Republicans Oppose TVA Style Missouri Valley Plan
House Republicans oppose Roosevelt's request for a TVA like governing board to run the Missouri valley navigation flood control and power project. Representative Jensen warns against new agencies writing blank checks, while Short questions mirroring TVA. Roosevelt says the authority would aid nine states in industry and jobs postwar.
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Washington
House
Missouri Valley
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
TVA
Ben Jensen
R-Ia
Jensen
Dewey Short
R-Mo
Missouri
Missouri Basin
Tennessee Valley
Short
Tama County Farmer Ends Life by Hanging
Special to The Gazette. Fred Engel, a farmer three miles northwest of Garwin, Tama County, ended his life Thursday night by hanging in the grain elevator on his farm. Coroner Harvey Jones said Engel had been despondent over ill health. Surviving are his wife Pearl and several children by a former marriage.
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the Gazette
Toledo
Fred Engel
Garwin
Harvey Jones
Tama County
Engel
Pearl
Dahlstrom Wounded in Canadian Army Action
Ottawa AP reports Trooper Harding Earl Dahlstrom has been wounded dangerously. His grandmother, Mrs. Mina Dahlstrom, lives in Farmersburg. The announcement comes from the Canadian army on Friday.
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Ottawa
Canadian Army
Harding Earl] Dahlstrom
Mina Dahlstrom
Farmersburg
Marion News Briefs From Marion Iowa
Local notices report Mrs Lee McKee of Spokane suffered a pelvic fracture in an automobile collision with an oil tanker on Sept 11 and is at Deaconess hospital Spokane. Cpl John Francis Kelly 19 died Sept 17 from crash injuries. services set for Saturday at St Josephs church Marion. Aviation Cadet William Vahl completed basic training at Merced and heads to Pecos for advanced training. Navy man L J Neuenswander on 14 day leave with parents. Bess Boyles to Milwaukee for teaching work. Mrs Irvin Schmickle hosted a shower for cousin Mrs Paul Lillie. Sgt Lillie to Fort Benning. Mrs Robert Newlin and daughter Constance Lee return home. Sgt Newlin to Camp Barkley. Mrs Oscar Daubenmier services Saturday Linn Grove church. Farming ad notes Snow apples for sale. Various social notices and ads from Marion merchants and civic groups fill the remainder.
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Lee McKee
N. A. Baker
Wilson
Spokane
Wash
Miriam Jackson
Marion
Deaconess Hospital
Cpl
Kelly
John Francis Kelly
Copeland
Kan
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
T. J. McElliott
van Horne
Iowan Sentenced For Bank Robbery In Wisconsin
Sheldon L. Henry 27 of Dubuque was sentenced to 10 years for the Prairie City bank robbery in Bagley Wisconsin amounting to 1282 dollars. He also received a three year term for driving a stolen car from Iowa to Wisconsin. The two sentences run concurrently.
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Madison
Wis
Sheldon L. Henry
Dubuque
Prairie City
Bagley
Henry
Patrick T. Stone
Iowa
Wisconsin
Railroad Switchman Hero Rescues Girl at Ottumwa
Ottumwa story: J P Tracy a Chicago Burlington and Quincy switchman saves 13 year old Laura Mae McDowell from an oncoming fast mail train. He leaped onto the tracks and carried her to safety with inches to spare.
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Ottumwa
INS
J. P. Tracy
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Laura Mae McDowell
Burlington
Chicago
Denver
Tracy
Negro and white wife charge civil rights violation in Des Moines
Des Moines authorities file civil rights charges against Katz Drug Co managers Maurice Katz and Charles Fisher after a Negro man and his white wife allege they were refused service at a lunch counter. The accuser is Dr H W Haggerty a churchman and professor with ties to a national spiritual church group based in Omaha.
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Des Moines
INS
Katz Drug Company
Maurice Katz
Charles Fisher
H. W. Prince Haggerty
Glennie Faye
Haggerty
National Spiritual Churches In Christ of the United States of America
National Institute and Association of Science and Arts
Omaha
Two More Deaths Follow Explosions
In Dubuque Peter Oster aged 63 died at a hospital from injuries after Wednesday explosion at the Dubuque Packing plant. Two other men burned remain in serious condition. In Sioux City Frank Butler, 64, died from injuries after three gasoline tanks exploded, destroying 39 000 gallons of gasoline. Three more people are in serious condition.
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Dubuque
Peter Oster
Dubuque Packing Company
Sioux City
Frank Butler
Child Drowns At Farm Water Tank Near Ottosen
Janet Kemna aged 18 months, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Kemna, drowned Wednesday night in a water tank at a farm near Ottosen where her father worked.
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Ottosen
Janet Kemna
Ed Kemna
Here
Memorial Rites At Manchester For 2 Soldiers
Memorial services for Pvt. Richard E. Swan son and Sgt. Robert A. Kennedy will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church in Manchester. Attending will be Manchester post No. 45 American Legion and local Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges. Swan son died July 16 in France with the Thirtieth division. Kennedy died August 17 with the Third armored division.
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Manchester
Richard E. Swanson
Robert A. Kennedy
Prairie Township
France
Methodist
Charles E. Mason
Manchester Post
American Legion
Manchester Lodge
A. F
A.M
Hyperion Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Swanson
Axel Swanson
Sgt. Kennedy
Third Armored Division
John Kennedy
Multiple Iowa funeral services listed for residents
Obituary notices recap several midwest services held for deceased individuals across Ossian Spillville Oelwein Tama Oxford-Aimetion Oxford Mills and related towns. Survivors named include spouses children siblings and extended family with locations spanning Ossian Cresco Dubuque Lawler Spencer Seattle Tucson Chicago and Toronto.
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Ossian
Henry Halverson
Sioux Falls
S. D
Ole Johnson
Jens Egeland
Thea Tinderholt
Martin
Gunder Tinderholt
Albert Tinderholt
Thompson
Spillville
Rose Slebiska
Cresco
Helen Graf
Dubuque
Gertrude Kuhn
George Riehle
Lawler
William Riehle
Frank Ondrashek
Rochester
Minn
Oelwein
Lydia Ramos
Pedro
Paul
South Pacific
D. Ortega
John Martinez
Ellen Connor Spencer
Tama
Ada Bell
Detroit
W. H. Ferguson
Spencer
Francis
Seattle
Wash
Kenneth
Tucson
Ariz
Oxford Aimetion
Vernon Hodgden
University Hospital
Iowa City
Oxford Mills
Floyd
Wayne
Oxford Junction
Harold
Toronto
Charles
Alburnett
Verda Merritt
Clarence
Irma Clapp
Hale
Louis Crutzfield
Lowden
Fred Crutzfield
Olin
Louise Proesch
Anna Houseman
Cedar Rapids Tops State in New Home Construction
Cedar Rapids led Iowa in August with nine new dwellings valued at 28 700, while 129 remodels valued at 74 300 were approved. The health department report cites 21 new dwelling permits in 16 first class cities valued at 70 390, up from 4050 last August. Remodeling permits reached 401 on property valued at 136 403.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Public Health Engineering Division
State Health Department
Obituary notices for Hageman and Cochran
Independence services held for Ernest W. Hageman 66 owner of Grand and Iowa theaters. Survived by wife Bernice daughter Ernest W. Jr. and relatives. Mrs John Cochran 40 dies by self inflicted gunshot at Traer farm. husband and two sons survive along with a daughter and relatives.
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Independence
Ernest W. Hageman
Lutheran Church and Elks Lodge
Hageman
Grand
Iowa
Bernice
Ernest W., Jr
Alhambra
Calif
S. T
Carl Hageman
Carl Grawe
Woman reports purse theft in Dubuque store
Mrs Fred Amsden of Garber Iowa told police she left her pocketbook containing 2300 dollars on a department store counter then walked away to view handkerchiefs. On returning the purse had vanished.
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Dubuque
Fred Amsden
Garber
SUI to Graduate 147 Doctors and Nurses
Iowa City plains the University of Iowa will award 72 medicine degrees and 75 nursing degrees at Sunday commencement. Dr Walter L Bierring of Des Moines delivers the address. Degrees include 15 civilians and 7 nursing women. 40 medical cadets in the army, 17 in the navy.
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Iowa City
College of Medicine
School of Nursing
University of Iowa
Walter L. Bierring
Des Moines
State University Medical College
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Virgil M. Hancher
Iowa
Allamakee
Burnice E. Meyer
New Albin
Benton
Marjorie E. Thompson
van Horne
Buchanan
Lucille M. Carley
Independence
Cedar
Virginia
A. Carlson
Tipton
Clayton
Sandra Jane Orr
McGregor
Fayette
John F. Cotham
Elizabeth Kennedy
Oelwein
Betty Jean Stribley
Waucoma
Jackson
Roy E. Hayes
Maquoketa
Johnson
Charles W. Beckman
Chester G. Bennett
Wallace C. Ellerbrook
Mary E. Godfrey
Rex R. Harrington, Jr
Edgar O. Hicks
Marwyn L. Hicks
Wendell A. Johnson
John F. McGreevey
Daniel S. Miller
George A. Miller
Christian E. Schrock
Thomas O Rowley
Carolyn E. Colony
Loretta J. Costello
Shirley Ellis
Mildred J. Johnson
Elizabeth I. Means
Laura Mae Miler
Lucille Wooters
Jones
Richard E. Paul
Anamosa
Rainbow Girls Install New Officers at Tama
Marjorie Hufford of Toledo was installed as worthy advisor of Rainbow Girls in Tama. Other officers include Janice Lincox as associate adviser Marilyn Bramblett charity Alice Overturf hope Shirley Moyer faith Georgia Betz drill leader Barbara Hill treasurer Delores Kilcoin recorder Theone Dupre chaplain Maxene Booth Adeline Booth color guard Shirley Nelson love Joan Croskey religion Dorothy Zearfoss nature Marjorie Earnest immortality Bette Conrad fidelity Betty Thill patriotism Alyce Houston service Joan Mochal confidential observer Sue Hartsell outer observer Ina Mae Mochal organist Janet Lauterdale choir director Darlene Weaver outgoing adviser received a pin.
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TAMA
Marjorie Hufford
Toledo
Rainbow Girls
Janice Lincox
Marilyn Bramblett
Charity
Alice Overturf
Hope
Shirley Moyer
Georgia Betz
Barbara Hill
Delores Kilcoin
Theone Dupre
Maxene and
Adeline Booth
Shirley Nelson
Joan Croskey
Dorothy Zear
Foss
Marjorie Earnest
Bette Conrad
Betty Thill
Alyce Houston
Joan Mochal
Confidential
Sue Hartzell
Outer Observer
Ina Mae Mochal
Janet Lauderdale
Darlene Weaver
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Dahlstrom
Storm
Variety Store
Cherry-Burrell
Cherry-Burrell Corporation
War Labor Board
Corporation
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
H. M. Figg
H. H. Cherry
Charles W. Hobbie
Ehtending
A. L. Woggenthaler
D. D.hastings
Marion News
Hallwood Cafe
Mae Vahl
Eleventh Street
William Vahl
Merced Army Airfield
Pecos
Texas
L. J Neuenswander
Navy
Mrs
Levi Neuenswander
Bess Boyles
Frank S. Skinner
Milwaukee
Irvin Schmickle
Paul Lillie
Sgt. Lillie
Camp Fannin
Fort Benning
Robert Newlin
Constance Lee
B. L. McNiel
Sgt. Newlin
Okmulgee
Okla
Camp Barkeley
Daubenmier
Oscar Daubenmier
Martelle
Bernard Blok
Linn Grove
Anamosa Hospital
Harold Fernow
Irving Finger
Ashley Chapter
D.A.R
Syl’s Grocery
Mr. Kramer
Christian Hebrew Alliance Mission
Cincinnati
Marion Baptist Church
Ed Sigfred Company
Ray Hoglund
Marion Golf Club
Theola Gordon
Dill
Prince Albert
Sir Walter Rawleigh
Owen
Andrew P. Munson
Quincy, Ill
Smart Fall
M. L. Braska Company
Warren F. DuBois
West Coast
Kwajalein Atoll
DuBois
Long Beach
Harry DuBois
W. H., Booze
Yorkstown
Culbert’s
Rosedale
Omar
Dickey’s Quality Foods
Monarch Coffee
Hens
Bete
Vicks _VaeoRus
Pines
London
Rose Leslie
Hilltop Farm
Sheriff's Office
Colton Mattresses
Leventhal
First Street
Blackhawk
Blackhawk Brewing Co
Davenport, Ta
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