Indicted Navy Cable Fraud Cases Open War Fraud Probe
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced indictments against nine companies and six officers for conspiracy in selling insulated cable worth nearly 56 million dollars to the Navy. The grand jury in Newark New Jersey returned the indictment last Monday. penalties could reach two years in prison and a 10000 dollar fine. The cost study showed profits of 35 to 70 percent.
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Washing
P. C
Budegg
Francis Biddle
Newark
New Jersey
Column Reports Tallcorn Hotel Death in Gun Incident
Curtis McKnight 21 a night engineer at the Tallcorn hotel died at Deaconess hospital from a .32 caliber gun wound to the liver. Bernard Pull 16 a bellhop at the Tallcorn accidentally shot McKnight in a Pilgrim hotel room Sunday forenoon according to police.
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Marshalltown
Curtis McKnight
Tallcorn
Deaconess Hospital
Bernard Benjamin Pull
Tallcorn Hotel
McKnight
Pilgrim Hotel
Iowa 1942 corn loan rate set by county ranges 75 to 81 cents
Iowa announces corn loan rates for 1942 will range from 75 cents in north central counties to 81 cents in eastern and southern counties, up 6 to 6 cents from 1941. Official release pending, with county sale price formulas for feed wheat mirroring the loan price method. County figures use 85 percent of parity price for corn.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa campaigns marshal scrap metal for war effort
Des Moines reports a statewide drive to meet 99 000 tons scrap metal quota for the last six months of 1942. Cities towns and townships organize systematic campaigns to collect material as wartime front intensifies.
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Des Moines
Iowa City
Auction Planned to Aid War Bond Drive
Sioux City residents can convert unused furniture clothing and similar articles into war bonds and stamps at a wartime auction sponsored by the Monahan post American Legion The auction will be held this week with items including household furniture clothing musical instruments and even a pony at American Legion headquarters valued at about 3000 dollars
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Sioux City
Monahan Post
American Legion
Des Moines Announces 1942 Drake University Teacher Placements
Mrs Jane Gibson Gladfelder director of Drake universities office of teacher placement announced Sunday that all 53 graduates of the 1942 class have received teaching offers. She noted a shortage driven higher average salaries for those placed this year.
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Des Moines
Drake University
Jane Gibson Gladfelder
Gladfelder
Von Clemm Given Term of Two Years in Diamonds Case
Werner Von Clemm a 44 year old German born American citizen was sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary and fined $10000 for conspiring with the German high command to sell diamonds seized by Nazis in Belgium and Holland. The Pioneer Import Corporation headed by Von Clemm was convicted with him and fined $10000.
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New York
Werner von Clemm
High Command
Belgium
Halfland
James Leamy
Pioneer Import Corporation
von Clemm
Valuable oid artifacts housed at Phipps Conservatory
One of the world’s most valuable oid collections resides in Pittsburgh at Phipps Conservatory. The display highlights rare oids, drawing researchers and enthusiasts to the historic glasshouse.
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Phipps Conservatory
Pittsburgh
Weather Dips From 89 to 44 Degrees In Washington
A fall feel settled in with temperatures rising to 89 on Saturday before a northwest wind drove readings down. By Sunday morning the low reached 50 and last night the thermometer fell to 44, the season’s lowest since spring. Friday peaked at 94 degrees.
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Washington
Mercury
Junior High Registration Set By School Leader
Ethel McCreedy principal announces registration for the new school year on Wednesday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Pupils will receive locker keys at the same time, each key costing 25 cents.
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Ethel McCreedy
Mrs Kensler Celebrates 90th Birthday Amid War Service
Mrs William Kensler marks her ninety years at her Briley a apartment with family nearby. Born Philiciet in Canada she moved to the United States after the Civil War. She raised nine children two daughters surviving and now has two great grandsons serving in the present war.
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William Kensler
Ben Briley
Canada
Philiciet
States
Presbyterian Church
Journal
W.A.C
Peter Aiey
D. D. Davis
Dr Eastwood Appeals to Youth at Central Park Service
Dr F W Eastwood of the Presbyterian church preached to a large crowd in Central Park on Sunday evening urging youths to remember God while young. He warned that a life without God is empty and praised a life led by Christ, noting unity among Washington churches in the union series.
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F. W. Eastwood
Presbyterian Church
Washington
Central Park
Solomon
God
Christ
Eastwood
Carl Klein
Boyd White
Senate Finance Committee Votes to Cut Dependents Tax Exemption
Washington Aug 24 United press senate finance committee voted to cut the personal income tax exemption for each dependent from four hundred to three hundred dollars. The report notes political calls for reducing exemptions as part of meeting a war bond quota.
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Washington, D.C
Senate Finance Committee
First American Shot Fired on European Soil in World War II
Corporal Franklin Koons of S wea City Rangers earned the distinction after firing the first American shot on European soil during World War II. The 23 year old farm boy moved up a French stable wall and discharged his rifle during the Dieppe operation, under German sniper fire alongside three fellow rangers.
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London
England
Franklin Koons
Towa
Koons
American Rangers
Dieppe
Britain
Swea City Soldier Joins Rangers After A E F Service
Corporal Franklin Koons left his Swea City area farming family to enlist May 6 1941 and became a farm auctioneer to study. He joined the first A E F contingent landing in Ireland last January and later volunteered for the American Rangers first battalion.
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Swea City
Iowa
Franklin Koons
Olliver Koons
Koons
A.E.F
Ireland
American Rangers
Five Injured in Collision Near Bethel Church
Five people were injured when two cars collided at an intersection near Bethel Presbyterian church eight and a half miles northeast of Washington about 10:30 Sunday morning. Clair George Gerot of Ainsworth and Charles LeRoy Brown of Columbus Junction led the two vehicles. Both drivers escaped serious injury but three Brown passengers were hospitalized. Anna M Brown Shirley Ann Brown and Charles Brown Jr all suffered head injuries and fractures yet were discharged by day’s end. Damages were $100 to the Gerot car and $75 to the Brown car.
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Bethel Presbyterian Church
Washington
Clair George Gerot
Ainsworth
Charles LeRoy Brown
Columbus Junction
Clair Gerot
Guy Gerot
Anna M. Brown
Wayland Wayland
Ben Eicher
Wayland
Washington County Hospital
Dale Beckman
Danville
Joseph West
Irene Westen
Beckman
Graduation program for defense school class II set for tonight
About 200 graduates from the second defense school will attend the high school ceremony where Col. H. H. Slaughter will deliver the principal address. Supt. E. A. Ralston and Commander Ivan Norton will speak, with Lt. Col. Slaughter’s background highlighted by West Point and other posts. The event includes the Washington Municipal Band and an air raid siren test at 6 pm.
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George Wilson
Slaughter
Iowa States Guard
Howard Miller
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E. A. Ralston
Washington
Citizen's Defense Corps
Ivan Norton
County Defense Corps
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Norton
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Russia
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Libya
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War College
Washington D.C
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Town University
Fort Snelling
Minn
Washington Municipal Band
Paul Schlatter
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Burlington
Defense Corps
Brighton Man’s Son In Pacific Battles
Chris Jensen of Brighton received a letter from his son A J Jensen C R M U S N 1273 Hayes street San Francisco Calif who has served 17 years in the navy He was chief radio man on a destroyer sunk in the Midway battle He arrived home June 30 and was granted a furlough because his ship was sunk He was lucky to escape and awaits assignment to a new destroyer He says the Japs were beaten at Coral Sea and Midway from his firsthand experience
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Chris Jensen
A. J. Jensen
C.R.M. U.S.N
Hayes Street
San Francisco
Calif
United States Navy
Midway
Jensen
United States
California
Coral Sea
Car Collision Involving Westen Ends With Lacerations
The driver’s brother Lloyd Beckman, now in United States service, was among the passengers in the Beckman car. Other occupants included Wanda Pence Florence Westen Roberta Ballard and Wilma Arnold of Washington. June Sigafoose of Brighton, a passenger with Dale Beckman, sustained facial lacerations as the Beckman vehicle traveled west while Westen’s car approached from the south.
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Lloyd Beckman
United States
Miss Westen
Wanda Pence
Florence Westen
Roberta Ballard
Wilma Arnold
Washington
June Sigafoose
Brighton
Dale Beckman
Beckman
Patriotic Groups Meet at City Hall Tonight
Washington patriots from Veterans of Foreign Wars American Legion and Spanish American War veterans gather at City Hall at eight to discuss removing the Civil War cannon from Central Park for scrap and to form a local patriotic alliance to aid in the war effort. The meeting is called by E R Burham James H Baird Harry Crone Archie Buwer and Fred Downing.
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Washington
City Hall
Central Park
E. R. Burham
James H. Baird
Harry Crone
Archie Buwer
Fred Downing
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Nazi pressure on Stalingrad grows as rail line near collapse
Soviet admission reports German masses pushing back Red defenders near Stalingrad. Moscow–Stalingrad railroad nearly out of service due to air and artillery bombardment. Reds conduct a controlled retreat while heavy German forces threaten Novorossisk Grozny and the Black Sea base. American convoy reaches Britain signaling intensified Allied airfront.
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Russia
Volga River
Caucasus
Red Army
Moscow-Stalingrad
Volga
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Grozny
U.S
Europe
Britain
Germany
North Africa
Tran
Traq
Cairo
Iran
Iraq
Erwin Rommel
Far East
Hangchow-Nanchang
Kaiser and Hughes Build Big Planes
Henry J. Kaiser and Charles E. Hughes plan to construct large aircraft in a venture highlighted by the San Francisco dispatch dated August 24. The project aims to expand U.S. air capability and leverage West Coast industrial scale.
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Kaiser and Hughes
San Francisco
Calif
Henry J. Kaiser
West
Pennsylvania Caves Publicly Opened. Hughes Plans Massive Planes
About 100 caves are found in Pennsylvania with fourteen open for public inspection. Hughes, a millionaire designer, announced plans today to build 500 of the world's largest cargo airplanes.
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Pennsylvania
Hughes
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