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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1S40 MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE North lowans Are Awarded Degrees at Iowa State College FRILEY TALKS AT COMMENCEMENT 13 North lowans Among Group of 137 Students Honored at Exercises A Iowa Slate college Wednesday conferred degrees upon 125 students and awarded certificates to 12 others at the annual winter quarter commencement exercises at which Dr. Charles E. Friley, president of the college, gave the commencement address. Four of the graduates received doctor of philosophy degrees; 12, master of science decrees and 109, bachelor of science decrees. Degrees were awarded to 13 North Iowa students, including a group of four persons from Mason City.

North lowans receiving degrees included: Bachelor of science-animal husbandry, Russell Win- terink of Charles CHy; dairy husbandry, Hugh E. Kuhn of Rodman; forestry, Guy E. Phillips of Cresco, Harold L. Newel of Fenton; ceramic engineering, Wayland G. Rasmussen of Mason City.

Electrical engineering, Harold J. Gilchrist of Mason City; general engineering, James M. Torp of Eagle Grove; mechanical engineering, Eugene I. Nelson of Remvick; foods and nutrition, Marcia McArthur of Mason City; textiles and clothing, Margaret H. Vaughn of Mason City; botany, Kenneth Kittleson of Carpenter; zoology, Michael F.

Kenvick ot Emmetsburg and Thomas Earlen Moen of Cresco. A certificate was presented to Thomas B. Anderson of Forest City, a two year agriculture student. Forest Cityan Will Talk at New Orleans Teachers Are Named at West Union School WEST UNION--Teachers were re-elected Monday with two exceptions: Mrs. John Camp, fourth grade teacher, and Miss Lavanda Carr, speech and dramatics, did not ask for re-election.

Mrs. Camp a bride of last year, filled a vacancy, and Miss Carr has other plans than teaching. SPRINC? GARNER--Mr. and Mrs. J.

N. Sprole are sure spring is near for they have tulips up 2 inches although there are patches of snow on northern exposurs. The Sprole tulips are on the southside of their home where the tulips are always early. Garner Youth Uncovers Adventure in Hospital Work .1. .1.

CITY--Burt Thompson, Forest City attorney, has been invited to address a meetine of bar executors and attorneys at New Orleans, Saturday. The bar associations of Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama will be represented at the conference. This will be the third time during the last two years that Mr. Thompson has addressed conferences or conventions of the legal profession in the south. His topic will be legal education.

Sir. and airs. Thompson left Wednesday and will fly to New Orleans from Chicago. WILL PRESENT PLAY AT BRITT Junior College to' Give "Little Women" Production March 27 BRITT--The Britt junior col lege will present its annual college play March 27 at 8 o'clock in the Britt high school auditorium. The play is a comedy drama "Little Women." The roles the lour little women will be played by Jeai Nissen, Luella Waldschmidt, Bertha Jensen and Maurine Bane.

Other members of the cast art Ethel Flom, Rita Lorenz, Peggy Muhm, Herbert McMillian, Pau McMillian, Bill Thompson and Junior Larson. Miss Marion Hoffman is drecting the production. OSAGE--Mr. and Mrs. Avery Brush spent Sunday in Minneapolis, attending the ice follies.

A R--When Wendell Rasmus, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marius Rasmus of Garner, decided to go to New York City to study male nursing, he believed there would be a certain amount of adventure mixed in with the hard work which he knew was ahead. But he had no idea that he would experience as i excitement mixed right in with his work as came his way from Feb. 19 to Feb 22 Rasmus got a first hand pic- of a gangland incident when he was assigned to help care for Milton B.

Logan, Now York art dealer who was attacked the night of Feb. 19 in a sensational case that claimed headlines in all New York papers. Rasmus told of his ex- perience in a lengthy letter received by his parents this week. A few hours after Logan was admitted to Bellevue hospital, where Rasmus is studying nursing, his partner, John T. Geery, committed suicide.

Logan accused his partner of being responsible for the attack a said that it was the third attempt made to kill him in recent weeks. Assistant District Attorney Robert Thayer went to work on the case and learned that Geery had taken for Logan short term insurance policies payable to himself amounting to $150,000 before the attempts against Logan's life were made. a said he permitted the policies to be taken because of the plan of Officers Are Selected by North Iowa School Boards Contracts Are Offered to Teachers for Action After Spring Vacation School board members throughout North Iowa Monday held organization meetings and selected their officers. Spring vacaliorls also were announced for the pupils. The elections included: DUER HEAD OF CLARION BOARD CLARION--Ray Duer was elected as president of the Clarion school board at a meeting held Monday afternoon.

B. A. Samson, the newly elected member, was sworn in at the same meeting. KNOWLTON SELECTED DECORAII PRESIDENT DECORAH--The new president of the Decorah board of education elected Monday evening, was W. P.

Knowlton. Other officers are E. H. Haines, treasurer; Miss Clara McConaty, secretary; board members, Mrs. Mae Torvik, Norman Nelson.

Dr. Chellis Evanson and Dr. G. T. Howland.

Mrs. Torvik is the only new member on the board. DR. STDLL IS CORWITH HEAD CORWITH Dr. Claude Stull was re-elected president of the Corwith consolidated school board at an organization meeting held at the schoolhouse Dr.

Stull served as a member of the Corwith school board for the first time 20 years ago and has been a member almost continuously since that time, serving as president the majority of the Other members of the board are William Wood, H. E. Bonnstefler, Budd Lawson and C. B. Meyers.

J. W. Duckett is secretary and C. S. Johnson, treasurer.

Supt. J. M. Gehrt was re-elected for his fourth year and all ot the present staff of teachers were given contracts to be accepted or rejected within 10 days. There were some increases in salaries.

Charles Erickson was re-hired janitor for his 16th year. MILLER BOARD NAMES S(tOVGAARD MILLER The Miller school board met at the schoolhouse Monday evening. Chester Casperson, who was elected at the March 11 meeting to succeed A. H. Nonnweiler, was sworn in as director.

The board members now are: S. P. Skovgaard, who was elected president of the hoard; R. A. Schotl, William Van Haaften, Chester Casperson and Oscar Nyhus.

A. H. Nonnweiler, retiring director, was presented with a pipe in appreciation of the 12 years he has served on the school board. The pesent teachers. Miss Marjorie Perry and Miss Rachel Charlson were re-hired lor the coming year.

TEACHERS OFFERED CONTRACTS AT GARNER GARNER--All teachers in the Garner grade and high schools were offered contracts for the 1940-41 term at an annual reorganization meeting of the Garnet board of education held Monday night. Charles Befhke -was re-elected president of the board, and two recently re-elected members, Otto Lehm.inn and Hancock county. Clerk Elmer Haw, were sworn i for their respective terms. Teachers here will be presented the two men to import $30,000,000 worth of Chinese art. When Logan was assigned to Rasmus' ward, the Garner youth had a occasions to work with the injured man.

As he was leaving Logan's room the afternoon of Feb. 21 to go to other patients' rooms, Rasmus was accosted by a young man who tried to prevail upon him to let him into Logan's room to take pictures. Rasmus told i the rule of Bellevue hospital was definitely against allowing picture taking, and advised i to leave at once. Fifteen or 20 minutes later, Rasmus returned to the corridor in time to see the photographer making a hasty departure. The Feb.

22 issue of the New York Journal and American carried the picture of the injured man across the entire top ot the eight columns on the front page. In his letter, Rasmus said that he would have guessed the man who accosted, him was merely an amateur, but the Journal and American credited its exclusive picture to Clarence Albers, ace photographer of the paper. "You can't tell about these these New Yorkers." Rasmus wrote, "they all seem pretty rood actors." Rasmus said he reported the incident to authorities at the hospital where he is taking training. He enrolled for the nursing course at Bellevue last summer, and will complete the course in three years. LAN RITES OF MISSHALVORSON 54 Year Old Woman Dies at Winnebago Home From Illness THOMPSON--Miss Hclfia Hal- 'orson, 54, died at the Winnebago ounty home early Monday moni- ng of pneumonia.

She had been iving at the county home for cvcral months. She had lived in Vinnebago county from child- lood. Funeral services will be held 1 o'clock at the funeral home Thompson and at 2 o'clock it the West Prairie Lutheran church, with the Rev. J. J.

Skarp- ness in charge. Burial will he be- ide her parents at the West Prai- cemetery. WENDELL RASMUS their contracts next week when they return from spring vacations. RAKE MEMBERS NAME QUAIM RAKE--The board of directors of the Rake independent school met at the schoolhouse Monday evening to organize for the ensuing year, E. Quam was re-elected president and Glen Heath iras reelected secretary.

Henry Olson was re-elected treasurer at the school election last Monday. Other members of the board are O. H. Toft, Johnnie Rake, M. Smith and H.

L. Heath. RE-ELECT GERDES AT WODEN SCHOOL WODEN--The Bingham township school meeting was held at the Community hall at Woden Monday afternoon. All of the old officers were re-elected for each district. George T.

Gerdes was reelected president and Tom Hinders, director at large. MRS. PARDUN NAMED AT IOWA FALLS IOWA FALLS--At the first meeting of the board of education in the new school year, Monday evening, Mrs. H. H.

Pardun was elected president of the board for the coming year. The principal business of the evening was the election of a superintendent of schools. C. M. Bartrug who has been at the head of the schools here for several years, was hired for a three yeai term by a four to one vote of the board.

Ray D. Arnold, the retiring president of the board, was hirec to look-after the farms under the Ellsworth endowment the coming year. DUMONT MEMBERS ELECT ALLEN DUMONT--The school board ot the Dumont consolidated schoo met Monday evening for organization. Wayne Mincrt was sworn in DENIES GUILT IN MURDER CASE Carroll Berres Enters Plea of Not Guilty for Postville Slaying WAUKON, Berres, West Allis, youth, pleaded innocent in district court here Tuesday to a charge of first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Elmer Lennon, Postville night marshal. Large Hornet's Nest Displayed at Allison Office ALLISON--A hornet's nest on display at the Butler county soil conservation office in Allison was obtained by H.

S. of Shell Rock, south of Clarksville in timber along the Shell Rock river It measures 13i by 17 inches and rivals one recently reported in British Columbia measuring 11 by inches. new director to succeed Howard PfaHzgraff, the past president. Harry Allen was elected president. Most of the teachers were given contracts for another year and wore allowed until after spring vacation to sign them.

DR. BASINGER NAMED AT GOLDFIELD BOARD GOLDFIELD--The board of education held its annual reorganization meeting Monday evening. H. C. Pinkham and G.

A. Mos- elcy were recently re-elected for terms of (hree years and the same board will represent the districl as the past year. Dr. M. L.

Basinger was re-elected as chairman of the group. Garner Rotarians Are Guests of Clarion Club GARNER Nine members of the Garner Rotary club attended an inter-city meeting at Clarion Monday night. In the party from here were Cholm Houghton, president, W. L. Baggs, secretary, Dr George A.

Bemis, D. E. Flood, Maynard Schoneman, W. S. Pritchard.

L. M. Wood, Donald Roe and V. L. Hein.

L- fombmation of its The Hill Sisters Queens of Basketball M.rjorie, Ji.bel, Ruth, Belt? nd Helene of W. Hempsteid, L. couched by their father, have won 80 out of 84 combination thtt you cmn't where. MVIM TOMCCO Co, i The RIGHT COMBINATION of the world's best cigarette tobaccos DEFINITELY MILDER COOLER.SMOKING BETTER-TASTING lou can look the country over and you won't find another cigarette that rates as high as Chesterfield for the things that smokers really want. Chesterfield's RIGHT COMBINATION of the world's best cigarette tobaccos is way out in front for mildness, for coolness, and for better taste.

Father of Murray at Osage Is Dead at 84 W. Murray, 84, veteran horseman who has driven on many Nebraska tracks, died here Sunday. He leaves a son, William Murray Osage, Lucinda Club Has Meeting at Garner GARNER--Lucinda club mem bers were entertained at a month ly meeting Wednesday in the horn of Mrs. G. A.

Bemis. Mrs. Ei Wetterling was assistant hostess. SOCIETY TO MEET ACKLEY--Ladies of the Ceme tery society will meet at the horn of Mrs. William Winter Thurs day.

Special business is to be dis cussed. A good attendance is de sired. Bethany College Choir Sings at Garner Church GARNER--Special music for a Sunday service at the St. Lutheran church here was supplied Sunday morning by the ifl piece a capclla choir from Bethany college at Mankato, Minn. The pastor of the church, the Rev.

H. R. Wrcdc, was in charge of the service, and Hie choir num- ers were under direction nf the instructor. Prof. Oswald Hoffman.

At noon women of the church arranged a pot luck luncheon for all members of the parish and for the choir members and their director. The event was held in the church parlors. PLAN FOR SUPPER A A The Areciale Parent-Teachers association is sponsoring supper to be served in the Methodist church basement Wednesday evening. Special music will be given through the evening. DENTIST PRACTICE WORK IBFIRST ST CEDAR RAPIDS SOUTH EAST DESMOINES MASON CITY SIOUX CITY THE HAT STORE OF MASON CITY On Easier Sunday be sure it's a new KNOX Choose your new Easter hat from Mason City's largest hat stock--Hundreds of men come back each season, as they know they'll find the style they want in the shade they wish.

Select from Knox, Byrons, and Paragons. PARAGONS BYRONS $2.95 AT $3.95 THE I HUB A A.