Plane crash near Daveneort injures two men
Two Oak Lawn men John Milligan and David Spencer escaped uninjured when their light plane crash landed in a cornfield a quarter mile south of the municipal airport. Authorities say carburetor icing caused loss of altitude and a broken propeller necessitated towing the craft to the airport before they chose to return home.
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Davenwort
Oak Lawn
John Milligan
David Spencer
Des Moines
Panmunjom Armistice Talks Stir Moscow Role
UN accuses Moscow of blocking the Korean armistice while the Panmunjom talks hinge on Kremlin decisions. The Communists nominate Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia to a six nation neutral panel and propose a post war peace conference. The UN rejects Russia and keeps Poland, Czechoslovakia under consideration. Russia blamed for supplying heavy war aid.
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Korea
United Nations
Moscow Today
Russia
Matthew Bb. Ridgway
Tokyo
Moscow
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Reds
U. N
Don A. Darrow
Red Cross Campaign Underway In County
Washington county launches its annual Red Cross fund drive with a March 1 start in Washington city. Walter Farrell chairs the effort, with volunteers in school districts and towns, aiming to raise just over 87 000. A world relief film is available through the county Red Cross office.
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Washington County
Red Cross
Walter Farrell
Washington City
Farrell
Kefauver Withdraws From Minnesota Primary
Kefauver supporters say the Tennessee senator will withdraw from Minnesota as a candidate because of a legal technicality. Melvin Cooper, leading the Kefauver movement, claims the rule binds only in Minnesota and accuses petitions opposing Humphrey and aiding Stassen as a trick.
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Kefauver O
Melvin Cooper
Minnesota
Kefauver
Cooper
Hubert Humphrey
Stooge
Harold KE. Stassen
Gopher
Cloudy Iowa Forecast With Light Snow Developments
Des Moines weather summary notes considerable cloudiness with little temperature change. A few snow flurries in west and north this afternoon and tonight, lighter cold in the southeast. Light snow expected in the southwest corner Sunday night, highs around 38 in the southwest to 28 southeast, and lows 25 southwest to 18 northwest. Monday remains cloudy with light snow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Moose Lodge Steak Fry On Tuesday At Washington Hall
Members of the Washington Moose Lodge plan a steak fry at the Moose hall next Tuesday evening replacing the usual fish fry. The lodge meeting will be Wednesday February 20 with the nominating committee meeting later to nominate new officers for the coming year.
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Washington Moose Lodge
Moose Hall
Moose
Moose Lodge
Temperance Leader Ida Wise Smith Dies in Clarinda
Ida Wise Smith former national president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union died at the state mental health institute in Clarinda after a long illness. Born in Philadelphia July 3, she moved to Hamburg Iowa and later led the Iowa WCTU before serving as national president for over 70 years.
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Ida DR. Wise Smith
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Smith
Des Moines
Pas
Mrs. Smith
Philadelphia
Hamburg
Trambure
Iowa
University of Nebraska
James J. Wise
Malcolm Smith
Cedar Rapids
Lowa W.C.T.U
John Winga Seeks Re Election To District Board
Nomination papers name John Winga as a candidate for re election to the Washington Independent School District board. Papers filed with secretary Phil Weldin show he is the only candidate to date. The election is Monday March 10 with one vacancy to be filled. Winga completes his first term this March and board terms run three years.
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John Winga
Washington Independent
Phil Weldin
Winga
Port of Wonsan Under Heavy Fire From U N Forces
United Nations naval bombardment of Wonsan continues with ships from nine nations and air strikes. Fighters and bombers target railway bridges and supply lines while noting enemy losses and one American Sabrejet pilot missing in action.
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ATH Army
Korres
United Nations
Yesterda
Eiet Coast
U.N
Korea
Fifth Air Force
Mig Alles
Suh Air Force
George A. Davis, Jr
State University To Provide Keota Service
The University of Iowa will provide the program special music and a speaker at Sunday night union church services in Keota. The services will be held at the Federated church located at 7290 ppm and are sponsored by the Keota Minister Association.
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Keota
University of Iowa
Union Church
Federated Church
FBI Arrests Ten Former Klansmen
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of 14 former members of the Fair Bluff Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan on charges including kidnapping and civil rights violations. The ten men allegedly abducted transported and flogged Dorothy Martin and Ben Grainger of Fair Bluff in an October foray.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Fair Bluff
N. C
Klavern
Ku Klux Klan
Dorothy Martin
Ben Grainger
Hoover
Infant Dies After Whipping By Father
An 18 month old, Merrill Leonard, died after being whipped by his father Ernest Leonard while teaching him to toilet train. The boy suffered a brain hemorrhage from a fall in their Panora area farm home. The coroner said the child was grossly misused and the father was a heavy handed farmer.
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Dallas
Merrill Leonard
Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital
Des Moines
A. F E. Shaw
Polk County
Merrill
Ernest Leonard
Ino
Shaw
Panora
Shawn
Kefauver to Speak at Des Moines University Convocation
Sen. Estes Kefauver, the Tennessee Democrat rising in national politics, will address a Drakes University convocation in Des Moines on February 27. The speech is open to the public as Kefauver continues a nationwide presidential campaign tour.
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Kefauver
Des Moines
Funeral Monday For Charles P. Fox 83
Funeral services for Charles Pierce Fox 83 will be held at 2 30 pm Monday in Sherman's funeral home He died Friday February 1 at 12 40 pm after a fall at his home 519 South Avenue Boon Christ mas eve Burial will be in Grim Grove cemetery Fox born March 8 1868 in Marquette Wise was a Wisconsin native married in Washington April 1900 He worked at American Pearl Button company until retirement Survivors include one daughter Pearl Nickel West Hollywood California one stepson Roy Finch Take Washington several grandchildren and other relatives The House of Flowers will close Monday afternoon for services
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Sherman
Pox
South Avenue
Boon
Herbert Schaller
Oskaloosa
Bim Grove
Fox
Marquette
Wise
Ralph O. Fox
Ble
Wisconsin
Washington
Flora Kk. Fine
Immanuel Lutheran Elurel
Atmerican
Pearl Button Company
Pearl Nickel
West Hollywood
Flat
Stepeson
Res Roy Ro Finch
Take Wash
House of Flowers
Airbox
Atomic Process For Making Aluminum
Officials of the B C Aluminum company disclosed a new atomic process for producing aluminum at their 200 ton per year pilot plant in New Westminster. The method uses a novel reactor and aims to improve efficiency and product quality.
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U. S
Alfred Wang
New Westminster
B.C. Aluminum Company
Former Washingtonian Rex McCarty Dies in Fort Dodge
Rex McCarty 59 a former Washington resident died Monday in a Fort Dodge hospital after a brief illness. Born October 2 near Brighton he married Pearl Thornton in 1912 who died in 1932. He later married Harriett Wood and survives along with two daughters two sisters and a stepson. Funeral services were held at Winton with burial there.
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Rex McCarty
Ft. Dodge
Mr. McCarty
R. We. McCarty
Winton
Brighton
Pearl Thornton
Harriett Wood
Mildred Davis
Keota
Helen Krug
Waterloo
Gleede Cold
Coppock
Fred Ohler
Nevada
McCarty
Dayton
Farmers urged to fight big government control and unions
William J. Grede of Milwaukee told the 14th National Farm Institute that bureaucratic government threatens to impose compulsory unionism on industry and agriculture. He cited wage stabilization boards and a rail union case as examples and likened it to an ugly dictatorship near Russia. Yom K. Cowden of Michigan State urged a free market and competitive pricing in agriculture.
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Milwaukee
National Association of Manufacturers
14Th
National Farm Institute
Grede
Russia
Yom K. Cowden
Department of Agricultural Economics
Michigan State Police
Eisenhower Backers Organize In State
DES MOINES Iowa backers of Eisenhower for president formed a formal organization. They elected E R Hicklin of Wapello as chairman and Dan Turner as vice chairman with Edward J Kelly as secretary treasurer. They passed a resolution urging Eisenhower to return home to lead the campaign.
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Des Moines
Eisenhowe
Dan Turner
Corning
Edward J. Kelly
Whitney Gilliland
Glenwood
Eisenhower
Carpeien
Local Guests Lodge With Drake Students for Weekend
Josee Montgomery and her friend Joan Hooker visit Dre and Mrs. Goili for a weekend stay. They are Drake University students in Des Moines. Joyee celebrates a birthday today and Mrs Montgomery marks hers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Boukup observe their 49th wedding anniversary Sunday with no planned celebration. James Hud son and his son James Clark arrive from Pocahontas to spend the weekend with P. F. Whisler’s family.
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Joan Hooker
Dre
Goili
Montgomery
Drake University
Des Moines
Joyee
Dr Marcus Bach To Speak At Lincoln School Meeting
Dr Marcus Bach renowned author and director of the school of religion at the State University not Iowa will address a city wide PTA gathering at Lincoln School Monday night at 7 p.m. He has spent 15 years developing a new approach to inter religious and cultural relations after studying lesser known faiths including voodoo in Haiti.
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School of Religion
State University
Iowa
PTA
Lincoln School
P.m
Dr. Bach
Bach
Haiti
Iowa City
Blaze Destroys One Room Home On South Seventh Ave
Harve Carkoff a 75 year old Washington man died in a morning fire that gutted his one room house on South Seventh avenue. Neighbors reported the blaze started when he attempted to light a kerosene stove. Fire chief Maynard Brown and coroner Dr W S Kyle said fumes likely felled him. the home burned rapidly with the front end destroyed. Carkuff born July 13 1876 in Dutch Creek township leaves a sister Mrs Ralph Schulty and a brother Edward Carkuff.
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South Seventh Ave
Harve Carkoff
Washington
South Seventh Avenue
Jones
Rev. T. Co. Polk
Hurial
New Haven
Henry Bendahl
Mr. Carkuff
Ichendahl
Carkuff
Neeighbors
Maynard Brown
Kyle
John Harvey Carkuff
Dutch Creek Township
John Ellery Carkuff
Marie Fetters Carkuff
Washington County
Ralph Schulty
Edward Carkuff
Tampa
Fla
Petition Seeks Dissolution of Farm Partnership
J F Rittenhouse sues Oral D Norman and Florence Norman to dissolve a farm partnership formed May 1945. He alleges notice and disposition terms tied to 1952 and 1961 selling actions, seeks court dissolution. Baldrige Bailey counsel for plaintiff. Kehoe for defendants requests dismissal. Also notes William Crayne returning home from Iowa City and improving after medical treatment.
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J. F. Rittenhouse
Oral D
Florence Norman
Baldrige and
Bailey
L. J. Kehoe
William Crayne
Iowa City
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