Maytag to Build Parts for Bombing Planes
Newton Iowa Maytag Co announces concluded talks with Glenn L Martin Co Baltimore to produce over 1.5 million dollars worth of parts for American and British bombing planes. Martin Co ranks among largest plane builders for U S and Britain. Maytag defense contracts now total nearly two million dollars.
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Newton
Maytag Co
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Martin Co
United States
Maytag
Salvage OT Paving With Black Top Coat
Iowa highway commission tests salvaging old paving by applying a black top surface. Maintenance engineer Walter H. Root said funds limit resurfacing with concrete five to six inches thick, noting last year’s construction budget was eight million dollars.
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Des Moines
Iowa Highway Commission
Walter H. Root
Des Moines Kiwanis Club
Iowa dairy defense committee organized in Ames
Ernest M. Wright of the Iowa State Dairy association announced the formation of a national defense dairy coordinating committee. The group, planned at a board meeting in Ames, will aid dairy owners and the government in decisions on diverting milk used for dairy products to English aid.
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Waterloo
Iowa National Defense Dairy Co-Ordinating Committee
Ernest M. Wright
Iowa State Dairy Association
Ames
Wright
Six Year Old Struck By Sleeping Sickness In Waterloo
A six year old Shell Rock boy, Kent Brockway, is the first reported case of encephalitis in Waterloo. He is under treatment in isolation at Al Jen Memorial hospital, son of Mr and Mrs Elzo Brockway.
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Waterloo
Shell Rock
al Jen Memorial Hospital
Kent Brockway
Elzo Brockway
Truck Driver Fined for Overwidth Load on Highway
Des Moines Justice of the Peace Bert L. Smith fined Columbus Junction truck driver Lee F. Burnhart $25 plus $2.50 costs after finding him guilty of transporting an overwidth vehicle over a state highway without a permit. The charge stemmed from moving a roadbuilding machine to the Des Moines ordnance plant from Columbus Junction.
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Des Moines
Justice of the Peace
Bert L. Smith
Lee F. Burnhart
Columbus Junction
Burnhart
Des Moines Ordnance Plant
Columbus
Knit Afghans at Red Cross Room Saturday
The County Red Cross sewing room invites women to learn knitting afghans in the city hall sewing room Saturday from 1 to 5 PM. Mrs. John Owen will be instructor guiding how to make square pieces. Bring No 6 knitting needles and yarn scraps. Mrs. Douglas Smith joins the supervising committee replacing Mrs. Ed Holm.
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County Red Cross Sewing Room
City Hall
John Owen
Douglas Smith
Red Cross
Ed Holm
Princeton
Ill
Leland Carris
Join Owen
Iowa Washing Machine Men Oppose Order
Five representatives of the Iowa washing machine industry asked Governor Wilson to help block a federal defense order cutting output by 20 percent. Walter Voss of Davenport called the order a threat to small companies, joined by executives from Dexter Washington Machine and other officers and an county attorney.
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Des Moines
U.P
Iowa
George A. Wilson
Walter Voss
Davenport
Voss Manufacturing Company
Voss
R. D. Hunt
Dexter Washington Machine Company
Delbert Rizor
John Ward
George van Nostrand
Jefferson County
Martin to Speak in Tie Park in Central Park Tonight
Congressman Tom Martin of Iowa City will speak briefly in Central Park after the amateur contest. He will also address the YMCA at eight, under the county Republican women's club, to avoid clashing with the fall opening and park program. The public address system will cover both events, with the high school band marching at eight and a summer amateur contest final set for eight.
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Tom Martin
Iowa City
Central Park
Republican Women's Club
Martin
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
D.C
Congress
Ernest Green Faces Check Theft Charge
Ernest A. Green formerly of Newton was bound to the grand jury in police court Burlington on a larceny from a building charge. Eral Mucha, 45, formerly of Muscatine, was freed after a like hearing. Both men, workers at the Iowa ordnance plant, were arrested Aug. 22 in an probe into nearly $5000 in cashed checks at a local tavern.
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Burlington
Ernest A. Green
Newton
Eral Mucha
Muscatine
Green
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Representative Martin Foresees Industrial Revival Amid War
Cedar Rapids Iowa September 4 Representative Thomas J Martin Republican of Iowa City predicted in a luncheon address that an American industrial revolution could grow from the defense emergency. He warned many firms may close or curtail operations due to wartime material shortages.
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Cedar Rapids
Thomas J., Martin
Iowa City
Gingerich to lead Bethel College history dept for year
Washington board grants Dr Melvin Gingerich a one year sabbatical from the Washington junior college and high school to serve as head of Bethel College Newton Kansas history department. He will substitute for an ill head and plans to relocate his family next week. Bethel College, with 400 plus students, is church affiliated via Eicher Church Noble County. Washington authorities will arrange coverage for Gingerich's classes during the year. He previously taught history and American literature and led debaters and Hi Y activities at the high school.
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Washington Board of Education
Melvin Gingerich
Gingerich
Bethel College
Newton
Kansas
Washington
Eicher
Noble
Board of Education
Jess
Health Unit Sponsors Hospital Tour Across Iowa City
The Washington county health unit led by Thelma Luther and Eleanor Cruickshank toured University and Children’s hospitals in Iowa City with about twenty county women and the County Health Council. Robert E. Neff hosted, detailing hospital financing, operations, and interagency cooperation as 900 beds serve mostly state cases. 135 senior surgeons operate across 1928 to last year’s patient totals.
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Washington County Health Unit
Thelma Luther
Eleanor Cruickshank
County Health Council
University
Children's
Iowa City
Neff
Robert E. Neff
Chillren’s
West Lawn
Psychopathic
Senate Reforms Personal Income Tax Exemption
The Senate voted 46 to 23 to cut personal exemptions in the $3.6798 billion revenue bill per the finance committee. Present $800 single and $2,000 married exemptions would fall to $750 and $1,500 respectively, raising about $303 million yearly and expanding filings and tax payers. The House had left exemptions unchanged, creating a dispute between chambers.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Robert LaFollette
Progressive
Wisconsin
House
Soviet flying boats carry 47 Russians toward Seattle
Sitka Alaska reports one of two Soviet flying boats with 47 Russians on a mission to the United States took off for Seattle, with a second plane planned to depart later.
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Sitka
Alaska
United States
Seattle
Names of 58 students announced for Washington Junior College
The Washington Junior College announces 58 enrolled students for the year per Dean Harland Mead. Activities opened with a reception for new students and faculty, followed by an evening watermelon feed at Sunset Park.
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Washington
Harland Mead
Sunset Park
Donna Jean Applegate
T. J. Berdo
Verla Boshart
Jean Brower
Wilma Jane Brower
Everett Burham
William Allen Burham
Dorothy Daniel
Marjorie Faulkner
Helen Lucille Hayes
Margaret Hennon
Robert Houseal
Keith Huber
Carl Klein
Jeannette Krabill
Ruth Irene Lane
Maxine Logan
Jack Longer
Robert McLaughlin
Jack Mace
David Masson
Jean Mathers
Charles Mayo
Donald Morrison
Joe Pease
Shirley Peterson
Frances Porter
Margaret Ragan
Francis Ralston
Hubert Reed
Beatrice Replogle
John Rothlisberger
Henry Shields
Phyllis Sisk
Beulah Stewart
Virginia Stutsman
Charles Sutton
Sikke David Temple
Virginia Utterback
Donald Voorhees
Raymond Weeks
Roberta Wheelan
Virginia Wylie
John Humble
Midland Television and Radio School
Kansas City
Margaret Ellen Barker
Sigourney High School
Galen Bull
Wellman
Eldon Wayne Conry
Elizabeth Dea
Ainsworth
Verle Leroy Crist
Morning Sun
Grace Virginia Dunbar
Brighton
Clyde Finke
Ruth Elizabeth Martin
Crawfordsville
Victor Flynn
John
Robert Pearson
West Chester
Orlin Frey
Wayland
Harry Dale Levy
Lucille Strabala
Kalona
Women listed from various towns join south group
The list names women from Duensing Washington Ainsworth Crawfordsville Riverside Haskins Brighton Rubio and others in the south group. Notable names include Mrs Roy Sojka Mrs H E Doud Mrs Vince Tellin Mrs William McGinnis Mrs M Davis Mrs Arnet Mathers Mrs Merle Twinam Mrs Joseph Jones Mrs Wyllie Anderson Mrs John Buenneke Kathryn Flynn Mrs Paul Harvey Mrs Charles Drish Mrs S H Hagans Mrs Lloyd Luers and others.
Iowa Officials Seek Protection for Butter Against Oleomargarine Rule
Governor George A. Wilson and Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornbure urge McNutt Wallace Wickard and Iowa congressmen to relax the federal oleomargarine standards set to take effect Saturday. They warn butter substitutes harm dairy farms and mislead the public.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
Mark Thornbure
Paul McNutt
Wilson
McNutt
Henry Wallace
Claude Wickard
Iowa
Roosevelt authorizes aid to Polish refugee government
President Roosevelt authorized the first lend lease aid to the refugee Polish government. Supplies including machine guns rifles artillery and trucks will be sent to the Polish legion training in Canada for action overseas.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Roosevelt
Canada
Excavation Advances on Washington County Hospital Addition
Contractor Earl Wood progresses on the Washington County hospital addition project after the award last week. Excavation for the garasement is complete and a foreman’s house is being erected. Forms for concrete foundations are planned with brick work to start after upper foundation work ends, aiming for a substantial start before cold weather.
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Earl Wood
Washington County Hospital
Oil Aid to Red Army Sparks Debate in War Conference
United Press reports American war aid arriving in Russia as the Red Army fights near Leningrad and Churchill and Mackenzie King urge fuller aid. A California tanker delivers aviation fuel to Vladivostok amid Japanese protests. Soviet official Lozovsky denies German claims of Len ingrad’s fall and says the battle rages day and night.
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United Press
Russia
Red Army
British Empire
United States
California
Siberian
Vladivostok
United States State Department
Japan
Churchill
Pacific
Near East
Winston Churchill
London
William Mackenzie King
America
Britain
Mgscow
Leningrad
S. A. Lozovsky
Lozovsky
Goebbels
Cooler Weather Moves Into Iowa
Des Moines reports a storm moving east across Iowa with thunder showers and squalls bringing noticeably cooler air. The weather system hit Omaha earlier and is expected to reach the Mississippi River tonight as showers continue statewide. Readings include Creston 2.25 inches, Des Moines 1.00, Clarinda .83, Ames .38, Alta .62, Dubuque 4.00, Marshalltown .36, Waterloo .33, Cedar Rapids .41.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Omaha
Mississippi River
Creston
Clarinda
Ames
Alta
Dubuque
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
May Survive a 266 Foot Fall From Golden Gate Bridge
Cornelia Vanderland, 22, fell 266 feet into San Francisco Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge and, though severely injured, was believed to be recovering. Coast guardsmen rescued her after the high impact tore stockings, shoes, and a ring, with fractures to both arms and possible spine and internal injuries. She never lost consciousness.
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San Francisco
Cornelia Vanderland
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate Bridge
Coast
Storm Collapse Injures 20 in Twin Cities
A severe wind and rain storm hit Minneapolis and Saint Paul injuring 15 to 20 as a roof collapsed at the Sooline railroad shop. All injured were hospitalized with several in serious condition.
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Minneapolis and
Saint Paul
Minneapolis
Twin Cities
Sooline
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T.D. Quinn
Roy Durian
Burrell Foster
Charles Durian, Jr
Francis Romine
Myron Oswalt
Keota
Mary Shields
Claud Rhodebeck
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William Chopek
Richmond
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H. V. Snodgrass
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Washington County
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