Victory Loans and Veterans Training Program Overview
Washington outlines the rehabilitation plan for veterans under Public Law 16 of the 78th Congress. It describes eligibility, on the job training, supervision, equipment provided, and pension details for disabled veterans seeking vocational training and employment after World War II.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Unite States
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans Administration
Greenfield voters approve half mile tax levy for hospital fund
In Adair county 83 percent backed a bond issue and 60 percent threshold was met with 1,778 in favor and 362 against for a 100000 county hospital fund. The levy will build and equip a new hospital.
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Greenfield — Adair County
Governor Blue Seeks Improved Primary Road Markings
Gov. Robert D. Blue asked the state highway patrol to survey primary highway markings for improvement. He urged repainting of dead-end ends and turns, better curve and hill markers, narrow bridge warnings, and signs on primary roads near towns on secondary routes.
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Des Moines
Robert D. Blue
State Highway Patrol
Public Safety
Fred Wilkins
Highway Commission
Blue
Highway Patrol
Estherville Plans New City Planning Commission
Estherville will establish a city planning commission to survey possibilities and draft a comprehensive growth program. The council approved the ordinance Monday night and Mayor F. J. Bhilers will nominate members to the council by December 3.
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Estherville
F. J. Bhilers
Dubuque Raids Seize Liquor and Slot Machines at Clubs
In the largest raid series to date, 25 police led by Chief Joseph Strub hit 22 private clubs seizing 39 slot machines and liquor. Liquor found in 18 clubs and machines from six. Raids began at 41 30 a m and concluded at 11 45. Evidence sent to the courthouse under Sheriff Leo Martin.
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Dubuque
Joseph Strub
City Hall
Leo Martin
State Farmers Union Holds Convention in Des Moines
The Iowa Farmers Union meets at the Masonic Temple with speakers James Patton of the National Farmers Union A J Loveland Iowa AAA chair and Jess Alion of the Farm Credit administration The event aims to discuss postwar agricultural issues and expects 200 to 300 attendees despite farmwork.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farmers Union
Masonic Temple
James &. Patton
Denver
Colo
National Farmers Union
A. J. Loveland
Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Jess Alion
Farm Credit Administration
F W. Stover
Dolly Madison as longstanding early First Lady figure
Dolly Madison served as official hostess for Thomas Jefferson as his widow while James Madison was Secretary of State and continued in the role for four years during James Madison’s presidency.
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Dolly Madison
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Madison
Armistice Observance Plans Detailed Downtown Program
On Armistice Day observances in Washington, the Legion post led by Alvin Rommel and the Veterans of Foreign Wars announce a morning program starting about 9 50 in downtown Central Park with the revived Legion drum corps and the high school band, followed by a 10 30 address by T L Brookhart and a 11 00 bomb salute. The parade of the high school band travels downtown at 10, with Taps by buglers to close.
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Washington
Alvin Rmramel
Legion Post
Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rommel
Revived Legion
Central Park
V.F.W
Ralph Young
Basil McBee
T. L. Brookhart
E. R. Burham
Detroit Defeats CIO Candidate in Bitter Mayoral Race
In Detroit, Edward J. Jeffries Jr. was reelected to a fourth term after a hard fought campaign in which CIO leader Richard Frankensteen was defeated. Nationwide elections saw two new congressmen chosen and several governors and mayors elected as voters returned Democrats to power in New York City and across the country.
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Detroit
Democratic Party
New York City
Congress
Richard C. Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
Edward J. Jeffries, Jr
Elect O'Dwyer
New York
F. H. LaGuardia
William O'Dwyer
Kings County
Brooklyn
O'Dwyer
General Sessions
Jonah J. Goldstein
Newbold Morris
American Labor Party
Goldstein
O’dwyer
Carnegie Tech
Churchill Calls Keeping Atom Secrets a Parliamentary Decision
In London on November 7, Winston Churchill urged the House of Commons to back U.S. restraint on revealing atom bomb knowledge to the Soviet Union. He said any disclosure should come through Parliament and governments, not scientists, and warned such a move could threaten peace.
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London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
United States
Russia
Churchill
Iff
Crom
Truman
Mrs Jennings 63 Dies at Junction
Myrtle Jennings 63 proprietor of the Home eating house on Walnut street Columbus Junction died about five this morning after illness began Sunday. Funeral arrangements by Stephens funeral home. born August 2 1882 in Columbus Junction. She married Arista Jennings July 3 1901. he died in October 1931. She was a member of the church.
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Columbus Junction
Myrtle Jennings
Walnut Street
Stephens Funeral Home
Myrtle Pierce
Frank Pierce
Columbus Sunction
Arista Jennings
Jennings
Walton chapter 239 members pledged before charter
The Washington county Isaak Walton league unit, though charter pending and its status temporary, reports 239 members after last night’s conservation meeting at the Y. With 159 names on the charter list and 80 newly added, organizers expect 350 to 400 members once the charter arrives in about 30 days. Joe Ochsner of Fort Madison urged support for the artificial lake project and noted cooperation from nearby Sigourney and Fairfield chapters.
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Washington County
Isaak Walton League
Frank B. Miller
Ray Whitehead
Joe Ochsner
Fort Madison
Iowa Walton League
Washington
Sigourney
Fairfield
Ochsner
Walton League
Iowa
Indiana
Local Church Figures and Lodge Members Noted in Obituary
A Methodist church member is mourned along with affiliations to the Royal Neighbors and Rebekah lodge. Surviving relatives include two sons Charles of Mt. Pleasant and Walter of Iowa City, a daughter Rudy Jennings of Columbus Junction, and brothers Elton and Chester Pierce of Columbus Junction and Dale Pierce of Oklahoma City.
Gloster pilot sets 606 mph air speed record in England
RAF test pilot Eric Greenwood on the Gloster Yellow Meteor raised the world speed mark to 606 miles an hour in four official runs at Herne Bay England. Fellow pilot Group Captain Hugh Wilson had earlier hit 602 mph aboard Britannia on the same course.
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Herne Bay
England
Royal Air Force
Eric Greenwood
Gloster Aviation Company
Greenwood
Hugh Wilson
Britannia
Federated Aeronautique
Federation
Fritz Wendel
Aringdale Sister in Columbus Junction
Oklahoma resident Mrs. Neilie Aringdale of Columbus Junction is mentioned as a sister in the notice.
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Okla
Neilie Aringdale
Columbus Junction
General Motors To Answer UAW In Wage Dispute
General Motors announced it would present its formal reply to the CIO United Auto Workers 30 percent wage demand this afternoon. A flat rejection was unlikely, with a strike threat looming if talks fail. The UMW push mirrors broader industry demands and follows a Ford strike vote starting in 37 cities at 6 a.m.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
UMW
Ford Motor Company
National Labor Relations
Workers warn Truman to block 1946 car price raise
Labor leaders told President Truman today the union will strike if price controls are raised and urged him to prevent OPA approval of higher automobile prices in 1946.
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Truman
OPA
Sergeant Ferguson Addresses Legion
Sergeant Marion Ferguson spoke at Leon Beatty post American Legion meeting, recounting service as a radio operator on a large American bomber and in transport, with world travels to Asia Africa and the Far East. The talk ranked among the best veterans’ war experiences shared. Vic Crone and Ted Crone led the program with S. W. Kaster in charge of the feed committee.
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Marion Ferguson
Leon Beatty Post
American Legion
Asia
Africa
Far East
Vic
Ted Crone
S. W. Kaster
Rioting Spreads in North Africa In Arab Jewish Clash
In Cairo on Nov 7 UP reports anti Jewish rioting spreading west to Tripolitania with 74 Jews killed in Tripoli as the first major Arab Jewish clash outside the Middle East amid the present crisis. Disorder centered on resentment over Jewish immigration demands.
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Cairo
Tripolitania
Ministry of Information
Tripoli
Middle East
Christmas gifts planned for veterans at Schick hospital
Cloyce Stewart and Fred Downing organize the Washington community Christmas effort for veterans at Schick army hospital Clinton. The plan mirrors last year with gifts to be mailed by December 10.
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Cloyce Stewart
Fred Downing
Washington
Schick Army Hospital
Clinton
Dee
Parley at Chungking Deadlocked in China Talks
News from Chungking reports unity negotiations between government and communist representatives stalled with recriminations. Other dispatches describe Chiang Kai-shek's forces landing at Yingkow and communist advances in northern Honan. A government spokesman accused communists of breaking the Yellow River dike in eastern I nan to threaten farmers.
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Chuasking
Yingkow
Ta Tung Pao
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Conpdumist-Held
Manchuria
Tzehsien
Kaisent
Honan
Kweisui
Sutruan
Inner Mongolia
Red
Paotow
Kweisue
Peiping
Yellow River
Ionan
Yenan
Shaw Lit-se
Chow Nen Hai
Chinese Communist Party
Board of Control seeks staff for state insane hospitals
The state board of control is running help wanted ads across Iowa to fill urgent vacancies at fifteen institutions. Open posts include doctors dentists nurses attendants cooks guards clerical staff and trades workers with maintenance housing meals or cash in lieu. Major shortages hit Eldora Boys Training School Mount Pleasant State Hospital and Independence State Hospital. All state employees join the pension retirement plan starting January 1 1946.
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State Board of Control
Eldora Boys’ Training School
Mount Pleasant State Hospital
Independence State Hospital
Citrus production in seven states hits seven million tons
United States remains citrus leader with seven million tons produced across seven states in 1943 44. Farm income from citrus equals 359000 dollars according to Distribution Age, highlighting strong agricultural output and regional growth in fruit farming.
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United States
Riots Across Middle East Draw Egyptian Promise of Punishment
Egyptian Premier Nokrashy Pasha said all instigators of recent Alexandria and Cairo riots would be tried and punished. He claimed foreign press accounts had roughly exaggerated the disturbance as violence spread from Palestine into Lebanon and Egypt.
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Palestine
Lebanon
Egypt
Nokrashy Pasha
United Press
Alexandria
Cairo
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Adair County
Governor Blue
Estherville Plan
State Farmers Union
Supt
M. M. Schell
Methodist Churea
The
Dave Livingston
Rodney Arnold
Thos
Rolney Arnold
Vic Crone
Matt Whittaker
Jesse Radda
Lee Holland
Charles Henrfon, Jr
Don Radda
Merritt McDaniel
Earl Galloway
Harold Teets
Bob Galloway
Don Pauls
Jeffries
Crats
Pittsburgh
Walton
George Washington University
United Automobile
Sergeant Ferguson
North Africa
Chungking
Chiang
Reds
Ghungking
Hope Shansi-Honan
North
China
Board OF Control
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