Iowa hunter killed by shotgun blast near Greeley
Joseph Fenchel 29 of Dubuque a Savanna ordnance plant worker was killed while hunting near Greeley. He was visiting his wife's parents when the .20 gauge shotgun toppled in a junk pile, exploded and struck him in the back and heart.
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Manchester
Joseph Fenchel
Dubuque
Savanna
Greeley
Fenchel
Jacob Fenchel
Strawberry Point
Ernest Sebert
Selbert
Deny College Plea For Tax Exemption
Polk County supervisors denied Grinnell College trustees petition for tax exemption on property at Fifth Ave and Walnut St in Des Moines. The college acquired the J C Penney and F and W Grand store buildings from B A Younker. annual taxes total about 28000 dollars. The trustees had warned of potential litigation if exemption was not granted.
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Des Moines
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Grinnell College
Fifthave
Walnutt
College
J. C. Penney
B. A. Younker
Muscatine Publisher Clyde Rabedeaux Funeral Planned
Clyde R. Rabedeaux 55 publisher of the Muscatine Journal for 17 years dies after years of ill health. Funeral set for 2:30 p m Saturday at Fairbanks Funeral Home. He joined as a circulation solicitor 30 years ago, became circulation manager in 1912 and advertising manager in 1914.
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Muscatine
Clyde R. Rabedeaux
Muscatine Journal
Fairbanks
Rabedeaux
Journal
Pig Crop in State to Set a New Record
DES MOINES Iowa farmers forecast the 1942 pig crop at 18 516000 head up 17 percent from 1941 and above the 1931 record. Producers plan to keep 2 352000 sows for spring farrow in 1943 up 16 percent, signaling a spring crop exceeding 14 500000 pigs based on 1942 letter sizes, compared with 12 756900 last spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Fathers Warned of Gas Ration Cuts Over Sons 385 Mile Rule
Des Moines rationing board warned fathers in Iowa they may lose gasoline ration coupons if their sons exceed 385 miles per hour in driving. The action followed a case where Arthur Roustin's son, Robert A Roustin, was convicted of speeding 50 miles an hour and faced consequences while in the Army Air Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
East
President Roosevelt signs higher pay bill and curbs staff
President Roosevelt signed temporary legislation granting overtime pay or raises to government white collar workers. He urged agencies to reduce personnel where possible and adopt a six day 48 hour work week as the minimum for both department and field service. The memo called the act a major step toward orderly government personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Fifty Petit Jurors Drawn for January Term in Washington County
Names of fifty jurors chosen for the January term of the Washington County District Court were announced at the courthouse. They will serve beginning Monday January 18 with Judge Frank Beehly presiding and are to report for duty on the term's second Monday unless otherwise arranged. Twelve grand jurors for 1943 were also selected and impaneled on the term's second day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Court House
Frank Beehly
Montezuma
Simplified Tire Ration Plan Proposed by Rubber Chief
William Jeffers, national rubber administrator, proposed a streamlined tire rationing system for farmers. He outlined two simplified forms for farm vehicles used in production and for hire, shifting hire trucks from defense transportation to a farm commission regime. Local commissions would decide tire allocations and production priorities to aid the war effort.
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Jeffers
Nebraska
Iowa
South Dakota
Office of Defense Transportation
Inter-state Commerce Commission
State Railway Commission
Farm Commission
Christmas Service At Lutheran Church Announced
Rev. E. H. Wendland of Immanuel Lutheran Church invites all to a Christmas Day service at 6 o clock in the morning. The message of Jesus birth will be proclaimed and special carols sung by young and old as the day begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Wendland
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jesus
Local Names List For Election Jurors and Notables
The clipping lists individuals by name and ward or township associations including Lew Waldschmidt Edith Welstn Dora Wiley and others such as D. J. Alliman Casper Ed Downs Roy Funston Joe Hines Wm Knebel Edwin Kos Frank Pringle Lola Robertson Richard Stephens H. E. Stewart JR. Wirtz covering various municipalities and districts.
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Lew Waldschmidt
Iowa
Edith Welstn
4Th Ward
Dora Wiley
Washington
D. J. Alliman
Marion
Co. F. Casper
Third Ward
Ed Downs
Richmond
Roy Funston
Joe Hines
Jackson
Wm. Knebel
Edwin Kos
Highland
Frank Pringle
Lola Robertson
Brighton
Richard Stephens
Crawford
H. E. Stewart
West Chester
W. Wirtz
Wellman
Newcomers Mr and Mrs Henry G Bahde and family move to town
New residents Mr Henry G Bahde his wife and daughter Elaine have moved from Wapello to 516 West Main. Bahde works as a mechanic at Tucker Chevrolet with prior experience in a Wapello garage. Their son Wayne is a ground mechanic in the Army Air Corps at Yuma Arizona. Elaine is a high school student. The family attends the Catholic church.
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Henry G. Bahde
Elaine
Wapello
West Main Street
Bahde
Tucker Chevrolet
Iowa
Bahdes
Wayne
Army Air Corps
Yuma
Ariz
Rationing Board Applauds Public Cooperation During Gas Rationing
County rationing board chairman A E Ballice praises over 90 percent citizen cooperation with gasoline rationing. He cites an example of a Washington man returning unused coupons and notes heavy volunteer help from women and students keeping the system running. He urges orderly compliance and wishes a Merry Christmas.
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Washington
Christmas Day Arrives Around The World For Army
As Christmas arrives it finds American forces stationed worldwide and celebrating around the clock. Outposts across Tunisia Philippines New Guinea Solomon Islands and New Zealand reach Christmas Day by mid afternoon to evening New York time. In Alaska Hawaii and other Pacific outposts on the other side of the date line Christmas Eve comes later by several hours.
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New York
Yuletide
America
Prince of Peace
Tunisia
Midway Island
Guadalcanal
England
Philippines
New Guinea
Tin
Solomon Islands
Pry
New Zealand
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Hawaii
Pacific
Christmas Quiet at Journal Office for the Holiday
The Journal office observes Christmas as a holiday, a long standing tradition since the paper’s founding nearly 50 years ago. There will be no paper printed tomorrow as staff take a festive break. The Journal wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.
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Journal
The
War industry workers Sutton and Kiesey to spend Christmas at home
J A Sutton and Theodore Kiesey employed in war industry at Clinton will return home this evening to celebrate Christmas with their families.
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J. A. Sutton
Theodore Kiesey
Clinton
Early Christmas Mass at St James Church Schedule Six Masses
A Christmas musical program will be part of the six o clock mass tomorrow at St James Catholic church. Rev H J ad Corcoran to conduct six masses from six to nine o clock with choir selections a vocal solo and a duet. Mrs H L Barker is musical director and Mrs E J Harmeier organist. The six o clock program includes Breotee Cree et metud icid en ae Gruber Choir ve Maria Schubert Forrest Walker Christmas Carol Mass Korman Offertory Adeste Fiedles Gesu Bambeno Pietro A You Obligato by Margaret Ellen Barker and Joan Kiefer Recessional The First Nowell.
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H. L. Barker
St. James
E. J. Harmeier
Ae Gruber Choir
Maria
Schubert Forrest Walker
Korman
Gesu Bambeno
Pietro A. You Obligato
Margaret Ellen Barker
Joan Kiefer
Nowell
Good Fellow Dinner Baskets Distributed
Good Fellow Christmas baskets are delivered to needy families. contributions were about 55 below last year, with one extra $5 gift from a Washington businessman bringing the total to $59.75. Baskets are slightly lighter due to lower funding, though still well filled. Douglas Smith led the deliveries this afternoon.
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Washington
Douglas Smith
Red Army advances cut Don valley in Tunisia theater
United Press reports the Red Army seized a German divisional general and 1,600 men at Suliansky near the Stalingrad rail line, slicing the Don valley. Pravda notes 17 German planes captured intact. Tunisian front poised to flare with renewed activity as both sides reinforce. RAF says Allied air activity in Tunisia exceeded the Axis.
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Red Army
Suliansky
Stalingrad-Kharkov
Don Valley
Pravda
Medjez-El-Bad
Tunisia
State Guard Officers To Attend Midwest School
Iowa state guard officers will attend a United States Army school for midwest state guards at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri beginning January 9. Two Iowa regiments will select officers to fill the state quota. The school runs two ten day periods under the seventh service command headquartered in Omaha training in basic technical and tactical subjects.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Rolla
Arthur T. Wallace
Iowa Guard
Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Neb
Christ Still Lives in the Winter Wind
A reflective Christmas meditation speaks of Christ in the manger and the enduring message of goodness. The poem contrasts hatred with mercy and envisions a future where Christ and Christmas inspire peace, church unity, and hope for humanity.
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Christ
Bethlehem
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Don Sector
Petit Jurors
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John A. Benell
Kalona
Minnie Bidwell
Ruth Bringman
Vera Brooks
Eva Coffey
Mae Coon
Carl Daering
Dutch Creek
Irene Droll
Opal Elfridge
Howard Fisher
Towa
C. Foster
Sherman Gault
Forest Green
Nira
Jennile Hall
Blaine Holmes
Willis V. Horton
Helen Johnson
Hubert Kasowsky
al Ledger
Alice Lemmon
Olive Lewis
Ww. A. Lytle
William J. Marie, Jr
Delbert Maxwell
Bertha H. Miller
J0ldie Miller
Darsey McConnell
Helen Reiner
L. H. Rinner
Mildred Rudiger
Cora Levert
Helen Shenefelt
I. W. Shenefelt
Grace Shaw
Dortha Skipton
Frank Skipton
F. V. Skubal
Paul V. Snyder
Ethel Stewart
Leo Stone
Leo Stone, 3Rd Ward
L. R. Swartzendruber
John Swenka
W. J. Wade
California
Jieave
West Representatives
William Jeffers
Lutheran Church
Mary
Joseph
Carl Kiuweller
Dusseldorf
A. E. Baliiige
County Rationing Board
Ration Board
Ing
Corcoran
Good Fellow
United Press
State Guard
Clarence Hawkes
Hadley
Mass
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