Four late August marriages reported in Stanwood and Anamosa
Miss Wilma Tittle and Leo Fisher wed at the Little Brown church in Nashua with attendants including Mrs. Harold Hass. The couple plans a Wisconsin Illinois trip. In Anamosa Miss Wilma Soper married Verne Hanson at Maquoketa Methodist church with a reception at the bride's home. The couple will reside in Wyoming after September 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanwood
Wilma Tittle
William Tittle
Leo Fisher
Frank Fisher
Little Brown Church
Nashua
F. L. Hanscom
Harold Hass
Fisher
Stanwood High School
Clarence
Hass
Erwin Toerber
Wisconsin
Illinois
Anamosa
Wilma Soper
George Soper
Verne Hanson
Joe Luke
Wyoming
Maquoketa Methodist Church
Green
Lila Cox
Charles Hanson
Hanson
Anamosa High School
Clarence High School
Center Point Bride to Wed Weldon Andersen Today
CENTER POINT Miss Erma L. Silver daughter of Mr and Mrs E E Silver will marry Weldon H Andersen of Newell son of Mr and Mrs O B Andersen of Newell in Center Point. Best man Everette Silver Cedar Rapids. matron of honor Mrs Cleo Olsen Waterloo. Erma Silver taught in Olin Clarence and Iowa Falls. Weldon Andersen employed by Benner Tea Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Point
Erma L. Silver
E .E. Silver
Weldon H Andersen
Newell
O. B. Andersen
Miss Silver
Everette Silver
Cedar Rapids
Cleo Olsen
Waterloo
Iowa State Teachers College
Olin
Clarence
Towa Falls
Andersen
Newell High School
The
Benner Tea Company
Marcella Pickart
John F Pickart
Norway
Jerome Sonka
John Sonka
St Michael's Church
William Kunkel
Tucille Sonka
Mabel Snell
Ragine Ort
Gilbert Pickart
Edmund Michael
Ort’s Hall
Newhall
Mr Sonka
Elgin High School
Colorado State Teachers College
Farmersburg
Fairbank
McGregor
Anamosa
Tinker
Strawberry Point High School
University of Iowa
Psi Omega
Chicago
Flynn Attacks Willkie as GOP Spokesman In New York
National Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn denounces Republican candidate Wendell L. Willkie as a recent convert ignoring GOP leaders. He defends Henry A Wallace and accuses Willkie of appeasement. Florida ex-Gov Cary A. Hardee leads a bloc of anti-third term Democrats opposing Roosevelt on ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Edward J. Flynn
Wendell Tl. Willkie
G.O.P
Willkie
Henry A Wallace
Flynn
Wallace
Republican Party
Cary A. Hardee
Florida
Republican National Headquarters
Hardee
Roosevelt
Passenger Killed Enroute To Fiancee
Friends of Margaret Carson a Pittsburgh aviation student and hostess on the Pennsylvania Central airliner wrecked Saturday recall her defying her mother to pursue flight training. among the passengers was J J Pesci a former Duquesne athlete and FBI agent en route to meet his fiancee Sylvia Pecori of McKees Rocks Pa who awaited him at the Pittsburgh airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Margaret Carson
University of Pittsburgh
J. J. Pesci
Duquesne University
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pittsburgh
Sylvia Pecori
McKees Rocks
Now How'd That Get There
In San Francisco a man named Philip Rambo, labeled a life long democrat, was embarrassed when doctors removed a Will kie for President button from the stomach of Philip Jr. The incident raises questions about how the item ended up inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Philip Rambo
Philip, Jr
Old Home Week at City Jail During Labor Day Weekend
A Saturday night jail visit spreeSaw Vic Johnson 36 booked on intoxication for the 32nd time in five years. Harold Tripp 40 and Charles Weber 45 were arrested for drunkenness multiple times. John Dominik 27 was helped to the station after a suspected collapse. Flood Prim 36 was held for drunkenness and disorderly conduct near a hat shop.
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Vic Johnson
Johnson
Harold Tripp
Fifth Street
Charles Weber
Fifth Street SE
John Dominik
Fifth Avenue SE
Flood Primrose
Norway
First Avenue
Third Street
Legionaires Named To Coordinate Department Work With Corps Areas
In Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS INS National Commander Raymond J Kelly appoints nine Legionaires to coordinate state Legion departments with US corps areas. The group would help administer local defense, establish air raid warnings, provide police and fire protection, protect utilities, supervise protective construction and plan evacuations.
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Indianapolis
Ind
INS
American Legion
Raymond J Kelly
State Legion Departments
Hartford
Conn
Jeremiah F. Cross
New York
Frank Parker
Washington
Erle Cocke
Atlanta
R B Gardner
Mansfield
Ohio
LN Bittinger
Onarga
Ill
Allan A Tukey
Omaha
S. Perry Brown
Beaumont
Texas
United States Plans to Store Gasoline under Defense Commission
The defense commission approved plans for accelerated production and storage of millions of barrels of high test aviation gasoline. Dr. Robert F. Wood leads the program to provide an instant fuel source for America's expanding air forces. Establishment of strategically scattered underground caches aims to supply the Army and Navy for at least a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense Commission
Robert F. Wood
Commission
Petroleum Section
America
Army
Navy
Rumor says British royal family to quit London
In Geneva a rumor circulated that the British royal family would abandon London due to rising air raid danger from Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
London
Swiss Toye family rumor about leaving Lon debunked
London based Swiss Toye family rumor that they plan to leave Lon on was denied by International News Service. No truth to the circulating claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
INS
Toye
Lonon
Woman Held As Trotzky Slaying Case Accomplice
Mexico City police held Sylvia Ageloff a suspended New York welfare worker as an accomplice in the pickax murder of exiled communist leader Leon Trotsky. Judge Raul Carranca Trujillo ruled she aided Jacques Mornard by inviting Trotsky secretary Otto Schusser to dinner to lure him away from Trotsky's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
INS
New York City
Sylvia Ageloff
Leon Trotzky
Jacques Mornard
Frank Jackson
Raul Carranca Trujillo
Miss Ageloff
Jackson
Trotzky
Otto Schusser
Illinois Man Is Young Demos Campaign Head
Homer Mat Adams national president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America announced Pat O Driscoll of Rockford Illinois as national campaign director with supervision of all campaign work for the five million young Democrats across 48 states and territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Homer Mat Adams
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Pat O Driscoll
Rockford
Iil
Driscoll
Adams
Oust All Foreign Propagandists in War Debate
Senator Wheeler called for immediate deportation of all foreign propagandists accused of pushing the U S toward war. He criticized British economists Sir George Paish and Sir Norman Angell, and said the United States should ban all noncitizen propagandists regardless of nationality. He equated British influence with other foreign voices and argued policy differences between Willkie and Roosevelt are minimal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Sen. Wheeler
Mont
Montanan
Senate
Sir George Paish
Britain
Lloyd George
United States
Sir George
Wheeler
Norman Aneel
New York
Committee
America
Angell
Sir Norman
Wendell Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
Bel Air farm girl Myrtle Greer crowned Harford county beauty
AP reports 18 year old Myrtle Greer of Harford county labeled the county’s prettiest farm girl. She admits she can’t milk or plow or cook unless fudge counts. Myrtle, a Randolph-Macon College student, will compete in the state farm girl contest Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bel Air
Harford County
Myrtle Greer
Myrtle
Randolph- Macon College
Iowan David P. Jones Among Airliner Crash Victims
David P. Jones of Des Moines was aboard the Pennsylvania Central Airlines flight that crashed near Lovettsville Virginia. Jones, a former Missouri assistant attorney general, moved to Des Moines two years ago from Jefferson City to supervise for the Interstate Commerce Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
David P. Jones
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Lovettsville
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri
Jefferson City
Britain Reports Sinking of Armed Cruiser Dunvegan Castle
The admiralty said the 15,000 ton armed British merchant cruiser Dunvegan Castle was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic. About 30 crew members were reported missing, while 250 survivors were rescued from lifeboats and landed at British ports after reconnaissance indicated the blaze.
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London
Admiralty
Dunvegan Castle
North Atlantic
Flying Boat
ORDER RESTORED IN COLONIES OF FRANCE
Vichy France says order is restored in French West and Equatorial Africa and Indo China after insurgent outbursts. High Commissioner Boissons reports most of French West Africa calm, with trouble in a few areas. Insurrections were mainly in military Garrisons led by General Catroux in Indo China. Economic strains caused unrest in Chad New Caledonia and the Cameroons. Government to use bank advances to boost purchases in affected regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy France
INS
Henri Petam
French West
Equatorial Africa
Indo-China
Boissons
Dakar
French West Africa
Catroux
Chad
New Caledonia
Camerons
Vichy
Lundeen’s Death Ends Bid for Bermuda Debt Settlement
Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, who long urged using British territory to settle the world debt, died before seeing his plan realized. He had attacked large defense spending as panic and bankruptcy, opposing further appropriations amid Roosevelt’s negotiation of Western Hemisphere base leases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ernest Lundeen
Minn
West Indies
Senate
House
Lundeen
Bermuda
Roosevelt
United States Navy
Air Corps
Sundeen
America
Crowd stampede at Frisco fair injures fifty
At the Golden Gate exposition in San Francisco a panic caused by a woman shouting Run the Tower of the Sun is falling sent about 700 fairgoers fleeing. Fifty were bruised or hurt, eleven hospitalized, mostly with cuts and scrapes. J G Kelly, 43, of Oakland, tried to calm the crowd but was knocked down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
J. G. Kelly
Oakland
Biggest Airliner Toll Surpasses Prior Record At 25
The death of 25 people aboard a Pennsylvania Central airliner in southern Virginia marks the worst fatality in U S commercial aviation history. The previous high was 19 on Oct 17, 1936 in Nevada, with other losses ranging from 10 to 17 in 1936 1937 and 1939.
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International News Service
Virginia
Nevada
Goodwin
Ark
Burbank
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Pittsburgh
Bozeman
Mont
Oklahoma City
It’s Like Arguing With The Umpire
Washington speaks as Rep Michener attempts to enlist for one year in the Army using a phone call. The 63 year old Michigan Republican argued the law permits one or three year enlistments but the Army refused the year option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Army
Rep
Michener
Michigan
Lines Flew 1 3 Billion Miles Without Fatality
CHICAGO INS quote Col. Edgar S. Gorrell president of the Air Transport Association of America notes the Pennsylvania Central Air lines crash that killed 25. He says airlines had flown 1 3,000,000,000 passenger miles without a fatality or injury in 3,100,000 passenger miles earned during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Edgar S. Gorrell
Air Transport Association of America
Fruit Butters Popular Year Round by Mrs Gaylor Wandox
A home canning article describes making fruit butters with apricot and plum, detailing ingredients such as dried apricots and ripe plums, instructions for soaking simmering and preserving, and notes on achieving the right consistency and sealing jars for year round use. The tone mimics a domestic pamphlet with specific measurements and steps.
Hurricane bears down on North Carolina coast
Labor day weekend crowds fled beaches as a 75 mph tropical hurricane bore toward the North Carolina Virginia coast. Storm warnings stretched from Wilmington to Virginia Beach with shipping halted and warnings broadcast on local radio. Elizabeth City and Norfolk faced the storm’s approach while Virginia Beach and nearby resorts watched closely.
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Virginia
Wilmington
Norfolk, Va
Virginia Beach
Tropical storm gains hurricane strength near New England coast
A tropical storm of full hurricane intensity moves north toward the New England coast from about 200 miles south of Cape Hatteras. Weather officials warn shipping and order storm warnings from the Virginia capes to Wilmington, Delaware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
New England
Cape Hatteras NC
Weather Bureau
Virginia Capes
Wilmington
Del
Western North Carolina hit by flash flood report
Eight persons were missing after a flash flood swept Western North Carolina mountain areas. Many communities suffered heavy property damage while travel and communication were disrupted but were being restored by Saturday night. The floods followed 24 hours of torrential rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
Ins
North Carolina
Farley Leaves Post In Farewell And Yankees Plan
Jim Farley vacated the postmaster general’s desk with a final expression of thanks to newspapermen. A farewell party handed him diamond studs and cuff links as he announced plans to retire from national politics and pursue buying the New York Yankees within 60 days.
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Washington
INS
Postmaster Generals
Big Jim
James A Farley
Roosevelt
Wuaashington
John O'Connor
New York
Farley
Hyde Park
New York Yankees
McCarran Links Tan deen Crash to Board Chaos After Shakeup
Washington reports Sen Pat McCarran blames the fatal airliner accident that killed Sen Ernest Lundeen and 24 others on chaos at the Civil Aeronautics Board since its transfer to the commerce department. He warns further wrecks unless the agency regains independent status. Colleagues recall Lundeen as a principled, outspoken figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pat McCarran
New
Ernest Tandeen
Minn
Civil Aeronautics Board
McCarran
Roosevelt
Commerce Department
Nevada
Senate
Effienes
Lundeens
Liba
Len Henrik Shipstead
Minnesota
Amorva
Europe
Burton KO Wheeler
Mont
Tundeen
Edwin John
Cole
Landeen
Two Thefts Reported Including Masonry Tools and Day Bed
A theft report lists masonry tools a day bed and related items missing from a job site at Thirteenth Avenue and Eleventh Street SE. A second theft involved a dashed iron and Wave chisel hammer from an unlocked garage at 324 Pioneer Street NE between 9 30 am and 6 pm. Police investigated a vagabond as a suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathy Satud
Coong
John Vaughn
Pioneer Street
Rumor of New British Navy Additions Circulates
The Express reports rumors that Britain may soon add destroyers and motor torpedo boats to its naval strength. The article offers no details on the origins or sources of these expected enhancements to the English fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Express Sundas
Methodist Youth Council Withdraws From Congress
Winona Lake Ind The National Council of Methodist Youth voted Saturday to withdraw from the American Youth Congress claiming its ethics conflict with the group’s highest ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona Lake
Inday
National Council of Methodist Youth
American Youth Congress
PTA Meetings in Cedar Rapids and Council Area
PTA council schedule notes a Tuesday session at the conference room of the Seat Administration Burr on Second Avenue and Fifth Street SW. Arthur Deamer will attend to extend greetings as parents discuss mem npe spy and Parent Education programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedi Rapids
Second Avenue
Arthur Deamer
Parnell Celebrates Husband on Birthday at Card Party
Parnell the American Legion auxiliary hosted a card party and time on Wednesday at the Madison Panahae home. Mos Tom Hall entertained four people Thursday and complimented her husband on his birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Hall
Caanne
Payment Order For Mexico To Oil Companies
Mexico ordered payment to oil companies after expropriation under the 1936 act. Judge Hernandez Ortega set indemnification at 177,624 18960 pesos with no appeal allowed. President Lazaro Cardenas issued the expropriation in 1938 valuing losses at $500 million, excluding subsoil deposits which the government holds.
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Mpenico City
INS
Pansisen Hernandez
Lazain ¢Tienda
Uofter
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Mrs. Verne Hanson
Ermal
Lasswell Photo
Mrs
D. E. Tinker
Gazette
Legionaires
U. S
Young Demos
France
Frisco
Gaylor Wandox
NEA
Weiter
Jim Farley
Madison
Santa
P.T.A. Meetings
PTA, Council
Parnell
Mexico
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