Chauffeur Licenses Start Next Week Says Examiner
William McKasson, state examiner for motor vehicle licenses, announced licenses for chauffeurs will start across the state next week with first visits to Washington today. county issuance begins December 24 with other counties following, while truck licenses extend until January 15 due to paper shortages and start delays. Renewal requires old licenses vision test and new applications. fee remains two dollars. Armed forces truck drivers receive automatic extension.
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William MekKassen
Washington
Mt. Pleasant
Sigourney
Fairfield
Iowa City
Wapello
McKasson
Balkans Tense As Bulgaria Feels Pressure For Peace
Reports from Bulgaria indicate a mounting crisis as parliament upheaval ousts the foreign minister amid pro German policy accusations. A Russian delegation arrives in Sofia and Allied warnings follow as fear grows of Turkey joining the Allies and fighting along the Turko Bulgarian frontier.
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United Press
Bulgaria
Balkans
Ard
Italy
Russia
Switzerland
Sweden
Hungary
Germany
Preemier Dobri Bosilov
George Shishmanov
Sofia
Herbert von Richthofer
Turkey
Balkan
Cairo
Berlin
Middle East
Trans-ocean
Western Europe
Iowa Governor Calls Special Session on Soldier Voting
Governor Bourke B. Hicklenlooper states he will call a special session of the Iowa Legislature if needed to coordinate parent voting for armed forces in 1944. He notes Iowa cannot act without Congress determining whether soldier voting provisions go to the states, per a Senate bill transmitted to the House.
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Des Moines
Bourke
Fatal Burns From Homemade Inhalator Fire
Three year-old Sally Brulin of Cedar Falls died after a home made inhalator ignited at the family home. The device, used to treat a cold, caused severe burns to her face arms and hands. The girl was taken to a hospital in the city where she died.
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Cedar Falls
Sally
Ernest Brulin
Dick Blessing
Regional wage board turns down Maytag raise bid
The regional war labor board denied the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers union request for a 7 percent general wage increase for about 3,000 Maytag employees in Newton Iowa. It approved a 5 cent per hour increase for guards and watchmen to align with prior boosts for production workers.
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Kansas City
Regional War Labor Board
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union
C.I.0
Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
Hear Schultheis At Labor Trial
KE. D. Schultheis of Mureentine testified for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America at the national labor relations board hearing in progress at the courthouse. Attorney Stephen M. Reynolds rested the board's case and moved to amend the complaint to show Anna Arm long was recalled to work November 27, 1943, rather than not recalled. The board accuses American Pearl Button Co. of discriminating against four women employees in the automatic machine department by not recalling them when operations resumed after a July shutdown.
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KE. D. Schultheis
Mureentine
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Cio
National Labor Relations Board
Court House
Stephen M. Reynolds
Minneapolis
Anna Armlong
Labor Board
American Pearl Button Company
Schulthergs
Harvey B. Rector
Automatic Department
John H. Eadie
Schultheis
Harriet Shaw
Anna Amlone
Beulah Vinton
Arrie Rabenold
Rabenold
President Signs New Draft Law to Concentrate Draft Authority
President Roosevelt signed legislation transferring sole authority over the selective service system to Director Lewis B. Hershey, removing control from the War Manpower Commission and adding a five member medical board to reduce 4F classifications. The act also restricts administrative fathers and requires local appeal boards to review deferments, reshaping occupational deferment rules and registration oversight.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Presidert Roosevelt
Lewis B. Hershey
Paul V. McNutt
Selective Service
Des Moines County Buys Interurban Railroad For Back Taxes
Polk county purchased the Des Moines and Central Iowa electric interurban for 63 000 in a public tax sale after no other bids. The county holds a lien and the company may redeem within a year by paying back taxes dating to 1933. If not redeemed, the county may take deed after one year. The railroad runs 12 daily trips to Camp Dodge and serves Perry Colfax Woodward Fort Des Moines and Urbandale over Des Moines Railway Co. tracks.
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Des Moines
Des Moines & Central Iowa
Polk County
Camp Dodge
Perry
Colfax and
Woodward
Fort Des Moines
Urbandale
Des Moines Railway Co
President Roosevelt Visits Malta During Bombed Island Tour
President Roosevelt paid a flying visit to Malta with Prime Minister Churchill and said they believed they struck strong blows for humanity’s future. He presented a scroll honoring Maltese people for valor under repeated air fire. Roosevelt arrived aboard a Douglas transport escorted by fighters and landed at Malta’s heavily bombed airfields.
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Valletta
Malta
Roosevelt
Chuchill
United States
Christmas Seals Raise Funds For Tuberculosis War
It was reported today that $499.89 has been received in Washington so far in the sale of Christmas seals to fund wartime tuberculosis efforts. Returns come from mailed seals with an average of nearly one dollar each, higher than last year. Additional receipts include $72.86 from Crawfordsville $19 from West Chester and $9.41 from Richmond.
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Washington
Crawfordsville
West Chester
Richmond
Registration Move Mention in Historic Notice
The passage notes that a man has relocated from his original registration location. It implies coverage of voter or residency records and emphasizes the change of address affecting official registration status. Further specifics are not provided in readable text.
Frank H. Ross Dies at West Chester Age 72
Frank H. Ross, 72, died today at 11 10 AM at his home one mile east of West Chester. Funeral arrangements await the arrival of his son, Major Milton E. Ross, from Fort Sill Oklahoma. Survived by wife Mary Bauer Ross and son, plus brothers and sisters in the West Chester area.
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Frank H. Ross
West Chester
Milton E. Ross
Fort Sill
Oklo
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
Mr. Ross
Scott County
Iowa
Francis A
Mary (Parker) Ross
Mary Bauer
Chester
Washington Academy
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Major Ross
Mary Conger
Hattie Ross
Will Ross
R. A. Ross
Anna Ross
Crawford and Amlong Obtain December Marriage License
Lyle Crawford of Crawfords ville and Frances Amlong of Washington received a marriage license yesterday marking the first license issued in the county for December.
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Lyle Crawford
Crawfordsville
Frances Amlong
Washington
80 Persons to Read Bible at U P Church Sunday
Washington United Presbyterian Church observes Universal Bible Sunday with 80 readers from 3:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. reading the New Testament nonstop except for a 10:45 a.m. worship interval. Readers include Mary Bordwell Bonita Brower Betty Stewart Patty Brower Jean Rudiger. Frances Whisler leads a 15 minute reading during the service.
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U. P
Washington
George Kerr
Frances Whisler
Matt
Mary Bordwell
Bonita Brow
Patty Brower
Jean Rudiger
Mrs Don Bishop Receives War Dept Wounding Notice
Mrs Don Bishop today received official word from the War Department that her husband was wounded in Italy on November 8. She had earlier received letters from him describing the wound.
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Don Bishop
War Department
Italy
Maytag 50th Anniversary Event Seeks Prewar Washers
Newton Iowa Chamber of Commerce seeks owners or knowledge of Maytag washing machines made before World War I for a 50th anniversary celebration on Tuesday December 28. The event honors President Fred Maytag II and the company’s wartime shift to making aircraft parts for the Army Air Forces.
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Chamber of Commerce
Newton
Iowa
Maytag Company of
Fred Maytag II
Army Air Forces
Maytag Company
Ministers Elect Officers for Year
At the December meeting of the city ministerial fellowship at the YMCA Rev. Alfred Trenerry pastor of the Baptist church was elected president for the coming year. Other officers include Rev. Will McBee pastor of the Associate Presbyterian church as vice president and Rev. Milo Phillips pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church as secretary treasurer.
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Y.M.C.A
Alred Trenerry
Baptist Church
Be“il McBee
Assoriate Presbyterian Church
Milo Phillips
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Hog market embargo at Sioux City yards announced
G F Silknitter, president of the Sioux City Stock Yards Co., says the yards will not accept any more hogs from noon today to noon December 12. The embargo is an emergency step to control shipments and aid orderly marketing.
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Sioux City
G. F. Silknitter
Last Day To Give Old Clothes In Washington Drive
Washington county salvage chairman Earle F. Libe reports four tons of clothing delivered with Kalona Wellman Riverside Brighton and West Liberty still to contribute. Deadline is Thursday, Dec. 16, with all collections sent to the new central depot two rooms west of the Fox theater. Local chairman Mrs. Rose Reid urges donations of any usable garments without dry cleaning before delivery.
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Washington County
Earle F. Libe
Washington
Kalona
Wellman
Riverside
Brighton
West Clister
Central Collecting Depot
Fox Theater
Rose Reid
Safer by Train Prompted by Familiar Warning
Capt. Robert L. Pierce, former World Telegram artist, after 150 air combat missions in the southwest Pacific, wired his Nebraska parents that he would arrive by plane the next day. His mother replied via telegram, We’d rather you come by train. It’s safer.
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New York
Robert L. Pierce
New York World Telegram
Southwest Pacific
Mark Pierce
Lincoln
Nebraska
Couple found unconscious from gas fumes in home
Frank Guske 86 and his wife 84 were found on the living room floor by nurse Alice Swasey after a porch light had burned since Wednesday night. The couple apparently were unconscious for hours from hard coal stove gas but were believed out of danger.
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Atlantic
Frank Guske
Alice Swasey
Pope Pius XII to Broadcast Christmas Peace Plea Worldwide
Vatican says Pope Pius XII will deliver a world peace message on Christmas Eve during the traditional midnight mass in the private chapel near the papal apartments. No details of the appeal were released.
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Pius XII
Vatican
Pontif
Papal Apartments
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