Nine Year Old Held for Setting Three Fires in Ohio
A nine year old boy in Canal Winchester admits to arson after flames kill his four year old half sister. He used matches from home to ignite a church parsonage, a paint store, and his own house. Fire officials suspect arson and the boy was detained at a local facility.
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Columbus
O (Ap
E. E. Smith
Canal Winchester
Donald Hedrick
Mary Lucile Hedrick
C H Zeller
Donald
Canal Winchester Times
H. D Hartman
David's Reformed
Brown Bros. Paint Company 4
Alfred Hedrick
Iowa Scandinavians Plan Annual Patriotic Day Event
Scandina vians from across Iowa will gather at the state fairgrounds Sunday for their annual Scandinavian American Patriotic day celebration. Gov George A Wilson will speak as participants enjoy spinning and carding contests and a rope splicing exhibition limited to Scandinavian sailors with prizes of Copenhagen snuff. A Pan-American solidarity gesture will be shown and flags from western hemisphere nations will be displayed after the national anthem and flag presentation.
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F Des Movies
Iowa
Copenhagen
George A. Wilson
Sergeant L E Shulgin on Camp Claiborne Life
Sergeant Leo Shulgin of the 136th medical regiment at Camp Claiborne says the worst enemy for soldiers there is chiggers not snakes. He visits home on 10 days leave and notes peers expect to stay until the emergency ends. Men boost camp life with rustic fences gates and a beer garden named Bush Beer Garden for Colonel Bush.
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Leo Shulgin
H 136Th Medical Regiment
Camp Claiborne
Sergt. Shulgin
Peter Shulgin
E Avenue NW
Gazette
Claiborne
National
Here
Shulgin
Bush
Colonel Bush
Medical Service
Fort Sam Houston
Pharmacy
Forty three Iowans accept army commissions in reserve corps
The War Department announced that 43 Iowa officers in the reserve officers training corps accepted appointments to the officers reserve corps. Among them 14 became second lieutenants in infantry. others were assigned to engineers medical quartermaster ordnance chemical warfare field artillery and air services with named individuals listed for each branch.
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William Leroy Meardon
Iowa City
Ben Edward Summerwill
Bishop Milton Toms
Coggon
Merlin Dale Armbruster
Robert Dale Borschel
Cedar Rapids
Kenneth Grover Heller
Marengo
William Lester Jackson
Darrell Monte Ray Schumacher
Sigourney
Wayne Eugene Wells
Milford Edwin Barnes, Jr
John .James Davies
Towa City
Herbert Peter Friedman
Orville William Bloethe
Victor
Herbert Clair Ritze
Center Point
William Bellamy Hills
Walter Lee Wheaton
Independence
Ordnance Department
Air Corps
Everett Jackson Cartwright
Brazil Sets Aviation Clubs Across States
Government sponsored aviation clubs established in every state to boost air mindedness and promote aviation interest among the population.
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Brazil
Jones County Board awards five road surface contracts totaling 58076
The Jones County board of supervisors set five bids for crushed rock road improvements totaling 52.2 miles across 15 townships. Bids ranged from 4066 to 21770 with bidders M O Weaver, B L Anderson, Myron Baker, and J G Vernon. The overall project covers 43525 cubic yards of rock at a total cost of 58076 dollars.
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Jones County Board
Anamosa
Jones County
Board of Supervisors
M. O Weaver
Des Moines
Castle Grove
Lovell
Wayne Townships
B. L. Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Scotch Grove
Wayne
Washington
Clay Townships
Myron Baker
Independence
Wyoming
Oxford
Hale
Madison
Jackson
J. G. Vernon
Springville
Cass
Fairview
Rome
Greenfield
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