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jf yowl Mem Than gifl.OOfl Circulation! fr TWO IOWA NEWS NOW! More Than 840,000 Ctrrrjistlon? MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER. GOVIG, SLAYING Friends of Same Name FIGURE, FREE! 2 Pass on Day to Visit MRS. RiDGEWAY DIES HERE AT 94 Came to Des Moines in Covered Wagon. Mrs. Ellen Ridgeway, 94, of 1428 Fourteenth who came to Des Moines with her parents in a cov-1 Grocer Relea At Each Other's Homes State Hospital.

INDEPENDENCE" Ti Burton Goviir w-t son Citv. lii. the door, and asked if they were looking for Mr. Millstead. nwawnns nwm mm I'igiljijSjffiS CHARLES L.

CUTLER, now 63, who lives at 309 Grand, In Des Moines, had an operation for appendicitis 40 year ago. Twenty-yaara later, they tewed him up. At the firat carving, poisoning set in. They didn't dare put a hem in his stomach. But years later, after the.

wound healed, they got out knife and the medical sewing basket and tidied him up a bit THIRTY-NINE YEARS AGO, Edwin Drake.rented a room In a hotel at Tipton. Now, at 78, he not only'stlll lives at the same hotel, BUT HAS OCCUPIED THE SAME ROOM SINCE 1900. Saturday from the Newton Chief 'Breaks Down When Quizzed (The Refiner's Iowa News Btrrlct.) NEWTON; IA. The tables were turned on Police Chief Lawrence A. Saturday evening.

He underwent some questioning himself when it waa noticed the out-of-state marriage licenses In The Des Moines Tribune carried one Issued to Mc-Call and Iva Lucile Wright of Newton. Then the secret of their recent marriage at Bethany, was out. McCall is a stepson of L. H. Clark, a former traffic inspector in the Des Moines police department The bride, a former resident of Oskaloosa and Des Moines, is a daughter of Mrs.

Arthur Wright of Newton. They were. The MUlsteada left early, this iur me maane at Indf.Z There are ships that pass in the night, and Millsteads that pass in Chicago, 111. The Millsteads are Harry Des Moines delinquent special assessments collector, and Harry a to which he had been coZT after his confessed .1,1 morning on a very peculiar trip," the neighbor said. wife Feb.

28. ibst "He haa been corresponding for Hia release was taini 21 years with a man whose name writ of habeas corpus aeilMt' R. A. Stew.rf Dr. General Electric Co.

executive in Chicago. is the same as his, but he has ered wagon when she was 11 years old, died Saturday at her home. Services will be at 2:30 p. m. today at the Thomas funeral home at Carlisle, Ia with burial at Swan.

Ia. Mrs. Ridgeway u-ae Virtrn In LOOKED FOR A TIME at Fairfield the other day that the old I tendent. whn t.otin.L "Wi never seen this man, who lives in Des Moines. Their ages are even times when you could spear a handful of sauerkraut from the open barrel had come again.

A u-oman nibbled at a cookie site a ai Uu ine on th nrvit uiaL the same. staff of six doctors were that Govig is sane. hi Twenty-one year ago this summer, Dea Moines Harry O. read a little poem in a rover, newspaper. The poem had won a county contest prize, and was signed "Harry O.

Millstead." Judge R. W. Hasner nf Inn r1ftftH Highland county, 4 after ARRV ORVILLE Des Moines. vcautiea. "So Mr.

and Mrs. Millstead decided they would take these three days and run down to Des Moines to see that other Mr. Millstead. Isn't that queer?" HARRY OSCAR MILLSTEAD. Chlctio.

I Ohio. Most of So, Des Moines Harry O. wrote Colorado Harry O. a friendly letter. Colorado Harry replied mrs.

riooew at. her early years were spent on a farm near Swan, SIDNEY RODEO FARMER DROWNS where her parents settled. with General Electric Co. there. They had never met.

with a friendly letter. Same Age. After the death of her husband, BEGINS AUG. 15 appropriated from a grocery counter. Another lady, noting their appearance not oo closely, asked the proprietor if they were free.

"NO," SAYS HE (AND THE FIRST LADY HEARD) "I WAS JUST CLEANING OUT Tl.E CASE THEY'RE WORMY." TWO YEARS AGO, Joseph Cary. who works on Mrs. John M. Strider's stock farm near Corwith, was finned on the right thumb-knuckle while fishing off the breakwater at Corpus Christi bay, in Texas. The other day while he was washing before breakfast the akin btke.

Later, while he was pitching fertilizer, a piece of fin, a quarter of an inch long, worked its way out. ASHBY'S SORRY he can't be at the Central Iowa golf tour-nament at Marshalltown Aug. 6, 7 and 8 (he'll be on vacation), but tea owners of the course, which would never look the same, ought to be pretty happy qver Mrs. J. B.

Ringer of Mt. Vernon and Mrs. Don Whitmer of Des Moines, who ara isters, have sets of identical twins In case the name (FaRu) Des Moinea Harry O. gasped! David Ridgeway, in 1915, Mrs. They discovered they were the "You're telling me! I'm that Harry IN GRAND RIVE Ridgeway made her home with her (Tht Regliler'i Iowa Ktwi Semct.) same age, 21.

They started a reg' Millstead. I came here to see Mr. Des Moines Harry and his wife arrived in Chicago July 3, and decided they would call on the old friend and his wife the daughter, Myrtle Winfrey, with Millstead." SIDNEY, IA. The sixteenth ular correspondence that has continued 21 years, with special re whom she lived at the time of her death. annual Sidney rodeo, sponsored by Three Children membrances for birthdays, Christ the Willlams-Jobe-Gibson Amer When the two Harry Millsteads got home again, they sent letters explaining.

The letters passed in Two other daughters, a son and next morning. Rattled the Door. mases, wedding anniversaries, and lean Legion post, will be held Aug. Left Orphans. (The Reslitef Iowa N.w, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

the mail, written the same day. Before this situation develops a sister, also survive. They are Effie Crawford, Des Moines, and Elizabeth Inlow, Chicago, the son, W. L. Ridgeway, Carlisle; and the sister, Lucinda Ridgeway, Billings, Okla.

The 350 head of stock used in the show are owned by the legion post here. More than 110 head of iuix, ia. Three They went out to Colorado Harry home the next morning, and rattled the door. They stood around, and rattled the other special events. This summer, Des Moines Harry O.

was on Ills vacation in Indiana, and decided he would stop In Chicago to meet Colorado Harry who had, in the meantime, become connected children lost their father in gold letters on that trim new sailboat in Des Moinea has puzzled you, it is named after Frank (Dr.) and Ruby (hia wife) Hull, who suspicions of a double life, It might be that Des Moines Harry O. is "Harry Or-ville," and Colorado Harry O. Is horses were vaccinated as a precaution against sleeping sickness built It in their basement at 833 E. "University. mujmuun wnen a uavii City i farmer drowned in Grand door some more.

last week. "Harry Oscar." A neighbor stuck her head out nine mues soumeast of Davii Qtj dTV MRS. BUNGER in Aiinougn considered a swimmer, Ben Wishon, St, unable to save himself tfa ARMY POST SOLDIER STRUCK- IS DEAD AT 76 5 1 Biepping on accidentally lit, 14-foot hole in the river, Mrs. L. Leona Bunger.

78. for Wishon was on a fishinr. Learning to Drive; Car Hits Man mer Burlington, resident and a Des Moines resident for 50 years, died at her home, 2833 with six other farmers anil i son, Bobby, 12. His other v-7 children are Annabelle, 15, Dellia, 10. Mrs.

Wishon iat University Saturday morning following an illness of two months. The drowning nappmed te DIVER, 1 9, DIES Services will be held at the across me stale line in Misjoufl. Harbach funeral home at 2 p. m. Tuesday, and burial will be at Kies Girls to Play-In Same Picture OF BROKEN NECK Resthaven Memorial park.

GEORGIA SHEDS A HAPPY TEAR Mrs. Bunger was born in Illi nois and came to Iowa in 1882. Hits Bottom of Pool 3k iMMj Georgia Coleman, former Olw pic aquatic star and holder She was a member of the Union Park Church of Christ, the Women's Relief Corps, Daughters of Union Veterans, Sons of Veterans auxiliary and the Postal Clerks auxiliary. at Le Mars. (Ttai Reglitcr'i Iowa Newi Scrvtct.) national diving records, shed tan (Th Register'! Iowa Nrwi StrvlcO DUBUQUE, IA.

Little did Margaret Lindsay, movie star and former Dubuque girl, realize when she began her rise to stardom that she would have competition from a of gratefulness Saturday when formed by telegram that the JU.I' IE MARS, IA. Robert KeUey, 19, of Le Mars, died Satur swimming and diving champion. Surviving are a brother, Damon A. Carper, Des Mpines, and a day of a broken neck suffered when he dived off a 10-foot board ships in Des Moines were debit member of her family. This is what has happened, for sister, Mrs.

Charles H. Brown, ed to her. at the municipal swimming pool Salem, Ore. The tank star, stricken with Noticing KeUey did not come fantile paralysis, replied to Lit up after his dive, Lifeguards Dave McCuskey and Henneth Lucier, secretary of the Ion C. E.

REYNOLDS Jane (Kies) Gilbert, sister of Margaret Lindsay, has signed a contract with Warner Brothers, the same studio that now has Margaret under contract A.A.U. and director of the ate. Hoffman and Keith Bartels. Kel here, as follows: RITES MONDAY ley's companion, recovered the "Just received your wire and body about one minute later. Dr, Jane, who is 19, was graduated everyone here in Dansville (N.T, W.

L. Downing and Dr. H. L. Services lor Charles E.

Reyn does not know about the meet ded Vander Stoep said they believed ft 1 ication, I am not to blami COUPLE TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL Condition of Victim Reported Critical. A woman being taught by her husband how to drive was at the wheel of a car that struck and critically injured a Fort Des Moines soldier late Saturday night. The accident took place on Army Post road near the army post entrance. The soldier, William Loveland, 18, of Troop Fourteenth Cavalry, suffered a fractured skull, possible broken cheekbones, a fractured nose, shock and Internal Injuries. He was taken to the army hospital.

Mrs. Everett Aldrich, 28, driver of the car, and her husband, 30, living on Route 11 north of Fort Des Moines, were arrested by deputy sheriffs, who said neither had a driver's license. They were booked for investigation at the county jail. The deputies said it was Aldrich who told them he was giving his wife a driving lesson. According to the deputies, Aid-rich's driver's license was revoked recently when he was convicted of reckless driving at Adel, la.

THREE INJURED the youth Jiad hit the bottom on from senior high school here in 1937. Since graduating she has attended dramatic schools In the east and has had several leading his face, breaking his neck. olds, 76, Jewell, who died Friday in a Story City, hospital, will be at the Harbach funeral home at 2 p. m. Monday.

Burial will be at Glendale. hope you have Olympic guw with all records broken in jw pool. I am crying, so you parts In summer stock showa and 200 EXPECTED radio dramatic sketches. She also Mr. Reynolds, retired oil dealer, had lived In Panora, Palmyra, AT SESSIONS played in the Broadway production, "What a Life." Family in Hollywood.

Des Moines, Ellsworth and Jewell, know what a sissy I am, althougk they're really tears of griteto ness. Iowans, good luck and all your champions, too. "Sincerely, "Georgia Coleman," Ia. He was a life-long resident of Iowa. (Tht RKl9tri Iowa Newi Service.) According to a relative, Jane is OSKALOOSA, I A.

More than Surviving are a son, Harold Feaa In a pod are as much alike as the girls on the ends, Beverley and Shirley Whitmer respectively, and the boys In the middle, Larry (left) and Jerry Ringer. WHEN MR. AND MRS. J. H.

COWMAN of Pleasantville celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, the husband's father, W. M. Cowman, who is 94, was a guest George Moritz, of Storm Lake, has a bulldog that will select the best apple in a cluster of them and put the munch on it And Mrs. Kenneth Cole, of Rembrandt, haa a cat that'll do the same thing with raw potatoes. COMING UP, ONE SNAKE STORY! Mrs.

C. O. Gipple, who lives on a farm north of Anita, went to her kitchen last Sunday morning arid found a three-foot bull snake coiled on her stove and leering at her. Her son shot it with a rifle. BETTER TELL THE ONE ABOUT Grocer Roy Hough, of New-ton.

The Hough's handy man was laying rocks in cement for their foxy backyard patio and Roy came along and took i a gander at the Job. The cement mix was too thin, he thinks to himself, and tells the man about it. The man assures him all Is well. But Roy insisted something was screwy about the mix. So they went to the garage.

The cement sack had been placed along-aide a sack of fertilizer. AND THE HANDY MAN HAD WHIPPED UP A RARE CONCOCTION OF SAND, WATER AND MANURE. THERE WERE PLENTY OF FISH in the Nishnabotna river at Avoca after that fast Rock Island freight went through the bridge there one of the cars was loaded witVcans of sardines i Say, the state Is fairly teething with string-savers! John Norris, who has been winding only two years, has a disc of twine that neighs 42 pounds and Is 21 Inches through the middle (the ball, not John) And Charles K. Mellang, 75, of Mason City, has saved 25 years to accumulate 101 miles a plain white grocery cord In a ball weighing 125 pounds and measuring seven feet in diameter! ROM a list prepared by the regular secretary, an extra assistant in the office of Dr. Edward McMurray, of Newton, was sending out statements, She came across this notation: "John Jones up in Wisconsin." So "she sent the statement to "John Jones, Upin, Wis." to have her first part in a pic SIGN DIRECTS 200 young people are expected to attend the annual Young Friends conference on the William Penn college campus here Aug.

7 to ture to be started soon in which Margaret will have the leading feminine role. The name of the E. Reynolds, Garden Grove, a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Wad-dell, Des Moines; two brothers, George Reynolds, Indianola, and Thomas Reynolds of Oregon; ROUTE TO D. Aug, 10.

(The Regtiter'i lowt New Setvta) Jane Gilbert. Signs Movie Contract. and five sisters, Mrs. Vinton Hay- WINTERS ET, IA. A steel cn, I worth, California; Mrs.

Alice SPAN PLANNED 5 by 10 feet, with reflecting let ters spelling "Turn Left on Pvil new film was not disclosed. So successful have been the Kies girls In acting that their mother, Mrs. John Kies of Dubuque, moved with the rest of her family to Hollywood, last fall In hopes of creating dramatic ambitions in the younger children. FOR PIPELINE Short Cut to Des Moines via streets. The truck belonged, police said, to the Artistic Cleaning Hodgln, Indianola; Mrs.

Anna Rubottom, Ackworth, Mrs. Lulu Flescher of California, and Mrs. Naomi Blake, Indianola. OMAHA, NEB. (ai Northern terset," has been placed a few Natural Gas Co.

of Omaha, Neb Dyeing Co. E. B. Humphrey, 87, of 1712 has asked permission of army en glneers to erect a suspension pipe BLUFFS BANDIT There are six children the dred yards west of the Intersection of Highways 169 and 34 south Lorimor by the Winterset Co mercial club. The route from tht corner to Des Moines by way Winterset is 10 miles shorter tin by way of Osceola and Indianola GETS 25 YEARS Kies family, five girls and a boy Forest was Injured about the back when his truckcollided with Margaret and Jane are now in the OMAHA, NEB.

UP) John movies. Two older sisters are mar line bridge across the Missouri river south of Sioux City, Ia. Company officials said the bridge would be part of a proposed 240-mile pipeline between Sioux City and Minneapolis, to cost an estimated $3,600,000. an auto driven by Ralph L. Denny, of 907 Aurora at ried.

A younger sister, Mary, 17, is now appearing aeveral nights a week at the Hollywood Bowl with the Koslofs dancing revue. She is Twenty-fifth st. and Carpenter Help save a life! Look you drive and where you attl ave. IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Three persons were Injured in traffic accidents late Saturday. Mrs.

G. W. George, 44, of 115 Bird suffered a wrenched neck and bruised right arm when an auto driven by her husband, 49, was struck from the rear by a tmck. The accident occurred on Grand ave. between Seventh and Eighth McNeill, 47, of Council Bluffs, wounded and captured July 1 by Motorcycle Patrolman Charles Condon In a gun fight following a drug store holdup, was sentenced Saturday to 25 years in prison.

McNeill pleaded guilty of holding up the Omaha Clothing Co. for $150 last May 20. He had a previous penitentiary record. studying dancing and haa hopes of becoming a dancing star for either Struck by an auto at Fifth the movies or the stage. Brother Is 15.

ave. and Keosauqua way, Thelma Patrie, 36, of 740 Seventeenth ITed Ashby's column appears every day in The Des Moines suffered injuries to her left hip John, 15, youngest member of the Kies family, is attending a military school In Hollywood and mm and bruises. The auto was driven gym 10 IW" I SfC TltfV5l0Hl ZA souwjJLrUu TO PARKS LABORERS by Robert W. Hall, 35, of 4024 is reported active in school dramatic presentations. Jack claims Eighth st.

however, that he will have nothing to do with the movies as he feels Hope to Extend Annual Wage Plan it is a "sissy racket" Relatives of the Kies family In Ill Dubuque state that Jane looks up to Margaret aa an inspiration and a model. Today in Des Moines Final day of the women's National A.A.U. swimming and diving championships at Blrdland pool. Events begin at 7 p. m.

Sixth annual Scandinavian-American day fete at the state fair L0.K7S 0 To prove ahe wanted to get into the movies the hard way, Jane just tw; end 1. went to the east coast after get 13 ting out of school and began working in summer stock companies in Maine where she would be sure erf a grounds under the auspices of there would be little chance of meeting any Influential friends of tistoer ttin her sister. MODEL PLANE Till" In PROGRAM TODAY AT CHURCH TREE Site of Worship 102 Years Ago. (Th Result ft Iowa N'ewi 8rvlce.) KEOSAUQUA, IA. Old Church Tree, under which the first church services In Van Buren county west of the Des Moines river were held 102 years ago, today will be the scene of a commemorative program and dedication of a marker.

The tree, under which Van Buren county pioneers gathered to worship, is on the river road immediately to the north, of Pittsburgh, la. The Rev. Hugo Orf cf Keosauqua will direct dedication MEET TODAY the Scandinavian-American society of Iowa, Afternoon program starts at 1:45 p. m. Federal orchestra concert at 7:45 p.

m. at McHenry park. Community sing at 7:30 p. in. at Sylvan theater, Greenwood park.

Meeting of. the Townsend National Recovery Plan, at 5 p. m. Sunday at the new shelter house at Union park, honoring T. E.

Stevens, national representative, who has been transferred to Phoenix, Ariz. In (Tht Rf litir lows Nwi Servlct. OTTUMWA, IA. More than II 1U4U Last year they averaged less than three days a man sick leave, and for the first three months of this year are averaging less than a half-day a man. The Increase in pay from $1,320 to $1,350 has been made possible by not putting on new men when men left their jobs or were discharged, officials said.

The normal turnover of department labor ir a year has taken care of higher wbrcs without increasing the total payroll cost. 240 Days a Year. The men work only 240 days a year, and have two weeks vacation with pay. They receive time-and-a-lvlf for overtime work, and are not allowed to take another job during the period each year when they are not working for the city. Streets department officials are completely sold on the plan, and have been since the first few months of Its operation.

They say it has increased efficiency, and improved department labor relations. The parks department is paying common bbor 72'! cents an hour. An annual wage of $1,380 actually would effect a saving in total labor costs, it has been estimated by department officials. 100 gas model planes will compete at the Iowa state model airplane I'HILCO 180XF meet at Ottumwa municipal air port today, in addition to the rub A atunnlna Amrir anS For ber-powered models entered. etell oneole! Electrlr Pash-Bulton Toning Iniludlni TrlevlBlnn button.

Bullt-ln euprr Aerial system with Twin Loop Aerial. Tathrdral Speaker. Variable Ton Control. Impressln Walnut Cabinet. It and Save! 380 wage with $6,000 left for employment of casual (seasonal) labor.

Approve. The council decided the annual wage could be applied to the 60 without damage to parks department finances. The council estimated that this would still leave some margin for casual labor. The annual wage Is an idea upon which several men have collaborated the last several years. They include C.

A. Crosscr, secretary of the Des Moines Bureau of Municipal Research, and Roy Elliott, business agent for the municipal employes' A. F. of L. union.

Elliott said Saturday he would like to have more cily workers on the annual wage plan, but feels the parks department won't have sufficient funds since its budget was not Increased, The yearly wage plan was applied to the streets department in April, 1938, with an annual wage of $1,320 for the common laborers. This year the wage was boosted to $1,350 and the department hopes to boost it to $1,380 in another year or two. Opposed. City officials opposed the plan at first, because they felt it would burden their payrolls with men in seasons when only light crews were needed. They did not approve of granting sick leave with pay.

feeling the men would abuse the privilege. Lastly, they thought it would cost more money. There are now 212 street department laborers under the plan. Newf Ughtwig SYSTEM FOR 60 72H-Cent Hourly Pay Would Be Dropped. Laborers in the city parks department may be put on the annual wage plan next April even though the city council failed to grant the department an additional $22,000 in the 1940 budget.

Parks department officials said Saturday they were not prepared to make a definite statement, but expressed the hope they will be able to go ahead with plans at the start of the next fiscal year. Parks Report. Persons at the city hall outside the deoartment were more optimistic. They cited a report on parks and cemetery labor prepared for the council's budget deliberations. According to this report, the parks department has about 60 men who can be classed as reg-nlarly employed common laborers.

It Is to these that the annual wage plan would apply. In the department's budget asking, which was denied, the park lyard estimated its budget for this year would permit an annual wge of 11,380 for 77 men. The department asked for enough money to put SO men on the I ICE CREAM 4 DAY SALE Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday of the marker and the Rev. S. P.

Williamson of Fairfield, will speak. Today't program ia a forerun- ner of the Keosauqua Centennial: celebration Tuesday and Wednea-S COMMERCIAL ferrS atoll; portable I Nearly half the sin, with fall performance and twin the battery Ufa. Plays any-where without plan-In aerial or (round. Grada TJSiZtA with sner day. out qutntltlei of pun weet cream.

4 popular 'Ml flavors to cnooM from. Anl Tour Old ladio or Fie no St. James Formerly Lower Shattuck HOME RECIPE Just like mother ueed to moke, with the fin. oet of pure, eweet whip- STONIER PI ANO CO. Home of "Steintvay" and "Hammond" Orf.

Htnry Olson, Gtn. Mgr. Dins cream Important tn Your Hay'H Fntar 8 mi 11 tltiifi Aura trh turtent peri)nnl atttnOnn first libt grade Sparta to dtwion grnwlnft boy. Military drill. Crack aquad.

Character development, Wholtanma food. Hom.ikt atmnaphera. Na tonal patronage. 200 -a era airtata. Beautiful and healthful location, 30th ytar.

For catalof add rata F. F. JT.NKrNB. HMdmaator Baa: FarttMalt, Miaa, and raih frnlti I MRS. SNELLING IS DEAD AT 85 Mrs.

Isabelle Snelllng, 85. 'of 94 Eighteenth a resident of Des Moines 11 years, died Satur-dsy night at her A daughter, Mrs. Edith Gates, Ames, Burvives, 41 an. 10 or 2 mora popular navora. Phon 912-914 Walnut AT ALL REED BUNGALOWS.