First WAAC Officers Commissioned at Fort Des Moines
At Fort Des Moines 436 members of the first WAAC officer candidate class were commissioned as third officers. Gen. George C. Marshall lauded their early record, Oveta Culp Hobby presided, and Edith Nourse Rogers urged the new officers to serve as soldiers. The oath was administered by Maj. Gen. J. A. Ulio with diplomas from Maj. Gen. Frederick Uhl. Gov. George A. Wilson and Brig Gen Charles H. Grahl attended.
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Fort Des Moines
WAAC
George C. Marshall
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Army
Marshall
Edith Nourse Rogers
R-Mass
France
England
Rogers
Waacs
America
J. A. Ulio
Frederick Uhl
Seventh Service Command
George A. Wilson
Iowa
Charles H. Grahl
Tama Indian Youth Sentenced to 30 Years in Reform School
Willard Sanache, 21, Indian youth from the Tama reservation, is jailed for 30 years at Anamosa state reformatory after pleading guilty to five motor vehicle larcenies and two burglary charges. Two younger companions, arraigned in juvenile court, were committed to Eldora training school and paroled to Indian authorities. The trio fled peace officers across three counties in August, driving through a cornfield and into a ravine before abandoning the stolen car. Some sentences run concurrently.
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Toledo
B. F. Thomas Friday
Willard Sanache
Tama
Anamosa State Reformatory
Sanache
Eldora
Iowa City News Briefs Include Nutrition Leader Change
Mrs. Verne W. Bales resigns as head of the Iowa City nutrition program but remains chairwoman for selling the nutrition booklets. Johnson County reports 1 282 665 dollars in war bonds sold in seven months, nearing its yearly quota. Petit jurors for September term were drawn by officials and must appear September 28 with grand jurors reporting that Monday. Johnson County rural scrap drive planned with reply cards to farmers. junk dealers will pay 10 dollars per ton for scrap delivered, and 8 dollars for scrap picked up.
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Iowa City
Verne W. Bales
Bales
Johnson County
Ed Sulek
R. J. Jones
R. Nielson Miller
Jack White
Scrap Drive
Williard Smith
Clifford Mader
Walter Smith
Earl Barber
M. E. Dingman
Mary Rouse
Loyal Circle
John Johnson
Clarence Cripps
Mervin Smith
Wayne Saunders
Central City
Decorah
Kelly
Monona
Sergt
Clifton J Bernhard
Clarence Bernhard
Alberta Wagner
Cedar Rapids
Camp Haan
Calif
Bernhard
Mcgregor
Henry Flanders
Clayton County
Council of Christian Education
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Florence D. Weir
Childrens Division
Clermont
Ray Vasby
Des Moines
Horan
Donald Horan
Pueblo Ordnance Depot
Pueblo
Colo
Francis Horan
Camp Roberts
Far Lawton
Seattle
Wash
Walford
G W Argo
Maria Shinn
Margaret Munneke
Margaret Vesely
Aileen Larson
Mary Gray
Mary Ellen Bowler
Yipton
Cedar County
Jane McCormick
Wattkon
Eunice Kessel
Henry Kessel
Watkon
Roger Bender
FE J McDonald
Miss Mane King
Waukon
Raymond Ruffridge
Accused Cattle Thief Returned to West Union
Sheriff A J Kutschat brought Alfred George Kohler 34 to West Union from Aberdeen S D after Kohler confessed stealing five fat two year old steers from the Hunsberger pasture near Wadena. Kohler said he trucked them to Aberdeen and sold them to a slau s Kohler’s 17 year old brother in law who left Wadena with Kohler was not arrested.
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the Gazette
West Union
A. J. Kutschat
Aberdeen
S. D
Alfred George Kohler
Kohler
Wadena
Kutschat
Lou
Oscar Hunsberger
Red Cross Sends Completed War Relief Passenger Items
Mrs. Ed Riser, Postville Red Cross chairman, reported this week that county headquarters received completed relief items. The army received eight sleeveless sweaters, two helmets, and three rifle mitts. The navy received 14 pairs of socks, six turtle-neck sweaters, five sleeveless sweaters, plus two ladies sweaters, one pair of socks, and five children’s sweaters.
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Postville
Ed _ Riser
Red Cross
Army
Navy
Webster consolidated school to open Monday
The Webster consolidated school will open Monday with Supt. A. C. Kepler in his ninth year and a staff including Ada Zimmerman Ada Zimmer man of Ladora Mrs Agnes Hay worth of Sigourney and one more to be hired. Grade teachers include Roey Butler Faye Gilmore and Mary Pettigrew. Bus drivers listed.
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Oelwein
Vinton
Benton County
W. A. Edwards
Edwards Heating and Plumbing
Adolf Selk
Selks
Anamosa
Jones County District Court
Leroy Aalfs
Carl Eggers
Monticello
Henry Eichhorn
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Ralfs
Elberon
George Strochata
Charles Strochata
Mayme Riha
James Riha
Chelsea
Lancaster
W. A. Shelton
Mille Buresh
Traer and Corp
Joseph Pavlicek
Fort Oglethorpe
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D. R Cottrell
Alfaretta Gregg
Viola Moeller
Pauline Harold
Kenneth Smith
Rheon Woodward
George Roberts
Albert Shepherd
Marjorie Child Lundt
Dorothy Plock
Mary Stark
Robert E. Dean
Mary Beecher
Helen Hollis
Julia Wemark
Dorothy Dixon
Genevieve Scott
Esther Wood
Ardys Erdal
B. F. Thomas
Middy McNeal
Theodore Stueben
Lowell Teckenberg
Henry Teckenberg
Unionville
Mac
Walter H. Clark
Stueben
Luana
Kathleen Norris
Waterloo
State Teachers College
Beatrice Hoehne
F. M. Gillispie
Will Gillispie
Red Wood City
Calif
Shellsburg
Francis Pickett
Minneapolis
Federated Church
Belgian Congo
Multiple Iowa Deaths Reported Across Counties
Obituaries list Mrs Emmaline Nieukirk 68 of Walker and Mrs Julia Hugos 69 of Decorah among others. Funeral notices cover Durand Baker and several residents from Decorah Strawberry Point Amana Vinton and Toledo with burial plans at local cemeteries and churches.
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Walker
Lawrence Nieukirk
Emmaline Stauffer
Buchanan County
Gertrude Hare
Rowley
Lewis Speicher
Minnesota
Clifford
California
Louise Stauffer
Sorensen
Carl
Louis Peterson
Waverly
Ivan Cutler
Mason City
Thomas J. Elwick
Decorah
Strawberry Point
William H
Mary Jane Dexter
Elizabeth Carepenter
John Port
Springville
Lyman Dexter
Stevensville
Mont
Legion backs U S Scrap Drive for metal relics
Des Moines Iowa Legion and its auxiliary endorsed the federal scrap request for war relics from all wars. Critics from Revolutionary Civil and Spanish American groups urged protest arguing historic objects should not be scrapped until resources are exhausted. Legion officials cited national orders to turn in weapons and shell items. Col Padgett said no coercion is planned.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Legion
Dan J. O'Brien
The
American Legion
O’brien
Thomas H. Tracey
Manchester
Iowa American Legion Auxiliary
W. L. Padgett
Fort Des Moines
Five escape drowning near Keokuk on Mississippi
Five Keokuk residents were saved when their outboard boat capsized in the Mississippi river Friday. Joe Inman of Keokuk saw the accident and rushed to help aboard his own boat.
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Keokuk
Mississippi River
Joe Inman
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