Iowa Troops Move To Football At Camp Claiborne
Camp Claiborne La AP reports Thirty fourth division troops launch a heavy athletic program with football volleyball and bowling. Regiments such as the 185th field artillery and 133rd infantry field daily practices and plan 32 uniforms funded by regimental funds and division athletic assets.
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Iowa
Camp Claiborne
185Th Field Artillery
Davenport-Clinton-Boone
Walter Anderson
Boone, Ta
133Rd Infantry
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Sioux City
Howard J. Rouse
168Th Infantry
136Th Medical Regiment
109Th Quartermaster Regiment
Girl Fatally Hurt in Orange City Car Crash
Barbara Beyers aged 12, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerrit Beyers of Orange City, died after a Saturday morning collision on Highway 10 between an automobile driven by her brother Kenneth and a machine operated by James Grottenhouse.
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Orange City
Barbara Beyers
Gerrit Beyers
Kenneth
James Grottenhouse
Highway 10
Dance Champion Grant Whitehouse Hits Iowa Campus
Grant Whitehouse a Kentucky native and chemistry graduate student at the University of Iowa has emerged as a national dancing figure. He won national and eastern titles in waltz tango foxtrot and rumba from 1939 to 1940 while maintaining amateur status. He is Phi Beta Kappa and leads the Lenshawks photography society with 20,000 members while pursuing a PhD in chemistry.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Tennessee
Grant Whitehouse
Whitehouse
University of Kentucky
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Lenshawks
Kiwanians Elect Algona Man and Back Defense Plan
Delegates at the Iowa Nebraska Kiwanis district convention chose Duane Dewel of Algona Iowa as district governor over Ralph Swan son. Dewel will lead amid a defense program urging economies in non defense spending and delaying non essential public works until after the defense emergency. Town lieutenant governors named by district include Russell Wisquain Ames Gilbert J Green Fort Dodge Ottoe J Reimeres Rock Rapids and Ed Harvey Missouri Valley. Council Bluffs was recommended for the 1942 convention.
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Fremont
Neb
lowa-Nebraska
Kiwanis
Duane Dewel
Algona
Ralph W. Swanson
Omaha
Dewel
Paul G. James
Des Moines
Russell Wisquain Ames
Gilbert J. Green
Fort Dodge
Ottoe J. Reimeres
Rock Rapids
Ed Harvey
Missouri Valley
Council
Marion Leads in Smallpox Immunization in Marion Schools
In Des Moines AP report, Marion public schools with about 1,048 students have achieved near total smallpox and diphtheria vaccination since 1926, 97 percent enrollment immunized, and only minimal disease impact. Health officials praise the program as a model and urge statewide expansion.
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Marion
Yowa
J. M. Hayek
Iowa Bank Deposits Rise Sharply in 1930s Record Report
Iowa Banking Superintendent M W Ellis announced a 28 428 000 year to date increase in state bank deposits to 493 757 000 the highest since 1930 The current report covers 544 banks Loans and discounts total 300 851 000 up 18 172 000 United States securities 66 000 000 up 4 945 000 Cash resources 172 407 000 and earning assets up 23 000 000 The Fed will raise reserve requirements about one seventh on Nov 1 but Iowa banks will see little impact with reserves at 209 percent above the requirement
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DES Moines
Iowa
M. W. Ellis
United States Securities
Federal Reserve Board
Ellis
Black man sentenced in Sioux City dice game case
Fred Smith, 52, of Indiana, was sentenced to eight years in Fort Madison for a dice game incident in Sioux City. Eddie True Boy Bledsoe, 40, died after Smith allegedly cut him with a jackknife. Smith pled guilty within 12 hours of the incident and had arrived in Sioux City three days earlier.
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Sioux City
INS
Fred Smith
Indiana
Iowa State
Fort Madison
Eddie True Boy
Bledsoe
Smith
Illinois
Cornell Shows Mexican Art Exhibit This Week
In Mount Vernon Cornell college hosts an exhibition in Armstrong hall featuring Mexican glass, jewelry, rugs, baskets, paintings, photography and furniture. Curated by Miss Nama Lathe and Miss Betty Schmidt, the display includes items loaned by residents of Mount Vernon and Lisbon.
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Gazette
Mount Vernon
Armstrong Hall
Cornell College
Nama Lathe
Betty Schmidt
Lisbon
Democracy outlook cited by Iowa professor in postwar view
Prof George R Davies of the University of Iowa argues that postwar peace aims require boosted material science to sustain defense. he links industrial output to democratic resilience, traces Europe’s economic shifts, and warns that totalitarian drive in Germany arose from a fusion of capital, labor, and science.
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Iowa City
George R Davies
University of Iowa
Davies
Bureau of Business Research
College of Commerce
France
Britain
Europe
Germany
Navy Leave For Iowan Canceled
Robert Voll enweider an electrician first class in the U S navy submarine service arrived in Dubuque on furlough to join his family and see his brother Hank with the University of Town football team in Madison Wisconsin but less than 13 hours after arrival a telegram ordered him back to duty canceling his leave and he returned to San Francisco.
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Dubuque
Robert Vollenweider
U. S. Navy Submarine Service
Madison
Wis
Hank
University of Town
University of Wisconsin
Robert
San Francisco
Objections Due Oct 29 on Independence Sale
The securities commission fixed Oct 29 as the deadline for any party to request a hearing on Iowa Public Service Company's plan to buy Independence gas plant and distribution system for 55000 and LeMars gas distribution system for 70000.
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
Iowa Public Service Company of
Sioux City
Independence, Ja
LeMars, Ia
Iowa Public Service Company
Independence Company
LeMars Company
Johnston woman in minor crash after leaving statehouse
Mrs Maude Eaton 36 of Johnston Ia left the statehouse with a state driver’s license inspector to take a test when her automobile collided with one driven by Omer Swartz of Des Moines. Eaton fractured a finger and Swartz was uninjured.
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Des Moines
Maude Eaton
Johnston
Statehouse
Omer Swartz
Bluffs Man Named Assistant Chief Of Thirty-Fourth Staff
Maj. Walter W. Wendt age 27 from Council Bluffs Iowa promoted by Brig. Gen. Hartle to assistant chief of staff and division supply officer for the Thirty-fourth division at CAMP CLAIBORNE Louisiana. He succeeds Lieut. Col. Phillip Bettenburg who moves to command the 109th engineer regiment.
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Camp Claiborne
Walter W. Wendt
Council Bluffs
Russell P. Hartle
Wendt
Iowa
Phillip C Bettenburg
St. Paul
Minn
Bettenburg
109Th Engineer Regiment
South Dakota
Sioux City Sited As Potential Bomber Training Station
Officials announced engineers inspected a northwest Sioux City area near the Nebraska and South Dakota borders as a possible bomber training station site. No details on size or cost were released, and no site near Leon, Iowa, is under consideration.
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Washington
Sioux City
War Department
Nebraska
South Dakota
Ntil
Leon
What Cheer Girl Wesleyan Queen Named at Wesleyan Homecoming
Betty Ann Tinsley of What Cheer, a junior, was chosen homecoming queen at Iowa Wesleyan College. Attendants include Doris Whitaker of Keokuk and Janice Grover of Council Bluffs, selected by Blue Key, a honor society of top campus leaders.
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Mount Pleasant
Betty Ann Tinsley
Iowa Wesleyan College
Doris Whitaker
Keokuk
Janice Grover
Council Bluffs
Blue Key
Crippled Egret Flies South On Borrowed Wings
A convalescent egret with a broken wing joint was flown from Iowa to Louisiana for the winter. Officials clipped the wing to prevent further injury and organized an air transfer with Midcontinent Airlines and Chicago and Southern to New Orleans. The bird, once a plume source, is protected by game laws, and Iowa reports more of the species arriving each summer.
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Des
F. H Davis
Iowa
State Conservation Commission
Midcontinent
Chicago and Southern Airlines
Air Express
New Orleans
Automobile Crash Near Des Moines Injures Six
Six people were injured Saturday in an automobile collision on highway 6 east of Des Moines. The Carlson family of Des Moines, including G. R. Carlson his wife son and daughter, were en route to Carlson's sister’s wedding when the crash occurred. In the other car were Robert F. Ryan and Pvt. Stanley O Larson, both of Des Moines. Attending physicians said all four Carlson family members were very seriously injured.
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Des Moines
Highway 6
Here
Rock Island
G. R Carlson
Carlson
Robert F. Ryan
Stanley O Larson
Carlsons
Two Men Sought After Davenport Robberies
Davenport police sought two suspects after two holdups within 11 hours. A gunman held Kerker Paper Box Co. up Friday, stealing 83 dollars with a nickel plated revolver. Early Saturday a Negro robber took 30 dollars from a filling station.
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Davenport
Quad-City
Reed Phillips
Kerker Paper Box Company
Phillips
Burlington Wins Pair Of Firsts In State Press Meet
Burlington high school contestants won two first places and a second in the Iowa High School Press Association journalism contest held during the annual convention. Winners included Maxine Fredericks for news writing from Hampton and Albert Albert for feature writing from Burlington.
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Burlington
DES Moines
Iowa High School Press Association
Maxine Fredericks
Hampton
Neva Hunter
Webster City
Russ Smith
East High
Waterloo
Albert Albert
Jeanette Sander
Jean Ann Wimmer
Des Moines Capture Ties Alabama Slayer to 1933 Murder
Clarence Higginbotham known as Ed Taylor refused extradition to Alabama, saying it would waste money. He evaded capture since 1936 after leaving a murder charge behind in Birmingham, with Iowa authorities preparing to extradite while he facesadditional charges.
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Des Moines
Clarence Higginbotham
Iowa
Ed Taylor
Alabama
Higginbotham
Birmingham
R. W. Nethergall
Town Bureau of Investigation
Poe
Ina
Sioux Rapids
la Recoming House
Alabama Department of Corrections and Institutions
Nethergall
Towa
Mildred Goodman
Miss Goodman
Taslor
Higginsbotham
Higaminbotham
Iowa Women to Convene in Des Moines for Two Day Meeting
United States Senator Ernest W. Mc Farland of Arizona will speak at a Des Moines banquet on October 22. The two day Iowa Democratic Women conclave will feature Mrs. Raymond Clapper, Miss Anna B. Lawther, Mrs. David Simms, and Mrs. Charles Tillett among others. McFarland sits on the interstate commerce subcommittee probing the motion picture industry.
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Des Moines
Ernest W. McFarland
United States
Arizona
Iowa
Hotel Fort Des Moines
Raymond Clapper
Washington
Anna B. Lawther
Dubuque
David Simms
Hastings
Neb
Charles Tillett
Democratic National Committee
McFarland
Senate
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Cedar Rapids
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Red Cross
Marjorie Baker
Patricia Rice
Kaye Moss
Clare Slagle
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Speigner
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