A Column About Iowa Seeks Help on Corn Sales
Des Moines Iowa farmers urged to report suspected illegal corn sales to the OPA chief counsel Donald Holdoegel. He cited about 5000 bushels under public price ceilings daily moving through illicit channels as farmers are approached by truckers from Missouri and Kansas offering 5 to 10 cents above ceiling prices.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Donald Holdoegel
Fice of Price Administration
OPA
Arket
Holdoegel
Orn
Bny
Missouri
Kansas
Farm Blaze Destroys Barn and Livestock Near Cedar Falls
A Thursday fire swept through two farms 10 miles southwest of Cedar Falls. James Dall and Karlie Rhoades properties suffered extensive damage including barns cattle hog houses and stored grain valued around 13000. The Cedar Falls department aided at the second site while surrounding residents fought embers.
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Cedar Falls
James Dall
Holger Dall
Orkmen
Peter Jabsen
Karlie Rhoades
J. P. Jacobsen
Dike
Rhoades Place
Edar Falls
Man Killed by Freight Train While Asking on Track
Clarence Ortensen about 38 son of Mr and Mrs Nels Morrison Wallingford was killed by an eastbound Ock Island freight train while waiting along the track toward time. The crew apparently knew nothing of the accident. The body was found Thursday and Ortensen had recently been released by the army after a brief service.
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Estherville
Clarence Ortensen
Nels Morrison
Wallingford
Ock Island
Morsnsen
e@ army
Cedar Rapids Man Prisoner With German Forces
Pedar Rapids resident Newbold, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Bert West, was briefly held as a prisoner of war by German forces for about 36 hours in North Africa before the British 8th Army liberated him in Tunis. In a V mail letter this week he recalled the quick capture and release and said the Germans did not treat them badly, but the overall situation was rotten.
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Cedar Rapids
Mes Newbold
Bert West
Cedar Pids
Priser
Tunis
John Winga Reappointed Y M C A President and Yearly Committees
John Winga is re elected for another year as president of the Washington Y M C A by the board. Officers named include Ralph Shannon as vice president Fred L Stewart as recording secretary and Leslie Dunlap as treasurer. A long list of directors and standing committees follows with diverse charges such as Physical Religious Finance and Publicity among others.
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John Winga
Washington Y.M.C.A
Ralph Shannon
Fred L. Stewart
Leslie Dunlap
H. L. Walker
Cloud Willits
J. M. Bratten
John Lemmon
Charlie Davis
Claude Tucker
Harry Ramseyer
Marion George
G. N. Barclay
R. E. Brown
Richard Stewart
Fred Eastwood
John Harp
Ray Whitehead
Bill Shannon
R. EK. Brown
George Kerr
Glen Holden
C. S. Lemmon
A. W. Yard
Clarence Logan
Lee Holland
Joe Duea
W. Livingson
Miss Dawson
Jay Brewer
O. K E. Sehmitt
Foster Bickel
George Breitenbach
Dr. Alcorn
Deputy Collector John J. Mattes Opens Washington Office
John J. Mattes, newly transferred from Ottumwa, becomes zone deputy collector of internal revenue with a residence in Washington and an office in the basement of the courthouse. He will supervise investigations related to income tax payments and other federal revenue matters and offers to assist locals with questions about the forthcoming income tax law taking effect next month.
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John J. Mattes
Ottumwa
Internal Revenue
Washington
Court House
Funeral for Mrs. E P Foss Held at Sherman’s Home
Funeral services for Mrs. FE P Foss were held yesterday afternoon at Sherman’s funeral home. Rev van Riess of the Christian Church presided. Five grandsons served as pallbearers Don Foss Orville Foss Harley Holm Ray Lat hmhel and Robert Hettendorf. Burial followed at Elm Grove Cemetery.
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E. P. Foss
FE. P. Foss
Sherman
van Riess
The
Christian Church
Don
Orville Foss
Harley Holm
Ray Lathmel
Robert Hettendorf
Elm Grove Cemetery
Washington street flusher returns to work this summer
The street flusher is operating for the first time this summer after repairs delayed by war priorities. Skobie McDole tests the machine as dirt is washed off the streets and streets are cleaned.
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Washington
Skobie McDole
Fire hose test by city crew tests equipment
Truck drivers John Custer and Harvey Meek with other firefighters labor to test several lengths of the city’s fire hose to ensure proper functioning.
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John Custer
Harvey Meek
Pee-wee Meters: Short Docket From Sacramento Report
Sacramento report describes Pee-wee participants in a height defined bracket from four feet six inches to four feet eleven inches. The brief notes youth competitions and potential upcoming events in the local sports scene.
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Sacramento
Cal
Roosevelt Opposes Food Czar in Inflation Fight
In a Washington press conference on June 2, President Roosevelt rejected calls for a powerful food czar and warned Congress of full responsibility if inflationary policies unleash higher food prices. He argued inflation hurts the poor while helping the rich and cautioned against removing price brakes.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Congress
Angel Gabriel
Capital Hill
Spring Pig Crop Hits Record High In 1943
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1943 spring pig crop at 74,050,000, a 22 percent rise from 1942. Farmers anticipate a fall crop of 53,000,000 head, up 21 percent, totaling 127,000,000 hogs for the year versus 105,000,000 last year.
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Washington, D. C
Agricultural Department
Chester C. Davis
Detroit Riot Findings Say No Subversive Conspiracy
Governor Harry F. Kelly four man fact finding panel found no evidence that Monday's blood riot was organized by subversive elements and ruled out a grand jury investigation. Mayor Jeffries supported an inquiry, but the governor accepted the committee's recommendation.
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Detroit
Harry F. Kelly
Kelly
Edward J. Jeffries, Jr
California Peewee unit could bolster State Guard
A bill before the State Legislature aims to organize a Peewee unit of the State Guard, a development seen as shaping future military readiness for California. The proposal reflects interest in cultivating younger volunteers within formal state defense structures.
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California
State Guard
County wide church day plans for July 4
Washington county pastors and the County Council of Christian Education plan a July 4 church day with 3:00 pm sessions in United Presbyterian Church and 8:00 pm in Central Park. O. T. Wilson and Rev. Fred E. Miller are the speakers, with a program including devotions, welcome, panel, exhibits, and a park evening service.
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Fred Miller
Washington County
County Council of Christian Education
United Presbyterian Churen
Central Park
O. T. Wilson
Mt. Pleasant
Fred E. Miller
Methodist Church
Evaning Union
Park
Washington
Lester Bill
Crawfordsville
Columbus Junction
Methodist Conference
George
Marriage license issued to Vodicka and Preston couple
Stanley Vodicka of Mitchmond and Mildred Mary Preston of Kalona secured a marriage license at the courthouse for their upcoming nuptials.
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Stanley Vodicka
Mitchmond
Mildred Mary’ Preston
Kalona
Court House
Municipal Band Concert Saturday at Central Park
The city municipal band performs a Saturday program in Central Park at 8 30 p m featuring God Bless America a North Iowa Band Law March Cloth of Gold Overture Rose O Day Popular 1942 Bombasto March The Old Hunter Novelty High School Cadets March and other selections among the concert merchan d 424 Marching Along Together Old Timer's Waltz The Song of the Marines Star Spangled Banner and Sousa Holmes works by Berryman Jewell Tobias Lewis Farrar Bennett.
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North Iowa Band Law
Heatwave Continues With 91 Degree High
Washington recorded a maximum of 91 degrees as temperatures remained above 90 for a second day in a row. The city also saw a warm low of 72 degrees overnight, and the noon reading today stood at 1 degree.
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Washington
Air Base In Greece Hit Hard By Allied Air Attacks
Allied air forces pounded Sardinia and Greek air bases as U S Liberators bombed Salonika and a northwest Africa fleet struck Italy's islands. RAF Wellington bombers hit Catania and Ruhr targets while sustaining heavy losses in a sixth straight night raid on Wuppertal and Elberfeld.
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Sardinia
Europe
Greece
Germany
Ruhr
Wuptertal
United States
Mediterranean
Salonika
Africa
Catania
Sicily
Royal Air Force
Bormen
Elberfeld
Dusseldorf
RAF
Holland
Cherbourg
France
Balkans
Northwest African Air Force
Italy
Roosevelt vetoes anti strike bill in wartime
President Roosevelt vetoed the Smith Connally anti strike bill saying its present form could worsen rather than help wartime labor disruption. He urged amendments to the selective service act to let those up to 65 enter noncombat military service to cover workers involved in strikes or stoppages.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Senate
United States
Roosevelt declines to commit on strike end date and anti strike bill
President Roosevelt said he would act on the anti strike bill before midnight and did not commit to the union deadline. He emphasized continuing coal mining during wartime and warned that failure to mine could leave the nation cold next winter. Reporters noted only about half of the 530000 coal miners had returned to work and steel plants began banked blast furnaces.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Congress
CUMW
Senator Clark Says Jesse Jones Indecent Lobbying in Senate
Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri charged in the senate that Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones could be impeached for an exhibition of indecent lobbying in the halls of the United States Senate.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Bennett C. Clark
Missouri
Senate Today
Commerce
Jesse Jones
United States Senate
Nazis Call Older Men in Stockholm Dispatch
Berlin reports that in a dispatch from Berlin the Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau said the German class of 1894 to 1896, aged 47 to 49, have been called up and ordered to report to police stations.
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Stockholm
U.P
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Berlin
Local man Lowrell Lake arrested on AWOL charge
Deputy Sheriff Walt Kiesey picked up Lowrell Lake at Riverside and jailed him for absence without leave from his army station at Stoney Field South Carolina since May. He will be taken to the Rock Island arsenal the next day to face army authorities.
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Lowrell Lake
Riverside
Walt Kiesey
Lake
Stoney Field
South Carolina
Kiesey
Government
Rock Island
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