Reds Report Crushing Panzer Thrust A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA
Mrs. L Berry a knot of hair saved from serious skull injury when she was knocked to the pavement after stepping from a car in Cedar Falls. Her husband stopped to let her enter a grocery store in the accident. Betty Rice eleven died of brain injuries after a noon Lincoln highway crash in Grand Junction while crossing with two other children near Reimer Funeral Home. The vehicle was driven by Lloyd Bettin of Melbourne.
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Cedar Falls
L. Berry
Berry
Jefferson
Betty Rice
Allen Rice
Grand Junction
Greene County Hospital
Lincoln Highway
Reimer Funeral Home
Lloyd Bettin
Melbourne
Eileen Jeffrey
Lester B. Krabill
Mabel Moore
Home Project
Twinam
Extension Department
J. W. Chandler
Farmer Ryan to Gift to Boys Town Near Omaha Neb
Michael J. Ryan, 80, a Delaware county bachelor farmer, plans to gift 14 000 to 15 000 to Father Flanagan's Boys Town. He has deeded his 19 acre farm to Boys Town for about 12 000 cash plus 100 monthly income for life, with farm valued at 100 per acre. The final amount depends on his lifespan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryan
Michael J. Ryan
Delaware County
Father Flanagan
Omaha
Neb
Boys Town
Jong Ryan
California visitor attends Northwest Iowa Methodist meetings
Mary Lothian 89 travels from California to Northwest Iowa for 25 years of conference attendance. She shares a room with Mrs Eben S Johnson 78, widow of a bishop in Africa until his 1939 death. Johnson came from Portland Oregon for her first conference since 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville
Northwest Iowa
Methodist Church
Mary Lothian
California
Iowa
Portland
Ore
Farmers Eye Unjust Wealth Distribution
Des Moines reports a correction of unjust distribution of wealth as a war preventive urged at the Iowa Farmers Union convention. A statement titled Our Stand on the Present Situation called for federal economic readjustment in the postwar period to guarantee producers their rightful share and to end underfeeding, underclothing, and underhousing in one third of the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Farmers Union
Hotel Kirkwood
Des Moines Stores Press On With Wrapping Order
Iowa liquor stores will not stop wrapping bottles but will try to economize on wrapping paper. M L Curtis, chairman of the state liquor commission, said clerks at the No 1 Des Moines store misunderstood the economy order by asking customers if they wanted wrapping. The commission cited paper scarcity and difficulty obtaining the quality used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
M. L. Curtis
State Liquor Commission
Curtis
Mail Fraud Conviction Lands Three Year Term
Cedar Rapids judge George C. Scott sentences John L. Huber of Minneapolis to three years in a reformatory for using the mails to defraud. The indictment says Huber ordered via telephone a grain shipment from M. A. Cass Jr., Plymouth Cereal Mills Le Mars, and mailed a sight draft payment though Cass could not collect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
John L. Huber
Minneapolis
Cass
County nutrition committee led by Dr Ruth Church at county session
Dr Ruth EB Church named county chairman of the Nutrition committee for National Defense with Mrs Merle Twinman as vice chair. Ruth Foster temporary chair and Miss Foster with Mrs W Leslie Gates organized a large county meeting to promote nutrition awareness and better diets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth EB. Church
Treslth
Merle Twinman
Canfordsville
Farm Pureau Home Project
Ruth Foster
Miss Foster
W. Leslie Gates
Defining the Funi Ski: a toboggan hauled by cable
A Funi-ski is described as a sledge funicular used to transport skiers and their skis to a run’s summit. The large toboggan is drawn up the slope at the end of a cable system.
Hitler's New Order In Chaos in Norway Under Nazi Rule
Paul Hartmann former Oslo mayor now in London says Hitler's Norwegian plan is in chaos. Norwegians unite against Quisling and German rule, repeatedly harassing occupying forces. Hartmann who led Oslo for 30 years fled after a year under Nazi domination.
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London
U.P
Paul Hartmann
Oslo
Adolph Hitler
Norway
Hartmann
England
Quisling
Germany
Three-Car Crash Kills Two in Marshalltown
Near Marshalltown at 3 AM a highway junction wrecked a car that overturned three times on a rock pile killing Edith McCue 40 and Edward O Conner 34. In the same three-vehicle crash four others were injured including Florence Arterburn 34 and Bernie Rovner 22.
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Marshalltown
Here
Edith McCue
J. S. McCue
Edward O'Conner
Florence Arterburn
Clem Arterburn
Bernie Rovner
Arterburn
Rovner
Lande
Storm Lake Picked as Convention Site by Conference Vote
ESTHERVILLE The Northwest Iowa Conference Methodists chose Storm Lake for the 1942 gathering by a margin of one vote. The ballot read 90 for Storm Lake and 89 for Clear Lake after a lengthy discussion of evangelism and the adoption of the Pension Fund Corp. report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville — Methodists
Northwest Iowa
Storm Lake
Clear Lake
Conference Pension Fund Corp
Pie Eating Contest Highlighted at Local Pie Bake
The committee sponsoring next Thursday's pie baking contest announces a pie eating contest as a program highlight. Over two hundred pies are expected, with $30 in prize money split between two divisions for women over and under twenty. Auctioneers Charlie Brown and Bill Bruty will auction all contest pies after judging at the Rockwood North Square location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Brown
Death claims John B. Ziegler
Funeral services for John K. Ziegler will be at 2 pm tomorrow at Jones chapel with Dr. F W Eastwood officiating. Interment in Elm Grove cemetery. He died last evening at 962 West Madison after an 18 month heart illness. survived by son William, daughter Mrs Dora Bailey of Washington, and a brother in Independence. His wife Anna is deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John K. Ziegler
Jones Chapel
F. W. Eastwood
First Presbyterian Church
Elm Grove Cemetery
John B Ziegler
Cumberland
Bernhardt
Sophia Kuhn Ziegler
Washington
Anna Tedsen
William
Dora Bailey, Hott
Independence
Ziezler
County Nurses Attend Joint Meeting in Iowa City
Nurses from Washington and Des Moines counties joined Johnson county nurses for a combined meeting in Iowa City. They toured University and Children's hospitals and Oakdale Sanitarium where Dr. Peck spoke on tuberculosis. In the past month three federal representatives visited the county health unit including Dr. Hughes, Bierman, and Applewhite for heart disease, children's bureau, and nutrition discussions.
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Washington
Des Moines
Johnson County
Iowa City
University and Children's Hospitals
Oakdale
Peck
Betty Hughes
Washington, D. C
Jessie Bierman
Children's Bureau
Applewhite
U.S. Public Health Service
Canadian Trains Meet in Collision at Antelope
At Antelope Saskatchewan on September 26 two Canadian Pacific trains collided killing at least three men and seriously wounding a fourth. Railway workers feared another man was dead and searched wreckage for his body as crews labored in freezing prairie to cut apart the crushed engines.
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Antelope
Sask
Canadian Pacific Railway
Julius Caesar Named Special Officer in Houston District
Julius Caesar serves as a special officer in a residential district of Houston, Texas, in a local policing role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Caesar
Texas
Houston
Texus
W S C S Des Moines Meeting Planned By Methodist Group
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Iowa Des Moines conference will hold its first annual meeting September 29 and 30 at Grace church Des Moines. Joy Smith will speak on Shanghai. Bishop Magee and Mrs Frank Brooks present inspirational messages.
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Woman's Society of Christian Service of the
Methodist Church of the Iowa
Des Moines
Grace Church
Harry Lauer
Joy Smith
Shanghai
China
Frank Lindhorst
Magee
Frank Brooks
Woman's Division of Christian Service
Iowa Des Moines
Church
Four Names Mentioned for G O P Lieutenant Governor Nomination
Des Moines Sept 26 Four possible candidates for the 1942 Republican lieutenant governor nomination are named in Iowa circles. They include Robert Blue Eagle Grove speaker of the house in the 141st legislature State Senator Hugh Lundy Albia State Senator De Vere Watson Council Bluffs Willis Edson Storm Lake 1936 GOP nominee for lieutenant governor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Blue
Eagle Grove
Hugh Lundy
Albia
DeVere Watson
Council Bluffs
Willis Edson
Storm Lake
Committee Plans Boys 4-H Program
A meeting was held at the Farm Bureau office to outline the 1942 Boys 4-H program. Attendees included the boys 4-H club committee, club officers, club agent J Harrison Donald and Ed Syndergaard of Ames, assistant boys state club leader, plus John Knotek Claud McCoy Wade Gardner Cleo McCoy Tom Walker Bob McLaughlin Stanley Chabal Leo Gislain and Alvin Lueder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
J. Harrison
Donald
Ed Syndergaard
Ames
John Knotek
Claud McCoy
Wade Gardner
Cleo McCoy
Tom Walker
Bob McLaughlin
Stanley Chabal
Leo Gislain
Alvin Lueder
Red Army Stops German Push Toward Moscow and Odessa
Russian forces report the crushing of a panzer thrust toward Moscow and repelled assaults on Odessa and Leningrad. They claim 20,000 German losses while Berlin tallies 574,000 Soviet prisoners. A night raid by Canadian troops reportedly removed 28 Nazi officers and documents on the French coast. Berlin said German artillery shelled Leningrad harbor and Kornstadt fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Red Army
Moscow
Adolph Hitler
Black Sea
Odessa
Leningrad
Hitler
Orel
Berlin
Kiev
New York
France
U.P
DNB
Kornstadt
Priorities Chief Signals System Overhaul to Save Small Firms
Washington D C Sept 26 U P Priorities Director Donald M Nelson warned the entire priorities system must be changed to prevent a national disaster for small business men He told the House Banking Committee studying price control that the government will direct allocation of scarce materials to manufacturers instead of issuing priority certificates He said the system is breaking down with many equal priorities still scrambling for materials and pledged top down as well as bottom up allocation to curb intrusions on small business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
U.P
Donald M. Nelson
House Banking Committee
Nelson
Lincoln Memorial Visit by the Duke of Windsor
The Duke of Windsor inspected the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C as part of a visit that combined business and leisure. He showed interest in the CCC camps, a New Deal project, and discussed plans for a Bahamas island development where he serves as governor general.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial
Potomac River
Duke of Windsor
New Deal
CCC
Bahama Islands
Wisconsin Governor Defends Stand On Roosevelt Control
Milwaukee September 26 Governor Julius Heil refused to apologize for his charge that President Roosevelt influenced the 23rd Legion National Convention. Heil claimed Navy Secretary Knox and Civilian Defense Director LaGuardia pressured the Legion into backing the foreign policy resolution. He said many Legionnaires he spoke with opposed aiding Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
American Legion
Julius Heil
Roosevelt
Heil
Chamber of Commerce
Navy
Frank Knox
F. H. LaGuardia
Legion Convention
Russia
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Reds
Hippo
Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Ryan Farmer
DR. Church
Merleckles
CG. C. Applewhite
United States Department of Health
Washington County
C. A. Boice
Stephen Jones
Idelia Bakke
Farm Security Administration
Miss Bakke
Martin Jensen
Pioneer Pacific
Jensen
Schenck
Senator Clark
Nicholas M. Schenck
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate Inter-State Commerce Sub-Committee
Loew's, Inc
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Wendell. Willkie
John B. Ziegler
Jones Fneral
W.S.C.S
China Missionary
G.O.P. Office
Duke
Wisconsin
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