Hoover Urges Punishing Leaders and Open Peace Debate
Former President Herbert Hoover, speaking at a midwest conference, called for punishing wartime leaders rather than peoples and urged a new peace process. He stressed free public discussion and analytical surgery to tackle six dynamic forces behind war and advocated a UN sided conditional peace instead of general armistice.
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Des Moines
INS
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Hitler
Hirohito
Sta
United Nations
America
Iowa City News Briefs Highlight Army Training Dorms and Events
Almost 100 students of the new army air corps pre meteorology school moved into the Commons dormitory the first of the class C group to arrive for training in the 12 months course. The University of Iowa chorus will give its third concert of the 1943 season at 8 p.m. in Iowa Memorial Union under Prof Herald Stark with soloists Lois Biebesheimer Helen Latch and Donald Ecroyd. Iowa City businessmen form a club to organize a physical exercise program with a first meeting at 7 30 p.m. at the recreation center. Experts at the seventh annual vocational conference tell University of Iowa women they can pursue many fields. Alpha Tau Omega plans Founders Day banquet at 6 30 p.m. with Cedar Rapids and Iowa City alumni guests.
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Iowa City
Army Air Corps
University of Iowa
Iowa Memorial Union
Herald Stark
Lois Biebesheimer
Helen Latch
Renwick
Donald Ecroyd
Arkansas City
Kan
Alpha Tau Omega Social Fraternity
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Soldier Killed in Gorge Crash Near Natural Bridge
Corporal G. W. Westenberg, 30, of Hepburn Iowa died in a crash that sent an army vehicle over a guard rail into a 215 foot gorge near Natural Bridge Virginia. Five soldiers were killed in the Sunday morning wreck and the crash occurred 12 miles south of Lexington.
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Lexington
Corp
G. W. Westenberg
Hepburn
Natural Bridge
Cedar Rapids Leads Iowa Payroll Allotment in War Bonds
Des Moines reports 1 180 firms in 132 Iowa cities participated in payroll allotment of at least 10 percent of salaries to war bonds. Cedar Rapids tops with 160 firms, Des Moines 106, Oskaloosa 104. W L Clark notes Oskaloosa’s standout record and a 50 percent gain in firms adopting the plan over three months.
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. L. Clark
Iowa War Savings Staff
Cedar Rapids
Oskaloosa
Clark
Herring Sees Son Missing in Africa as Prisoner
Washington AP Clyde L. Herring an OPA official and former U S senator from Iowa says his son Captain Clyde E. Herring missing in North Africa since February 17 is a prisoner based on his own investigation. He noted the captain was out in front with his regimental commander who is also missing. Further checks did not corroborate the prisoner claim.
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Washington
Clyde L. Herring
OPA
U. S
Iowa
Clyde E. Herring
North Africa
Herring
Capt. Herring
Iowa Prison Camp Reports From North Africa Drawn
Iowa City resident Corp. Leon Lind and Parnell's Pfc. Richard Wombacher, captured early in the North African campaign, report they are well treated in Italian prison camps and commend Red Cross aid.
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Iowa City
Corp
Leon Lind
Adolph C. Lind
Pfc
Richard Wombacher
Giles Wombacher
Parnell
Red Cross
Earth's polar and equatorial diameters differ by roughly 27 miles
A geographic note states the earth's diameter from pole to pole is about 27 miles less than its equatorial diameter. This reflects the planet's oblate shape with a wider equator and slightly flattened poles.
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Equator
Iowa Payrolls Fall Slightly From January Levels
Iowa bureau of labor reports that weekly payrolls for 410 firms in February rose 21 percent from January while total industrial employment for 436 firms increased year over year but slipped 0.9 percent from January. Average week stood at 45 hours with a $34.46 mean wage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Bureau of Labor
Drake University Opens Training Site for Air Corps Trainees
Drake University in Des Moines will host 400 air corps trainees for a five month program starting April 1. The university was chosen by the War Department as a training site and already accommodates 400 WAAC administrative specialists. Trainees will arrive as privates with one month of prior military training.
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Des Moines
Drake University
Air Corps
War Department
Henry G. Harmon
WAAC
Drake
Harmon
Army
Maytag Reports 1942 Profits Down From 1941
Maytag Company of Newton Indiana, now manufacturing military equipment parts, reports 1942 net profits of 703,459 dollars, down from 1,625,646 dollars in 1941. The decline is blamed on converting a mass production factory to new products foreign to prior experience.
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New York
Maytag Company
Newton
Monona Soldier Reported Missing in North Africa
Monona Corporal C. Leistikow, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Carl Leistikow, reported missing in North Africa. He worked on a farm near Oran before enlisting two years ago. The last letter from him was dated November 2. He has three sisters and two brothers named Eve lyn McFarlane Johanna Louise Arno and Carlie.
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Monona—Corp
C. Leistikow
Carl Leistikow
North Africa
Oran
Evelyn McFarlane
Froelich
Johanna
Louise
Monona
Arno
Carlie
Cornell College Heads Religious Week Theme
MT VERNON Cornell College presents "Youth's Questions of the Hour" as its annual religious emphasis period through Friday. Rev L B Moseley of Madison Wis will be the main speaker and counselor with chapel talks each morning informal evening conferences and individual counseling by the speaker and committee members. Moseley is a widely known religious speaker who has addressed many college groups.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell
L. B. Moseley
Madison
Wis
Moseley
South Jones Board Grants 23 New Tires
Certificates for 23 tires three tubes and four recaps were issued by the South Jones county ration board last week. The list names recipients by town and tire grade along with several truck and farm implement tire and tube awards in Anamosa Oxford Junction Martelle Olin Wyoming Center Junction and other locales.
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Wyoming
E. D. Crist
Oxford Junction
C. E. Hartwig
Olin
Henry Hansen
Center Junction
George Benhart
Wallace Cruise
Everett Jurgesen
Elmer Lathrop
Anamosa
High School Youth Held for Shooting
A 15 year old Monmouth high school freshman Charles Johnson was held on manslaughter charges in the county jail after the fatal shooting of his father Charles Herbert Ted Johnson a Burlington Iowa ordnance plant worker. The youth says he acted in defense of his mother after she was beaten. the elder Johnson died in hospital from an abdominal wound about two hours later.
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Monmouth, Ill
Monmouth High School
Charles Johnson
Charles Herbert Ted Johnson
Burlington
G. Durbin Ranney
Johnson
Iowa Woman Receives Reply From Queen Elizabeth
Mrs. Harry Heaton of Perry Iowa wrote to Queen Elizabeth praising British soldiers who visited town. A Buckingham Palace aide sent a letter of royal appreciation noting the soldiers were well behaved and that Perry residents helped them with fruit candy and shaving cream. The queen conveyed thanks and urged the troops to return safely after the war.
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London
Harry Heaten
Third Street
Perry
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Middle West
Highway Death Toll Reaches 53 in Iowa Crashes
The death of 19 year old Don DePugh of Mondamin during an Iowa highway crash on River Sioux raises the week's traffic toll. Morris McIntosh, 19, was injured when their car left Highway 75 and overturned. Earlier, Frank E. Jones of McCausland died from injuries after his car hit a creek embankment near Davenport.
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DES Moines
Don DePugh
Mondamin
River Sioux
Iowa
DePugh
Morris McIntosh
Mondomin
McIntosh
Frank E. Jones
McCausland
Davenport
Tipton County Recorder Miss Schriv er Resigns
Miss Schriv er Cedar County recorder for fourteen years has tendered her resignation to the board of supervisors effective April 1. She took a leave of absence last December to care for a sister in Arizona and, during that time, her brother in law died and she has managed his affairs. The resignation is on file and awaiting board action.
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Tipton
Helen Schriver
Cedar County Recorder
Board of Supervisors
Torberts of Wapello To Note Anniversary
Mr and Mrs J M Torbert celebrate their sixty second wedding anniversary in Wapello The couple retired farmers have spent most of their married life in Louisa and Des Moines counties Mr Torbert 88 and Mrs Torbert 84 on March 20 are parents of 11 children seven living He has served as ruling elder in the Wapello Presbyterian church since 1914.
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Wapello
J. M. Torbert
Louisa
Des Moines
Torbert
Mary Miller
Wapello Presbyterian Church
Fragmentary advertisement text from media directory
Partial OCR shows addresses in Chicago New York Detroit and references to Median Records and ANP Bureau of Advertising. No clear event or identity beyond corporate names and locations.
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Severuaing
Densserntess Allen-Klapp
Chicago
Fit Avenue
W York
New Center
Detroit
Median Records
ANP
Bureau of Advertising
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