Isolationist labels fly in Iowa 1944 campaign clashes
Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More accuses Gov. Hickenlooper of siding with isolationists after a Kansas City speech, while Republican Lou Gardner questions the identity of Melinda Alexander in a Washington grand jury case. Both allege heated party lines as campaigns loom.
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Frank Nye
Des Moines
Iowa
Jake More
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Lou Gardner
Melinda
More
Kansas City
Hickenlooper
Associated Press
United States Senate
Republican Party
Scolaro Again Head Of City Assessors
Scolaro again leads city assessors as he testified before a grand jury along with Melinda Alexander described as a former clerk linked to Herring in the senate. Gardner attacked subsidies as a cover for higher prices and urged rigid price control amid wartime asks for subsidies and a planned 1944 payroll tax freeze.
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Scolaro
Herring
Melinda Alexander
Press Service
Senate
Gardner
Congress
Karl LeCompte
Corydon
Treaty Ratification Provisions Must Be Revamped
Senator Gillette proposes amending the Constitution's treaty making rules noting a peace treaty could be rejected by 17 senators under current law. He cites two thirds of those voting and 49 as a blocking threshold and urges action after 10 months without committee progress.
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Washington
Gillette
Iowa
United States
Senate
Judiciary
Sen. Connally
Texas
Rankin predicts a Jazz Age after the war
Iowa Attorney General John M. Rankin warns sheriffs and county attorneys that after the current war the nation will enter another Jazz Age. He cites past postwar crime as returned soldiers struggle to adjust and urges programs to steer youth toward civic work and recreation, with parent training included. More than 400 delegates attend the three day joint conference in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
John M. Rankin
Rankin
Iowa State Sheriffs’ Association
Iowa County Attorneys’ Association
County Attorneys’ Conference
Train Porter Convicted in Des Moines Liquor Case
Charles W. Burns a Chicago train porter pleaded guilty to illegal possession of liquor and was fined 300 dollars and sentenced to 90 days at hard labor. He admitted bringing two trunks with 72 bottles of Illinois whisky into Des Moines on a Rock Island train.
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Des Moines
Charles W. Burns
Chicago
Edwin Moore
Burns
Rock Island
S. M. Filipczek
Delbert Murray
State Bureau of Investigation
Illinois
Priest Honored on 45th Ordination Anniversary
St Patrick's Parish Monona honors Rev Luke Dolan at a dinner and reception marking the forty fifth anniversary of his ordination. Guests include Rev Donlon and other priests from Cedar Rapids Clermont and Reilly Settlement. Parishioners present a silver offering to Father Donlon.
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Monona
St Patrick's Catholic Church
Luke Dolan
Father Donlon
D. G. Peters
Cedar Rapids
W. J. Peters
Clermont
Gerald Steiert
Reilly Settlement
Lawler
Donlon
Belle Plaine Soldier Wounded in Action
Washington report lists 11 Iowa soldiers wounded in the Mediterranean theater. Among names is Pfc. John B. Hughes, with his mother Mrs. Hazel I. Hughes of Belle Plaine identified.
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Belle Plaine
Washington
War Department
Mediterranean
John B. Hughes
Hazel I. Hughes
Davenport Lieutenant Kresensky Killed in Virginia Crash
Davenport native Lt. Walter Kresensky, 23, died in a Sunday auto accident near Camp Lee Virginia. His wife Mrs Virginia Kersensky of Davenport was informed. He was the son of the late Dr and Mrs Walter Kersensky who had lived in Iowa City.
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Davenport
Walter Kresensky
Camp Lee
Virginia Kersensky
Algona
Walter Kersensky
Iowa City
Special Mention For Iowa Family War Bond Christmas
The William Wadle family of Iowa received special congratulations from the state war finance committee for a war bond Christmas. They bought bonds this week as Christmas gifts for each of their 11 children, with several members serving overseas.
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Melcher
William Wadle
State War Finance Committee
Paul J
Matthias J
Paul
Claude
Mrs. Smallwood
Transcript Filed in Vinton Strike Gase Schenck Appeal
In Des Moines the Iowa supreme court receives the largest transcript ever filed, a 3000 page record from Benton county in the Schenck appeal. He faces a three year sentence for conspiracy tied to a Vinton Produce fight.
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Vinton
Schenck
DES Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Benton County
la Verne Schenck
Detroit
Vinton Produce Company
Cato Noller
Robert Abernathy
Italian Prisoners Sing Beer Barrel Polka in Italian
Bucking ham prisoners of war at Eldora sang The Beer Barrel Polka and The Woodpecker Song in their native tongue as entertainment provided by Buckingham school children. Teachers Miss Marian Mohler and Miss Mercedes Kostlan led the visit. the inmates formed a circle and sang, voices heard two miles away.
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Buckingham
Holiday at Iowa U To Begin Dec 22
The University of Iowa announces a brief holiday for civilian students starting December 22 at 5 pm, marking the end of the first semester. The break lasts 11 days, with classes for the second semester resuming January 3 at 8 am. ASTP cadets get Christmas and New Year’s days off, while pre meteorology staff have Dec 21 to 28 off.
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Iowa City
INS
University of Iowa
ASTP
Army Air Forces
December draft call lists from Louisa County
Fourteen Louisa county selectees are named in the December draft call. Army draftees include Charles Craig Buffington Rex B Todd Fred Wayne Finley Harold Leroy Boulton Columbus Junction Robert William Hynes Forrest Myles Whit ham Morning Sun Samuel Tompkins Haven Hill Wapello Darrell Ernest Strawhacker Oakville Navy draftees include Fern LeRoy Heath Johnnie Martin Dvyor ak Columbus Junction Harvey Dallas Peter Gene Dodds Faris William Wayne Hamilton Wapello Clyde Harland Ashby Mediapolis.
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Wapello
Louisa County
Army
Charles Craig Buffington
Rex B Todd
Fred Wayne Finley
Harold Leroy Boulton
Columbus Junction
Robert William Hynes
Forrest Myles Whitham
Morning Sun
Samuel Tompkins Havenhill
Darrell Ernest Strawhacker
Oakville
Navy
Fern LeRoy Heath
Johnnie Martin Dvyorak
Harvey Dallas Peter
Gene Dodds Faris
William Wayne Hamilton
Clyde Harland Ashby
Mediapolis
Delta Soldier Wounded Slightly in Italy Action
Delta Pvt Donald Bird son of Mr and Mrs Jerry Bird has been slightly wounded in action in Italy. He has been overseas since last April and previously saw action in Tunisia and Sicily. He has two brothers in service Jesse in Arizona and Harold in Florida. his father is a World War I veteran.
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DELTA
Donald Bird
Jerry Bird
Italy
Bird
Tunisia
Sicily
Jesse W
Arizona
Harold
Florida
Marion News Briefs Lightly Scatter Holiday Notices
Local column updates note illness and recovery, family visits, and holiday club events across Marion. Highlights include improvements for Charles Benedict and several flu victims, furloughs for Seaman Verneee Aughy and Wayne Stephenson, and upcoming Christmas parties for Chatterbox, Diana Fret, Electa Circle, and Handicraft clubs with details on dates and hosts.
Snapshot Girl Found Married To a Serviceman
Mason City Iowa AP report says Charlotte, the girl whose photo Dwane Halsten pasted in his scrapbook, is now married to a man in service. Mrs Halsten, seeking news after Dwane was missing in action since November 16, learned that Charlotte is now Ilaine in Illinois and is married to a serviceman.
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Mason City
Charlotte
Jack Halsten
Dwane Halsten
Dwane
Mys_ Walsten
Flu Absences Hit Des Moines Schools
More than 20 percent of Des Moines public school children were absent Monday due to illness. Officials said 5,784 of 27,000 pupils were out, attributing most absences to an influenza epidemic.
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Des Moines
INS
Supreme Court rules against Burlington Union in labor dispute
DES MOINES Iowa Tuesday the state supreme court held a labor union cannot use concerted economic pressure to aid a dispute. The ruling upheld a Des Moines county injunction barring Burlington Local No. 218 from forcing members to stop handling Blauls and Sons Burlington merchandise.
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Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Burlington Local No. 218
International Tecamsters
John Blauls and Sons of
Burlington
Husband Missing Over Month Reward Offered
In Conway Iowa a $200 reward is offered for information on Thomas Worm a 42 year old farmer missing since the night of November 6. His wife Mrs Worm reported a man asked for help freeing a car from mud and that Worm took his truck and a log chain leaving the vehicle abandoned a mile north of Bedford. Their son Carroll learned of the disappearance after his marriage and Army Air Forces wings conferment.
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Conway
Thomas Worm
Here
Worm
Sherif J T Caskey
Bedford
Iowa
Carrol
Texas
Vicks VapoRub Promises Cold Relief Through Steam
Home tested method claims to relieve coughing and phlegm by melting VapoRub in boiling water and inhaling medicated steam. Advises additional relief by rubbing throat chest and back at bedtime to soothe upper breathing passages and quiet coughing.
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Vicks VapoRub
VapoRub
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Kitty
Clyde L. Herring
W. D. Jamieson
Frank Comfort
Gazette
J. F. Scolaro
L. B. Newell
Sioux City
Ivor Linder
Fort Dodge
Guaranty
Third Avenue
Third Street
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Iowa U
Woerderhoff’s
First Avenue NE
Marion News Gazette
Marion
Dick Little
J. Paul Thomas
Mechanicsville
Roy King
Loyce Schenken
Seaman
Verneeeeaughy
Washington, D. C
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Owen
Jane Low
Fifth Avenue
Clement Allen Eacker
Fort Pierce
Fla
Clement Eacker
Boston
W. H. Balster
Don
F. F. Hanson
Lost Nation
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Mrs. Hanson
Hannah Balster
Charles Benedict
Tenth Street
Chatterbox Club
Harold Howe
Diana Fret Club
Paul Fiedler
Electa Circle
D. B Storels
Red Cross
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Juanita
Phyllis
Webster City
Smith
Marvin Smith
Franklin Crawford
Independence
Ivanhoe Club
Elizabeth
Emma Klein
Laura Bailey
The
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Byrd Allen
Handicraft Club No. 1
K. V. Cafe
Robert Burns
Ladies Progressive Club
Dry Creek
John Howe
John Meredith
Marion Business Office
Fred Ross
C. J. Newlin
Donald Rundquist
Wayne Stainbrook
Earl Beiber
Jean Wiclkeson
W. E. Dean
Leon Blinks
Gus Miller
Glenn Miller
Harry Scott
Frank McCarthy
Margaret Cleland
Charles Maltus
Nancy Lee
June Maxine
Waterloo
D. Currier
Hans Peterson
Wayne Stephenson
Naval Air Station
San Francisco
Calif
Erwin Lannings
Jean Kennedy
Clarke College
Dubuque
Mary
Joan Balster
Estherville
A. E Fairhurst
Rochester, Minn
Mandicraft Club No. 2
Stanley Thomas
Louis Mekota
Margaret McEnany
Foreman
Dorrance McEnany
Farra‘put
Idaho
Shoemaker
Mothers Club
Homer
Mr. Linkletter
Linkletter
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Burlington Union
McIntosh
Orange Lake
New Zealand
Wellington
Wilkes-Barre
Equator
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Coca-Cola
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