Amnesia Victim in Burlington Seeks Vermont Return
Fort Des Moines officers are to pick up H. C. LeClair a 32 year old Dorchester Massachusetts amnesia victim who appeared at the Burlington police station claiming he recalls his name and address only and was en route to Camp Ethan Allen before waking up in Burlington.
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Vermont
Burlington
Fred Machholz
Fort Des Moines
H. C. LeClair
Dorchester
Mass
Machholz
Army
Boston
LeClair
Ethan Allen
Tragedy near Kamrar as Koopsetsen death in collision
Webster City reports 638 year old W W Koop killed when struck by a car driven by his son Paul 17. The accident happened on a county road three miles south of Kamrar near the Koop farm as another son Andrew 19 backed a trailer loaded with a harrow off a graveled road. Koop held the trailer tongue when Paul crest the hill, the impact whipping the tongue and throwing Koop 80 feet through the air. Sheriff EB Lear provided details.
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Webster City
W. W. Koop
Paul
Kamrar
Koop
EB. R. Lear
Police Hunt Missing Pella Contractor 42
Pella authorities seek 42 year old Paul DeWit a building contractor who vanished after leaving for Des Moines. His light truck with a windshield note was found near the Des Moines river bank east of Howell station. Footprints and a discharged shotgun were found. river dragging found no trace. Mrs DeWit said he sent a telegram from Des Moines noon Tuesday and directed her to a desk note.
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Pella
Marior
Paul DeWit
Paul Applegate
Dewit
Des Moines
Howell Station
Lewis Invites Coal Operators To Cooperate
John L. Lewis urged southern coal operators to rejoin the Appalachian wage hour conference and join a two year contract with the United Mine Workers of America. The northern group already agreed on a $7.00 day wage scale, moving 250,000 idle miners toward return once ratified, while southern members bolted over the 40 cent differential.
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Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Appalachiin
John Steelman
United States Conciliation Service
Farmers to Get Parity Rates as Last Year
Washington April 17 The agriculture department announced soil conservation and parity payments totaling 650 million dollars for farmers this year. Rates mirror last year with AAA conservation payments of 8c per bushel for wheat and 50c per bushel for corn, and parity payments of 10c on wheat and 5c per bushel on corn, unchanged from 1940.
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Washington, D.C
Agriculture Department
Brown Joins Ward's Furniture Department Chief
Floyd Brown started this week as head of the furniture department at Montgomery Ward in Marshalltown. He came from a Ward store in Marshiltown and previously worked for J C Penney four years. He and his wife with two children will relocate once a house is found. They attend the Methodist church and he enjoys baseball and football, having participated in games.
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Floyd Brown
Montgomery Ward
Marshiltown
Mr. Brown
Ottumwa
Montgomery Ward Company
J. C. Peahey Company
Mrs. Brown
Bernice Colleen
Claude Edward
Bernice
Claude
Gadget boosts gun barrel production at Rock Island arsenal
William Baumbeck, Rock Island Arsenal chief production supervisor, has devised a new process to rifling breaches in two operations. If adopted, the method could raise output from 200 to 4,000 barrels daily for 30 caliber machine gun barrels. Other calibers may follow.
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Davenport
William Baumbeck
Baumbeck
Rock Island, Ill, Arsenal
Banumbeck
War Department
Colt
Savage, Dupont
General Motors
Riverside Legion Unit to Host Tuesday Evening Meeting
Washington county American Legion unit led by County Adjutant S. W. Kaster will meet at 8:00 PM in Legion rooms over Riverside bank with County Commander Van Vodica presiding. The event includes a stag affair and Dutch lunch after a showing of moving pictures from National Conventions in Chicago New York and Boston. Mrs. O F Kammueller of Tomah Wis visits. The article notes a man later invented a progressive die for metallic belt links for machine guns now produced widely.
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S. W. Kaster
The
American Legion
Washington County
Riverside
van Vodica
Legion Rooms
Riverside Bank
Riverside Post
Arra Uged
Chicago
New York
Boston
Legion
Howard Miller
George Baker
W. A. “Rbe
Des Moines
Legion Post
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Mt. Pleasant
Morgenthau proposes enormous new tax program in 1942 plan
Treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau submitted a plan to congressional leaders for 3.444 billion dollars in new taxes as part of a 1942 budget. He said two thirds of federal spending would be raised by taxation and one third by borrowing with broad support from lawmakers.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Congressional
Morgenthau
Three Selectees to Report Soon for Induction
Richard F. McIntosh Donald Lee Thompson and Donald A. Perrin will report to the local selective board on April 24. Alternates Berlen Houseal Clarence Blum will wait. McIntosh Thompson Perrin head to Fort Des Moines for Army induction after the report.
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Richard F. McIntosh
Washington
Donald Lee Thompson
Kalona
Donald A. Perrin
Wellman
Selective Board
Berlen P. Houseal
Keota
Clarence W. Blum
Leslie Dunlap
Lyle E. Long
Crawfordsville
Donald McGraw
Ainsworth
Elmar Morrow
Riverside
Des Moines
Mr. Long
McIntosh, Thompson and
Perrin
Fort Des Moines
U. S. Army
Democracy at Lincoln School and Home
A fifth grade essay discusses democracy as freedom and responsibility. It highlights rights like speech press worship and voting, and duties such as paying fines obeying laws returning books paying back borrowed items speaking in turn and doing one's share at home and school.
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Owen Gingerich
Lincoln School
United States
Ruth Church to Lead Washington County Health Unit
Dr Ruth E Church of New York City will arrive June 16 to head the Washington County Health Unit after the resignation of Dr D C Barrett. She graduates June 3 from DeLamar Institute of Public Health at Columbia University and has extensive nursing and public health experience in Chicago and Wisconsin.
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Ruth Church
Ruth E. Church
New York City
Washington County
C. A. Boice
Washington County Board of Health
Church
DeLamar Institute of Public Health
Columbia University
D. Cc. Barrett
Indianapolis
Ind
Walmouth
Wise
Milwaukee
Downer College
Behrens Narrowly Misses Falling Post Office Cornice
Clarence Behrens of Lost Nation hurried home for dinner and narrowly avoided injury when a 500 pound section of cornice toppled from the post office roof, landing near where he stood moments earlier.
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Clarence Behrens
Behrens
May Register in Vocational Courses Now
A group of young men aged 17 to 24 met at the high school with Supt EB A. Ralston and principal W A Erbe to enroll in vocational training. They preferred general metal work and motor mechanics. Courses to start Monday April 21. those wishing to enroll should contact Principal Erbe immediately. Advisory council members were present.
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EB. A. Ralston
W. A. Erbe
Greeks Likely to Withdraw From Albania
Cairo sources predict Greek troops may evacuate all Albanian positions as German forces push south from Yugoslavia. Evacuation seen as advisable to avoid further losses amid the southeast Europe thrust.
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Cairo
Albania
Yugo- Slavia
Londoners Demand Berlin Bombing After Heavy Nazi Raid
Londoners roared in anger after the heaviest Luftwaffe attack of the war. Fires burned, debris filled streets, and emergency crews searched for victims as chalked pleas to bomb Berlin appeared on walls and sidewalks across the city.
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London
Berlin
School leaders discuss courses with Walter Logan and others
Walter Logan Max Cook and Arthur Duensing met last evening with the school executives to discuss with the young men the nature of the courses.
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Cil
Walter Logan
Max Cook
Arthur Duensing
Friday program honors boys finishing vocational courses
A vocational training recognition program will be held Friday at eight o clock in the high school auditorium to honor boys completing vocational courses. Principal W. A. Erbe will preside. speakers include R. H. Bracewell and several student participants. The high school band will perform two numbers and close with God Bless America.
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Darrell Ross
Howard McBride
Lawrence Libe
L. C. Willits, Jr
Walter Logan
Max H. Cook
Arthur Duensing
Industry
Labor
Seric
W. A. Erbe
Maurice Brayton
Motor Mechanics
Robert Eckels
General Metal
County Yards
Wayne Kendrick
Mace Motor Company
Shrum Lewis
Willits Garage
Francis Mangold
Ross Motor Company
BE. A. —Alston
R. H. Bracewell
Burlington Public Schools
Bomb raids across the French coast and Greek battles update
Allied air raids hit the French coast as British planes attacked targets in northern France. Greek and Italian reports claim Greek resistance holds while Albania fronts see Italian advances and asserted enemy collapse.
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London
Royal Air Force
Dover
France
College Choir to Present The Seven Last Words Sunday
The Iowa Wesleyan college choir under Prof. S. C. Ham performs Du Bois The Seven Last Words at 7 30 p m Sunday April 20 at First Methodist Church. The program showcases a devotional Holy Week piece with Judith Peterson and Thomas Roberts as featured accompanists.
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Iowa Wesleyan College
S. C. Ham
du Bois
First Methodist Church
Iowa Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
du Bola
Judith Peterson
Mary Alice Minear
Betty Sunterlin
Bertha Giddens
Marjorie Byrum
Evelyn Rukgaber
Geraldine Payne
Suzanne Ward
Molly Taylor
Evelyn Lasnett
Stuart Strohman
Royce Chambers
Russell Stro
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Legion’s Camp
Owen Woods
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Bay Pines Veteran Hospital
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Fla
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