Hero of the Week Mrs Fox Recognized for Service in Ocwein
The column honors Mrs. R. D. Fox for her cheerful disposition and initiative. A former Miami social worker, she formed several iris scout troops and helped establish a Little Theater group in Ocwein. She is active in the Methodist church and the WSC and has two children.
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R. D. Fox
Miami
Fla
Fox
Elvein
F Radio
Witzigman
Methodist Church
Joan
Patty
Beon
Hts
Oclweinné
Ose
Merc of the Weeks Feature in Oelwein Daily Register
Mail to Merc of the Weeks feature in the Oelwein Daily Register invites readers to nominate local residents for recognition. The notice highlights the editor's call for deserving individuals and provides submission details for community praise.
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Merc
Oelwein Daily Register
First Betting Odds Favor Red Sox in 1946 World Series
Jim Snyder, betting commissioner, states the Boston Red Sox are favorites in the 1946 World Series, leading over the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers with odds of 12 10 5 against the Cards and 13 to 1 against the Dodgers. He also lists opening game odds at 6 to 1 against St. Louis and 9 to 5 against Brooklyn.
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S'Ihubienvilgis
Boston Red Sox
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn Dodgers
Jim Snyder
Red Sox
Dodgers
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Maynard Shop Moves to Rebuilt Town House
Mr and Mrs Du Sablou moved their gift and electric shop into a building they recently bought from Mrs Thomas. They remodeled the entire structure adding a new foundation cemented floor in the store portion enlarged the basement installed a furnace and reorganized living quarters adding a bathroom and other improvements.
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Maynard
Mrs. du Sablou
Weekly Oelwein Weather Report From Local News Desk
A concise weekly forecast for Oelwein detailing temperatures and conditions. Expectations include daily highs and lows, chances of rain, and notable wind patterns. Local officials urge readers to plan activities around coming weather changes and outdoor events.
Child Kidnapping Case Ends As Girl Found Safe
Three year old Madeline Toby Tobias was located unharmed in Terre Haute Indiana after five days missing from Kansas City. Maid Mildred Everett 22, arrested on kidnapping charges for taking the child and attempting to arrange adoption. The child stayed in three homes during the five day period. Everett claimed she wanted a child of her own.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Madeline
Toby) Tobias
Kansas City
Tobias
Mildred Everett
Omer Funkhouser
Robert Vance
Miss Everett
Mildred King
Vance
Philip Tobias
Governor Says Merit Council Exceeded Its Power
Governor Blue questioned the merit system council overstepping authority after it allowed three out of seven consultants to visit Iowa without prior executive council approval. D. R. Cottrell defended the council, saying locals evaluated merit-based job applications in medical nursing and engineering, with final action postponed until Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn returns from the Idaho State fair.
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Des Moines
Merit System Council
State Executive Council
Merit System Group
Executive Council
Iowa
Robert D. Blue
D. R. Cottrell
Blue
Cottrell
Secretary of Agriculture
Harry D. Linn
Idaho
Bulgarian Vote Clears Path for Republic Over Monarchy
In Sofia, King Simeon II, aged 91, appears to have lost the throne as Sunday’s plebiscite returns indicate a decisive shift to a republic. Home ministry figures show about 3.8 million votes for a republic, 179 thousand favoring the monarchy, with 119 thousand blank or slogan ballots.
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Sofia
Simeon II
Bulgaria
Home Ministry
Britain Drops Italian Claim in War Reparations Row
Britain withdraws its 11 billion dollar damage claim against Italy and waives all reparations except the right to seize Italian property on British soil. The move aims to aid the peace conference as the Four powers negotiate frontier details and Trieste boundaries, with the U.N. assembly postponement under discussion.
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Parish
Great Britain
Italy
Taly
Balkan
Haly
Yugoslavia
Greece
Italian Economic Commission
Commission
Paul Henri Spaak
United Nations General Assembly
United States
Trieste
Iowan 69 Cycles 152 Miles in Day
Albert Keppel, 69, cycled 152 miles yesterday starting at 5 15 a m from Keokuk. He rode 76 miles to Bloomfield by 11 20 a m and returned at a leisurely pace, arriving in Keokuk at 6 45 p m. He said the Iowa prairies are too hilly.
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Keokuk
Albert Keppel
Iowa
Keppel
Bloomfield
Yanks Arrest Six Yugoslavs In Bombing
Trieste reports say six Yugoslav soldiers were captured by the American 88th division after a six pound dynamite explosion injured 22 people including seven Americans. The detainees had five hand grenades and are accused of harassing occupation forces and violating free movement along an authorized route.
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Trieste
Veserday
Grand Jury Probes Judge Grand Case in Des Moines
Polk county grand jury opened hearings on the Grand case after Municipal Judge Harry B. Grand waived preliminary hearing on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape filed by Dorothy Roth, 26, with Sept. 20 set for a hearing previously. Walter Massey offered a $1000 reward for evidence of police department collusion.
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Des Moines
Polk County Grand Jury
Harry B. Grand
Dorothy Roth
Police
Grund
Senator Bridges seeks halt to goods to Yugoslavia
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire urged the State Department to stop shipments of American goods to Yugoslavia and other nations blocking world peace. He cited UNRRA moves sending steel rails earmarked for China’s railroads to Yugoslavia, calling it an engineered transfer by a Russian and a Yugoslav with UNRRA ties. Bridges demanded a full State Department investigation.
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Washington
Styles Bridges
State Department
Yugoslavia
Bridges
Dean Acheson
Japan
Pearl Harbor
UNRRA
George C. Marshall
China
China Sound
U. S
Yugoshivia
New Polio Cases Bring Iowa Total to 309
DES MOINES UP The state health department said today two more cases of infantile paralysis were reported in Iowa, raising the total to 309 since the year began. One case each was reported in Madison and O'Brien counties, matching a higher pace than a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Health Department
Iowa
Madison
O'Brien
CIO Demands Portal to Portal Pay Across Industries
CIO leader Philip Murray, at a regional United Steelworkers meeting, vows portal to portal pay for all industries and cuts CIO ties with the ILO. He criticizes AFL's William Green as mentally decrepit and urges PAC fundraising to back labor-friendly candidates.
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Chicago
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
International Labor Organization
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
Supreme Court
CIO Chemical Workers
Michigan
Truman
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Schwellenbach
Schnellenbach
ILO
Sect Meeting Broken Up By Iowa Veterans
Members of Jehovah's Witnesses failed to hold a scheduled park meeting in Lacona as about 30 people, including spectators, were injured in a fight with war veterans. Warren County Sheriff Lewis Johnston ended the clash, amid tensions over the group's reportedly antiwar stance and questions of park permission.
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Lacona
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Warren County
Lewis Johnston
Jehovah's Witnesses
Charles Sellers
Johnston
Iowa
John Rankin
Des Moines
Sellers
Tehovah’s Witnesses
Youth Held in Hit Run Death
Theodore Croy 18 of Solon was held in connection with a fatal hit and run that injured night watchman Oscar Thurvold. Croy appeared in police court and was fined $100 for leaving the scene. county officials planned additional charges after Thurvold died about an hour later in Cedar Rapids.
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Theodore Croy
Solon
Oscar Thurvold
Croy
Thurvold
Cedar Rapids
Aged Pear Tree Shows Big Harvest in West County
In Gallipolis Ohio a pear tree aged 125 years, oldest in the county, produced 18 bushels of fruit this year.
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West Gallipolis
Randalia Man Killed When Roof Falls In Randalia
Irvin Sorge died when a roof section he was repairing fell on him Saturday afternoon. His body was found about 6 pm in a lean-to machinery shed, still gripping a hammer. Coroner J R Wood pinned death to about 5 pm. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 pm at Union Evangelical Church Banks township. He left a wife and six children Elton Fayette Clyde Kenneth on nearby farms, Mrs Leland Belk nap of Wadena and two other daughters. He had lived two and a half miles northeast of Randalia on the same farm for many years.
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Randalia
Irvin Sorge
Union Evangelical Church
Banks Township
J. R. Wood
Sorge
Elton
Fayette
Clyde
Kenneth
Leland Belknap
Bloodshed in Holy Land as rail sabotage rages near Jerusalem
Telegrams report Jewish extremists attacked the Tel Aviv Jerusalem railway in seven places and raided two trains in central Palestine. British troops and police conducted a wide manhunt from Haifa to the Judean hills, curfews loomed, and traffic halted as raids, gunfire, and mine threats were investigated. It was unclear which resistance group was responsible, with Hagana Irgun or the Stern gang possibilities.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Judean Hills
Palestine
Haifa
Red Devils
Hagana
Irgun
Stanley Woman Dies Sunday
Mrs. George Morgan aged 58 of Stanley died Sunday afternoon at Mercy hospital following an operation. Survived by husband four children and two twin sisters and a brother. Body at Hintz Funeral home with services announced later.
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George Morgan
Stanley
Mercy Hospital
Hintz Funeral Home
Morgan
Donald Jellings
Cclwein
George King
Cedar Rapids
Floy Morgan
Vinton
Vernon
Clarence Parker
S Charles Kivell
Aurora
Ralph Miller
CIO Electrians Talk Third Party Convention Debates
Milwaukee UP The CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers opened its 11th national convention with 250 resolutions for consideration among 900 delegates. A proposal calls for a national labor party accusing Democrats and Republicans of ignoring labor's wants. The plan seeks a party to enact Roosevelt era economic and social programs. A floor fight looms over communists holding office within the union.
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Milwaukee
CI0
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
National Labor Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Experts accuse Moscow of steering China peace stall tactics
A group led by American China Policy Associates charged that Soviet Russia had directed communist efforts to stall peace in China for months. In a letter to President Truman 17 signatories urged hard lines, seeking unqualified Chinese control of territories, denouncing Chinese communists and halting U S support. They cited a document they claim proves Moscow controls Chinese communists and suggests Marshall’s China mission faced Moscow manipulation.
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Washington
Orient
Soviet
Russia
China
American China Policy Associates, Inc
Truman
P. Powell
John Earl Baker
American Red Cross
Sidney Hook
New York University
Walter H Judd
Minn
Clare Boothe Duce
Conn
Frank L. Meloney
New York
Donald D. van Slyke
Rockefeller Foundation
Robert J. Watt
American Federation of Labor
Policy Association
Moscow
Communist Internationale
George C. Marshall
Soviet Union
Minister Bans Marriage Kiss at Batavia Church
In Batavia New York Rev Walter Schlie conducted his first nuptials under an order restricting public displays of affection at the altar. Esther Hohenberger and Henry Meyer, both of Batavia, married at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church with no marriage kiss. The minister called marriages sacred services not social functions and urged keeping the ceremony dignified.
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Batavia
Walter Schlie
Esther Hohenberger
Schlie
Henry Meyer
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran
House of God
Grounded Troop Ship Reported Safe
An 8,000-ton Liberty ship with 1,100 troops aboard the SS Bardstown Victory was grounded near the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. After distress signals at 3:30 a.m., Army Navy and Coast Guard tugs searched, but the vessel later reported it could proceed under its own power and head to port.
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San Francisco
Farallon Islands
Golden Gate
Bardstown
Victory
Yokohama
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
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