Awaiting Nazi word on US clerk arrest at Berlin embassy
Washington reported the United States sought a formal explanation from Germany over the arrest of Stewart Herman, an American embassy clerk in Berlin. The incident followed a string of tensions as Germany reacts to Allied actions, with Herman released after hours of questioning.
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Washington
United States
Berlin
Hull
Foreign Office
Stewart Herman
Herman
Coast Guard
Germany
Britain
Iowa News in Brief Highlights Local Alumni and Confirmations
Toledo elects Carl Wilson of Traer as Tama County Iowa State College Alumni president with Mrs Verne Dau Schmidt as secretary treasurer. A program featured Dr C H Covall, Marjory Moore piano, Joy Hofer soprano, and a girls sextet. Other items note confirmations in Newhall and Concordia Lutheran churches, a school conference advisory appointment for Tipton, a gubernatorial sentence suspension in Tama County, a Davenport marriage announcement, and various local obituaries and events across McGregor, Monona, Manchester, and Mount Vernon.
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Toledo
Carl Wilson
Traer
Tama County
Iowa State College Alumni Association
Verne Dau Schmidt
Reinbeck
American Legion Auxiliary
C. H. Covall
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State College
Marjory Moore
Joy Hofer
Doris Moore
Rhonda Burrs
Benita Overturf
Thelma Reinigsang
J. D. Hayes
C. G. Moore
Tipton
H. C. DeKock
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
George W. Wilson
Daniel M. Zedekar
Marshalltown
Zedekar
B. O. Tankersley
Walter J. Willett
Harry P. Sharp
Grand Mound
Davenport
William Payson Lee
Calamus
Mary Kinney
Tipton High School
Tipton Junior College
Greater Tipton Club
Fred B. Wilson
Louis Menze
al Rudolfson
Ed Thompson
Marty O’connor
Grant W. White
Bob Horn
John Naber
Hilbert Smith
Don Dysart
William Crossley
Manchester
Delaware County
Head Hunters Troubling Philippine Police In 1941
Manila dispatch reports head-hunting Ilongot tribe in Sierra Madre near Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija still terrorizing Christian settlers. Police study cites dowry tradition requiring Christian heads, beheadings at fire-tree blooms, and beliefs linking beheading to harvest prosperity and ailment relief.
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Manila
P. I
A. D
Philippine Constabulary
Sierra Madre
Tayabas
Nueva Vizcaya
Nueva Ecija
Luzon Island
Baler
Manuel Quezon
Iowa City Bus Strikers Seek Arbitration Board
IOWA CITY UP Striking bus drivers of the Iowa City Motor Coach company said Saturday they would appeal to Gov. George A. Wilson to name an arbitration board to end the dispute begun February 12. About 20 union drivers and mechanics walked out demanding a wage increase. After an eight day shutdown the company resumed service with non union drivers amid several outbreaks of violence.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Motor Coach Company
George A. Wilson
Trade Skill Frees Him From Sentence
A tool maker named William Sullivan 40 was found guilty of attempted assault on a young woman but avoided jail. Judge John A. Cornell suspended the year in jail after prosecutors argued his trade skill was essential to national defense.
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New Haven
Iowa House Stalls On SUI Library Funding Amid Adjournment Push
The Iowa House failed to pull from appropriations committee the 500000 allotment for a University of Iowa library unit as adjournment nears. A beer bill was introduced and slated as a Monday special order. The House moved 19 minor bills, totaling 91 in three days, while the Senate passed 21 bills and approved seed regulation changes and teacher contracts measures.
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DES Moines
LLP
Iowa House
Sinc
Appropriations Committee
University of Iowa
House
Senate
Pageant at Central Park Church Honors Cross Sunday
The Central Park Presbyterian church presents The Cross and Cross Bearing this Sunday at 7 30 p m as the closing event of a six week school of missions. Forty soldiers of the cross young and old portray the meaning of the cross with Dr William Evans 85 in a leading role and benediction. Music by the choir directed by Mrs Vogel Schell Harley accompanies the pageant. Fellowship hour at 545 and mission study classes at 615 precede the pageant. Mrs L W Dunlap supervised the mission school.
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Central Park Presbyterian Church
School of Missions
David I. Berger
Vogel Schell Harley
William Evans
Mission School
L. W. Dunlap
Two Men Sentenced for Freight Robbery in Manchester
Special to The Gazette Manchester Two Manchester men Matt Malone 42 and Burdette Franks 20 were sentenced to a year and six months respectively in the Delaware county jail after pleading guilty to breaking and entering a box car. They were tied to the March 20 theft of eggs and sugar found at their homes. Railroad detectives aided the arrest.
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The
Gazette
Manchester
Matt Malone
Burdette Franks
Delaware County
George W. Wood
Waterloo
Illinois Central
Malone
Railroad Company
Make This Model At Home Pattern 4734
Pattern 4734 is available in misses' sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20. Size 16 dress uses 3 yards 35 inch fabric and bolero 144 yards contrast. Send fifteen cents for this pattern to Pattern Department The Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West Mead Street Washington cents with latest pattern book.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
West Mead Sun
Ford Strike Ends? Manages Talks As Violence Flares
Dewey, limping, rallied hundreds of armedstrikers at the plant as knives, some three to six feet, were wielded amid clashes. Aviation dies were smashed, 900 tons of steel spoiled, and 10 furnaces damaged in a 74 day stoppage. UAW disclaimed responsibility and opened an internal probe while Allis-Chalmers and CIO UAW met in Washington with the defense mediation board to seek a settlement.
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Dewey
Dewey P
UAW Union
Allis- Chalmers Company
CIO United Automobile Workers
Washington
Defense Mediation Board
Steel strike looms at U.S. Steel over wage talks
Negotiations between U.S. Steel and CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee have reached an absolute deadlock, signaling a strike next at midnight. About 250000 steel workers could be affected if operations halt. Talks since March 12 covered wages vacations dues and exclusive bargaining recognition but failed to bridge four key points. Old contract expired April 1 after Philip Murray gave 20 days notice to renegotiate.
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Washington
U. S. Steel Corporation
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Big Steel
Philip Murray
Magnesium Strike At Cleveland Plant Slows Work
About 1,000 American Magnesium workers began a Friday slowdown to press wage increase demands at the Cleveland plant, a unit of Aluminum Company of America. The stoppage evolved into a total shutdown across three shifts, with combined work totaling under two hours. CIO organizer Louis Petrigni said demands were pursued individually while a national labor relations board election is pending to certify the union as bargaining agent.
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Cleveland
American Magnesium Company
Aluminum Corporation of America
Louis Petrigni
National Association of Die Casting Workers
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
Yugoslav Frontiers Tighten as Mobilization Rolls On
Yugoslavia tightens borders and calls all men to service under a mobilization decree issued April 1 but publicized Friday night. Rail travel requires police permits and freight moves toward axis powers halt. Across the frontier at Szeged, Yugoslav motorized divisions and mined roads signal rising war readiness as Belgrade conducts widespread blackouts. King Peter leverages peasant stock to field a 150,000-strong army with 18 months of training for men 20 to 40, aiming to mobilize manpower plus material in a tense regional crisis.
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Yugoslavia
Szeged
Mohacs
Budapest
Belgrade
Peter
Yugoslavia Faces Equipment Shortfalls Amid Air Strength Gap
Observers note Yugoslavia lacks equipment to field its full fighting force. While strong in personnel and aircraft, its air power trails Nazi dominance. The country reportedly has about 1,000 planes, with only half in good condition, and a navy built around an old cruiser, four destroyers, torpedo boats, and small submarines.
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Yugoslavia
Balkan
Germany
Italy
France
Decreasing Heart Beat Rate Could Save Work Says Dr Jones
Dr J Leland Jones of the College of Osteopathy and Kansas Surgery spoke on Heart Diagnosis before 35 physicians at a district meeting in the West Hotel. He claimed reducing heart rate by 19 beats per minute would save four tons of work per person and 14 000 heart beats in 24 hours, and that a 10 beat per minute reduction would move 4000 quarts of blood daily. He cited heart disease as a leading death cause, with 23 percent, cancer 10 percent, nephritis 7 percent, influenza and pneumonia 10 percent, and auto accidents 2 and 7/19 percent. one of four dies from heart disease. %)
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Iowa Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
J. Leland Jones
College of Osteopathy and
Kansas Surgery
City
Jones
West Hotel
C. K. Risser
Maquoketa
Dale House
Dubuque
Frank Miles Urges U S Convoys If Necessary
DES MOINES AP Capt Frank Miles public relations director for selective service in Iowa declared here Friday night the United States should provide convoys for ships taking aid to Britain if necessary Miles told a Knights Templar banquet that whether one approves of the nation’s course it has been debated openly and a democratic decision reached now the duty of the dissenting minority to support it Miles who also is editor of the
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Des Moines
Frank Miles
Selective Service
Iowa
United States
Britain
Miles
Knights Templar
The
Aviation output climbs to 1216 planes in March
Washington AP reports U S aviation industry moved toward a 1500 planes per month target. Of 1216 March output, 1074 were allocated to the army, navy and Britain. Remaining went to other governments and commercial airlines. January production reached 1036 and February 972 with higher February pace. No details on British deliveries released.
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Washington
Army
Navy
United States Aviation Industry
U S Must Prepare For Exhaustive War Sontag Tells Iowans
Professor Raymond Sontag of Princeton told delegates at the University of Iowa history conference that there will be no disarmament after the present war and the United States must ready for total war. He warned the nation is less united than Britain or Germany and that a two-front war would be no pushover. He urged mobilizing all resources of every man and woman in the community.
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Iowa City
Raymond Sontag
Princeton University
University of Iowa
United States
Sontag
Iowa
England
Europe
Asia
Great Britain
Germany
Raps School Board Politics Hampering Teachers In Work
Des Moines AP reports William G. Carr of the Educational Policies Commission urged that school board politics should not interrupt teachers daily duties. He spoke at a conference for the Iowa State Teachers Association and Iowa Department of Public Instruction, calling for honest democracy comparisons and fewer distractions for educators. Col. Robert J. Shaw of the Iowa American Legion urged parents to focus more on child health.
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Des Moines
William G. Carr
Educational Policies Commission
Washington, D. C
Carr
Iowa Stateers Association
Iowa State Department of Public Instruction
Robert J. Shaw
Iowa
State Park Custodians To Attend School At Kepler Park
A two day school for Iowa state park custodians will be held April 8 and 9 at Kepler Palisades state park near Mount Vernon. The program includes conservation work, a fire drill, and demonstrations with movies and slides. Attendees include CCC camp personnel from Backbone state park and Solon. Meals will be provided at the lodge, with Eva Delape in charge. the lodge was reroofed and treated for post beetles.
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Mount Vernon
Iowa
Kepler Palisades State Park
CCC
Backbone State Park
Solon
Eva Delape
Food Stamp Plan For Tama County Presented
Eric Tillman of the surplus marketing administration presented the food stamp plan to Tama County business men at the Community hall. The Tama County supervisors and most merchants have approved the plan.
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Tama County
Eric Tillman
Surplus Marketing Administration
Montezuma Woman Laura Zern Celebrates 94th Birthday
Mrs Laura Zern marked her ninety fourth birthday Friday at her east Montezuma home. Born in Ohio she has lived since 1871 in and around Montezuma continuing a long regional residence.
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Montezuma
Laura Zorn
East
Zern
Ohio
Calmar Man Accepts Liberia Tire Firm Post
Howard Meyer son of Carl Meyer of Calmar has accepted an accounting position with Firestone Tire and Rubber in Liberia West Africa. He formerly worked as an accountant in Chicago. Mr and Mrs Meyer will sail from a New city port for Africa.
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Calmar
Howard Meyer
Carl Meyer
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Liberia
West Africa
Meyer
Chicago
Mrs. Meyer
Iowa City News Briefs Highlights Local Army and Naval Examinations
A Johnson county petit jury awarded damages in the Dennis Ti estate case after long deliberation. Volunteers from Iowa City and Lone Tree prepare for Army training, with three more selected for Fort Des Moines. The ninth district naval reserves board announced 21 University of Iowa students qualified for aviation training. Iowa City senior Robert Kadgihn won the governor’s rifle match, earning a gold medal on Governor’s Day May 10, with George Brown and Robert Bennett placing.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Dennis Ti
Iatiff
Joseph F. Kleinschmidt
Leon K. Lind
Theo Suethen
Kenneth E. Ritter
Lone Tree
Fort Des Moines
L. Leroy Frazier
Bernard B. Davis
Nelson W. Helland
Ninth District of Naval Reserves
University of Iowa
Naval Reserve Aviation
Com. K. C. Huffman
St. Louis
Jack F. Stork
Rogers L. Jenkinson
James F. Coleman
Davenport
Lyle E. Felderman
Dubuque
Donald E. McIntyre
Anita
Edward F. Irwin
Woodward
James N. Cupp
Fairfield
Robert L. Bender
Rexford P. Oleson
Cedar Falls
Richard C. Quinlan
Delmar
Robert Kadgihn
University Military Department
R.O.T.C. Work
George Brown
Whitehall
Mich
Robert Bennett
Cedar Rapids
Kadgiha
George A. Wilson
Bennett
American Aid May Play An Important Role In Balkans
President Roosevelt signaled plans to allow American ships into the Gulf of Aden and to step up U S support for Britain in the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The Maritime Commission controls over 100 cargo carriers that could be diverted to move American supplies to British bases in Egypt. Distance remains a major constraint at over 12,000 nautical miles from New York to the Suez via the Cape.
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Roosevelt
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Britain
Mediterranean
Balkans
Maritime Commission
Egypt
New York
Suez Canal
South Africa
Morning Sun Pioneer Observes 90th Birthday
Joseph Leaty, longtime Morning Sun resident, celebrated his 90th birthday on April 1. He read greetings without glasses and said he had planted part of his garden. Immigrated to the United States at age eight, he has four children, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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Joseph Leaty
United States
H. A. van Sickle
Ninth Street NW
Cedar Rapids
Ezra Keller
Chico
Calif
Will and
Charlies
Washington
Leuty
Democ racy agitators put on record like tattoos
Arthur Bugs Baer notes the value of open protest in democracy, comparing agitators to tattooed sailors who declare their views publicly, highlighting the public record aspect of political expression.
Swamp Peg Leg Metaphor In Streetwise Resolve
A speaker adopts a gritty pragmatic stance saying they will handle challenges as they arise, using a vivid analogy of a peg leg in a swamp and a restaurant where fly paper napkins are used, highlighting a brusque, stubborn outlook.
Snuff Habit Heat Sparks United States Resolve
A reflective comment notes enduring U S resilience amid tension. The speaker likens United States responses to a cat slipping through a picket fence, implying perseverance despite pressure and heat in the moment.
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United States
The Roosevelt Remark and the Strikes Metaphor Scene
Mrs Roosevelt says strikes mean nothing while a storm at sea imagery unfolds. The captain staggers to the stairs and cries that the ship has lost its propeller, signaling a vivid nautical metaphor amid unrest.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Old Lady Warns About Noticeable Habits
A cautious remark from an elderly woman suggests that ongoing behavior would go unobserved if not addressed. Her warning emphasizes discretion and awareness in daily actions.
Alien strikes in defense plants spark unlikely hero myth
A fragmented report suggests strikes at defense plants attributed to aliens, described with heroic language as if a pawnshop hero medal, reflecting odd wartime morale and rumor dynamics amid industrial tension.
Provocateur Stirring Trouble With a Big Spoon
A sly agent provocateur is described as a cat's-paw who stirs unrest to profit, throwing another's chestnuts in the fire and complicating the political scene. This depiction frames a schemer using corruption to mask real motives.
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Agent Provocateur
Unclear fragment hints at a nationwide roundup
Fragment cites widespread presence of unspecified people and a warning that the United States will begin gathering them soon. reads as political commentary with no concrete names, dates, or locations readable for a complete summary.
Beer Bills To Be Argued In House Monday
Des Moines Iowa AP reports the Iowa House will hear Rep Harold F Nelsons third major beer bill at 10 am Monday The bill is reported to have some support from Republican leaders and faces a race against time as the assembly plans to adjourn next Thursday The clock may be halted for a couple of days to extend debate
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Des Moines
Iowa House
Harold F. Nelson
House
Senate
Iowa May Lead In Battle To Combat Corn
AMES AP Possibility Iowa may become the headquarters state for a cornbelt program to combat insect and decay damage to stored corn and wheat was seen here Friday night. Iowa State College is being tentatively considered as headquarters site for such a program, William McArthur said. He noted a carryover of 700,000,000 bushels of corn and 500,000,000 bushels of wheat will require extensive remodeling and use of all facilities to prevent losses.
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AMES
Iowa
Iowa State College
William McArthur
Commodity Credit Tion
Washington, D. C
McArthur
National Land Bill Aids Distressed Farmers Hopeful Testimony
Washington AP Representative Peterson of Georgia told the House Public Lands Committee that a national land policy would help distressed farm families. He supported H R 1037 as the committee opened hearings, noting prior similar bills and urging federal aid for landowners without substantial relief.
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Washington
Peterson
House Public Lands Committee
House
Interior Department
Barch Construction To Move Main Office To Cedar Rapids
Barch Construction Co plans a Cedar Rapids main office and maintenance HQ after buying a one acre site at 249 Thirty third Street SE from E. W. LaPlant. Buildings will be remodeled for office, warehouse, and repair shop use. the firm already leases space near Mount Vernon Road SE and operates in Madison Wisconsin and Quincy Michigan. Gary Gohmann of George P. Witewer Co. handled the sale.
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Barch Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
E. W. LaPlant
Thirty-third Street Drive
Mount Verenon Road
Made Ison
Wis
Quincy
LaPlant
Gary Gohmann
George P. Witewer
Groups From 3 Cities Win In Play Production
Iowa City hosts the annual Iowa play production festival with groups from Waterloo Fairfield and Iowa City winning honors on the second day. Superior ratings were earned by Fairfield Women’s club for Comrades All and Iowa City Women’s club For A Rainy Day along with Waterloo Civic Theater group Best Seller. Outstanding players named by the judges include Mrs C A Heat of Waterloo Mrs Grace McGiffen of Fairfield Lee Buehrer and Harold Lenius of Waterloo and Mrs David Braverman and Jesse Seger of Iowa City.
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Iowa Play
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Waterloo
Fairfield
Fairfield Women's Club
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Waterloo Civic Theater Group
C. A. Heat
Grace Mce Giffen
Notice of Estate in Linn County Court
The APF appointed to oversee the Marie estate of Linn County requires all indebted parties to make payment to the undersigned. Those with claims against the estate must present them at the Linn County Town Court Clerk's office. George M. Milo and O. Hanzlik, Attorneys.
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Noti
Towa
APF
Marie
Linn
Untitled Meeting Notice Fragment in Rapids Iowa
A fragmentary notice from Rapids Iowa indicates a meeting time around eleven o clock. The legible text is garbled with missing names and details leaving the exact purpose and participants unclear.
Annual Meeting Notice for Corporation Held May Sixth
A notice states the annual meeting of the corporation will be held at 26 am on May 6, 164 forenoon at the designated venue. Attendees are expected to attend and corporate actions may be discussed.
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