Iowa counties to gain funds for secondary roads
Des Moines reports that the average Iowa county will receive 40 000 to 560 000 for secondary road work from July 1 through year end. The surplus from the farm to market road fund awaits matching federal funds, and the comptroller directs county boards to place their shares into a special secondary road construction fund, subject to state highway commission approval.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Wilson
State Highway Commission
C. Fred Porter
Cedar Falls Teen Takes Beloved Car For A Ride
Cedar Falls Sylvan Livingston, 15, drove his first car from the garage after a down payment. A short distance away at a filling station the auto caught fire when he started it. Firemen arrived to extinguish the blaze but the car was beyond repair.
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Cedar Falls
Sylvan Livingston
Sylvan
Coast Guard Cutters Launched at Dubuque
Two Coast Guard cutters built for the government were launched at the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works. The Dogwood and the Sycamore cost $161,000 each, with sponsors Mes Bernhard M. Jacobsen and Ruth Makkett. The Dogwood launched in the morning and the Sycamore in the afternoon amid a large crowd along the Mississippi River.
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Dubuque
Coast Guard
Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works
Dogwood
Sycamore
Mes Bernhard M. Jacobsen
Clinton
William S. Jacobsen
Iowa
Ruth Mackett
Mississippi River
Urges Barbers Forget Cure for Baldness
Sioux City barbers should not attempt to grow hair on bald heads stated Louis E. Mellvain general secretary treasurer of the Associated Master Barbers of America at the 16th annual Iowa convention. He urged promotion of scalp circulation and higher sanitation.
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Sioux City
Louis E. Mellvain
Associated Master Barbers of America
Iowa
Judges Named for Washington Bicycle Parade
Leigh Soule O EK Sehmitt and Harry Sowden will select winners and award prizes in the bicycle safety parade to be held in Washington on Friday June 20. Mr Bond Montgomery Ward manager says entries are coming in fast and the bike decorations will be spectacular. Already many contestants have signed up and at least 300 are expected before the Montgomery Ward store deadline Wednesday night. All contestants must register with Milo Steele in Ward's sporting goods.
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Leigh Soule
O. EK. Sehmitt
Harry Sowden
Washington
Bond
Montgomery Ward
Milo Steele
Sporting Goods
Ward
Seek Clues in Strieff Killing
Police seek clues to the sex slayer of Jessie Elizabeth Strieff a 28 year old war department clerk and amateur aviatrix found murdered in a Northwest Washington alley garage near Dupont Circle. Screams heard near the location about seven or eight hours before her body was discovered are being investigated.
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Washington
D. C
Jessie Elizabeth Strieff
War Department
Miss Strieff
Des Moines
Iowa
Dupont Circle
Convict Sullivan to Die for Guard Killing at Fort Madison
Iowa Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Ivan Sullivan, a Fort Madison prison convict who killed a guard during a June 1940 escape. Sullivan, who pleaded guilty to first degree murder, faces possible rehearing or a gubernatorial clemency request. co-defendants Haenze and Estes received life terms.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court Today
Ivan Sullivan
Iowa
Fort Madison
Sullivan
Lowell Haenze
Forest Estes
Middle West
Schivan
Haenze
William Cunningham
Robert Fiart
Wassiain
Cunningham
Lee County
Supreme Court
District Court
High Court
George A. Wilson
Supreme Court Reverses Sentner Conviction
The Missouri supreme court unanimously reversed the 1939 conviction of William Sentner of St. Louis a CIO official linked to a 1938 Newton strike. It ruled his actions amounted to free speech and found no evidence he urged sabotage or violated state criminal syndicalism law. The court did not decide on the law's constitutionality.
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Town Supreme Court
William Sentner
St. Louis
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
CIO
Mavtag
Newton
Sentner
W. S. Cowper
Montezuma
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Missouri
Leniner
Supreme Court Upholds Rock Island Truck Lines Certificate
The Supreme Court ruled the state commerce commission acted within its rights in granting a certificate of convenience and necessity to Rock Island Motor Transit to operate two truck lines. One route runs Des Moines to Widon via Oskaloosa and Ottumwa, the other Eldon to Wavenpore via Fairfield, Washington and Muscatine. The decision reversed District Judge Heinrich Taylor of Wapello County who had said the commission overstepped its authority. Burlington Transit Company had objected and appealed citing adequate service.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
State Commerce Commission
Rock Island Motor Transit Company
Widon
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Eldon
Wavenpore
Fairfield
Washington
Muscatine
Jaaxre Heinrich Taylor
Wapello County
Burlington Transit Company
Wapello Court
Playgrounds Opened At Grade Schools This Week
The Y M C A and Parent-Teacher Association sponsor community summer playgrounds opening Monday with over 100 children attending. Stewart School hosted about 40 in the morning and Lincoln about 75 in the afternoon. Howard Little assists while Joe Duen is away at Boys State Des Moines. Frances Sartor leads younger children and story hour. Margaret Ragan oversees junior girls. Activities run weekdays at Stewart 9 to 12 and Lincoln 1 to 4. boys played baseball at Stewart and girls at Lincoln. No scores kept this week.
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Leign S
Joe Duea
Des Moines
Stewart
Lincoln
Soule
Y's
Parent-Teacher Association
Howard Little
Mr. Duen
Frances Sartor
Margaret Ragan
Stewart School
High court backs commission on proposed intercity service
The high court upholds the commission ruling approving the proposed intercity service. It states there is ample evidence to support the decision that the service will promote public convenience and necessity and that the commission acted within its jurisdiction.
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High Court
Kalona to Host Driver’s License Applications This Week
Sheriff H. M. Putnam said this morning arrangements are made for one of the two young women to be at Kalona Thursday to help fill out license applications for local residents. She will return a week later to accommodate Kalona people.
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H. M. Putnam
Kalona
Get Inside Frontier of Libya
Cairo June 17 report describes a fast moving British offensive in the western desert. Imperial forces allegedly strike across the Libyan frontier toward Fort Capuzzo forcing Axis troops to rush reinforcements and defend the desert outpost long disputed in the North African campaign.
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Cairo
Western Desert
Fort Capuzzo
Stealing Gets Two Boys Into Trouble
In juvenile court Judge P. J. Siegers sent two Washington boys aged 15 and 13 to the state industrial school at Eldora. Brothers with prior theft records, they stole chickens and $32.28 from a coal yard office this week, spending most of the money on a bicycle. Sheriff Putnam and Deputy Kiesey arrested them. they will be taken to Eldora tomorrow as county officials urge reform to deter similar acts.
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P. J. Siegers
Washington
Eldora
H. M. Putnam
Walt Kiesey
John Owen
Putnam
Conscience Money Paid For Matting Theft Century Ago
William E. Durno of Postvilla received two dollars as conscience money for an unauthorized matting theft from a cottage in Durno Springs park twenty years earlier. The payment went to the note writer of the conscience money.
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William E. Durno
Postvilla
Durno Springs Park
City Hall to issue driver licenses in Kelona Thursday
The sheriff announced that driver license applications will be taken at Kelona City Hall from eight oclock in the morning until four in the afternoon on Thursday. Similar accommodations will be arranged in other county towns later, but schedules are not finalized yet.
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Kelona
Municipal Band Concert in Central Park June 18 7 45 pm
The municipal band performs Wednesday evening in Central Park starting at 7 45 pm. Program includes Concert March Heroic Selection Yankee Rhythm Popular I Am An American March Boston Commandary Overture Young America Novelty Whistler and His Dog March U S Field Artillery and other Sousa works conducted by Holmes Holmes Taylor Fillmore Berlin Art Lake Carter Russell Pryor Sousa.
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Boston
Young America
Whistler
His Dog
U.S. Field Artillery
Woman Dies Suddenly in Ainsworth Heart Attack
Mrs Hazel Mary Horning Springman, 24, died last night at the Art Rathmel home in Ainsworth from a heart attack. Coroner says heart condition. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. at L. A. Jones funeral home, burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Survived by parents Elmer and Emma Horning, one son William Harry Springman, brother Walter Horning, grandfather Henry Horning. Born Jan 27, 1917 in Cedar township. attended Washington high school. married to William Springman.
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Hazel Mary Horning Springman
Art Rathmel J
Ainsworth
W. S. Kyle
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
R. C. Keagy
Methodist Church
Elm Grove
Elmer Horning
Emma (Hines) Horning
Cedar Township
Washington High School
William Springman
William Harry Springman
Walter Horning
Winfield
Henry Horning
Washington
Rotarians Told of Horses as a Hobby
Robert Wilson of Mt Pleasant spoke to Rotary about adopting horses as a hobby. He and his father O T Wilson own twenty four horses including Shetlands Hackneys and Saddlers. O T Wilson led the Washington horse show last summer and the family has shown in circuits earning wide recognition.
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Robert Wilson
Mt. Pleasant
Rotary
Wilson
O. T. Wilson
Washington
Wilsons
Robert
Children Welfare Conference Opens at University of Iowa
Iowa City hosts the 15th annual child welfare conference at the State University of Iowa. Experts from across the nation focus on children and their problems. Early registration shows a likely large turnout as the event runs through Thursday.
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Iowa City
State University of Iowa
Five Petitions Seek Street Surfacing This Summer
Five petitions for street surfacing were presented to the city council last night for East and West Sixth streets East Polk South Avenue C and East Harrison. The proposals were referred to the street and alley committee as interest in paving grows and the plan to remove dirt streets advances. Glenn Haygreen and George Pratt spoke on East Harrison surfacing.
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West Sixth Street
East Polk Street
South Avenue C
East Harrison Street
Glenn Haygreen
George Pratt
Washington
Tension in Relations With U S
Germany announced retaliatory steps after the United States froze axis assets, signaling that Berlin will not remain inactive. A possible parallel action would freeze American assets in Germany and close German consulates in the United States, with a likely withdrawal of consular representatives. The Robin Moor sinking prompts a stiff U S protest. Soviet censorship eased allowing a Moscow dispatch on Russo German relations noting calm, no mobilization, and defense preparations.
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United Press
Germany
United States
Berlin
Italy
Robin Moor
Washington
Russia
Henry Shapiro
Shapiro
Moscow
Workers Contribute $1000 To Help Widow
More than $1,000 was donated by Iowa Ordnance plant employees for a fund sent to Mrs. H. B. Simpson widow of a munition plant worker who was killed in a June 4 fall from a water tank. Mrs. Simpson lives in Waverly Missouri and has five children.
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Burlington
Iowa Ordnance Plant
H. B. Simpson
County Offices To Close Thursday For State Convention
The main floor offices of the county courthouse will close all day Thursday, June 19, as officers and deputies attend the annual state convention of county officers in Des Moines. The sheriff's office remains open, and the driver's license office in the corridor will operate without interruption.
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Court House
Des Moines
Water works crew wage parity and cemetery mower talk
The council set the monthly wage of Will Clark Ed Wiley and Carl Han cher at 100 dollars matching John Lowash also of the water works force. The public grounds committee will continue consideration of purchasing a power mower for Woodlawn cemetery.
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Will Clark
Ed Wiley
Carl Hancher
John Lowash
Woodlawn Cemetery
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