Roosevelt Plans National Defense Coordination Group
A column notes Germany claims a trap on Roosevelt plans and discusses national defense coordination. The piece references Iowa imports, a $10 000 damage suit against Hughes Motor Co. over a deceptive plate glass partition, a skull fracture, and an eye injury, plus Cornell College appointing Edwin Rozwene to a history and political science instructorship at Mount Vernon.
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Council Bluffs Hom
Weare
Hughes Motor Co
The
Motor Company
Mount Vernon
Edwin
Rozwene
North Hampton
Mass
Cornell College
John B. Magee
Cornell
Mount Vernon pickpockets rob two at high school ceremony
At Mount Vernon High School commencement two men were robbed of $100 by pickpockets. Victims named J. A. Hoodmakey of Mount Vernon and Li L. Cork of Lisbon were identified in the report.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon High Schior
J. A. Hoodmakey
LI. L. Cork
Lisbon
Civil Service Board Reorganized After City Hall Squabble
Sioux City officials appoint Frank KE Gill lawyer and Fred A Wood real estate dealer to civil service commission while Floyd Smith union leader becomes third member after nearly a month of deadlock.
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Civil Service Body
Sioux City
Civil Service Commission
Frank KE. Gill
Fred A. Wood
Floyd Smith
Began Jail Sentence for Unpaid Fine in Reckless Driving Crash
Tony Lange, 2, of Peosia, started an eight day jail term instead of a $25 reckless driving fine his father refused to pay after using the family car just after overhaul costing $50. He crashed into a taxi causing about $200 damage to the car.
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Dubuque
Tony Lange
Peosia
Young Lange
Des Moines Singer Viola Zimmer Plans Midwest Engagements
Viola Zimmer a 20 year old Des Moines singer and entertainer will depart next week for engagements in Chicago Illinois and Detroit Michigan. She will return to Arnolds Park later to sing at the Peacock Inn and the Roof Garden and plans to move to New York with sisters Betty 16 and Lois 14 who are dancers in the fall.
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Des Moines
Viola Zimmerman
Chicago
Detroit
Mich
Arnolds Park
Peacock Inn
Roof Garden
New York
N. Y
Betty
Lois
Missouri Fencepost Haulers Face Iowa Tax Drive
DES MOINES Iowa fieldmen conducted a three day tax campaign stopping truckers at Carroll Ames and Tama to enforce sales tax permits and bonds. W J Ruther head of field supervision said 24 percent of drivers had to obtain 50 cent permits and post 25 cash bonds to cover potential taxes.
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Des Moines
Missouri
Iowa
Carroll
Ames
Tama
W. J. Ruther
Ruther
Scout Parade Draws 750 Plus From Central Iowa
More than 750 Boy and Girl Scouts and leaders from central Iowa participated in a Tallcorn exposition parade in Marshalltown. Troops numbered 29 entered the procession including an Indian troop from the Tama reservation and floats representing the world brotherhood of scouting.
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Marshalltown
Towa
Tallcorn
Tama Reservation
World Brotherhood of Scouting
Oelwein Officers Cleared in Damages Suit
A district court jury after 25 hours of deliberation returned a verdict for defendants in a $27,500 damage suit by Donald Morrison of Oelwein. Morrison, 23, claimed police beat him and fired teargas into a jail cell, blinding him in both eyes.
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West Union
Donald Morrison
Oelwein
Morrison
Harold Finders
Hen Doty
Gun Waver Threatened Teacher Faces Trial
Fairfield deputies report Artie Hines a 3 year old Jefferson county farm hand accused of brandishing a gun in a classroom threat aimed at a teacher. Authorities said the incident occurred at a local school and it prompted an investigation.
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Fairfield
Artie Hines
Jefferson County
Senior Play Almost Eighteen Delights Local Audience
The senior class staged Almost Eighteen in the high school auditorium. The three act comedy drama follows Eddie Barry pursuing fame as a singer while family and essay contest intrigue create humorous complications. The cast includes Glenn Mace, Ray Whistler, Esther Hayes, Evelyn Miller, Jane Richer, and others with Ruth Flood directing backstage.
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Eddie Barry
Bing Crosby
Kiddie
New York
George
Eddie
Dia
Glenn Mace
Ray Whistler
William Barry
Esther Hayes
Grace Barry
Evelyn Miller
Beatrice
Jane Richer
Madle Warren
Bachelor Uncle George
Leonard Witthoff
Dorothea Snyder
Ann
Carl Klein
Tommy
Margaret Hennon
Sally
Richard Weeks
Professor Merritt
June Garrett
Ruth Flood
Swift
Mildred Meyer
Betty Stewart
Marjorie Walker
Lucille Murphy
Maurice Brayton
Man Indicted Over Threats to Farm Teacher
The indictment charges Hines with making malicious threats toward Miss Lela Black, a 38 year old rural school teacher. He allegedly seized Miss Black and her mother at gunpoint for three hours demanding marriage.
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Ing
Lela Black
Grandary
Hines
Miss Black
Pleads Guilty of Having Liquor Seals
Burlington report says Lyton M. Younker 58 of Des Moines pleaded guilty to illegal transportation after being arrested with two Iowa liquor commission seals in his possession.
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Burlington
Lyton M. Younker
Des Moines
Iowa Liquor Commission
Real estate man Younker fined for liquor violation
Younker a real estate salesman living at Hotel Fort Des Moines was fined 750 dollars by District Judge KH O Newell for intoxicating liquor violations and costs.
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Younker
Chinch Bug Situation Serious in Iowa Crops
Des Moines reports chinch bugs threaten Iowa crops in a serious assessment by State Entomologist Carl J. Drake. He calls the danger in southern Iowa very serious as officials plan a coordinated attack next Wednesday at the Statehouse with Mark A. Thornburg.
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Des Moines
Carl J. Drake
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Mark Y. Thornburg
Slatehouse
Roosevelt outlines national defense emergency coordination plan
President Roosevelt announced rough plans for a national defense emergency coordination group. The body would coordinate transportation, communications, industry, finance, agriculture, labor, and consumers to prevent dislocation of American social and economic structures amid rearmament. It will be advisory, drawing from public and private sectors, and resemble early councils of defense without superseding existing agencies. The group’s precise personnel and duties remain undecided.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
National Defense Emergency Coordination
National Defense Extensions
White House
Stephen T. Barry
United States
Council of National Defense
Lyit
Barly
Assembly to Meet in Indianapolis Indiana
Rev William M Nichol delegate to the United Presbyterian general assembly in Buffalo reports the meeting will be held in Indianapolis next year. He hoped to invite the assembly to Washington to celebrate the church centennial but competition from other towns led to Indianapolis being chosen.
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William M. Nichol
United Presbyterian General Assembly
Buffalo
N. Y
General Assembly
Indianapolis
Ind
Nichol
Washington
County Ministers Plan Picnic at Sunset Park
The Washington County Ministerial Association will hold a picnic dinner Monday at Sunset Park with minister spouses as guests. C D Kirkpatrick of Keota will speak, and officers will be elected. If rain, dinner moves to the Methodist church.
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Washington
Slayer sought in killing of railroad executive in Buffalo
Police hunt a shabbily dressed man after Union Pacific executive Frank Cooper, 62, was found beaten and dying in a Buffalo hotel. Cooper, Chicago bound general agent of the railroad, died eight hours later in hospital. Detectives search waterfront area for clues and the suspected accomplice.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Frank Dpd
Cooper
Union Pacific Railroad Exective
Chicago
Railroad Transportation Department
Chinch Bug Migration Complete Says Drake
Drake reports adult chinch bugs have moved to small grain fields and females are laying eggs that will hatch around June 1. This signals a forthcoming increase in pest activity affecting crops.
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Drake
Washington High Band to Perform Final Concert Monday
The Washington high school band of 66 pieces will give its last concert of the year on the school lawn Monday evening May 27 at eight. Senior members Kenton Kurts Milo Steele Tone Strele Norene McFarland Martha Shockey Clara Ann Huber Carilyn Strong Mildred Hughes Charles Sutten Melanguin Norma Johneson Ruth Sorrell participate. The program includes U S Field Artillery March Poet and Peasant Overture and other pieces such as Suppe Chiarinibin, Pestalozzi March, The Steelmen, American Rhapsody, Polka, Colorado March, Admiral Overture, and Military Escort in various novelties.
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Washington High School
Kenton Kurts
Milo Steele
Tone Strele
Norene McFarland
Martha Shockey
Clara Ann Huber
Carilyn Strong
Mildred Hughes
Charles Sutten Fob Melanguin
Norma Johneson
Ruth Sorrell
U.S. Field Artillery
Flag Pole Base Completed at Cemetery Complex
Report by KRR Burham Tense Radda and A Nelawanger states the cement base holding the flag pole at the cemetery is completed after a year of curing. The pole rests on four low cement bases with ten patriotic organizations’ insignia embedded around the five sided base, including Daughters of the American Revolution and Grand Army of the Republic.
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KRR. Burham Tense
Daughters of the American Revolution
Union Veterans
Grand Army of the Republic
Woman
United Spanish American Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Ware
Auxilary
Fragmented Note Sparks Unclear Local Reference
OCR text shows garbled phrases like The Stare and Stripes Porever near steven and See God Blese America Kerlin lights out a marehi McCoy. No clear event or entities other than scattered names.
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Steven
America
Kerlin
McCoy
County Welfare Director Resigns
The county board of supervisors accepts the resignation of Martha Popter director of relief effective June 1. Miss Foster, her successor, will move to the state department of child welfare and report to Des Moines June 17 for new work. Stephen Jones of Des Moines will replace her and arrives Monday to begin a week of crossover duties.
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County Board of Supervisor
Martha Popter
Mies Foster
Miss
Nobles visit Cedar Rapids with Birney family
Mr and Mrs Homer Hinney Maude and Ethel McCreedy and Mrs H C Finney traveled to Cedar Rapids to spend the day at the Earl Birney home. Mrs Finney will stay several days with her brother Mr Irney.
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Homer Hinney
Maude
Ethel McCreedy
H.C. Finney
Cedar Rapids
Earl Birney
Finney
Mr. Irney
German claims secret weapon to aid England strike
Berlin says a highly secret weapon will be used against England as German forces press a three front assault. The drive targets trapped Allied armies in Flanders with a claimed massive military trap, while Paris and London report Allied efforts to break through near Amiens and along the Channel coast.
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Berlin
England
Flanders
Paris
London
Amiens-Bapaumt
Amiens
Somme
France
Channel
Somme River
Boulorne
Ghent
Courtrain
Lille
Vimy Ridge
Lillares
St. Omer
Gravelines
Calais
Dunkert
Roublay
Valenciennes
Douail
Churchill calls for supreme effort to preserve liberty in war
London May 26 Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a letter to labor leaders that the gravity of the situation deepens hour by hour and that all must make a supreme effort to preserve our liberty and win the war addressing the executive council of labor leaders in the trade union congress affiliated group.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Trade Union Congress
Italy Suspends Transatlantic Shipping From Ports
Rome reports Italy halts all trans Atlantic shipping from Italian ports until June. The order blocks sailings to New York and South America with no near or far east departures. Liners Rex and Augustus planned to sail to New York on June 10 followed by June 19 for the Ernia departure.
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Italy
Rome
New York
South American
Near
Far East
Rex
Augustus
Eternia
Driving Licenses Granted to Twelve Here
Twelve persons were granted drivers licenses and for received instruction permits to the drivers tests conducted yesterday. Nine others failed to pass tests and were refused licenses. Names include Bernard Bell Muscatine Ernest Hiller Clarence Vernon Messenger and Wilma Norman of Washington. Ruby Sharp Keota. Cloyce Pickering Pleasant Plain. Alice Carrig Brighton. Charles Allen Wenman. Dale Navy Riverside. Virginia Hasty and Weldon Yered Kalona. Edith Peiffer Brighton Ellen Mower Washington Light Runner Mount Pleasant Jessie Potsander Wellman received instruction permits.
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Bernard Bell
Muscatine
Ernest Hiller
Clarence Vernon Messenger
Wilaa Norman
Washington
Ruby Sharp
Keota
Cloyce Pickering
Pleasant Plain
Alice Carrig
Hrighton
Charles Allen
Wen. Man
Dale Navy
Riverside
Virkinia Hasty
Weldon
Kalona
BE. H. Whitehead
West Chester
Edith Peiffer
Brighton
Ellen Rower
Mount Pleasant
Jessie Potsander
Wellman
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Laon
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Belgium
Phonephoto
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Hunt For Slayer
Buffalo, N. Y
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Muenster
Westphalia
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Schloss
Yeu
Bouss
Steelmen
Colorado Marth
Holmes
Russell
Hennett
Martha Poster
State Department
Les Moines
United Press
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