Gillette Urges Monroe Doctrine Readiness Against European War
Senator Gilly M. Gillette, Iowa, opposes involvement in the European war while urging the United States to prepare to enforce the Monroe Doctrine. He warns that victory by Germany and allies could lead to Western Hemisphere possession transfers and bases near U.S. shores, and calls for immediate defense readiness.
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Washington
Gilly M. Gillette
United States
Iowa
Germany
Europe
Iowa Auto Sales Rise Sharply in April
Des Moines AP reports Iowa auto dealers sold 7,596,250 dollars of cars in April, up from 6,516,450 a year earlier. State use tax yielded 151,925 dollars last month versus 130,329 dollars in the previous April.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Probe Source Of Iowa Seals In Liquor Runner s Car
Burlington incident involves J M Younker found with 14 cases of whisky and 20 state liquor seals. Younker may plead guilty to illegal transportation. seals linked to Centuri distilling plant in Peoria. Officials note seals are issued on order and serial numbers recorded. Century distillery named as a major firm. possible theft suspected.
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Iowa
Burlington
INS
J. M. Younker
Des Moines
Younker
Sam Kelly
Jack Nieburg
Centuri
Peoria
Curtis
The
Liquor Commission
Commission
B. BE. Manley
Century Company
Missouri Fencepost Truckers Face Iowa Sales Tax Crackdown
DES MOINES AP The Missouri fencepost hauler faces a new tax offensive from Iowa the sales tax department. Fieldmen halted 70 truckers at Carroll Ames and Tama and required 22 to obtain 50 cent sales tax permits and post $25 bonds to cover Iowa tax due.
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Des Moines
Missouri
Iowa
Carroll
Ames
Tama
W.d Ruther
Rather
State Motor Vehicle Department
Pickpockets nab $100 at Mount Vernon graduation
A man and a woman linked to Cedar Rapids thefts pickpocketed attendees at Mount Vernon high school commencement. They grabbed Billfolds containing around $100 from Cork of Lisbon and John Hoodmaker, with another victim reporting a loss of about $20. The suspects, described as a stocky middle aged man and a woman, urged haste as they fled.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon High School
Cedar Rapids
Cork
Lisbon
John Hoodmaker
Adelaide Pangborn Dies in Maquoketa Home at 82
Funeral services were held Friday for Adelaide Pangborn 82 who died Wednesday in the birthplace home where she lived all her life. Rev H D Green conducted the services with burial in Mount Hope cemetery. She was daughter of Jason and Sarah Abel Pangborn, with her brother Herbert L Pangborn as surviving kin and longtime Mount Hope sexton.
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Adelaide Pangborn
Miss Pangborn
H D Green
Mount Hope Cemetery
Jason
Sarah Abel Pangborn
Herbert L. Panghorn
Second District Young Republicans Picnic At Bellevue Park
Special to The Gazette Maquoketa plans for a Second district Republican picnic to be held Sunday June 2 were announced by Donald F Scheib president of the Jackson County Young Republicans club sponsoring the event The affair will be at Bellevue state park with registration at 10am a basket dinner at 1 pm and a program to follow Judge W A McCullough Clinton municipal judge will be chief speaker Local committee includes Helen Keller Paul Ahlers and Mr Scheib General arrangements are by William Stausser LaMotte Harold Spiro Bellevue and Loren Felderman Andrew All Republicans of Jackson Jones Linn Scott Clinton and Dubuque counties are welcome Candidates at the June primary are expected to attend
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Donald F. Scheib
Jackson County
Young Republicans Club
Bellevue State Park
W. A. McCullough
Clinton
Helen Keller
Deaths and notices from multiple Iowa towns
Mrs Eliza Fritzinger 78 of La Porte City dies of heart trouble at her son-in-law near Mount Auburn. Funeral plans and survivors include William Fritzinger of Los Angeles and siblings in Iowa and Oregon. Ann Hemingway dies at 81 after 64 years on a West Branch farm. Commencement and class day events, including awards, are recorded for Blairs town and Keystone. Funeral services planned for Mrs Hannah Shaw in Edgewood. Divorce granted to Estella Berniece Hardin in Manchester with support and custody provisions. Cornell College hosts extemporaneous speaking winners from Oskaloosa Rochelle Primghar and Mount Vernon.
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LA Porte City
Eliza Fritzinger
Jason Gingrich
Mount Auburn
Black Hawk County
Martin
Catherine Krebs
Dan Fritzinger
William Fritzinger
Los Angeles
Calif
Frank Krebs
George Krebs
Pelican Rapids
Minn
Ella Howery
Ida Love
Fustis
Fla
Marie McKay
Highwood
Mont
William Moss
Gertrude Friese
Portland
Ore
Man for Forgery Sentenced in Dundee
Howard Glass, 20, of Dundee, was sentenced to ten years in the Anamosa reformatory after pleading guilty to check forgery in district court. He was arrested on a traffic charge and identified by merchants who had cashed Glass written checks totaling about 481 dollars. The largest check for 276 dollars was drawn on WG Smith of Manchester, with other checks bearing names from Dyersville, Independence and Elkader.
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Howard Glass
Dundee
Anamosa Reformatory
Ralph W Hasner
Glass
Anamosa
Carl Anderson
WG. Smith
Dyersville
Independence
Elkader
Fair Weather Predicted for Iowa Weekend
Des Moines reports the weather bureau forecasts fair conditions across Iowa for the weekend. Friday night will be cooler in the north and west, with warmer readings Saturday and fair conditions on Sunday. Temperatures Thursday night averaged five degrees below normal with 42 in Town Falls and Marshalltown and 77 in Atlantic and Clarinda.
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Wather Bureau
Iowa
Town Falls
Marshalltown
Atlantic
Clarinda
Brandon Votes No on Sale of Light System
Citizens of Brandon voted 196 to 72 against selling their electric distribution system to Iowa Electric Light and Power of Cedar Rapids. The town now buys from Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern. service will shift to REA lines powered by Iowa Electric Light and Power.
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Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Company
REA
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
West Branch High School honors 1923 graduates in ceremony
Chester Lodge received the scholarship award for the class of 1923 at West Branch high school commencement. Dr. Pauline Moore of Iowa City presented the trophy. Supt. M. R. Clark awarded the school honor to the top student, with Maurice Smith and Ernest Pemberton as runners up. Doris Anderson won the activities trophy and Loren Jeffries the athletic medal. Dr. W. B. Gerrits awarded diplomas to 36 graduates while Samuel Garvin of Dubuque University spoke.
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Legion Hall
Clay Harshbarger
University of Iowa
Faye Ralston
Helen Rieke
Pete Thode
Legion Auxiliary
Legion and Auxiliary
Harold Andrews
Board of Education
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la von Hamiester
Charlotte Jackson
Dawn Shuck
Evelyn Stewart
Milton Stoll
Russell Thompson
Morley
Donald Southard
W .B. Guthrie
Margaret Brouillet
Frances Ellenberger
T Ucile McMullin
Rita Gibbs
Clarence
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Eleanor Long
Bonnie Sonnemaker
Doris Doermann
Doris Hoffner
Phyllis von Spreecken
Dorothy Winey
Keystone
Delmar Emmel
Dale Popp
Lillian Meyer
Mary Jean Holst
Audrey Wilde
Lillian Deppe
Norma Jean Homire
Silver
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Chester Lodge
Pauline Moore
Iowa City
M. R. Clark
Maurice Smith
Ernest Pemberton
Clark
Doris Anderson
Loren Jeffries
W. B. Gerrits
Samuel Garvin
Dubuque University
Marriage of Lucille Newhall to Robert Barnett
Mrs Kuobt Barnett announces the marriage of their daughter Lucille to Robert Barnett son of Mr and Mrs Aubrey Barnett of Packwood. The wedding occurred Wednesday at Westminster Presbyterian church Cedar Rapids performed by Rev James Blackstone Jr. The bride wore aqua blue net with carnation bouquet. maid of honor Alice Matson wore peach lace net. Groom attendant was Arnold Hertle. Lucille a Newhall high school 1929 graduate. Groom employed by Lincoln Lumber Cres ton Washington. they will reside there.
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Aubrey Barnett
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
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Arnold Hertle
Newhall High School
Lincoln Lumber Company
Creston, Wash
Knudson Criticizes Iowa Liquor Law Violations
Des Moines AP Irving H. Knudson a former highway official and state senator running for governor charged that the Iowa ban on liquor-by-the-drink is broken “as never before.” He cited “dives” in Polk County and said violations increased under the Wilson administration. He attacked Gov. Wilson as reactionary and H. R. Gross as extreme while seeking the Republican nomination with calls to liberalize the GOP platform yet retain profits.
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Irving H. Knudson
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Iis
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Young athlete sets pole vault mark at Madison township meet
Bobbie Canney, an 11 year old Hoover school sixth grader, vaulted 7 feet 3 inches at the Madison township play day held at Crossroads. Mrs Rosalia Flory and Miss Eloise Martin led the program while Mrs Ruth Stoner and Mrs Anni Slanson supervised sports. C O Myers and C K Wolfe judged events and a picnic dinner was organized by Mesdames Sarah Young, Gertrude Novy, R P Stoner, George Swenka, and John Tomash.
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Hoover School
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Eloise Martin
Ruth Stoner
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C. O. Myers
C. K. Wolfe
Sarah Young
Gertrude Novy
R. P. Stoner
George Swenka
John Tomash
Boy Drowns Near Webster in Pond
Marvin White age 11 of Sigourney drowned when a makeshift boat capsized in a Noel Montz farm pond near Webster. His brother Keith and Laverne Allum could not save him. body recovered about 5 p.m. in 16 feet of water. He had been living with his mother Esty Rohloff near Sigourney and was visiting his father Wesley White of Webster.
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Webster
Marvin White
Sigourney
Noel Montz
Keith
Laverne Allum
Esty Rohloff
Wesley White
Grinnellian Proposes Hydraulic Bullet Idea to U S War Dept
Harold Hackett of Grinnell Metal Plating proposes a hydraulic bullet design. He claims oil in a gelatin capsule between powder and the bullet head creates hydraulic pressure boosting firing power. He says the War Department accepted the preliminary designs and will report test results later.
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INS
Harold 8. Hackett
Grinnell Metal Plating Company
War Department
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U. S War Department
Omaha Jury Finds Escher Guilty in Embezzlement Conspiracy
A district court jury found Walter V. Escher of Des Moines guilty of conspiring to embezzle about 25 000 from the defunct United Securities corporation. Charles Morearty, a former Omaha attorney indicted with Escher, will face a similar trial in the fall.
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Walter V. Escher
Des Moines
United Securities Corporation
Charles Morearty
Escher
Confirmation Service for St. Peter’s Candidates in Clermont
Twenty six candidates of St. Peter's Catholic church will be confirmed by Most Rev Francis J. L. Beckman archbishop of Dubuque in Clermont Saturday morning. He is assisted by several bishops and clergy as chaplains masters of ceremonies and assistances with acolytes and other roles named among the services.
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Edgewood
Roman Shares
Ossian
Crosier
Jerome Bohr
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Bugia
V. L. Mlubek
Spillville
Cross
Joseph Vollmecke
Calmar
Thomas B. O'Toole
Lycurgus
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