Willkie Named Heir to Lincoln GOP in Des Moines Talk
Gov. George A Wilson praised Wendell Willkie as the GOP man of the hour at the Des Moines convention. He highlighted Willkie’s business sense, honesty, and support from running mate Charles L McNary. Wilson defended the party platform as strong, forward looking, and equal rights friendly, and lauded Republican policies favoring agriculture, roads, and farm tenancy reform in Iowa.
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Gov. Wilson
Gop
Man of the Hour
Willkie
Des Moines
George A Wilson
Lincoln
Wendell Willkie
Wilson
Charles L McNary
Washington
America
Goode Wins Temporary Injunction Over Creamery License
Iowa State Rep Dewey Goode secured a temporary injunction to stop the Iowa Department of Agriculture from revoking his cream-buying license. The court acted in Bloomfield, amid Goode’s challenge to the cream grading law as unconstitutional. A hearing on the injunction is upcoming.
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DES Moines
Dewey Gande
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Goode
Agriculture Department
Bloomfield
Mark Thornburg
Van Nostrand Elected Iowa Young Republican Leader
George Van Nostrand of Fairfield was elected chairman of the Iowa Young Republican league at the Des Moines convention with about 500 delegates. Irving W. Myers was chosen national committeeman, with Mrs Rosa Lee Snyder Norma Doellinger Kenneth Neu George Heath and John Redd elected to other posts.
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Des Moines
George van Nostrand
Fairfield
Jefferson County
Iowa Young Republican League
van Nostrand
Irving W. Myers
League
Rosa Lee Snyder
Corydon
Norma Doellinger
Davenport
Kenneth F. Neu
Mason City
George Heath
Waterloo
John Redd
Sidney
Myers
Philadelphia
Iowa
George A Wilson
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Irving L. Myers
Kenneth Neu
Norma Dosllinger
Wilson And Doran To Arrange State Office Building Survey
Des Moines Iowa The legislative interim committee and the state executive council appoint George A Wilson and Senator L H Doran Boone as a special sub committee to plan a survey for a state office building They will first consult Iowa State College and University of Iowa staff for survey help or the state board of architectural examiners if needed If unavailable they may hire a private architectural firm The governor and senator will meet in Des Moines Tuesday to review action.
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Des Moines
INS
Legislative Interim Committee
State Executive Council
George A Wilson
L. H Doran
Boone
Iowa State College
University of Iowa
State Board of Architectural Examiners
Wilson
Doran
Eastern Iowa tolls patient notices and local obituaries
A packet of brief notices from eastern Iowa reports deaths, marriages, and stilled lives across towns including Grand Mound Hazleton La Porte City Independence Clermont and Columbus Junction. The items mention Mrs Chris tina Timmsen William and Ida Grove descendants, a fire loss in Hazleton, a return of a wedding in Independence, and various anniversaries births and society transfers.
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Grand Mound
Christina Timmsen
William
Ida Grove
Schleswig
Iowa
Brandon voters reject Co-Op plan leaving town without power
Brandon residents face an electric power gap after voters rejected buying power from Buchanan County Rural Electric Cooperative. With the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railway contract expiring July 31 and no replacement arranged, fate of local current supply remains undecided after another earlier vote against Iowa Electric Power proposals.
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the Gazette
Brandon
Buchanan County Rural Electric Cooperative
Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway Company
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cryptic Plea From England Reaches Grinnell For Refugees
A Grinnell letter postmarked June 26 1940 from London asks for refuge for a daughter and her child during wartime. Signed Minnie Bolte it names a dental surgeon husband and includes a photo. The note remains vaguely worded and uncensored awaiting reply.
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Grinnell
England
Gazette
R.F.D
Iowa
Hatley Close
Friern Barnet
London
Millie
Canada
Minnie Bolte
Clayton County Bar Association Names Public Grievance Panel
A three member grievance committee was appointed by President Judge W L Eichendorf to hear public complaints against any county bar member. Members are D W Meier Monona Alex Holmes Strawberry Point and J J Hyde Elkader. The panel may investigate and report findings to the association if warranted.
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Eleader
Clayton County Bar Association
W. L. Eichendorf
McGregor
D. W. Meier
Monona
Alex Holmes
Strawberry Point
J. J. Hyde
Elkader
Bar Association
Cause And Cure Ice Injury In Sioux City
Mrs Blanche Fredette aged 38 learned about ice when a 50 pound block slipped from her hands and injured her foot. A doctor advised keeping the foot surrounded by ice to reduce swelling.
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Sioux City
Blanche Fredette
Independence and Ossian Local News Briefs
Independence Buchanan county reached its Christmas seal quota with 80.16 dollars raised in the 1939 sale, per capita 41 cents, while 1938 counted 649.38 dollars or 3.3 cents per capita. Mrs L W Main of Independence chaired the 1939 Buchanan county seal sale. OSSIAN Girl Scout troop organized under Mrs Thearon Hauge with members listed.
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Independence
Buchanan County
L. W. Main
Ossian
Thearon Hauge
Norma Schroeder
Helen Bethel
Helen Nicholson
Mary Jane Doane
Beverly Durnan
Shirley Berg
Jo Ann Peyer
Jackie Brown
Mary Francis Desse
Shirley Bergland
Ruth Paul
Shirley Sand
Audery Schweinefus
Corena Zweibohmer
Imelda Bonfig
Helen Sand
Irma Witt
Gladys Hanson
Dorothy Schulze
Lorraine Lansing
Norma
Divorcee Thrown From Car Leaves Des Moines Inju
A 30 year old divorcee Mrs Helen Stewart of Des Moines said she was thrown from a car Thursday night. She staggered to a southwest Des Moines house for help and was found to have a severe skull fracture. Dale Stewart, 32, her former husband, was questioned but denied knowledge of the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Helen Stewart
Dale Stewart
Iowa Peace Officers Banquet Mixes Football Notes
Iowa peace officers attend the fourth annual short course banquet in the River room at the Iowa Union. Dr Edward Anderson Iowa football mentor and W S Devereaux FBI official will speak. Pictures of the Town Notre Dame game will be shown. Devereaux recalls Nebraska era with all American center Lawrence Ely.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
River Room
Iowa Union
Edward Anderson
W.S Devereaux
Chicago
Anderson
Devereaux
FBI
Lawrence
Couple Held At Grinnell On Bad Check Charge
Grinnell officers detained a couple claiming to be Mr and Mrs Fred Owens of near New Sharon on bad check charges tied to a forged check bearing Joe Lacina’s signature. Lacina denied writing the check. The pair allegedly deposited a check drawn by an Oskaloosa resident. They face a preliminary hearing before Justice J H Mehlin and are held on $500 bail each in Poweshiek county jail Montezuma.
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The
Gazette
Grinnell
Fred Owens
Near
New Sharon
Joe Lacina
Lacina
Oskaloosa
Justice of the Peace
J. H. Mehlin
Poweshiek County
Montezuma
Weekend To Bring Warmer Weather
Des Moines AP reports a weekend warmup with generally fair conditions and higher temperatures after a Friday morning 9 degrees below normal. State highs Thursday reached 91 at Marshalltown. lows Friday night fell to 49 at Decorah with scattered rain in the southeast. Iowa City recorded .6, Davenport .42, Burlington .3, Marshalltown .21, and Keokuk and Mount Ayr .16 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Marshalltown
Decorah
Iowa City
Davenport
Burlington
Keokuk
Mount Ayr
Iowa City Briefs Highlight Local GOP, School News, Panama Trip
Iowa City Republicans named at the Des Moines convention on June 29 include Judge Harold D. Evans and many others. Funeral services were held for Emma M. Ebert, 54, with burial at St. Joseph's cemetery. Nearly 3,900 Iowa City school children were registered in May, with Iver A. Opstad noting 2,011 boys and 1,881 girls. Rep Thomas Martin plans a Panama Canal Zone inspection trip as a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, causing him to miss the state GOP convention.
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Iowa City
Des Moines
Harold D. Evans
Homer Cherington
Lloyd Howell
C. H. Redman
D. C. Nolan
Edward Rate
J. Mayer
Rollo Work
Sam Hunter
A. Abramsohn
R. J. Phelps
Dean Wilber Teeters
William Weber
Glenn Hope
W. W. Watters
E. A. Putnam
Verne Brinkmeyer
William F Morrison
W. F. Boiler
Leslie Moore
Herbert J. Ries
Paul Toomey
H. J. Dane
Co. A. Bowman
Roy Flickinger
Emma M. Ebert
St. Wenceslaus Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Claud Bergman
Frank Kouba
Chicago
Ed Kouba
Ebert
Iowa Memorial Union
Iver A. Opstad
Charles 8. Galiher
Thomas Martin
Panama Canal Zone
House
Martin
Luther Professor Studies Fort Atkinson History in Washington
Prof. S. S. Reque head of Luther College French department and athletic director travels to Washington to study Civil War records. He commissions research on early Fort Atkinson history and oversees a miniature reconstruction displayed at the Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah as curator.
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Decorah
S. S. Reque
Luther College
Washington, D. C
Fort Atkinson
Winneshiek County League
Iowa
Prof. Reque
Judge Gaffney Pushes Candidacy for Circuit Bench
Judge James Gaffney of Marengo Iowa campaigns in Washington in support of his bid for an Eighth Circuit judgeship. He is one of several Iowa nominees backed by Senators Gillette and Herring for one of two new circuit judgeships created by Congress.
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Washington
James Gaffney
Marengo
Eighth Circuit
Gaffney
Eicher
Securities and Exchange Commission
Graduates Hit in Cornell Stage Play Stage Door
Mount Vernon reports two Cornell graduates Betty Lou Evans and Ruth Miller Handel scored a hit in the summer theater performance Stage Door. Handel led as a former Cornell troupe member and current head of speech and dramatic art at Morningside College and Dakota Wesleyan University. Evans belongs to the Erie Professional Players since 1939. Leading male roles were Jim Daly and Ben Hoover with Betty Chiquet and Ruth Crisman in comedy parts. The set by Yale designer Zack York was shown at Yale Fine Arts gallery. Director Robert Hartung, Yale alumnus, will head Simpson College drama. Final show Saturday includes America Was Song and Laughter a musical revue by Albert Franklin Johnson and Bertha French Johnson.
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Gazette Mount Vernon
Cornell
Betty Lou Evans
Ruth Miller Handel
Stage Door
Morningside College
Dakota Wesleyan University
Erie
Jim Daly
Ben Hoover
Betty Chiquet
Ruth Crisman
Zack York
Yale
Yale University Fine Arts
Robert Hartung
Simpson College
America
Albert Franklin Johnson
Bertha French Johnson
Nelson Named Acting President of Town State Teachers College
Cedar Falls IOWA Dr M J Nelson dean of the faculty since 1934 was named acting president after Dr Orval R Latham died of pneumonia in Iowa City hospital. Nelson joined the college in 1924 as assistant professor and led the education department from 1930.
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Cedar Falls
INS
M. J. Nelson
Town State Teachers College
Nelson
Board of Education
Orval R. Latham
Teachers College
No Such Thing as Unavoidable Crash at UI Safety Conference
Karl W. Fischer urged high school administrators and teachers at the University of Iowa to promote safety education with the aim of creating a generation of safe drivers. He emphasized that an accident toll is avoidable through self-preservation priorities and statewide cooperation in education. Prof C H McCloy and Jess ie M. Parker also spoke at the first annual session.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Karl W. Fischer
University of Iowa
Fischer
Iowa
C H McCloy
Physical Education Department
Jessie M. Parker
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Hasner Rae wed in Detroit July ceremony
Announcement from Independence reports the marriage of Miss Janet Hasner granddaughter of Mrs Janet Hasner of Independence to Frederick Rae of Detroit. The ceremony took place July 6 at a Presbyterian church in Detroit. The bride is daughter of Dr and Mrs Robert Hasner of Detroit and the groom works at a Detroit airplane plant.
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LA Porte City
Kosta Demitroff
Waterloo
Naomi Howery
Thurm Howery
Demitroff
Independence
John Calvin
Bulgaria
Bert Martin
Dorothy Martin
Donald Warford
Jess Warford
LaPorte City
Manchester
Clair H. Brown
First Baptist Church
Chester Shuman
Center Point
Jean Matheny
Joseph Matheny
John Peterson
Urbana-Center Point
Peterson
Miss Matheny
Ellen Simmons
Cedar Rapids
Matheny
Vinton Hospital
Vinton
Nabholz
Mr. Nabholz
Alburnett
Town
David
Susan Nabholz
Abbie DeNio
Brandon
Frank John Elwell
Long Beach
Calif
Mabel Nichols
Lucy Elwell
Elwell
Bernadine Zimmerly
Robert Zimmerly
Orville C. Bergstrom
Gus Bergstrom
Wesleyan Methodist Parsonage
C. S&s. Wiegel
Clyde Christiansen
Janet Hasner
Frederick Rae
Detroit
Robert Hasner
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Rep
Neisner’s
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Young Republican League
Gazette Photo
Wilson and Doran
Fern Cole
RS N.G
Goldie Ovesen
L.S N.G
Elma Sanford
R.S V.G
Ella Bartholomew
L.S.V.G
Vinna Posten
Dyersville
Frank Grobstick
Grobsticks
Postville
Alice Frederickson
New Hartford
Isabelle Vogt
Rosa Lee Osburn
Katheryn Long
Rock Island, Ill
John Koester
West Union
Prentiss Stahl
Iowa News
Hazleton
J W Donnell
Donnell
Independence High School
Gates Hardware Store
Coggon
Lillian Bauman
Alfred Bauman
Ryan
Loren Mangold
William Mangold
Little Brown
Nashua
Wisconsin
Mangold
Troy Mills
Willow Rebekah Lodge
IOOF
Laura Horsky
Prada Rebekah Lodge
Columbus Junction
Merie Goode
Raymond Goode
Lloyd E. Garrison
Logan Garrison
Evangelical
Cairo
Here
Leslie B. Deedrick
International Harvester Company
Rock Island
Garrison
Presho
S. D
U.S S. Gilmer
U.S Navy
Norfolk
Winneshirk County Fair Board
Bates
C. C. Bates
Thalberg
Middle West
Henry Moen
O. Andresen
Laura
Clarence Hagelie
Alfred Lofte
Leonard Anfinson
Cora Saboe
Moenhave
John
Hanford
Laurinda
Clayton Bar
Ft. Atkinson
Karl Fischer
Second Street
Deen
Leela Clorox
Amer
Uti
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