Two Iowa obituaries and a Navy cadet school plan
Services for Edward Streepy 98 last Civil War veteran of Appanoose county will be at Unionville Methodist church at 2 p m Wednesday. He lived mainly near Udell Ia and survived by four daughters and one son. In Washington D C Senator Clyde Herring said Navy plans a naval flight cadet training school at Cornell college Mount Vernon starting January 7 with capacity 600. The program will provide a three month elementary ground school and accept 200 cadets at a time.
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Centerville
Edward Streepy
Appa- Loose County
Unionville Methodist Church
Streepy
Udell
Washington, D. C
Clyde Herring
Dem
Navy
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
University of Iowa
Des Moines Trust Fund Scheme Face FTC Complaint
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Guy C. Beals a Des Moines printer and Spiegel Inc a Chicago mail order house for a deceptive trust fund scheme to collect delinquent accounts. Beals said no ruling has been issued against him and Spiegel promised to halt the plan.
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DES Moines— International Trustees
Federal Trade Commission
Guy C. Beals
Des Moines
E. Third St
Spiegel, Inc
Chicago
Two Killed When Car and Train Collide
In Brunsville near LeMars a car carrying Dorothy Luschen aged 20 and her brother Leonard 22 perished when it collided with a mixed train en route to Sioux City from Huron South Dakota. The crash left the siblings fatally burned as a sheet of flame engulfed the vehicle.
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Sioux City
Huron
S. D
Brunsville
LeMars
Dorothy Luschen
Leonard
Slick Washington roads after drizzle freezes
Light rain in Washington froze on contact creating slick pavements and dangerous sidewalks. Drivers urged to exercise extreme caution to prevent skids on streets and roads today.
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Washington
Blackout Practice Surges Across Washington County
Washington County conducted a second blackout in three months as a preparedness drill for potential air raids. Ivan Norton reports only four violations county wide, with pilots confirming no lights seen from ten to 10:20 p m. Local wards and State Guard units staffed key sites while trains and an oil truck were briefly halted to enforce the blackout.
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Washington County
Ivan Norton
Citizens Defense Corps
Defense Corps
Mr. Norton
Iowa City
Norton
Eclipse Lumber Company
North Second Avenue
Washington
Howard Miller
State Guard
Iowa Southern Utilities
City Water Works
Civilian Defense Council
Bh. D. Morrison, Jr
Haskins
Rath
Chas Marshall
Keokuk
Crawfordsville
Rommel Reported In Bizerte Amid North Africa Struggles
Axis forces faced setbacks in Africa as Rommel reportedly moved to defend Tunisia. The British Eighth Army pressed into Tripolitania while Allied airpower targeted axis bases. In the Pacific, Japanese holdouts near Buna and Sanananda were being squeezed by General Douglas MacArthur’s forces. Blackout measures across nine states tested local readiness.
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Africa Corps
Tripolitania
Rommel
Bizerte
Tunisia
Eighth Army
New Guinea
Buna
Sanananda
Douglas MacArthur
Buna Strip
North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
Seven Navy Air Corps Students Start Pilot Training Course
Seven new Navy Air Corps students join 17 others already in training at the Washington airport and junior college today forming a growing Navy program. The group from St. Louis and various cities joins ten already in navy flying instruction with three Army air students nearing completion.
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Navy Air Corps
Washington
Navy
Army Air
Army
Milo Sorden
Clyde Bowden
George Marchek
Creston
Legion Post Regular Meeting Tonight at City Hall
The Leon Beatty post of the American Legion holds its regular meeting this evening at eight in the Legion rooms at city hall. Commander M. L. Whitaker urges a large turnout.
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Leon Beatty Post
American Legion
Legion Rooms
M. L. Whittaker
Navy enlistment list includes Bruty and Beig names
The Des Moines enlistment roster yesterday lists Wilbur J. Bruty and Harold C. Beig of Washington among those who joined the navy.
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Des Moines
Wilbur J. Bruty
Harold C. Beig
Washington
Iowa Blackout Proves Largely Effective Despite Tragic Death
Iowa conducted its first state wide blackout with reports claiming the effort was more than 99 percent effective. A fatal accident at Creston killed air raid warden Charles H. Grady when a police car struck him and later crashed. State defense officials praised public cooperation and the vigilance of 75,000 civilian defense workers for limiting accidents during the 20 minute drill.
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Iowa
Creston
Des Moines
Charles H. Grady
William Danner
Danner
Grady
Kunik Tells Rotary About Life in Poland
Julius Kunick a Washington merchant spoke to the Rotary about My Experiences in Europe He described Poland under invasion by Germany and starvation years 1914 1918 He came to the United States in 1920 studied law at Cleveland and went into retail He urged vigilance saying our fate if we lose the war mirrors Europe and Americans should value citizenship Mrs Walter Bond read a patriotic piece and Donald Stats man a coast guardsman on furlough shared coast guard work Birthdays were noted for Dr W L Alcorn and Walter Bond Robert Lytle enters the army this week and received a leather billfold Rotary announced its annual Christmas party for December 21 at the Y M C A with member children in attendance
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Julius Kunick
Washington
Rotary Club
Europe
Poland
Germany
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
America
Kunick
Walter Bond
W. L. Alcorn
Robert Lytle
Rotary
Y.M.C.A
McNutt Seeks NYA Under War Manpower Commission
Manpower chief Paul V. McNutt plans to urge Congress to place the National Youth Administration under the war manpower commission. He cites NYA training in industry and proposes redirecting $51 million for training into WMC programs. He also plans sending 250,000 servicemen to universities for medical and science studies.
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Washington
D.C
Paul V. McNutt
Congress
National Youth Administration
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Harry F. Byrd
NYA
Armed Services
McNutt
Freeman Chosen as Assistant Freeman Chosen as Assistant
The Washington school board elevated W A Erbe to superintendent of schools and Kenneth Freeman to assistant superintendent. Freeman also becomes dean of the junior college while remaining grade school supervisor. Syrita Schleinteer and Helen Levis were named vice principals at Stewart and Lincoln. F S Garrett was named CPT coordinator.
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Freeman
Lincoln
Stewart
Syrita Schleinteer
Helen Levis
F. 8. Garrett
Board of Education
CPT
Kalston
Washington names new school administrators
Additional School Duties W A Erbe and Kenneth Freeman were named superintendent and assistant superintendent of the Washington school system today. Erbe has led Washington schools for 1 1/2 years after arriving from Maquoketa as high school principal, while Freeman came from Columbia Missouri where he was an elementary principal. Both will continue their roles as high school principal and supervising principal of elementary schools.
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W. A. Erbe
Kenneth Freeman
Erba
Freeman
Washington
Erbe
Maquoketa
Columbia
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St. Louis
John Elmer Khret
Belleville
George M. Gardner
Unionville
William J. Hines
Davenport
William H. Hoffman
Karl R Nelson
Laurel E. Offerle
Geneseo
I Rank
KE. Simon
Louisville
Garrett
Ground School
Martha Sidles
Richard Smith
Morris Code
F. S. Garrett
Ralph Scott
Reginald Talbott
Joseph Stolze
Ray Sutter
Sven Kjar
Congress Hotel
Legion
U.S
Safi
French Morocco
Africa
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Rodney Q. Selby
the State Defense Commission
Kunik
Roger W. Sheetz
A.S
U.S.N.R
Batt
U S.N.T.S
Great Lakes
of Education
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