Girl Cyclist Dies Of Injuries In Iowa City
Mary Elizabeth Fuhrman 11 of near Iowa City died in Mercy hospital from injuries after a bicycle collision on a highway. Arthur Parizek 43 North Liberty farmer drove the car in the same direction and struck her around 3 p.m. Wednesday. Sheriff Don McComas said an inquest will likely be held into the death.
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Iowa City
Mary Elizabeth Fuhrman
S. K. Fuhrman
Mercy Hospital
Arthur Parizek
North Liberty Farmer
Parizek
Johnson County
Albia
Hills
Don McComas
Majority Of Farm Folk Blame Labor Unions For Strikes
Iowa farmers favor unions as the cause of strikes over employers by 53 percent in a poll by Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead. Five percent blamed employers, 29 percent blamed both, and 13 percent were undecided.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Wallaces’ Farmer
Iowa Homestead
the Magazine
Des Moines Woman Drops No 13 Driver License
Marjorie Smith of Des Moines relinquished Iowa license No 13 on Friday the thirteenth. She notes two accidents two operations burns and a robbery since obtaining the license two years ago. She works for the state public safety department and examiner Joe Chocholka helped her with the renewal.
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Des Moines
Marjorie Smith
Iowa
State Public Safety Department
Joe Chocholka
Cedar Rapids
Fayette Treasurer Sues for Tax Evasion Over 5 Years
Fayette county treasurer W. M. Knox files suit against Earl Courtney and Mrs. Earl Courtney of Maynard seeking 3063.95 plus interest and costs. The case alleges withholding 60000 in monies and credits from taxation from 1936 through 1940, with 360 taxes per year and penalties. Mrs Courtney heads auto purchase financing in Fayette and extends business into Clayton Bremer Buchanan and Delaware counties. Her husband appears in some transactions.
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West Union
W. M. Knox
Fayette County
Earl Courtney
Maynard
Clayton, Bremer
Buchanan
Delaware
Gunmen Sought After Highway Patrol Shot Near Manson
Two gunmen shot at Iowa Patrolman Walter Lentz during a stop near Manson Thursday night but missed. The suspects fled in a stolen car likely from Sleepy Eye Minnesota, with plates stolen in Fort Dodge. Authorities link them to recent station robberies at Algona and Morgan and to multiple car thefts along the Minnesota Iowa border.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Manson
Walter Lentz
Sleepy Eye
Minn
Fort Dodge
C. A. Nebergall
Algona
Morgan
Minnesota- Iowa
Weather Man Is Still Pessimistic
Des Moines reports show continued rain across East Iowa with Friday drizzle to showers. Forecaster warns of more rain Saturday as Carroll records 0.47 inches and soils remain damp.
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Weather Man
Des Moines
Iowa
Carroll
Tidman Named West Branch Schools Superintendent
Ray J. Tidman of Wyoming has been elected superintendent of West Branch schools to fill the vacancy caused by the death of F. B. Curran. Five other new teachers are elected: Dorothy Smalley grades one and two Harriett Scott grades three and four Gertrude Rabel grades five and six Virginia Corey English and typing Jane Pressel home economics. An athletic coach is to be chosen.
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West Branch
Ray J. Tidman
Wyoming
F. B. Curran
Dorothy Smalley
Harriett Scott
Gertrude Rabel
Virginia Corey
Jane Pressel
Iowa City Briefs: Divorces Granted and Stadium Seating Plan
Judge grants two temporary injunctions in district court divorces, restricting defendants from approaching plaintiffs’ premises and allowing Florence Windrem to resume her maiden name. Iowa City school board announces concrete stadium seating for 3000 with $13,500 cost, likely not ready for next football season.
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Iowa City
Harold D. Evans
Robert Windrem
Florence Windrem
Florence Harrington
Emily Potter
Lester Potter
Iowa City School Board
Stadium Bowl
Iowa City High School
Drucker pessimistic about revolt against Hitlerism on continent
Grinnell Institute hears Peter Drucker warn there is no evident conservative counter revolution to totalitarianism in Europe today. He says freedom requires mutual recognition of error and predicts no quick foothold for this idea in continental Europe. Krishnalal Shridharani urges Britain to grant India independence after the crisis to spur Allied zeal against the Axis.
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Grinnell
Europe
Peter Drucker
Grinnell Institute of International Relations
Drucker
Rousseau
Hitler
Germany
London
Austria
Britain
India
Krishnalal Shridharani
Gandhi
How It Was Named Eagle Grove
Legend says eagles nested in a grove near the future Eagle Grove. Early settlers used a grove cabin to shelter from Indian bands. The railroad bypassed the grove to the south, but the name Eagle Grove stuck and became the town’s official name.
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Eagle Grove
Induction Orders Fast Track 1,303 Iowa Recruits
Iowa selective service received orders to induct 1,303 youths for a year of training. Inductions run July 1 to 20, boosting Iowa’s total called since draft began to 9,600. Of July group, 1,164 go to Fort Des Moines reception center and 139 to Fort Crook in Nebraska.
Prison Magazine Editor Paroled From Fort Madison
DES MOINES AP Warden Glenn C Haynes of Fort Madison penitentiary lost his No 1 editor Friday when the state board of parole announced the release of Edward Bradley 39 editor of The Presidio prison monthly magazine Bradley will become a sports writer for an Iowa daily newspaper He entered the prison Sept 22 1934 sentenced to 30 years for assault with intent to commit murder as a result of a gun battle with Sioux City policemen With full time off for good behavior his term would have expired in 1947.
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Des Moines
Glenn C Haynes
Fort Madison
State Board of Parole
Edward Bradley
Presidio
Bradley
Iowa
Sioux City
Tipton Readies Annual Fourth Celebration Matches
Tipton plans its July 3 boxing event and outdoor dance with July 4 program featuring a baby contest at 9 am and a parade at 11 am. Prizes for best floats, soap box derby, Tom Thumb wedding, and an act by Carmita the pole acrobat highlight the festivities.
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Tipton
Carmita
Wallace urges farmers to be cautious in demands
Vice President Wallace told national AAA conference that farmers should temper demands for high prices to avoid public resentment and potential loss of crop control programs. He warned against 100 percent parity loans and doubtful support for hog prices at nine dollars per hundredweight, noting future cuts in farm subsidies.
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Wallace
Washington
AAA
Congress
Agriculture Department
Chicago
British Court Clears Leopold in Out of Court Settlement
London news reports that a British High Court settlement between Sir Roger Keyes and the London Daily Mirror ends a libel case, vindicating King Leopold of Belgium over his May 1940 surrender. The Mirror apologized for the grave injustice, and the court approved damages settlement.
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INS
Leopold
Belgium
Germany
London Daily Mirror
Roger Keyes
King’s Bench
High Court
Britain
Roger
The
Mirror
the Mirror
Keyes
Laeken
Patrick Hastings
Patrick
Goebbels Letter Foreshadows British Invasion
Berlin dispatch reports confiscation of Voelkischer Beobachter copies after Joseph Goebbels editorial hinted at a German invasion of Britain. He predicted Churchill would be in trouble within two months and used Crete as a cautionary example, mocking British maneuvers as minor and comparing them to the Maginot line.
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Berlin
INS
Voelkischer Beobachter
Reich
Joseph Goebbels
Britain
Goebbels
Winston Churchill
Crete
Churchill
Germany
Fuehrer
Presidents Fingerprint All Civil Servants for Files
President Roosevelt ordered all federal civil service employees to be fingerprinted by the FBI. The executive order requires fingerprints on file before original appointments or reinstatement in government service. Ely area items note a local party honoring Miss Marie Becicka recovering from a leg fracture with friends and family listed.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ely
Marie Bechcka
Near
Margaret Hillman
Ella Kokamiller
Libbie Pospishil
Mabel Furst
Lillian Serbousek
Viola Horsky
Hazel Heasty
Agnes Henry
Lydia Kriz
Tillie Rohiena
Helen Slaby
Emaline Radcliff
Lillian Hicnk
Ethel Johnson
Lydia Lohman
Norma Lohman
Gladys Schlueter
Louie Hrdlicka
John Becicka
Hendersonville Man Defies Friday the 13th Superstition
Bert A. Boyd, a prominent Hendersonville resident, proclaims himself the world’s greatest nonbeliever in superstition. He embraces 13 in his life from apartment and mail to laundry number and career milestones. He claims firm ties to 13 in his work history and leadership roles.
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Hendersonville
Bert A. Boyd
Boyd
Western Union Telegraph Company
Indianapolis Board of Trade
Rotary Club
Board of Trade
The
Grain Association
Well dressed fan cools off at Kinston game
A well dressed middle aged man who rarely misses a baseball game in Kinston removes his shoes and socks to stay comfortable during the heat.
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Kinston
Russia calm on Nazi troop move
Finland imposes travel restrictions in northern districts similar to wartime rules. Moscow says German troops freed from the Balkans are moving to eastern and northeastern Germany but adds the move does not affect Soviet German relations. Tass notes Germany remains committed to the nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.
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Lletin— Helsinki
Finland
Moscow
Russia
Balkans
Germany
Tass
U S.S. R
Soviet Union
Defense Production Will Keep Up With Army Says Hallagan
Lieut. Col. Halla gan told High Twelve club at Hotel Roosevelt that production of essential articles will keep pace with the army despite strikes and bottlenecks. He said England’s Ruhr raid shows the need to supply Britain, which cannot widen its operations without adequate air power.
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Frank B. Hale Jagan
Selective Service
High Twelve Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Hallagan
England
Ruhr-Rhine
Britain
Chief OPM Steel Consultant Resigns
Gano Dunn, the OPM chief consultant on steel, resigned from the office of production management amid controversy over his steel industry capacity reports.
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OPM Steel
Washington
INS
Gano Dunn
OPM
Defense
Friday
Office of
Producetion Management
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