Violence flares in Jerusalem over Palestine immigration plan
Arabs clash with British police at Jaffa Gate as thousands protest the Anglo American recommendation to admit 100000 Jews to Palestine. Delegations to the consulate are planned, with envoy talks to London and Paris, and a regional strike urged for Friday.
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United Press
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Palestine
Jaffa
London
Paris
Grand Mufti
Adolf Hitler
Haifa
Middle East
Columbus Knights Hold Ceremonial and Initiation event
A Knights of Columbus meeting at K C hall honored George Wheelan the organizer of an old age home in Washington. Sixty men attended mass at St James church with Father Urban sermon. An afternoon session saw 18 candidates initiated into the Washington council and a banquet followed with talks by several priests and leaders. This marked the lodge's second initiation in six months.
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Knights of Columbus Council
K. C. Hall
George Wheelan
Washington
St. James Church
Father Urban
Washington Council
Harper Council
Father Kemper
Keota
Gus Pusertari
Iowa City
Kenneth Bleecha
Father Kleinfelder
Clear Creek Church
Father DeCoursey
What Cheer
Everett Swift
Nothing But the Truth rehearsals set for May 15 16
Rehearsals begin under Richard MecCleery and Robert Choate for the Y's Men home talent play Nothing But the Truth to be staged at the high school auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday May 15 and 16. The Broadway comedy follows a man who bets ten thousand dollars he can tell the truth for 24 hours with a cast of home and new talents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard MecCleery
Robert Choate
Bob Choate
Elizabeth Shannon
Lee Holland
Charles Morris
Mary Lynn Wehr
Mable Elder
Harold Weir
Dave Elder
Augusta Livingston
Rosemary Perdo
Mary Loveless
Concert Cancelled At High School For Scheduling Conflicts
The high school vocal and instrumental concert scheduled for tomorrow evening is canceled due to conflicts with end of term activities. Mary Broghammer and Ralph Young announced the cancellation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Broghammer
Ralph Young
Morrell
Ottumwa
Lincoln School
United Presbyterian Church
Carolyn Hamilton
Helen Harvey
George Kerr
Legion Meeting Recap From Leon Beaty Post
The African Legion post invites members to a Tuesday evening gathering at the Legion rooms in City Hall. Organizers anticipate a large turnout and ongoing community engagement.
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Legion Meeting
Leon Beaty
The
African Legion
Legion Rooms
Two Are Injured in Automobile Crash West of West Chester
Cars driven by Charles W. Morton manager for Town Southern Utilities Sigourney and Robert McDowell Keota collided five miles west of West Chester on highway 92. Morton suffered a crushed blood vessel in one leg and his wife was shaken and bruised. Glora Bower Harper a passenger in the McDowell car had a gash in one leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Morton
Southern Utilities Company
Sigourney
Robert McDowell
Keota
West Chester
Morton
McDowell
Glora Bower
Harper
Nash to hear report on Legion junior baseball team
Lewis Eugene Nash of Brightor will hear a report on actions taken to organize a Legion junior baseball team. The meeting aims to review progress and next steps for the local program.
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Lewis Eugene Nash
Brigh
Tor
Legion
Truman seeks 7.25 billion for Army and air forces
President Truman urged Congress to approprate 7,246,335,200 for War Department spending in the next fiscal year. The plan aims to cut manpower from 1,550,000 to about 1,070,000 by June 1947 and includes 500 million for government relief in occupied areas and 1.2 billion for the Army Air Forces.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
War Department
Army Air Forces
Davison Couple Secures No License at Court House
Ton and Gertrude June Davison of Washington failed to obtain an infarri ate license at the courthouse, with no license granted to the couple in the proceedings.
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Ton
Gertrude June Davison
Washington
Court House
Eighth Grade Class Roster At Washington Junior High
Principal Ethel McCreedy lists the eighth grade names at Washington Junior High School. The roster includes Richard Anderson Sharley Blattner Paul Brock Marvin Brown Betty Carey Kenneth Chance Margaret Chris’ner Phillip Crossett Dick Davidson James Davidson Claire Davis Ruth Donaldson and more. The class is slated to complete work this year and advance to high school.
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Ethel McCreedy
Washington Junior High School
Richard Anderson
Sharley Blattner
Paul Brock
Marvin Brown
Betty Carey
Kenneth Chance Margaret Chris
Ner
Phillip Crossett
Dick Davidson
James Davidson
Claire Davis
Ruth Donaldson
Harry Duensing
Donald Earl
Marlene Edwards
Jack Fields
Donald Gardner
Donna Garrett Blaine Goff
Maynard Goff
Ronald Gray
Bill Guenther
Gordon Guile
Barbara Hampton
Dan Hollands
Keith Hotle
Dick Jugenheimer
Atricia Kallaus
Louise Letts
Jean Leyden
Treva Leyden
Betty Logan
Delores L. Adam Robert Erwin Anderson
Mary Ellen Beliel Carol Ann Blackmer
Marjorie M. Boyd Beverly Ruth Brown
Mary Lucille Bruty
Rhea Cleone Buck
Celia LaVerne Campbell Shirley B. Carris
Gerald Fe, Chance
William Dale Cole Wayne Eugene Davis Donald Harold Disney Shirley Jeanne Dowell
Richard Bryson Dowis
Martha Ann Downing Marjorie Ellen Buwer
Leslie Dale Eyestone
Helen Bernice Falk
William B. Foster Mary Jean Freshwaters
Carolyn Jean Gault
Harold Lee Gilmore
Ellen Gray John Henry Green
Catherine Rosa Hermann James Allen Holbert
Dorothy Ann Hotle
Norma I, Huber John Richard James Jonney Be, Jarrard
Robert Lee Johnson
Robert L. Livingston Virginia Ruth Luers John Carlton Mangold
Laura Jane Murphy
Margaret J. McCall
Richard G. McCleery
Shirley Ann McDole
Dorothy Marie Nichols
Marilyn J, Nicola Lois Harriett Ofelt
First Communion at St James Church
On Sunday morning 23 boys and girls at St James Church received their first holy communion during the seven oclock mass. Flower girls Mary Ruth Minick Kathleen Mattes Margarene Kity Celeste Peiffer wore pastel shades. Father Urban preached the sermon as parish pastor in Fallery Corcorans absence. Wayne Barnes and Donald Creech, acolytes, aided the services while school children sang hymns.
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St. James Church
Mary Ruth Minick
Kathleen Mattes
Margarene = Kity
Celeste Peiffer
Father Urban
Fallery Corcoran
Wayne Barnes
Donald Creech
Martha Whittaker
Jerry Sojka
Donald Trovjovsk
Francis Peiffer
John Creech
Robert Bruty
Keith Hora
Richard Tforak
Lawrence Lentz
Norman Merz
Steve Ward
Phillip McClure
Douglas Minick
Richard Tibbets
Michael Flynn
Mary Joycearnes
Joan Marie
Joan Eagle
Janice Hora
Jerena Custer
Evelyn Linenceimp
Joanne Stalder
Mary Jo McKone
Judy Campbell
New Members Added to Pleasant Hill Church
Rev Frederick Westbrook of Muscatine led the Pleasant Hill service with Rev A C Roach assisting. Eight new members were received by confession of faith as a baptismal service followed at the Christian church under Rev T C Polk. The rural Pleasant Hill church serves its county community with spiritual services and organizations. In the Quichita valley of Arkansas finest oil stones and whetstones are found.
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Frederick Westbrook
Muscatine
Pleasant Hill
A. C. Roach
Iehl
Christian Church
T. C. Polk
Pleasant Hill Church
Quichita Valley
Arkansas
Graduation Plans Named for 828 Washington High Seniors
Washington High School announces 828 seniors as candidates for the 1946 graduation in a program led by Principal Al Terrell. Events include baccalaureate May 19, class day May 16, and graduation May 23 at the Methodist church with Dr. A H Moehlman as speaker. Senior names listed.
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Prinipal al Terrell
Washington High School
Methodist Church
A. H. Moehlman
College of Education
Iowa University
T. E. White
Presbyterian Church
Joan Simpson dies. burial set in Ainsworth cemetery
Joan Simpson daughter of Laird and Bonnie Susie Morgan Simpson of Ainsworth died early this morning at the county hospital. Graveside services are planned this afternoon at four o clock in the Ainsworth cemetery. Surviving brothers and sisters are listed.
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Joan Simpson
Laird
Bonnie Susie ( Morgan) Simpson
Par Ainsworth
Ainsworth
Coal Strike Grows Into A National Disaster
Senator Lucas urged criminal action against John L Lewis and strike leaders as Congress fears public anger over the 36 day coal strike now labeled a national disaster by officials. The White House warned the strike could wreck reconversion while auto capital and factories cut output and cities like Detroit Chicago Washington and Philadelphia prepare brownouts to save fuel. Five railroads curtail Midwestern service to conserve coal.
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Washington
John Ll. Lewis
Scott W. Lucas
Congress
Lucas
White House
House
Senate
Justice Department
Lewis
Detroit
Chicago
Philadelphia
Strike to Tie Up Matches Output
CLOQUET MINN May 6 F B Gerhart president of the matchworkers council AFL said about 4 000 workers will be affected and 8 to 9 percent of U S match production tied up in an industry wide strike for higher wages The union demanded 25 cents per hour plus five cents for adjustment The companies offered 17 cents The strike aims at a broad contract including union shop vacation plan better grievance procedure elimination of arbitration clause weekly paydays in cash and a 40 hour week.
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Cloquet
Minn
F. B. Gerhart
Matchworkers Council
AFL
United States
Gerhart
Bakeries Resume Operations in Quad-Cities After Strike
Seven wholesale bakeries in the quad-cities were operating again as local No. 36 bakery workers returned to work. The union executive board decided to end the one day stoppage and resume jobs.
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Davenport
Iowa
Quad-Cities
AFL
Local Family Noted in Ainsworth Household Lineage
Laird Jr of San Antonio Texas and Mrs Richard Lopr ISH Davenport along with younger children of Mr and Mrs Simpson reside at home in Ainsworth action mentions family ties and residence context.
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Laird, Jr
San Anthonio
Texas
Richard Lopshire
Davenport
Mrs. Simpson
Ainsworth
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Chester Lesniewski
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Eugene Lynn Gordon
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Jane Neill Eugene Nicola Vivian Nicola Karl Okerstrom
Donna Patterson
Gertrude Payne
Harry Ramseyer, Jr
Joan Siegle
Donna Smith
Lovila Sojka Marvin Stanley
Rob Stewart
Shirley Stewart
Jim Stone
Joel Strait
Jack Tanner
Jane Tanner
Eugene Taylor
Richard Tweeten
Delores Wallace Arlene Walton
Beverly Wead
JoAnn Wilson
Rodney Woods
Marilyn Bk. Peiffer Authora
Jean Patterson
John F. Pauls
Nancy Jane Pauls
Doris Ferne Owens
Adolph Perez
Theodore Wayne Pratt Everette Dale Prebyl
Susanne Richards Pauline Mabel Sehantz
Stanley E. Scranton
FranCeine Shaw
Roger Wayne Sheetz
Norman EE. Simmering
Virginia Ann Simmering
Virginia Mae Smith
Frances E. Sojka
Betty Marie Steele
Donald L. Stone Wayne Joseph Sweet
Doris W. Swift
Alice Khen Walker
Eugene Allen Wead
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Victoria
Wellington
Robert Date White William Glenn Wiley Donald L. Wilson
Louise Ek
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