Old Iowa Campaign for United War Work Drives $36 Million
Iowa mobilizes for the United War Work Campaign November 11 18 urging a $36 133 000 quota across fifteen districts to fund seven welfare organizations aiding troops in France and demobilization period. Leaders Cited include Edwin Brown and committee members from Y M C A YWCA Knights of Columbus Jewish Welfare Board and Salvation Army.
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Iowa
United War Work
United Catholic War Council
Knights of Columbus
Jewish Welfare Board
War Camp Community Service
American Library Association
Salvation Army
War Department
Lowa
Dr. Me
Dr. Mott
Lown
Edwin Brown
Sioux City
Chas
Hutchinson
J. G. Olmsted
Morris
Chas. A. Rawson
National Catholi War Council
Kuights of Columbus
Bishop Austin Dowling
John A. Cavanaugh
Jake Sheverman
Louis Davidson
T. Meredith
E Harbacn
Henry L. Adams
Johnson Brigham
Brig
A. B. Pebbles
MacKinnon
Charlies Rawson
Des Moines
Iowa war drive leadership and district chairmen listed
Generals Marshall and Allenby style tactics credited as model for Iowa campaign. State chairman Graham Stewart coordinates, with Joe McCormick of Cedar Rapids handling publicity. District and county chairmen named across counties. cooperating groups list quotas including M C A and YWCA funds totaling over 150 million.
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Graham Stewart
Des Moines
Joe McCormick
Cedar Rapids
W. F. Kopp
Mr. Pleasant
M. Roberts
Ottumwa
J. F. Bryan
Creston
Henry T.peterson
Council Bluffs
L. E. Harbach
Art Oppenheimer
Oskaloosa
Ray Nymaster
Davenport
Leon Eisfold
Henry
Adam Weir
Lee
Sidney Lent
H. C. Brown
Wapello
T. Henry Foster
Jefferson
J. P. Starr
van Buren
H. B. Carroll
Davis
Ellsworth Rominger
Appanoose
Geo. M. Barnett
Union
F. D. ‘Ball
Clark
J. H. Lewis
Lucae
Fred
Risser
Wayne
A. J. Draper
Decatur
W. R. McGinnis
Ringgold
H. N. Miller
Taylor
H. M Ramsey
Adams
W. A McKelvy
Adair
J. N. Laughfitt
Potta Wattamie
Charles Roe
John G
Wadsworth
Harrison
C. W. Kelley
Crawford
C. L. Voss
Shelby
Chas
D. Booth
Audu
Mahaska
C. Ver Ploeg
Marion
Bellamy
Keokuk
W. F. Vanderlippe
Monroe
L. T. Richmond
Scott
Joe R. Lane
Muscatine
F. O Block
Johnson
J L. Records
Washington
H. H. McCleery
Linn
James Killian
Jones
George Schoonover
Cedar
H. Murray
Chickasaw
M. Kennedy
Howard
R. Thompson
Winneshiek
W. F. Baker
Allamakee
P H. Waters
Cerro Gordo
C. Bagley
Floyd
M W. Ellis
Mitchell
John P. Lund
Worth
Hans Fosness
Winnebago
J. Newman
Hiancock
J. N. Sprole
Marehall
R W. McCreery
Grundy
H. F. Sprague
Butler
FE. B. Hodges
Franklin
D Wells Mott
H. E. Boehmier
Hardin
Chas. O. Ryan
Hamilton
Henry Tiger
Wright
L. G. Focht
Boone
Story
Clyde L. Siverly
Greene
Ralph Howard
Carroll
J. A. Dougherty
Webster
John T Ford
Humboldt
Laurence Winne
Kossuuth
al Falkenheiner
Calhoun
F. C. Stevenson
Palo Alto
D. Johnson
Pocahontas
J. M. Berry
Emmet
J. P. Kirby
Sac
Geo. B. Perkins
Buena Vista
T. H. Chapman
Dickinson
J. I. Overbolt
Clay
A. N. Avery
Woodbury
Dave Davidson
Monona
W. W. Gingles
Ida
Julius Rover
Cherokee
W. O. Dalley
O'Brien
F. E. Frisbie
Osceola
J. Fred Mattert
Lyon
Ben Abben
Sioux
Garret Clay
Plymouth
James Gillisple
National Catholic War Council
Knights of Columbus
Jewish Welfare Board
War Camp Community Service
American Library Association
Salvation Army
Italian Front Describes Starving Austrian Army in Italy
A wartime dispatch from Rovereto to Trent portrays Italian and Austrian troops amid destruction and hunger. Soldiers march under fatigue while Austrian prisoners are cut off, with scenes of carcasses, roadside fires, and a plea for food as armistice chatter fades.
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Trent
Belzino
Europe
Napoleon
Russia
Rovereto
Belgian Mayor Mor of Brussels Conditionally Liberated
The Belgian government reports Mayor Mor of Brussels will be released under German conditions and forced to reside at Goslar Germany after his arrest in September 1914 for irreconcilable conduct. The text also references a Crown Prince assassination and German actions.
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Mor
Brussels
Wmne
Goslar
Germany
Assassination reported of former German Crown Prince
The former Crown Prince of Germany was found dead on a train in Berne. He bore multiple bullet holes and bayonet wounds, apparently inflicted by his own troops. Other items note his safe arrival in Maastricht and Allied replies in Washington and London on war terms.
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Berne
Crown Prince
Germany
Hoover Abandons 80-20 Rule In Immediate Move
Burlington Iowa November 13 J F Deems reports Hoover announces immediate abandonment of the 80-20 rule. Plans are under way to place all stocks of substitutes and a further announcement will follow for retailers bakers and others involved.
Iowans urged to join in cleaning up W S quota
Des Moines Iowa November 13 1945 War Savings campaign director Homer A Miller urges citizens to buy stamps on Thanksgiving Day to meet the state's remaining quota expressing gratitude and support for the war effort urging shoppers to visit their polling place and purchase stamps to the limit of their ability
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Ings
Flu Leaves Only One in Family in Winona
Mrs. Mat hew Wardyn of a rural Winona farm is the sole survivor of a five member family who died of Spanish influenza last month. Her husband two daughters and a son are dead leaving her to mourn the loss in the small parish.
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Winona, Minn
Mathew Wardyn
Here
Bolshevik Forces Scattered in Siberia
Bolshevik and Austro German forces in Siberia are now nearly scattered, an official war office statement says. Small bands tried to pillage several towns in October but were immediately dispersed.
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Tokyo
Siberia
War Office
Seven Iowa Organizations Back U W W Campaign Aid
The seven groups coordinating in the United War Work Campaign in Iowa commit to continuing support for soldiers. The collaboration aims to sustain morale and provide comforts through ongoing drives, services, and fundraising across the state.
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United War Work Campaign
Iowa
Albert Ballin Dies Ex Kaiser's Closest Adviser
Albert Balin general director of the Hamburg American Steamship Company died suddenly on a Saturday in Copenhagen announced to Berlin and Stockholm on November 7. The report links Balin to the Kaiser and notes his position leading the Hamburg American line. Further lines discuss Ludendorff and Von Hutter with claims of Swedish descent through Ada Leffler, tracing ancestry to Gustavus Vasa.
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Kaiser
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Copenhagen
Albert Balin
Berlin
Stockholm
Ludemdorff
von Hutter
Riga
Ludemdorffs
Ada Leffler
Ludendorff
von Hutters
Lefflers
Sweden
Gustavus Vase
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France
Flanders
Gen. W. P. Marshall
W. B. Marshall
Tigris
Allenby
Palestine
Italy
Max
Crown Princ IN
Holland
the Hague
Maastricht
Prince
Wilson
London
Hoover
Burlington
J. F. Deems
Homer A. Miller
Mr. Miller
Iowa Boys
Aix Les Bains
America
Elsie Janis
Walter Damrosch
Margaret Mayo
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Charlie Chaplin
Albert Ballin
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