Good Fishing in Iowa Lakes Indicates Strong Start
Iowa fishermen reported 7 044 fish caught by 1 892 anglers in the first six days of the 1936 open season. The census at Clear Lake Spirit Lake and Okoboji lakes was compiled by the state conservation commission with help from conservation officers CCC camp members and boat liveries operators. The commission plans to continue the census at the four lakes through the summer to track yields and identify the lakes with the largest catches.
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Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Clear Lake
Spirit Lake
Okoboji Lakes
CCC
Commission
City Briefs Highlight Local Registrations and Meetings
New automobile registrations include Charles D. Robinson at 600 West Eighth Street with a Chevrolet and Samuel Chesebrough at 2712 Mulberry Avenue with a Pontiac. Sea Scouts missed Thursday meeting due to commencement exercises. Park Place Community League meets Friday at 7 30. Fire crews extinguished a damp East Eighth Street blaze at 11 28 a m.
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Charles D. Robinson
West Eighth Street
Chevrolet
Iowa
Muscatine
Samuel Chesebrough
Mulberry Avenue
Pontiac
Sea Scouts
Allen R. Brown
Hammond
Ind
Clark Brown
West Fourth Street
Triune Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Park Place Community League
John Fitzgerald
Birmingham
Ala
Fitzgerald
Page
Wyoming Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Cleveland
Townsend Club
City Hall
East Eighth Street
Central Station
Future Farmers Close School Year With Picnic Event
Muscatine high school Future Farmer club will honor senior members at a Weed park picnic this afternoon and tonight under favorable weather. Lindley B. Hoopes, club advisor, heads the event. Earlier, 27 students plus Hoopes and Ed Willetts toured John Deere plow works in Moline Illinois visiting harvester plant. they lunched at LeClaire Hotel in Moline during noon.
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Muscatine High School
Future Farmer Club
Weed Park
Lindley B. Hoopes
John Deere
Moline
Ill
Mr. Hoopes
Ed. Willetts
Muscatine
LeClaire Hotel
Retired Des Moines Pastor Found Dead at Home
Neighbor found 77 year old Rev E A McDonald dead in a rocking chair two days after he complained of head pain. His wife, 77, who is invalid, lay on the floor unable to summon help. The report notes his residence in Des Moines and the elderly wife’s account of the event.
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Des Moines
E. A. McDonald
Only 18 Civil War Veterans on Rolls at Home
Marshalltown Iowa report shows 604 residents at the Iowa Soldiers Home with 347 men on federal assistance and 238 World War veterans. Among them 18 are Civil War veterans, three Spanish American War veterans, and 127 on furlough. the Civil War group is the largest among homes mustered this year.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
O. K. Marshall
Washington, D. C
National Homes Service
Veterans’ Administration
Marshall
Iowa Truck Driver Killed in Early Morning Crash
Floyd Dawson of Sioux City Iowa died when the truck he was driving for a Kansas City transport firm crashed into an embankment two miles east of Burlington Junction Missouri. He was transporting canned goods from Kansas City to Sioux City.
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Burlington Junction
Floyd Dawson
Sioux City
Here
Dawson
Kansas City
Awards for Attainment Given to Many Students
Presentation of the 1936 graduating class highlighted outstanding achievements at annual exercises led by Principal Fred G Messenger at First Methodist church. Top honors included valedictorian Patricia Tipton and salutatorian Dorothy Greenwald with numerous awards to senior class officers, honor society members, athletic letter winners, captains, and long attendance records.
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Fred G Messenger
First Methodist Church
Billy Keating
Dorothy Greenwald
Wilma Kautz
Patricia Tipton
Kenneth Daniels
Jack Ficken
Robert Korneman
Beverly Pollock
Bruce Ratcliff
Ladd Steinmetz
Elva Stone
National Honorary Society
William Fahy
Frances Highbarger
June Davison
Lillian Hiller
Wilmam Barney
Lester Schmelzer
Billy
Auroran
Marion Narvis
Marjorie Boston
Lola Folsom
Ted Allen
Charles Anson
Don Berger
Lyle Bieber
Harold Blean
Thomas Bruner
Ralph Butler
Chet Butts
Elwood Clark
Ed Cornthwaite
Curtis Cromer
Bernard Dora
John Fishburn
Ralph Freese
Robert Garfield
Robert Green
Howard Griffith
Walter Hendrickson
Edward Hill
Arthur Howe
Bill Keating
Orville Lemkau
Virgil Manley
Ronald Miller
Robert Nau
Gerald Powell
Bruce Ratcliffe
Kenneth Satterthwaite
Edward Schmitt
Spain Probes Arms Smuggling Linked to Monarchy Rebellion
Alfonso Mallol, director of public safety, dispatched three platoons of shock police to Pamplona to investigate reports that arms for revolutionists were smuggled into Spain from France. The stories hint at planned monarchist rebellion.
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Madrid
Alfonso Mallol
Pamplona
Spain
France
Premiers of Two Nations Confer Amid League Crisis
In Venice Premier Mussolini and Chancellor Schuschnigg held a two hour talk on Italy’s stance if forced to quit the League of Nations. A reliable source says Mussolini would seek new European alliances led by Germany, placing Austria between Nazi and fascist powers.
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Venice
Mussolini
Italy
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Schuschnigg
Il Duce
Opposition Against Leftist Government Sparks Protests
A fragmented report notes opposition figures denouncing Premier Santiago Cesares as demonstrations erupt. Although details are limited, observers describe growing unrest and calls for policy change amid political tension.
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Santiago Cesares
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Conservation Commission
Future Farmers
United States
Burns
Joseph W. Burns
Washington
Tennessee Statesman
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Congress
Muscatine Muunicipal Electric Plant
Robert J. Allison
Davenport
Louis
Joe Louis
Lakewood
N. J
Max Schmeling
Yankee Stadium
Euston Longhurst
Elsie D. McKinney
Mary Elda Stein
Paul Welk
Charlotte Braun
Harold Bronner
M. Jacobs
John Ficken
Dorothy Federlein
Wilma Barney
Basil Glick
Art Howe
Jean van Dyke
Iowa City
Dorothy Bowen
Marguerite Custer
Marvel Grimm
Harold Henning
Janet Korneman
Dorothy Legler
Marjorie McElroy
Maxine McKone
Fern Maisenbach
Martha Meeker
Lucille Miller
Loretta Mills
Gene Mortimer
Verna Reynolds
Dorothy Rogers
Arnold Sauer
Leo Hart
Bill Sylvester
Myron Jacobs
Freeman
Freemans
Wilson
Tuice
Oliver A. Quayle, Jr
Forbes Morgan
Democratic National Committee
Helen H. Benett
Philadelphia
Muscatine Building and Loan Association
Hershey
J. C. Broad
West Second St
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