Moines music school teacher enrolled for six hours of music instruction at Drake University. He seeks credit toward renewal of his teaching certificate due next year. Winkrich will teach music three days a week in Des Moines schools and two days in Carlisle Indiana high school this fall. He calls summer school enjoyable though hard to adjust to.
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Des Moines
George Winkrich
Jan
Drake University
Carlisle
Showdown vote on OPA food controls in House
Washington reports a showdown vote loomed on stripping OPA of price controls over food as Democrats blamed absenteeism for yesterday’s defeat. Republicans pressed the Hoover amendment moving food pricing powers to the agriculture department amid a 115 to 142 tally. House leadership urged members to stay on floor until adjournment.
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House
OPA
Agriculture Department
Rep
Ramspeck
D-Ga
Farm equipment priority to veterans announced
Des Moines June 28 AP The War Food Administration plans an immediate program to give returning war veterans a preference in obtaining new farm machinery. A J Loveland Iowa AAA chairman said a telegram from Washington reported county AAA committees would be asked to recommend to dealers that veterans be given first choice on available equipment.
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Des Moines
War Food Administration
Washington
A. J.loveland
Iowa Agricultural Adjustment Agency
4H Club Girls Rally Planned at Atlantic High School
Cass county 4 H club girls stage their annual rally day at Atlantic High School next Tuesday. The program features the better groomed girl contest and a revue The 4 H Way to Victory and Peace and a War Stamp dress display by Younkers Des Moines. County officers will be elected in the business session and Helen Scott Sage will attend from Ames Extension Service. The war bond dress worn by Alexis Smith travels coast to coast aiding bonds. it carries $1 500 in stamps on gown cap and bouquet. A bond and stamp sales report by county clubs will be given in the morning session.
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Cass County
The
Atlantic High School
Younkers
Des Moines
Norma Jean Hansen
Ruth Gladson
Lois Helbourg
Mary Lou Kirk
Helen Scott Sage
Ames
Alexis Smith
County Club
Belgium May Hold National Election Amid King Crisis
Belgian Socialists opposed to the king and Royalist Catholics favor a national parliamentary election to break the deadlock over King Leopold's return. Belgian leaders briefed the absent king in Salzburg. A Van Acker spokesman said Leopold is unlikely to force a violent crisis upon return.
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Leopold
Belgium
Salzburg
Achille van Acker
Mrs. von Ribbentrop Found Aboard Refugee Ship
The newspaper Extrabeldet reports Mrs. Joachim von Ribbentrop was located aboard the refugee ship Felde in Kiel. Danish experts were inspecting ships in Kiel harbor to identify vessels seized from Denmark by German forces.
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Theewspaper
Extrabeldet
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Felde
Kiel
Denmark
Miss Mabel Hopke Visiting Friends in Hampton
Miss Mabel Hopke of 609 Birch Street is spending a weekend in Hampton with friends.
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Hampton
Mabel Hopke
Birch Street
Baruch's plan for Germany between dismemberment and rehabilitation
AP analysis outlines Bernard Baruch's view on limiting German industry to meet immediate needs, denying war potential. He envisions occupation for years with Germany kept from military buildup, while European economies rely on allies and subjugated regions for trade and survival.
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J. M. Roberts, JR
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
Europe
Yanks Recapture Aparri In North Luzon
In fast moving reports from Guam and Manila dated June 23 24 Allied forces recaptured Aparri at Luzon northern tip marking the start of the end for organized Japanese resistance in the Cagayan Valley. MacArthur said enemy forces possibly 20000 strong faced collapse as U S Sixth Army advances closed in from Tuguegarao and San Juan.
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Philippines
Aparri
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Apatri
Leng
Cagayan
MacArathy
U. 8
Sixth Army
Tuguegarao
37Th Infantry Division
San Juan
Borneo
Miri
Lutong
Boorlinet Beers Iy
Incendiary Bombs Reported By Tokyo In New Raids
Tokyo radio said American bombers in recent raids dropped a new type of very large incendiary bomb never before used. Radio Tokyo also noted over 100 rocket-spitting fighters attacked Japanese home fields while B 20 targets were shifted from the Kure naval arsenal. An imperial paddy has begun in Emperor Hirohitos palace grounds as rice plantings are praised by Radio Tokyo. Premier Suzuki earlier reportedly cultivated palace lawns for vegetables with B 29s aiding.
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Tokyo Radio
Okinawa
Tokyo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Stars and Stripes
Miri
Balikpapan
Borneo
London
Radio Tokyo
Japan
Kure
San Francisco
Hirohito
Imperial Palace
Kantaro Suzuki
Britain to Accept U S Plan for Trial of War Criminals
London reports a British source says Britain will accept the U S plan to bring Germany's arch war criminals and terror organizations before a high military tribunal. France and Russia are believed likely to agree to the plan outlined by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson.
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United States
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France
Russa
Wes
Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
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Hal) Rosson
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