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Avnvnr IMS a a 1 a a JO II 12 IS 3 IS JS IT 3 20 31 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 2 30 a a 3 4 5 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 Bes Moines Tribune 1 2 3 4 3 6 7 8 10 31 12 33 14 35 3 37 38 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 29 ao 31 THE PAPER WITH THE WIREPHOTOS DES MOINES, IOWA, MONDAY, JULY 27,1912. rAOEJ ninu 9 PINCHED BY LAW BASING LEVY ON NUMBER OF PUPILS Many Iowa School Districts Are Seeking State Help on Budgets arr.r Hurt by Drop Raps G.O.P. Stand on Aid TED Mishaps Kill 43 Pet More Children Forty-three per cent Iowa the first six months of safety reported Monday, although the total number more children under 15 of this year than in the cor- There have been 32 such of automobile accidents years old were killed in mo- responding period a year victims this year, compared dropped 1,665 this year as tor vehicle accidents in ago, the state department with 18 in the 1941 period, against a year ago. V. F.

TAVERN HERE WAY BACK when the U. S. coast guard was strictly a life saving service, David Holbrook enlisted. That was in 1912. Now he's a chief machinist's mate with nearly 29 years in the service and Is stationed in Des Moines on recruiting duty.

Over that span of years he has had experiences that might interest you Uko the time a cabin cruiser exploded 10 miles off shore and Dave and his mates saved 23 of the SO aboard. DAVE, who at this very moment would much rather be at Point Allerton or Boston harbor, where he spent many of his coast guard years (Des Moines is much too far inland for him) and Gets Beer Permit in Second Effort A PART IN THE WAR EFFORT was known as the finest coast guard pilot along the Massachusetts coast. He has had perfect record for conduct and holds four citations for exceptional bravery and devotion to duty. THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WHOSE LIFE HE HAS SAVED RUNS INTO THE THOUSANDS. FROM FLOOD DUTY in towns along the Ohio river to the capture of rum runners during prohibition, Chief Machinist's Mate Holbrook has collected a variety of yarns which this quiet, reticent fellow is hesitant to spin.

Ash doesn't happen to know what difficulty the photographer had in getting him to consent to th picture you see here. But the chances are it was something of a task. i i WMIWIKH.1,1 la irV I J- 8 A REPORTER has io go into the records himself to get the facts. Waiting for Holbrook to offer them would be a nice quiet way to spend a two-iueek vacation. lie would nay nothing, for example, about the time his boat crew rolled and pitched to a disabled schooner with mackerel aboard.

The men Nobody knows just how the Many Des Moines firms are busy these critical days working on war orders. Factories keep open night and day manufacturing important items in the production race. Among the most vital of the materials which will help defeat the Axis Is steel. Above is a Des Moines workman doing his part in the manufacture of a steel product soon to be used In the war effort. This photo wan taken at the Filtsburgh-De Moines Steel 1015 Tuttle ave.

HE ALSO would say nothing about the time his crew was effecting a rescue when a rowboat came flying through the air, narrowly missing his head. Or the time several Boston priests were about to be hurled in their disabled motorboat against the jagged rocks off Dorchester bay. Or the time he raced to the side of a burning speedboat, from which a woman, a girl and a boy had dived as the father of the girl watched from the shore. ANOTHER TIME it was two Boston college football players in a capsized sailing skiff, drifting in a sudden wind. AND ANOTHER, IT WAS A QUICK TRIP TO THE SIDE OF AN ANCHORED TANKER TO TAKE OFF A MAN STRICKEN WITH STOMACH HEMORRHAGES, ARRANGEMENTS HAVING BEEN MADE BY RADIO TO HAVE AN AMBULANCE WAITING ASHORE.

ON FLOOD DUTY, Holbrook plucked from the top of a telephone pole a man who had clung there 12 hours. In one instance the water was so high that he secured Given 30 Days City Council Vote Is 3 to 2 The V. F. tavern, 912 Sixth received a Class beer per mit Monday after two sales and two efforts before the city council The vote of the council was 3 to 2, with Streets Commissioner John Budd and Parks Commissioner Art Daniels voting against the grant. As the vote was taken, Mayor John MacVicar asked Budd why he was voting "no." Budd replied that It appeared to be an instance where the real applicant was getting a permit by using "another man's "name" and Indicated he thought it a subterfuge.

"You've done that (approved such applications) every day since you've been here," MacVicar ex claimed. He and Safety Commissioner Clarence Koenlgsberger laughed. The police report said that Wil liam K. Bemls was recently charged with keeping liquor at this tavern and paid a $25 fine May 15. The report said the tavern was being operated at that time by Joe Mc-Bride.

Notified of Sale. On July 9, the council received a notification that McBride had sold the place to J. Max Hamburger on July 1. Nevertheless, the council at that time turned down Hamburger's application for a permit All the councilmen voted for denial, except the mayor, who was absent. Lou Purkapile made application for the permit Monday, with a re quest that the council reconsider its denial.

With the application was a signed statement by Hamburger that he (Hamburger), with McBride's approval, had sold the place to Purkapile. The statement said Purkapile took possession June 20. This was yiree days before McBride sold the tavern to Hamburger, according to the statement filed earlier with the council. The council also granted a Class permit to the City club, 205 Grand ave. This application had been held up before, to ascertain its legality, but Paul Hewitt, as sistant city solicitor, reported that the club was formerly the Circle club and that everything was "in order." Three Discussed.

The councilmen likewise dis- cussed three other permits. C'l ty Clerk Arthur Johnson said that three applicants had paid $25 each with applications. However, the additional $185 each for issue of the licenses has not been paid, and the taverns are apparently closed, he said. The three are the Chicken Coop, 1719 Sixth Reese's Spot, 420 E. Locust and the Billy club, 1503 E.

Grand ave. Financ Commissioner T. Harry Vicker said that he thought the permits should be canceled. This would mean forfeiture of the $25 down payments. The other council-men appeared to agree and asked that a suitable resolution be drawn up for presentation to the coun cil at the Thursday meeting.

Oi! Fire. MONTICELLO. MINN. (U.P.) Fire following an explosion early Monday destroyed two warehouse buildings and seven fuel storage tanks belonging to the Phillips Petroleum Corp. and the Shell Oil Co.

GIFT TO In Enrollment Caught between constantly dropping enrollments and a state law which bases the amount of tax schools may levy on the number of chil dren enrolled, many Iowa school districts have been besieging state officials this summer for some aid in maintaining their school budgets. Mi Jensie Tarker, state superintendent of public in struction, said directors of 50 districts have conferred with her office relative to "the financial pinch we are In." State law limits the amount of taxes that may be levied for school general funds to $80 a pu pil in rural districts; $100 in con solidated districts having an ap proved high school, and $70 in in dependent districts having 10,000 or more pupils. Bat school enrollments have been constantly dropping off during the last decade and school officials have told Miss Parker they cannot maintain their school programs on these tax levies. Rural school enrollment In Iowa, for instance, has dropped from 153,047 in 1930-31 to in 1940-41. Town and consolidated school enrollment has dropped from 401,072 to 379,672 in the same period.

In some cases the school directors have been advised to try to obtain approval of a one-mill emergency tax levy. The state comptrollers office, however, has thus far declined to approve such levies when they are requested simply because of decreasing: enrollments and conse quent declining funds. The comptroller's office takes the position that a real emerg ency, such as a schoolhouse fire, jnust occur before an emergency levy can be approved. Lighter Tax Load in Iowa Total property levies to be paid by Iowa taxpayers In 1943 will be from three to three and one-half million dollars less than those be ing collected this year, the Iowa Taxpayers association reported Monday. Now in the midst of its annual compilation of budget proposals and hearings, the association has surveyed about half of the budgets of counties, school districts, cities and towns.

On the basis of those fig-ores, the association estimates that local taxes probably will be Increased by less than one million dollars for 1943. That would result in a net saving of about three-fourths of the four million dollar property tax eliminated bv the state for next year, association figures show. In making the survey, the asftoclatlon has tabulated 1,1 BS published budgets which call for taxes of $12,276,100, an increase of $588,600 a compared with the present year. The total taxes are estimated at about 90 million dollars. Schoolhouse askings are not listed by the association, and those are expected to show a reduction of about $250,000 next year, bringing the indicated maximum increase, the association estimates, to about one million dollars.

Blackburn Wins Wings in Army Robert Med bury Blackburn, 21, son of Airs. J. C. Blackburn, 832 Forty-first and grandson of the jate vr. unaries ji mruuurj ji- day was award- ru ilia vtiii.i ca second Jieu- tenant in the umiea iaics air i force.

I Lieutenant ft Blackburn, a I graduate of sir lo- nchool who re reived his dinl Tt. at Drake 4 university last ai.MHHiHN. month six months after he started training as an aviation cadet-has been assigned to duty as a pursuit pilot. He completed his tninlnp ant! rerpivi! hi wincst nt Luke field. Fhoenix.

Ariz. He's Step-Fatherf I To Half -Brother, Iowa old age assistance officials were breathless before they unraveled this relationship: Mr. A married Miss B. Theyi had a son. The mother died and Mr.

A married Miss C. They had five children. Mr. A died and the son of A' and married the former Miss C. "As near as we can figure it out." one official said, "the son is his half-brother's step-father and hi wile is his step-mother." 7 1' ill i 1 I "The widows and dependent children of Iowa may starve to death for all that the Republican party leaders of this state care, Democratic state headquarters charged Monday.

Tho Democratic news release Monday claimed that Republicans party leaders at the recent state convention "refused to permit adoption of a resolution indorsing the aid-to-dependent-children bill." It said the excuse was that the federal government might try to obtain control of the program. "Did these same Republican leaders attempt to repeal the old age pension act or the unemployment compensation law because they happen to call for federal participation?" the Democrats asked. "Oh, No. Old age pensioners and unemployed can vote. Dependent children cannot." If the Republican state admin-istration including Gov.

George Am Wilson and Lieut. Gov. B. Hlckenlooper had set aside a million dollars of their claimed 1) million dollar state balance for aid to dependent children the federal government would hav matched it with another million, the Democratic headquarters contended. This would have saved the mil lion Iowa counties are spending locally each year to take care of their dependent children, the news release said.

Democrats are pledged to setup a federal-state aid to dependent children's program, the Demo cratic comment said. Iowa Woman Dies in Crash (The Trlbun' Iowa Newt Service.) WESLEY, IA. Mrs. Joseph Hauptmann, 74, of Wesley, died in the Algona hospital at 2 a. m.

Monday from injuries suffered Sunday evening in an auto crash near Corwith. Other occupants of the car in which she was riding were her husband, a son, Edward of Corwith, who was driving, and Edward's wife. The others suffered bruises and shock. The accident occurred when th Hauptmann car collided with another machine which came from a side road between Corwith and Denhart. Besides her husband, Mrs.

Hauptmann is survived by two sons, Edward of Corwith and Joseph of Wesley, and two daughters, Mrs, Sophie Fritsch of Austin, Minn-, and Elizabeth at home. Red Cross Knitting: Center Is Moved The Red Cross knitting center has been moved from 424 Sev enth st. to the Red Cross workroom at 1212 Grand on the second floor, Ruth Green, execu tive secretary, said Monday. OIL SHAMPJJO TlffT DmIUm-is, drwlwwww, rck rjp -xnmnj thinga tmn in-rfrm wUK tb kiatrotrc, youthful look of toot Kkmt. lint 1 hero's nur crrw-t'um for tlM'iirt Komx Oil Shampoo Tint.

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lltlon that he dincovered Inst June that this brother, Moody, obtained his mother's signature on a bill of salo for possession of her bonds, savings and other papers In bank safety deposit box. He charges that his brothers and sister made their solicitations for tho mother's signature while she was suffering from pneumonia and incapable of resisting the domination and influence. The petition also charges hat Moody Itank, who lives 1918 Washington has appropriated large sums of money belonging to the mother, and paid sums to the other two defendants." The action asks that the bill of sale be set aside by the court and that the two brothers and sister be required to account for the property. Movie Musician Dies. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.

James Conrad O'Keefc, head of tho music department for 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and formerly with the National Broadcasting died Sunday night, i Cvui V. I '( his coast guard boat to the More than 2,000 flood-stricken passengers were transported down the Ohio river. Five hundred coast guardsmen from all maritime sections of the country did rescue duty. RUM RUNNERS hauling illegal liquid from Nova Scotia to Boston were hailed before any action was taken.

they didn't stop their boat, a shot ivas fired across it bow. And if they still didn't shut off the engines, the shots were directed at the boat itself. Holbrook said this happened but once, when a spray of machine gun bullets ivas sent boring into a craft. AS THE COAST GUARD BOAT was about to overhaul the rumrunner, men aboard the runner would toss overboard into the course of the pursuing government craft cases of liquor. The coast guard helmsman would have to be on his toes, for if the boat rammed one of the cases, a hole might be stove in her bow.

Raids on rum-running vessels in which Holbrook par BARTENDER HERE Driver Asks Divorce Be Set Aside An application was filed in district court Monday by Mrs. Madge Oppenheim to set aside a divorce decree obtained Dec. 19 by her husband, Harry Oppenheim, Des Moines grocer. Oppenheim, who formerly operated a grocery and market at 323 Cleveland obtained a "default divorce" decree, In which custody of their two minor children was awarded to Mrs. Oppenheim, and an award of $40 a month support and necessary groceries was provided for.

In her application, Mrs. Open- heim states she brought suit for separate maintenance Dec. 9, and her husband filed action for a divorce the same day. She alleges that Oppenheim has exercised physical and mental cruelty and abuse against her by "beating her and threatening to frame her and take the children away from her, and by threatening to subject her to a scandalous court action." The application further charges that Mrs. Oppenheim signed the divorce waiver consent and stipulation as a result of coercion and domination, and that the stipula tion, after she signed it, was changed from $40 a week support to $40 a month.

The Oppenheims have two chil dren, Patrick and James, and were married July 10, 1935. FOR VICTORY: Buy U. S. War Bonds, Stamps TODAY. HOSPITAL ticipated netted at least 2 million dollars worth of seteed intoxicants.

Steve Cebuhar Gets Film Bid Steve Cebuhar, a former instructor at the American Institute of Business here, and now employed at Par amount studios in Hollywood, has been invited to take a film test. Milton Lewis, Paramount talent director, extended the invita- i although ueminar says ai present he is trying to get into the army intelligence division. Cebuhar, a kbiiiiar, Drake university graduate, is secretary to Gordon Jennings, direc tor, and Frank Kies, business man ager, at Paramount. He will spend his vacation, the latter part of August, in Des Moines. Private Pays Visit to Top A Corporal Corp.

Archie McPherson, Des Moines world war veteran, was seated st his desk in the quartermaster's office nt Fort Warren, this week. "A private waiting to see you, sir," said a soldier. "Tell him to cool his heels a minute," the corporal said. "O.K., Pop, I'll wait," said a from the doorwaj. The "visitor" was Pvt.

Rollin McPherson, 18, the corporal's son who enlisted here a month ago. lie had been assigned to the third quartermaster's outfit at Camp Warren. His father serves the first quartermaster's regiment. The corporal and private are the son and grniiilHoii of Mrs. Utile A.

Ilol, 3.1 1 if K. Twelfth hi. Another son of the corporal -another corporal Is Bartus McPherson, 22, at Fort McDowell, Cal. A North High school graduate who worked nt Cdwnle Fur he enlisted a year ago. IN THE DAYS when the coast guard was a life-saving service and nothing more, Holbrook was known as "Doc." Thero was a reason for It.

Stationed nt Cutty Hunk island off the const of Maine, it was necessary for tha tmn to row 14 miles to tho mainland for their mail. It took about hours each way, with four men rowing and one in the stern with an oar serving as a rudder. They took aboard a woman expecting a baby and headed for tho mainland, 14 miles away. The baby was born long before they reached shore, with "Doc" Holbrook officiating. After that happened, he bought a book and studied obstetrics.

Dougherty's Penalty Set Joe G. Dougherty, 51-year-old tavern bartender, Monday was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail by District Judge O. S. Franklin on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Dougherty, who gave his address as 523 2 E.

Sixth was arrested by police in his automobile at E. sixth st. and University ave. May 2. Police officers testified that Dougherty said following hia arrest that ho had drunk four bottles of beer and a "double shot" of whisky.

Dougherty submitted to an alcohol-blood test which showed 291 milligrams of alcohol for each 100 cubic centimeters of blood, as compared with the minimum intoxication standard of 150 milligrams, witnesses said. In pleading guilty before the judge, Dougherty was given credit on his sentence from July 15 when ho was arrested on the indictment. Charles Gay to Talk. Charles Gay, chef, will address the Iowa State Old Age Pension association, at Roadside Settlement house Wednesday evening. Gay will discus3 food and its preparation.

AGAINST WOMAN, 1 0,986 Sankey Rank Files Action Sankey Rank, 600 E. Thornton Monday filed suit in district court for an accounting for $10,986 in gutter, rain water rushing down the street Is blocked and, in some areas, the water floods lawns and flows into basements, the officials said. Of if the grass Is swept along, it then clogs sewer intakes and pipes, and this too contributes to the flooding of lawns and basements, they added. 2 BROTHERS Accounting Suit bonds and savings of his 87 year-old mother, Mrs. Aman da M.

Allgire. An guardian for hit mother, Itank brought tho action Hgnlnftt hla I wo lirotherw and a Msler, Moody II. Itank, Ardo ,1. Hank and Mm. O.

Zoiiclla Hpencer. Tho guardian alleges In the pe- GUTTERS Flooded Basements Streets employes have found that grass is the cause of many of the sewer stoppages about which complaints have been received this year at the city hall. The department urged that some other method of disposing of grass be found. It should not be burned in the street because of possible damage to paving, the official! said. An Appeal to Mowers GRASS CLOGS THE Causes i v- i ri Tl fll Hi The city streets department Monday appealed to mowers of Des Moines lawns not to dump piles of grass clippings into street gutters.

The request was caused by the unusual rains this aprlng and summer and the resulting unusual growth of grass. When grass Is dumped la the IOWA CITY, IA. Twelve original water colors from the Walt Disney studios In Hollywood have been placed In the University of Iowa's Children's hospital here much to the delight of the small patients, three of whom are admiring them here. Flora Webber, supervisor of nurses, looks on. The pictures were presented the hospital by John Morreli Ottumwa..