Degrees to be conferred at Iowa summer convocation
Special to The Gazette Iowa City President Virgil M Hancher will confer degrees on a large group after eight weeks of teaching ending the summer session More than ten awards will be made The candidates come from counties across the state including Allamakee Benton Buchanan Cedar Clayton Delaware Fayette Jackson Johnson Wayne and others Names include Virgil E Meyer Merlin T Erickson Wilson R Kouba Howard B Moffitt Rob S McGranahan J G Westby Cathrine Willis Olga R Piersall John D Geraghty Louis N Hungerford Arnold W Salisbury Marie E Reimer Harold W Benda William J Burns Henry Hauth Ervin H Dmoke Ruth Mueller and Wayne E Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Virgil M. Hancher
Amg of
Iowa
Hancher
Meyor
Allamakee
Virgil E. Meyer
New Albin
Cedar
J G. Westby
Tipton
Cathric Willis
West Branch
Olga R. Piersall
Clarence
Clayton
John D. Geraghty
Monona
Louis N. Hungerford
Volga City
Arnold W. Salisbury
Strawberry Point
Marie E. Reimer
Garnaville
Delaware
Harold W. Benda
Earlville
Fayette
William J. Burns
Oelwein
Henry Hauth
Hawkeye
Ervin H. Dmoke
Jackson
Ruth Mueller
Maquoketa
Johnseon
Wayne E. Wells
H. Engerrand
Lulu M. Johnson
Hugh E. Kelso
Joseph L. McConnell
Charles E. Meyers
Troy W. Organ
Harold J. Paulus
H. R. Reed
James M. Robertson
Wendell R. Smith
Clay Tanberg
Iowa Iowa City
Frank Alyson
Robert Amnons
Sheel M. Anderson
K Bardsley
F. D. Cairns
Leslie E. Church
Nellie V. Clift
Sarah R. Davis
Irene Donohue
Norman Felton
Ruth E. Friedell
Roderick D. Gordon
Theola R. Greenfield
Howard D. Hadley
Norman W. Johnson
Robert Keagy
Cherry Kelly
Floyd C. Mann
Ruth M. Morrison
Chester L. Neudling
Mary F. Parden
Norma L. Pepler
M. Elinor Prichard
John R. Salter
Eleanor C. Schump
Frederic G. Schwartz
Leo Shatin
Mary Frances S Jones
Donald W. Thompson
Anamosa
Linn
Francis M. Goldberry
Central City
G. Robert Ferrie
Marion
Emma Marie Hepker
Opal G. Munger
Mount Vernon
Della M. Taylor
Alma Alice Turechek
Harold C. Krogh
Cedar Rapids
Tama
Dwight E. Crawford
Gladbrook
Marion G. Mickelson
Dysart
Washington
Grace Dautermont
Bertha S. Varnum
Riverside
W. J. Hesseltine
Crawfordsville
Adrian C. Kuipers
Wellman
Winneshiek
Ruth E. Roberts
Decorah
Iowa City News Briefs Span Hiring to Death and Honors
Seven teachers and one principal will teach in Iowa City public schools next year with Helen E. Horne named Lincoln school principal. Funeral services were held for Frank D. Channon, 83, a longtime Iowa City resident, and a state fair baby health contest examiner appointment was announced for University of Iowa psychologist Harold Skeels. Five truckloads of aluminum were collected in Johnson County for the national defense drive, with 3 530 pounds in Iowa City. The State Historical Society approved memberships and listed life and regular members from several cities, while numerous graduates earned masters and BA degrees in education and related fields across Iowa institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Helen E. Horne
Centerville
Lincoln School
Marian Larson
Odebolt
Charlotte Jean Jeffrey
Milwaukee
Wis
Edith Fink
Manning
Jerrine Mote
Sioux City
Mary Alice Wood
Ames
Mildred J. White
Russell
Dorothy May Mitchell
Pittsburg
Kan
Frank D. Channon
St. Mary’s Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Josephine Hunt
Harold M. Skeels
University of Iowa
Johnson County
Henry F. Willenbrock
State Historical Society of
Iowa
Society
Charlies W. Boegel
Cedar Rapids
Francis Aumann
Columbus, O
Charles W. Day
Des Moines
David W. Knepper
Columbus
Martha McClure
Mount Pleasant
Charles Rhinehart
Dallas Center
Herbert Sugg
Clinton
Ray R. Douglass
Post
Toledo
Tama
William Lorenz
Tama County Board of Supervisors
Gladbrook
Chelsea
Elberon
Mon- Clutier
West
Ida Smith
Governor Wilson Speaks At Sioux Center Centennial
Governor George A. Wilson visits Sioux Center for its 50th anniversary and praises the town’s cultural mix as basically American. He notes diverse ancestry from Holland, Ireland, England, Luxembourg and Sweden, and warns of looming world events and crimes against civilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Wilson
Sioux Center
George A. Wilson
Prairies
Holland
England
Luxembourg
Sweden
Marie Eichacker dies at 84 in Homestead
Mrs. Marie Eichacker aged 84, the oldest resident of Homestead, died Tuesday after a long illness. Born in Baden Germany she came to America young and helped run the Homestead hotel with her husband Charles. Survived by son Charles of Homestead two daughters Mrs Frank Von Osten Washington state and Mrs Charles Wedig Denver Colo 13 grandchildren six great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Thursday at Homestead Community Church with burial in Homestead cemetery.
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Amana
Marie Eichacker
Homestead
Baden
Germany
America
Charles Eichacker
Charles
Frank von Osten
Washington State
Charles Wedig
Denver
Colo
John
Otto Eichacker
Homestead Community Church
Homestead Cemetery
Brandon
Addie Stainbrook
Lamont C. Smith
Brook
Wellington
Emily Towne
Jacob Stainbrook
Ralph
Hazel
Mora
Minn
Bert
Thompson, Ill
Guy
Waterloo
Tracy
Jesup
Merrill
Ana Tex
Bert Towne
Calamus
Leonard Chase
Esther Boyd
Balster
Wheatland
Minnie Ruchotkze
Louis Ruchotkze
Edward
Arland
Raymond
Gus
Louis
Elmer
Leo
Fred
Preston
Henry Johannsen
Davenport
Earl Schaaff
London
William Maltas
Clinton
Charles Boock
South English
Belle Plaine
Women's Missionary Society of Bethany Evangelical Church
P. McKinley
Arthur Richerd
Everette Bricker
Robert Christman
A. T. Hughes
Edith Hassler
Zion
P. F. McKinley
Mary Hamilton
Glen Oliver
L. H. Wood
John Deerr
Keystone
Johanna Meyer
St. John's Lutheran Church
F. Starke
Luzerne
Meyer
Hemingstadt
Henry Schultz
Nick Boehmke
Henry Meyer
Fort
Mitchell
Tama
Mitchell Ralph Willard Church
Chicago
Frida Maquoreta
Carson and Balster
Leo D. Sanderson
Monmouth
Mr. Sanderson
Lost Nation
Frank
Ella Current Sanderson
Marion
Leona Hardin
Marjorie Rowe
Marvin Eugene
Olin
Melihea Atherton
Springville
Loretta Sanderson
Murdo
S. D. West Union
Adaline Wiest
West Union
Wallace Votter
Buffalo
Wis
Father Kaufman
Gregg Livingston
Decorah
Jim Doland
St. Paul
Lancaster
Yotter
REA
George Wiest
6000 Iowa Drivers Blacklisted From Licenses
Des Moines AP reports the state public safety department will deny licenses to about 6000 Iowans deemed unfit to drive. The action targets those with revoked licenses and individuals failing in civil court and vision standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Public Safety Department
Guttenberg Boy Wins Soap Box Derby At Tama
Tama Guttenberg resident Hugh Kuempel, 13, won the soap box derby in Tama with a bullet shaped racer covering 955 feet in 28.1 seconds. Runner up Paul Larson, 15, of Marshalltown, posted 31.5 seconds. Both advance to the state derby in Des Moines. Sponsors were the Tama Lions Club, Tama Commercial Club, and Mulligan's Garage. Kuempel received a bicycle. Larson a gold wrist watch. Billy Robeson of Tama earned third prize a ping pong set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TAMA
Hugh Kuempel
Guttenberg
Paul Larson
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Tama Lions Club
Tama Commercial Club
Mulligan’s Garage
Kuempel
Larson
Billy Robeson
Jury Rejects Seduction Suit Against Mazdaznan Movement
A Los Angeles jury rejected Irma Weber's $1,000,000 seduction suit against the Mazdaznan religious movement and Henry Sorge a Mazdaznan instructor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LOS Angles
Superior Court
Irma Weber
Henry Sorge
Prison Terms For Army Deserters In Iowa Reformatory
Two 8 year old U S army youths from Fort Custer Michigan were given 5 year sentences in the Iowa state reformatory at Anamosa by District Judge Sherman A Clock. The youths confessed attacking retired army officer Capt Woodson Jeffreys 62 of Los Angeles after he gave them a ride near Boone. Sellars slugged the officer with an airplane bearing wrapped in a handkerchief while Bellinger kept the car on the road. They fled into a cornfield but were captured by peace officers and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
Fort Custer
Mich
Iowa State
Woodson Jeffreys
Los Angeles
Boone
Sellars
Bellinger
Aluminum drive nets 790 pounds in Vinton area
In Vinton last week veterans of the Belle Plaine CCC camp collected 790 pounds of aluminum from pots and pans for national defense. The metal was transported to Cedar Rapids on Wednesday.
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Vinton
National Defense
Cedar Rapids
CCC
Belle Plaine
Mynatt Breidenthal
Vernelle Miller
Army
Iowa Staffing Surge At Des Moines Small Arms Plant
Iowa employment officials report 1,000 to 2,000 weekly job seekers flocking to Des Moines near the small arms defense plant. They urge use of home state service branches to speed hiring and warn workers against quitting prior to a call. Over recent weeks 4,510 to 9,455 people applied, with 68 counties served by 32 fulltime or itinerant offices and about 68,881 on the active file.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ieee Ee
Owa
Des Moines
State Service
Polk County
State Employment Service
The
Iowa
Lee County
Fire damages parlor and dining room in church
A blaze confined to the parlor and dining room damaged a church while the rest of the building including a Bible and a wall picture remained intact. Elsewhere officials note a political jab from Iowa City attorney William R. Hart after a state party meeting where Jake More became state chairman. Iowa safety and health data highlight summer safety slogans and immunization campaigns, with counts for diphtheria vaccines Schick tests and smallpox vaccinations along with local campaigns and maternal child health cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
William R. Hart
Iowa City
Democratic State Central Committee
Jake More
Harlan
Hart
Towa State Safety Council
Iowa Conservation Commission
Iowa
State Health Department
Schick
Maternal and Child Health Division
Linn County Budget Hearing Set for August 12 1941
Linn County Iowa board of supervisors will meet August 12 1941 at 2 p.m. in the Court House Cedar Rapids to hear taxpayers on the proposed expenditures for the 1942 fiscal year. Robert Vesely county auditor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
B. Murtagh
Algona
En- Vinton
M. P. Kruse
Presbyterian Church
Doris Landis
Philadelphia
Howard Shogren
Kansas City
Arvid Shogren
Elmer Downing
Buchanan County
County Board of Supervisors
Bang
Court House
Board of Supervisors
Linn County
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Robert Vesely
Noted Artists Named To U. Of Iowa Staff
Two nationally known artists Phillip Guston and Casimer Michalczyk were appointed to the University of Iowa staff. Guston will fill the vacancy created by Emil Ganso's death and Michalczyk will replace Harry Stinson as assistant professor of sculpture. Guston, Canadian born, studied at Otis Art Institute and has exhibited on the west coast. Michalczyk earned a BSA in sculpture from Yale Art School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Phillip Guston
Woodstock
N. Y
Casimer Michalczyk
Madison
Silk shortage hits dep artment stores in Des Moines
Des Moines stores report silk shortages with shoppers buying up to 40 pairs per person and others purchasing 24 pairs as sales run from 12 to 20. Officials say no panic and supplies sufficient to cover anticipated fall demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Flag presentation at Methodist church by Grace Gilbert King
Mrs Grace Gilbert King will present a large American flag to the Methodist church Sunday morning, a flag donated by her and her husband Dr T A King. Mr and Mrs W H Antes will present a large Christian flag donated by the Antes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
Grace Gilbert King
T. A. King
W. H. Antes
Antes
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Lois
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Vinton High School
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Buchanan County Selective Service Board
Robert E. Smith
Fort Des Moines
Earl V. Pugh
Burlington
George Graham
Osceola
John P. Gaffney
Walter S. Roepke
Aurora
Manchester
Delaware County Selective Service Board
Chris Gerald Scheer
Chester Avery Kenny
Raymond Edward Carrothers
Merwin Howard Cook
William Victor Mangerich
Worthi
William August Hartke
Edward Francis Friedlin
Ogre Point
Raymond Joseph Ochler Ryan
Maquoketa Township
Elkader
Elmer E. Stickfort
Darwin K. Smith
Vincent
Marcus
Baldwin
Baldwin Methodist Church
Frank T. Nye
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Middlewest
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Tees
U. of Iowa
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