Mrs E E Ward Elected District President of Legion Auxiliary
Mrs E E Ward of Washington was elected district president of the American Legion Auxiliary at the Joint Spring Conference in West Point. The first Washington woman to lead the 11 county First District, with 500 attending the banquet and dance that followed.
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E. E. Ward
Legion Auxiliary
Washington
American Legion Auxiliary
The
Legion and Auxiliary
West Point
Ward
Iowa
George Stake
Williamsburg
H. W. Catcott
Birmingham
A. Lainson
Ft. Madison
Cora Abraham
Mt. Pleasant
Department
Fred Downing
Joint Legion and Auxiliary
Downing
Neal Burton
Albert Wehr
Tom Downing
Turnipseed seeks county board seat in Republican bid
Lloyd Turnipseed of Cedar Township Washington announces candidacy for the county board of supervisors on the Republican ticket for the 1952 term. A farmer by trade, he is married with five children and has served on the rural school board. He moved to Washington three years ago after his son took over the farm. Mr and Mrs Herman Gowey and children of Richland were in Washington on business and visited Mrs Louie Babcock.
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Lloyd Turnipseed
Washington
County Board of Supervisors
Mr. Turnipseed
Cedar Township
Herman Gowey
Richland
Louie Babcock
Local Residents See World Premiere of Rock Island Trail
The T. J. Simons family of Washington attended the world premiere of Rock Island Trail with Forrest Tucker a related guest. The party joined a Rock Island parade and met film stars Roy Rogers John Wayne and executives from Republic Pictures.
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T. J. Simons
Washington
Rock Island Trail
Simons
Forrest Tucker
Tractor crashes into barn injuring milker
Mrs. Alice Peterson was milking a cow when a tractor crashed through a fence into the barn. The accident frightened the cow and Peterson was injured. A jury awarded her 5000 dollars for damages and 5 dollars for barn damage.
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Alice Peterson
Rampaging Red River Flood Tears Through North Dakota and Manitoba
Flood waters of the Red River covered most of Pembina North Dakota and reached into Minnesota and Manitoba. Noyes and St Vincent Minnesota and Emerson Manitoba were submerged while Grand Forks North Dakota reported receding waters leaving mud and debris. Telecommunication lines were down four days and the flood expanded as warm weather threatened further melt.
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Red River
North Dakota
Minnesota
Manitoba
Pembina
N. D
Noyes
St. Vincent Minn
Emerson
Grand Forks
N. C
Pembina City
Kernel Award Presented At Washington Chamber Dinner
Don Ross of Des Moines received the Kernel of Iowa Tall Corn award at a Washington Chamber of Commerce dinner in the MCA community room. Louis J. Kehoe presided and announced Lester Hamil as the first full time secretary. Reported activity included 232 members with 44 new, pledges totaling $5,949.50 and plans for the coming year discussed during the programs.
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Towa
Don Ross
Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce
MCA
Rothschild’s
Nicola & Harmon
Louis J. Kehoe
Chamber
Lester Hamil
Washington
Kernel
R. E. Shannon
Ross
Meredith Publishing Company
Shannon
Iowa
Hamil
Sion
Kehoe
Washington Evening Journal
YMCA
Lowa
See Vote Delay On Foreign Aid Program
Washington leaders, facing slow debate on the foreign aid bill, postponed a final vote until mid next week. The $8,266,450,000 act has seen one test, a failed amendment to add Spain to the European recovery plan. The bill allocates $38.1 billion for the third year of the Marshall Plan while the House pauses its fight over the $29 billion fiscal 1951 spending package.
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Washington
CAP
Senate
Spain
House
Four issues block Chrysler strike settlement
Negotiators paused at midnight for a 9 a.m. CST restart while four main issues hinder a contract with 89 000 CIO United Auto Workers. The topics include Chrysler's hospital insurance contribution, nationwide wage differences, pension dispute elements, and UAW steward union activity time.
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Detroit
Mich
Chrysler
United Auto
E. Marvin Sconyers
UAW
Harvey Carter Killed In South Dakota Plane Crash
Mrs. W. B. Crooks of Washington learned from her daughter Wanda that Harvey Carter, a former Washington resident, was instantly killed when his private plane crashed during an attempted crash landing in South Dakota. Two other men were seriously injured.
Tito Spikes Idea of War With Reds Soon
Belgrade Yugoslavia Premier Marshal Tito dismissed early reconciliation with Russia and rejected war in the foreseeable future at a press conference with the foreign press corps. He proposed a good neighbor policy with non communist neighbors and said there is no civil war or uprising in Cominform countries.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Russia
Tito
Belin Dvor
White Palace
Greece
Italy
Austria
Four Candidates For Hospital Board Here
Four candidates filed for the Washington county hospital board in the upcoming June primaries. They are Yaro Sojka Democrat Edith Glasshourner Democrat Harold Miller Republican and Augusta Livingston Republican. Livingston and Glasshourner are the first registered women candidates in years. the last woman on the board was Mrs Ill Gates from 1938 to 1942.
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Washington County Hospital
Yaro Sojka
William
Edith
Mrs George Rudiger Visitor in Cedar Rapids
Mrs George Rudiger was active in Cedar Rapids today as a business caller visiting local contacts and conducting routine inquiries.
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George Rudiger
Cedar Rapids
Postwar Europe in Forum Talk by Dr. Gustafson
Dr. Lloyd Gustafson of Mason City described his European visit and reflections on postwar recovery, tensions in Nazi occupied regions, and his searches for relatives in Sweden. He cited slow rehabilitation in England and active recuperation in Germany, and shared travel notes across Italy France Switzerland. The Rotary club hosted the Washington high school event with about 200 attendees.
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Washington High School
Lloyd Gustafson
Mason City
Europe
Gustafson
England
Germany
Sweden
Italy
France
Switzerland
Rotary Club
Washington
Residents Juiced by Patched Lawn Snow Surprise
Washington residents faced a snowy setback as spring optimism faded with 2 inches of snow for April 15, 1949. Weather observer notes show historic precedents including a 1945 trace and a 1987 April snowfall nearby, while today’s flutter arrived 5 to 6 miles north of town.
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Washington
House Committee Moves To Cut Excise Taxes
The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively voted to cut the excise tax on cabarets from 20 to 10 percent, estimating a 19 million dollar revenue loss next year. It also proposed exemptions for rebuilt auto parts, certain dance halls, radios sold to the government, and baby bottle warmers.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
U. S
Activities of Junior Red Cross Donor boxes shipped to Washington DC
Mrs. Melvin Booth chairs Junior Red Cross as boxes packed by Lincoln Stewart Richmond Ainsworth West Chester and rural schools head overseas for children in need. Seventeen hundred enrolled pupils sent letters of appreciation from Austria England Greece Japan and Czechoslovakia. Members also made place favors and mats for hospitals homes and rest homes.
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Melvin Booth
Washington
D. C
Lincoln
Stewart
Richmond
Thelma Schupbach
Ainsworth
West Chester
Austria
England
Greece
Japan
Czechoslovakia
Red Cross
United Presbyterian Home
Stanley Rest Home
County Home
County Hospital
Dust Storm Photo Fails to Show
Durango Colorado picture editor prints an exclusive photo captioned Dust Clouds Cut Visibility to Zero, but the four by four inch front page image is a blank, obscuring the dust storm scene.
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Durango
Colo
Millionaire Angel Contempt Charge Hangs Over Silence
Senate subcommittee weighing contempt action after Frederick Vanderbilt Field refused to name whether he or others in the government are or were communists. Field defended Lattimore against McCarthy while denying Budenz’s assertions, as officials Vincent Hanson and Stewart were questioned.
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Washington
Coe
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Owen Lattimore
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Field
Earl Browder
Bella V. Dodd
Lattimore
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Louis F. Budenz
McCarthy
Budenz
Browder
Dr. Dodd
Butenz
Whittaker Chambers
Edward P. Morgan
John Carter Vincent
Switzerland
Haldore Hanson
John Stewart
Czech Charge Rejected By American Officials
The United States called a Czechoslovak accusation that American soldiers maltreated 5S Czechs baseless. The Czechs allege the sailors were innocent participants in an escape plot from March. 27 chose to stay, 58 returned. The note says Czech reporting distorts relations and seeks to inflame public opinion.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United State
Germany
U. S
Erding
Czech Foreign Ministry
Des Moines Weather Update For Iowa Snow and Rain Likely
Snow is expected to cover most of the southern portion this afternoon and spread north tonight. Highs reach 35 to 40 today with snow turning to rain in the south tonight and continuing Saturday. Lows tonight 34 to 38 and Saturday highs 40 to 45. Easterly winds 20 mph this afternoon and 20 to 25 mph Saturday.
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Iowa
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Henry von Muenster
Clarence
Helene Jacobsen
Boone
County Post
Riverside High School
Eugene Lukavsky
Riverside
Iowa City
Larry Hartzler
James Fisher
U.S
Chamber Meet
Frederick Field
Harvey Carter
South Dakota
Reds
Berlin
DPS
Baltic Sea
U.S. Navy
U. S. Air Force
Kastrup
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Junior Red Cross
Angel
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