Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 Passed
The section by section analysis outlines the draft system the act establishes. It covers universal male registration ages 21 to 36, mandatory service with 12 month training, reserve service until age 45, and deferments for officials, ministers, students, and essential workers. It empowers the President to operate plants, sets quotas by population, and details penalties, payroll changes, and reemployment protections for draftees. It is to take effect after presidential signing.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Traimraz
Fonnn
Western Hemisphere
Armed Forces
Coast
Regular Army
National Guard
Selective Service
Confesses Forgeries Over Last Four Years
Merle Fear, 26, a farm hand, pleaded guilty to forging checks and was sentenced to a term not to exceed 10 years at the Anamosa reformatory. Fear admitted forging $10 checks in multiple counties including Delaware, Linn, Jones, Clayton, Fayette, Benton, and Bucaan.
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Manchester
Merle Fear
Ryan
L. V. Ware
Anamosa
Carl Anderson Fear
A B Lovejoy
Waterloo
John Fear
Humeston
Wayne Fear
Lamont
Fear
Young Margie Petrasek to lead in Last of Zborov play
Margie Petrasek, one of the youngest Bohemian Dramatic Association members, will star in the play Last of Zborov at C. S. P. S. hall on Sunday September 22 as the organization opens its fortieth season. The production features a large cast, new scenery, and wardrobe from a Chicago company. The Karla Masaryk chorus directed by Esther Hroneck Klersey will perform symbolic songs.
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Bohemian Dramatic Association
Margie Petrasek
Zborov
Chicago
Karla Masaryk
Esther Hroneck Klersey
Cornell Adds Spanish Course and Arts Offerings
Cornell college expands with Spanish courses reflecting ties to Spanish speaking regions. Dr. Mark Hutchinson will lead the new program while on leave from state college. New offerings include related arts, music, art and literature, and a course on physical foundations of music for sound studies.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
South
Mark Hutchinson
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Las Cruces
N. M
New Arts and Crafts Course Opens to All Students
The fine arts group adds a new school arts and crafts course open to students beyond those enrolled in regular college work. It invites broader participation and expands creative offerings within the program.
Linn County Pioneers Mark 66th Wedding Anniversary
ALBURNETT Seven miles southeast of Center Point Mr and Mrs James Hemphill celebrate sixty six years of marriage today in a quiet home gathering due to Mrs Hemphills ill health They are both past eighty six Their 1874 wedding linked LaFayette and Linn county Roots trace back to Ohio and a covered wagon voyage Their family includes one son and three grandchildren They claim to be Linn countys longest married couple
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Alburnett
Center Point
James Hemphill
Hemphill
Michel Fisher
LaFayette
Linn County
British Take Italian Engineer Off Philippine Freighter
A British warship halted the Philippine freight Dona Aurora about 100 miles off the California coast and removed an Italian engineer. H. H. Pierson of De La Rama Steamship Co said he had heard the report but had no direct word from captain M. C. Ventosa.
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San Francisco
California
H. H. Pierson
Pacific Coast
de la Rama Steamship Company
M. C. Ventosa
Parole Board Sets October Release From Anamosa
The Iowa Parole Board announced 30 inmates at the Anamosa state reformatory will be paroled in October. Included are four men originally given 25 year terms for aggravated robbery. Charles Shaw and James Rogers from Adair County 1935 thefts, Early Sholes from Council Bluffs lunchroom holdup 1930, and William Mertz in the 1934 Harper store robbery in Keokuk County. The Mertz case notes the store owner and his son were tied to a tree in a state park near Oskaloosa.
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Des Moines
State Parole Board
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Charles Shaw
James Rogers
Adair County
Early Sholes
Council Bluffs
William Mertz
Keokuk
Harper
Parale Board
Mertz
Oskaloosa
Sokolsky urges women to back Willkie in presidential race
Des Moines AP George Sokolsky of the New York Herald Tribune urged women at a Des Moines gathering to defeat Franklin D Roosevelt to defend American government. He told attendees to go out and fight for Wendell Willkie, stressing Roosevelt's indispensability as the central issue of the campaign.
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Des Moines
George Sokolsky
New York Herald-Tribune
Roosevelt
Republican Business Women's Club of
pro-America
Wendell Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Communist Party
Bund
South Side News
Jen Dale Se Mnou Pojd
Zahucely Hory
Karel IV Lodge
Anna
Bever Park
Cedar Rapids Lodge
Z. C
Mladocech Lodge
Cornell
Philippine
Montgomery Ward CO
Second Street
Parole Board
Willkie
J. C. Penney
DIAL
BIG Shoe Store
Cy HI
Neisner
First Avenue
Shoe Repair Dept
Jaal
Buehler Bros
First Street
Decca
Okeh Records
Hillbrunner
Montgomery
Hardendorf
Hardendorf Camera Shop
Third Avenue SE
Goodyear
Second Ave. SE
First Avenue East
Local Drug CO
Third Avenue
Smulekoff
Second Street SE
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