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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 14

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SATITIIUAY, MAJtCU It, 19-12. 1 0 PAOETKN MOINES REGISTER. ONLY A FOURTH AS MUCH LIGHT DEATH TAKES JURY INDICTS VALLEY HIGH SINGERS WIN MRS. BOVA, 79 U. S.

to Outdo London in Blackouts BERT SMITH Mrs Nicholas Bova, 79, a resi Three Valley High school stu dent of Des Moines 42 years, died dents Friday night qualified at lOvertheCoffeej Watch for Harlan Miller's column, Over the Coffee, in The Des Moines Sunday Register tomorrow. Friday afternoon at her home, 806 1 A Resigned Justice the high school home music con-test in West Des Moines for the district contest to bo held Apr. i UliriUI )CI Ur of the Peace. Wallace Met at Station by Son and Daughter-in-Law ices will be at a Anthony a i The Tolk county grand jury Fri 10 and 11 at Valley High. PLANS TO KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING church at 9 a.

m. I J5b day indicted Bert 1 Smith, re Monday. Six! signed Delaware township justice The three were Bette Welch-man, alto; Don Simpson, baritone. tk li i 1 1 i. p.

v. ii of the peace, for embezzlement, r3 Smith has been at liberty under will be pallbearers Gasper Sar- The Day's Record and Jackie Jorgcnson, soprano. Others who win high ratings were Officers Are Warned bond since shortly after his ar rest in Kansas City, last De cone, Robert James Bova. 1 cember. When arrested he was to Prevent Panic.

Joseph Bova, registered at a Kansas City hotel as L. Clark," and had obtained Blackouts in the United Des Moines Deaths BATES Infant dausthter of Mr. and Mrs. M. P.

of 1010 E. Fourteenth Friday at Mercy. Kathleen Clark, mezzo soprano; George Knox and Robert Tro-chuck, tenors; Cleo Woolley, alto; Richard DeCamp, bass. Grace Carlin, mezzo soprano who placed in the national contest last year, automatically qualified. Prof.

Stanford Hulshizer of Kansas license plates for his car. Phillip Colavec-chio, i 1 as Barber and Alexander Barber. States are going to be blacker He told officials who went after MRS. BOVA. BOVA Mr.

Nicholas. 79. of 906 Taylor than anything London, Eng him he had gone there to try to Mrs. Bova was the mother of 14 Jriday at nome. CRAY-Hurry 68.

of 1711 K. Twenty-ithtn Friday at Iowa Methodist. obtain funds to cover what he land, experienced during the children, eight of whom are living. owned Polk county in justice court fct.NJTY Mrs. Mary.

87. of 25Z9 Des worst of the Nazi aerial blitz They are Mrs. Frank Sarcone, Drake university was crltlc-judge. Moines Friday at home. fines and fees Mrs.

Nick Lemba, Mrs. Ned Bar krieg, Iowa law enforcement A state auditor's checker report ber and Mrs. Felix Colavecchio. Des Moines Birth er! Smith ntill owed the countv officers were told Friday. FOB VICTORY: Buy Defense Bnnrin and Stamps TODAY.

all of Des Moines, and Joseph Bova, $3 879 nftcr ne turncd over $2,495 Mr and Mrs. Wilbur J. Bowles. 4411 S. W.

Ninth at Iowa Methodist. rvansas v-ny. varies iwvr, frm hU rhrUint, BCPOunt and Information about plans for American blackouts was given by 1 1 1 The Weather money ho had with him Providence, R. and August R. F.

Weller, federal bureau of In Bova, Marshalltown, la. John Anthony Cecroni was in Mr. and Mrs. Bova celebrated rOR Tl RDAV, MAR. 14.

1942. I.OCAU Silently warmer today. IOWA Silently warmer today. NORTHERN ILLINOIS Little change temperature today, aaesasssss i tn iV' Ss 'J Il-t --1 4, 4 i. si I 4 JaV.

aw Xaa -JS1 i. V2' wStti iaJ A dicted for breaking and entering vestigation traffic control expert, at the conclusion of the traffic control school held this week: at tn their fifty-eighth wedding anni in connection with an alleged at TREAT YOURSELF versary last October. Mr. Bova, I stern NEBRASKA Slightly warmer tempted robbery of the Munn and today. Hotel Kirkwood for Iowa officers 19 grandchildren and six great KORTHERN MIRSOI'RI Not much change Cassaday bottled gas company at grandchildren also survive.

Mrs. Approximately 100 attended the In temperature, rain In west in after 522 Clifton where a safe had noon. Bova was born in Italy. SOUTHERN MINNESOTA Little change been battered. Two men from the sessions.

Lower Altitude. firm chased a man from the place and caught Cecconi a few blocks Weller declared that during UNLUCKY 13TH In temperature today. DES MOINES WEATHER DATA. KOR FKII)V. MAR, 1 3, 1042.

BY U. WEATHER BUREAU. Readings taken at airjmrt ofllre. HOURLY TEMPERATURES. away, blackouts in the United States the amount of light permitted will be 3 a.

2 p. 37 I.j rs Three men were indicted for FOR SCHOOLBOY 3 a. larcency in the night time, in con only a quarter of the amount permitted in London. The reason for this, he said, is that enemy planes probably can approach locations in p. 37 4 p.

p. .36 7 p. 37 .35 8 p. 37 nection with the theft of a tire, tube and wheel from a Darked 35 9 D. 37 4 a.

5 a. 6 a. 7 a. a. 9 a.

m. 10 a. m. 11 a. Noon Breakfast Prophecy ...35 10 p.

38 auto owned by Rolf Sorenson, 1370 the United States at lower altitudes than in approaching London ...35 P. 37 E. Ninth st. Proves a Mistake. 3fi Midnight 3 .36 1 a.

3rt 37) 2 a. 36 In approaching London, Weller Their names and addresses, pre- 1 i Temperatures after m. are un- Friday morning at the break- viously given to police, are: Ray said, planes must travel at comparatively high altitudes because their courses are limited and they fast table Coleman Weber. 11 of mond Edward Plum, 20, of 207 4017 Woodland remarked to bixln Koss Harvey Flowers are more easily detected than they his parents: "I believe this i3 go- of 434 Hartford and would be when nearing United ing to be my lucky day." Charles M. Swertfagcr, 19, of 711 "How's that?" replied his fa th- Seventh st.

er, J. U. weher, looking up from States coasts. Weller mtld that in spite of the plan for blackouts that "are really black," It In expected that traffic will continue to move. Pffleial as registered on The Register's thermometer and are not included in the statistics below.

I Kitheet at 1 a 39 Lowest at 8 a. 35 Mo 37 Normal 34 Excess 3 Accumulated excess sine Mar 1.... "2 Accumulated excess since Jan. 1 139 PRECIPITATION. Amount.

24 hours ending tj p. m. Krttisy 19 Total this month to date 19 Normal this month to date 71 Total Jan 1 to date 3 Normal Jan. 1 to date 2.911 Accumulated excess alnce Jan 1. .43 Relative humidity a.

m. 89; m. 9ti. rise t'day 7:27 a S'set fday 7:19 p.m. A YEAR AGO TODAY.

Heheet temperature in Des 42 Zxvest temperature In Des 22 There was .14 Inch of ram. his newspaper. The grand Jury Ignored charges Ready to drive home with hU on and daughter-ln-Iaw, Rlr. and Mrs. Henry B.

'lce I'renldent Henry A. alltue pniiHed for a moment Friday night to chat with reporters nt tho rullroiul station. STORY ON l'A(iK ONE. "It's- Friday the Thirteenth," of driving while Intoxicated pre- sald Coleman. viously placed acalnst Art Edwin to a delicious dinner while you listrn to the music of Harney Barnard's orchestra.

Special attraction this week JUNE THATCHER, a graceful dancer. At 4 p. m. Mr. Weber was sum- Atkinson, Kermit William Young Weller said he could not "conceive of anything more than token moned to the door by the frantic and Carl Charles Metz ARMY TO ENLIST knocking of a neighbor woman.

or practice blackouts this part of the nation. I can't get very Pitched From Bike. BLACKOUT ALONG excited about the possibility of pro "It your son," she said, "come Ruth Suckow Gives Advice to Readers MEN FOR A BAND with me." Moon Phases longed blackouts here." OCD Division. Lying on the parking at Thirty- Furnished by Drake Municipal observa THEATRE DINNER with a ticket to your choice of the Des Moines, Roosevelt or Paramount Theatre. 1.10 per person.

POLITICAL FRONT ninth st. and Ingersoll was tory. Last quarter. Mar. 9 to IS.

In- flnilv. The army recruiting office Fri Colfman, his clothing bloody. He Moon rose todav. a. m.

Weller also explained that the civilian protection division of the office of civilian defense is being day announced it will accept en had been assisted to the curb by a Moon sets today. 5:07 p. m. Moon rises Sunday. 6:46 a.

m. Ruth Suckow, silver-haired chronicler of Iowa, Friday listments for a 30-piece band which will be stationed at Fort Light Failure Spoils Evening stars Mars. Jupiter and Morning stars Venus and Mercury. operated primarily by high-rank Two Meetings. urged readers of books to seek for underlying meanings in their serious reading.

If ing army and navy officers. He distinguished between this branch The following tahle of a selected list of American cities shows fA) hiehest temperature Frldav. lowest temperature of the OCD and the volunteer ci Candidates for city offices TEA ROOM Firth Floor; rut. YOUNKERS Miss Suckow, in private dnnrr the dav. ensorshlp has limited vilian participation division, which the list to these selected cities, excluding groped in total darkness Friday life Mrs.

Ferner Nuhn, talked points in western slates. (A) (Bi until recently was headed by Mrs night at Lucas and Stowe schools Albuquerque 59 .12 Franklin Roosevelt. A transformer break down in the to a book review club at Younkers tearoom during the Des Moines army post. Capt. W.

C. Hoffman said the men will be enlisted as privates. They'll receive $21 month for the first four months and after that will be eligible for promotions with more pay. The musicians should apply at the recruiting offices in the Old Federal building, Fifth and Court avenues. Auditions will be held by the Fort Des Moines band "The civilian protection division northeast section of Des Moines is the only one you men are con resulted in the blacking out of two afternoon.

The Nuhns live at cerned with," Weller said, "and Cedar Falls, la. the army and the navy are run political meetings. The lights failed a few minutes before the meetings were to begin. Atlanta .61 Bismarrk 42 Brownsville S3 Chevenne 47 Chiraro 39 Columbus 45 Tetrolt 41 Fort Worth 82 Kansas City 47 Louisville 62 Memphis 73 inmi 80 innespolis-Rt. Paul 44 New Orleans 78 Pittsbureh 4 4 Kt.

Loui 52 ning this end of it." Weekend Flower Specials! Bows to Willa Cather. Authors, Miss Suckow said, ask "Steading Influence." A handful of voters went to Lucas M'hool, at E. Sixteenth st. and Capitol but most of the of their readers only their atten Virden A. Rittgers, another master.

tion. This should include, she King Alfred candidates already had left for Ste Marie 37 F.B.I, traffic expert, told the group experience has proved that the presence of police officers in time Washington .57 stated, a study of the deeper un dercurrents in serious literature. Twenty-eight men enlisted Friday in the coast guard, navy and marine corps at Des Moines re Stowe school, E. Thirty-third st. and Cleveland hoping the Miss Suckow bowed to another of air raids is "a steadying in fluence and a help to public mo Jonquils cruiting offices.

The coast guard writer, Willa Cather, a Nebraskan, lights would be on there. They were not. Seeks Divorce Ralph J. vs. Louise E.

Smith. Obtains Divorce Madalene from Kenneth Nolan. had five, the navy 13 and the ma rale." for writing what she termed "one rines 10. Tho candidates waited, hoping "One of your big jobs," he said of the finest stories of our time" "would be to prevent panic, and in the recent novel entitled "Sap- Coast guard recruits were: Alan N. Malor, Terry; Clair.

K. Nel 1.49 Dozen the lights would be restored and a crowd show up. Electrical service panic can easily become the great phira and the Slave Girl." son, Esthervllle; orval MarmeninK, Tripoli: Harold Glaspey. Hills; and Clifford Royster, Bonne. est danger in an air raid worse finally was restored.

But there Newest Book Reviewed. Coleman Weber. It Wasn't His Lucky Day. Where's the Fire? st A 4 1318 Twenty-second St. a 57 612 Locust st.

9:12 1608 Mondamln ave. 3516 E. Thirty-ninth st than bombs." was not a large enough crowd to Marine corps enlistments in A review of "New Hope," latest cluded: merit a meeting. novel by the 49-year-old Iowa Wllfnrd Stone, rw-s Moines: Carl truck driver who saw the youth pitch headlong into the street Large, locally grown Jonquils in bright golden yellow. Freshly Cut Roses, Dor.

2.50 5 JP' Mrs. Olney Dies; George, 111.: Clifton T. Huntoon, woman, was presented by Mrs. G. W.

Webber, Des Moines club Political Meetings TAX DEADLINE lntuiiie; John 1. Allen, iinmpuin; nun-sell I). Harper. Metropolis. Lowell I.

lohnsnn Hulcomh: William R. Slothnwer, Lived at Knoxville from his bicycle. Lost Tooth. city candidates have been Invited to a meeting at Stowe school. E.

Thirty-third Until Surkow. Advises Reader to Seek Under-lyintj Meaning. woman. It is Miss Suckow's first novel since the appearance of "The Plxon, Henrv Waters. Marshall-town: William A.

Mels and James K. si. ana leveiana at p. m. today NEXT MONDAY Mrs.

Mary Olney, 87, died Fri At Broadlawns General hospi Mlll.r hftth ftf Council muffs. Folks" eight years ago. The following enlisted tn the day at the home of a daughte tal, physicians sewed up the boy's Temperatures Hold "New Hope" deals with life in a Mrs. N. K.

Kerr, 2529 Des Moines Gardenias, 10c, 19c Camellias Each 25c Sorry no makeup or delivery at these low prices. lacerated mouth and rubbed lini- To escape penalty, Iowans must ment on his bruises. One of Cole- have their federal Income tax re- midwest town that has been new the old town by a storm. It describes small town affairs in the late horse-and-buggy era. To Narrow Range with whom she had been living the last four years.

'Mrs. Olney ly founded following 'the razing of man's front teeth was gone. His turns in the internal revenue of- had been ill about two weeks. bicycle was badly scratched. fice here by next Monday navy: Michael Verknvlrh, Clinton; Harry Anderson, I'rlmchar; Kav Hayes and Clarence Wayne PallaKer.

Maquoketa; Clarence H. Hchmldt. Craig; Iionald Kverett Wlttache. Sioux City: Sherwood Wilson Kler. Carroll: Richard Stanley Jusi-k, Sioux City; Arvld Lund-btrx Des Moines; Glenn Clavton Snyder.

Iowa Falls: James Oeorite Hihhs. Ames; Raymond Sherman Wlnthers. Albert City; and James Albert Cllne. Caary. iowa temperatures held in a narrow range Friday with some light rain falling in parts of the Born in Mahaska county, Mrs.

today to prepare for the opening Monday of the annual Easter Olney had lived at Knoxville, la Coleman tried to smile as he For most Iowans living. outside told how he had struck a rut in Des Moines, that means returns the pavement while returning should be mailed not later than home from St Augustln's school. Sunday night in order to escape state. before coming to Des Moines. Su vivors include another daughter, National Leader Aids In Drive for Cripples Miss Bell Greve of Cleveland, Ohio, secretary general of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, will arrive here Mrs.

Ruth Morrison, Des Moines seal sale of the Iowa Society for Crippled Children. While in Des Moines Miss Greve will confer with state directors of various "Dad, you remember what I penalty. Highest reading reported was 41 at Dubuque and Sioux City. It was 40 at Council Bluffs and 39 in Des Moines, Iowa City and Dav COURT ADMITS a son, Clark Olney, Sioux City, la told you this morning about Fri- The returns mailed to Des and a sister, Mrs. Cora Barnes, day the Thirteenth.

Well, just Moines must be sent in time to DEATH STORY Azalea Plants 1.50 to $5 Fancy Gardenias 75c "Satisfaction Always" First Floor! ICnat. yduNKERS 7 To ujers Oskaloosa, la. welfare agencies. enport. reach the office before midnight skip it," he said.

Monday An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 per DEATH CLAIMS A Tiny Bomb Fragment Caused Her World to Crumble sons filed income tax returns in the internal revenue office Friday A written confession to police was made a part of the court record Friday in the murder trial of Hughes Boston, 25, Negro, accused of killing his landlord, La- MRS. NEEDHAM The office will remain open until 9 p. m. today and Monday. Mrs.

Nancy A. Needham, 86, of Bristow, mother of Dring Needham, rolk county referee probate, died Friday morning DRAM PERFUMES velle Jackson, 36, Negro, last Nov. 27. Detectives L. A.

Mahaffey and Martin Christiansen testified concerning their questioning of Boston and Identified the signed statements he made admitting the at her homo. She had been ill Last Services Held For Nelson Malum Services were held Friday at Dunn's Funeral home for Nolson S. Malum. 73, of 1419 Twenty-third with burial at Glendale for one week. Services will be at 2 p.

m. Sun day at the home at Bristow crime. Burial will be at Bristow. William M. Hammond, police Survivors besides Mr.

Needham cemetery. identification expert. identified are another son, Joseph E. Need pictures he took of the rooming house at 932 Sixteenth st. in Mr.

Malum leaves his wife, Clara; two sons, Camp Wolters, Tex. and Don of Camp Lee, and a twin sister, Mrs. Petra Hendrlckson of Des Moines. ham, Mason City, and two daughters, Mrs. A.

N. Morford, Bristow, and Mrs. C. H. Bunker, which the shooting occurred, and Dr.

J. W. Bailey, coroner, testi Waterloo, la. fied Jackson died of a shotgun ound above the heart. Two other witnesses told of see ing Boston with a shotgun on the day of the shooting and quoted Kolfikor Boston as saying he planned to kill a man.

Earlier Boston's attorney said thA rtpfense would be based on a claim of temporary insanity, al legedly brought about by an as sault made bv Jackson on Bos ton's wife. -4 For Dress or Sports Wear 55c 2 for $1 No Licenses to Wed On Friday, the 13th Whether superstition caused it Houbigant's "Chantilly" Perfume dram 1.50 Coty's Perfumes, "L'Aimant" priced dram $1 Harriet Hubbard Ayer's "Pink dram 55c Elizabeth Arden's "It's You" Perfume dram 2.25 Lentheric "Tweed" Perfuma priced dram 1.15 Corday's 1.25 Helena Rubinstein's "Gala dram 2.75 Shulton's "Old Spice" SI Caron's "Bellodgia" Perfume dram 1.75 Guerlain's "L'Heure Eleue" Perfume dram 1.60 Corday's .2.50 May be Purchased in Half Drams. Also or not there wert no marriage li censes issued in district court Clerk Fred Barkalow's office Fri day, Mar. 13. imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiii Snug, comfortable fit under all sports togs and for general wear.

Brief of finely knitted, combed cotton yarn in tea rose, white, poppy red, bluebonnet, daffodil in sizes small, medium and large. Rollins Lingerie: First Floor; East. What Do Unitarians Believe About Heaven and Hell? For fret tiitrafarc ivriie to FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH. 1027 High Des Moinet. Hear Mr.

Bach speak at 11 t. m. Sunda on "IS COD ANOTHER NAME FOR I Flrat Floor; rat. THE UNIVERSE? (MAIL ORDERS WELCOME) YOUNKERS (Service broadcast by WHO. Listrn In.) one of the last raids before Singapore fell, but it took only one bomb fragment to kill the child and cause the mother YOUNKERS Amid debris in a Singapore street, a Malayan mother wails her grief over loss of her child, whose body lies where he was hilled a Japanese bomb fragment.

It was Unitarian ehurchfa also located In low-City. Krokuk, Sioux City. Cedar Rapldi Davenport, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebr. ImtoH Ticf; Echind -hcrs a sympathetic relative. JIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IUII11UIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIII1I11''.

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