Vets Demand OPA Continuation by Iowa Groups
In Iowa City seven of eight veterans groups send a resolution to Rep. Martin and Senators Hickenlooper and Wilson urging continuation of the OPA. They accuse voting records of divergence from constituents and pledge scrutiny. Copies go to Gov Blue and Sen Barkley.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Thomas Martin
B. B. Hickenlooper
George Wilson
Robert Blue
Alben Barkley
Iowa City Veterans of Foreign War Posts
Johnson County
American Veterans Committee
University Veterans Association
Disabled American Veterans
The
Amvets
Reserve Officers Association
Roy Chopek Post
American Legion
Fred V. Johnson
Legion Post
Executive Council
Johnson
Johnster County
Republican Organizaon
Carl Redenbaugh
Postville Man to Be Ordained at St. Pauls Lutheran
Duane Edward Schroeder son of Mr and Mrs Edward F Schroeder of Postville will be ordained and consecrated to the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran church at St Pauls Lutheran church in Postville Friday night. The Rev E A Piper of Fairfield Iowa synod president will lead the service with Rev Roland Riechmann and Rev Frederick R Ludwig among the participants. A public reception will follow. Schroeder a Carthage college and Chicago Lutheran Theological seminary graduate has accepted a call as assistant pastor of the First Lutheran church at Decatur and will preach his first sermon in Postville Sunday morning.
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Postville
Duane Edward Schroeder
Edward F. Schroeder
Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
E. A. Piper
Fairfield
Iowa Synod of the
United Lutheran Church In America
Iowa Synod
Roland Riechmann
Decatur
Ill
Frederick R. Ludwig
St. Paul’s Church
Carthage College
Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary
Schroeder
First Lutheran
Jap Baka Bomb To Be Displayed at State Fair
Iowans will see a Japanese Baka flying bomb used by Japan in the last months of World War II. The National Marine League will exhibit the rocket propelled bomb at the Iowa Centennial fair August 23 to 30. Captured on an Okinawa airfield, it marks the first Iowa showing. The bakas carried 1135 pounds of explosives and flew at up to 535 miles per hour, released from a mother plane near the target.
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Des Moines
Iowa OPA Employees To Get Missing Pay
DES MOINES Iowa OPA district employees will receive the missing half of their last pay checks, district director Walter D Kline said. They were paid for the last week in June but not for the first week in July. Congress approved pay for the first week in July and employees likely will get checks toward the end of this week.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
OPA
Walter D. Kline
Kline
Congress
Two Contests In Store for Republicans
Two intraparty battles loom over the Republican state convention in Des Moines. A floor fight over the secretary of state nomination to fill Earl Miller's vacancy and a district clash pitting Willis York against Dwight Rider for the state central committee chair. York faces a strong challenge in the Sixth district. Rider contends for leadership amid party discontent. Wayne M. Ropes is favored for secretary, with a slate of 12 other potential candidates including Bergeson Bryant Ryan Van Gorden Henningsen Lee Ballard and O. among others.
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Des Moines
Earl G. Miller
Willis M. York
Madrid
State Central Committee
Dwight Rider
Fort Dodge
York
Rider
Secretary of State
Wayne M. Ropes
Onawa
Ropes
Miller
Rollo H. Bergeson
Sioux City
Hughes Bryant
Mason City
Bergeson
Earl Ryan
Cole van Gorden
Emmetsburg
Otto Henningsen
Clinton
Richard V. Lee
Dysart
J. W. Ballard
Cedar Rapids
State Board of Control
Contenders for Secretary of State among Iowa Republicans
The piece lists potential candidates including Bergeson as front runner, Bryant and Ryan as alternatives among men, and women such as Mrs. Christiansen and Mrs. Ballard weighing bids. It notes past primary outcomes from 1940 and 1942, Ropes’ formal announcement, and Bergeson’s conditional candidacy pending Miller’s funeral with Bergeson planning a post funeral statement.
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H. Allbee
Marshalltown
Town Council of Republican Women
Marie M. Christiansen
J Des Moines
H. C. Houghton, Jr
Red Oak
State Board of Education
Louise Miller Henery
Grinnell
Grace Gilbert King
West Union
Miller
Mrs Ray Sanford 50 Ends Life by Hanging
Funeral services for Mrs. Ray Sanford, 50, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Center Junction Presbyterian church. Her body was found hanging in an outbuilding on the Sanford farm near Scotch Grove. Coroner F. L. Harrington ruled death by own action. She had been in ill health. Surviving are her husband, an AAA secretary at Monticello, and a 10 year old daughter.
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Anamosa
Ray Sanford
Presbyterian Church
Center Junction
Iowa G I loans near forty million mark
DES MOINES AP Total G I loans in Iowa will reach the 40 million mark within two weeks, estimates from Walter T. Robinson of the VA show. Ninety five hundred forty guaranteed loans have been made since May 15 1945 and daily applications run about thirty thousand. Home loans average around 5000 with rising business loan requests though many are not sound, including trucks or cars for veteran businesses.
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DES Moines
G.I
Iowa
Walter T. Robinson
Veterans Administration
Robinson
Illinois
Japolis
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Fire Destroys Olson Home Near Clermont
A kerosene stove is blamed for an early Monday blaze that destroyed the L T N Olson farm home west of Clermont. West Union and Clermont fire departments saved only a few furniture pieces. Mrs Olson lit the kitchen stove then left. upon return the house was on fire. Some family members asleep upstairs escaped through second story windows.
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Clermont
L.T.N. Olson
West Union
Iowa City Plans Fire Department Expansion and Purchases
Iowa City council voted to accept bids for a 1,000 gallon pumper engine and an 85 foot aerial ladder truck as part of a long range fire facilities expansion. Mayor Teeters announced plans to spend about 40,000 dollars and add four firefighters with University of Iowa support to be arranged on a protection rental basis. The city currently provides free fire protection for university property valued at 21 million dollars.
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Iowa City
Wilber J. Teeters
University of Iowa
Living Conditions of Iowa Miners Inspected
An inspection party of four navy experts on sanitation engineering and social welfare led by Commander K J Palmberg of Red Oak will visit the Shuler Coal Co mine near Waukee to study miners living conditions. On Wednesday the crew will inspect a Dunreath strip mine and assess conditions in southern Iowa. The survey follows federal government action to address a nationwide coal mine deadlock.
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Des Moines
Navy
Shuler Coal Co
Waukee
K. J. Palmberg
Red Oak
Dunreath
Iowa
Former Ottumwa mayor Fred H. Carter dies in Los Angeles
Ot tumb a longtime public figure Fred H. Carter 74 a former Ottumwa mayor died Sunday in Los Angeles where he had moved a year ago. He was active in local affairs and led city governance during his tenure.
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Ottumwa
INS
Fred H. Carter
Ottumway
Los Angeles
Eighteenth polio case in Des Moines patient named
The eighteenth polio case of the year was reported in Des Moines on Monday. The patient is 14 year old Irus Micklus. There are now six active cases in the city. the others have been removed from quarantine.
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Des Moines
Irus Micklus
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