A&P Defendants Found Guilty in Antitrust Suit
In Danville Illinois federal court Judge Walter C Lindley found all defendants guilty in the government antitrust lawsuit against the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co The verdict upholds price fixing and conspiracy claims though the company plans an appeal The decision spans 117 pages and notes the firms stores practiced the inherent vice in their activities in Danville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville, Ill
Waler C. Lindley
Greater New York Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Jouge Jimuley
U. S. District Court
Lindley
New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Danville Eres
Brighton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Moves
Brighton residents mark a busy week with family visits moves, travels, and school plans. Alfred and Hazel McCracken plus child visited P C McCracken in Davenport. Constance Stacy heads to Parsons College with her mother Mrs Victor Stacy. Cecil Ruggles returns from overseas and relocates with wife to the family home. The Dillands move to the Irwin residence. Mrs Louis Graffagana returns home from Fairfield after visiting her twin sister. Jolly Ten club hosts Mrs B C Tracy with guest Mrs W Berry of Long Beach. Bloomfield visitors Mr and Mrs James Whistler call on Frank Swisher. Dora Angus visits from Omaha. Lucy Mae Gowey visits from San Bruno to see the Gowey family. Jane Edmondson and Norman Leehner plan to enter State University next year as sophomores. Walter Ruggles and wife buy the former Heffelfinger property in Davenport where they reside with Mrs W R Long spending a Friday at the Davp ort home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Crile
Brighton
Alfred McCracken
Baby
P. C. McCracken
McCraccken
Davenport
Bri. V. Garlry
Victor Stacy
Wayland
Fairfield
Longs Beach
Calif
James Whistler
Bloomfield
Frank Swisher
Dora Angus
Omaha
Neb
Harry Stacy
Lucy Mae Gowey
San Bruno
Gmu
M. M. Gowey
Raymond Lemley
Des Moines
Carrie Lemley
University
Jane Edmondson
E. L. Edmondson
Norman Leehner
Henry Lechner
State University
Walter Ruggles
Hefflefinger
W. R. Long
Tome
Local families travel and visit across states this week
Mr and Mrs A F Harding returned home after a three week trip visiting relatives in Idaho Falls Ogden Salt Lake City and Kansas City with stops at Yellowstone Park. Mrs Justus Peterson arrived to spend two weeks with her sister in Town City. The Hofmanns welcomed a daughter at Mercy Hospital. Will Berry family returned from New York and plan to move to Long Beach California. The Willing Workers Fort Bureau and Presbyterian Ladies Aid held local gatherings and a dollar social. Dr and Mrs Van Zanten spent time with relatives in Pella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Harding
Idaho Falls
Ida
Jeff Croft
E. M. Harding
Colorado Springs
Colo
Hardings
Yellowstone National Park
Vwateu
Aardings Unele
Ogden
Utah
Salt Lake City
Abilene
Kani
Ramona Riley
Kansas City
Justus Peterson
Princeton, Ill
W. T. Carson
J. E. Long
Will Berry
John
Raymond Stacy
Wm van Zanten
Dina Kuyper
Pella
Jim Hotle to Auctioneer Here in Washington
Jim Hotle, a Washington painter, has completed an auctioneering course at the Corn Belt auction school in Des Moines and plans to pursue painting and auctioneering. Born on a Washington county farm, his lifelong aim is to become an auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hotle
Washington
Corn Belt
Des Moines
Mr. Hotle
Jim
Washington County
Pacific Islands Hit by Typhoon
Guam and Saipan were battered by a typhoon with 100 mile gusts as residents sheltered seven hours. The storm damaged buildings, radio facilities, and vehicles, causing millions in losses. No casualty reports due to disrupted lines. Saipan and Tinian feared harder hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Marianas Islands
Saipan-Tinian
Pacific Fleet
Saipan
Tinian
Plan for Closing Cafes in 15 Towns
Des Moines reports that cafe owners in at least 15 Iowa towns plan shutdowns despite pleas from OPA and state restaurant officials to refrain. Boone crews plan a Tuesday close. Oskaloosa firms remain shut. Iowa City groups vote to stay open 30 days and hold prices at Sept 1 levels. Grundy Center operators may close unless the OPA order is rescinded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
OPA
Town Restaurant Association
Towa
Walter Kline
L. J. Radtke
State Restaurant Association
Iowa
Boone
Oskaloosa
Iowa City Restaurant Association
Iowa City
Grundy Center
Republicans Predict Unified Congress After Wallace Ouster
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper spoke in Seattle predicting Republican control of both houses in the next Congress citing the Wallace ouster as evidence of Democratic split. He arrived from Washington to keynote the Republican state convention and warned that “the chickens are coming home to roast one by one.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Henry Wallace
Hickenlooper
Washington
Wallace
Lins Divorce Petition Filed for Gladys M Lins
Gladys M Lins files for divorce from Francis F Lins in district court citing desertion in 1941. Married June 23 1927 at Martinsboro Iowa, four children. She seeks custody of the minors and $12 50 per child monthly support. Baldrige Bailey counsel for plaintiff, resident of Oregon township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys M. Lins
Francis F. Lins
Clerk of District Court
Martinsboro
Iowa
Plantiff
Baldrige & Bailey
Oregon Township
Subsidy Cancelled for 1946 Soybean Crop
Washington dated Sept 21 stabilization director John R Steelman canceled the subsidy program for the crushing of the 1946 soybean crop after acting Secretary Brannan reported higher ceiling prices for soybean oil meal removed the need for subsidies. Mrs Homer Stephen returned home from Oakland where she had been since July visiting her daughter Mrs Clyde L Boice and family with Lt Comd and Mrs Boice later noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John R. Steelman
Charles F. Brannan
Homer Stephen
Oakland
Calif
Clyde L. Boice
Boice
Kaiser Auto Plant Idle Amid Detroit Labor Disputes
Detroit area plants halt production as 60 000 idle workers, including 4 500 CIO staff, refuse to cross picket lines around Willow Run. AFL CIO clashes and Briggs dispute ripple through Western Union talks and broader shipping, trucking, and hotel labor actions across major cities with 6 000 drivers idle in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Willow Run
Kaiser-Frazer
Detroit
Washtenaw County Building Trades Council
CIO
AFL
CIO Auto
Briggs Manufacturing Company
United Automobile Workers
Briggs
Wester
Lewis Schwellenbach
Western Union Company
Wallace Pepper Off Speaker List In Campaign
The Democratic National Committee excluded Henry A Wallace and Sen. Claude Pepper from its list of speakers for the congressional campaign. Leaders opted to run pre election events without their national sponsorship despite both figures' influence in the New Deal wing. Stephen Allison, the couple’s newborn, is noted in the accompanying lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Henry A Wallace
Sen
Claude Pepper
Fla
Pepper
Wallace
National Committee
Trump
Tentative Parade Float List Published for Washington Fall Festival
The Washington fall festival parade committee released a preliminary list of business houses likely to have floats on Saturday September 28. The list invites additions from firms clubs and groups and notes plans for early car models saddle horses and parade formation details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Wilson
Washington
Reister Brothers Produce
Sherman's Funeral Home
Chamberlin Brothers Sports
National Bank of Washington
Jones Funeral Home
Washington State Bank Evening Journal
Freshwaters Feed
AAA
Washington County Health Unit
Pullman B Johnson Dies Near Brighton
Pullman B. Johnson 72 died yesterday afternoon at his home seven miles northwest of Brighton near Rubio after a heart attack. Funeral plans await word from relatives. body at Omar Hoskins funeral home. He was born January 31, 1874 near Pleasant Plain and married Margare, Morgan on September 1, 1897 near Brighton. survived by wife, three sons Omar Charles City Lylbern Monrovia Elwood Corydon, four daughters in Monrovia Omaha Detroit, several grandchildren, brothers Barrett Pleasant Plain David Earlham Urville Eureka J M Wichita Kansas, sister Mrs Sarah Ingham Maywood Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Pullman B. Johnson
Rubio
Puneral
Omar Hoskins
Pleasant Plain
Margaure,Morgan
Johnson
Friends Church
Omar
Cherles City
Lylbern
Monrovia
Calif
Elwood
Corydon
K. L. Robison
W. P. Gripps
Omaha
Nebr
Howard Butler
Detroit
Mich
Barrett
Plesaant Plain
David
Earlham
Health Conference and Mothers Class at Ainsworth High
During the week of September 23 a special mothers class runs 2:00 to 8:40 P M. On Thursday a child health conference is scheduled 1:30 to 3:45 P M in the home economics room at Ainsworth High School.
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Ainsworth High School
Belgian airliner crash survivors reach hospital efforts
A Belgian trans Atlantic airliner crash near Gander on Wednesday left 18 survivors 26 dead. Coast Guard helicopters were to lift the most critically injured to hospital at Gander while ground crews cut a trail to a plateau for evacuation and care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gander
Neld
Coast Guard
Mld
United States
English Storm Ravages Crops and Claims Lives
A 20 hour storm battered the British Isles from Scotland to the Isle of Wight killing eleven people. It ripped through fields of wheat barley hay oats potatoes and sugar beets leaving extensive crop damage described by farmers as the most serious in living memory. A steamer named Isle of Jersey was toppled by a 6 foot wave with passengers swept overboard en route from the Channel Islands. The autumn harvest faces a severe setback akin to the black year of 1879.
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London
English Channel
British Isles
Scottish Highlands
Isle of Wight
Isle of Jersey
Channel Islands
Colonel Pike and family travel plans noted in Santa Ana visit
Colonel Horace Pike of Santa Ana California is visiting the T. W. Harwood home for a few days with Mrs. Pike. They plan to visit relatives in Iowa and return to California at month’s end. Mr and Mrs Howard P Miller begin a weeks vacation route via Devil's Lake North Dakota and San Francisco to join the American Session convention and visit relatives. Wilson Putman and son Stephen relocate from the Pratt apartment to their father’s Charlea Avenue home and plan a future move to a farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Pike
Santa, Ana
Calif
T. W. Harwood
Howard P. Miller
Henry H. Miller
Devil's Lake
N. Dak
Frank Walford
Howard Miller
San Francisco
Harvey S. Meek
Kh. C. Risk
Wilson Putman
Stephen
QC. A. Pratt
Charlea Avenue
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Philip Murray
Harry Bridges
Longshermen
Sam Hogan
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
International Soundphoto
A&p
New York
Brighton News
C. A. Pratt
Agency
Mable Swan
Don Hofmann
Mercy Hospital
Hofmann
Edith Gillespie
T. R. Gillespie
Town City
Pacific Islands
Congress
Kaiser Auto Plant
AFL Unions
Los Angeles
Hollywood
New York City
Stephen Allison
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt New
Truman
Washington Park
Iowa Continental Telephone Co
A. Eite Yard
McFarlane Paneners Mutual Insurance
Assa Chocolate Shop
Speedway
L Lemmon's
Sim
Livvd Lytle Grocery
Sidwell Ice Cream Company
Lutros OQ
Rubber Weiders Mangold Radio
Washington Oil Co
Fox
State Theatres
State Cafe
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Gamble
Firestone
Guther
Iowa Memorial Company
T. H. Peters
Walt’s
TI Rothschild
Montgomery Ward and Co
Rapp
Western Auto
Ross Motor Company
Kourt May
Sieg Company
Ledger
Phillips and
Hebner Drug Store
Super Vatu
Candy Kitchen
North Side Cafe
Nicola and Harmon Peter Pan Bakery
Crane
Scotts Furniture
A. E. Atchison
Pickens
Carson Plumbing and Heating Co
John Deere Implements
Wilson Coat Company
Cooperative Service
John Shields and Sons
Lowash & Harland
Washington Lumber and Fuel Co
Railway Express
Humble Produce
Standard Oil Company
Washington Motor Company
John Patterson
Kee Line
Martin Cleaners
Smart Implement Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Oo
Finney Feed and Supply Company
Fred L. Stewart
Hardware Tait
Arlyce
Foster Radio Service
Wardrobe Cleaners Wehr
Washington Dairy
Shell Oil Company
Stewart Auto and Tractor
American Pearl Button Co
Armour and Company
Workington Brothers
Washington Concrete Co
Cargill Inc
Ramseyer Hatchery
Corn Belt Turkey Farm
Fred Burger Produce
Little Furniture
Ee. G. Humm
Washington Co. Ofinisterial Association
Don Radda
Cedar Township
Ansel Briggs
Wehr
Pullman
B. Johnson
Foundland
Joseph Martin
Martin
Dead Wolf Creek
England
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