Iowa Column: Card Found After Detention
Waterloo reports Donald Kemp, 28, Mojave California, freed after being jailed for lacking a registration card when he located the card in his coat lining. Atlantic item notes L P Peek’s parked soft drink truck rolled down a bank into a Jackson schoolyard wall and into Mrs Ray Neals living room. no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Donald Kemp
Mojave
Cal
Atlantic
L. P. Peek
Jackson Schoolyard
Rural schoolhouse fire spares contents via quick save
Edith Kaisland the teacher and ten pupils saved nearly all items from the one story frame schoolhouse. The class moved an upright piano to safety before aid arrived. Ray White helped transfer remaining valuables except the flag atlases and seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinnell
Edith Kaisland
Ray White
Doctor Bierring Re-Elected Secretary of State Medical Boards
Dr Walter Bierring, Des Moines public health commissioner, was re elected secretary of the Federation of State Medical Boards during the American Medical Association congress on medical education and licensure in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Walter Bierring
Federation of State Medical Boards of the
United States
American Medical Association
Congress On Medical
Chicago
Rose couple welcomed baby son. father undergoes appendectomy
Mrs. J. B. Rose of Grundy Center gave birth to a son at St. Francis hospital in Waterloo. The husband, a Grundy Center physician, also entered the same hospital for an appendectomy. All three are doing nicely, with only the family dog remaining at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy Center
J. B. Rose
St. Francis Hospital
Waterloo
Rose Home
College President Resigns at Tabor College
The local TABOR-A committee leads the college after President Clark Howard resigns last week. They plan to operate with funds from the National Youth administration. The men's dormitory is abandoned. women are in private homes. Thirty-five students remain at the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor
Tabor College
Clark Howard
National Youth Administration
White Canes Named Insignia for Blind
Des Moines reports state legislators approved a bill recognizing white canes as the insignia of blindness and mandating drivers to stop for cane bearers. The measure, already passed by the Senate, awaits the governor's signature and limits cane use to the blind or nearly blind with fines of one to one hundred dollars for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
House
Senate
Telephone Survey of Tomorrow's Journal
A large representative section of Journal subscribers in town and country will be called Friday afternoon between 2:00 and 6:00. Calls also will be made to subscribers on Saturday morning. Everyone asked one question and a small reward is offered for an honest reply. The question asks which act in Thursday's Journal was most interesting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal
Roosevelt Reveals Home Defense Plan for Every American
President Roosevelt announced a forthcoming broad home defense program to enlist all Americans in national defense. The plan, coordinated with the Federal Security Administration and Florence Kerr, aims to mobilize volunteers at home, train a nationwide service organization, unify efforts, centralize responsibility, and promote democracy through action and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Fela
Roosevelt
Federal Security Administration
Florence Kerr
Works Project Administration
America
Farmers gather for 1941 AAA education plan meeting
About fifty attendees from ten counties joined a session to map the 1941 agricultural benefit program. County women in charge of local work, led by Louisa’s Earl Moyers, discussed using township committees for direct farmer education and sign up, with a few meetings planned in certain areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Soil Conservation Program
Louisa
Muscatine
Des Moines
Lee
van Buren
Davis
Wapello
Henry
Jefferson
Washington
Earl Moyers
Louisa County
Hervey Hazen
Denmark
Basil Huston
Olds
AAA
Coldest Weather Yet In 1941 Hits Washington
The winter’s chill reached six degrees below zero in Washington yesterday and today, three degrees colder than the prior night. Officials note this as the year’s first cold snap of that intensity in southeastern Iowa, with sunshine returning and northwest winds easing, though continued cold is forecast tonight and warmer weather may come later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Jacob Schaad Taken by Death
Wayland mourns as Jacob Schaad 69 dies after three week illness at Hammond Rest Home Washington. Funeral services set for 1 15 pm at Zehr funeral home and 2 pm at Bicher church with Rev Welty. interment Eicher cemetery. Survived by brother Frank and sisters Mrs Earnest and Mrs Wiggins. Six nephews to serve as pallbearers.
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Wayland
Jacob Schaad
Zehr Funeral
Bicher
D. EK. Welty
Eicher
Mr. Schaad
Washington County
Hammond Rest Home
Washington
Pleasant Ridge
Jacob
Mary Schaad
Frank
Chris Earnest
Barbara Wiggins
Harry
Roy
Frank Wiggins
Max
Ralph Bain
Glen
Homer
Red Cross Sets Iowa Quota for War Garments
Iowa Red Cross chapters receive a state quota of about 50500 garments to May 31 for Europe’s war victims. The mix includes sweaters socks dresses skirts shirts shorts overalls layettes and hospital garments. Two chapters also work on 244600 surgical dressings for the U S army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Iowa
Red Cross
Europe
Ruth B. Stokely
Senator Conally Urges British Aid to Britain in Debate
Senator Tom Conally of Texas pressed for passage of the British aid bill stating the Berlin Rome Taklo axis threatens U S security and warning that democracies must stand together. He criticized opponents claiming the measure makes the president a dictator and said the bill would supply munitions to Britain and other free governments without sending troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Tom Conally
Texas
Senate Today
Taklo
United States
Conally
Senate
Jones
Jesse Jones
House
Great Britain
Dewey
Vocational Classes Expand In Washington Schools
Sixty eight students are enrolled in new vocational courses in motor mechanics and general metal work sponsored by Washington schools to support the defense program. Eight week sessions are planned with potential extension, and extra equipment is being acquired to raise interest and efficiency. Visitors may observe by arranging with instructors. Motor mechanics meet at Mace Ross and Willits Savages while metal work is taught at the county service yard in the northeast part of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington School
Mace, Ross and Willits Savages
General Metal
County Service Yard
Iowa Senate panel seeks housing aid for farmers
The Iowa legislature may dispatch a three man lobby to Washington to urge congress to grant farmers benefits now given to urban residents under the housing program. A senate farm tenancy committee resolution asks amending the housing act or enacting new law to let rural tenants obtain land and decent homes for family life. The lobby would present copies of the bill to each member of congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Congress
Senate Farm Tenancy Committee
Senate
Dewey Rejects Primary Reform Bill and Urges Caution
Senator A. Claire Dewey of Washington opposes a bill moving state elective offices from the governor to party conventions. He urges improving the primary system instead of abolishing it, warning convention rules could invite corruption and machine rule and recommending indefinite postponement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Des Moines
A. Claire Dewey
Washington
Senate Committee On Election Reform
Printer Brown Fights to Keep Job
Iowa official Brown appeals to legislature for support to overturn his dismissal by the state printing board. He accuses the board of making its own rules and seeks reform to cut red tape and improve efficiency. Brown claims he saved the state money and argues merit should count over politics in the Iowa Official Register case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
U.P
David K. Brown
State Printing Board
Brown
Printing Board
General Assembly
Frank Moorhead
Iowa
Minnie
Hesselschwerdt Attends Local Legion Meet
Emil Hesselschwerdt district service officer attended the American Legion meeting in Kalona and outlined district post programs. Walter Jackson, the county’s first selected serviceman, was read from Fort Des Moines. Attendees from Kalona and Washington include officials planning a Des Moines meeting February 28 and 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Hesselschwerdt
Kalona
American Legion
Walter Jackson
Fort Des Moines
Leland Morrison
Tucson
Ariz
Morrison
Veterans Hospital
Des Moines
St. Paul
Ralph Moothart
Carl Voorhees
Washington
Fred S. Downing
Department Americanism
Howard PP. Miller
George Baker
Preston Wolf
Maynard Brown
Harry Simpson
A. E. Baldrige
J. T. Friedel
van Vodicka
Vernon Moore
129 Enroll in Tool Engineering Course for National Defense
Prof. T G Caywood of the University of Iowa says 129 men with two years of college or equivalent experience have enrolled in a tool engineering course tied to national defense. The program, designed to teach design of equipment for machinery production, runs in two sections at Rock Island Illinois and Cedar Rapids Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
T. G. Caywood
University of Iowa Mechanical Engineering Department
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
Brown seeks hearing as Red Book pamphlet praised
The text notes Brown and Moorhead issued the Red Book and sought a joint hearing before house and senate printing committees to address criticism and charges. With the house committee unorganized, a hearing before the Supreme Court ruling is unlikely. If the court rules against him, Brown would rely on legislative action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Book
Brown
Moorhead
House
Senate
Supreme Court
High Court
British in Ethiopian Advance
British forces and Ethiopian rebel allies push deeper into Italian held Ethiopia threatening fascist control near Lake Tana. Australian expeditionary corps, backed by fighters and bombers, protects Singapore while Japan expands naval concentrations north of the port. Ethiopian troops pursue about nine thousand Italians south of Lake Tana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Great Britain
Singapore
Britain
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
Ethiopia
Ethiopa
Lake Tana
Balkans
India
Empire
Archibald Wavell
Shanghai
Bangkok
Japan
Khartoum
30 Days for Contempt of Court in Washington County
Sheriff H. M. Putnam returned from Maryville Missouri with Lyall Moore to begin a 30 day term in the Washington County jail. Moore, formerly of West Chester, was ordered to pay 24 dollars monthly for three minor children but failed to do so, and Judge J. G. Patterson ordered the confinement for contempt. Moore had been working for a road construction company in Maryville, and was taken into custody there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Putnam
Maryville
Lyall Moore
West Chester
Washington County
Moore
J. G. Patterson
Compulsory Blood Tests Sought For Drunken Drivers
Des Moines February 19 UP Expert testimony on compulsory blood tests to determine intoxication in traffic accidents will be sought by the Iowa House A public hearing on the bill by Rep George H Keeney is set for 3 pm Monday Prof Mason Ladd dean of the University of Iowa college of law leads invited witnesses Also listed are A W Swensen Waldorf College Dr Robert B Gibson UI George Aden Webster City Oliver J Reeve Bremer County attorney James Coonley Hampton lawyer and other officials Coonley helped introduce blood test results in court measurements
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Des Moines
House
George H. Keeney
Ael R. R. Dvorak
Tama
Committee On
Wime
Mason Ladd
University of Iowa College of Law
A. W. Swensen
Waldorf College
Waverly
Robert B. Gibson
University of Iowa
George Aden
Webster City
Oliver J. Reeve
Bremer County
James Coonley
Hampton
Coonley
Franklin County
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Rbierring
Telephone Survey of Tomorrow’s Journal
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Printer Brown
Polk County
State Supreme Court
Wts
Kalona Man
Legion
First District
Hongkong
London
Yosuke Matsuyka
Germany
House of Commons
Missouri
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