Maytag Strike Case Remanded to Newton Judge
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey sustained a district court injunction against trespass at the Maytag washing machine plant in Newton and remanded the case to Judge Frank Bechly. About 300 sitdown strikers remain inside the building, with enforcement actions possible and removal orders tentatively anticipated unless reconsideration is filed by July 11.
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Des Moines
INS
Charles A. Dewey
Newton
CIO
Dewey
Frank Beckley
Bechly
Maytag
Tornado injures four youths at barn north of Emmetsburg
Four youths including Ard Kerr 15 remained in serious condition after a tornado partly destroyed a barn on Henry Lammers farm north of Emmetsburg. Kerr possibly suffered a skull fracture. Dwight 14, Dwayne 13, and Ray Webb 20 were injured. Webb was pinned by a dead cow. Rescuers spent an hour cutting through a hayloft floor to reach them. Storm damaged nearby farms within three miles.
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Emmetsburg
Howard Kerr
Henry Lammers
Here
J. P. McManus
Kerro
Lammers
Dwight
Dwayne Lammers
Ray Webb
Webb
Dr McNutt Dead In Muscatine At 74
D r R S McNutt aged 74 six time Muscatine mayor died Saturday in a Chicago hospital after an operation. Body to be brought home for funeral services likely Monday. In Monticello Lena Brockhohn 61 died at John McDonald hospital after brief illness. Funeral at St John s Lutheran Sand Hill. burial St John s cemetery. Also Dysart E F Douglass 90 last surviving H M Miller post G A R member to attend Gettysburg four day observance with niece Mrs Ethel Becker accompanying.
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Monticello
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Sand Hill
Lena Brockhohn
John McDonald Hospital
Wayne Township
John
Marie Vedeker Brockhohn
Brockhohn
Carl Brockhohn
Langworthy
Carl
Harm
California
Herman
Scotch Grove
Gerd
Cedar Rapids
Paul
T. Gutknecht
St. John's Church
St. John’s Cemetery
Dysart
E. F. Douglass
H. M. Miller Post
Gettysburg
Ethel Beck
Baldwin-Miss Betta Scott and Wilmer Snyder wed at Baldwin
Baldwin couple Betta Scott and Wilmer Snyder married Thursday at the Baldwin Methodist church with Rev. Knoer officiating. Attendants were Ferne and Keith Scott. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Etta Scott, taught rural school near Canton in 1936 37. groom is son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Snyder and a farmer.
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Baldwin
Betta Scott
Wilmer Snyder
Methodist Church
S S. Knoer
Ferne Scott
Keith Scott
Etta Scott
Maquoketa
Canton
Joe Snyder
Body of Malcolm man found near Rock Island tracks
The body of Clif ford Wentzel, 27, of Malcolm, was found near the Rock Island station at 8 a.m. Saturday. He is believed struck by the Rocket streamline train at 10.30 p.m. Friday. His head was crushed. Wentzel, son of Mrs. Nellie Wentzel, had worked on local farms. The body lay 200 feet from the main line.
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the Gazette
Malcolm
Clifford Wentzel
Rock Island
Wentzel
Nellie Wentzel
County Engineers Honor Montezuma
SIOUX CITY The engineers group of the Jawa County Officers association Friday elected O C Thompson of West Union president. Carl Olson of Montezuma vice president and Frank Laing of Des Moines secretary treasurer.
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Sioux City
Engineers
Jawa County Officers Association
O. C Thompson
West Union
Carl Olson
Monteczuma
Frank Laing
Des Moines
Cascade Couple Hurt In Auto Truck Crash
A head on collision near Farley left three injured, two critically. H. M. Kelchem, 50, Cascade, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs, and a severe head wound. His wife was unconscious and taken to Mercy hospital. George Wolfe, 45, Bankston farmer, suffered a severe throat cut in the crash with truck driver C. H. White, 47, Durango storekeeper.
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Dubuque
Farley
H. M. Kelchem
Cascade
Mercy Hospital
George Wolfe
Bankston Farmer
C. H White
Durango
Hoeper
Mary Katherine Rawson joins sisters of Presentation at Mount Loretta
Anamosa native Mary Katherine Rawson left for Dubuque to enter the Sisters of Presentation, Mount Loretta, taking her first vows at Sacred Heart feast day. She is a 1938 Anamosa high school graduate. Meanwhile, local events include a Riverside funeral, Legion Auxiliary elections, and several notices across nearby towns.
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Anamosa
Mary Katherine Rawson
Merrill Rawson
Dubuque
Sisters of Presentation
Mount Loretta
Sacred Heart
Miss Rawson
Anamosa High School
Mayme Lohr
Iowa City News Briefs Special to The Gazette
Prof Hans Koelbel a new University of Iowa cello instructor will debut Sunday with a summer concert at 8 p.m. in Iowa Memorial Union featuring Brahms chamber selections. Funeral services were held for Frank J Holubar, 70, with three sons and a brother surviving. County officials set bids for road grading on July 13 and sold 38,000 in county bonds to fund warrants. A record 57 high school pupils from 20 towns and seven states study speech at the University of Town this summer, activity led by Prof Harry G Barnes.
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Iowa City
Hans Koelbel
University of Iowa
Towa Memorial Union
Brahms
Hohenschuh
Frank J. Holubar
M Holubar
Sons of Union Veterans
Walter
Palm Springs
Calif
Clear Creek
Veith, Duncan and Wood Bond House
Davenport
Towa
University of Town
Harry G. Barnes
Toledo Bible school closes with park picnic and church program
The two weeks long Bible school sponsored by Methodist United Brethren and Presbyterian churches ended with a Toledo park picnic. A Sunday evening program at the Methodist church featured songs, demonstrations by grade levels, and benediction by Rev. Macaulay. Supervising pastors and staff included Rev. T W Chisholm Rev. W J Macaulay Rev F C Scott Mrs Dale Bardo and several named helpers.
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Toledo
Methodist
United Brethren
The
Presbyterian
Toledo Park
Methodist Church
Dale Bardo
F.C Scott
William J. Macaulay
T. W. Chisholm
Presbyterian Church
W. J. Macaulay
F. C. Scott
Dale
Elkader Man Dies in Auto Accident
Clarence Leonard, 29, of Elkader, was killed at 2 am when he fell or jumped from a car driven by Ronald House as they returned to Elkader. The vehicle left the road, hit an electric post after 67 feet, and Leonard’s body lay about 25 feet away. He is survived by his mother and one sister. an inquest will be held by Coroner Leslie Paige.
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Elkader
Clarence Leonard
Anna Leonard
Ronald House
Leonard
House
Leslie Paige
Urges Farmers To Back AAA And Dodge Price Fixing
DES MOINES UP Ed O Nea l president of the American Farm Bureau appealed Friday to Iowa farmers to make the current AAA program workable to avoid price fixing. Speaking at a Farm Bureau picnic he cited defects but urged correction. He warned that price fixing would replace production control and cautioned against following a congressman’s bill.
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Des Moines
Ed O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
AAA
Farm Bureau
O'Neal
Farm Board
Chiropractors Win Rehearing Of Case
DES MOINES The Supreme court granted a rehearing Friday to decide if electrical treatments and dietary advice by chiropractors count as practicing medicine. A March 15 decision upheld an injunction barring C. J. Boston a Davenport chiropractor from using heat light electricity and offering dietary guidance to patients. Attorneys for the Iowa Chiropractors’ association filed the plea for rehearing on June 21.
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Des Moines
C. J Boston
Davenport
Iowa Chiropractors’ Association
Grinnell plans thrill day and July Fourth celebration
The Grinnell Junior Chamber of Commerce and Grinnell Chamber of Commerce have completed plans for a Thrill Day on July 3 at the Grinnell club grounds and a patriotic celebration in downtown Grinnell on July 4, featuring automobile stunts, blindfold driving exhibition, Indians from the Mesquakie reservation, a street parade, band concerts, and a recreational program.
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Grinnell
Grinnell Club
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Grinnell Chamber of Commercce
Grinnell Cycle Club
Mesquakie
Tama
Ossian
Ossian Community Church
Abe Oxley
Hillside Cemetery
Oxley
Merle Meyer
Mable Mitchell
Louis Eau
Silas
Stuart
City Briefs and Personals Highlights
Mrs Ida H. Elliott of 310 Sixth street SE attended the funeral of Mrs Syl venius Elliott in Tama. John H Deaton of 417 Cedar Rapids Saving Bank building was fined $10 and costs for speeding by Judge Thomas B Powell in police court. C E McCracken of 289 Highland drive NW was taken to St Luke's hospital for treatment. Justice of the Peace H R Churchill continued Dee M. Ruhl of Cedar Rapids license plate case to July 2 after a $25 appearance bond. O A Kearney will speak at First Presbyterian Sunday school at 10 am on preparing to be a king. Janette Mitchell, 42, of 422 Sixth avenue SE, was fined $25 and costs for intoxication and disturbing the peace of her family after being arrested at 12:45 am Saturday.
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Independence
Buchanan
Hazleton
Jesup
Fairbank
Lamont
Aurora
Winthrop
Independence Municipal
Buchanan County Fairgrounds
P. J. Plane
San Bernardino
Calif
Rosabelle
Norris K. Williams
Buchanan County Clerk's Office
Plane
Miss Plane
Ryan
W. H. Ward
Helen Elizabeth
Allen H. Burger
Iowa City
Denver
Colo
James Flannagan
James Murray
Burger
Armour Packing Company
Springville
Armstrong Hornbeck
Butlers Park
Shrine of
Cedar Rapids
C.S Cummings
Claude Flynn
D S. Hardy
Ray Cummings
William Tenor
Carl Craig Riverside
American Legion
Kate Ingram
Rose Dautremont
Edna Muller
Leona Kucera
William Helkenn
Savage, Minn
Howard Wathen
Walker
William Kroeger
Monona
Alice
Raymond
Keokuk
Charles
Los Angeles
James
Burley
Maynard
Mrtrs
Chester Gray
Thelma Lemkuhl
Edgar A. Hooke
Santa Barbara
Wilshire
Edna McClury
Houke
Maynard School
Toledo
Tama County
Chalkiey Edward Lambert
Tama County Board of Supervisors
Tracr
Raymond Ewing Lambert
Buckingham
Oscar Reece Lambert
Paul Samuel Lambert
Garwin
Bernice Lambert Flood
Traer
Beth Lambert Fenton
Numa
Henry Casey
Geneseo Township
Julia Casey
Roy V
J. D. Casey
la Porte City
Montezuma
Co. N. Curry
Fred
Blairstown
Charles Rabe
Agnes Christine Nielsen
Alstead
Denmark
America
Ralph
Edward
John Peterson
Lohrville
Pete Back
Constance Langtded
Hans Nielsen
Evangelical Church
E. R. McClelland
Pleasant Hill
Center Point
St. Louis
Opal Trene Newman
Watseka
Oscar A. Maurer
Decatur, Ll
Eugene Newman
St. Luke's Nursing School
Iroquois Hospital
Maurer
William J. Maurer
Springfield
Manhan-Maurer Pol Company
Fuel Service, No
John H Deaton
C E McCracken
Highland Drive
St. Luke's Hospital
Justice of the Peace
H R Churchill
Dee M. Ruhl
O. A Kearney
First Presbyterian Church
Kearney
Janette Mitchell
Sixth Avenue SE
John Metcalf At St. John's Episcopal Church
John Metcalf of Boston will be soloist at the morning service Sunday at 11. He will sing Before the Crucifix by LaForge. The choir directed by Malcolm Metcalf will sing The Sanctus by Gounod.
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John Metcalf
St. John's
Boston
St. John's Episcopal Church
LaForge
Malcolm Metcalf
Gounod
Mrs Wasson Hospitalized After Basement Fall
Mrs Wasson is recovering at Mercy hospital after breaking both wrists in a fall on June 16 at her home 410 Eighth Street SE. Mr Lionel Wasson and Mrs Lonnie Wasson returned to Des Moines after visiting Mrs Lonnie Wasson whose condition is reported as good.
Thirty Days For Intoxication Charge
Glen Felker, 23, of Hoover Hollow, was fined $100 and costs in police court after pleading guilty to intoxication. Unable to pay, he must serve thirty days. Felker was arrested after police found him lying in his yard with a car in a nearby ditch. He had recently been released from jail after serving a penalty for intoxication on June 11.
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Buckingham
Buckingham Township
Tama County
Iowa Light and Power Company Service
Ford H. Hilbert
John Hilbert
Alfred Hilbert
Marcus Nelson
Joe Schrier
Carl Mansul
Martin Behrns
Chris Hoeppner
Hans Drew
Harry Ebert
Leonard Stavely
Moe
Loftus and O'Connell
Tama
Glen Felker
Hoover Hollow
Felker
Moody Advances In British Tennis Meet
Mrs Helen Wills Moody of California overcame a 5-1 deficit to defeat South African star Bobbie Heinie Miller 8-6 0-4 in the British women's singles fourth round at Wimbledon. Moody battled back with strong baseline drives and precise lobs to secure the match and advance.
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Wimbledon
Helen Wills Moody
California
Bobbie Heinie-Miller
Helen
Mrs Moody
Mrs. Miller
Helen Hull Jacobs
Miss Jacobs
Freda James
U S Trade Balance Shows May Surplus
Washington reports a May favorable trade balance of 108.9 million dollars, with exports at 257.2 million and imports at 148.3 million. For January through May 1938 the surplus is 544.2 million, exports 1.359 billion and imports 815.2 million.
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Washington
INS
United States
Commerce Department
Miss Luella Koether Addresses Local Missionary Society
Miss Luella Koether a Giard resident and China missionary on furlough spoke to the foreign missionary society here on Thursday. The annual offering totaled 77.37 dollars. Koether plans to return to China this fall.
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Colesburg
Luella Koether
China
Foreign Missionary Society
Miss Koether
Giard
Albrights Transfer Property to George Lewis Albright
G. J. Albright and wife convey to George Lewis Albright a specified W D S 10 ft lot 2 and adjacent parcels in Kurtz and Stuckslager's 1st addition Lisbon. Consideration $1 and value exchanged. Date 1-12-38. Corrective deed recorded.
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G. J. Albright
George Lewis Albright
Kurtz and Stuckslager
Lisbon
Sextuple Birth Veiled in Secrecy Revealed by Widow
A 72 year old survivor recounts the hidden sextuplet birth of her siblings. The family left Medina New York for Chicago then settled in upstate New York. She recalls birth weights near one and a half pounds each and names six siblings: Alice, Aliica Amelia Alber to, Loberto and Norberto. Norberto lived to 68 in Buffalo in 1934.
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Bushnell
Edwards
Chicago
Medina
New York
Silver Lake
Lockport
Phelps
Buffalo
Rochester
N.Y
Parker Beggan
W. D. Ludington
Holley
Alice Miles
Ithaca
N .Y
Parker
Sulver Lake
Alice
Aliica Amelia Alberto
Loberto
Norberto Amelia
Norberto
Woman in Man’s Disguise Nabbed by Police
Patrolman Merle Burton arrested a person near a Second avenue call box on Friday night. The detainee gave the name Billy Bue dette then admitted being Isabella Kelly, 32, of Davenport en route to Maquokett. She was booked, cared for, and released Saturday morning. She described a history of disguising herself as a man and traveling by car, hitchhiking, freights, and riding the blinds.
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Merle Burton
Second Avenue
First
Second Streets
Billy Buedette
Isabella Kelly
Davenport
Maquokett
Miss Kells
R I Switch Foreman Suffers Leg Injury
Joe Zarub 64 of 835 Fifteenth street SE, a Rock Island railroad switching foreman, suffered a deep laceration to his right leg at 10 15 pm Friday while walking with a switching crew at the National Oats plant. His leg struck an iron apron over a loading platform and he was taken from the scene to First Avenue and Fourth Street F, transferred to an ambulance, treated at St Luke's hospital and later dismissed.
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Joe Zarub
Fifteenth Street
Rock Island Railroad
National Oats Company
Zarub
First Avenue
Fourth Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Births at St Luke and Mercy Hospitals Parade Local News
A series of birth notices from Marion list newborns delivered on June 23 to 25 at St Luke's and Mercy hospitals. Parents include Hood, Drew, Turner, Powlishta, Maurer, Fuegen, Little, and Navotiny, with addresses in Marion and surrounding areas. Nadine Ann is named among the newborns.
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Charles M. Hood
Fourteenth Street
Marion
St. Luke's Hospital
Edward B. Drew
Wildwood Drive
St. Lukes Hospital
Raymond Turner
Mervil Powlishta
Tenth Street
Mercy Hospital
Walter Maurer
Sixth Street NW
Nadine Ann
Arnold Fuegen
Avenue NE
Daugter
Ralph C. Little
Palo
St Luke's Hospital
Navotiny
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Son
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Iowa News
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Wapcello Utilities Company
Wapello Company
P. W. Bonewitz Chemical Company
Wage-Bonewitz Company
Harley Wage
Iowa Southern Utilities of
Burlington
Columbus Junction
C. S. Ramedale
United Presbyterian Church
Columbus City
Calvary Community Church
Fresno
Ramsdale
Columbus Chautauqua Park
B. H Shearer
Kalona
T. V Knerr
C. C. Shimon
I. R . McCormack
Everett Teets
V. D. Hochstetler
H. L. Walker
T. R. James
Elmer Marner
S. W. Yoder
Mr. Peterson
Fred Skola
Waulkon
Zion Reformed Church
Arthur Krueger
St. Paul
Zalmona
Waukan
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Riverside Cemetery
Harry D. Green
Marian E. Booth
Frank Booth
G. J. Armstrong
Francis Shotwell
Kenneth Gordon
Howard Pollard
Reinbeck
Fayette
Ivan H. Ressler
Marjorie
Roland Moore
Thomas Moore
F. M. Ressler
Shell Rock
Albia
the Legion Auxiliary
Marie Avery
Mina la Grange
Ida Williams
Malinda Mochal
Alice Mehlhaus
Martha Seik
Christian Blass
Avery
Tipton
Jack Sturdy
Jines
Morley — Russell Reed
W. D Hart
Reed
Hart
Stanwood
McGregor
Wild Life School
WPA
Federal Writers’ Project
Volga City
Kenneth Robinson
Lera Horton
Mary Eileene
Peggy Jo
Thomas John
Allan
Volga
Clifford
Waterloo
Clarence
American Legion Auxiliary
Emma Klatt
Florence Ruther
Emma Bixler
Erma Stonerook
Myrtle Tucker
Emma Pruess
Irma Bachman
Meta Christophersen
Ethel Shriver
Jessie Bauman
Hertha Roth
William Grossheim
W. J. Grossheim
Ive Yeoman
Donald Maire
Harrison Lubben
Frances Pauline Collins
Dean Morey
Mary Louise Yount
Leona Taylor
Mount Vernon
Clyde Leo Leaper
Anna Boxwell
Omaha
Leaper
Malcom Man
Miner
Bloxton
Marengo
DELTA
Delta Boosters
Keokuk County
Rose Hill
Victor
St. Bridget's Church
Lillian Switzer
C. C. Switzer
Peter van DeWalle
Emma van DeWalle
Chelsea
E. A. Cone
John Michalek
Solon
W. Panek
Donatus Michalek
Robert DeMeulenaere
Mary Helen Conley
Ed Cahill
Marie Dusterhoff
Raymond Switzer
Switzer
Charles Alvin Barger
Chiropractors
Bethany Circle
Lenna Whitcomb
Nira Smith
Donna Mae Rose
Evelyn Walton
Bernice Palmer
Reading
Don Phterson
Frederic Taylor
Arleta Smith
L. Cc. Smith
C. C. Wells
J. G. van Sickle
Margaret Wells
Ida H. Elliott
Sixth Street
Sylvenius Elliott
U.S
R. I. Switch Foreman
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