Villisca Woman Held On Shooting Charge In Iowa
In Red Oak an 80-year-old Villisca woman, Becky Anne Fryer, is jailed on assault charges after allegedly wounding Bernard Moates who tried to settle a dispute caused by a boy riding a bicycle across her lawn. The case, in Justice C. L. Meyerhoff’s Villisca court, awaits further investigation and a hearing date. Moates was shot in the arm. an arm bone was shattered.
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Villisca
Red Oak
C. L. Meyerhoff
Villisea
Becky Anne Fryer
Frank Miller
Wayne McPherson
Bernard Moates
Ickes Proposes Nighttime Closing Of Oil Stations In War Maneuvers
Sunned soldiers in a revived army of 550 000 will test modern warfare in September in west central Louisiana and eastern Texas. Generals Marshall and McBride oversee large scale maneuvers drawing from multiple divisions and corps to simulate war conditions with field noises and live training in Kisatchie forest near Alexandria.
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United States
Ith
7Th Army Corps
Sth Army Corps
1St Army Corps
GHQ
Poland
Low Countries
France
Alexandria
Sabine River Valley
George C. Marshall
Robert McBride
2Nd Army
Memphis
Tenn
Hth Army Corps
Camp Beauregard
4Th Army Corps
Beauregard
5Th Army Corps
8Th Army Corps
War Department
Kisatchie National Forest
Louisiana Highway Department
Work Projects Administration
New Orleans
Jackson Barracks
Mississippi River
South
Livingston, Polk and Claiborne
Louisiana
Shelby
Mississippi
Robinson
Arkansas
Des Moines selects Jake More as Democratic state chair
Jake More, 37, of Harlan, was unanimously elected chairman of the Democratic state central committee to succeed Edward Birmingham, who moves to internal revenue collector for Iowa. G G Jeck of Atlantic nominated More. no other candidates. Tom Cleary of Sioux City chosen as ninth district central committee member. More is a lifelong Iowa resident born in Unionville.
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Des Moines
Jake More
Harlan
Democratic State Central Committee
More
Edward H. Birmingham
Sioux City
Internal Revenue
Iowa
G. G. Jeck
Atlantic
Seventh District
Central Committee
Tom Cleary
Ninth Congressional District Committee
Birmingham
Unionville
Centerville
Settlement Reached in Iowa Truck Drivers Strike
Des Moines and several Iowa cities end wholesale grocery truck drivers and warehousemen strike with a 10 percent wage increase. About 600 workers across Des Moines Waterloo Iowa Falls Cedar Rapids Mason City Carroll Oskaloosa and Dubuque affected, per union attorney C. L. McNutt.
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Des Moines
Iowa
American Federation of Labor
Waterloo
Iowa Falls
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Carroll
Oskaloosa
Dubuque
C. L. McNutt
Appeal Ryan Suit To Supreme Court
Des Moines The Lehan T. Ryan 60000 damage suit against Governor Wilson has been appealed to the state supreme court. Trial in Polk district court in May ended with a directed verdict for the governor. Ryan, a former assistant attorney general, claimed an official audit statement showed he received a local services fee in a bank receivership while in office. the correction showed the fee was for private work after leaving state employment, and no malice was found.
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Ryan
Supreme Court
DES Moines
Lehan T. Ryan
Wilson
State Supreme Court
Polk District Court
Sioux City youth surrenders to police over camp duty
Michael Sterm 18 of Sioux City surrendered at the police station hours before his duty report date at Camp Claiborne Louisiana. He said he wrote his commanding officer to delay his return because his mother was destitute and ill, but was told he would be considered without leave after July 28. Detective Chief Tom Farley notified the camp commander.
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Sioux City
Michael Sterm
Camp Claibourne
Fort Crook
Omaha
Neb
Sterm
Tom Farley
Farley
Continue to Search For Man's Identity
Sioux City officials continued their search to identify a train victim buried as unknown. The broken body was found near Milwaukee tracks in Stevens, South Carolina, last Thursday. Transients reported seeing the man near a rail before a passenger train passed. A social security card found near the body suggested the name John Neal of Chattanooga Tennessee, but officials could not verify it.
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Stoux City
Sioux City
Stevens
S. C
John Neal
Chattanooga
Iowa City Storm Tops City With Floods And Wind
A July thunderstorm hit Iowa City causing flooded sewers and a sharp 20 degree drop in temperature. Winds near 50 miles per hour blew through the area as the rainstorm moved overhead.
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Iowa City
Roosevelt creates economic defense board and inter American affairs office
President Roosevelt established an economic defense board led by Vice President Henry Wallace and created a coordinator of inter American affairs to head a new agency under Nelson Rockefeller. The board acts as a planning ministry with advisory status, its recommendations to be enacted by executive departments and export control.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevlt
Economic Defense Board
Henry Wallace
Hemisphere
Inter- American Affairs
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Economic Defense Board
Iowa Soldier Glenn J. Collins Dies in Louisiana Camp
Private first class Glenn J. Collins of Remsen Iowa died in Camp Claiborne Louisiana hospital today of pneumonia. He was 25 and the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Collins farmers near Remsen.
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Camp Claiborne
Glenn J. Collins
Remsen
Iowa
Collins
Joe Collins
First Amateur Award to Mrs Oakley Payne
Mrs Oakley Payne won first place in the amateur contest after the band concert in Central Park. Betty Kallous and Melba Hall placed second with vocal and accordion numbers. Phyllis Anderson Mary Cherryholmes and Janet Finke earned third place. Prizes included three dollars and two collars for first and second, and Washington theater tickets for the Crawfordsville trio. A new contest is planned for next Wednesday after the band concert.
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Oakley Payne
Central Park
Betty Kallous
Melba Hall
Phyllis Anderson
Mary Cherryholmes
Janet Finke
Crawfordsville
Chamber of Commerce
Washington Theater
Polish Premier Claims Near Million German Casualties on Russia Front
General Wladislaw Sikorski announced in a radio broadcast to Poland that about one million German troops have been killed or wounded on the Soviet front. He said nearly four fifths of Germany’s armed strength is involved in the drive against Russia.
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London
U.P
Wladislaw Sikorski
Poland
Germany
Russia
Means of Saving Oil Is Urged
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold L. Ickes urged closing 100000 gasoline stations in eastern states from seven p m to seven a m nightly to curb consumption. The blackout would begin Sunday Aug 3 at seven p m. The industry had proposed similar limits and hours of operation seven days a week. Ickes called night closures the least action and urged realism about the current situation.
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Washington, D. C
Defense
Harold L. Ickes
New York
Atlantic Coast
Ickes
Roosevelt nominates Lincoln MacVeagh as Iceland minister
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Lincoln MacVeagh former minister to Greece as minister to Iceland. The move aims to establish diplomatic relations with the sub Arctic island and to fulfill an agreement on armed protection and consular relations.
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Washington
D. C
U.P
Roosevelt
Iceland
Senate
Lincoln MacVeagh
Greece
sub-Arctic
United States
Austrian refugee to speak at Washington County Legion
Dr. Erick Kollman renowned educator and Vienna native, now assistant professor at Parsons College Fairfield, will address the Washington County Legion at Brighton next Monday evening August 4. Kollman, who fled Nazi Austria, will discuss Europe’s situation and lead an open forum for audience participation.
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Washington County Legion
Brighton
Erick Kollman
Vienna
Austria
Kollman
Parsons College
Fairfield
Woodrow Wilson
Hitler
America
Farmer Killed While Operating Combine in Field
LARRABEE IOWA July 31 A contrivance to operate a tractor and combine at the same time was blamed today for the death of Melvin Akers 23 Lar Rabee farmer Dr J E Bunker Cherokee county coroner said Akers apparently was flung into the levers of the combine by a jerk on a rope Akers had attached to the tractor and thrown about his shoulders The tractor s hitch to the combine was broken Akers was killed instantly.
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Larrabee
Iowa
Melvin Akers
J. E. Bunker
Cherokee County
Akers
Traffic summons mystifies Grace Kruse in Iowa
Mrs Grace G Kruse of Fort Dodge was puzzled to receive a New York traffic court summons to appear by August to pay a $2 parking fine or lose her license. The summons bore her correct name, address and plate number, but the car cited had never existed.
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Fort Dodge
Grace G. Kruse
New York, N. Y
Model Airplane Show Canceled For Heat
Dr. W. D. Dwyer of the Y M C A announces the cancellation of the Wings Over Washington model airplane show planned for August 6. He cites extreme heat, absence of potential participants, and other commitments as reasons and hopes for a future event when conditions improve. The event was backed by the Y M C A boys work committee and the Chamber of Commerce with Jack Snodgrass of the Washington Airport assisting.
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W. D. Dwyer
Boys’ Work Committee
Y.M.C.A
Washington
Dwyer
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Snodgrass
Washington Airport
Charles Holden Enlists in U S Navy at Des Moines
Charles Holden son of Mr and Mrs Glenn B Holden traveled to Des Moines to complete enlistment and then proceeded to the Great Lakes naval training station near Chicago The piece notes navy recruiting interest and urges men to consider enlistment with information available at the Journal office.
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Washington
United States Navy
Charles Holden
Glenn B. Holden
Des Moines
Great Lakes
Chicago
Navy
Army
Journal
Heat Wave Persists with 96 Degree Afternoon Temps
The afternoon temperature reached 96 degrees with a likely rise of two to three degrees before evening. Yesterday’s high was 93 degrees as a heat wave continues.
Reckless Gunplay Lands Two Keota Boys in Juvenile Court
Sheriff H M Putnam said two 16 year olds from Keota face filed juvenile court charges in Sigourney for target practice in the Valley area. They fired two 22 rifles and a pistol at a vacant house and a suspected occupied one, stealing ammunition from a Washington store. Other local youths faced threats and possible court action for shooting insulators and lights, underscoring dangers of careless gun use.
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H. M. Putnam
Sigourney
Keota
Valley
Valley Church
Washington
Rock Island
Nazi Reported Dead Is Alive
Berlin reports that Colonel General Ernst Udet, famed air ace, was interviewed by foreign correspondents at the air ministry. Foreign dispatches claimed he died by his own hand while in protective custody after losing his post for allegedly opposing the Russian campaign.
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Berlin
U.P
Propaganda Ministry
Ernst Udet
Udets
Air Ministry
Hershey Named Director of Selective Service
President Roosevelt today named Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey to head the selective service, succeeding C. A. Dykstra who resigned some time ago.
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Hershey
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
C. A. Dykstra
Morning death shocks Washington rural mail carrier Homer Brower
Homer Brower 56 a Washington rural mail carrier died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on East Washington street. He lived only minutes after illness yesterday he was in normal health and on his usual route. Funeral 2 30 Saturday at the Presbyterian church in Middletown Iowa burial there. Brower born Nov 29 1884 Middletown son of John H and Anna Crawford Brower. He married Fannie McIntyre Jan 17 1917 and lived in Middletown until 1949 when he moved to Washington to serve as rural carrier on route three. Survived by wife seven children four brothers and a lodge of Masons member.
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Homer Brower
Washington
East
Washington Street
Presbyterian
Middletown
Sherman
Mr. Brower
Iowa
John H
Anna (Crawford) Brower
Fannie McIntyre
William Harrison
Lodge of ‘Masons
Danville
Ellen
Wilma
Frank
Jean
Ruth
Bonita
Patricia
William, H
Tustin
Calif
James
Samuel L
Burlington
John H. Brower
Attica
Kansas
Latta Dead at 75 After Drug Store Career in Paton
Earle Cowles Latta 75, born near Grandview Iowa, died in Paton. He lived in Washington four years and moved to Paton in 1891, running a drug store and later working in the newspaper business there. He leaves a daughter Isabelle. his wife Rowena Overholt died in 1923. He joined Dublin Congregational church. burial was at Columbus City.
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Paton
Iowa
Journal
Earle Cowles Latta
Grandview
Dutch Creek Township
Washington County
Washington
Isabelle
Rowena
New York Tax Revenue Sets Record in 1940 Census
New York state collected 588 million dollars in 1940, vastly surpassing the tax take of all states two decades earlier, according to census figures.
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New York State
United States Demands Fuller Japan Apology for Tuftuila Attack
In Washington on July 31 Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said the United States is not satisfied with Japan's formal apology for the Tu_tuila bombing and expects a fuller reply. He noted Tokyo delivered the apology to Ambassador Josoph Grrew and that simultaneous representations were made to the Japanese government in Washington and Tokyo after the incident at Chungking.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Japan
Tutuila
Sumner Welles
Welles
Tokio
Joseph C. Grew
Chungking
Britain sanctions Arctic air strike against Petsamo and Kirkaenes
United Press reports Britain launched Arctic naval air strikes on Petsamo and Kirkaenes near Murmansk with heavy harbor damage. Britain confirms 16 planes lost. Germany says 28 British aircraft shot down. Hopkins meets with Stalin in Moscow to discuss Soviet aid to defeat Germany. Japan offers apologies for Chungking bombing.
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United Press
Britain
Harry L. Hopkins
Moscow
Germany
Far East
Japan
United States
Tutuila
Chungking
Petsamo
Kirkaenes
Murmansk
Curb On Installment Buying Moves in U S
The Roosevelt administration delays a bill authorizing price controls to June 30 levels in defense areas. A conference with Leon Henderson and Marriner Eccles discussed a “dollar down, dollar a week” credit plan while Senate Leader Barkley and Speaker Rayburn say final draft will wait on the installment credit provision.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Senate
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
House
Sam Rayburn
Des Moines Women Stock Up on Silk Hose
Des Moines shoppers hoard silk hosiery amid Japan silk fears. Five stores report few buyers but several large orders, including 40 pairs for one family and 24 for another. A California vacationer ordered 12 pairs. Stores expect an eventual fall rush and slight wholesale price rise, while retail prices remain steady.
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Des Moines
Les Moines
Japan
California
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Bauer
Davenport
Wellman
Kalona
Riverside
Ainsworth
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Haskins
Richmond
Rubio
Pang
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
Boy Scouts
U.S
Legion
K.C. Latta
Arctic
Winston Churchill
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