Leningrad Fights Off Nazi Attacks A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA
Burlington police arrest Cedar Rapids and Ernest Green both Iowa ordnance plant workers for theft from a Burlington tavern payroll of 4000 in checks. A cigar box of checks was found in a car glove compartment after one man was seen with checks at the McArthur bridge toll house. Council Bluffs also reports Melvin Tuttle confessed to setting fire to a mail box seeking custody for stomach trouble. a letter and card were destroyed.
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Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Green
Newton
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Mississippi River
McArthur Bridge
Council Bluffs
Melvin Tuttle
J. Q. Jones
Des Moines Applicants Called for Lockheed Examinations
About 400 applicants from Des Moines and nearby counties will sit exams and be interviewed next Thursday at East High School by Lockheed representatives. The Midwest labor shortage pushes firms to hire from inexperienced applicants with basic mechanical training. Applicants aged 18 to 35 were selected by the Iowa Employment Service as Lockheed tours 17 towns seeking workers.
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Des Moines
East High School
Lockheed Airplane Fae
Iowa Employment Service
transient युवक sentenced for breaking and entering
Joe Webb a 23 year old Negro transient was sentenced by District Judge A B Lovejoy to 10 years in Anamosa reformatory for breaking and entering. Dorothy Gallagher captured Webb and held him after he entered the Gallagher home while her brother called police.
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Negro
Waterloo
Joe Webb
A. B. Lovejoy
Anamosa Reformatory
Webb
Dorothy Gallagher
Gallagher
Church backs conscientious objector camps in Iowa vote
The southern Iowa conference of the Church of the Brethren approves funding for conscientious objector camps. Members in camps will be asked to contribute $2 each in the district. The conference also commends President Hoover and his aides for efforts to feed hungry Europeans.
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Ottumwa
Southern Iowa
Church of the Brethren
Southern
Iowa
Hoover
Europe
Child injured in fall from car door in Newton
Two year old Jacqueline Pietz granddaughter of Newton grocer Jack Ettelson is in Skiff hospital with a basal skull fracture after falling from a car door driven by her mother Mrs. John Pietz of Rock Island.
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Newton
Jacqueline Pietz
Jack Ettelson
Newton Grocer
Skiff
John Pietz
Rock Island
Tll
Fire at Muscatine plant causes heavy damage
A fire of undetermined origin damaged a large part of the Paul Sebreurs shell crushing plant in Muscatine. Officials estimate damage between $6,000 and $7,000.
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Muscatine
Paul Sebreurs
Emmetsburg Man Signs Yearlong British Air Ministry Post
Harrison Swanton 24 son of Mr and Mrs A J Swanton of Emmetsburg accepts a one year contract with the British air ministry to ferry bombers from Canada to Britain. He will go to Montreal then fly to England for a three month transition period before piloting bombers across the ocean.
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Emmetsburg
Harrison Swanton
A. J. Swanton
British Air Ministry
Atlantic
Canada
British Isles
Swanton
Montreal
England
Avoca Boy Crushed by Road Machine Accident
Avoca reports the death of Donnie Horst 10 son of Mr and Mrs Car Horst after being crushed under a road machine in Avoca. The incident occurred during work near Avoca with authorities investigating the fatal crush.
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Avoca
Donnie Horst
Car
Horst
Soldier in New Jersey Killed By Patrolman
One of seven Fort Dix escapees, Private Theodore Mazure of Passaic New Jersey, was found shot dead in woods near Browns Mills. Authorities say the fatal shot came from a vacationing patrolman John McHugh of Lansdowne Pennsylvania during the search for the escapees.
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New Jersey
Browns Mills
N. J
Fort Dix
Theodore Mazure
Passaic
John McHugh
Lansdowne, Pa
Duke of Kent Guests at Roosevelt Hyde Park Visit
President Roosevelt entertained the Duke of Kent at Hyde Park. The royal visitor arrived by motor after 5 p m from Laguardia Field New York, where he landed at 2 30 p m from Canada.
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Hyde Park
Nive
Roosevelt
Duke of Kent
George
Duke
Hyde Park House
Laguardia Field
N. Y
Canada
Boy falls under road maintenance machine on steep hill
Eyewitnesses report a boy climbed onto a road maintenance machine as it rolled by. He apparently fell beneath the vehicle when the driver steered toward the bank of a steep hill.
Ames Candy Maker Dies of Pneumonia
AMes Howard Adams, 62, longtime candy maker in Ames, died of pneumonia. He ran the Adams Candy Kettle in Campustown and was known to Iowa State faculty and students for his craft. Survived by wife, a daughter, and a son.
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Am.s
Howard Adams
Adams
Campustown
Iowa State College
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Philadelphia Lumber Yard
A five alarm blaze gutted the J. H. Sykes lumber yard in north Philadelphia causing about 1 million dollars in damage. The fire spread to nearby plants and homes, injuring eighteen firefighters as it was brought under control. It follows a similar 1 million dollar lumber yard fire in May at Wilson H. Lear yard in Kensington and threats to Gramps Shipbuilding. Defense materials valued at about 500 thousand dollars were housed at both yards.
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Philadelphia
J. H. Sykes
Wilson H. Lear
Kensington
Gramp’s Shipbuilding Corporation
Young Columbus City Woman Taken
Mrs. LeRoy Pretz, 22, died at Bellevue hospital Muscatine last night after the birth of a daughter on August 16. Funeral plans list Rickey funeral home Columbus Junction Monday morning with a Milan Illinois service and burial. Darlene Grant, born August 30 1918 at Winthrop Iowa, was married to LeRoy Pretz February 10 1936 and survived by husband and infant daughter Brenda Alice.
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Columbus Junction
LeRoy Pretz
Bellevue Hospital
Muscatine
Rickey Funeral Home
Milan
Ill
Darlene Grant
Vernie Grant
Winthrop
Iowa
Henry Pretz
Columbus City
Brenda Alice
Walkout at Detroit and Kearny Strikes Amid Talks
Negotiations falter over Detroit transit workers strike now in its fourth day as AFL rejects city settlement offers. City urges withdrawal of exclusive bargaining demands to protect the defense program. Elsewhere at Kearny N J shipyards a government seizure seems likely despite Roosevelt’s reluctance to order action.
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United Press
Detroit
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny
N. J
AFL
Edward Jeffries
Roosevelt
Fruit budding demonstration near Kalona announced
County Agent J. W. Chandler announces a fruit budding demonstration to be held at the Dan Swartzendruber orchard four and a half miles northwest of Kalona next Tuesday. D. P. Ink, extension horticultural assistant, will be the demonstrator. All interested are welcome.
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J. W. Chandler
Dan Swartzendruber
Kalona
D. P. Ink
Petain Establishes Military Courts for Saboteurs
Vichy reports Marshal Petain has set up special military courts to mete out death sentences to communists anarchists and saboteurs. In Paris the German command orders firing squads for French hostages in retaliation for the assassination of a German naval officer.
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Vichy
Philippe Petain
Paris
Nomura Optimistic on Bridging U.S.-Japan Policy Gaps
Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura said in Washington that he believes differences between U.S. and Japanese policy can be bridged and that it would be folly of the worst kind not to pursue such a settlement.
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Washington, D. C
Kichisaburo Nomura
United States
Youths confess to killing Senator Dormey in Vichy
Four youths admitted to slaying Senator Marx Dormey socialist leader and former interior minister as party ties were traced to a trio killed by a home made bomb at Nice.
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Vichy
Atug
Marx Dormey
Popular Front
Nice
Louis Nova title fight postponed to Sept 29 at Polo Grounds
Promoter Mike Jacobs announced the Joe Louis Lou Nova heavyweight title bout was moved from Yankee stadium to the Polo Grounds with a new date of September 29.
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New York
Mike Jacobs
Joe Louis
Lou Nova
Yankee Stadium
Polo Grounds
Ring Returned After 40 Years Lost by Traer Couple
Mrs. John Claussen of near Traer received her wedding ring 40 years after it was lost. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Seimens, current occupants of the farm where the ring vanished, returned the ring which still bore the initial and wedding date.
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Mirs. John Claussen
Near Traer
Raymond Seimens
Power equipment needed to run vast U S factory power
The report notes that to operate the 184 000 United States factories every day an immense power capacity is required equivalent to over 61 million horsepower.
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United States
Grant Family Notables in Columbus Junction Area
The notice lists Vernie Grant and spouse of Columbus Junction as parents with four brothers. Virgil Grant of Charlotte Iowa is named as a brother and a sister Mrs George Hamerlinck of Moline Illinois is noted as another sibling in the extended family.
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Vernie Grant
Columbus Junction
Virgil Grant
Charlotte, Iowa
George Hamerlinck
Moline, Ill
City Approves West Monroe Surfacing After Hearings
After an advertised hearing, the city council adopted a resolution of necessity for surfacing about seven miles of Washington streets with crushed rock and asphalt. Two blocks on West Monroe were removed from the project amid objections over value and use, while most owners along South Ninth Avenue and South Avenue B favored the upgrade. Base work advances in the northeast reach, with rock laid on North Seventh and North Sixth avenues and primer coat prep planned for next week.
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Washington
Monroe Street
West Monroe
South Avenue
Troop D
South Ninth Avenue
South Avenue B
North Ninth Avenue
North Seventh
North Sixth Avenues
Licenses Granted for Cars and Chauffeurs After Court Tests
The weekly courthouse exam issued twenty four car licenses and six chauffeurs permits. Recipients include Ruth Liebig Ada Brenneman Jean Fry and others from Kalona Washington Crawfordsville and Ames. Fourteen failed driving tests and two failed school permit exams.
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Court House
State Highway Patrol
Ruth Liebig
Ada Brenneman
Jean Fry
Kalona
Edna Carlton
Thomas Water
Catalype Strong
Bernice Wolfe
Paul Butterbaugh
Ira Morrison
Forrest Rash
Washington
Robert Martin
Maude Barnes
Crawfordsvillle
Raymond Dickenson
Robert Cooney
Elsie Stout
Brighton
Norma Bauer
Ames
Mary Crawford
Ainsworth
Martha Warnock
Freeman
Robert Davie
Harold Fink
Cecil Zehr
Walter Stout
Minnie Kempf
Fleasant
Ronald Hotle
West Chester
Clifford Murdock
Riverside
David Grobber
Mt Pleasant
Eldon Bauer
Wellman
Maane
Aluminum To Be Removed From Iowa Concentration Points
Des Moines reports that 200 tons of Iowa aluminum collected for national defense is finally moving from concentration points. Federal procurement officer Hans Paull said shipments to smelters have begun and initial loads have left Keokuk for an East Chicago center, with more transfers expected within a week.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Hans Paull
Pauli
Keokuk
East Chicago
Factories employ as many workers as New England’s population
The census shows that the total workers in U S factories match the entire population of New England, highlighting industrial scale. The finding compares national manufacturing employment to regional population size, underscoring economic breadth.
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United States
New England
Asphalt Preparation Pace Set Before Bituminous Receiving
The plan specifies treating the asphalt groundwork before any bituminous material arrives to keep the base preparation ahead of the oil work. Weather conditions will determine progress to avoid interruptions and allow methodical work.
Foster's Angus Calf First in 4-H State Fair Show
County Agent J. W. Chandler reports Washington county 4-H results from Des Moines where Robert Foster's Angus calf, first in baby beef at the county fair, placed first in its class at the state fair. He notes ongoing judging to crown the overall Angus winner and lists other county awards across dairy, beef, swine, and carcass contests. Washington county girls and boys will participate in Des Moines contests with demonstration teams and health, style review, and health judging on schedule.
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Foster
J. W. Chandler
Des Moines
Robert Foster
Jackson Township
Chandler
Washington County
Dairy Heifers Holsteint
Dean Emde
Lloyd Duensing
Dean Tide
Guernseys
Ayrshires
Marion Timmins
Deene
Donald Flading
Angus
William Foster
Stanley Chabal
Deane Rinner
Chester
Arlen Cr
Harold Maas
Edward Chabal
Robert McLaughlin
Duroc
Barrow
Stanley
Edward
Poland
Washington
Virginia McLaughlin
Virginia Eckels
Esther Stewart
Carolyn Brewer
Roger Stannard
Leningrad Stands Defiant as German Encirclement Tightens
Moscow reports Voroshilov declares a decisive moment for the defense of Leningrad as 3 million residents and 1.5 million soldiers fight a German encirclement from the south and a Finnish push from the northwest. The front around Moscow also sees heavy counter attacks and aerial bombardment.
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Moscow
Klement Voroshilov
Leningrad
Red Army
Voroshilov
Kingisepp
Novgorod
Redar
T Mans
German Forces Break Russian Center on Leningrad Front
German sources say troops smashed a center of Russian resistance on the Leningrad front and in the Gomel sector north of Kiev, broke the bulk of two Soviet armies, and captured 87 000 prisoners with large booty.
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Berlin
Leningrad
Gomel
Kiev
Nazi Forces Advance to Threaten Leningrad and Dnieper Grip
German armies aided by Finnish troops pushed toward Leningrad in an attack of annihilation as southern units punched through to a new point on the Dnieper river. The moves threaten a rear assault on Red Ukrainian forces.
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Berlin
U.P
Leningrad
Dnieper
Funeral Monday for Mac Beenblossom at 2:30
Funeral services for Mac Beenblossom 81 will be held Monday at 2:30 PM at L A Jones funeral home. Rev Ivan Reiss will officiate with interment in Elm Grove cemetery. He died at his home following a month long illness. He was born January 17, 1861 and lived in the Smiloh area before moving to his present home with his wife Estella Essley Beenblossom. Surviving are wife Estella and children Glen Pratt Roy Randall Everett Leslie and Harold Beenblossom a sister Ella Hoskins and nine grandchildren. Deceased siblings listed.
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Mac Beenblossom
L. A. Jones
Ivan Reiss
Church of Christ
Elm Grove Cemetery
Beenblossom
East Madison Street
McClelland Beenblossom
Nelson and
Clarissa Jacobs Beenblossom
Smiloh
Estella Essley
Pleasant Hill
Washington
Glen Pratt
Roy Randall
Everett
Leslie
Harold Beenblossom
Ella Hoskins
George Corbin
Elizabeth
Jane
William
Andy
Perry Beenblossom
Sparrows Die After Heavy Rain Sighted at Corydon
W. E. Nickles collected 60 dead English sparrows after a recent Corydon rain and wonders how the birds died though he notes their presence.
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Corydon
W. E. Nickles
Census Shows Factories Produce Vast Glassware Output
Census bureau reports factories annually manufacture nearly 600 million drinking glasses tumblers goblets and bar ware to meet American demand.
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America
Census Bureau
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