Arctic supply routes could aid Russia in war
A 6,000 mile Arctic route from Seattle to Archangel may deliver supplies to western Russia as Hitler presses the war. The article notes limited usable days per year, the Lena river route, and Soviet icebreaker progress, with implications for US aid via Alaska and Kamchatka if a wider northern offensive is pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bering Strait
Seattle
Archangel
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Persian Gulf
Iran
Boston-Archangel
Norway
Tirpitz
North Sea
Arctic
Burma
United States
Japan
Siberia
Vladivostok
Alaskan
Tiksi Bay
Lena River
Lena
Yakutsk
Transsiberian Railway
Bukhlovo
Lake Baikal
Northern
Pacific
Sea of Okhotsk
Sibiriakov III
Yokohama
Northern Sea Route Administration
J. Stalin
Alaska
Aleutians
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kuriles
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Eastern Iowa News Highlights Marriages And Local Notes
Miss Doris Hein and Melvin Engen wed April 16 at St Benedicts with Attendants Monica Langston and Francis Larson. Several towns report birthdays, promotions, graduations, and community events from Decorah to Tipton and Waukon. Highlights include Dr Max Lyon’s promotion to captain, a Keswick grade exhibit, and numerous school staffing changes across Independence, Traer, and Oelwein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Doris Hein
Carl Hein
Harpers Ferry
Melvin Peder Engen
Olaves Engen
Maurice E. Nolan
St. Benedict’s Catholic Church
Monica Langston
Francis Larson
McGregor
Max W.lyon
Camp Robinson
Little Rock
Ark
Lyon
College of Dentistry
University of Iowa
Lois Miller
Hansel and Gretel
Pauline Loos
Gladys Myers
Dorothy Jacobin
Whitlock
Waukon
Harriet Kolsrud
Melvin Kolsrud
Earl Sanderson
Ed Sanderson
East of Waukon
Baalson
Clarice Smedsrud
Helmer Sanderson
Lorenz Willman
Postville
Independence
R. L. Bright
Buchanan County Selective Service Board
Selective Service
Four Cadets Die in Midair Plane Crash
VALDOSTA GA AP A mid air collision of two training planes Friday killed four cadets from the army advanced training school at Moodyfield Field officers identified the dead as Lloyd Byron Davis 26 Utica Mississippi Richard Dexter Jr 25 Wheatfield Indiana Sammy S Burrell 27 Sallis Mississippi and Howard Berger 22 Cincinnati Ohio The article notes the names and ages of the four cadets and the location Moodyfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valdosta
Army
Advanced Training
Moodyfield
Lloyd Byron Davis
Utica
Miss
Richard Dexter, Jr
Wheatfield
Ind
Sammy S&. Burrell
Sallis
Howard
Berger
Cincinnati
Ohio
Cudahy Dividend Declared by Directors
Directors of Cudahy Packing company declared dividends on Friday. They approved $3 per share on the 6 percent cumulative preferred stock and $3.50 per share on the 7 percent cumulative preferred stock. Payments are due May 1 to holders of record on April 27, applying to dividends in arrears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cudahy Packing Company
Death notices honor several Iowa residents in multiple towns
Funeral services were held in Millersburg and surrounding communities for Amelia Goodman 84 and Gust Plumly with survivors including nine children and extended family. Also reported are services for Gust Olson Cora Marks John M Beddow and John Rust with details on births marriages moves and burial locations across Vinton Conesville Manchester and Hopkinton areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Amelia Goodman
Merle Lacy
Mable Norling
South English
George and
Vernon
North English
Alfred
Violet Lacy
Millersburg Cemetery
Whittier
le Roy J. Plumly
Springville
Ella Drexler
Central City
Plumly
F. S . Board
Brown Township
Norma Danly
Bonaparte
Carl
Madge
Frank Morse
Ella Sxinneyv
Marion
Wilcox Cemetery
Viola
Vinton
Gust Olson
Bethlehem T Lutheran Church
Carl Soderbloom
Evergreen Cemetery
Freda Olson
Bleking
Sweden
Erick
Conesville
Cora Marks
Corabell Austin
Reuben Marks
Iowa
Isaac Abbott
Grace Reformed and Evangelical
Manchester
John M. Beddow
Thomas P. Shaffer
Oakland Cemetery
Elkport
Jennie Smith
Harry
Dubuque
Clay
Fred
Kenneth
Delhi
Joseph
Fort Dodge
S. J
Colesbury
Margaret Gayler
Oclwein
Wopkinton
John Rust
Immaculate Conception
Sand Springs
A Landholt
Monticello
Hopkinton
Margaret Lahr
Cedar Rapids Presbytery Meeting at Springville Church
The Cedar Rapids Presbytery holds its spring meeting at Springville First Presbyterian Church on Monday and Tuesday. About 50 ministers and elders are expected. Highlights include devotions, talks by Rev. Clayton K. Griswold, a dinner marking the church’s eighty fifth anniversary, and a Tuesday session with the election of a moderator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Cedar County
Municipal Defense League
Earl O. Culver
University of Iowa
J. E. Morton
Postville
Allamakee-Clayton
Springville
Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church
C B Willming
Clayton K. Griswold
New York City
General Council
Warren S. Conrad
Keokuk
Iowa Synod
Charles W. Tyrrell
Mechanicsville
Lindbergh Draws Army Colonel Pay at Ford Plant
Charles A. Lindbergh, now a technical adviser at Ford bomber plant, earns a salary equal to a colonel in the army. The pay is $3,500 yearly plus allowances. Lindbergh resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission and chose Ford’s rate rather than a higher advertisement salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ford
Lindbergh
Air Corps Reserve
Henry Ford
Army
Ed Breen Declares Candidacy for Sixth Iowa Congress
Fort Dodge Democrat Edward Breen, a former state senator and 193? candidate, announced his bid for the Democratic nomination in Iowa’s Sixth District. He seeks to challenge Republican incumbent Fred C. Gilchrist, detailing War War II era urgency and urging earnest Washington leadership. District includes Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford, Emmet, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster, Winnebago, and Wright counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Edward Breen
Congress
Iowa
Fred C. Gilchrist
Laurens
Gilchrist
Breen
Washington
Uncle Sams
Bataan
Boone
Calhoun
Carroll
Crawford
Emmet
Greene
Hamilton
Hancock
Humboldt
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Pocahontas
Webster
Winnebago
Wright
Personality Course For Senior Girls At Wilson
The fifth annual personality course, sponsored by Miss Henrietta Frank, dean of girls, and the senior girls, concluded Friday. The theme was personality and careers and four meetings featured speakers on nursing, secretary qualifications, and positions with Northwest Bell Telephone. Final session covered applying for positions with records by Nadine Shank on secretarial procedures and the secretary at work and when receiving callers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta Frank
Winifred Bowers
St. Lukes Hospital
Ruth Bartling
Katherine Brady
E E Sears
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Nadine Shank
Wison
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Onslow
Loisa Warren
Loisa Conley
Hamiet’s
Arlee G. W. Blank
Jesup
Ralph P. Emerson
Legion Hall
Fairbank
J. H. Williams
Hazleton
J. N. Smith
Aurora
Ralph Durfey
Brandon
E. L. Lane
Rowley
R. J. Heckel
Quasqueton
Marshall Adams
Winthrop
W. F. Sharp
Decoran
Winneshiek County Red Cross
Hoak Construction Company of
Des Moines
Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative, Inc
B. H. Graeber
Alice Lubbock
June Mathison
Helen Frazeur
Lois Hudlin
Margaret Damon
Norma Grangaard
Jean Albert
Lamont
Truman Jarmon
Agnes Glendine Jarmon
B. O. Tankersley
J W. Ball
R. G. W. Collins
Urbana
M. D. Swisher
Center Point
Bernard Murphy
O. E. Barrow
Elkhart
TRAER
Dean Thomas
Minneapolis
Peke
Columbus Junction
Marjory Moore
Frank Moore
Columbus High School
Russell Greene
Fay M. Greene
Toledo
Jane Blair Dutton
Wieting Theater
Sharon Lynn Mohrefeld
Janice Kopecky
Dean Lewers
Jerry O’conner
Benita Overturf
Mary Lou O'Conner
Delores Minard
Doris Williams
Lowell Dutton
Ben Vaughn
John L. Blair
Dutton
Buckingham
Lloyd Pritchard
Wayne
A.E.F
Ireland
LA Porte City
Violet Sommerfelt
William Sommerfelt
Louis Weltzin
Charles Weltzin
Jubilee Lutheran
Spring Creek Township
W. E. Domres
Vielen Sommerfelt
Lorena Sommerfelt
Ervin Huck
Vernon Sommerfelt
C. L. Peasley
University of North Carolina
Harold Parkhouse
Nels Jensen
Highway 63
Percy Johnson
Jensen
Parkhouse
Oxford Junction
Charles Niles
Anamosa
Jones County Defense
R. D. Finegan
Martelle
L. L. McCreight
McCreight
Boy Scout
Fred Buresh
Fred Lasack
Page
Margaret Ward
Gilbert Klaren
Velma Beasley
Mary Anne Jasper
Lorna Barrack
Gene Talmadge
James Gerlich
Junior Kenny
Roland Willard
Stanley Steiner
Lisbon
Paul Huff
Army Air Corps
Tom Challis
Strawberry Point
Leroy Bjorge
Bjorge
Clarence Day
Iowa Highway Patrol
Sapt
Frank S Runyon
Arnold W. Salisbury
Jack Lang
Lowden
Claire Miller
Laura Heddleson
Heddleson
DELTA
Frances Neuhart
Eloise Burtlow
Carol Darnielle
Lois Rohloff
Rozella Cline
Junior Keep
Bruce Utterback
Gerald Rice
Clifford Goldman
John Aten
Lela Brainard
Doris Molyneux
Donald Bunnell
Ralph Utterback
F. J. Pine
Louisa County
M. F. Hicklin
Wapello
Oelwein
Pearl A. Hamilton
William Hamilton
Maynard
Richard Owain Beckwith
Oolwein
Paul Beckwith
Presbyterian Manse
L. W. Hayter
Elaine Nelson
Jamison Davis
Iowa City
Maynard High School
Pfeiffer Drug Store
Beckwith
North High
Omaha
Fareway Company
Iowa State Teachers Association Service Committee
A. B. Grimes
Northeast
County Council
J. L. Davies
I.S.T.A. Field Service Committee
Arthur Deamer
I.S.T.A
D. R. Roberts
The
Ls.t.a
Grace Leigh Scott
National Organization of W. C. T. A
Methodist Church
Miss Scott
Library Club
Dick Paul
J. D. Paul
Alpha Kappa Kappa
Robert Paul
Paul
University of St. Louis
Dorothy Lorene Moats
Scotch Grove
David Kenneth Moats
Jones County
Dorothy Lorene Otten
Betsy Ruth
Linquish
Wyoming
Carl Freese
Amber
Earl Pulver
Freese
Maquoketa
D. J. Wasson
George C Lawrence
West Union
Fayette County
Clermont
Town Hall
H. E. Landsgard
Elgin
Elgin State Bank
B. J. Baumgartner
Wadena
L. L. Knutson
Fayette
A. B. Carter
Arlington
C. M. Hazard
Waucoma
Burnside
C. M. Burnside
St. Lucas
John C. Mihm
First National Bank
American Legion
C. W. Antes
Cudahy
Willie Willis
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Dolly
Springville Church
Lindy
Ed Breen
Wilson
Cellee
Tre
Cy Go
Eleanore Kelly Sellars
Chicago Sun
Traval
Sud
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