Stop Aiding Rebels UN Tells Balkans Food Riots Rise
Food riots sweep Nanking Shanghai and nearby areas as Chinese prices surge. Nationalist and Communist forces clash around Hsuchow Msuchow and Pengpu while rioting workers demand higher wages and more rice. Authorities plan nightly curfews and an emergency relief rice program funded by ECA loans.
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Nanking
Hsuchow
Shanghai
Msuchow
Pengpu
Polite
Hangchow
K.C. Wu
Economic Cooperation Administration
Roger D. Lapham
AmVets Kickoff Dinner Planned by Hazleton Post
Hazleton special edition reports the Hazleton AmVets organization will hold its first dinner at Hazleton High School gym on November 15 from 7 30 to 8 00. Tickets available from any Hazleton post member. William Stiles commander leads the dinner and program.
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Hazleton
Hazleton AmVets
Hazleton School
William Stiles
Tribunal Convicts Japan of War Conspiracy in Pearl Harbor Case
An international tribunal convicts Japan of conspiracy to wage aggressive wars and condemns Pearl Harbor as an unprovoked act. The verdict, reading over 1200 pages, pins the plan on wartime leaders led by Hideki Tojo, with death likely for Tojo and others while diplomats face lighter sentences.
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Tokyo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
International Court
Hideki Tojo
William Webb
Tojo
Pacific
Hit Run Driver Sought After Waterloo Crash
Highway patrols hunt a hit and run driver after a collision on highway 20 left Waterloo resident Helen Puhl with a crushed ankle facial cuts and skull fracture. Passenger P M Philiph suffered facial injuries as a 1940 Packard rear ended a flat bed rack. The truck involved belonged to Ryan Transfer and was driven by George McCarthy of Fort Wayne Indiana.
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Waterloo
Manchester
Helen Puhl
Park
Philiph
Ryan Transfer
George McCarthy
Camp Sealt
Ft Wayne
Ind
Spence pushes low cost housing and rent control bill
Washington Congressman Brent Spence says he will guide Truman’s economic program in the House with top priorities on low cost housing and a rent control bill with teeth. He urges extending rent controls at least a year beyond March 31 and plans early hearings on housing legislation modeled on the Wagner-Ellender-Taft plan to increase low cost dwellings.
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Washington
Brent Spence
Truman
House
Spence
House Banking Committee
New Democratic Congress
United Press
Tigher B. Woods
Woods
Congress
State drafts new county health board bill
Des Moines circulates a health department circular announcing a proposed legislature bill to authorize counties by referendum to create county district or multi county boards of health elected by county voters. Dr Walter Schuerring the state health commissioner was out of the city and his office would not comment until his return.
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Des Moines
State Health Department
Walter Schuerring
Cit
Ins
Clermont Seniors Initiate Paper Drive Fundraiser
Clermont high school seniors sponsor a scrap drive on Monday November 15 at 2:00 pm as a fundraising activity. Senior class members will collect bundled papers from porches or sidewalks in Clermont, while county residents may leave scrap at the high school building.
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Clermont
Clermont High School
Hand Amputation After Picker Crush Near Monona
Robert Bankes, a six month tenant on the Fred Maibauer farm near Monona, had his left hand crushed in a corn picker. The hand was amputated above the wrist at Postville hospital Monday night. Bankes, married last June to Owen Beck of Elkader, remains in serious condition but not critical. The Weather Almanac predicts a longer, not colder, winter with frequent storms and icy conditions through March.
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Rom ‘Tancy News Desk
Elkader
Robert Bankes
Fred Maibauer
Monona
Maibauer
Postville
Bankes
Owen Beck
Oelwein stores close for Armistice program Thursday
Oelwein business houses will close for one hour on Armistice day to attend services at the high school auditorium conducted by the city's veterans organizations. The closing hour is set from 10:15 to 11:15 Thursday, announced by the retail committee of the chamber of commerce.
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Fron
Oelwein Business Houses
Chamber of Commerce
Oelwein Plans Gala Christmas Events Announced
Oelwein business groups unveil a Christmas program with Dec 1 decorations, $85 in outdoor prize money, free noon to midnight movies at Grand Theatre on Dec 16 and 17, Santa Claus on Dec 18, Handel's Messiah on Dec 19, and extended store hours. 13,000 copies of the Oelwein Daily Register will highlight displays and merchandise, with bells stars and festoons planned.
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Deak— Oelwein
Chamber of Commerce
Grand Theatre
Kenneth McNerney
John Hamilton
Richard Connor
Lawrence Liebe
Interstate Power Co
Santa Claus
Nick
Stanley Students Present Armistice Day Program
The Stanley school hosts an Armistice Day program on November 11 with bands performing The Rough Riders Cheteau Thierry Lord of Hope and Glory and On Town On Wild Cats Home Sweet Home and Beautiful Savior Mixed Chorus sing Yankee Doodle Were Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground and America the Beautiful Virginia Byerly recites valor poems Boys Glee Club performs When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again and Keep the Home Fires Burning. Scout color presentation. Arvid Stock Flanders Field and Blue and the Gray. William Follmer Taps. Double Sextette The Heavens are Telling and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Public invited with no admission charge.
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Unens
Stanley
Stanley School
The
Rough Riders
America the Beautiful
Virginia Byerly
Boys Glee Club
Johnny
Boy Scouts
iGeorge Thom
Arvid Stock
Flanders Field
William Follmer
Thanksgiving fowl scarce hit Iowa markets this year
DES MOINES reports scarce turkeys for Thanksgiving with ducks and geese impacted as well. The poultry market news service notes turkeys grown for market are considerably smaller than last year. Retail prices may rise about 10 cents per pound to average 80 to 90 cents for turkeys and 40 to 50 cents for ducks and geese.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Poultry Market News Service
State Department of Agriculture
Tickets in Big Demand for Red Grange Dinner
Local American Legion post reports high demand for tickets to the Red Grange dinner in Oelwein next week. Space is limited to Legion members, with a $2 charge covering Grange’s visit and guest costs. Legion officials praise the Huskies’ season and urge prompt ticket purchase.
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Red Grange
The
Legion
Ross Reid
Grange
Ilinois University
Oelwein Huskies
W. L. Hicks
Communists Label Libel Ruling Hits Ohio Courts
In Cleveland a Common Pleas ruling held that labeling a person a communist is libel per se. Judge Frank J. Merrick decided in Herman Burrell’s two year-old suit against Lakeside Publishing Co. The decision says the word commun ist appearance in a publication can destroy a person’s reputation.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Common Pleas
Frank J. Merrick
Herman Burrell
Lakeside Publishing Co
Burrell
Merrick
Six Killed As Water Tank Smashes Roof
Riverdale Illinois reports a 30000 gallon wooden water tank fell through the roof into a six story cold storage warehouse basement. At least five workers died and several injured. Fire officials cited a boiler explosion weakening supports, while other accounts said a 15 foot girder collapse caused the tank to drop.
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Riverdale
Ill
Cornelius Dore
Dore
Chicago
West Union Stores Close at Noon on Armistice Day
West Union stores will close at noon on Armistice Day with a half day for schools starting at noon November 11. The American Legion will hold an Armistice Day dinner at Holy Name hall in the evening. Church services were observed in West Union on Sunday for Armistice Day.
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West Union
American Legional
Holy Name Hall
USU Presents Second Artist Series in College Gym
Tucal News Dispatch Fayette Upper Town reports USU will present the second number in its artist series on November 15 in the college gym. The show features harp and violin pieces by Artis DeVolt, master of the harp, and Charlotte De Wolt, an internationally famed violinist. Both artists have performed before European royalty and are acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Fayette
Upper Town
University
Artis DeVolt
Atlantic
Charlotte de Wolt
Europe
New Comet Visible In Northern U S
A Harvard astronomer said northern United States residents may view the new naked eye comet at dawn tomorrow if skies are clear, offering a rare early morning spectacle for Cambridge and other northern cities.
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Cambridge
Mass
United States
Harvard
Armistice Day Program Set by City Veterans Groups
Oelwein veterans organizations will present the Armistice day program at 10 30 Thursday in the high school auditorium with Principal Horace Hoover as master of ceremonies A 15 minute concert by the OHS band precedes the program Invocation by Rev J W Marlin to be followed by introductions of DAV Dr J W Feld VFW Ed Bellendzer Amvers Earl Miller and American Legion William Hicks The Higher Heroism by Rev C F Perron theme of address Benediction by Rev E O Hagan taps at 11 followed by VFW firing squad volley Public invited Downtown businesses will close 1015 to 1115 to aid workers attendance
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Horace Hoover
Oelwein Veterans Organizations
OHS
J. W. Marlin Hoover
Dav
J. W. Feld
VFW
Ed Bellendzer
Amvers
Earl Miller
American Legion
William Hicks
Two Fay ette county men report for induction under draft law
Two Fay ette county men Willis Robert Meska of 114 7th Ave SE and Bernard A Nelson of RED No 1 are named as the first to be called for induction under the peace time draft. Eight more men and an alternate will report for physical examinations in Waterloo November 16, including Robert William Weston Norman Dale McCauley Adrian Lavern Miller Vernell Eugene Walvatne Fred King Funk Harold Joy Poppenhagen Clarence Ephraim Miller Ervin Walter Dreier and Victor Melvin Pape with the group to meet at the West Union draft board office at 7 00 Tuesday morning before proceeding to Waterloo.
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West Union
Waterloo
Fayette County
Willis Robert Meska
Ane
S.E
Bernard A. Nelson
Ammen
Armed Forces
Robert William Weston
Oelwein
Norman Dale McCauley
Adrian Lavern Miller
Arlington
jVernel Eugene Walvatne
Fred King Funk
Elgi
Harold Joy Poppenhagen
Wadena
Clarence Ephraim Miller
Fayette
Ervin Walter Dreier
Victor Melvin Pape
West Union Draft Board
Our Town to Be Staged by OHS Thespians
The O H S Thespians will present Our Town on Friday November 12 at Hugh School auditorium featuring Roger Werlaufer Gresdna Doty and James Theobald. The play follows Grover s Corners families the Webbs and Gibbs through Act I town history Act II courtship and wedding and Act III a cemetery gathering exploring deeper understanding.
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Roger Werlaufer
Gresdna Doty
James Theobald
Grover’s Corners
Webbs
Gibbs
Our Town
Delwein
Hugh School
UN committee votes down Russia plan to pull all foreign troops from Greece
The United Nations political committee charged three Soviet satellites with aiding Greek rebels and defeated a Russian move to force broad withdrawal of foreign troops. Yugoslav delegate Bebler accused the U S and France of blocking conciliatory talks, while the Balkan special commission was extended for a year. The 38 nation body split along Soviet and western lines as protests and tensions rose over the Greek civil conflict.
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Paris
United Nations
United States
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Balkans
Markos Vafiades
U. S
Ales Bébler
United
States
France
Bebler
Mauricée
Courte Murville
Britain
Frances
Tralia
Tnilles
Dulles
Ovis
Balkan
UN Special Commission J
Former Oelwein School Man Attends Kansas City Meeting
Jack Paul, superintendent of schools at Tripoli, returned from Kansas City where he attended a federal aid to education meeting for school people from six states under the National Education Association. Paul, a former Oelwein teacher, was the only eastern representative. About 200 attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Paul
Tripoli
Kansas City
National Education Association
Paul
Oelwein
New Cheer Leaders Named at Stanley High School
Stanley special report lists five girls as cheerleaders for the 1948 49 basketball season Dolores Rohrig Char lene VandeVoordée Patsy Vande Voorde Shirley Weston and Marilyn Kaiser. Kenneth Follmer and Duane Fox named as student managers. Mrs Warford serves again as girls' chaperone.
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Stanley
Stanley High School
Dolores Rohrig
Charlene VandeVoordée
Patsy Vande Voorde
Shirley Weston
Marilyn Kaiser
Kenneth Follmer
Duane Fox
Warford
Highway Improvement Meet in Marshalltown for Officials
Paul Neubauer and Fred Gremmels, representing the Oelwein chamber of commerce, attend a statewide chamber meeting today in Marshalltown to plan continuation of the town highway program. Town highway commission members meet the group, expected to form an organization to push primary road improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewat Sens Tesk
Paul Neubauer
Fred Gremmels
Marshalltown
Oelwein Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commercer
Town Highway Commission
Grovp
Pamhing
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