Final Approval of Tax Bill and Nutrition Forum In Iowa
Eight hundred leaders in the state nutrition drive gathered at Iowa State College and concluded Iowa has plenty of food and malnutrition stems from lack of interest and nutrition knowledge. Dr. Charles E. Fries warned that a hungry man cannot be made interested in democracy and is a danger to defense programs.
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Iran
Iowa State Cell
Iowa
Charles E. Frise
Iowa State Colleg
Iowa Hens Hit Record Laying Pace in August
Iowa hen flocks produced an estimated 203 million eggs in August, a 7 percent rise from August 1940. For January–August 1941 output grew 6 percent over the same period in 1940, despite hens being only 2 percent more numerous.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Sioux City Returns City Parking Meters
Sioux City council votes to return 250 parking meters to Mark Time Sales Co. and Graybar Electric Co after three years. The city collected over 17 thousand dollars, meters remained titled to the vendors until paid. Originally 700 installed. 200 removed in 1939. In 1949 about 8 thousand still owed.
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Sioux City
Mark Time Sales Co
Graybar Electric Co
Supreme Court
117 Stitches After Auto Accident Reported
William Lyons of Davenport required 117 stitches to close facial and neck wounds after an auto accident near Mediapolis, Burlington area.
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Burlington
William Lyons
Davenport
Mediapolis
Here
Boone County Farmer Crushed While Digging Well
John Cryder, 56, a Boone County farmer, died after being raised about 20 feet by a rigging mechanism while inspecting a well at Nipier Consolidated School. He was rushed to a hospital in Ames but did not survive.
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Boone
John Cryder
Boone County
Napier Consolidated School
Cryder
Ames
Robbery Brains Sentenced Five Years In Iowa Reform School
Kenneth Han sen 24 of Cherokee pleaded guilty to robbery in district court and was sentenced to five years in the Anamosa penitentiary by Judge R. G. Rodman. Don Kissinger 24 of Des Moines and Tommy Holton 24, ex Le Mars bartender, are charged with him in a series of hotel robberies.
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Kenneth Hansen
le Mars
Anamosa Reformatory
R. G. Rodman
Don Kissinger
Des Moines
Tommy Holton
Hansen
Bird Life Authority Dies at Des Moines
Walter M. Rosen 60 of Ogden Iowa authority on bird life died at Iowa Lutheran hospital Des Moines after three weeks illness. Former banker he later worked in insurance. Renowned for bird lectures and pictures he served as past president of the Iowa Ornithologists union and on the former state fish and game commission.
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Bird Life Authority
Des Moines
OGDEN
Walter M. Rosen
Iowa
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Shifting Waterworks And Police Positions
Mayor R L Lytle and the city council arranged a transfer of two city jobs. Carl Hancher moves from waterworks to the police force, and Mark Pratt transfers from the police to the water and light plant. The council met briefly in regular session.
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R. L. Lytle
Carl Hancher
Mark Pratt
Hancher
Mine Plea Denied By Lewis In Mediation Row
John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers refused the mediation board's request for immediate resumption of work at captive mines. He said reopening will wait until the hearing begins tomorrow in Washington. He noted 43,178 soft coal miners across Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky are affected.
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Washington, D.C
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Defense Mediation Board
William Davis
Lewis
Davis
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Cooler Weather Brings Frost Risks Across Iowa
Des Moines reports cooler weather moving into Iowa with possible light frost in northern areas tonight and temperatures dipping to about 40 in the north and 50 in the central region. Yesterdays high reached 86 at Keokuk with a 54 low in Sioux City as heavy rainfall drenched several towns. a barn was reported blown down near Dike in Grundy County.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Keokuk
Sioux City
Grundy Center
Indianola
Mt. Ayr
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Alta
Creston
Winterset
Dike
Grundy County
Aid to Russia Gains Momentum as US War Material Reaches USSR
American war material is reaching the Soviet Union in growing volume and production will look very different once the US is fully geared. W Averell Harriman head of the US delegation to Moscow and Lord Halifax British ambassador to Washington said today.
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London
Soviet Union
America
W. Averell Harriman
United States
Moscow
Lord Halifax
Washington
Mayor Lytle Sentences Blodgett to Ten Days for Intoxication
Mayor R. L. Lytle sentences John Blodgett of Washington to ten days in the county jail for intoxication according to a local court record.
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R. L. Lytle
John Blodgett
Washington
Heart Tag Day Raises 116.68 for Volunteers of America
Mrs Dessie Hoffert led a tag day in which Volunteers of America collected 116 dollars 68 cents on Saturday. Children worked from morning to close and prizes went to Joanna Brock 13.91 Joy Wright and Clifford Fritz 11.66 Myrla Ward 9.08. Virginia Messenger and Karl McClure also earned prizes while others received movie passes.
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Dessie Hoffert
Volunteers of America
Joanna Brock
Joy Wright
Clifford Fritz
Myrla Ward
Virginia Messenger
Karl McClure
Beulah Weidner Granted Divorce From Kenneth Weidner
Judge Frank Bechly granted a decree of divorce in the Beulah Weidner versus Kenneth Weidner case. Attorney E L Edmondson of Brighton represented the plaintiff. The judge planned to return to court work next Monday after going to his Montezuma home.
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Frank Bechly
Beulah Weidner
Kenneth Weidner
E. L. Edmondson
Brighton
Bechly
Montezuma
Plan to Cut Product Varieties for War Production
Washington officials announce a new Bureau of Conservation Simplification and Substitution within the Office of Production Management to reduce styles models and types of goods. The aim is to conserve materials and labor for defense by standardizing products and promoting substitutes under Douglas MacKeachie.
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Washington
Defense
Bureau of Conservation
Office of Production Management
Douglas MacKeachie
World War Industry Board
Division of Conservation
OPM
MacKeachie
Panama Protest Over Sinking of Montana and Sessa
Panama government orders its Berlin minister to file a protest and claim for indemnity with Germany for the sinking of the Panama flagship Montana and Sessa near Iceland. The move follows recent naval actions and aims to secure compensation from the German government.
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Panama City
Berlin
Panama
Montana
Sessa
Iceland
Threaten Russian Industries By Eastward German Advance
German forces breach Russian defense along the Dnieper and push a broad front attack threatening the Donetz basin war industry. Berlin claims 18 Russian divisions destroyed or defeated in the Lake Ilmen area, signaling a paused Red Army counter offensive for the moment.
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United Press
Adolph Hitler
Dnieper
Russia
Longon
Donetz Basin
Berlin
Lake Ilmen
Red Army
Leningrad
New AAA Rules Limit Community Election Votes
The county AAA office announces a rule change restricting voting eligibility to cooperators already participating in an included farm program or who have received a payment for compliance with the 1941 program. Community meetings occur Friday in townships and the county convention is set for Saturday. Dutch Creek township meeting will be at the Valley school house instead of New Haven church.
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AAA
Dutch Creek Township
Valley School House
New Haven Church
Stores Selling U S Stamps for Defense
Washington business houses join a nation wide drive to fund defense measures by selling defense stamps. Stores, with Chamber of Commerce support, have supplies and will pass stamps to customers who wish to invest.
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Washington
United States
Chamber of Commerce
State Board Rejects Bids for Iowa State College Building
Des Moines reports the state board of education rejected the second bid set for a new agricultural building at Iowa State College. Bids exceeded the $195,000 appropriation by $4,000. The board will pursue construction directly and seek a WPA project.
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Des Moines
State Board of Education
Iowa State College
Washington voters face seven year pool tax plan
The local committee outlines the pool proposal for Washington to be voted on September 24. Home valued at 2 500 would be taxed on 60 percent or 1 500. The plan imposes one and a half mills, about 2 25 per year for seven years, covering principal and interest of bonds.
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People of
Washington
Revenue Bill Passes House to Shape Future Tax Plan
The House approved the final draft of a 3.55 trillion tax bill by voice vote and sent the conference report to the Senate. Representative Allen Treadway said Treasury will unveil another revenue program soon to clarify federal revenue procedures. He stressed any new sources would be taxed but not another bill as large as the current measure.
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Washington, D. C
House
Allen Treadway
New York
Ways and Means
Treasury
Congress
Senate
Treadway
Fountain Completes Second Full Season
Washington's memorial illuminated fountain in Central Park, completed and dedicated in August 1939 on the city’s hundredth anniversary, has just finished its second full season of public enjoyment. Water is drained from basins, lights and works stored for winter, Perry Jordan will place the winter hat on the fountain, and its activity will cease until spring 1942.
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Washington
Central Park
Perry Jordan
General Metal Class Starts Under Local High School Supervision
The first meeting of the general metal course was held with Principal W A Erbe of the high school assisting. Howard McBride leads the class at the county yard, and thirteen youths from Mt Pleasant Richmond West Chester and other towns enrolled. Two more openings exist for interested students. A later meeting will gauge interest in motor mechanics and other government sponsored courses requiring ten enrollees.
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W. A. Erbe
Howard McBride
Gene Major Kempf
Mt. Pleasant
Richard F. Welte
Dean F. Votruba
Richmond
Bill van Sickle
West Chester
Stanley McKeown, Jr
Bob Crone
Daryl H. Hoyle
Lafo Hamil
David Jackson
Everett L. Weinkinger
Jack ‘Trotman
Bill Walker
George Miller
Erbe
Willits Transferred to San Diego Marine Base
Lawrence Cloid Willits, junior, of Washington, has been transferred from enlistment in the United States Marines to the naval operations base at San Diego California. He was among July 1 county registrants who volunteered and is just past 21 years old.
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Washington County
Selective Service Board
Des Moines
United States Marines
Lawrence Cloid Willits
Washington
Marine Corps
Corps’ Naval Operations
San Diego
Calif
Bulgaria rejects Russian protest over neutrality stance
Sofia reports the Bulgarian government tonight rejected Moscow’s protest alleging disloyalty and failure to observe a neutral attitude. Russia had issued the protest on September 11 to the Bulgarian minister in Moscow.
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Sofia
Russia
Bulgaria
Moscow
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