Fischer names 13 to highway patrol Iowa
Des Moines INS Karl W Fischer state safety commissioner announced 13 recruits named to the Iowa highway patrol from 500 applicants. The new officers join 38 in training on a reserve list. After six months on probation they become regular patrolmen with starting salaries of 100 dollars monthly, rising to 125 after one year.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Highway Patrol
Karl W. Fischer
Fischer
Raymond Connor
Williamsburg
Charles M. Fels
Homestead
Melvin A.howe
Cedar Falls
Robert L. Lamb
Newton
Gifford M
Alex Miller
Iowa City to form shrine group for Lucas home
Iowa City residents plan a Thursday meeting in the Old Capitol senate chamber to organize a drive for state funds to convert the Robert Lucas first territorial governor home into a shrine. J A Swisher O A Byington and George D Koser lead the effort as lawmakers tour the site seeking 5000 dollars. Funeral services for Mrs Winifred Miller will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Hohenschuh mortuary with Rev E E Voigt officiating. Survivors include a daughter Mrs Milton Tonneson and sister Mrs James Watkins. Mrs Miller came from London 30 years ago. Attorneys for Lone Tree Farmers Exchange filed a motion for a new trial after losing a 1525 verdict to Vernon Halligan in a malicious prosecution suit.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
Citians
Robert Lucas
Senate
Old Capitol
Iowa Legislature
J. A. Swisher
The
State Historical Society
O. A. Byington
London
Lone Tree Farmers Exchange
Vernon Halligan
Halligan
Rial
Viola Homecoming Plans At Old School Grounds
Viola Homecoming will be held on the old school grounds Sunday July 21 with a 1 30 p m picnic dinner. Coffee and tea will be furnished by the Viola Civic league. Earlville Mrs Sarah Gaylord 89 died Monday afternoon a Rock Island and Detroit resident who moved to Earlville last April burial in Rock Island. She is survived by three children and a sister. Ira Wo3zoba Wyoming farmer in critical condition at Mercy hospital Anamosa after a fall hay pole struck him. He was census taker for Wyoming township this year.
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VIOLA
Viola Civic League
Earlville
Sarah Gaylord
Rock Island
Detroit
Mich
Georgia Buell
Charles
Lynn
Emma
Idaho
Buell
Wyoming
Eira Wo3zoba
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Wosoba
Wyoming Township
Pioneer Keystone Couple To Celebrate Anniversary
Keystone observes the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nissen with an open house Saturday afternoon at their Keystone home. The Nissens, German natives, married July 20, 1890, and have lived 48 years in the same house. A family dinner will follow. Their children include Mrs. F. Ju. Graham of Midland South Dakota, Mrs. Ed Kuehl and Walter of Keystone, and Edna of Cedar Rapids, with three grandchildren.
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Keystone
Peter Nissen
Nissens
Germany
Nissen
F. Ju. Graham
Midland
S. D
Ed Kuehl
Walter
Edna
Cedar Rapids
Charlot laments public misunderstanding of artists
Mexican muralist Jean Charlot spoke at the University of Iowa festival, saying society undervalues artists while plumbers are understood. He compared artists to inhabitants of witch houses, urged recognition of art as vital, and noted artists are underpaid yet seek lasting survival in canvases.
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Iowa City
Jean Charlot
University of Iowa
Charlot
Cedar Conservation Club Names Officers and Plans Lake Project
The Cedar County Conservation club elected Henry Williams and Frank Westphal both of Tipton as president and secretary treasurer. Directors include L. E. Carlisle Ray Maurer Jack Spear Walter J. A. Thoene and Henry Boedeker to meet incorporation rules. They plan a recreation center by a small lake used for ice harvest now publicly owned. An Aug. 19 pig barbecue at West Side park Rochester with Tipton Fire Chief Carlisle as chef was announced.
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Tipton
Cedar County Conservation Club
Henry Williams
Frank Westphal
L. E. Carlisle
Ray Maurer
Jack Spear
Walter J. A. Thoene
Sunbury
Henry Boedeker
Bennett
NYA
Everett Tracht
Conservation Club
Cedar County
Otto Kling
Davenport
West Side Park
Rochester
Rep Tom Martin In Central America
Six U S congressmen from a military affairs subcommittee visited Managua on an air tour through Mexico and Central America toward the Canal Zone. Led by Rep Charles I Faddis they planned stops in San Jose Costa Rica and Cristobal C Z before returning via the West Indies. The group includes Reps Costello Anderson Burns Byron and Thomas E Martin.
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Managua
Nicaragua
U. S
House Committee On Military Affairs
Mexico
Central America
Canal Zone
Charles I. Faddis
San Jose
Costa Rica
Cristobal
C. Z
West Indies
John M. Costello
Calif
C. Arthur Anderson
Joseph W. Burns
Tenn
William D. Byron
Thomas E. Martin
Woman Ends Life Near Springville
Mrs. Robert H. Kleineck 42 of two miles east of Springville died after self-administered poison from an ounce bottle found in her room. A one-eighth ounce bottle and a pharmacy record show purchase during a Anamosa trip with her husband and son Leonard 19. Coroner Dr B L Knight said no inquest. Velma 18 and Leonard survive. Body to Loder funeral home Anamosa.
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Springville
Robert H. Kleineck
B. L. Knight
Linn County
Knight
Jim Smith
Anamosa
Leonard
Velma
Loder
Telephone Company Checks Citizenship Of Its Employes
DES MOINES AP C T Young district manager Northwestern Bell Telephone company said Wednesday that employes in Iowa and elsewhere have been asked to furnish complete information on their citizenship. Information about citizenship of the employes immediate families is also requested. Young said it is desirable to have such information given the nature of the telephone business and existing circumstances. Lack of citizenship would not necessarily discharge an employee.
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Des Moines
C. T. Young
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Iowa
Young
Pattern 4498 for women sizes up to 48
By ANNE ADAMS pattern 4498 is available in sizes 32 to 48. Size 36 requires 3 percent yards of 39 inch fabric and 35 percent yards of lace edging. Send fifteen cents to Pattern Department Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West Seventeenth Street New York NY. Add ten cents for latest Pattern Book.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
West Seven-teenth Street
New York
N. Y
Wilson to Meet Willkie for Farm Talk in Colorado Springs
Gov George A. Wilson will travel by train to Colorado Springs to discuss farm problems with Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie. H. A. Grantham accompanies him as secretary of the Republican state central committee. The talks, arranged at Willkie’s request, will focus on agricultural points from Willkie’s acceptance speech. Willkie may stop in Des Moines on return, and Wilson plans to head to Burlington for the state judicial convention Friday.
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Des Moines
INS
George A. Wilson
Colorado Springs
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Wilson
H. A Grantham
Republican State Central Committee
Colorado
Grantham
Iowa
Burlington
Motorist abducted tale stirs Tipton area
A Wyoming man told Deputy Sheriff C C Crawford he was kidnapped by two desperadoes Monday night between Wyoming and Anamosa. He claimed force was used at gunpoint to drive his car until about 9:30 pm before being released east of Tipton on primary 74. He later identified a captor in a sheriff’s office photo and his car was found abandoned about 10:30 pm south of the release point. Officers detained the car until his travel expenses were repaid.
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The
Gazette
Tipton
Wyoming
C. C. Crawford
Anamosa
Fort Madison
Roosevelt to Name Barkley For Third Term News
President Roosevelt used a final preconvention press conference to indicate Senator Barkley of Kentucky would announce his stance on a third term. He suggested reporters await Barkley’s convention address after addressing why no direct reason had been given. He emphasized national safety over convention timing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Rocket Zephyr Service To Start Late In Fall
Cedar Rapids will be a mid terminal on the new Rocket Zephyr route running between St Louis and St Paul and Minneapolis this fall. Two diesel powered streamliners, a Rock Island Rocket and a Burlington Zephyr, will pass through Cedar Rapids between 11 p.m. and midnight, trimming current schedules by hours. Each train will have a 2000 horsepower locomotive baggage express cars a deluxe chair car a Pullman and a dining observation lounge car. Southbound and northbound departures and arrivals align with a 3:30 p.m. St Louis departure and 7:00 a.m. St Paul arrival with Minneapolis at 7:30 a.m. and return Minneapolis 5 p.m. St Louis 7 a.m. The new service cuts northbound time by about three and a half hours and southbound by about five and three quarter hours.
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Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Hertzberg Hatfield tie the knot in Independence ceremony
Walter Hertzberg of Mount Auburn, son of Oliver and Mrs Hertzberg, married Maud Hatfield of Mount Auburn, daughter of William Hatfield and his wife, on Monday at Justice R C Turner’s office. Attendants were Mrs Hatfield and John McClintic. They will reside on a farm near Mount Auburn.
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Independence
Walter Hertzberg
Mount Auburn
Oliver Hertzberg
Maud Hatfield
William Hatfield
R. C. Turner
John McClintic
Citys Pioneers Renew Friendships At Reunion
The Cedar Rapids Sunshine Mission sponsored the thirty second annual old folks reunion at Bever park drawing about 400 attendees. Prizes honored the elderly including George Rubey aged 91 and Mrs Ellen Doolittle at 102. Lieutenant Governor Hickenlooper praised community service and Rev Ward noted for founding Sunshine Mission. A trombone duet and stories from Anamosa added to the program along with 100 gifts from local merchants.
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Bever Park
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Sunshine Mission
George Rubey
Fort Madison
Hickenlooper
Francis K. Ward
Old People’s Picnic
Ward
Mr. Hickenlooper
F. K. Hahn
Frank Ward
Mr. Ward
Francis
Hopkinton
Frank Merriam
California
Tom Hinkin
C Avenue NE
A. J. Vredevelt
Muskegon
Midh
J. H. Murphey
Marion
June Jacoby
L Street SW
Ellen Carver
E Avenue NW
C. F. Clark
Justice dept says Byoir probe found no un American activity
A Justice Department official on Tuesday said the investigation of Carl Byoir, formerly of Des Moines and now a New York publicist, disclosed no evidence that he had engaged in any un American activities as charged by Representative Patman on June 11.
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Washington (Ap
Justice Department
Carl Byoir
Des Moines
New York
Patman
Tex
West Branch pastor accepts Webster Groves post
West Branch pastor of Bethany Lutheran church for nearly nine years has accepted a call to Bethany Lutheran church in Webster Groves Missouri. The family will depart August 1 and the pastor will begin his duties immediately. He is succeeded by Rev Peter T Varmman of Ruskin Nebraska arriving September 1.
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West Branch
E. L. Erlander
Bethany Lutheran Church
Webster Grove
Peter T. Varmman
Ruskin, Neb
Settlement Authorized Over City Incinerator Case
City council approved final settlement of 76894 to Nichols Engineering and Research Corp and 5820 in district court costs. Carl F. Jordan cited as attorney. Outcome of litigation over incinerator construction following Stark Construction receivership. District court decree required payment from the 20 percent buffer retained by the city.
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Nichols Engineering and Research Corporation
Carl F. Jordan
Stark Construction Company
U. S. Seeks To Strengthen Ships
Washington confirms Navy plans to speed a program enhancing warship protection against air attacks. Anamosa funeral held for Michael C. Green, 58, native of Jones county who died Sunday. Burial at Holy Cross cemetery. Survived by two sisters, a brother, and several nieces and nephews. three nephews served as pallbearers.
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James
Billy Green
Cedar Rapids
Dewey Green
Onslow
John Hayes
Jack Johnson
Tom Hamlin
Anamosa
Cop Rescues Night Clerk As Two Arrested For Disturbance
At the Delavan hotel night clerk Herb Trapp was rescued after a hurry up call. Dale Cunningham arrested T R Goslin and Henry K Redel at 2:10 am for drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Both pleaded guilty and were fined 25 dollars plus costs in police court. The men allegedly started a row and cornered the clerk.
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Herb Trapp
Delavan
Sergi
Dale Cunningham
T. R. Goslin
Eighth Street
Henry K. Redel
Second Street
Cunningham
Trapp
Mine Tragedy Probe Initiated at Sonman Shaft
Portage Pennsylvania UP reports a four ply inquiry was to begin Wednesday into the Sonman Shaft Coal Company disaster that claimed three lives.
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Portage
Sonman Shaft Coal Company
Des Moines Contractor Renews Demand on State Tax
Linn county supervisors again faced a long standing claim by M. O. Weaver Inc. for the counties payment of the two percent state sales tax on road surfacing material. A Des Moines law firm listed 1935 tax amounts of 79.90 and two additional claims 43.89 and 145.90. The board grimaced and took no action.
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Linn County
M. O. Weaver, Inc
Des Moines
Sisters Win Riverside Playground Bike Parade
Leona Christian aged 14 and sister Georgianna 16 from 1025 First Street SE won first and second in the Riverside playground bike parade with 38 bikes in the field. Third went to Charles McMullen of 1120 C Street SW as community prizes sponsored by Sixteenth Avenue merchants aired on bikes. over 250 attended Community Night at McKinley School with YMC drum corps, solos by Arlene Reed and Marian Gray, and movie showings.
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Leona Christian
Georgianna
First Street
Riverside Playground
Charles McMullen
C Street
Sixteenth Avenue SW
M Avenue NW
Betty Trimble
Eighth Street
Harlan McLees
Bob Sherman
Vivian Wilson
Robert Pigman
Rhode Island
Noreen Hiland
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Ellen Doolittle
A Avenue NE
L. C. Wright
Oakland Avenue NE
J. Frank Smith
Mt. Vernon Read SE
Smith
B. B. Hickenlooper
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