Stubborn Frontline Fight Figures in Iowa Column
A Sioux City column notes Police Inspector Joe Young ends his court fight with Safety Commissioner A N Sturgeon and Police Chief Ray J Halir. Young returns to work and agrees to Mayor David Loepp's demand to quit seeking publicity and giving orders. Woodbury County officials mull a grand jury session as Young dismisses his petitions.
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A. N. Sturgeon
Ray J. Halir
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David Loepp
Woodbury County
Drowning Tragedy In Coppock River Claims Virginia Spohn
Ten year old Virginia Spohn of Los Angeles drowned in the Skunk River at Coppock while wading with two other girls. One companion was rescued, with rescuers using grappling gear and boats as effort to recover her body continued.
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Los Angeles
Coppock
Skunk
Coppoeck
Will Volger
Lloyd Arborgast
Virginia
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
Washington
Jean Volger
Wilma Arbergast
Wilma
Jean
Arnold Spohn
Volger
Arborgast
Iowa Band Festival at Riverview Park Des Moines
More than 20 bands from Iowa schools and towns perform at the Iowa band music festival in Riverview Park Des Moines Sunday. Music runs 11 a.m. to late night with massed band concerts at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. About 600 musicians attend a picnic dinner as guests of the park. Each band performs at a park location and a baton twirling contest is also planned.
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Des Moines
Riverview Park
Des Moine
Ottumwa Three Return From Fort Madison Asylum
Norman Semple Frank Syreck and Walter Anderson held at Fort Madison penitentiary pending trial are returned to Ottumwa by petition of their counsel. They face swindling charges involving Grover Caster and $1300. The petition argues illegal detention and solitary confinement impairing pretrial defense.
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Ottumwa
Norman Semple
Frank Syreck
Walter Anderson
Fort Madison Pentitentiary
District S
Grover Caster
Block Return of Former Des Moines Assessor
A Polk County district court injunction seeks to prevent Bert L Zuver from assuming the Des Moines city assessor post under a new state law. Byron Tusant attorney Casper Schenk filed the action after Zuver was named by the three local taxing bodies from a five candidate list. the school board and board of supervisors voted for Zuver while the city council cast a vote against.
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Bert L Zuver
Zuver
Casper Schenk
Byron Tusant
Polk County District Court
School Board
Polk Board of Supervisors
City Council
Bulk Milk Price Raise Sought by Producers
Waterlo o area milk producers plan to push a price hike for bulk milk sold to retailers. Cedar Valley Milk Producers Association president A ton Christiansen announced a base rate of 2 40 dollars per hundred pounds of milk at 4 per cent butterfat, up from about 1 85.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Area
Anton Christiansen
Cedar Valley Milk Producers Association
Christiansen
Iowa Corn Crop Advances on Warm Week
Des Moines reports hot weather after heavy rains boosted Iowa corn growth about 10 days ahead of schedule. Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed notes most corn is knee to waist high and some has been cultivated for the last time.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Roosevelt Plans Radio Address Fourth of July
President Roosevelt linked today’s crisis to 1776 and urged a July 4 rededication to the Declaration’s principles. Defense officials said he planned a national radio address with civilian defense coordination urging local groups to listen in.
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Washington
Dpd. C
America
Defense
Office of Civilian Defense
New York
Fiorello Laguardia
Commission Tests Paint on No Passing Lines
Des Moines The Iowa Highway Commission tests yellow paint on no passing sections of Highway 69 south of Ames. Traffic Engineer W O Price says the plan uses yellow stripes with single black stripes to replace the former double markings. The single line widens perceived driving space on 18 and 20 foot roads.
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Des Moines
Frowa Highway Commission
Ames
W. O. Price
Iowa
Price
Parole Granted for Five Convicts by State Board
Des Moines reports five prisoners from Iowa prisons were paroled today by the state parole board. Floyd Umbanhowar, sentenced at Fairfield on June 27, 1939, to 10 years for breaking and entering, was among those released.
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Towa
State Parole Board
Floyd Umbanhowar
Fairfield
Nazis Claim Steady Advances on Northern Front Into Lithuania
Nazi forces report steady advances on the northern front toward Lithuania and claim Finland has joined the war against the Soviet Union. Moscow and Berlin provide few central-front details, while air incursions and attacks on Helsinki resume.
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United Press
Adolph Hitler
Russia
Ukraine
Finland
Red Army
Nazis Move Troops Across Swedish Territory
Sweden will permit one German division to cross Swedish territory from Norway to Finland. The transit permit was issued in agreement with Finland and Germany, according to an official communique.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Germany
Two Of 125 Fail To Pass Iowa Bar Exam
DES MOINES The Iowa supreme court certified 123 successful bar candidates after oral exams. Wiley Edward Mayne of Sanborn led with 88.4 percent, followed by Roger N. Potter of Onawa at 87.7 percent.
New Ruling on Beans Announced by AAA
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announces a new ruling on beans under national defense rules. It confirms oats remain unchanged for hay and outlines when oats must not be cut for hay if beans are harvested without deductions. County committees urge farms to verify necessity before using oats for hay.
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National Defense
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
O.k
German Romanian general staff claims 400 Soviet planes destroyed
War bulletins from Bucharest report that in the first three days of an operation, described as on schedule, 400 Soviet aircraft were destroyed. The Moscow dispatch notes Turkey will stay neutral in the German Russian war. Ankara reports Nazi envoy Von Papen approached Britain with a peace offer for a coalition against Bolshevists.
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Kremlin
Bucharest
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Commissariat
Turkey
Ankara
Franz von Papen
Great Britain
Britain
German offensive and air raids reported on Arctic front
Soviet lines faced pressure as German forces bombed the Karelia isthmus and a 70 mile Finnish road, while Moscow claimed a border thrust near Salla north of Helsinki was repulsed. An aerial attack on Kandalaksja near the Arctic Ocean saw one of four German bombers shot down.
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Berlin
Poland
Helsinki
Russia
Karelian
Finland
Leningrad
Salla
Soviet
Kandalaksja
Artic Ocean
Will Not Invoke Neutrality Act Against Russia
Washington June 25 The United States will not invoke parts of the neutrality act in the present conflict against Germany allowing American ships to carry munitions to Siberia via the Pacific Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles noted a section of the act takes effect when Congress and the president find a state of war exists and necessary to promote peace or protect U S lives The administration says the United States peace and citizens lives will not be jeopardized
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United States
Germany
Siberia
Pacific
Sumner Welles
Congress
Welles
Assessments on Farms in County
At a special meeting yesterday the Washington county board of supervisors reviewed farm tax assessments from township assessors and approved the valuations. An abstract will go to the state tax commission for review at a July 14 meeting when all Iowa counties’ returns are examined. The state board may adjust valuations. the county average per acre differs little from four years ago.
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Washington County Board of Supervisors
Washington County
State Tag Commission
Iowa
State Board
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