Style Show at Jaycee Trade Show Featuring Local Models
Melvin Hill will host a March 17 style show at Washington armory as the trade show’s main entertainment. Local models from Washington stores will wear current fashions and merchants will give attendance gifts. Patty Gastman assists and models from J C Penney Montgomery Ward Klein Clothing and other merchants are named, with page 5 continuation referenced.
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Melvin Hill
Washington Armory
Washington
Patty Gastman
Americans Plot to Help Soyuz MiG Escape Revealed
Washington officials denied government involvement while former Maryland governor Lane said a small group of patriotic Americans aided the plan to move a Russian MiG-15 to Denmark. He cited nearly a year of cloak and dagger moves with Polish underground sources. Lane named Col Clio Amoss as mastermind, with about $10,000 from private U.S. funds and Fairchild Engineering supplying $7,500.
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Washington
Moscow
Maryland
William Preston Lane, Jr
Lane
Col Clio Amoss
Air
Much Work Left for Legislators
The Iowa Legislature has under six weeks to act on major items including yellow oleo, pensions, appropriations, labor bills, educational television, and the highway program. The House and Senate passed the yellow oleo bill but deadlocked on amendments, sending it to a compromise committee. The pension issue centers on replacing the current plan with a new state system. the Senate must act, while House members favor social security coverage and using reserves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
House
Senate
Yoshida Government Falls in Japan New Elections Sought
The Japanese Diet passed a no confidence vote 229 to 218 against Premier Shigeru Yoshida and his pro American administration. Yoshida dissolved the lower house and called for a general election on April 19, amid internal party strife and opposition charges of subservience to the United States.
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TOKYU
Shigeru Yoshida
Yoshida
Liberal Party
Diet
House of Representatives
Ichiro Hatoyama
Taketora Ogata
MacArthur
Hatoyama
Douglas MacArthur
Oét. T
Japan
United States
Baptist Revival Series Set at Washington Church
Rev. Fred H. Cowles of Bedford Iown church opens the two week revival at Washington Baptist Church starting Sunday March 15 with services nightly at 7 30 except Saturdays through March 29. Dr Everett P. Quinton will speak in week two.
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Osterhouse
WCAZ
Carthage
Methodist Church In
Washington
Fred H. Cowles
Baptist Church
Bedford Iown
Washington Baptist Church
Everett P. Quinton
Iowa Baptist Convention
Cowles
William Venn College
Oskaloosa
Central Baptist Seminary
Kansas City
Bedford
Oak Street
Hedrick
Fremont
South English
Plan Annual Hobby Craft Show at Stewart School
Plans for the annual hobby and craft show proceed at the Stewart school gym on Wednesday March 18 at 6 p m. Exhibitors are urged to bring entries for display including work by Boy Scouts Came Fire girls and other groups. A bake sale by the Stewart PTA will precede an auction run by Mrs. R J Whornton after 3 p m. Music from fifth and sixth graders and pre school nursery access are planned with refreshments by fourth grade mothers.
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Stewart School
Boy Scout
Stewart Pta
R. J. Whornton
Eisenhower to Discuss End of RFC Reorganization
President Eisenhower summoned government reform experts and cabinet officers to the White House to review plans for overhauling several departments. Speculation grew that the Reconstruction Finance Corp called the RFC might be abolished and the Internal Revenue Bureau restructured, with the commissioner of internal revenue remaining.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Inteternal Revenue Bureau
Truman
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Eisenhower EyesCabinet Level FSA and RFC Shakeup
President Eisenhower urged Congress to grant the Federal Security Agency full cabinet status as a department of health education and welfare. White House visitors included Yngevar Brynildsson and George M Humphrey amid talk of shifting RFC small business loan duties to Brynildsson’s agency.
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Fisenhower
Congress
Federal Security Agency
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Yngevar Brynildsson
Secretary of Treasury
George M. Humphrey
White House
Brynildsson
RFC
Eisenhower
REC
Postpone Bus Line Hearing In Iowa City Ottumwa Route
Hearing on Arrow Coach Lines passenger and limited freight route between Iowa City and Ottumwa has been postponed at the request of lawyers. The State Commerce Commission will announce new time and place. the route would pass through Washington twice daily if granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrow Coach Lines
Iowa City
Ottumwa
State Commerce Commission
Washington
Yodey's Lady's Book: First U S Women's Magazine
The note states Yodey s Lady s Book as the earliest women s magazine in the United States establishing a pioneering role in American periodicals for female readers. It highlights its historical significance and enduring influence among early American print culture.
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Yodey
U. S
Funeral Monday for Sherry Rae Payne
Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 30 AM at Jones funeral home for Sherry Rae Payne infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Bernard V Payne of Washington. She died this morning born February 20 in Iowa City. Burial in Elm Grove cemetery. VFW and VFW auxiliary will meet at 10 15 AM to attend as a group. Survivors listed include the parents and two sets of grandparents.
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Jones Funeral Home
Sherry Rae Payne
Bernard V. Payne
Ton
Sherry Rae
Iowa City
C. R. Reed
Elm Grove
VFW
Bernard V
Elizabeth C. Longer Payne
Edgar Payne
Wayland
Walter Longer
Washington
Stevenson Sees Korea Front and Allies Support
Adlai Stevenson told Koreans the United States will not desert Korea and that the Republic of Korea is a concern to the United States. He spoke in Pusan after arriving from Tokyo to gain a first‑hand view of the Allied front and to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the free world.
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Pusan
Korea
Adlai FE
Stevenson
South Korea
United States
Republic of Korea
America
Free World
Tokyo
Asia
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Murphy
U. S
Japan
International Soundphoto
Funeral Monday for Mrs W C Peiffer
Mrs. W C Peiffer 69 of Des Moines died Friday at Broadlawns hospital. Funeral in St Marys church Keota Monday at 9 20 AM. Survivors include husband a daughter Mrs Alvin Klein of Keota and son Roy Deitzler of Tacoma WA. Body to Marsh funeral home Sunday evening.
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Keota
St. Mary's Church
W. CC. Peiffer
Des Moines
Ota
Alvin Klein
Roy Deitzler
Tacoma
Wash
Marsh Funeral Home
Man Guilty of Manslaughter in Wife’s Fatal Beating
John R. Garland, 32, found guilty of manslaughter in the September death of his wife Mamie, 43. Prosecutors had accused him of beating her with a broom handle and clenched fists. Sentencing set for March 28. manslaughter carries eight years. Garland testified he feared his wife and that she threatened him with a knife. He said the broom handle broke when he caught it in a car door.
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Des Moines
John R. Garland
Mamie
Garland
Russell Jordan
Premier Gottwald Dies Leader of Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald, president of Communist Czechoslovakia and key Soviet ally, died after a two day illness in Prague. He became premier and then president in 1948, orchestrating the communist coup and shaping postwar policy while keeping Czechoslovakia closely tied to the Soviet Union. His leadership extended to head of the Communist party and supreme commander of the armed forces.
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Klement Gottwald
Communist Party
Vienna
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Gottwald
Soviet Union
Hradeany Castle
Thomas G. Masaryk
Eduard Benes
Politburo
Orgburo
Moscow
Stalin
Benes
Washington Toastmasters elect officers for six months
In a semi-annual election Frank Patterson was chosen president with Ralph Martin as vice president John Mattes as secretary and treasurer and Stanly Zager as sergeant at arms. Terms start April first for six months Patterson succeeds John Ganon. The club plans to help organize a new club at Burlington on Friday March 27 with other southeastern Iowa clubs participating.
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Washington Toastmasters Club
Frank Patterson
Ralph Martin
John Mattes
Stanly Zager
Patterson
John Ganon
Washington Club
Burlington
Iowa
McCarthy May Roil Over Bohlen Choice for Russia
Washington reports a clash brewing between the Eisenhower White House and Senator Joseph McCarthy over Charles E. Bohlen’s appointment as ambassador to Russia. McCarthy will oppose Bohlen, citing his ties to the Acheson group in the State Department. If pushed, a major confrontation is seen as likely.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Joseph R. McCarthy
Charles E. Bohlen
Russia
McCarthy
Bohlen
Acheson Group
State Department
Dean Acheson
Acheson
GIs Forcing Propaganda Home Warned By Pentagon
The Defense Department said American prisoners of war in Korea sometimes must include Communist propaganda in their letters to be sent home. The department cautioned friends and relatives not to take any Reds propaganda in GI letters at face value.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
Th Department
Tornado Outbreak Hits Three States Killing 17
Tornadoes ripped across north Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas Friday night and today killing at least 17 people and injuring 18. Damage ran into millions with 1285 homes wrecked and a Knox City hospital roof torn off leaving 25 patients exposed.
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Knox City
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Bunker Hill
Little Rock
Johnston Murray
National Guard
Dixie Gilmer
Jud
Rochester
O’brien
Dickson
Washington
Bradley
Rush Springs
Okla
Tom Wagley
Red Cross Disaster Unit
Lawton
Fort Sill
Oklo
Haskell
Aspermont
Abilene
Seymour
Better Journal Delivery Expands to Riverside Kalona Wellman
Maz Cross, circulation manager, announced improved Evening Journal delivery for Riverside Kalona and Wellman. Starting Monday March 16, papers will be published and delivered the same evening, ending the star route to Iowa City. Wellman delivery arrives by 4 pm. Kalona and Wellman routes reach post offices between 5 and 6 30 pm.
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Riverside
Kalona
Wellman
Maz Cross
Iowa City
Highway
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Joan Prescott
Una Strawberg
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Klein Klothing Ko
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Harold Wehr
Ruth Witthoft
James Loder
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