Boy Darts Between Cars Hit by Driver in Ottumwa
Charles Dowding seven, son of Harold and Mrs Dowding, remains in serious condition after being struck by Harold Ginsberg’s car. Dowding suffered brain concussion and facial bruises. Ginsberg says the boy darted from between two parked cars. Eddie Saito twenty seven of Story City died after being hit by a car while standing on Highway 20 east of Ames. Saito watched companion Roy Yamada twenty seven of Story City repair a tire. Driver Dewey Ryker thirty eight of Ames, an unemployed laborer, was at the wheel of the striking car.
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Ottumwa
Charles Dowding
Harold B. Downing
Ottumwa Hospital
Harold Ginsberg
Ginsberg
Charles
Ames
Eddie Saito
Story City
Highway 20
Roy Yamada
Saiko
Dewey Ryker
Ottumwa Motorist Dies After Crash in Keokuk County
Clarence Van Gorp, 30, of Rock Island New Jersey, died shortly after arrival at St Joseph hospital from injuries in a car accident. He had a fractured skull and minor injuries. Passenger Mrs Tiny Watson, 22, of Ottumwa, was treated for shock and bruises. The coupe overturned in a ditch near Bear Martinsburg in Keokuk county.
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Ottumwa
Clarence van Gorp
Rock Island
St. Joseph Hospital
Tiny Watson
van Gorp
Ditch Bear Maritinsburg
Keokuk County
Four Escape Drowning as Car Plunges Into Stream
Four people narrowly escaped drowning when a car struck a bridge guardrail and plunged about 10 feet into a stream a half mile north of Cedar Falls. In the vehicle were William Biddulph 8 Waterloo driver Wanda Colr and Mary Hughes both of Clear Lake and Lavern Williams of Waterloo. Highway patrol said water nearly reached the car’s top and the occupants escaped by breaking out the windows.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
William Biddulph
Wanda Colr
Mary Hughes
Clear Lake
Lavern Williams
State Highway Patrol
Wter
Des Moines FHA Mortgage Applications Top 1949 Week
Des Moines area FHA office reported 94 mortgage insurance applications totaling 389200 last week. Of these, 72 requests worth 315000 were for new homes to be built under FHA inspections and requirements.
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Des Moines
Federal Housing Administration
O. A. Brandt
FHA
Iowa State ROTC Pontoniers win Pontonier Trophy
Iowa State College's pontoniers unit and the ROTC engineers topped a two day competition at Iowa City. Edward Schenckloth of Davenport won best drilled basic military student while Kenneth Heller of Marengo led in individual rifle scoring. The Iowa Pershing Rifles claimed the rifle team trophy for the third straight year in a four university meet with Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota and Iowa.
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IS. C
R.O.T.C
Iowa City
Iowa State College
Pontoniers
Officers Training Corps Engineers
University of Iowa Pontoniers
Edward Schenckloth
Davenport
Kenneth Heller
Marengo
Pershing
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Iowa
Iowa Pershing Rifles
Cars Involved Crash Near Brighton. No Injuries Reported
Cars driven by Kenneth Peters aged 21 of Fairfield and Peter Rich aged 21 of Brighton collided on a highway near Brighton early Sunday morning. Rich attempted to pass Peters when his vehicle struck the Fairfield car causing both to leave the road and the Peters car to overturn. No injuries among the seven occupants and five in Richs car were hurt. Both cars sustained damage.
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Kenneth Peters
Fairfield
Peter Rich
Brighton
Rich
Peters
Five Die in Weekend Auto Crashes Across Iowa and Nearby
Weekend traffic toll rises with at least five killed and about a dozen injured. William H. H. Graham, 69, of Potcal Wisconsin, dies after being struck by 16 year old Jesse Joyce in Cedar Rapids while visiting from a truck. Other victims include Shizio Saito 22 Storey City Iowa and Los Angeles G W Jones 57 Polk County farmer Clarence Van Gorp 30 Rock Island and Eugene Siedler 22 Ottumwa.
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Wiliam HH. Graham
Potcal
Wis
Jesse Joyce
Center Point
Cedar Rapids
Graham
O.hers
Shizio Saito
Storey City
Iowa
Los Angeles
G. W. Jones
Polk County
Clarence van Gorp
Rock Island
Eugene Siedler
Ottum
Alleged Riverside motor vehicle theft grand jury hearing
Melvin Swift was held to the grand jury on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent at a morning hearing before Mayor E. J. Vegzey of Riverside. Bonds were fixed at shoes, which he furnished.
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Melvin Swift
E. J. Vegzey
Riverside
Jury Impaneled in Nelson vs German Damage Suit
A jury was impaneled to hear Leora Nelson versus William German over damages from an automobile collision east of Ainsworth involving two cars. Jurors named include Fred Wagner George Baker Alvin Shaw Helen Griffith Latimer Davis Willa Weldin Henry Berger Ben Fitzgerald Gladys Cook Claude Rhodebeek Mark Koening Lee Holland. Attorneys Cahill Larson Bailey represent the plaintiff with Kehoe for the defendant.
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Leora Nelson
William German
Ainsworth
Fred Wagner
George Baker
Alvin Shaw
Helen Griffith
Latimer Davis
Willa Weldin
Henry Berger
Ben Fitzgerald
Gladys Cook
Claude Rhodebeek
Mark Koening
Lee Holland
A. C. Cahill
Robert Larson
Iowa City
Henry Bailey
Washington
L. J. Kehoe
Death claims Mrs. Goodlander at 49 in Washington
Mrs. Lewis L. Goodlander 49 of 908 East Main Street died about seven this morning at Washington county hospital after a year of illness. Funeral services set for Tuesday at L A Jones funeral home conducted by Dr. Eastwood, burial in Elm Grove. She born April 1 1891 in Drakesville Iowa. married L L Goodlander in 1909. came to Washington in 1928. survived by husband and four children plus two sisters.
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Lewis L. Goodlander
East Main Street
Washington County Hospital
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
FP. W. Eastwood
Presbyterian Church
Elm Grove
Alice Marie Grant
Davis County
Iowa
Edward and
Ellen (Burnett) Grant
Prakesville
L. L. Goodlander
Washington
Grant Goodlander
Cedar Rapids
Hubert Korf
Elmurst
Philip
Chicago
Esther
Irene Grant
Milwaukee
Nell Thompson
Drakesville
Dewey's Iowa visit delayed by illness and travel shifts
Dewey ny district attorney Thomas E Dewey postponed from Iowa appearances due to a 48 hour bed rest order. He plans to move from Colorado Springs to Wichita Friday Des Moines Saturday Marshalltown address on the courthouse lawn and a 4 30 p m meeting with the Third District Federated Republican Women.
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Dewey
Iowa
Colorado Springs
Colo
Thomas KE
New York
N. Y
Friends University
Wichita
Kan
Priday
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Irving W. Myers
State House
Wilson
Marshalltonn
Marshalltown Coliseum
Myers
Mrs Wilde Service Held at Peoria
Funeral services for Mrs Ethel Wilde were held at 2 pm at Wingler Funeral Home Peoria. She died Saturday afternoon in an Evanston hospital after an extended illness. She was born September 17 1871 in Washington and had lived in Peoria forty years. She was active in the First Federated Church and the Peoria DAR.
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Ethel Wilde
Wingler
Peoria
Wilde
A. Anderson
Arthur Frederick Kewert
First Federated Church
Springdale
Evanston
Lionel V. Tefft
Wilmette
Ethel Ball
Washington
Harrison Arnold
Mary Anne Ithing Ball
Second Presbyterian Church
Daughters of the American Revolution
Iowa Treasurers Report Shows Record General Revenue
Des Moines April 29 The state of Iowa reports 12 515 842 in general revenue on hand the largest in ten years. About 6 160 000 will be paid to redeem primary road bonds within a week with calls in May.
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Des Moines
State of
Iowa
Gracious woman admired for intellect and ideals
She was praised for graciousness and character and had strong intellect and ideals. Survived by daughter Mrs. Marianne Teff of Wilmette, Illinois, four grandchildren including John Edward Martin and William Varney Yefft, six sisters, and a late sister who died in Peoria. Two infant children and a daughter Margaret Wilde Martin predeceased her. sister Mrs. J. T. Stanhope died in 1921.
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Marianne Teff
Wilmette, Ill
John Edward Martin
Peoria
William Varney Yefft
Margaret Lee Tefft
Mary Anne Tefft
Wilmette
Emma C. Anderson
Washington
Gertrude Ball White
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Detroit
Mich
Ida McCleery
Long Kbeweh
Calif
Grace Ball Anderson
Des Moines
C_ p
Bertha) Hunt
San Gabriel
Margaret Wilde Martin
J. T. Stanhope
Rains Aid Crops Across Midwest United States
Spring showers drenched the Western half of the nation aiding farmers from California to Indiana. Rains swept eastward from the Rockies, soaking from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico with amounts from moderate to three inches. Oklahoma Kansas Arkansas and Colorado reported the greatest benefits with Tulsa at two and a half inches. Soil experts said the moisture improved prospects for newly seeded grain in Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and Illinois and prepared corn belt soils for May plantings.
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United Preas
California
Indiana
Rocky Mountains
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Colorado
Tulsa
Okla
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Corn Belt
Steel concerns lose wage case before Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dismissed the suit of Steel Companions challenging the secretary of labor's ruling on minimum wages for steel firms supplying government contracts under the Walsh Healey act.
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Washington
Pp. C
The
Supreme Court Today
Sew Steel Companions
Secretary of Labor
Crawfordsville man Lee Hanna dies in suicide on farm
Crawfordsville April 29 Dr. W. 8. Kyle coroner said Lee Hanna’s death was evidently suicide after a rifle was found beneath his body in a summer kitchen. He had faced despondency over late season and cool weather threatening crops. Four children and a second wife survive. funeral planned via L. A. Jones of Washington.
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Crawfordsville
Kyle
Lee Hanna
Here
Crawford Township
Hanna
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
Washington
Wire
John Lee Hanna
John
Florence Maxwell Hanna
Eva Sands
Ainsworth
West Chester
William Davidson
Winston-Salem
N. Car
Lioyd Coon
Robert
Bruce Hasna
Waterloo
United Presbyterian Church
Jeannette Wooley
Iowa City
Lipscombs Visit McCreedys in Emporia Kansas
Mr and Mrs Bruce Lipscomb of Emporia Kansas visit her parents Mr and Mrs H J Mc Creedy. The short note records a family visit with no further events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Bruce Lipscomb
Emporia, Kan
H. J. McCreedy
County Health Unit Exhibit To Be Shown At Doctors Meeting
An exhibit of Washington county health unit work will be displayed at the Iowa State Medical association meeting at Fort Des Moines hotel Des Moines this week. Nurses Thelma Luther and Eleanor Cruikshank attend the convention. Dr. Boice and Dr. Barrett plan to go.
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Doctors’ Meeting
Washington County Health Unit
Iowa State Medical Association
Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
Thelma Luther
Eleanor Cruikshank
Medical Association
C. A. Boice
A. Barrett
Washington County
Varner Funeral Held Here Today
Funeral services for James W. Varner a 70 year old former Washington resident were held at 2 PM at Shermans funeral home. Dr R C Keagy led the service with a vocal duet by Mrs Lewis Warren and Miss Jane Steele. Burial was in Elm Grove cemetery. Varner born July 3 1869 in Parkersburg West Virginia lived in Kansas and Washington and worked as a shoe repairer before entering real estate. He died last Saturday in St Louis after two years of illness.
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Sherman
James W. Varner
Washington
St. Louis
R. C. Keagy
The
Methodist Church
Lewis Warren
Jane Steele
Lee Holland
Cloud Willits
Claude Tucker
RR. R. Noonan
Jack
Westphal
Ralph Scott
Elm Grove Cemetery
More
Mr. Varner
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Joseph
Elizabeth Varner
Kansas
August Helscher
Nicola & Harmon, Work & Meek
Frank L. Wilson
George H. Paul Land Company
Ohio
Germans Halted, Is Reported by United Press
German air forces pounded Allied supply lines to Norway as a central Norwegian front drive toward key railway hubs was reported halted. In the Gudbrands valley British lines remained unchanged while Nazis pressed at Hjerkinn near Dombaas as air attacks targeted Andalsnes Molde and Norwegian bases south of Trondheim. A Vita of strategic tension grew as Russia signaled willingness to negotiate a reciprocal trade deal with Britain.
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United Press
Germany
Norway
Hjerkinn
Trondheim
Dombaas
Gudbrands Valley
British
War Office
Nazia
Andalsnes
Molde
Norwegian
Names
Russia
London
I. M. Maisky
Lord Halifax
Great Britain
Mrs. Mike Fritz of Brighton Dies Today
Emma Pohren Fritz, born June 20, 1855, died at 7:30 am at her daughter’s home near Brighton. She married Mike Fritz in 1873 and is survived by three children, 13 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. Burial at Pleasant Plain cemetery after services at St. Joseph’s Church Pleasant Plain.
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Brighton
Mike Fritz
John Pacha
Fritz
St. Josephs Catholic
Ehuren Pleasant Plain
Sehers
Pleasant Plain
Emma Pohren
Vince
Margaret
Methodists Table For Act Protest At Vatican
At Atlantic City the general conference of the Methodist church tabled a resolution after debate. It called for a committee of a few men to protest the appointment of Myron C. Taylor and a Roosevelt representative at the Vatican in Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Myron C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
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Chaneve
Mrs. Goodlander
Taft
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Robert A. Taft
San Francisco
Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Tex
New Mexico
Treasury
Midwest
Catherine Schneider
Sea Cliff
L. L
Schneider
Penelope
Varner
J. M. Latti
Warner
Woodman Lodge
Pleasant Plainter
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