Russians Close on Narva as German Lines Break
Moscow reports say Soviet forces surround Narva after a major river crossing and press toward the city amid flames and burning districts. Simultaneously Siberian troops push toward Vitebsk as German defenses crumble along a 300 mile front from the Gulf of Finland to White Russia.
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Moscow
Narva
Pskov
Vitebsk
Gulf of Finland
Estonia
Latvia
White Russia
Lake Peipus
Tallinn
Red Army
Leningrad
Iowa Highway Plans Face Half Billion Dollar Cost
Washington report notes completion of all Iowa highway improvements would require about 0.5 billion dollars. F R White chief highway engineer told the case committee on roads that Iowa’s share of a three billion federal postwar aid bill would be about 72 million dollars. He urged emphasis on rural feeder roads and a shift toward super highways and urban thoroughfares, proposing at least one third of funds for farm to market roads.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
F. R. White
Case Committee On
White
Niles Objects to Probe Policy at Anamosa
Clifford J L Niles of Anamosa and his son Charles pressed complaints about the Anamosa reformatory probe. They met Gov Bourke Hickenlooper Atty Gen John Rankin and Bureau of Investigation chief R W Nebergall to demand Foss Davis’s discharge as warden. Niles said agents aim to embarrass him by digging 30 years back into past public service.
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Niles
Anamosa
Des Moines
Anamosa State Reformatory
Clifford JL. Niles
Charles
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
John M. Ranka
R. W. Nebergall
State Bureau of Investigation
Foss da Vis
State Conservation Commission
State Highway Commission
Gasoline Rationing Suspension upheld for Ottumwa dealer
The Wapello county war price and rationing board suspension of Harold Ginsberg Ottumwa Novelty Co. gasoline coupons for 90 days was sustained by the Des Moines district OPA office. Ginsberg had appealed the ruling affecting five vehicles from an alleged violation to the Des Moines district office.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
Six Ames Faculty To Leave In March
Ames Iowa State College will lose six faculty members in mid March. Five are from the economics and sociology department long affected by personnel issues since Dr. T W Schultz resigned last October. The sixth is L G Allbaugh associate extension director who will move to Washington DC to work with the foreign economic administration.
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Ames
Iowa State College
T. W. Schultz
L. G. Allbaugh
Washington, D. C
Foreign Economic Administration
Arthaud Burial to Be Here Saturday
Bess Eleanor Arthaud died yesterday at Vinton Iowa. Funeral services take place this afternoon in Vinton before the body is sent to Washington for burial. Burial will be at Elm Grove cemetery Saturday morning at 10 20. Arthaud was a former teacher at the state school for the blind in Vinton and a cousin of Leilah Anderson of Washington High School.
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Bess Eleanor Arthaud
Vinton
Iowa
Washington
L A. Jones Funeral Home
Elm Grove Cemetery
Miss Arthaud
D. Arthaud
State School For the Blind
Leilah Anderson
Washington High School
Faewy
Mrs Kerr Dies in California After Heart Attack
Mrs W B Kerr of San Diego California a longtime Washington resident died suddenly in San Diego from a heart attack. The son Dr Cloyce Kerr of Ames telephoned relatives in Ames. Funeral arrangements are by L A Jones funeral home with body to be brought here. Mrs Kerr had split between years ago and moved to California in 1942 with daughter Mrs Russell Manning. She is survived by husband, son, daughter, three granddaughters, two brothers, a sister and other relatives.
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W. B. Kerr
San Diego
Calif
Washington
Cloyce B. Kerr
Ames
Frank McFarlane
L. A. Jones Funeral Home
wWerrow
Martha K. McFarlane
Ropert D
Ann M. Jackson MeFarlane
Wes
Mahoning County
Ohio
Washington County
William St. Kerr
Living Lake
East Main Street
Kerr
Second United Presbyterian Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Journal
Russell Manning
Cattl
L. E. Mecarlane
Towner, Galo
R. F
Blanche McFarlane
Lus Angeles
Ramseyer Files Papers for Re election to Washington Board
Harry Ramseyer joins Charlotte Bairage and Marion S. George as candidates for the Washington board of education at the annual school election. Ramseyer, who had said he would not run again, was drafted to place his name on the ballot alongside two open director slots. Nomination papers continue to be accepted until noon tomorrow.
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Board of Education
Harry Ramseyer
Washington Board of Education
Marei
Ramseyer
Charlotte Baiarige
Marion S. George
Birmingham Again Reminds Taxpayers of Deadline
Des Moines March 2 1943 Iowa district collector KE Birmingham reminds income tax payers that 1943 returns must be filed by March 15. He stresses the obligation to complete returns and notes ongoing efforts to simplify taxes while 59 million taxpayers must file by the deadline.
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Birmingham
Des Moines
KE. H. Birmingham
Internal Revenue
Iowa
Resume Bombing Of Axis Europe
London reports the all out allied air offensive resumes around the clock with American four engined bombers from Britain targeting Stuttgart and other German centers. Marauder daylight raids join RAF Typhoon escorts while Stuttgart suffers heavy damage and minimal RAF losses in the large operation.
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London
Europe
Britain
Stuttgart
Brunswick
Berlin
R.A.F
Moscuito
Munich
France
Belgium
Holland
Air Ministry
Librarian Murdered at Washington Cathedral Library
Catherine Cooper Reardon a 37 year old assistant librarian at the National Cathedral in Washington was found beaten to death in the sub basement of the ivy covered library building. Police Inspector Ira Keck called it murder after she had been missing since 6 p.m. yesterday. She was found today in unclear attire.
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Washington, D.C
Catherine Cooper Reardon
Washington
Great National Cathedral
Ira Keck
Public recovers over one million pounds tin from used tubes
New York March 2 KE Vogelsang chief of WPB tin and lead branch announced that in 23 months more than 1,000,000 pounds of tin have been reclaimed from used tooth paste and shaving cream tubes for war use. He urged the public to return any remaining tubes to retailers to gain another million pounds.
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New York
KE. Vogelsang
WPB Tin
Ile
First passenger elevator installed in New York in 1857
The article notes the introduction of the first passenger elevator in New York during 1857 marking a milestone in urban transit and building design. It highlights the event as a notable technological advance in mid 19th century cities.
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New York
Iowa Army Nurse Killed in Action
Audubon Iowa March 2 AP Second Lieut Gertrude Morrow Audubon army nurse who survived a ship sinking en route to the battle front was killed in action February 7 in the Italian area the war department notified her father M M
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Audubon
Iowa
Gertrude Morrow
War Department
M. M
Missing Woman Found After Clothes Discovered in Library
Police located the remainder of the woman’s clothing in the library on the third floor above the scene where she was found, suggesting a fading trail in the investigation.
Farm Price Index Advances One Point in Iowa
Des Moines March 2 The Iowa farm price index rose to 187 this month led by higher livestock prices especially sheep and lambs. Grain dairy and poultry indices hold at 196 190 and 181. Corn hog ratio climbs to 13.1 while egg poultry feed ratio edges to 11.2. Dairy feed ratio remains 25.9 to 1. Butterfat feed relation unchanged.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm
Leslie M. Carl
Iowa Crop and Livestock Revorting Service
Wisconsin enters McArthur for President in primaries
The Wisconsin McArthur-For-President club today entered General Douglas McArthur's name in the state presidential preferential primaries.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Morrow Enlisted in October 1942 After Des Moines Training
Morrow enlisted in October 1942 and is a graduate of Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines.
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Morrow
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Red Cross Drive Names County Volunteer Leaders
Chairman Roger Sherman announces the list of men and women leading the Washington county Red Cross drive. Campaign opens March 13 with a goal of 16709 dollars mainly for military family services. a meeting is set for March 7 at the Y. Ward and rural district leaders are named with about 50 women expected to solicit in town.
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Roger Sherman
Washington County
Red Cross
National Fund
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
West Chester
John L. Calkins
Haskins
E. J. Frey
Kalona
J. L. Fry
Richmond
Stanley Vodicka
Rubio
Herbert Blakely
Wellman
B. C. Foster
Riverside
Ivan Cummings
Ainsworth
Ruth Norris
Crawfordsville
T. H. Huston
Brighton
Ross Day
Phil Weldin
Oakley Payne
Bruce Lipscomb
Rookery and Post Office
Frank Miller
Harry Sowden
William Sitler
Heaay
Kaie Jones
Union
Lime Creek
Ki Able hKimer Seherrer
Oak Grove
Iowa
H. F. Carris
Hawkeye No
R. A. Davisson
Fairview
John Young
Summit
Cedar
Allies Hit Japanese Carrier and Cruiser Near Malaya
British submarines in the far eastern fleet torpedoed and appeared to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacked a cruiser off Malaya. American forces held Los Negros while repelling a counter-attack on Momote airfield. Other actions hit Wake Island, Nauru, and three eastern Marshalls bases.
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Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Truk
Admiralty Islands
Momote Airfield
Los Negros Island
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
Rabaul
Kavieng
Wewak
New Britain
New Ireland
New Guinea
Philippines
Japan
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Daniel E. Barbey
United Press
Malaya
Momote
British Admiralty
Malacca Strait
Admiralty
Central Pacific
Wake Itsled
United States
Kwajalein
Marshalls
Nauru
Gilberts
No Word On Missing Four-Motor Bomber Crew
Since the disappearance of a four motor bomber near Denver last Saturday night families of Corporal Glenn Stutsman wait for word. Telegrams from Col Harris report negative search results and indicate ongoing efforts by the War Department to locate the missing aircraft and crew.
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Denver
Stutsman
Wellman
Glenn Stutsman
EB KE. Stutsman
Samuel R. Harris
Clovis
New Mexico
War Department
Iowa Business on Upward Trend
Iowa City report shows a continued year to year rise in business with January 1944 vs January 1943 gains across most lines. Employment up 6 percent, industrial payrolls 22 percent, bank debits 2902, cost of living up 2 percent. 80,000 school buses carry about 4,000,000 children daily nationwide.
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Iowa City
Iowa
George R., Davies
University of Iowa Bureau of Business Research
Davies
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