Iowa Farm Leaders Meet On 1945 Crop Goals
Agricultural readers and farm group representatives will meet with state and regional AAA officials to finalize Iowa crop and livestock goals for 1945. Participants include Livestock Producers, Soil Conservation Service, Farm Bureau, Grange, Farmers Union, Iowa State College Extension, AAA fieldmen, Leslie M. Carl, Harry Linn, and state directors of farm credit agencies. Washington draft calls for higher production of corn and feed grains, plus increased sorghums, potatoes, sugar beets, wheat and flax, with sugar beets rising most.
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Des Moines
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Iowa
Farm Security and
Farina Credit Administrations
Washington
One Lead Two Injured In Highway Crash Near Rockwell City
Andrew Holt 72 of Somers died when a car went out of control and ran off the road near Rockwell City. Glen Roberts also of Somers and passenger John Cromwell of Somers were injured. The crash occurred around midnight Monday, with the vehicle brought to Glen Roberts’s residence after the incident.
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Rockwell City
Andrew Holt
Somers
Here
Glen Roberts
John Cromwell
Gillette and Hickenlooper Exchange Greetings at Capitol
Iowa Governor B. K. Hickenlooper and Senator Guy M. Gillette, who will succeed him in January, exchanged smiles on the senate floor. Hickenlooper approached from the Republican side and Gillette from the Democratic, then they talked briefly as lawmakers from both parties greeted them.
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Washington
D.C
B. KB. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Guy M. Gillette
Hickenlooper
Senate
Cate
Senate Chamber
Gillette
Child Hospital Patients Need Christmas Gifts
Iowa City officials at the University of Iowa children's hospital call for gifts for 125 patients at Christmas. Hospital administrator Robert E. Neff says toys books games and clothing are welcomed and that surplus gifts have been distributed in past seasons.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa Children’s Hospital
Robert E. Neff
Mr. Neff
Thanksgiving service at Calvary Baptist Church
A praise and thanks giving service will be held at Calvary Baptist church Thanksgiving morning at 10:30. A period of testimony and prayer will follow, then a message by pastor Rev. A. BE. Diddams. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
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Calvary Baptist Church
A. BE. Diddams
Parolee Roy Anderson Granted Final Discharge in Forgery Case
The district court clerk reports final discharge from parole for Roy Anderson, convicted of forgery in 1938 and sentenced to up to ten years at Fort Madison penitentiary. Paroled in September 1943, discharge follows the State board of parole recommendation.
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B. B. Hickenlooper
Roy Anderson
Fort Madison
State Board of Parole
Sky Battles Over Island Of Kyushu
United Press reports the battle for air control over Kyushu began as B 29 Super Fortresses clashed with Japanese fighters over the island yesterday, with Washington and Tokyo offering conflicting accounts of the engagement.
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Kyushu
United Press
Japan
Washington
Tokyo
Nome
Hata
China
Shunroju Hata
Omura
Nanking
Shanghai
Legion Post Seeks Gifts for Men in Army Hospitals
At the Leon Beatty post meeting a committee was named to head the drive for Christmas gifts for soldiers in army hospitals. Washington town has a 14 box quota for Clinton hospital. gifts due by December 10. Auxiliary backs the project as recalls on other fronts unfold in Asia and Pacific theater.
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Leon Beatty
American Legion
A& Committee
Washington
Clinton
Cloyce Stewart
Don McLaughlin
Roy Steele
Jay Brewer
Leion
Post
Smith W. Brookhart Mondey
Will Graf
Brewer
Ed Squire
Alvin Rommel
Legion
County Veterans Service Committee
al Baldrige
The
Germany
Ted Crone
Cy Birka
Brighton
Tus
Mace
EK. A. Hays
Mt. Pleasant
High School Vocal Groups Please Audience in First Program of Year
A good sized audience enjoyed Washington High School's opening concert of the year. Under director Mary Margaret Broghammer the program showcased the girls glee club, mixed chorus, and multiple sextets and octets with soloists Gwendolyn Ramseyer and Lyle Box.
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Washington
Washington School
Yoal Music Department
Mary Margaret Broghammer
Preparing Mighty Red Offensive
Soviet tanks and riflemen supported by Med fleet guns breached the last German pocket on Saure Island to reopen the Gulf of Riga and lift the Riga blockade. Far south, rain and German counter blows stalled the Red Army near Budapest, with limited gains along the 80 mile front. Moscow and Berlin signaled a coming renewed eastern front push likely in Poland and East Prussia.
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London
Saure Island
Gulf of Riga
Riga
Red Army
Budapest
Moscow
Berlin
Poland
East Prussia
Mrs. George Alter Dies at Wayland
Agnes Alice Haber Alter died at her Wayland home after a brief heart illness. Funeral services will be held Friday with a 1:45 home service and 2:00 at Wayland Mennonite Church, burial in Cottonwood cemetery. Survived by husband George Alter and five children plus a sister.
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Wayland
George Alter
Stacey Funeral Home
Wayland Mennonite Cturch
Cottonwood Cemetery
Agnes Alice Haber
Lowell
Iowa
Nicholas and
Mary
Very) Haber
Ellsworth
Fairfield
John Baumguarten
Highland Center
Orville van Winkle
Brighton
Paul Alter
Elmhurst
Eugene
Burlington
Lena Dolin
Granite City
Disorder Inside Cologne Report
A Swiss newspaper reports Nazi authorities machine gunned peace demonstrators in Cologne, killing more than 220 people. Prisoners on the American front allegedly confirm Gestapo hangings for disobedience, with Swiss dispatches noting further protests in Rhine land cities and nightly posters urging action against the Nazi regime.
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London
Cologne
Basel Arbeiterzeitung
British Exchange Telegraph Agency
Gestapo
Ciivilians
Warlier
Basel
Riineland
Colder Weather Returns After Mild Fall
Last night was one of the coldest nights this fall with a 30 degree minimum, compared to 29 earlier. Today stays cold with only a four degree rise in the forenoon and a 34 degree reading at one o clock. This fall has been unusually mild so far. Last year at this time temperatures averaged 17 to 18 degrees.
Immanuel Lutheran to Dedicate New Church on Thanksgiving
The Immanuel Lutheran church will begin services in its new South Iowa Ave facility with a dedication on Thanksgiving Day at 10 30 AM led by Rev E H Wendland and Rev W K Wegner of Moline Ill. The red brick church seats 160 and had repairs, a furnace installation, and redecorating completed with consent from the Christian Science society.
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The
Immanuel Lutheran Church
E. H. Wendland
W. KE. Wegner Et Moline
Iowa Ave
Christian Science Society
Lutheran Church
War Department reports Haberman's husband wounded overseas
Mrs. George Haberman Jr. learned Monday from the war department that her husband, a Navy member, was seriously wounded while serving overseas. The wife is identified as Jane Berkshire before marriage from Wayland.
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Wayland
George Haberman, Jr
War Department
Navy
Haberman
Jane Berkshire
Washington county aims to top Sixth War Loan sales
Washington county launches a campaign to raise 1 099 000 in the Sixth War Loan with 160 women under Mrs Stan Kiesey beginning canvassing. County war finance head G E Mace says most townships will receive cards, instructions and supplies and hopes to finish by December 7 Pearl Harbor Day with final end date December 16. Canvassing focuses on homes, with business visits only by request.
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Washington County
Washington
Stan Kiesey
G. E. Mace
Washington County War Finance Committee
Mace
Montgomery Ward Company
Allied armies defeat Nazi tank forces in major advances
Paris reports Allied forces cap turing Mulhouse and Metz as they break the Vosges line and push toward the Rhine near Cologne. French 1st Army seizes Mulhouse area, Metz siege ends, American 3rd Army joins pursuit, and US 9th Army defeats German tanks northeast of Aachen.
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Mulhouse
Metz
Voses
Rhineland
Cologne
Alsace
19Th
Europe
Rhine
Colmar
3Rd Army
France
Alexander M. Paich
Ith
U.S
Vosges
Germany
Wm. H. Simpson
Aachen
Roer River
Julich
Duren
Eas
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