Hawkeye Workers May Return If Arbitration Board Named
Hawkeye Pearl Button Co employees idle since April 26 and on picket duty since June 19 may return to work immediately if Gov George A Wilson names an arbitration board to settle differences and Hawkeye officials agree to abide by the board's findings. Union officials declined to confirm details pending governor's official message.
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Hawkeye Pearl Button Co
George A. Wilson
Hawkeye Co
Journal
Hawkeye Button Company
Ed Schultheis
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
W. D. Randall
Hawkeye Company
Hawkeye Button Co
Fred C. Vetter
Harold C. Wilson
Wilson
Vetter
Hawkeye
Deadline Nears in Tall Corn Contest
Preparations for the tall corn contest at The Journal office proceed with local business support offering cash and merchandise prizes. Iowa and Illinois farmers may enter. the tallest stalk advances to a statewide event next week sponsored by the Iowa Daily Press association. Judges George Sauer Clinton Coder and L B Hoopes will measure entries and announce winners Friday after 11 a m.
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Journal
Iowa
Illinois
Iowa Daily Press Association
George Sauer
County Board of Supervisors
Clinton Coder
Sunken Sub Squalus Lift Under Navy Salvage Efforts
After storm damage and weather delays the U S Navy begins another lift of the sunken submarine Squalus using nine pontoons aboard the salvage ship Falcon. Divers repair hoses and untangle lines as air starts to fill pontoons, aiming to raise the craft 60 to 80 feet higher and tow it toward the Isles of Shoals.
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Portsmouth
N. H
U. S. Navy
Isles of Shoals
Falcon
Dain
Summarine
Cooperation in Revision of Tax Levies Is Asked
John W. Hanes, acting secretary of the treasury, urged business farm and labor leaders to help craft a tax revision program to improve individual and corporate taxes. He released a letter seeking input for preliminary hearings and a record of public tax opinion for the House Ways and Means subcommittee meeting November 1 to study the tax structure.
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Washington
John W. Hanes
Secretary of the Treasury
Hanes
Congress
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Family Thermometer Swallowed by Girl
Two year old Ruth Ann Eastes swallowed a family thermometer to cool a fever of 90 degrees. Doctors removed broken glass from her mouth and said the small amount of colored alcohol she ingested would not harm her.
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Indianapolis
Ruth Ann Eastes
Warning Issued on Punch Boards in State Crackdown
Des Moines Iowa attorney general Fred D. Everett announced a statewide crackdown on punch boards and directed county attorneys to enforce statutes governing these gambling devices. He urged swift action to curb illegal gaming practices.
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Des Moines
Fred D. Everett
Six States Shut Down Oil Fields to Boost Prices
The shutdown strike hit six states Oklahoma Kansas Arkansas Texas Louisiana and New Mexico drawing about 70 percent of U S crude supply from the market. About 170833 wells producing 2356800 barrels daily were affected with under 10 percent of Midcontinent workers expected to be laid off. Some producers plan a drive for higher crude prices amid anticipated refinery price increases.
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Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Roosevelt sails on ocean cruise amid world tour
President Roosevelt cruises aboard the Tuscaloosa departing Sydney Nova Scotia at 4:54 a m CST en route to Gulf of St Lawrence. The voyage follows his departure from Canada as part of his sea journey abroad.
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Lang
President Roosevelt
Canadis
Tuscaloosa
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Rainstorm Lashes Port Louisa Area Causing Wide Damage
A severe storm drenched Muscatine and Port Louisa with up to five and a quarter inches of rain near the pumping station. Flooding forced road closures, blackouts hit Columbus Junction and fairgrounds, and a transformer burned at Iowa Southern Utilities delaying events at the Louisa county fair.
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Muscatine
Louisa
H. S. McKinney
G. Krieger
Columbus Junction
Louisa County Fairgrounds
Electric Light Service
Junction
Iowa
Columbus City
Fredonia
Fairgrounds
Iowa River
Columbus Tigers
Oakville
State Council Orders Survey of Ford Building
Des Moines officials order an Iowa State College engineering survey of the Ford Motor Company building to assess remodeling and heating costs for possible use as a state office. Interim committee meets August 29 to review results. Donahue Investment offers $325,000 purchase with $65,000 yearly payments or $55,000 annual lease with $25,000 yearly credit if purchased later. The move aims to cut the $106,284 annual downtown rental bill.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
State Executive Council
Ford Motor Compan
Legislative
Iowa State
Colegee
Ames
Auto Assembly
Donahue Investment Company
Ford
Sears Roebuck Posts Record Seventh Period Sales
Sears, Roebuck and Company reported gross sales for the seventh period of its fiscal year from July 17 to August 13 totaling 39,894,986 dollars, up 6,748,535 or 20.4 percent from 1938’s period. The sales were the best seventh period in the firm’s history.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company Today
Weather outlook for Davenport and surrounding towns
Generally fair in west and central portions with local thunder showers in extreme east this afternoon or tonight. Friday shows fair conditions with little temperature change. Illinois mainly partly cloudy with local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight and in the south on Friday. cooler in the northeast tonight. River stage changes noted for several towns.
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Davenport
Rock Island
Moline
Illinois
Opposition to Roosevelt Is Predicted in Senate
Senator Van Nuys of Indiana predicted that at least 15 Democratic senators would refuse to support a third term for President Roosevelt. He said he would work against Roosevelt's renomination within the party and questioned the president's re election if nominated again.
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Eddie Brietz
E van Nuys
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Roosevelt
van Nuys
Garner
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
McNutt
Philippines
Washington
Sen
Ind
Indiana
New York Labor Conf. Rebuffs Roosevelt Third-Term Endorsement
Refuse Resolutions states the New York state federation of labor left endorsement of a Roosevelt third term to its parent body the American Federation of Labor. The state group with about 1,100,000 members rejected seven resolutions seeking such endorsement at its annual convention held Wednesday.
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New York State Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Last Wreckage of Streamliner Cleared Away in Nevada
The final wreckage from the City of San Francisco disaster near Harney, Nevada, was removed as investigators search for the person blamed by Southern Pacific. A. D. McDonald said the line may reopen through central Nevada this afternoon. George Stansell of Oakland died in Elko hospital, joining the death toll. William J. Jeffers announced a new 11 car streamliner will run on a 39 34 hour Chicago to San Francisco schedule starting August 23.
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Nev
Southern Pacific Company
San Francisco
A. D. McDonald
Nevada
George Stansell
Oakland
Calif
Southern Pacific
Elko
Harney
William J. Jeffers
Union Pacific
Chicago
Nazi Clamor Grows on Danzig Question
Europe watches Poland as Nazi demands for the Danzig issue intensify. Berlin hints direct talks without a Munich style settlement, while German sources discuss possible expanded demands and the fate of 1,000,000 Germans in Polish border regions. Wiesner’s arrest signals Poland’s resolve to curb domestic Nazi influence.
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Wiesner
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Sudeten Area
Britain
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Border Tension Sharpens Across Bohemia Moravia Front
Landeszeitung reports Polish frontier closures against the protectorate and Slovakia. Arrests of Germans with Polish citizenship on espionage charges mark a tense scene as Britain rearmes and Times editorials urge Poland’s consent. Wartime measures expand with fortifications along the Moravian border and soldiers drilling amid barbed wire barriers.
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London
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France and Britain Test War Planes Over London
Allied air drills featured more than 100 French bombers crossing the channel to London with British fighters intercepting along the coast. The climactic run over London involved sixty French fighters escorting the bombers home after a cross channel show of air strength.
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London
Great Britain
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Britain
Liverpool
Association of British Chambers of Commerce
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Yorkshire
Kuhn Claims Murphy Spoke at Bund Rally in Detroit
German American Bund leader Frits Kuhn testified before the Dies committee that Atty. Gen. Frank Murphy spoke at a Bund meeting in Detroit in 1936. Kuhn said Murphy spoke about German citizens for about ten minutes at the German house.
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Bund
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Frank Murphy
Detroit
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Dies
Max Kuhn
German Supreme Court
Germany
Rhea Whitley
House
UN American Activities
Supreme Court of Germany
Hitler
Whitley
Adolf Hitler
United States
High Speed Planes to Be Tested Soon
Santa Monica, California. Test flights will be conducted this week for the first of 100 high speed bombing planes being manufactured to fill a ten million dollar order from the French government. Douglas Aircraft Company said the planes will fly much faster than 300 miles an hour.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Douglas Aircraft Company
Waterloo Mayor Heads Iowa Municipalities League
Waterloo Mayor Ralph B. Slippy was elected president of the League of Iowa Municipalties. Early Mayor E. I. Mason was named vice president, and Frank G. Pierce of Marshalltown was chosen secretary treasurer.
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League of I
Iowa
Ralph B. Slippy
Waterloo
E. I. Mason
Early
Frank G. Pierce
Marshalltown
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