Two Iowa Girls Found Dead In Tourist Cabin
Two Des Moines teens Bernice Wood and Marian Shurtz aged 15 were found dead by asphyxiation in a Nevada Missouri tourist cabin after likely fumes from a gas stove. Coroner says they rented the cabin Saturday night. mother Gayhart Wood reports they ran away, intending to head toward Texas.
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Nevada
Des Moines
State
Highway Patrol
Chester Oliver
Bernice Wood
Marian Josephine Shurtz
Marsh Eichinger
Oliver
Gayhart Wood
Bernice
Texas
Volunteer Rent Control Planned in Iowa
DES MOINES AP National OPA officials will rule on whether Iowa communities may form volunteer rent control committees. Iowa OPA director Walter D. Kline said petitions from Spencer Marshalltown and Ames prompted the referral to Rae E. Walters Chicago regional director. He noted such committees could be authorized to freeze rents at a reasonable level if approved, in areas with housing shortages evictions and rising rents.
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DES Moines
OPA
Iowa
Walter D. Kline
Kline
Two Prisoners Escape From Reformatory Camp
Special to The Gazette Anamosa search continued Monday for two reformatory inmates who fled Sunday noon from the state reformatory work camp near Independence in a black panel truck. Donald Green 18 and Edward Holmes 29 were the escapees. Green 5 feet 7 3/4 inches tall 154 pounds gray eyes brown hair with a scar near the mouth corner. Holmes 5 feet 11 inches tall slender build brown hair and eyes.
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Anamosa
Independence
Donald Green
Edward Holmes
Green
Holmes
Six Ottumwa Police Officers File Appeal Over Dismissals
Six Ottumwa police officers discharged for misconduct and failure to perform duties will appeal to the civil service board. Russell Swartz, counsel for the officers, said hearings are expected to begin early next week.
Bishop Edwin F. Lee to Speak on The Emerging World Order
Bishop Edwin F. Lee director of chaplain service for Protet churches will lecture at Mount Vernon King Memorial chapel at 8 p.m. on The Emerging World Order. He returns from a tour of the Philippines New Guinea Admiralty Islands and Australia as a guest of army and navy officials and representative of the Federal Council of Churches. A question period will follow. event sponsored by Methodist W.S.C.S. and Presbyterian Missionary society.
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MT Vernon
Edwin F. Lee
Protet
King Memorial Chapel
World Order
Lee
Philippines
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Australia
Army and Navy
Federal Council of Churches
Pacific
Palestine
Java
Methodist W.S.C.S
Presbyterian Missionary Society
Schools To Celebrate Iowa's 100th Birthday
DES MOINES Iowa's schools will observe the state centennial next year with a state committee of superintendents teachers principals and college representatives planning use by local schools. Special committees will prepare a handbook with pageants plays radio programs displays and community folk festivals for year long observances.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Jessie M. Parker
Parker
Dubuque Man Killed in High Speed Car Crash
In Dubuque a car driven by Vern Pape crashed into Eagle Point bluff killing Harry Trisk and injuring Vern Pape. Cap Galliart escaped injury as the trio, all from Dubuque, were returning from Wisconsin. Louis Theisen and Lawrence Elgin, also of Zwingle, were hurt in a separate Sunday collision with a cement wall near Dubuque.
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Dubuque
Harry Trisk
Vern Pape
Eagle Point Bluff
Charles Witt
Eagle Point High
Mississippi River
Pape
Cap Galliart
Wisconsin
Dubuque Hospital
Louis Theisen
Lawrence Elgin
Zwingle
Theisen
Elgin
Coroners Inquest Set for Charles City Pedestrian Death
Charles City coroner's inquest will be held Tuesday into the death of Bernard J. Harold 57 who was killed Sunday when struck by a Nashua driver 17 named Robert Van Blair. Harold left a son survivor.
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Charles City
Bernard J. Harold
Carl Hauser
Harold
Robert van Blair
Nashua
Dainty Homecoming Marred by Knoxville Crash
A Sunday vehicle crash on highway 92 near Knoxville sent six people to the hospital, marring the homecoming of Frank Dainty a 38 year old navy veteran. Injured were Dainty his daughters Mary Lee 13 Connie 6 his wife 68 his son Arthur 10 and his brother W A Dainty 43. The party was returning home after meeting Dainty at a Des Moines rail station.
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Knoxville
Frank Dainty
Highway 92
Here
Dainty
Mary Lee
Connie
Arthur
W. A. Dainty
Des Moines
Vets Returning From Overseas From Eastern Iowans
Eastern Iowans listed as returning aboard ships Fox Norway Victory and New York A Victory with arrivals due Nov 9 or 10. Names include Pfc Bohumil Pidima Cedar Rapids T/5 Reinhart Landherr Manchester T/5 Raymon d Schute Guttenberg Walter W. Snider Cedar Rapids Charles W Bruner Marion Reuben L Schupbach West Union William A Buckley Lawrence Ekbring Iowa City Louis L Fisher Oxford Junction Richard J Shaffer Cedar Rapids Robert E Rasche LaPorte City Louis W Lawrence Anamosa Leslie B Freeze Hopkinton John C Holthaus Manchester.
R and O Hardware Inc Incorporation Notice
Notice of incorporation under Chapter 384 Iowa 1939. Cedar Rapids Linn County lists R and O Hardware Inc with capital stock 150 shares of 100 each and a Board of Directors of 3 to 5, officers including Russell O Andrews as president and Vera L Owen as secretary treasurer. First annual meeting set for January 1947. business commenced September 26 1945. duration twenty years with renewal.
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R and O Hardware, Inc
Iowa
Ald Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Board of Sectors
Executive Council of
Russell Andrews
E. H W. Owen
Vera L. Owen
Ann Andrews
Russell O. Andrews
Vera L Owen
E. H. Owen
Board of Directors
Rando Hardware, Inc
W J Barnerover
Iowa City U.S.O. Center to Close November 25
Iowa City U.S.O. center active since July 1948 will shut Nov. 25 per director Frank Morris. The closing comes as the navy pre flight school is disbanded in December HS. Ivie of the Municipal Recreation commission says the city may buy equipment and furnishings for use in upgrading the local recreation center.
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Iowa City
U.S.O
Frank Morris
Morris
Navy
HS. Ivie
Municipal Recreation Commission
Marion area notes and obituaries in brief
Arthur Edwin Curtis 46 Milwaukee railroader dies in Cedar Rapids hospital after brief illness Born June 9 1899 Dubuque came to Marion at age 10 He served in World War I and belonged to local Masonic and veterans groups Survived by brother Lloyd L Curtis Services Tuesday at Yocom chapel with Masonic and military rites Burial at Cedar Memorial park Also notes of social events and local notices plus numerous small ads and personnel movements including a discharged serviceman and local marriages.
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Arthur Edwin Curtis
Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Marion
Sylvester Curtis
Davenport
Marion Legion Post
Marion Lodge
Eighth Avenue
Lloyd L. Curtis
Yocom Chapel
Vernon H. Carter
Cedar Memorial Park
Masonic Temple
Brakeman's Body Found On Railroad Tracks
Brakeman Leo Sullivan Jr. 39 of Dubuque was found dead on Illinois Central tracks near Galena. Sheriff Bertsch said Sullivan, a father of seven, had boarded a passenger train at Freeport with conductor Oscar Blume but was not present later.
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Galena, II
Jo Daviess County
Leo Sullivan, Jr
Dubuque
Ilinois Central
Ray Bertsch
Sullivan
Illinois Central
Freeport
Ill
Oscar Blume
Freight train run ends in tragedy near Dubuque
The sheriff said Sullivan had made a regular run with a freight train from Dubuque to Freeport Saturday. The scene described as seen in Dubuque after the train's arrival there Saturday night.
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Dubuque
Sullivan
Freeport
Des Moines Man Loses Legs After RR Engine Runover
Des Moines resident George Madison, 59, was run over by a Rock Island railroad engine near the roundhouse Sunday, suffering the loss of both legs above the ankles.
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DES Moines
George Madison
Rock Island Railroad
Fairs in the United States draw over forty million annual attendees
A historical tally notes that more than 40,000,000 people attend fairs in the United States each year, reflecting fairground popularity and community traditions across the nation.
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United States
Iowa City Moose Win State Title
At the 1946 Loyal Order of the Moose state convention in Sioux City delegates chose William Beckwith of Charles City as president. The Iowa City unit won state contests in drill, drum corps, and degree teams while delegates also selected leaders from Burlington and Davenport for other posts.
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Des Moines
the Loyal Order of the Moose
Sioux City
Iowa City
William Beckwith
Charles City
A. C. Schwarz
Burlington
Barney Meyers
Davenport
Orin
Local officers elected in Iowa party slate shakeup
Mickle Boone and Mike C Fort Dodge were elected first vice presidents. Carl Wilcken of Waterloo was chosen retiring president. E. B. Hassenfran of Burlington and Ray Pardekoope of Webster City named as trust members in the statewide slate.
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Mickle
Boone
Mike C Fort Dodge
Drst
Chosen Trust
Carl Wilcken
Waterloo
E. B
Waterloo store owner Williams dies on NY buying trip
Waterloo business head Williams dies Sunday in New York City from a heart attack while on a buying trip. He owned and managed a Waterloo clothing store. His wife and daughter survive. Ward 1.
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Williams
Waterloo
New York City
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George Blackford
Blackford
Richard
Alice
Reformatory
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Mt. Vernon
Bishop Lee
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N.Y
Wm. Tehel
U.S.O. Center
Marion News
Ness
Arthur Curtis
Christian Church
Robert Hess
Verne Breed
Floyd Emmons
Ray Short
Floyd Foulk
Post Office
Cpl
Curtis Norris
Dell Norris
Camp Stoneham
Calif
Tinian Island
Norris
Georgia Severa
Edison Pharmacy
Richard Alexander
Redwood City
Cailif
D St. Stewart
Sixth Avenue
Stewart
St. Luke's Hospital
White Rock Cockerels
Ralph Parks
Ninth Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Lowell Sebern
Frank E. Williams
Tenth Street
C. F. Gowans
Roy Behel
University Hospital
Bob Williams
Ashley Williams
Peter Kassler
Billie Hintz
Tommy Jones
Jimmie Hayes
Dick MccMurrin
Jack Edmonds
Larry Burrows
George Gipp
Bob Tudeen
Verne Tanner
Bob Wheeler
Omar Oxleey
David Williams
Rudy Schenken
Jimmie Stockwell
Telephone Fund
Elmer W. Fisher
Schick Hospital Telephone Fund
Sorosis
Lions Club
Dry Creek Women’s Progressive Club
Norma Rawson
Wayne Everett McVay
Palo
C. E Drummond
Dale Armstrong
Blairs Ferry Road
Pvt
Gerald Stark
Chanute Field
Rantoul, Il
Mrs
W. G. Steele
Warren Thompson
Thompsonville
Traverse City
Mich
Pfe
Harry Hatt
Okinawa
Fairfield
Elizabeth Hatt
Judy
Earl Caraway
Maritime Service
New Orleans
Italy
North Africa
T Sget
John M. Howe
John M Howes, Jr
Los Angeles
Theresa Farley
Searies
Newman
Moose
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