Britain Opens New Drive on Fascists
A Chicago wage dispute sees city employees quitting work while Britain intensifies a campaign against fascist elements. The Iowa item notes the frozen body of Alvin Lindner found on his father Emil Lindner’s farm nine miles northwest of the town. the coroner ruled it suicide and no inquest will be held. Survivors include his parents wife and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Chicago City
Red Oak
Alvin Lindner
Emil Lindner
Here
L. R. Moriarity
Ruthven approves gymnasium bonds plan
Ruthven residents endorsed a plan to issue 18 000 bonds to supplement 22 000 federal aid for a 40 000 school gymnasium project. The vote totaled 328 yes and 191 no.
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Ruthven
Hartington Woman Dies From House Fire Burns
Mrs. Elmer Sparks 24 died from burns suffered December 18 in Hartington Nebraska while trying to rescue her son who escaped the fire. She was carried from the home by Charles Schirmer son of the fire chief and had been improving before a Tuesday relapse.
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BIONX
Elmer Sparks
Hartington
Neb
Cedar Rapids Gazette names new editor and changes
Verne Marshall, 51, relieved as editor at his request to devote full time to chairing the No Foreign War committee. Clare Marshall, previously promotion manager, to assume editor duties. John Ja Miller, Gazette Co. president, announces the staffing shift.
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Cedar Rapids
John Ja. Miller
The
Gazette Co
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
No Foreign War Committee
Marshall
Gazette
Clare Marshall
Wapello welfare board reappointed by supervisors
The Wapello county board of social welfare was reappointed by the board of supervisors. Members are Eugene Wulfekuhler Harry Evans Frank Pickett Mrs Merrill Gilmore and Miss Lillian Smith. The panel faced calls for resignation after banning pleasure-car use by relief clients last December 1.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
No Liquor Probe Action By County Grand Jury
The Pottawattamie county grand jury reported no action on a liquor by the drink investigation despite a prior judge’s suggestion. Three indictments were made public, two kept secret and five no bills were returned.
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Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie County
Grand Jury
Whitney Gilliland
Tot Turns on Hot Water and Dies of Burns
A 22 month old boy, John Billy Orth, died after turning a hot water faucet while in a kitchen sink with his mother Mrs. Thomas Orth in Keokuk. The child was scalded by steam and hot water and died in a hospital six hours later.
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Keokuk
Strong
John Billy
Orth
Billy
Thomas Orth
Girl 4 Sits on Parents Laps During Custody Trial
In Sioux City Colleen Ryan, age four, sat on her mother Clarice Ryan and on her father John E. Ryan while their custody case before District Judge L. B. Forsling proceeded. The brief session featured the child moving about the courtroom as both parents testified.
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Sioux City
Colleen Ryan
Clarice Ryan
John E. Ryan
State senate redistricting proposed to realign counties
Washington county politics focus as bills consider new senatorial maps. A plan shifts Washington with Iowa county while Henry counties pairs with Des Moines and Des Moines with other counties. Proposals aim to redraw districts every 20 years per census with varying single two and three county configurations.
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Washington County
Iowa
Des Moines
IDPA
Senate
Richard V. Leo
Dysart Republican
Leo A. Hoegh
Chariton Republican
Leo
Polk County
Union-Madison
Lee County
Davis
Jefferson
van Buren
Appanoose
Monroe
Clarke
Lucas
Wayne
Wapello
Henry
Louisa
Muscatine
Washington
Mahaska
Keokuk
Jasper
Poweshiek
Johnson
Cedar
Scott
Clinton
Jones
Jackson
Linn
Lee
Dubuque
Clayton
Woodbury
Polk
Marshall
Pottawattamie
Lee Wapello
Pottawattainie
Dubuque Linn
Black Hawk
Cerro Gordo
Webster
Troop D Officers Pass Physical Tests for Camp Bowie
Captain O. J. Brown reports four Troop D officers passed special physicals in Des Moines. Lieutenants Donaldson Young McGuire also cleared, with Conner already approved and Eicher expected to pass. The unit plans to assemble January 13 and mobilize for Camp Bowie Texas for a year of training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Brown
113Th Cavalry
Des Moines
Brown
Max Donaldson
Nate Young
LeRoy McGuire
Walter Conner
Fort Riley
Kansas
Roger Eicher
Washington
Armory
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Texas
Bud Wright Sells Big Grinnell Hog for 340 Dollars
In Grinnell Bud Wright recently sold an 890 pound hog for about 340 dollars. The sale highlighted a notably large animal and marked a record for Wright's livestock.
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Bud Wright
Grinnell
Chicago City Strike Ends After Five Hour Walkout
Mayor Edward J. Kelly announced the four thousand plus city workers returned to duties after a five and a half hour walkout over proposed wage cuts. Bridge tenders and other services were disrupted as union leaders condemned the city’s financial measures. Police and army engineers intervened to keep bridges down and restore navigable waterways.
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Chicago
U.P
Edward J. Kelly
Kelly
United States War Department
Army Engineers
War Department
United States District
J. Albert Woll
Bk. J. Kelly
White Wings
Former School Supt. Guilty of Embezzlement
ELEADER-G L Wood 40 former superintendent of schools pleaded guilty to larceny by embezzlement by an agent. He repaid 2277.03 to the school activities fund before sentencing. Judge G H Goheen gave five years in Fort Madison penitentiary parole to Fayette county sheriff after three years served. Auditors found he used school funds for personal purchases.
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Eleader
G. L. Wood
G. H. Goheen
Wood
Fort Madison
Fayette County
Funeral services for Mrs. Robertson in Richland
Funeral services for Mrs. James Robertson of Richland who died there yesterday will be held at the Methodist church in Richland Friday afternoon at two o'clock.
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James Robertson
Richland
Forecaster’s Prediction Holds as Temperature Falls
A weather forecaster’s warning of colder conditions proved accurate as temperatures dropped to 14 degrees above zero late last night after a daytime high of 36. Early warmth gave way to slush then freezing conditions improved, and clear skies are expected with similar cold tonight.
State Rep Alesch to push curbs on large land operators
Marcus Iowa January 9 UP State Representative Gus Alesch a democrat announced he will sponsor a bill to discourage and eliminate large operators of farm land He also backs placing the state fair board and the board of education under the budget system repealing the deficiency judgment law and establishing a graduated land tax
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Marcus
Iowa
Gus Alesch
Alesch
State Fair Board
Board of Education
Henning to Have Hearing Before Board
DES MOINES The state conservation commission said Carl Fritz Henning 75 will be given an opportunity to appear for a hearing before the commission at the February meeting after his discharge as custodian of Ledges state park following nearly 20 years of service. Protests over the discharge were discussed in a closed session.
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Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Carl Fritz Henning
Ledges State Park
Henning
Burial in Richland Cemetery Follows Service
A funeral service was held for a local resident followed by burial in Richland Cemetery. Family and friends attended the rites. The record notes final rites at the church and interment in Richland Cemetery.
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Richland Cemetery
Iowa Toll From 1940 Highway Deaths Remains Low
Iowa reported 532 highway fatalities in 1940 up two from 1939 while national motor deaths rose seven percent. State Public Safety Commissioner Karl W. Fischer credited ongoing safety programs for keeping deaths near 1939 levels. Davis County recorded no traffic fatalities for the year, matching 1939.
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Des Moines
Iowa
National Safety Council
State Department of Public Safety
Karl W. Fischer
W. G. Johnson
Iowa Public Safety Department
Fischer
Davis
Amos Stout Re-elected President of Farm Bureau
Amos Stout of Brighton township was re elected president of the Washington County Farm Bureau for 1941 without opposition at the annual meeting held today at the United Presbyterian church. About 200 members attended as officers, directors, and delegates to the state bureau were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County Farm Bureau
United Presyterian
Amos Stout
Brighton
State Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Allen Kline
Vinton
State Farm Bureau Federation
Arthur Duensing
Robert Wiley
William Ganon
Lime Creek
C. T. Johnson, Jr
English River
Richard Scott
Iowa
Albert Navy
John Flading
Cedar
Clayde Knapp
Jackson
E. Ray Bell
Highland
W. Mac Wallace
Dutch Creek
G. H. Mayer
Franklin
James Combs
Washington
Arthur Wiley
Oregon
M. M. Rabenold
Clay
O. W. Schmitter
Lloyd Stout
Marion
Forrest D. Walker
Crawford
Richard Stephens
Jackson Township
Ray Lambert
Highland, Township
J. W. Chandler
TVA
Soil Conservation Service
Naples Air Attacks Mark Escalation in African War
Royal Air Force activity intensified across the Mediterranean and East Africa as raids hit Naples Palmero Benghazi Wilhelmshaven and other targets. Ethiopian loyalists pushed Italians from Gubba as RAF strikes widened the conflict in north Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Great Britain
Royal Air Force
Benghazi
Italian Libya
Red Sea
Italian East Africa
Naples
Italy
Palmero
Sicily
Benito Mussolini
North Sea
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Borkum Island
Haile Selassie
Gubba
Ethiopia
North Africa
RAF
Tobruk
New Legislation Aims to Halt Chain Store Expansion
Des Moines Iowa January 9 1941 Indpendent business group proposes a freezing bill to curb chain stores by limiting expansion rather than boosting taxes The plan would amend the 1935 chain tax statute to cap out of state chains at their current size and keep them from growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
W. F. Powers
Unemployment Benefits Increase in December
Des Moines reports December unemployment benefits totaling 247487 dollars, a 93 percent rise from November’s low of 161836 and up from the 1959 December figure of 243913. Claims reached 10401, down from 11523 a year earlier, with yearly claims at 102145, up seven percent from 95985.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
U.R
Wives of Father and Son Get Divorces
In Waterloo a father and his son were granted divorces by their wives on consecutive days in district court. Guy H. Gore, 54, was divorced from Norma D. Gore, 50, after 31 years of marriage. Boyd Gerald Gore, 26, was divorced from Margaret Katherine Klo Berdanz, 26, on cruelty grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Guy H. Gore
Norma D. Gore
Boyd Gerald Gore
Margaret Katherine Kloberdanz
Community clubs expand memberships and form new groups
The Cedar Chips club reorganization under Wade Gardner boosts activity as clubs total 82 members. New Riverside Ramblers led by Robert Cross joins the area along with an unnamed Ainsworth community club led by Gene Stephens. Leo Gislain becomes leader of the Northwest Rangers in Welitian. Sixty nine baby beef calves are to be fed by farm clubs for entry in competition. Program includes community singing by Mrs. P F Whisler and morning invocation by Dr. R C Keagy. President Stoutt opens meeting with a year in review panel discussion.
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Cedar Chips Club
Wade Gardner
Riverside Ramblers
Robert Cross
Ainsworth
Gene Stephens
Leo Gislain
Northwest Rangers Club
Knotek
P. F. Whisler
Stoutt
R. C. Keagy
Methodist Church
Stout
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Merle Twinam
Crawford Township
Merle Eckles
Seventysix Township
Isabelle Combs
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