Consider Need for Larger Ottumwa Airport
Ottumwa Chamber of Commerce weighs moving the municipal airport after E G Barry of the civil aeronautics authority warned the present site is limited and will be too small in five years. Upgrading to Class 2 could cost about 100000 and enable a feeder air mail line. Des Moines reports May Goodrell, 80, East High principal, gravely ill with pneumonia but improving after sulfapyridine treatment.
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Ottumwa
Chamber of Commerce
E. G. Barry
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Barry
Des Moines
May Goodrell
East High School
Miss Goodrell
Broadcast for Mother Missing for Several Days
Storm Lake audio from the state police radio station reports Ed Bartels of Buena Vista county as a missing mother and housewife, 38, who left notes for her husband and daughter indicating she departed last Wednesday. Relatives say she has been absent since.
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Storm Lake
Ed Bartels
Buena
Pupils Thank Davenport School Board For Thanksgiving Proclamation
Davenport schools will observe Thanksgiving day twice this year. The school board first kept Nov 30 as the day, then after President Roosevelt proclaimed a date change to Nov 23, the board approved observing both dates.
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Davenport
Roosevelt
Freshman Days At Iowa State College Start Thursday
Freshman days at Iowa State College began Thursday and run through Monday night. New students will tour campus take exams meet counselors register and have photos taken for college files. Dr Charles E Finley college president opens the events with an address to students and parents Thursday morning.
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Iowa State College
Eir
Charles E. Finley
Jury selection unfinished in LaJeu murder case
The jury for Joseph P. LaJeu nesse alias John Gordon, 53, on a first degree murder charge had not been completed when court adjourned. More than 30 prospective jurors were examined. Gordon is under indictment for the blackjack slaying of John Larson a 54 year old Clear Lake laborer at the Clear Lake stockyards last May 13.
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Mason City
Joseph P. LaJeunesse
John
Indian
Credit groups to hear Mrs Wyland on Women's Progress in Credit Work
Mrs Oda Wyland, credit manager of the American Institute of Business, will address credit groups in Galesburg Illinois and Davenport Thursday evening and Sunday meeting on Women's Progress in Credit Work. In Galesburg she will help organize a credit club affiliated with the Credit Women's Breakfast Clubs of North America. She will assist in organizing a Sioux City chapter on September 26.
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Credit Anger
Des Moines
Oda Wyland
American Institute of Business
Galesurg
Ill
Davenport
Thursas
Galesburg
Credit Women's Breakfast Clubs of North
Dentist Proves No Joke About Non-Skid Teeth
Sioux City reports at the Northwest Iowa Dental Society convention Dr. J. W. Boland of Sigourney TD demonstrates a method to lock lower artificial teeth in place. He showed a chisel attempt to pry out a plate from one of four patients.
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Sioux City
McCoy
Northwest Iowa Dental Society
J. W. Boland
Sigourney, TD
Boland
Twelve Tons of Melons From One Acre Near Tabor
Charlie Swett of five miles south of Tabor harvested twelve tons of melons from a single acre in a 28 day period. Swett, who has sold melons in Tabor, praises the yield compared with corn. He developed the hybrid over three years, a cross of Stone Mountain and Kansas sweetheart.
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Tabor
Charlies Swett
Swett
Stone Mountain
Kansas
Washington's 1940 census hopes for 5,000 population
The article asks if Washington will reach 5,000 residents in the 1940 census and suggests counting nearby residents by extending the town limits. It urges Chamber of Commerce efforts to ensure full enumerator coverage and notes past counts excluding those just outside the corporation line.
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United States
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Corporation
Grand Jury Condemns County Jail as Unfit for Humans
The September 1939 Washington County Iowa grand jury found the county jail inadequate and unfit for confinement. It urged the Board of Supervisors to promptly provide adequate facilities, noting cramped space, poor sanitation, lack of air and light, and insufficient kitchen and toilet facilities.
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Board of Supervisors
Dota Ton County
Iowa
Men's Club to Bid Farewell to Dr Atack
The Men's club of the First Methodist Church announces a farewell program for Dr Arthur Atack, set for next Monday at 7 30 p m in the church social hall. The event precedes his departure for Aberdeen South Dakota. Karl Libe president, Theodore Bailey chairman of committees, and L E Travis secretary led the preparations as the club reports a Centennial stand profit of about 66 dollars.
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Arthur Atack
First Methodist Church
Theodore Bailey
L. E. Travis
Washington Heatwave Set to Break Records
An abnormally hot September day in Washington forecast a high near the season’s 106 degree record. The previous day reached 96 degrees as residents endured extreme heat. Mrs. H. Hull visited Iowa City to see her grandson James Allen Pang born.
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H. Hull
Iowa City
James Allen Pangborn
Jury Trials Assigned for Next Monday in Washington County
The Washington county district court schedules jury trials for the September term starting Monday Sept 18 with the Goble estate case first. Sixteen jury trials are set for Monday and Wednesday in order, subject to settlements or continuances, followed by seventeen non jury trials on completion.
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Washington County District Court
Goble Estate
J. G. Patterson
Roosevelt calls Congress into special session September 21
President Roosevelt announced an extra session of Congress for September 21 at noon to receive a communication from the executive department. He invited Democratic and Republican leaders to the White House for an informal conference on September 20, with no issues specified.
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Poland
Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
Congress
Executive Department
Senate
White House
Most of Corn Is Safe from Frost
Des Moines reports four fifths of lava corn is safe from frost due to a week of extreme heat. Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed said the heat has damaged some fields with deterioration unlikely for this late season, in his weekly weather and crop report.
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Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Dawson Indicted by Grand Jury on Fraud Charge
The September term grand jury returned an indictment against Howard Dawson for obtaining money and property by false pretenses. He allegedly borrowed a horse from Dewey Weeks and sold it to Elmer Schantz. No indictment for George Whetstine. Another undisclosed indictment was returned for a person not yet in custody.
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Howard Dawson
Dewey Weeks
Elmer Schantz
George Whetstine
Wellman
Griffith Starts to Europe Tomorrow
Edwin Griffith, now in Washington, receives word to sail from New York on the Focambion of the American Export line for Athens to teach chemistry and biology at Athens College. He will depart Iowa City Thursday, reach New York Friday, and sail Saturday, despite late notice amid European unsettled conditions. เข
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Edwin Griffith
Washington
New York
Athens
Greece
Iowa City
Naples
Athens College
Near East College Association
Obe
Europe
Griffith
Mille and Wid Diffield Visit Friends Across Iowa
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mille of Washington and Lawrence Wid-difield of Mount Pleasant visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hale in Onawa and with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Howard in Algona, seeing old friends.
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A. H. Mille
Washington
Lawrence Widdifield
Mount Pleasant
Henry Hale
Onawa
Gerald Howard
Algona
Death Claims Mrs Pat Tobin Of Ainsworth
Mrs J P Tobin 69 of Ainsworth died at University Hospital Iowa City after pneumonia following surgery. Funeral at St James Catholic Church at 9 am Friday, burial Elm Grove. body at L A Jones funeral home. wife of J Patrick Tobin with six children and seven grandchildren survives. Rose Ellen Tobin died in 1906.
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J. P. Tobin
Ainsworth
University Hospital
Iowa City
Washington County
Elm Grove
L. A. Jones
Tobin
Washington
Catherine Flynn Tobin
Meriden
County Meade
Ireland
Michael and
Rose Winters Flynn
America
Camp Grove
Columbus Junction
Lowerin
J. Patrick Tobin
St. James Catholic Church
Louisa County
Take Applications Now for CCC Camp
Miss Martha Foster county welfare worker announces her office will take applications for CCC enrollments for the rest of this month. The county quota and number of enrollees are not yet announced.
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Martha Foster
CCC
Study Plans and Departures for Ames Students
The text notes age limits of 17 to 23 and mentions Helen Finney planning to go to Ames tomorrow to resume work at Iowa State College. Mr and Mrs Finney will drive their daughter to Ames. Mildred Kyle, a senior in home economics, will also leave for Ames, with Vera Foss and Naomi Kyle soon departing to resume work at I.B.C.
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Helen Finney
Ames
Iowa Stace College
H. ©. Finney
Mildred Kyle
Vera Foss
Naomi Kyle
Early World War II Updates from Europe and Polands Front
American Ambassador Drexel Biddle charged German bombing of Polish cities including his villa area. German dispatches claimed three army thrusts broke Polish lines near Warsaw Krakow and San river to end eastern war quickly. French plan large scale attack on Saar front with British air and naval support. Chamberlain vows to end Hitlerism and support Poland with rapid conscription and convoy protections.
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Washington, D. C
Poland
Anthony Drexel Biddle
Berlin
Europe
Warsaw
East Prussia
Warsaw-Siedles
Krakow
San
Rumania
Paris
Saar Front
West Wall
Saarbruecken
France
Survivors recount shelling of liner after torpedo incident
American survivors from the disaster aboard the rescue ship at Halifax describe how the British liner was shelled after a torpedo strike. The accounts arrive as authorities verify details of the attack and the ship's fate.
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Halifax
Athenia
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