Italian POWs Arrive to Help Iowa Farm Work
About 300 Italian prisoners of war arrived Monday from a Missouri camp to relieve farm labor shortages. They are housed at the fair grounds under the amphitheater with 100 officers, guards, cooks, and trained dogs. Their first task is detasseling seed corn near Downey and Durant. the prisoners appear young and in good spirits, with one carrying a banjo and another a dog.
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Fair Grounds
Army
Downey
Durant
Iowa Vows State Aid To Schools And Counties
The state department of public instruction will distribute 215376.14 in state aid to 680 Iowa schools and counties that complied with distribution laws. Consolidated districts with approved high school departments receive 3843.38 each. 115 high schools with approved normal training courses get 70 each. Iowa’s 99 counties obtain 44.94 each for teacher institutes or conventions.
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State Department of Public Instruction
Ilowa
Iowa
Letts Farm Resident Found Dead After Train Strike
Walter Jacobs aged about 68 was found on railroad tracks one mile west of Letts by a section crew including his brother Ralph Jacobs. Believed struck and killed by a train while walking along the right of way. last seen Sunday night. Coroner J. H. Chittum of Louisa County to investigate.
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Letts Farm
Ralph Jacobs
Letts
Jacobs
J. H. Chittum
Louisa County
Mr. O'Loughlin
Walter Watkinson
Marner & Adams Funeral
Riverside
Dean Emeritus Kay Dies at 69 in Iowa City Hospital
Iowa City report states Dean Emeritus George Frederick Kay longtime liberal arts college dean and renowned geologist died at University General Hospital at 8 45 p m He had retired two and a half months earlier upon reaching age 70 under Iowa board of education rules He taught until bed-ridden in May and would have turned 70 on September 14 He was 69 years old.
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Imeritus George Frederick Kay
The
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Arly
Iowa Patrol June Traffic Citations Reported
Des Moines Iowa state highway patrol issued 870 summonses and 271 warning memorandums in June per Patrol Chief C A Nee. Tickets were largely for motorists with no driver's license. stop sign violations accounted for 88 summonses and 5 for 05 speeding by truck drivers.
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Des Moines
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C. A. ‘Nee
Denison Girl Honored At Manilla Pool Event
Beverly Langheim, 13, daughter of Mr and Mrs L Langheim of Manilla, joined a group of Manilla children at a Denison swimming pool outing sponsored by local organizers.
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Manilla
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Manilla Chilen
Japanese Navy Base Installations on Island Miles from Tok
Japanese Navy base installations are reported on a distant island several miles from Tok, indicating strategic positioning. Details on specific facilities or units remain unclear in the fragment.
Army airmen hit Paramushiru base in bold Pacific raid
In Washington on July 20 the navy announced Army airmen flying four Liberator bombers blasted Paramushiru, a major Japanese naval base on the north Pacific. The raid started fires and scored near hits on several enemy vessels around the base, near hits being as damaging as direct hits. The base lies about 1300 miles from Tokyo on the northern Kurile island.
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Washington, D. C
Paramushiru
Japan
North Pacific
Navy Plans for War Through 1949 in Pacific Area
Washington July 4. Navy officials indicate plans assume fighting in the Pacific to 1949. Secretary Knox denounces public complacency over minor military successes as silly while urging sustained all out effort. Vice Admiral Horne and War Production Board official Wilson support the stance and demand higher production, including 6000 airplanes this month.
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Washington, D. C
Frank Knox
Knox
Fredrick J. Horne
Naval Operations
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Wilson
United States
Button Workers Meet Wednesday
A meeting of workers at the American Pearl button factory will be held at the Knights of Pythias hall Wednesday evening at eight. Discussion will cover the union’s request to be bargaining agent. The NLRB interim report issued by W P Webb will be read by Ed Schul of Muscatine and explained. Floyd Murphy will preside.
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National Labor Relations Board
W. P. Webb
Ed Schul
Muscatine
Floyd ‘Murphy
Government sets $14.75 ceiling on live hogs and expands WFA support
The OPA and War Food Administration move to cap live hog prices at 14.75 dollars per hundredweight Chicago basis in August. WFA extends the 15.75 dollar support for hogs 200 to 270 pounds from September 1, 1943 to March 31, 1944, with lighter weights allowed and a 220 pound cap urged for marketing. The action preserves margins for packers while anticipating seasonal fluctuations.
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Chicago
OPA
War Food Administration
WFA
Council Approves Budget Estimate for Next Year
City council approves the budget estimate calling for $49,483 in administration expenditures for next year up from $48,340 this year. The rise mostly covers an $810 cemetery fund allotment with no levy previous year, plus small increases in general fire and sewage disposal funds.
Mrs Houck Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery
Mrs. Charles Houck former resident of Washington died recently Funeral services will be tomorrow at 9 am Cedar Rapids and the body will be brought here for burial at Elm Grove Cemetery arriving about 11 30 am tomorrow morning
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Washington
Cedar Rapids
Elm Grove Cemetery
Tragic Pool Incident Claims Local Woman
A local woman was pulled from the deep end of a pool unconscious. Physicians and highway patrolsmen labored for three hours to revive her, but she did not regain consciousness.
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Red Cross
One Man Effort Aids Meat Shortage Faces Court Fees
New York reporter notes Hyman Zelins, after a one man effort to ease the meat shortage, paid five dollars in court fees. He admitted giving away meat to passersby from a parked delivery truck.
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New York
Hyman Zelins
Ickes Defends Bureaucrats in Washington
Secretary Harold L. Ickes defended Washington bureaucrats against criticism of the war effort. He said dollar a year businessmen like Knudsen, Nelson, and Stettinius drive wartime policy, while bureaucrat labels come from opponents and press. He called himself a bureaucrat by definition and noted the president enlisted top industrial figures for the war drive.
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Harold L. Ickes
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Nelson
Stettinius
Ickes
March of the Champions Concert Summary
Municipal Band concert directed by Ralph W. Young features a program including March of the Champions Overture Hall of Fame selections and popular tunes from 1936 37 with xylophone solos and trombone novelty numbers. Bonnie Simpson accompanies Miss Michels as pianist and Suesse Grabel arrangements appear among selections.
Foster files for divorce and child custody in court
Lorene E. Foster filed for divorce from Henry H. Foster in the clerk of court yesterday seeking a decree of divorce and custody of two minor children. Attorney L. J. Kehoe represents the plaintiff.
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L. J. Kehoe
Rainfall Adds Half Inch to July Total
A half inch of rain was recorded in the July total after a shower early yesterday morning. The maximum temperature yesterday reached 86 degrees.
Untrained Men Officials Questioned Over Government Procedures
A fragment notes that highly competent men, though skilled in their fields, were inexperienced and unsympathetic with government procedures and not well advised by officials.
Marriage License Issued in Wellman County
Roy Furman and Gladys Bishop of Wellman secured a marriage license yesterday at the courthouse. It marks the first wedding license issued in the county in July.
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Gladys Bishop
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Funeral services planned for river drowning victims
After the bodies of William O'Loughlin of Riverside and Edith Godwin of Washington were found in the Town river near Riverside, plans were made for their funerals. Godwin will be buried in Elm Grove cemetery after memorial services at the Baptist church. O'Loughlin's service will be at Trinity Methodist church with burial in Sharon Hill cemetery.
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Riverside
Edith Godwin
Washington
The
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Alfred Trenerry
Elm Grove
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
O'Loughlin
Trinity Methodist Church
S. C. Peterson
Sharon Hill
Kalona
James O Loughlin
Leo O'Loughlin
Winfield
D. W. Harvey
George Cady
Prescott Hoard
Effie Dunning
New York City
Allied forces push in Sicily as Catania battles rage
In North Africa the Sicilian front intensifies with the British Eighth Army pressing along the east coast of Sicily near Catania while American Seventh Army advances toward Enna and a potential Sicily split. German and Italian counterattacks include paratroops and the Hermann Goering tank division as bridgeheads form north of the Simeto river. Eisenhower is reportedly ready to invade Italy.
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Ak Biers Radio
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Journal Announces 3 Quarter Century Club Dinner in August
The Journal's Three Quarter Century Club will hold an August dinner for residents aged 75 and over. An application form is available at the Journal office with no initiation or dues. The event serves social purposes and reunites old neighbors and friends. Mrs. George Wood of Geneseo, Illinois is noted in the notice.
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