Strife Continues at Allis Chalmers Plant Death Toll in Croydon Crash
A chartered DC-3 crashed on takeoff from Croydon Airport en route to Salisbury and Johannesburg, killing 12 of 23 aboard. Three nuns and two babies among the dead. Captain Ted Spencer also perished. Eleven survived. 18 passengers and five crew were aboard. Authorities investigated engine failure as a probable cause amid a fiery collision with a parked Czech Air Service aircraft.
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London
South Africa
Croydon
Ted Spencer
Spencer Airways
Czech Air Service
Hear Arguments in Korf Case Monday
Attorneys for S. W. Korf and Charte Cannon against the Rock Island railroad will present their arguments before Judge J. G. Patterson and the jury next Monday. Court was not in session today. After the Korf case, Saverard vs Stephens is set for trial with a jury to be impaneled. Petit jurors not in the current trial are ordered to report Tuesday morning.
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S. W. Korf
Charte Cannon
Rock Island Railroad
J. G. Patterson
Saverard Vs. Stephens
Liquor by Drink Urged for Iowa
A Des Moines committee of 25 Iowa cities urged legalizing liquor by the drink to better control the liquor situation and raise revenue. They proposed a 10 percent state levy on liquor sold at state stores with distributions to municipalities for law enforcement and other reforms.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Thomas
Fort Madison
General Fund
Labor Peace Extends in Steel Industry Through April 30
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the CIO United Steelworkers and U S Steel agree to a 75 day contract extension to April 30 1947. The move delays wage disputes amid portal to portal pay questions and aims to avert a wage crisis as negotiators seek settled terms. Washington observers call the extension a hopeful sign for national industrial peace in 1947.
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Pittsburgh
CLO
United Steelworkers
United States Steel Crop
United States Steel
USW
Philip Murray
CIO
Benjamin Fairless
Washington
U. S. Steel Comp
Rittenhouse Accepts Tokyo Red Cross Post
Raymsid FE Rittenhouse of Washington Iowa will depart for Tokyo in February to assume the Far East Red Cross supplies director role. He leaves St Louis where he served as assistant director of supplies in the Midwestern Area office. An Iowa native, Rittenhouse studied at Washington high school and the American Institute of Business. He is married to Edna M. MacManus and they have one son, Robert Ralph.
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St, Louis
Raymsid FE
Rittenhouse
Washington
Iowa
Tokyo
American Red Cross
Far East
St. Louis
Red Cross
Quartermaster Corps
Register and Tribune
Phillips Petroleum
Chader Monarch
Des Moines
Pastor Ford Installed at Federated Presbyterian Church
Rev. Daniel Knox Ford will be installed as pastor of the Federated Presbyterian church in Crawfordsville on Monday at 7 30 p m presiding minister Rev E R Mitchell of Columbus Junction. The service features sermons charges prayers Scripture and music by the Crawfordsville choir and solo by Mrs Dwight Brown with prelude by Mrs Marion Waters.
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Crawfordsville
Daniel Knox Ford
Federated Presbyterian Church
E. R. Mitchell
Columbus Junction
Trevelyn White
Washington
Ralph P. H. Pollock
E. F. Kimmelshue
Morning Sun
Mitchell
Ralph Strong
Robert Spencer
Robert Stahmer
Ainsworth
Ford
Dwight Brown
Marion Waters
Desert rainfall and Mojave drought note
The text explains that deserts are not entirely rainless and that the earth receives rainfall in all areas. It notes the Mojave desert averages only about two inches of rain per year.
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Mojave Desert
Orris and Boyd Obtain Marriage License in Court
Cleo Clinton Orris of Columbus Junction and Gladys Irene Boyd of Ainsworth secured a marriage license at the courthouse this morning.
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Cleo Clinton Orris
Columbus Junction
Gladys Irene Boyd
Ainsworth
Court House
GOP Wins Victory in Senate Vote
The GOP majority in the Senate, by 46 to 42, voted to recreate the special committee on small business for eight months, overriding Tobey’s proposal. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska will chair the new panel, with Owen Brewster of Maine named chair of the war investigations committee.
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Senate War Investigating Committee
Washington
Senate
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Owen Brewster
Maine
Joseph H. Ball
Minnesota
William F. Knowland
California
International
Congress
Charles Tobey
N. H
Senate Committee
Republan
Special Committee On
Tobey
Senate Banking Committee
Kenneth Wherry
Two Killed as Car and Truck Collide in Iowa
In Stockton Iowa two people died and a third was seriously injured when a car crashed into a semi-trailer truck. The deceased were Hazel Wright 21 Davenport and Everett Bunny Rock Island Illinois. Joseph Gibson 37 Rock Island Illinois was critically injured and taken to a Davenport hospital. Fosky driver and Thompson passenger in the truck reported they had used flares after stopping to change a tire and that the car struck the trailer just after Thompson crawled out from under it.
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Stockton
Iowa
Hazel Margaret Wright
Davenport
Everett William Bunny
Rock Island
Joseph Gibson
Nathan Fosky
James BE. Thompson
Omaha
Neb
Highways Patrol
Thompson
Escaped Prisoner Held At St Louis
Kenneth D. Wilder, 26, an escaped prisoner from Anamosa Iowa, was captured near St Louis after surrendering to state police with a gun concealed in a blanket covering a baby. He allegedly stole the car in Chicago and had served 11 months of a five year term for car theft.
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St. Louis
Tan
Himsel
Kenneth D. Wilder
Anamosa
Iowa
Wilder
Wildner
Chicago
Hartung plans appeal after guilty verdict in Story County
Ted Hartung a Des Moines attorney was found guilty of interference with justice by a Story County jury after 60 minutes of deliberation. Judge G R Hill set January 7 for sentencing and gave Hartung time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Nevada
Iowa
Ted Hartung
Des Moines
Supreme Court
Story County
G. R. Hill
Hartung
Health Unt Activities Week of Jan 27
Thursday 1 20 to 4 00 P M child health conference in the office.
County Soil Conservation Dinner Set for Feb 5 in Washington County
A soil conservation dinner and program is planned for February 5 at the Methodist Church social rooms in Washington County. About 200 farmers and 100 other invited guests from 16 local groups will hear Tom Kelly, a Milwaukee cartoonist turned conservation advocate, discuss soil and water protection through contouring and strip cropping. Tickets are sold at county banks and attendees may bring spouses.
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Washington County
Methodist Church
Le@ Sturgeon
AAA
Washington-Louisa County
Izaak Walton
United States Departeent of Agriculture Council
Sturgeon
Soul Conservation
Kelly
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Dinner at Stewart School Movie Promotes Teaching
An audience from Washington and Cedar Falls viewed a technicolor film titled A Day in the Life of a Teacher produced in Washington under Iowa State Teachers College. The screening at Stewart School highlighted teaching life and local scenery to encourage recruiting qualified teachers statewide.
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Washington
Iowa State Teachers College
Stewart
Jean Westphal
Stewart School
Iowa
Stewart Gymnasium
Cedar Falls
Herbert V. Hake
G. H. Holmer
E. L. Ritter
W. A. Erbe
J. M. Schell
Washington Junior College
Malcolm Price
Pages to aid moral welfare of Congress named
Rep Leo Allen selected three elder former pages to help ensure pages do not stray into improper conduct. William J. Donaldson Humphrey S. Shaw and James V. Griffin will serve unofficially, sharing experience from 1911 and long House service. Allen cited concerns over unseemly pages conduct and urged congressional moral responsibility during non working hours.
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Washington
Leo BE
Allen
Jay
House
William J. Donaldson
Humphrey S. Shaw
House Rules Committee
James V. Griffin
Aso
Sone House
Congress
Chicago’s Fort Dearborn Era and Population Growth
In 1830 Chicago was a log cabin settlement with fewer than 100 inhabitants named Fort Dearborn. By 1940 the population neared 8,296,808 as the city sprawled over the alluvial plain formed by the Chicago and Calumet rivers.
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Chicago
Fort Dearborn
Calumet
Address on fachers highlights faith in teachers and child education
President Price urges trust in Americans to act rightly for teachers and child education as the nation’s key task. The article lists participants in a school picture project, including Miss Westphal, Mrs Richard Handley, Bertha Ross, Anna Mae Basket, A. R. Terrell, M. J. Sechell, Gifford Morrison, John Winga, Ruth Erlenbush, Mary Margaret Broghanmer, and local music staff, with pupils Kathie Pratt and Nancy Glider among the standout young performers.
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Price
Ethro
Riverside teen jailed for driving without license
Justice of the Peace J. B. Boyce today sentenced Kenneth Virgil Kenney of Riverside to 15 days in county jail for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Highway Patrolman Harley Strater reported the 16 year old had been picked up previously for the offense and did not have a license.
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Justice of the Peace
Kenneth Virgil Kenney
Riverside
Harley Strater
Union Vote Won't Settle Differences
At Allis-Chalmers Farm Equipment in Milwaukee workers face a bargaining election to decide union representation. Two rival unions vow to continue fights regardless of the result, with the independent union planning a new drive and the UAW threatening legal challenges to overturn the vote.
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Milwauker
Allis-Chalmers
Wisconsin
Walter E. Peterson
Independent Workers Union
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
W. C. Wallace of Ainsworth Dies
William Calvin Wallace 8&1 died at 2 45 this morning at his home in Ainsworth after months of illness. Funeral services likely Monday at 2 PM at Ainsworth Methodist Church with Rev. J. Fix officiating. Burial in Ainsworth cemetery. Survived by wife Eva Mace. daughter Blanche Dunshee. four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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William Calvin Wallace
Ainsworth
Ainsworth Methodist Church
J. Fix
Ainsworth Cemetery
L. A
James B
Sarah (Purvis) Wallace
Washington County
Washington
Eva Mace
Blanche Dunshee
Town City
Wallacee
Woman Robber Is Given Time for Plea
Des Moines Jan 25 UP Mrs Opal Dixon 35 charged with entering a bank with intent to rob today had been given until 9 am Tuesday to file a plea Judge Russell Jordan made the order after police court attorney Carroll Switzer filed an information The information has the same status as a grand jury to handle the case Switzer said he acted after jail attendants reported Mrs Dixon became hysterical in her cell Authorities said she was reported to have attempted suicide while a prisoner in St Louis and Chicago jails.
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Des Moines
Opal Dixon
Russell Jordan
Poli Com
Carroll Switzer
Dixon
Switzer
Arsonist Given Ten Years For Iowa Fire
William Spetel, 25, Waterloo, was sentenced to up to 10 years in Anamosa for guilty plea on arson charges. He admitted setting fires to two vacant arm houses near Andrew Dee.
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Maquoreta
Iowa
William Spetel
Waterloo
Andrew Dee
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