Building Roads Through Jungles Of South America
Jack Spears recalls the Barco expedition to Barco concession in Colombia. The 185 mile jungle road aimed to serve a 291 mile pipeline with South American Gulf Oil. Violence, terrain, and malaria shaped the perilous trek through hostile Indian territory and a wary, inconsistent Colombian state.
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South America
Colombia
Jack Spears
Charles A. Spears
Crescent Street
Jack
South American Gulf Oil Company
Texas Oil Company
Jungle
Columbia
Venezuela
Maracaibo
LaPlant-Choate
Peoria
Spears
Barco
Chicha
Coe Summer Students To Hear Safety Talks
Coe college summer classes will convene Tuesday at 9 am in Old Main for a lecture on the state safety program by a governor's commission representative and the state department of education. Dean C Harve Geiger arranged the meeting inviting teachers and community members at First Avenue and Twelfth Street E.
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Coe College
Governor’s Commission
State Department of Education
Old Main Building
First Avenue
Twelfth Street
Dean C. Harve Geiger
Coe
Sedan Rams Hartman truck in city collision
A sedan driven by Charles Sewell of Marion rear ended a Hartman Furniture delivery truck driven by Leo White at 1302 Ellis Boulevard NW on First Avenue BE between 33rd and 34th streets. Both cars moved westward. White stopped for a curbside vehicle. No injuries were reported.
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Charles Sewell
Marion
Hartman Furniture Store
Leo White
Ellis Boulevard
First Avenue
White
Sewell
Camden keel laid for destroyer Cleveland after Albemarle launch
Within three minutes after the 8 900 ton seaplane tender Albemarle was christened and slid down the ways at a Camden shipyard the keel of the 10 000 ton destroyer Cleveland was laid.
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Camden
N. J
INS
U.S.S. Albemarle
U.S.S. Cleveland
Labor chiefs pledge unity as aircraft drive looms
Washington dispatch reports 16 union leaders pledge undented devotion to national defense, prompting White House hopes for a united labor front. AFL CIO mobilization aims at aircraft plants Boeing Consolidated Lockheed Beech, with UAW and IAM leading organizing drives.
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Washington
INS
National Defense
White House
Stephen T. Early
Roosevelt
AFL
CIO
National Defense Commission
Commission
Sidney Hillman
H W. Brown
International Association of Machinists
United Auto Workers
Brown
Boeing
Consolidated
Lockheed
Beech
William Green
John N. Lewis
Lewis
Afl-Cio
Unmarried Men Aged 21 to 24 Expected in Ottawa
Subject to first call officers in Ottawa Ontario report unmarried men between 21 and 24 are expected to be in the city. The brief item notes a recruitment or muster context and hints at impending orders or obligations affecting young men.
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Ottawa
Ont
INS
First group called up for compulsory military training
The report indicates that the first group was called up for compulsory military training under Canada’s mobilization act, noted on Saturday.
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Canada
College Educators Urge Compulsory Military Training
A petition signed by 180 college educators from coast to coast, including presidents of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale, urges universal military training in the United States. The Harvard group plans to send the petition to Washington to back a compulsory training bill, arguing democracy must endure discipline and universal service.
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Cambridge
Mass
Princeton
Dartmouth
Yale
United States
Harvard Group
American Defense
Harvard
House and
Senate
Washington
Army creates streamlined 8000-man Ninth Division at Fort Bragg
The United States Army forms a new mobile division of 8,000 soldiers known as the Ninth, to be stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina. It includes three infantry units an artillery unit with 75 mm guns a second artillery unit with 155 mm howitzers and a combat engineers battalion. The move accompanies plans for large contracts for tanks guns ammunition and new warships.
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Washington
INS
National Defense Commission
Army
Ninth
Fort Bragg
N. C
Camp Good Health Aids Cedar Rapids Children
Public Health Nursing association runs Camp Good Health to treat 115 physically handicapped children from Cedar Rapids underprivileged homes. Funding is needed to sustain the camp season with $3,000 for full capacity and $475 for the Camp Good Health Fund. Donations encouraged through The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Public Health Nursing Association
Medical Relief Office
Camp Good Health Fund
Camp Good Health
the Gazette
Iowa
Committees Named for Industrial League Picnic
Reuben F Smith of Iowa Electric Light and Power named general chair man for all committees for the Allied Industrial league picnic to be held Sunday Aug 4 at Ellis park. K Koffron named golf arrangements chair. Max Wesner drum corps. Keith Tow diamond ball. William Pulda horseshoes. Warren Hartman archery. Lee Henrickson Nevin Nichols games and races. Bruce Bucknell puppet show. Dempsy Jones to conduct children program. Glen Lyman industrial league band. Wulfrid Lattner night show director with Randall Rogers on stage crew. Plant chairmen asked to assign five to six helpers to Roy Decker grounds supervision. Names to be reported to the YMCA.
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Reuben F Smith
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Allied Industrial League
Ellis Park
Milo Nelson
Leagues
Board of Control
K. K. Koffron
Max Wesner
Keith Tow
William Pulda
Warren Hartman
Lee Henrickson
Nevin Nichols
Bruce Bucknell
Dempsy Jones
Glen Lyman
Industrial League
Wulfrid
Woman Injured After Basement Stair Fall at Taft Hotel
Mrs Elizabeth Smith 74 of Monticello suffered bruises and head bump when she slipped while carrying a package in the Taft hotel grill basement stairs at 403 Second Avenue SE. She was taken to St Luke’s Hospital by the Ambulance Service at 540 PM. no fractures were found and she remained under observation.
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Taft Hotel
Second Avenue SE
Elizabeth Smith
Monticello
St. Luke's Hospital
Stella Ratliff
Girll
Smith
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