Allamakee Officials Hurt in Head On Crash
A collision on highway No 52 on the Great Western viaduct sent Sheriff John King Mayor Carl Sanders and Clarence Hoth of Postville to Finley hospital with serious injuries while Walter May of Dubuque and James Lennon city marshal of Postville sustained minor injuries. Lennon had just transported Carroll Berres the slayer of Marshal Elmer Lennon when the wreck occurred. Lennon was fined $50 for careless driving in nearby court.
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Postville
John King
Allamakee County
Carl Sanders
Clarence Hoth
Finley Hospital
Dubuque
Walter May
James Lennon
May
Allamakee
Fort Madison
Carrol Berres
Elmer Lennon
Great Western Railway
Leo J. Eisbach
Dubuque County
Lennon
Sanders
Justice M. P. Hogan’s Court
Poetry Society Meets At McGregor Saturday
The Poetry Society of Iowa plans a two day meeting in McGregor with about 40 attendees. Leone Wolf, Minneapolis poet, will speak on Writing Poetry To Be Set To Music. Local arrangements are led by H. Clark Brown with readings by Barbara Kirschbaum and Loren Baum.
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Mcgregor
Poetry Society of Iowa
Minneapolis
Leone Wolf
H. Clark Brown
Pike’s Peak State Park
The
Poetry Society
Recreation Center
Barbara Kirschbaum
Loren Baum
Mason City
Woodcraft Choir
McGregor Heights
Norma Hoffman
Ames
Mr. Brown
Proram
Pike's Peak Park
Glenn Thomas
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Villa Louis
New Museum
Jones County Rural Schools to graduate 98 pupils Saturday
Ninety eight eighth grade students from the Jones county rural schools will receive diplomas at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Monticello public school building. Boyd S. Shannon, Monticello High School principal, will deliver the commencement address and Miss Nelle Morey, county superintendent, will present diplomas.
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Monticello
Jones County
Boyd
S Shannon
Monticello High School
Dorothy Marek
Ruth Hasler
Doris Betzer
Catharina Folkerts
Emil Oltmanns
Ruth Ricklefs
Lester Ricklefs
Donald Folken
Laura Ortgies
Castle Grove
Helen Dietiker
Paul Messerli
Nedra Kromminga
Ralph K
Veronica Manternach
William Lux
Thomas Strang
John Talbert
Scotch Grove
Alice Lange
William Kiburz
Dorothy Neal
Helen Ahlrichs
Jack Naylor
Myron Reid
Arthur Husmann
Vernon Lange
Clarence Guthrie
Washington
Louise Federspiel
John Knapp
Nicholas Hosch
Dorothy Skahill
Leo Derga
Mary Finn
Mary Irene Hughes
Dorothy Trumm
Justin Rowan
Seldon Sprague
Wayne
Leonard Doden
Gerald Doyle
Pauline Tobiason
Lois Kehren
Irvin Stutt
Rudolph Tjaden
Gene Cook
Bette Thomas
Doris Emmert
Nelda Engelbart
Marvin Harms
James Kraus
Fred Vileta
Audrey Oltman
Marvin Oltman
Dorothy Rieken
Pleasant Hill
Willard Dague
Mildred Evers
Victory
Boyd Chatterton
Twila Chatterton
White Oak Grove
Joseph English
Marietta Yardem
Greenfield
Billy Lehr
Black Oak
Luella Osterkamp
Marie Hu
Velma Burda
Alois Lasack
Baldwin
Harold Huston
Melvin Petersen
Pence Ridge
John Jones
Hawkeye Boys State Session Sets Camp Dodge Start
Six hundred sixty Iowa youths will gather at Camp Dodge near Des Moines for the third annual Hawkeye boys state meeting. The one week event, sponsored by the American Legion, teaches practical knowledge in state governmental affairs. Boys for the camp are selected by Legion posts statewide.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Camp Dodge
The
American Legion
Legion
Iowa City News Briefs Highlights Local April Commodities
Twenty five hundred people applied for federal surplus commodities in Johnson county during April. John S. Barry announces the eligibility certifier. Over 31 000 pounds of apples distributed through the county social welfare department. Dean Mason Ladd spoke at Memorial day ceremonies urging loyalty and defense against totalitarian invasion. Oil portrait of Robert E. Rienow by Francis McCray to hang in dormitories. Four hundred bicycles registered under new city licensing ordinance.
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Johnson County
John S. Barry
Social Service League
County
Social Welfare Department
Dean Mason Ladd
College of Law
Oakland Cemetery
United States
Francis E. Marlin
St. Wenceslaus Church
Robert E. Rienow
University of Iowa
Francis McCray
University
Quadrangle
Hillcrest
Iowa City Police Department
Monas
Frank Burns
Friay
Judge Eichendorf's Mother Dies in McGregor at 72
Mrs Amelia Eichendorf aged 72 mother of Judge Walter L. Eichendorf of the Thirteenth Iowa judicial district died early Friday in McGregor. Born there she lived all her life and family ties with local business stretch to pioneer days. Surviving are sons Walter and Harry a daughter Mrs Lillian Reynolds two brothers Hermann and August Kranert all of McGregor.
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Mcgregor
Amelia Eichendorf
Walter L. Eichendorf
Thirteenth Iowa Judicial District
Walter
Harry
Lillian Reynolds
Hermann Kranert
August Kranert
No Holiday Deaths on Iowa Highways
Des Moines reports a Memorial Day morning with many minor accidents but no highway fatalities. A farmyard incident near Red Oak claimed 17 month old Roberta Lee Bishop after a truck driven by her grandfather, W. R. Bishop, ran over her. Authorities note the child darted in front of the vehicle.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roberta Lee Bishop
Robert Bishop
Red Oak
W. R. Bishop
Bishop
Corburg
Iowa City Doctor Injured In Crash
Dr William Kearney of the children's hospital suffered a broken arm when a tire blew and the car went into a ditch on highway 261 south of Martelle. Dr Dorothy Falkenstein and others were shaken up but not seriously hurt. Report filed with Linn county sheriff.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
William Kearney
The
Children’s Hospital
Dorothy Falkenstein
Highway 261
Martelle
Linn County
Sheriff's Office
Falkenstein
William Erbenbright
John Gray
Town City
Rebekahs Hold District Convention At Wapello
The fortieth annual Rebekah convention of districts 58 and 70 was held in Wapello with lodges from Letts Grandview Winfield Columbus Junction Washington Wilton Junction Nichols West Liberty Mount Pleasant Muscatine Burlington and Wapello. State officers attended and officers chosen for 1941 include Bell Holmes president Gertrude Case vice president Gertrude McGuire secretary Anna Brown treasurer all of West Liberty. Merit pins were awarded to Mrs Joy of Wapello and Hazel Poole of Nichols. The group donated five dollars to the Wapello high school band for its trip to the New York World's Fair and ten dollars to the Mason City home. Degree work was demonstrated by a tenare lodge No 386 of Fairfield.
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Wapello
Letts
Grandview
Winfield
Columbus
Junction
Washington
Wilton Junction
Nichols
West Liberty
Mount Pleasant
Muscatine
Burlington
Ethel M. Miller
Assembly
Keokuk
Patti Pagel
Fairfield
Ruth Hamlin
Theta
Hazel Poole
Mason City
Tenare Lodge
Fairfeld
Oxford Junction Women To Open Public Library
Oxford Junction women, through the Oxford Junction Community club, will sponsor a new public library. The former library board will provide a room and book cases. Committee members include Mrs. W A Wolgemuth, Mrs. Ed Clausen, and Mrs. G H Cress.
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Oxford Junction
Pattern 4473 Offered In Various Women Sizes
Pattern 4473 is available in women's sizes 34 through 48. Size 36 requires 35% yards of 39 inch fabric and 43 yards contrast. Send fifteen cents for this pattern to Pattern Department, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, New York. Additional ten cents buys the latest Pattern Book.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
West Seventeenth Street
New York
N. Y
Ask Extension Of Road To Form Primary Link
Petitions circulate in Independence seeking extension of primary highway 190 from highway 11 on the Fayette Buchanan line to Fairbank, continuing west to a junction with county road H. They request making road H a primary connector with highway 281 at Dunkerton to create a continuous primary from 11 to 20 via Fairbank and Dunkerton.
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Fayette
Buchanan
Fairbank
Dunkerton
Cornell English prizes awarded to students in Mount Vernon
Announcement by Prof. C. C. Tull outlines annual awards funded by an anonymous donor. Freshman best creative writing prize of 10 dollars went to William Slothower. Helen Haines received 10 dollars as most valuable Cornellian staff member. Suzan Van Buskirk earned 15 dollars for Husk contributions. Ruth Mason, senior English major, received 15 dollars in books for outstanding seminar work.
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C. C. Tull
William Slothower
Dixon
Helen Haines
Sterling, Il
Cornellian
Suzan van Buskirk
Flagstaff
Arizona
Roosevelt calls for expanded defense program and national training
The president urges immediate growth of military appropriations and production facilities. He stresses training a large labor force with mechanical skills to support an expanded army and navy and to meet potential global conflict.
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United States
War and Navy Departments
Congress
Army
Navy
Plans Urged to Committees for War Programs
President Franklin D. Roosevelt urges rapid action on defense plans and funding. He asks Congress to hand plans to committees and grant authority to call national guard units into service to protect neutrality and bolster national defense amid the European war. A separate item notes a residence razing near Lycurgus, Waukon, replaced by a brick structure costing $6,500.
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National Guard
Dragging of Leech Lake for 2 Iowa Fishermen
Rescue efforts on Leech Lake resumed as authorities searched for the bodies of two Iowa fishermen, Rev. J. A. Underberg and Ralph Downing of Cherokee, believed drowned after a Tuesday night incident. Aerial search yielded no trace.
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Walker, Minn
Leech Lake
Iowa
J. A. Underberg
Ralph Downing
Funeral services set for Franklin Otis Bailey 64
Franklin Otis Bailey 64 died Tuesday after a brief illness. Funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Spring Grove church with burial in its cemetery. He was born in Jackson township, son of David and Aldora Bailey, lived in this area. Surviving are wife, a daughter Mrs. Goldie Minkler of Manchester, six sons Elmer of Scotch Grove Charles of Central City Melvin and Don of Marshalltown Henry of Toledo and Carl of Woodward, and brother Charles of Cedar Rapids.
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Franklin Otis Bailey
Spring Grove
Bailey
David
Aldora Bailey
Jackson Township
Goldie Minkler
Manchester
Elmer
Scotch Grove
Charles
Melvin
Don
Marshalltown
Henry
Toledo
Carl
Woodward
Cedar Rapids
Man Who Escaped Jail Twice Nabbed in Minneapolis
FBI agents arrest Leonard J. Smothers 36, wanted in Iowa for unlawfully fleeing to avoid prosecution. Smothers, who twice escaped Marshalltown jail, was found in a car with a girl in Minneapolis at 1 a.m. Friday. He faces possible return to Iowa for burglary sentence or transfer to federal court on the flight charge.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Leonard J. Smothers
Iowa
Minneapolis
Lloyd Richmond
FBI
Smothers
Marshalltown
Richmond
Ramsey County
Federal District Court
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