Dahl's Wife Presses Franco for Freeing Captive Aviator
In Cannes, Edith Dahl appeals via Red Cross after Franco promised to free Dahl if any captive airman is released. The eight month bride, formerly Edith Rogers, says she sought Allied and nationalist help, claiming her husband Harold Dahl of Champaign Illinois was captured July 13 and sentenced to death. She describes her attempt to spy for his release and notes Franco's personal reply and photo delivery.
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Cannes
France
Harold E. Dahl
Francisco Franco
International Red Cross
Franco
Dahl
Champaign
Til
State Department
Washington
Valencia
Grinnell Man Honored As Police Chiefs Leader
Clinton Iowa AP report states A B Manson of Grinnell was elected first vice president of the Iowa Police Chiefs association at its annual convention.
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Clinton
A. B. Manson
Grinnell
Iowa Police Chiefs Association
California Now Claims Title To Ocean Current
Dr. H. A. Sverdrup of the Scripps Institute urges renaming the Pacific sea stream the California Current. He argues the current's southerly flow from higher latitudes, its cold water, and regional features justify the label.
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California
Fruit tree road plantings proposed on Hawaiian highways
Honolulu reports the territorial highway commission plans to plant fruit trees along highways to boost local food supply, aiming to extend the program across the islands after 24 miles have already been lined. No signs will prohibit picking fruit.
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Hawaiian
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Territorial Highway Commission
A H Blank Redeems Paramount Building In Des Moines
A. H. Blank of Des Moines redeems the Paramount theater building from sheriff's sale. He pays 75,253.72 with interest, adding to a prior judgment and lien structure involving Century Building bonds and trustee roles. Judge Haas appoints Blank as successor trustee with redemptive authority, setting notice and claim deadlines and outlining lien priorities and final title transfer conditions.
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Des Moines
Strauss
E. W. Lundquist
A. H. Blank
Paramount Theater
General Theater Corp
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Haas
Blank
Red Lights Dimmer When Traffic's Heavy
MOSCOW UP reports Prof. V. Kravkov head of the Central Institute of Ophthalmology has shown sound alters eye color sensitivity. Audi tor y stimulation makes the eye more sensitive to green and blue while reducing red sensitivity, explaining dimmer red lights when traffic is noisy.
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Moscow
V. Kravkov
Central Institute of Ophthalmology
Tobacco Bags Spark Quilts in Binghamton Marriage
Mrs. Belle Miller uses cloth sacks from her husband’s 360 tobacco tins to make coverlets. She washes and cross stitches the sacks, finishing a quilt only after her husband finishes a batch of tobacco. She is now on her fifth tobacco bag quilt while he continues to smoke the right kind of tobacco.
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Binghamton Wny
Belle Miller
Bath Houses In Tokio Prepare To Raise Fees
TOKIO UP The public bath houses in Tokio will raise prices by about a third of a cent for millions of citizens. Bathtubs and modern plumbing are not common in many Japanese homes, so people often visit public baths, sometimes several times daily in summer, where hot water calms the heat. Authorities had planned a price increase from 4 to 6 sen, while the water remains intensely hot.
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Tokio
City B and Personal Notices and Local Items
W H Dick of Des Moines, Rock Island lines superintendent, was in the city on business Friday. Advertisements note a St Ludmila chicken dinner. S H Growell, 53, of 713 Fourth Ave SE, fined $25 in police court for intoxication. School board committee meeting on bus routes postponed to Monday at 4. George Jennings’ petty larceny case dismissed. R L Van Meter fined $2 for parking near a fire hydrant. W L Alexander fined for overtime parking. Helping Hand Society members canned tomatoes at Sunshine Mission for the men’s shelter. Shueyville United Brethren church service at 9:30, with Sunday school at 10:30 and senior Endeavor at 7:30. Dr Louie T Austin of Mayo Clinic will speak to Cedar Rapids Dental Society at Roosevelt Hotel on Radiographic Interpretation and Diagnoses with dinner at 6.
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W. H. Dick
Des Moines
Rock Island Lines
City
S. H. Growell
Fourth Avenue SE
Thomas B. Powell
R L. van Meter
First Avenue E
W L. Alexander
Linn Boulevard
Shueyville United Brethren Church
Christ
God
Jesus
Louie T. Austin
Mayo Clinic of
Rochester, Mann
Cedar Rapids Dental Society
Roosevelt Hotel
Austin
Warren Shoemaker Fined for Reckless Driving in Chicago
Warren Shoemaker of Chicago was fined $25 and costs by Justice H R Churchill on Thursday afternoon after arraignment on a reckless driving charge. He was arrested by Iowa authorities.
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Warren Shoemaker
Chicago
Justice H. R. Churchill
Iowa
Patrol Car In City Limits At Sixty In Twenty Five Zone
Highway patrol reports a vehicle entering the city limits at sixty miles per hour in a twenty five mile zone and forcing another car off the road in passing, according to officers.
Accidental Shot Reunites Young Separated Couple
In Cleveland, William Everett, 20, and his 19 year old wife who wed in Ripley, N Y, were separated by her parents. A self inflicted gunshot wound to the stomach brought William to the hospital and prompted his wife to rush to his side and drop a divorce action.
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Cleveland
William Everett
Ripley
N. Y
William
Kittens Six-Toed Across Generations In Buffalo
Miss Virginia Thompson’s cat has a brood with six or seven toes on forepaws. The mother and grandmother also had extra toes, Horace Wilder of Hinckley’s Veterinary Hospital notes the trait is hereditary and common in cats.
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Buffalo
Virginia Thompson
Horace Wilder
Hinckley's Veterinary Hospital
Peaches Shaved Before Market In New Jersey
In Richwood New Jersey heavy rains caused peaches to grow extra fuzz. A steel fingered device attached to sorting machines now defuzzes the fruit, stripping the beard and pleasing dealers with the neater crop.
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Richwood
N. J
New Jersey
U S Surgeon In Spain To Repair Faces
American plastic surgeon Dr. J Eastman Sheehan began a mercy mission through insurgent Spain to repair thousands of mutilated faces among fighters. He compared injuries in Franco’s army to World War I losses and aimed to relieve agony with surgery.
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San Sebastian
Spain
J. Eastman Sheehan
Polyclinic Medical School
New York
Francisco Franco
Sheehan
Surge hospitals in Zaragoza and Salamanca aid wounded
Surge military hospitals in Zaragoza and Salamanca treat Francoist soldiers in urgent need of plastic surgery after intense hand to hand fighting. Personal combat with knives and bayonets has dominated over a year of Spanish strife.
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Zaragoza
Salamanca
Franco
Modern warfare dangers cited by experts at close range
Military experts warn that the fiercest injuries stem from modern rifle bullets fired at point blank range. Hundreds suffer severe head wounds and lose hands from detonators placed on electrified barbed wire entanglements and parapets.
Death notice for Frank Hf. Stegall at his brother's home
Frank H. Stegall, 66, died at 1240 a.m. Friday at the home of his brother Minor Stegall on Memorial Drive Southeast Route 4. He was born in Knox County, Illinois, September 7, 1871. The body is at Moon Chapel where friends may call.
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Frank H. Stegall
Minor Stegall
Memorial Drive
Route 4
Knox County
Moon Chapel
Blames Movies Pulps For Family Squabbles
Los Angeles based answer from Paul Popenoe head of the Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations. He claims movies pulps and newspaper headlines wreck most American families. He argues these media fail to impart the proper attitude toward family life.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Paul Popenoe
Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations
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