Five Iowa cities report fatal holiday weekend crashes
Police across five Iowa cities report seven traffic deaths and one death by suffocation during Labor Day weekend. Victims include Merrill Stack 29 of Denver who burned in a semitruck crash near Sigourney, and Donna Dee Santage 4 months in Peterson from accidental suffocation. Further deaths occurred near Fort Dodge Audubon Council Bluffs Kanawha Clarion and Dunlap with drivers and passengers injured or killed. Gov. Wilson urged cautious driving as thousands of Iowa students return to classrooms.
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Iowa
Merrill Stack
Denver
Colo
Sigourney
Clarence Falk
Charles Tharp
Davenport
James Eddy
Centerville
Peterson
Donna Dee Santage
Carroll Santage
Clay County
J. M. Sokol
Arthur Birkland
Moorland
Fort Dodge
S. Garner
Elmore
Minn
Audubon
James Montgomery
Kansas City
Irwin Wenig
Gray
Chris Johnson
Kanawha
Clarion
James Kevane
Spirit Lake
Marcella
Beverly
Council Bluffs
Theodore W. Albertson
Cedar Rapids
Dunlap
Matriculation and Graduation Levies Abolished at Ames
Iowa State College will drop the $10 matriculation fee and eliminate graduation towel and locker fees. The changes, approved by the state board, shift revenue to a $3 quarterly enrollment fee. First benefits show for fall quarter graduates at end of the term.
Iowa Corporations Fail to File Annual Reports
Des Moines officials say 347 Iowa corporations and 85 out of state firms did not file required annual reports. Reports were due in July and delinquency triggers a $1 daily penalty starting September 1. Des Moines leads with 113 delinquent firms followed by Cedar Rapids 41 and Waterloo 21.
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DES Moines
INS
Secretary of
Earl G. Miller
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Cedar Falls
Ames
Boone
Council Bluffs
Nevada
No Rouge To Oleo Says Wilson
Governor George A. Wilson urged removal of rouge from oleomargarine in a telegraph to Ralph E. Ammon director of Wisconsin agriculture. A four state meeting in La Crosse Wisconsin to protest unfair privileges granted oleomargarine under new federal standards was planned with governors of Minnesota Illinois and Wisconsin invited.
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DES Moines
George A. Wilson
Ralph E. Ammon
Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture
la Crosse
Wis
Ammon
Wilson
Minnesota
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Federal Security Administration
Lindbergh Speech Delayed For Network Time Des Moines
In Des Moines the Lindbergh talk for the America First committee, now set for Sept 11 at 8 p.m., was moved from Sept 8 due to lack of radio network time and will be carried by Mutual. Col Hanford MacNider of Mason City joins the program as part of a Legion-backed effort by Polk County posts to host the nationally known speaker.
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Des Moines
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
America First Committee
Mutual Broadcasting System
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
American Legion
Canada
Lindbergh
MacNider
Polk County
Mennonites Seek Peace in War-Torn Era
Five percent of the nation's Mennonites gathered near Wellman to resolve conscience amid rising defense demands. They vow obedience to government where no scriptural conflict exists and oppose conscription and war production while expanding civilian service camps and war relief to aid the hungry. They emphasize nonresistance, simplicity, and witness for peace across a nation facing hostility.
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Wizee Mar
Europe
General Conference Mennonites
Wellman
Kalona-Wellman
Iowa Independent Retailers Show July Sales Up 18 Percent
Washington AP reports Iowa independent retailers increased sales 18 percent in July from July 1940 based on 838 stores. The Census Bureau notes July 1941 sales were 18 percent below June. For the first seven months of 1941, Iowa business volume rose 13 percent over 1940.
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Washington
Iowa
Census Bureau
Rock Island Ships 100 Ancient Tanks on Flatcars
About 100 model 1917 seven ton tanks were loaded on flatcars at the Rock Island arsenal. The destination remained a mystery though the tanks have waited on the arsenal grounds since World War I. Officials declined to say if they would be scrapped or used in maneuvers.
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Rock Island
Rock Island Arsenal
Des Moines Slayer Questioned in Score of Crimes
Police from five cities joined Washington detectives in questioning Jarvis R. Catoe the 36 year old confessed strangler of seven women. Investigators from New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Des Moines pursued links to other cases amid reports of additional assaults.
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Washington
INS
Jarvis R. Catoe
Trenton
Garden City
N. Y
Media
Lynn
Mass
Ira Keck
Betty Strieff
War Department
Des Moines
Rose Abramowitz
Evelyn D. Andersen
New York
Catoe
Anderson
John Fiherly
Jeremiah Flaherty
Washington Police Department
Strieff
New York City
Helen Foster
Child Seriously Injured When Wagon Passes Over
A three year old girl, Nancy Lou Van Laningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Therman Van Laningham, was critically injured when a farm wagon ran over her at their southeast Aurora farm. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon as Van Laningham and a hired man hauled gravel and the child, playing nearby, was unseen and fell under the wagon. Hospital physicians at Independence worked Saturday to save her life, reporting serious internal injuries.
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The
Gazette
Aurora
Independence Hospital
Nancy Lou van Laningham
Waukon Man Severely Burned In Gasoline Explosion
Albert Evans, 51, of Waukon, suffered serious burns Saturday morning while helping wash oil filters on a county road maintainer four miles southwest of Waukon in Ludlow township. He received a blood transfusion at a local hospital. George Colsch, 48, who operated the maintainer, had minor burns.
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Waukon
Albert Evans
Ludlow
Evans
George Colsch
Keller Funeral in Iowa City Monday
Funeral services for George J. Keller 56 of Iowa City WPA administrator who died Friday in a Grinnell hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile crash August 20 will be held Monday at 10 am at St Marys Church burial in St Js cemetery The body is at Hohenshuh Mortuary in Iowa City
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George J. Keller
Iowa
WPA
Grinnell Hospital
St. Mary’s Church
St. J ‘S
Hohensenuh
Lowaity
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