Hick Plan Action At Anamosa Reform School
Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper said he will meet with the state board of control to implement reformatory improvements at Anamosa as urged by R. W. Nebergall after his investigation report. Nebergall found the facility failed to pursue a sound reform program and criticized sending hardened criminals from Fort Madison to Anamosa. Davenport challenged Nebergall’s findings while alleging an inmate faced immoral influence from guard Harold Birkestrand, who is serving a sex charge at Fort Madison. Nebergall said the two were never together at the quarry and that Jordan was executed in 1942 for murder in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
B. B. Hickenlooper
State Board of Control
Anamosa State Reformatory
R. W. Nebergall
Nebergall
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Buster Davenport
Highway Commission
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Davenport
Leo Jordan
Harold Birkestrand
Jordan
Birkestrand
Joliet, Ill
Fulton, Ill
Straka in Innocent Plea to Breaking Entering Charges
Louis J. Straka 26 of Davenport pled innocent to two counts of breaking and entering at an arraignment before Judge G. K. Thompson. Bond set at 3000 dollars each. Straka arrested Tuesday for a Springville school break in January and faced a joint charge with Myles Robinson. He admitted involvement in crimes across multiple towns including Mt Vernon West Branch Manchester Delhi Hopkinton Onslow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis J. Straka
Davenport
G. K. Thompson
Straka
Springville
Myles Robinson
Mt. Vernon High School
Linn County
Larry Condon
Harley Simon Wednesday
Mt. Vernon
West Branch
Manchester
Delhi
Hopkinton
Onslow
Seven Months Behind Nazi Lines by Dora Jane Hamblin
Pfc Glenn Nesley a U S Army jeep driver from Mt Vernon returns home after 28 months away, recounting seven months behind German lines in Italy after Tunisia capture. He describes hunger, wandering, and a break through German lines with help from Indians and British and Americans, ending his ordeal in Sicily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Jane Hamblin
Vernon
Glenn Nesley
U S. Army
Tunisia
John Nesley
Mt.Vernon
Glenn
Germany
Italy
Nesley
Cornell May Music Festival Opens Friday With Chicago Symphony
The forty-sixth annual May Music Festival at Cornell college opens Friday with Hans Lange directing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Jennie Tourel, noted for Carmen and Mignon, appears in a featured role. Saturday's 2 15 program includes all Mozart works. the 8 15 concert presents Prokofieff Debussy Bloch Fal la and Beethoven. Tourel’s career spans Montreal New York Boston and Chicago stages under premier conductors.
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Gazette
Mt, Vernon
Cornell College
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hans Lange
Jennie Tourel
Stradella
Mozart
Scarlatti
Duparc
Faure
Hahn
Rossini
Gretschaninoff
Rachmaninoff
Prokofieff
Strimer
Granados
Samuel Barber
Winter Watts
Chicago Symphony
Debussy
Bloch
de Falla
Beethoven
Miss Tourel
France
Montreal
Wilfred Pelletier
New Opera
New York
Havana
The
New York Phil
Parole Granted for Herbert Bagge in Ottumwa Case
Herbert Bagge former hotel clerk was granted parole from a three year term after pleading guilty to conspiracy in Wapello County District Court He acted as a payoff racket collector linked to Ottumwa liquor and gambling joints and testified against Dusty Rhoads who was convicted and sent to state prison One hundred petitioners urged leniency while the county attorney noted Bagge’s helpfulness but offered no recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Herbert “Pete” Bagge
Elmer K. Daugherty
Wapello County
Bagg
G. E
Dusty” Rhoads
Ottumwa Safety
State Penitentiary
John Moon
Move to Head Off Montgomery Ward Situation in Corn
Omaha residents and officials from Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota will meet Monday in Omaha to head off threatened Montgomery Ward situations tied to the corn freeze order. A Ward Food administration representative from Washington and Triple A officials will attend along with live stock feeders in the freeze area.
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Montgomery Ward
Corn
Omaha
MNS
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Ward Food Administration
Washington
Triple A
Iowa Independent Retailers Post Broad March Sales Increase
March sales across Iowa independent retailers rose 3 percent from 1943 and 19 percent from February 1944, with first quarter dollar sales up 8 percent year over year. Department stores gained 16 percent from 1943 and 25 percent from February 1944, while Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Waterloo, Dubuque, Des Moines and smaller towns reported solid gains. only stores in towns under 2,500 saw a slight 1 percent drop from March 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
J. C. Capt
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Waterloo
Dubuque
Des Moines
Fassbinder Rites Set for Elkader Man Monday
Ken neth Fassbinder aero mechanic first class died Thursday at New Orleans naval hospital. Services will be held Monday morning at St Joseph’s Catholic church. Surviving are his wife, parents Mr and Mrs W B Fassbinder, two brothers Gerald and Richard, sister Donna Mae, and his Puerto Rico posting. Fassbinder served in Gilbert Islands campaign and had emergency appendectomy in January before peritonitis ended his duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkader
Kenneth Fassbinder
New Orleans Naval Hospital
St Joseph’s Catholic Church
Fassbinder
Gilbert Islands
Puerto Rico
W. B. Fassbinder
Gerald Fassbinder
Navy
Iowa City
Richard Fassbinder
Rockford
Donna Mae Fassbinder
Man killed by train near Marshalltown
Arlington Minn man George F Paulmann aged about 42 was fatally injured when he was run over by an M and St L freight train near Marshalltown on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
George F. Paulmann
Arlington, Minn
M. and St
Penick to Close Again as Corn Controls Hit Plant
The Cedar Rapids Penick and Ford plant will halt operations Wednesday for the second time in four weeks due to government price controls on corn. Other plants from Argo Illinois to Pekin Illinois and across Iowa Indiana Missouri and Illinois face similar shutdowns or reduced schedules as the war needs rely on limited corn supplies. Plant workers numbering about 600 will be offered reemployment during the closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Arends
Sharples
Penick and
Ford
Frank Nye
Iere
Midwest
Cedar Rapids
Penick and Ford, Ltd, Inc
Max Widmer
Argo
Ill
Corn Products Refining Company
W. T. Brady
Brady
Pekin
F. M. Presler
Rose Womacka
Penick and Ford
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Pat
Gazette Proto
Pfc
Africa
Patsy Nesley
Dean
Johan
Norman
Phil Pospisil
California
Texas
Sicily
National Guard
Pearl Harbor
Camp Claiborne
Ireland
Claiborne
Donald Hayes
Rangers
Oran
Cornell
Harmonic Symphony
Arturo Toscanini
Boston Symphony
Serge Koussevitzky
Boston
Leopold Stokowiski
NBC Symphony
Stokowski
Metropolitan Opera
Mignon
Chicago Opera
Carmen
Newark
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Argo Plant
Clinton and
Keokuk
Robey
Indianapolis
Indiana
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Decatur
Ilinois
Penick
Gov
Ernment
Federal Department of Agriculture
Department
United States
Milwaukee
Wis
Paris
Wilkes- Barre
Corn Products Division
War Food Administration
Corn Industries Research Foundation
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