Chiropractor fined in blackout case in Shenandoah
Dr J E Hawkins chiropractor.was fined 100 dollars and costs for violating the city blackout ordinance by keeping lights on during a surprise blackout Thursday night. Four auxiliary policemen testified Hawkins refused to extinguish lights and warned them off his porch. Mrs Hawkins, a club woman, acted as his attorney and argued he was tending patients and disturbed by the intrusion.
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Shenandoah
J. Eawkins
Clair Russell
Julius Barron
Howard Brennan
Wayne Hudson
Missouri Valley Fishermen Drown in Nobles Lake
Howard Fisher, 40, and his eight year old son Harvey were found dead after a fishing trip at Nobles lake. A search continued for Sam Ramsey, a hired man on the Fisher farm, believed to have accompanied them and possibly drowned.
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Missouri Valley
Nobles Lake
Here
Howard Fisher
Harvey
Sam Ramsey
Fewer Boys Graduate From the High Schools
Des Moines report from the state department of public instruction shows 26,300 total graduates this year, down from 28,279 in 1942. Of these, 14,500 are girls and 11,800 are boys.
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Des Moines
Flowa
State Department of Public Instruction
Newton man fined 300 for liquor charge
M. L. Godwin an 84 year old movie film salesman pleaded guilty in district court to illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor and paid a 300 dollar fine plus costs. State patrolmen arrested him Thursday night at a highway junction north of Mingo for possessing a case of whiskey with Illinois liquor seals.
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Newton
M. L. Godwin
Des Mones
Godwin
Mingo
Illinois
First Wife Fined After Car Hits Second Wife
Municipal Judge Allan Ardell fined Helen Colwell a 29 year old divorcee $100 for reckless driving after testimony she struck her former husband wife Olmer Colwell a 19 year old. Olmer testified she was hit by the car radiator shoved to the pavement and dragged to safety by two friends.
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Council Bluffs
Allan Ardell
Helen Colwell
Olmer Colwell
Prisoner Dies in Jail After Suspected Self Inflicted Fire
Clarinda Iowa. Howard Whitman 37 of Des Moines died in the city jail Friday morning in a suspected suicide. Coroner J D Harding ruled the death after an inquest. Whitman was arrested Thursday night on intoxication charges and was found dead at 7 am on his cell bunk with smoldering ashes beside him suggesting mattress fire and suffocation.
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Clarinda
Howard Whitman
Des Moines
J. D. Harding
Page County
Whitman
Max Gray
Pledge Faith in U S by Buying Poppy May 27
Mrs Oscar Inc of the American Legion Auxiliary reports plans for the annual Memorial Poppy distribution. The poppy symbolizes a pledge to honor the dead and continue the fight for victory. Poppies will be given in Washington with no price. donations support rehabilitation and child welfare funds.
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America
Oscar Inc
American Legion Auxiliary
Lane
Washington
Women of the Auxiliary
Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Legion
Two Congressmen Refused Access at Food Conference
Two congressmen were refused admittance to executive sessions of the international food conference. They announced plans to demand a congressional investigation of the first United Nations parley.
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Hot Springs
U.P
Gay
United Nations
Absence without leave lands Private O'Brian in custody
Private James E. O'Brian, who left Camp Butler in April, was located north of Ainsworth by Deputy Walt Kiesey. He is held in the county jail for the army authorities and is expected to be transported to Rock Island Arsenal for disposition. O'Brian had been convicted of forgery last fall and faced another charge in February before his induction.
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Ainsworth
James E. O'Brian
Puty
Walt Kiesey
O'Brian
United States Army
Rock Island
Butner
North Carolina
License Issued for Roy G Green and Mary Griffin
A marriage license was issued at the courthouse to Lieutenant Roy G Green of Camp Perry Ohio and Mary Griffin of Riverside.
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Court House
Roy G. Green
Camp Perry
Ohio
Mary Griffin
Riverside
Lawmakers demand probe of postwar conference
Rep. Fred Bradley of Michigan and Rep. Frederick Smith of Ohio, both Republicans, said they would press a congressional investigation into a postwar conference. Bradley stated they would return to Washington tonight and seek answers on who conceived the conference and why.
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Congress
Fred Bradley
Michigan
Frederick Smith
Ohio
Washington
Bradley
Sea Wall Is Covered By Floods In Beardstown
Mayor Fred Cline declares evacuation as the Illinois River floods reach 28.75 feet, breaching the 2 1/4 foot sandbag dike. Army troops and 5600 Joliet soldiers aid flood control while seepage widens across at least 15 breaches.
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Beardstown
Ill
Fred Cline
Illinois
United States Weather Bureau
Joliet
Women urged to deliver silk hose by May 28 salvage drive
County women collecting discarded silk and nylon hose for the salvage committee must deliver them by Friday May 28. Mrs Fred Reid, hose collection chair, asks deliveries go to Dr. Fred Reids office at 210 South Marion Avenue instead of City hall. A May 28 shipment will occur with volunteers sorting packing and shipping that day. The May quota is 3000 pairs and the local committee seeks to meet it.
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Fred Reid
Butter price support to continue at 46 cents pound
The War Food Administration said the Agriculture Department commitment to support wholesale butter prices at 46 cents per pound on the Chicago basis will continue through June 30, 1944, even if retail prices are lowered.
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Washington
DE D. C
War Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Music Prominent At Alber Services
Lovers of music and art enjoy nightly programs at the Alber evangelistic parish at the Christian church. Mr Alber leads songs and solos, Mrs Alber presents pantomimes with colored lighting, and Howard T House, noted musician and artist, performs piano and displays drawings. Tonight's program features Higher Ground and Sundays include In the Garden with a rag picture by Mrs Alber.
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Christian Church
Alber
Aiber
Alice
Mr. House
Howard T. House
Australia
New Zealand
Seven More Members Appointed on County Price and Rationing Board
The Washington county war price and rationing board adds seven new members Meritt K McDaniel C V Crull E K Cox BE Morrison Jr Mrs Stella Latchem D N Anwyl and R E Shannon all serving without pay. The board expands to fourteen and divides into five panels covering fuel oil stoves non-highway gasoline highway gasoline tires food and more with each panel led by a chairman and secretary from the office staff.
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County Price and Rationing Board
Washington County
Office of Price Administration
Des Moines
Merritt Kk. McDaniel
C. V. Crull
E. K. Cox
BE. D. Morrison, Jr
Stella Latechem
D. N. Anwyl
R. E. Shannon
O. E. Schmitt
A. &. Baldrige
Court House
Lehmitt
Latchem
Chrysler tank arsenal back to work amid material shortages
Detroit May 22 194? The Chrysler operated tank arsenal halted production as only about 2400 of 14000 day shift workers returned across six plants. At DeSoto bomber plant 1500 of 7500 workers reported, resuming fair production while at the Dodge main plant only around 200 entered. A sound truck urged UAW CLO members to meet tomorrow to decide whether to return to work.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Tank Arsenal
Corporation
Regional War Labor Board
Dodge
Snokesman
United Automobile Workers, Clo
Certificates for Driving License Extensions Issued June 7
Washington county will begin issuing extension certificates for current operator licenses on Monday June 7 at the courthouse. Two clerks, paid by the state, will handle the process with indelible pencils, and plans will spread to other towns. Extensions cost 75 cents and run three years, expiring July 5, 1946, with active drivers required to carry them.
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Washington County
Court House
H. M. Putnam
Karl W. Fischer
State Department of Public Safety
Putnam
Public Safety Department
British RAF Wreck Berlin in 67th Raid on Nazi Stronghold
The 67th air raid on Berlin by the RAF hits the heart of enemy defense as planes from Africa and the Mediterranean strike Sicily and Sardinia air fields destroying 67 aircraft on the ground and 29 interceptors. Russia dissolves the International and signals renewed alliance with Britain and the United States while Moscow warns of mass Luftwaffe raids on Soviet cities.
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Berlin
RAF
Italy
Germany
Africa
British Mediterranean Islands
Sicily
Sardinia
London
Great Britain
United States
Hitler
Luftwaff
Sgt Norman Schoonover Wounded in Action in Africa
Sgt Norman F Echoonover, son of Mr and Mrs H J Schoonover of Shiloh, received the Purple Heart for wounds sustained April 27 in North Africa. He was hit in the jaw, evacuated to a base hospital after 600 miles by air, and reports a soup diet and sleeping between sheets again for the first time since December 30, 1943. Address listed as A P O 700 care of Lostmaster New York City.
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Set Norman IF. Schoonover
H. J. Schoonover
Shiloh
United States Army
North Africa
Jessie Sorrell
Ilinois
Army Burses Corps
Norman F. Echoonover
A.P.O
Lostmaster
New York City
License Extension After Honorable Military Discharge Also Extended
The license is extended without fee for six months after the discharge of an honorable military service member, provided the discharge is honorable and the person does not have disabilities impairing operating competency.
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Farmer
Dole
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Budget Bureau New
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Yohn L. Doe
Mit
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Head of Fame
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Pont
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Doe
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Poppy
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Laurel
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Army Air Field
Frank Humphrey
Little Rock
William T. Wheeler
Medford
Ore
Robert L. Barlow
Salinas
Cal
Henry F. Watson
Hempstead
L. I
Pvt
Patrick Lyons
Sullivan, Ill
Alber Services
Joe Falk
A. Fishburn
M. Be, McDaniel
UO. E
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C. & McCutchen
L. J. Kehoe
E. R. Cox
Price
Stella Anwyl
Shannon
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Pean
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