Star Morley Gives Up Medicine for Film Fame
Karen Morley left a pre medical program at USC to pursue acting after a studio executive spotted her talent in a 1930s theater occasion. She rose to leading woman status in The Girl from Scotland Yard and The Story of International Intrigue, with a long term contract after acclaimed work in Outcast.
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Karen Morley
Lnvigggiene
Hollywood
Picuel Voy
Miss Morley
Dr. Morley Loung
Jett Bon
Hovny
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Jeslie
Scotland Yard
Fox Theater
Unidentified Man Disrupts Wake Up and Live Set
An unknown bearded man in a patched overcoat wandered onto the Twentieth Century Fox musical Wake Up and Live set at the State theater. The intruder attempted humor at Ben Bernie and Ned Sparks while Sparks struggled to keep a straight face as cast members including Walter Winchell and Alice Faye watched.
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Ben Bernie
Twentieth Century Fox
State Theater
Ned Sparkes
Sparks
Walter Winchell
Alice Faye
Job seekers in county decrease say U. S. figures
Washington county shows a sharp fall in registered job seekers from December 1935 to June 1936 with 276 men and 21 women in December dropping to 183 men and 16 women. Iowa totals decline from 75452 to 69120 and nationwide from 7791979 to 6619891. Officials caution figures are not a perfect unemployment index but reflect the trend.
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U. S
Washington, D. C
Washington County
United States Employment Service
Iowa
Gven
Man Stricken Blind While Driving Tractor
Bloomfield reports Estel Whitacre an 18 year old farm youth from Davis County stricken blind while operating a tractor. He described a sudden loss of vision as a film seemed to come over his eyes and he managed to turn off the switch and jump clear. Dr. C C D Fenton of Bloomfield treated him for a prior eye infection and remains uncertain about the cause.
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Bloomfield
Estel Whitacre
Davis County Farm
Newt Whitseere
Whitacre
CC. D. Fenton
Patronsage Question Shocks Iowa Democratic Leaders
May 18 report from Des Moines shows Stanley Comfort of Mason City, elected national committeeman by Young Democrats of Iowa, presenting a patronage resolution to H. Bir mington urging the central committee to refuse patronage to any person aged 18 to 40 who is not a Young Democrats member. Mrs. Rachel Wormhondt of Mt. Pleasant was elected national committeewoman.
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Des Moines
Stanley Comfort
Mason City
Youngs Democrats
Iowa
H. Birmington
Democratic Party
Central Committee
Young Democrats Club
Rachel W. Wormhondt
Mt. Pleasant
Mrs. Dorothy Adams Recovering After Saturday Collision
Mrs. Dorothy Durst Adams, injured in a Saturday automobile collision west of town, is reported to be reasonably well but will likely remain in the hospital for some time.
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Dorothy Durst Adams
Funeral for Rev. Charles H. True dies at 89
Edgewood obituary notes Rev. Charles H. True, 89, former visiting superintendent of Free Baptist churches of Iowa, retired 28 years ago, and known as a fruit grower. Funeral services were held locally.
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Free Baptist Churches
Edgewood
Charles H. True
Free Baptist Churches of
Iowa
Poochie the St Bernard Missing Again in Des Moines
Mrs Kenneth Sonderbciter reports her large St Bernard mother of five pups named Poochie has disappeared again in Des Moines. The owner says rewards were paid twice for her return and notes the dog seems to be taken off the chain rather than simply wandering away.
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Des Moines
St. Bernard
Kenneth Sonderbciter
W P A Worker Ends Sit-down Strike Demonstration
DES MOINES Iowa Mrs Katherine Rush a former Leon WPA worker ends her two week sit down protesta protest on the statehouse steps. She says she was dropped from a Leon sewing room project for political reasons and she is leaving to tend to her 14 year old son who was taken off relief rolls.
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Des Moines
Statehouse
Katherine Rush
Leon Wpa
More Persons Die in Violent Deaths 1936 Iowa report
Des Moines reports 103 more people died violently in Iowa in 1936 than 1935. Total violent deaths reached 2,309 with 802 from home accidents and 553 from motor-vehicle deaths. Occupational fatalities were 208 and heat-related deaths 299.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Department of Health
Hit and Run Bicycle Rider Learns Lesson
Dubuque police said a boy on a bicycle who struck Mrs. Josephine Link on her way to church was arrested shortly after the accident. His father pledged to settle with the injured woman as authorities noted the incident. Des Moines reports estimate about 10 000 spectators viewed an air show with stunt and parachute jumps, most paying 50 cents or one dollar admission.
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Dubuque
Josephine Link
Des Moines
Mystery Celebrity Stirred Laughs on Severn Heavens Set
In a theater scene a joke about a third Santa Anita race triggers laughter and hints at a prank. Ned Sparks’ deadpan grin signals an investigation into the identity of a man later revealed as Gregory Ratoff on the Seventh Heaven set. Winchell is seen buying coffee for the dialectician.
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Santa Anita
Ned Sparks
Gregory Ratoff
Winchell
Wayne Witthoft Confirmed in Prairie Flower Church
Wayne Witthoft of Prairie Flower was part of a five member confirmation class at St. Paul’s Evangelical Church Sunday morning under Pastor Rev. Carl Klein. The service featured a choir anthem and a number of youths joining the church, with a family of five taking vows together and photos taken at Guther’s studio.
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Martha Yhrasher
Prairie Flower
Gladys ‘Turnipeeed
Farm Bureau
Ethel Smith
Everette Finke
McGregor
Wayne Witthoft
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Carl Klein
Klein
Guther
Martha Thrasher
Clarence Timmins
Daryl Bell
J. F. Rittenhouse
Wm. Gamon
M. FE
A. C Durst
Stanley Knapp
Wynonna Standley
Howe
Surprise Tea Party for Mrs Owens PhD Friends
Mrs. Robert Owens invited teachers and school friends for tea at her East Highland home on Wednesday evening with fruit salad cake sandwiches pickles and cocoa. Several locals visited relatives and neighbors Sunday including the Drydak Weber Rath Mincer Murdoch and Oak Grove community members during a day of social calls and a school picnic at Ottumwa.
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Frank Mincer
East Highland
Robert Owen
Owens
Walter Marling
Ray Forbes
Wilbur and
Leroy
James Drydak
Herman Bruegge
Matilda Bruegge
Evelyn
Ruby
Mary Weber
Wilma
Evelyn Minecer
Florence Forbes
Everette Rath
Milt Birka
Donald
Hester
Leon’ Anne
Wilma Mincer
Frankie J. Mincer
Gail Murdock
Jennie Rath
Cedar Rapids
Robby
Clifford Murdoch
Johnnie Dvorak
Donald Swailes
Floyd Prymek
James Pvorak
Anna Rath
Harold
J. W. Dvorak
Oak Grove
Supreme Court upholds tax refund limits saving government sum
The Supreme Court ruling sustains tax laws limiting refunds on processing taxes, preventing potential refunds exceeding a billion dollars. It resolves budget uncertainty, supports Treasury processing charges, and affirms a method for taxpayers to prove claims before the Internal Revenue Service.
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AAA
Washington
Supreme Court
High Courts
Treasury
High Court
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Hughes
North Central Health Association Meets in Iowa City
In Iowa City on May 21 and 22 the North Central Health Association convention will be held with delegates from Midwest universities and colleges including Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin and Iowa. Dr Chester I Miller University of Iowa health service director and association secretary says health topics will be discussed at round tables.
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Iowa City
Iowa
INS
North Central Healh Association
Chester I. Miller
University of Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Miller
Association
Axe Aids Missionaries in Demonstrating Pagan Gods Power
An axe served early Christian missionaries in pagan Germany to show the weakness of sacred trees. By cutting a holy tree, they demonstrated that the tree’s gods were powerless, illustrating the superiority of Christian faith over local pagan beliefs.
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Germany
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