Precautions to Guard Capitol Highlighted
In an Iowa column from Cedar Rapids a Milwaukee woman Mrs Ferdi nand Vugrinich aged 56 lost sight in her right eye after being struck by a hard clod of dirt while riding with her husband on Highway 151 near Marion. Two Marion boys aged 15 and 16 were taken into custody and handed to juvenile authorities after confessing they threw clods at a telephone pole during field rest.
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Cedar Rapids
Ferdinand Vugrinich
Milwaukee
Wis
Marion
County Farming Pictures
A corn field on the Richard Cray farm near Wellman illustrates TVA soil conservation and Washington county Farm Bureau demonstrations. Plowing and planting aims to curb erosion on side hills and the ten acre plot shows promise for expanding farming practices in the five year project. An effort within five years will attempt to fill a wide twenty foot deep and sixty rod long gulley to make it farmable.
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Richard Cray
Wellman
TVA Soil Conservation and Extension Service
Washington County Farm Bureau
Washington County
Further Fighting Reported Amid Mediterranean Tensions
Reports of renewed naval clashes in the Mediterranean surface as French and British fleets engage near Crete and Toulon. Hitler returns to Berlin as demonstrations erupt, while Germany hints at naval action against Britain and seeks U.S. neutrality shifts.
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Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Mediterranean
British Isles
Nazifuehrer
Propaganda Ministry
Hitler
Great Britain
France
Frondeur
Crete
London
Strassbourg
Toulon
Oran
Britain
U.S
United States
Germany
America
Europe
Washington
Alexandria
Iowa City Wings assets sought for public sale by order
District court records show an application by D. W. Bates to the superintendent of banking for a court order directing a public sale of the remaining Iowa City wings assets. Bates states assets include real estate mortgages notes receivable overdrafts cash items furniture fixtures and stocks and bonds.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Wings
D. W. Bates
Bates
Mullins Family Growing As St Ambrose Coach Welcomes Son
The Mullins household at St Ambrose College celebrates the birth of a baby boy to Mrs Mullins. The Mullins family now counts six children with three girls and three boys, all under seven.
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Davenport
Larry
Moon) Mullins
St. Ambrose College
Mullins
Little Mullins
Child Dies After Accidental Kerosene Ingestion
Dooneville notes the death of 11 month old Dwaine Diser son of Mr and Mrs Safe Diser after an accidental kerosene ingestion pneumonia developed following initial medical attention and recovery appeared.
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Dooneville
Dwaine Diser
Mr. Safe Diser
Sioux City Man Seeks Ruling on Marriage Status
Joe Bausevicius petitions in district court to determine if he is legally married to Mary Bausevicius after claiming they obtained a license on July 16, 1944 and have lived together since without a known ceremony. If marriage is proved, he seeks a divorce on grounds of inhuman treatment.
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Sioux City
Joe Bausevicius
Joe
Mary Bausevicius
Boat Fire Rescues Minnesotan Couple at West Okoboji
Mr and Mrs J C Boote of Worthington Minnesota were rescued from drowning when their speed boat Boote craft caught fire a mile east of Arnolds Park state pier F J Spotta of Battle Creek a commercial boat operator saw the blaze and retrieved the couple with his motorboat after they leaped into the lake.
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Arnolds Park
J. C. Boote
Worthington
Minn
Okoboji Lake
Arnolds Park State Pier
F. J. Spotta
Battle Creek
Boone-B C Brown seeks injunction over Democratic county chair race
Boone grocer Brown filed a district court petition to restrain Paul Hellwege from acting as Democratic county chairman and interfering with Brown’s chairmanship. He argues Hellwege’s reelection was illegal because holdover committee men and committeewomen who cast ballots lacked the right to vote.
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Boone
B. C. Brown
Boone Grocer
Paul Hellwege
Brown
Hellwege
Central Committee
Increase in birth certificate requests floods Iowa health office
Des Moines reports a rise in mail requests for birth certificates and affidavits, totaling 522 pieces in a day. Officials attribute the surge to wartime conditions as citizens seek proof of citizenship for jobs and governmental positions, including defense related work.
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Des Moines
fJowa State Health Department
Health Department
Capitol ID cards tighten access after hours
Washington details ID card rules for Capitol building workers entering outside normal hours as guards increase. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant at arms, says rules mirror World War I era credentials for pre nine and post four thirty access. A separate incident at the World’s Fair British pavilion ends with a bomb blast killing two detectives and a threatening call to an employee.
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Washington, D. C
United States Capitol
Capitol
Kenneth Romney
Marshalltown Fairgrounds Damaged by Fire
Fire destroyed the wooden amphitheater and two other buildings at the Central Iowa fair grounds in Marshalltown. Fire equipment valued at 5000 dollars was lost, and a firefighter Leo Piper was hospitalized after smoke exposure. A wind threat raised concern for nearby homes. Cause suspected as boys playing with straw.
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Marshalltown
U.P
Iowa Fairgrounds
Leo Piper
Dewey Goode to Face Hearing Over Cream Licensing
Des Moines July 6 Dewey Goode a Bloomfield Republican member of the Iowa House was ordered to appear before the state secretary of agriculture to show cause why his cream grading license should not be cancelled. He operates a produce company and is charged with paying first grade prices for second grade cream and flouting dairy laws. He also opposed the butterfat tax which funded dairy promotion.
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Des Moines
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
State Secretary of Agriculture
Goode
Iowa
Crawford County Democratic Chairman resigns after 25 years
Andrew Bell quits as Crawford county Democratic Party chair after a long career in politics and law. Dr. C. L. Patterson of Westside is named by the central committee to succeed him. Bell, an attorney, had lengthy political tenure before earning his Drake University law degree.
Iowa Accident Death Toll Two Larger Today
Iowa’s holiday weekend death toll rose to eleven with two new fatalities. Billy Jesperson 14 of Royal died in Spencer from burns after a firecracker exploded in a keg of powder. Albin Richard White 15 died when his car overturned on highway 137.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Billy Jesperson
Royal
Spencer
Albin
Richard White
Highway 137
Convicts Escape From Cherokee Prison Farm
Two inmates from the Anamosa state reformatory escaped the Cherokee prison farm in Cherokee Iowa. The fugitives are Cliff Gresf alias Jack Young and Edward Robertson both described with ages. They fled after stealing a car following their departure from the prison.
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Cherokee
Iowa
Anamosa State Reformatory
Cliff Gresf
Jack Young
Edward Robertson
Gresf
Waukon
Robertson
Marshalltown
Enlistment of Private Darrell T Swift in Marine Corps
Des Moines July 6 announces the enlistment of Private Darrell Thomas Swift son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Swift. He resides Rural Route No 3 Washington Iowa and has been transferred to the Marine Corps base San Diego for preliminary training with assignments to a ship detachment or a Navy yard or naval station at home or overseas.
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Des Moines
Marine Corps
Darrell Thomas Swift
Thomas
Swift
Washington
Iowa
Marine Corps Base
San Diego
California
Marine
United States Fleet
County Attorney Nominated and Longtime Official
A Democratic candidate earned the nomination, graduated from Drake, admitted to the Iowa bar, and won the county attorney election in the fall. He held the office for twenty years.
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Drake
Accident disrupts Journal delivery on Washington Route 2
Last night an accident hindered mailing of Journals to Washington Route 2 subscribers. Five papers did not reach recipients and names of those missed are not known. If you did not receive your copy, please inform us for an immediate replacement.
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Washington
Ten Drivers Licensed in Week's Car Checks
Ten drivers were granted licenses and seven rejected in weekly driving examinations led by Ben Bentzinger of the state highway police at the courthouse. Licenses went to Merle Freel Lydia M. Miller Wellman Mrs Wayne Kendrick Opal Lambert W A Lytle Washington Mary Mathieu Elsie Stalder Wayland J Duane Wimmer John Koeh Keota Manda Davies Crawfordsville A chauffeur license was issued to D J Hartzell of Riverside.
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Ben Bentzinger
State Highway Police
Court House
Merle Freel
Lydia M. Miller
Wellman
Wayne Kendrick
Opal Lambert
W. A. Lytle
Washington
Mary Mathieu
Elsie Stalder
Wayland
J. Duane Wimmer
John Koeh
Keota
Manda Davies
Crawfordsville
D. J. Hartzell
Riverside
Deadline Set for Washington Trip Baseball Seats
Tonight is the last chance for Washington men to reserve a seat for the July 21 trip to St. Louis to see a Dodgers Cardinals double header. Ray Whitehead and his committee will collect reservations at the Simmerman building north of the National Bank. An option exists on 200 seats, with 150 already spoken for to secure the Burlington special train. 30 more are needed.
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Washington
St. Louis
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. Louis Cardinals
Ray Whitehead
Simmerman Building
National Bank
Whitehead
Ball Park
Burlington Railroad
Washington County Aids 1939 Christmas Seal Drive
Washington County helped Iowa reach a 1939 Christmas seal sale quota with 6.1 cents per capita, contributing to a $1,004.51 county total and making the statewide drive the second most successful. Rev. Carl Klein of Washington served as county chairman.
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Des Moines
Washington County
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Iowa
Carl Klein
Washington
Willkie Plans Colorado Vacation Before Campaign
Willkie, the Republican presidential candidate, plans a pre campaign vacation in Colorado. He will confer with the Republican National Committee and fly to Washington to meet Senator Charles L. McNary and Republican members of Congress before a two week stay at an unrevealed Colorado spot. He expects no campaign management announcements until after talks in Washington.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Colorado
Willkie
Republican National Committee
Washington
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Congress
Schenk Immortalizes Iowa Ironmen in Metal
A metal sculpture honors the 1939 Iowa Hawkeyes known as the Ironmen. Sculptor Al Sehnek, formerly of Harvard Business School, created a four-figure piece resembling Nile Kinnick Jr. in kicking pose. The base bears the 1939 season record.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Ironmen
al Sehnek
Anderson
Harvard
School of Business Administration
Nile Clarke Kinnick, Jr
Audiences Grow at New Auditorium Lecture Series
Evangelist C C L Vories lectures at the Voice of Prophecy auditorium in Washington on West Madison and South Avenue D. Last night he defined the soul as the mind and the spirit as the breath of life, answered questions, and opened a question box. He announced Sunday’s talk on where the dead reside in heaven, hell, or purgatory.
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Evangelist CC. L. Vories
Voice of Prophecy
Washington
West Madison Street
South Avenue D
Heaven
Hell
Purgatory
Damages Sought in Multiple Iowa County Auto Crash Cases
Three district court filings seek 22,557.28 in damages from Waldo Swartzendruber and Orville Morrison after a collision last October in Iowa county. L. J. Miller seeks 3,811.54 for personal injuries. Erma Erb and Sarah Miller claim 12,535.48 and 6,210.25 respectively. Plaintiffs are represented by Messer Hamilton Cahill of Iowa City.
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Waldo Swartzendruber
Orville Morrison
Iowa County
Washington County
L. J. Miller
Plaintiiffs
Morrison
Swartzgendruber
Miller
Erma Erb
Sarah Miller
Iowa City
Messer Hamilton & Cahill
Lectures Open to All at 7 30 P M
There is no admission charge to the lectures and everybody is invited to attend starting at 7 30 P M.
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Gins
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County Farming Pictures
Harold Anderson
Chick Custer
Mr. Anderson
Mr. Custer
And
England
Washington, DC
Martinique
Caribbean Sea
Bearn
United Press
Stockholm
Clerman Sourced
Canada
Passport Office
Marjorie Rosser
Marshalltown Fairgrounds
CREAM
Rt. 2
Schenk
Swartzendruber, Morrison
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