Lt Hammond Tells Of Flyers Day In Britain
Lt Jerry Hammond, a recently discharged airman, spoke to a Legion and Auxiliary meeting about U S air missions in Britain. He described breakfasts signaling mission length, the flight phases, and the ruined German cities, noting British pilots’ jealousy due to higher American pay. The event included donations to youth projects and a 221-member Auxiliary.
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U. S
Britain
Jerry Hammond
Air Force
Legion and Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Jerry
Germany
London
Troy Fisher
Ralph McCauley
Zola Carey
Harry Jordan
Ira Harris
SERVICE MEN RETURN TO STATES AND LEAVE DATES SHARED
Pfc Harold Kuchel reports back in the states from overseas duty and expects to be home soon. T/Sgt Jack Taylor of Sheppard Field Texas is on a 20 day furlough with his parents. R. M. 2/c Marvin Sorensen and F. 1/c Merlin Sorensen visit home on leaves after long service in the south Pacific and Chicago armory assignments. Cpl Leo Frederick leaves Sunday for Jefferson Barracks reassigned after two years in India. Your Scrap Will Make Bombs.
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Pfc
Harold Kuchel
States
Grant
T. Sgt
Jack Taylor
Shepherd Field
Texas
Mrs
Seymour Taylor
R. M
Marvin Sorensen
Sorn E. Sorensen
South Pacific
Seattle
Wash
Leo
Bremerton
Merlin Sorensen
Peter Sorensen
Armory
Chicago
Cpl
Leo Frederick
Lloyd Frederick
Jefferson Barracks
India
Flower show to be staged in court house assembly room
The Atlantic Garden club and the Home and Garden department of the Atlantic Woman's club sponsor a flower show in the court house assembly room this Saturday. Mrs. Jake White leads the misc exhibits. entries close at 11 and displays open noon to 8 30 pm. Weather forecast calls for clouds showers and cooler temps with promising warmth by Saturday. Rainfall totals varied across Iowa from .16 to about 1 inch with Cedar Rapids at 64 and Clarinda, Cres ton, Lamont at 46-47 as the night's low and a 50 degree noon reading locally.
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Court House Assembly Room
Atlantic Garden Club
Home and Garden
Atlantic Woman's Club
Jake White
Clarinda
Lamoni
Council Bluffs
Creston
Onawa
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Lamont
Hitler Body Said Found in Berlin Ruins
A high Russian source identified a smoke burned body from Berlin’s underground fortress as Adolf Hitler with high probability after teeth and other features were matched. The body reportedly died by poisoning. Goebbels and family also perished from poisoning, with Goebbels dying by self-inflicted action after poisoning.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reichschancellery
Hitler
Red Army
Morel
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Grand Adm
Karl Doenitz
Goebbels
Proposal to bar union membership for some veterans
Washington June 6 An amendment to the GI Bill of Rights would forbid requiring honorably discharged veterans to join or maintain membership in a union club association or other organization as a condition of employment. The measure advances on the house veterans committee docket.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Local War Service Captain to Speak at Atlantic Methodist
Capt John Patrick, two years with the American Field Service in north Africa and Assam Burma, will address Atlantic Methodist Church next Monday at 8 pm. Sponsored by Cass County War Chest and National War Fund, admission free. Patrick, author of The Hasty Heart and other works, will discuss his ambulance service in India and Africa with Allied troops. He will also be a guest of the Lions Club at Hotel Whitney before attending the church lecture.
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John Patrick
North Africa
Assam-Burma
Atlantic Methodist Church
Cass County War Chest
National War Fund
Patrick
India
Service
Kentucky
Capt
Harvard
Columbia University
American Field Service
Ninth Army
Syria
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Alamo-in-Tunis
Marshall Rommel
Marshall Wavell
AFL
Fourteenth Army
Burma
New Zealand
Lions Club
Hotel Whitney
Cass County War Bond Quota Progress Report
Cass County reports 73 percent of its 1 237 000 seventh war loan quota and 44 percent of its 767 000 E bond target. Total sales reach 880 082 75 with 339 371 in E bonds. Rural school war stamp sales last year totaled 4 826 led by Pympea No 8, taught by Loretta Sage, at 312 50. Other schools exceeded 100 in sales, with many teachers listed and amounts from 65 to 280 in various schools.
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Cass County
E. 8. Holton
Georgia Byrne
Pym
Loretta Wasmer
Pymosa
Helen Christensen
Noble
Martha Jane Lindeman
Massena
Lola Holste
Union
Monica Lewis
Lincoln
Elsie Oler
Ardell Martens
Brighton
Dorothy
First Army Men Arrive at Fort Sheridan for 30 Day Furloughs
Nineteen officers and 89 enlisted veterans of the American First Army arrive at Fort Sheridan Illinois to begin 30 day furloughs before reassignment to the Pacific All are from Michigan Illinois Wisconsin or Iowa and attached to the First Army headquarters units as the first contingent to reach the post.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
First Army
France
Germany
Pacific
Michigan
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
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Whitney Loan & Trust Company Bank
Omaha
Billy Baxter
Harley Baxter
George Olsen
George Olsen, Sr
J. O. Norton
Walnut Street
Missouri
Misa Luella Sunderman
Robert Auerbach
Lincoln, Neb
Sgt
Lincoln Army Air Base
Bill Zerke
Gloria
Carl Rodwald
Rockwell City
Martin Kloppenburg
Pete Olsen
Audubon
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
Jaycee
Alps
Willis Henningsen
Atlantic
Italy
Mary Wilkinson
Mary Ann
Bill Wilkinson
St. Louis
Don Wilkinson
Floyd Pearce
Atlantic High School
Ft. Leavenworth
Quartermaster Corps
Camp Lee
Howard Lett
Anita
Jessie Missman
Highland Park
S. J. Marshall
S.g.) Byrnes Missman
Great Lakes, Ill
Montana
Miriam Goddard
W. B. Goddard
Lewiston
Mont
Boston
Hotel
Whitney
William Woolsey
O. K
Frank Beekman
Wilks Sarsfield
Wilbert Tanner
Gilbert W. Kennedy
Wallie
Merchant Marines
Billie Wayne Larson
H. C. Larson
West Fifth Street
Minneapolis
Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn
N. Y
Swift & Company
Cass County Red Cross
Red Cross
D. A. Taylor
Wilma Burns
Atlantic Territory
Fred C. Rowley
Des Moines
J. C. Rowley
Hickory Street
Mr. Rowley
Taylor University
Upland
Ind
Drew Seminary
Madison
N. J
ANG
Frances Dee Donald
Eve Arden
Thomas Gomez
Irvin
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