Fort Madison Fire Destroys Cerr's Three Story Store
A late night blaze in Fort Madison Iowa destroyed Cerr's three story department store with losses over 100000. Adjacent Woolworths and Hirams Hardware suffered smoke heat and water damage as crews from Burlington Keokuk and the Iowa ordinance plant fought the flames. The fire damaged plate glass across six buildings and was deemed the worst in the city’s history.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
Cerr
Woolworth’s
Hiram’s Hardware
Burlington
Keokuk
Poster of West Branch Secures Ballot Spot in First District
Lamar Poster of West Branch won the right to run for Congress after District Judge Tom K Murrow ordered Secretary Earl Miller to place Foster’s name on the ballot. Koster, a veteran estate legislator and former speaker in 1937, seeks the Democratic nomination in the district.
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Desimwoines
Lamar
West Branch
Tom K. Murrow
Earl Miller
Foster
Koster
Judge sentences Bisanti Hity for embezzlement in Hawkeye case
District Judge O. J. Henderson sentenced John Bisanti Hity of Perry, former Hawkeye Laundry manager, to an indeterminate five year term in Fort Madison penitentiary after a jury found embezzlement. The amount involved was 3,620.
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Boone
O. J. Henderson
John Bisantio
Perry
Hawkeye Laundry Company
Fort Madison
Bisanti Hity
Bus Driver Hurt In Low Moor Collision
Clinton Leonard McGuire a 35 year old Low Moor school bus driver was hospitalized with internal injuries after his bus collided with an empty oil truck driven by W R Mayworth 26 of Cedar Rapids Indiana at the Highway 30 gravel road junction near Low Moor. McGuire was rescued from under the overturned bus.
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Clinton — Leonard McGuire
Low Moor
Mercy
Arnold to Speak at Centennial Commencement
Lieut Gen. H H Arnold, newly appointed commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, will be the centennial commencement speaker in June at Iowa Wesleyan College Mount Pleasant. The announcement came via Albert J Lodwick of Lakeland Florida, a college trustee.
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Mount Pleasant
H. H. Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Iowa Wesleyan College
Albert J. Lodwick
Lakeland
Florida
Ottumwa Days Schedule Announces Parades and Scraps
Ottumwa Days opens today with a cleanup parade led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Friday features Scrap Iron Day under Ottumwa salvage committee and 4-H clubs. A doll parade is planned for Saturday by the Girl Scouts.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Ottumwa Salvage Committee
Girl Scouts
Trench Cave Kills John Amos in Knoxville
John Amos, 50, died when a ditch collapsed while he and companion Joe Dunreath dug it in Knoxville. Dunreath was rescued after being buried to his neck.
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Knoxville
John Amos
Joe Dunreath
Control Lights WASHINGTON DC April 20 press conference
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said voluntary blackout along the Atlantic coast has failed and military authorities will enforce dim-out regulations. He spoke at a Washington press conference today.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic Seacoast
Henry L. Stimson
Discontinue Daily Matinees at State Theater
Ralph Pratt announces start May 4 that weekday matinees will be halted for wartime. Saturday matinees move to 2:30 and Sunday matinees begin at 2:30, with national holidays still offering matinees. Evening shows run 7:00 and 9:15. Fox theater mirrors Saturday 2:30 start and Sunday 4:30 matinees with same evenings.
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Ralph Pratt
State Theater
Fox Theater
WPA Chief Vacationing in New Orleans Resigns
Howard O. Hunter says he has resigned as commissioner of the Works Progress Administration effective May 1, a personal matter between him and President Roosevelt. He is vacationing in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Howard O. Hunter
Works Progress Administration
Hunter
Roosevelt
Several Dead in Kansas Tornado
Oberlin Kansas April 30 Fourteen persons are known to be dead and 13 injured in the tornado here. A tornado struck near Oberlin shortly after 11:30 P M central war time last night. Six bodies have been recovered three of them as yet unidentified. Residents believed that 15 or 16 others were injured some fatally.
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Oberlin
Wan
Kansas
Shany
Here
Warm spell pushes 1942 to new high temperatures
The Mercury rose to 88 degrees yesterday and again this afternoon, the warmest stretch so far in 1942. Last night’s low was 2 degrees, making it the warmest night this spring.
Rosary Service for Victor Vrojovsky Planned
A rosary service for Victor H. Vrojovsky is set for Friday evening at 9 o clock at L. A. Jones funeral home. Funeral services will follow Saturday at 9 o clock at St. James Catholic Church.
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Victor H. Vrojovsky
L. A
Submarine Hit By U S Vessel in Atlantic 54 Hours
The gun crew of a small American freighter attacked two submarines in the Atlantic within 54 hours and scored a direct hit on one with a single shell at about one mile, the navy announced.
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Washington, DC
Atlantic
Navy
Deer Hit By Car Near Brighton Ends Local Herd Sightings
George Rudiger reports a dead deer on a road near Brighton after a car collision. The deer is part of a long-roaming herd in the southwest Washington county woods.
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Washington County
George Rudiger
Brighton
Morris Urges Prohibition as Patriotic Move
Rev. Sam Morris of San Antonio declares wartime prohibition should be enacted by President Roosevelt and Congress before Saturday night. He argues continued liquor sales hinder the war effort and conservation of essential materials and condemns soldiers and sailors’ liquor use.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Sam Morris
San Antonio
Texas
Methodist Church
Washington County
Mr. Morris
Missing Soldier Sought in Texas County
Clarence Farrier, a Brighton, Texas native and guard, is missing with three fellow Camp Wolters prisoners and a guard after an April 17 disappearance. Sheriff Putnam says Farrier was last seen in Brighton, ride possibly was hitchhiking, tall 5 feet 9 1 2 inches, 165 pounds, black hair gray eyes, missing index finger on right hand.
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Clarence Farrier
Brighton
Camp Wolters
Texas
Farrier
Mineral Wells
Washington County
H. M. Putnam
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Republican Women Sponsor Banquet in Washington County
The Washington County Women's Republican club will host a banquet at 6 30 p m Thursday May 7 in the Community room of the YMCA. State Republican candidates will attend the dinner meeting and meet local men and women. Reservations via Mrs C Phil Weldin or Mrs William Beggs. Tickets sixty cents.
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Washington County
Women’s Republican Club
Y.M.C.A
Phil Weldin
William Beggs
Widmer and Busby Clothing
Manufacture of 180 Billion Cigarettes Requires Sugar
Census figures show U S tobacco industry annual output of 180 billion cigarettes uses over 20 million pounds of sugar in production.
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U.S
Rationing registration hours set for May 4 to 7
E D Morrison Jr county civilian defense head announces four day food rationing registration for rural and town residents. Washington and county towns schedule four to six and seven to nine pm. Rural hours Monday eight am to seven pm and Tue Thu four to seven pm with districts split by north and south. Registrations in each resident's home district. late registrants go to courthouse rationing office.
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E. D. Morrison, Jr
Washington
Lincoln
Stewart
Morrison
Lester B. Krabill
Court House
Washington High School
Consumers’ Registra
Sugar Rationing Form Printed For School Registration
A reproduction of the Application for War Ration Book, the form for county school registration next week, is printed on page two of the Journal today, along with registration details for those who will register.
General Harold H. George and Time Life writer die in Australia
General MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia announced the deaths of Brigadier General Harold H. George, 48, and Melville Jacoby, 25, Time and Life magazine correspondent, in an accident. George was on MacArthur’s staff. Jacoby Somerly was a United Press correspondent in the Far East. George was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Medal.
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Washington, D.C
MacArthur
Australia
Harold H. George
Airforce
Melville Jacoby
Time
Life Magazine
George
Jacoby Somerly
United Press
Far East
Army seeks 16000 more physicians this year
Chicago. The army announced in the American Medical Association Journal that 16000 more physicians are needed this year. Five thousand are required immediately and another 11000 by December. The request funding totals $1.
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Chicago
Army
American Medical Association
Britain Pounds German War Plants as Red Army Advances
Britain vents near nonstop aerial strikes against German war plants in the Paris area using thousands of planes. The Red Army, meanwhile, claims the initiative on the eastern front with heavy losses for Germany and renewed assaults around Crimea. Lashio falls to Japan, Lae attacked in New Guinea, and Mindanao reports a Palanve capture by Japanese forces.
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Treasury Department
United Press
Britain
Paris
Red Army
Dover Straits
Goodrich
Russia
Lashio
Burma
Lae
North New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
Palanve
Mindanao
Philippines
Deny Farmers to Approve Policy On Farm Prices
Senate farm bloc leaders challenged the administration claim that farmers will back President Roosevelt on farm price policy. Senator Elmer Thomas said farmers may resist price cuts if wage controls aren’t matched. The president seeks authority to set ceilings on farm prices when parity levels are reached.
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Washington, D.C
Senate
Roosevelt
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Japanese propaganda claims wrecked bomber on display in Tokyo
A Tokyo display is cited by a Japanese propaganda broadcast as showcasing a wrecked American bomber from the April 18 raid. The report places the aircraft in Tokyo for public viewing as of April 80.
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San Francisco
Calif
Japan
Tokyo
Census shows 4000 dept stores near four billion sales
The census reports more than 4,000 department stores and mail order houses in the United States with combined sales for the year just under four billion dollars.
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U.S
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