City Council Weighs Five Year Street Lighting and Power Contracts
Washington city council opened talks on renewing five year contracts with Iowa Southern Utilities for street lighting and power at the water works. Officials plan to report next Monday night with possible bids around four thousand dollars annually. The meeting also reviewed a beer license renewal for Joe Simmering and discussed water softening options for city mains.
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Washington
Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Light and Water Committee
W. K. Dupuis
Fred Reid
Clarence Jacobs
North Second Avenue
Dupuis
Dupuia
Joe Simmering
Indiana Workers Walk Out at International Harvester Plant
About 2,300 members of the CIO United Automobile Workers walked out at the International Harvester plant in Fort Wayne Indiana halting production of truck parts under a defense order. Company officials said roughly 2,000 workers remained to run minimal operations while a government mediation effort continued.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Automobile Workers
CIO
International Harvester Company
Defense
Charles Shrock
Gates
Shrock
David
Boadley
Undier Department
Washington
New Baptist Pastor to Arrive Wednesday
Rev Alfred Trenerry and his family will arrive from Huron South Dakota tomorrow evening to assume duties as pastor of the Baptist church. He will preach next Sunday and a reception will follow Monday evening in the church parlors. The family includes two sons Ward a college student in Sioux Falls and James at South Dakota State College in Brookings and a daughter Mary Jane a high school junior. Only one son will accompany the pastor and wife Wednesday. Mary Jane will remain in Huron to finish her school semester.
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Alfred Trenerry
Huron
The
Baptist Church
Ward
Sioux Falls
S. D
James
South Dakota State College
Brookings
Mary Jane
Washington
Worries Over Health Lead Charles Blair to Suicide
Charles Blair 72, longtime Washington resident and businessman, died by carbon monoxide in his garage at 219 West Madison Street. Notes left described wishes for his business and funeral. Survived by sister Nita Law and five nieces. service to be private at Hill Grove cemetery. Coroner ruled death self-inflicted.
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Charles Blair
West
Madison Street
Blair
Washington
William Blair
Kyle
Sherman
Marriott Colwell
Harold
Nita Law
Eas
Mra. Co. &Nn
Little Roex, Ark
J Haynes
Chicago
Law
Critics say critics confuse Roosevelt address
Presidential secretary Stephen Early called reporters to say critics who fear an American expeditionary force to Europe are confusing the Sunday Night speech. He asserted Roosevelt pledged all out material aid to Britain with no plan for US naval or air forces in Europe.
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Washington, D. C
Stephen Early
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Europe
Karly
Lieut Nolan Hurt in Bobsled Accident
Relatives of Lieut F A Nolan of the State University of Iowa reserve officers training course report he is in serious condition at Fort Snelling hospital Minnesota after a bobsled crash that injured four muscles near his heart.
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Iowa City
F. A. Nolan
State University of Iowa Reserve Officers Training Course
Fort Snelling
City Police Face Two Vacancies as Brown Goes for Training
The police force will drop to two vacancies after Night Officer Walt Kiesey becomes deputy sheriff and Chief Jay Brown leaves next month for a year of training with Troop D where he serves as captain. George Baker was proposed to replace Brown and was favorably received though no action was taken. Mayor Lytle is expected to present an appointment at the next council meeting for endorsement. The council debated operating with two officers and discussed traffic control for No 92 with the state highway commission before adjourning.
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Dupuis
Newton
Iowa
Supt. P. L. Jordan
City Water and Light Plant
R. L. Lytle
Council
Walt Kiesey
Jay Brown
George Baker
Chief Brown
Lytle
No. 92
State Highway Commission
Victory in Africa Report Claims Italian Forces Encircled
A British army spokesman said the greater part of Marshal Graziani's Libyan army has been captured killed or immobilized by British imperial forces in the Middle East. He noted Italians holed up at Baraiya are included in this assessment.
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London
Marshall Rodolfox Graziani
Libya
Middle East
Bar Aia
Minister Denies Gasoline Theft After Plate Mixup
Police traced a license number from a reported drive-off at an Allison gas station to Rev. Carl W. Klein. Klein denied the accusation and said his car hadn’t left town, then learned a plate had been stolen and used on another car.
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Allison
Iowa
Washington County
Carl W. Klein
Klein
Venzke Volunteered for County Draft Next Tuesday
Robert Louis Venzke, order number 184, will be inducted into the army at Fort Des Moines next Tuesday after volunteering to fill the county draft quota. He works on the Ben Stout farm and leaves Washington county by bus at 6 10 am. Alternate Elmer Ellsworth Crum, order number 29, would go if Venzke cannot be inducted. Crum is brother to Sherman Crum, number 158, who was deferred due to dependents.
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Washington County
Fort Des Moines
County Selective Service Board
Robert Louis Venzke
Ben Stout
Venzke
Elmer Ellsworth Crum
Rain Forecast for Southern Iowa on New Year’s Day
Des Moines forecast calls for rain in southern Iowa on New Year’s Day with northern areas remaining dry. Mild temperatures expected with a low near 32 degrees as the system moves through the state.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Thirteenth Annual Open House at Washington YMCA
Open House program for January 1 1941 at the Washington YMCA includes receptions in West Lobby and East Lobby 24 concert by Washington Municipal Band directed by Mile Sorden etc. Activities include ping pong and checker tournaments pictures travel exhibit by Y exhibitors cadets basketball games junior and older boys mixed with church league volleyball and a swimming display with dedication of new glass block windows and life saving awards chaired by Clord Willits with Miss Ethel McCreedy and John Winga presiding.
Christmas Seals Here Net $424.27
The Washington PTA Christmas Seal drive reports $424.27 so far, $34 below last year, with 983 letters mailed and 714 returned. Of the returns 528 included money averaging 80 cents, while 186 had no money.
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Washington
P.T.A
Carl Martin
Washington County
State Tuberculosis Association
Hazardous Highway Conditions Reported in Iowa
State highway patrol reports wet snow in northeast Iowa with one-half to an inch on the ground raising fear that celebrants may be involved in more accidents than usual due to hazardous road conditions.
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State Highway Patrol
Northeast
Lowa
Electric line man Marvin Bennett burned by exposed wire
Carroll lineman Marvin Bennett escaped serious injury after his head came too close to a live electrical wire. He was burned slightly but remained conscious and received first aid on site.
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Marvin Bennett
Carroll
Record of December car registrations in county totals
With most of December past, 69 new cars were registered this month, compared with 86 in December 1939. A week’s worth of registrations brings 15 more cars, while 1941 totals reach 1 604, versus 1 026 on the same day four years ago. Truck licenses for 1941 total 243, down from 269 a year before. Local owners listed include Iowa Southern Utilities, Wayne R. Williams, A. C. Peterson, Reister Broa, Carl Voorhees, G. G. Griffith, Harold J. Wilson, Newton Whetstine, Willie Ameriicar, Ida E. Norton, E. C. Fink, Logan E. Reif, Florence M. Baird, J. O. Criswell, M. V. Wagamon, and others, with makes such as Ford, Chevrolet, International, Plymouth, Pontiac, Buick, and Dodge noted.
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Lego
Southern Utilities Company
Washington
Wayne R. Williams
Crawfordaville
Jacob DeKoning
A. C
E. C. Fink
Keota
Ford
Teacher Killed in Collision at Highways 6 and 61
Davenport report says Olive Plattenburger 27 principal of Buffalo Iowa High School died in a truck versus auto crash at the Highways 6 and 61 intersection. Five others were injured including Doris Anderson 25 of St. Paul Minnesota.
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Davenport
Olive Plattenburger
Buffalo
Iowa
Doris Anderson
St. Paul
Minn
Hitler vows to destroy democracies in New Year speech
Adolf Hitler declared in a New Year proclamation to his Nazi party that Germany fights to the end to destroy every power that feeds off democracies and named the United States as a common enemy alongside Axis partners Italy and Japan. Roberto Farinacci warned the United States must be considered Germany and Italy’s enemy as Axis planning intensified.
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United Press
Adolf Hitler
United States
Hitler
Germany
Roberto Farinacci
Italy
Far East
Britain
Russia
Radio music war starting tonight in New Year sweepstakes
New York reports a national radio music shift as 409000 song hits from 66 years become public domain. 648 stations will ban the old tunes and switch to new theme songs, with Irving Berlin and others like Gershwin Porter Kern and Rodgers and Hart affected.
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New York
Irving Berlin
Berlin
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Jerome Kern
Rodgers and Hart
County Assessors to Meet Saturday
The annual meeting of Washington county assessors will be held next Saturday January 4 at the county auditor's office. Stan Kiesey takes over as county auditor on Thursday and a new chairman will be chosen replacing the late George F. Wallace. Nine new assessors join the council as the work begins January 13 with tax books due April 15. They will value real estate, personal property, and money and credits.
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Washington County
Washington Couny
Stan Kiesey
George F. Wallace
Highland Township
Wallace
Ralph Nicholson
Davenport Names Involved In Local Incident
A Davenport hospital nurse Ruth Wulf 25, a Buffalo school teacher Frank Meyer 31, Davenport steam fitter William Wulf 49, and Mrs. William Wulf 45 are listed among the local figures connected to the incident.
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Davenport
Ruth Wulf
Buffalo
Frank Meyer
William Wulf
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Nolan
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Mile Sorden
Washington Municipal Band
LeRoy Pratt
Lincoln
Stewart
Washington Merchants
Muscatine Merchants
Clord Willits
Ethel McCreedy
John Winga
M. V. Wagamon
Wellman
Logan E. Reif
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Ainsworth
J. O. Criswell
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