Weather and police court notices in the Daily Record
Weather forecast for Friday includes high and low readings for multiple cities and a Sunday to Monday cold spell with snow flurries. Police court records list drunkenness fines, speeding penalties, unauthorized driving charges, and multiple small fines including parking violations and a crane incident at Iowa Manufacturing Company.
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Bismarck
Chicago
Minneapolis
Denver
New York
Los Angeles
Sioux City
Troop Arrivals at the Reerrcated Pree Afsre
Troop movements list arrival details across West Coast ports and Pacific theaters. Units include 79th Infantry, 512th Ammunition Battalion, 4 042nd Army truck unit, and multiple port and support detachments. Named individuals and ships noted among arrivals at San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, and Tacoma with destinations including Okinawa Nagoya and Sasebo.
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Newport News
Eng
Victory
Ih Fed
AVA
Intemnete
Ord Erecztion Co
Owen
Ivon
Emily Dickinson
Woodrow
Wilson
Alanson Houghton
Ida Strauss
San Francisco
Frederick Funsion
Burleigh
Rockwall
New Orleans
Winifred L. Smith
Quincy
Benevolence
Joseph E. Campell
Odum
Suisun
Tacoma
Tulane Victory
Valentine
Portland
LST 851
Oahu
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Christopher Flanigan
Manila
Medusa
Niantic Victory
San Mateo Victory
Sasebo
Support Prices Fixed For 1946 Potato Crop
The agriculture department announced that 1946 crop potato prices will be supported at base levels from 1.05 to 2.60 dollars a bushel to guarantee growers not less than 60 percent of parity prices.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Republicans Call for Lead to Avert War in Atomic Age
Chicago AP report notes Rep Martin calls on Republican National Committee to rally the party for national leadership in the atomic era. He warns that new world wars loom without action and urges mobilizing "little people" for peace while criticizing New Deal policies. Financials show $550,000 raised toward a $750,000 goal with $450,000 spent and $100,000 on hand plus $250,000 reserve. Brownell cites solvent status and broad state help. Kemper notes year quota unmet but improved donor interest since Truman's address.
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Chicago
Republican Party
Rep
Martin
Mass
House
Republican National Committee
America
National Committee
Jouett Ros Todd
Kentucky
Herbert Brownell
James S Kemper
National Finance Committee
Truman
Coness
Return of Germans to Reich begins large scale transfer
The Allies plan moving 6 650 000 Germans from Austria and several occupied territories into the four zones of Germany. Transfers start this month and run until August 1 1946 with allocations by origin and zone. The plan aims to ease migration problems and requires international agreement.
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Washington
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Germany
State Department
Allied Control Council
Berlin
United States
Truman Denies Policy Wrecked by Acheson
President Truman denied Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley’s charge that American foreign policy in Iran was wrecked by Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson. Asked if policy had been destroyed, Truman replied no at his news conference.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Iran
Dean Acheson
Truman
Hurley
Thiel Resigns as Iowa River Valley Scout Executive
Owen B. Thiel has resigned as executive of the Iowa River Valley Boy Scout council effective on or before February 1 1946. Council president Jack C. White announced the move and said the executive board will meet Wednesday to consider naming a successor. Thiel has led the council for nine years and plans to remain in Iowa City for now.
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Iowa City
Owen B. Thiel
Iowa River Valley Boy Scout Council
Jack C. White
Theil
White
Should Post Yule Mail by Monday
Cedar Rapids postal officials urge a Monday deadline for mailing Christmas gifts and cards to distant states. They warn to correct addresses to avoid delays, wrap packages securely, and note many people have moved to new addresses. cards sent at the 3 cent rate will be forwarded.
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Cedar Rapids
Think Prep Vets Deserve Credits For War Efforts
DES MOINES AP The Iowa Department of Public Instruction recommends that any high school youth who completed basic military training receive at least a half year of credit toward graduation. The plan allows extra credits for extended service and special training, with diplomas possible after passing examinations.
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DES Moines
State Department of Public Instruction
Iowa
Veterans
Jessie Parker
Cameron M. Ross
State Department
County Agent Awards Made by National Association
The National Association of County Agricultural Agents elected four regional directors and awarded 85 distinguished service honors to county agents from 35 states. Recipients with 10 years of service and standout projects included agents from Illinois Indiana Missouri Nebraska and more, led by directors Cletus F. Murphy Stuart Stirling Ben Morgan and John Henry Logan.
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Chicago
National Association of County Agricultural Agents
Cletus F. Murphy
Waseca
Minn
Stuart Stirling
Silver City
N.M
Ben Morgan
Marlington
W. Va
John Henry Logan
Clearwater
Fla
Ilinois
E A. Bierbaum
Anna
John R. Gilkey
Decatur
Hamlet H. Lett
Mt. Carmel
Indiana
L E Archbold
Lloyd E Cutler
Crown Point
Mervin S. Smith
Bluffton
Paul N. Payne
Cresco
Marion E Olson
Mason City
Kenneth &. Littlefield
Sac City
Myron D. Lacy
DeWitt
Missouri
Roy I. Coplen
Higginsville
Robert A. Langenbacher
St. Charles
Nebraska
J. R. Watson
West Boint
Clyde C. Noyes
Mcook
Satevepost Claims Ban by Kuomintang
Editor Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post said Edgar Snow was barred from China by civil authorities. Snow’s Manila message claimed China rejected him as unacceptable and cited a Kuomintang blacklist of additional reporters. Hibbs alerted President Truman and the State Department and appealed to the Chinese embassy.
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Philadelphia
Ben Hibbs
Saturday Evening Post
Edgar Snow
China
Washington
Hibbs
Manila
Snow
Kuomintang
Truman
War and
jState
Soybean Butter Tax Ruled as Dairy Substitute
Federal Judge Edward J. Moinet ruled that soybean butter is taxable as a dairy butter substitute. Howard O. Butler of Cedar Lake, Michigan, argued it was not butter substitute, but the judge found it imitates butter in color, texture, flavor, and appearance. Butler faced estimated tax of about 3,000 dollars weekly or 150 thousand dollars in back taxes.
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Detroit
Edward J. Moinet
Howard O. Butler
Cedar Lake
Mich
Butler
Moinet
Stassen Urges Ten Year Test of Our System
Harold E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor and 1948 GOP presidential hopeful, urged a ten year plan to test free enterprise and capitalism. Speaking at the National Association of Manufacturers convention he called for a bipartisan postwar conference to address economic problems and reconversion output while labor agrees to a no strike pledge for 60 days. He argued unity would prove the American system’s superiority and warned against class conflict and renewed disunity amid postwar strains.
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New York
Harold E. Stassen
National Association of Manufacturers
Stassen
Truman
United
Business
Labor
Agriculture
Minnesota
America
Pearl Harbor
China
Iran
Java
Palestine
Indo-China
Spruance To Head Navy War College
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, then commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, would soon head the Naval War College at Newport Rhode Island. Secretary Forrestal announced plans to later appoint Admiral John H. Towers to succeed Spruance as Pacific Fleet commander, with no exact date set.
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Washington
Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
Pacific Fleet
Naval War College
Newport
Rhode Island
Forrestal
John H. Towers
Fifth Fleet
Spruance
City Briefs Accused of Forgery
Police on Saturday issued a warrant charging Lee E. Dotson a former chef at the Twin Towers cafe with forgery He allegedly cashed an $85 check at Killian s in the name of cafe owner Troy Winegar who says his signature was forged The check drew on People's Savings bank.
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Lee E. Dotson
Twin Towers Cafe
Killian’s
Troy Winegar
People’s Savings Bank
U.S. May Not Abandon Sioux City Air Base
Des Moines AP reports Jake More, chair of the Democratic state central committee, says the war department has rescinded its plan to abandon the Sioux City air base. The base remains surplus and on standby pending a final disposition decision in coming weeks. It will be used for storage and troop redeployment and is likely to be retained for its central Midwest location serving four states.
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Des Moines
Jake More
Democratic State Central Committee
War Department
Sioux City
Police duel with eight gunmen ends in fatal outcome
In Chicago, one suspect, Christ Perres, 27, Joliet, was killed and Lawrence Mazzanari, 34, Chicago, wounded when detectives confronted eight gunmen planning a $50,000 payroll holdup. Renoto Lalli, 38, Rockford, handcuffed nearby, aided police as more suspects remained at large.
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Chicago
Christ Perres
Joliet
Lawrence
Tiny” Mazzanari
John Hanrahan
Renoto Lalli
Rockford
Ill
Mazzanars
Perres
Lolli
John D. Moss
Mazzanari
Hanrahan
Waukegan
Freight Backlog Deepens in Cedar Rapids Rail Yard
Cedar Rapids faces a growing freight jam with 150 cars idle on sidings as freight house crews plan Sunday work and drag lines prepare trucks for Monday delivery. Embargoes in Omaha worsen the backlog while Des Moines reports strain and drivers strike.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry F. Sundberg
Chamber of Commerce
Midwest Truck Strike Talks Set in Washington
Officials of the Midwest Operators' Association and union leaders with the labor department conciliation service plan a Tuesday meeting in Washington to try to settle the 22 day Midwest truck strike.
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Omaha
INS
Midwest Operators’ Association
Conciliation Service
The
Labor Department
Washington
Shirer wills estate share and valuables to New Jersey heir
Josephine Shirer of New Jersey will receive $2000 from her late mother Mrs. Josephine T. Shirer of Cedar Rapids. She will share the remaining estate equally with brothers John T. Shirer of Virginia and William L. Shirer, a columnist. Miss Shirer also gets the mother’s jewelry silver linen and furniture. John T. Shirer named executor but unable to serve owing to out-of-state residence. Merchants National Bank appointed administrator. Adrian Omerod, alias Earl William Sterling, 55, of Des Moines, received a six month suspended sentence for vagrancy with $1000 appeal bond after arrest Nov. 27. Evelyn Swenka filed for divorce from Woodrow Swenka after a marriage of under four weeks formed Nov. 15 in Cedar Rapids.
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Josephine Shirer
New Jersey
Josephine T. Shirer
Cedar Rapids
John T. Shirer
Virginia
William L. Shirer
Miss Shirer
Merchants National Bank
Adrian Omerod
Earl William Sterling
Des Moines
G. K. Thompson
Omerod
Evelyn Swenka
Woodrow Swenka
Lerch Named Military Governor in Korea Zone
The War Department said Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch was appointed military governor of the American zone in Korea. Lerch holds the post of army provost marshal general.
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Lerch
Korea
Washington
War Department
Archer L. Lerch
Final state war bond committee plans yearly meeting
At the final meeting in Des Moines on Friday the State War Bond committee members planned to create a permanent organization that would meet once a year.
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DES Moines
State War Bond Committee
Mneet
Doctor Says Miller Died Of Exhaustion
Dr. R E Gray longtime Eldora state training school physician testified in a second degree murder case that Ronald Miller died from heat exhaustion with acute dilation of the right heart. He said Miller was dying when brought to the hospital and noted a large skull scalp clot though no brain injuries.
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Fort Dodge
R. E. Gray
Eldora State
Ronald Miller
Carl Klatt
Miller
Gray
Klatt
Miller’s
Grothe
99th Division's Key Role at Remagen Bridgehead
The 99th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Checkerboard, helped hold the Remagen bridgehead under heavy German pressure. In 24 days of March offensive action the unit advanced rapidly, capturing 200 German towns and 495 square miles, before crossing the Rhine into Germany.
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99Th
Checkerboard) Infantry
Remagen
Checkerboard Doughs
Belgium
V Corps
Roer River
Elsenborn
Berg
Germany
Reich
Aachen
Duren
Julich
Dusseldorf
Rhine
Truman Urges Federal Driver Licensing Plan
President Truman called for a federal licensing system for all drivers noting high highway deaths and injuries. He recalled Senate passage of his proposed certification bill but said the House rejected it and gave no new plan at this time.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
Service members honor rollizing discharge notices
Lt Dorothy V Morehead daughter of Mr and Mrs H L Morehead received honorable discharge from the Waves after 34 months at Naval Air Station Lakehurst New Jersey She served in communications Her brother Lt Herbert Morehead has received his discharge at Olathe Kansas Lt Jack F Spears son of Mr and Mrs Charles Spears Flys home from Okinawa with airborne engineers to be discharged after January Clifé Meloan ship's cook at Marion attached to Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek Va discharged after 40 months His wife Patricia Goslin was a former Joe and Cliff Sandwich shop employee Staff Sgt Roscoe B Paulson son of Mr and Mrs Leon M Paulson separated from Army Air Forces at San Antonio Texas He served 18 months in Italy Cpl Bob Beadle son of Mr and Mrs H F Beadle served overseas as cryptographer in England France and Belgium Jack Miltner spends a merchant marine leave with parents in Solon
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Dorothy V. Morehead
H. L. Morehead
Sixteenth Street
Red
The
Waves
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
Herbert Morehead
Olathe, An
Jack F. Spears
Charles Spears
Cottage’ Grove
Thirty-fourth Street
Okinawa
Airborne
Clifé T. Meloan
Marion
Naval Amphibious Base
Little Creek
Navy
Meloan
Patricia Goslin
Joe
Cliff
Roscoe B. Paulson
Leon M. Paulson
Eighth Street
Army Air Forces
San Antonio
Texas
Paulson
Italy
Bob” Beadle
H. F. Beadle
England
France
Belgium
Jack Miltner
Merchant Marine
F. W. Miltner
Solon
Deaths Annie C O Brine longtime Cedar Rapids resident
Mrs Annie C O Brine wife of Samuel O Brine died at home 3026 C avenue NE Cedar Rapids at 6 30 am Saturday after brief illness Born August 8 1861 in Freeport Iowa she married Ralph W Van Antwerp May 31 1877 and Samuel O Brine May 6 1920 in Cedar Rapids She lived in Cedar Rapids 82 years and was a United Brethren church member Surviving are six sons six step sons two step daughters many grandchildren and great grandchildren One stepson Capt Forrest O Brine died in service Friends may call at Moen chapel
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Annie C. O'Brine
Samuel O’brine
C Avenue NE
Freeport
Ralph W. VanAntwerp
Cedar Rapids
United Brethren Church
Charles W
Harry V
Ralph H. VanAntwerp
Mark C. VanAntwerp
Wichita
Kan
Edgar J. VanAntwerp
Des Moines
Frank G. van Antwerp
Poulsbo
Wash
Clifford
Paul F
Orville
George O’brine
Raymond O’brine
Ferndale
Sgt
Robert O’brine
Manila
Nellie Andrews
Ruby Osberg
Forrest O’brine
Moen Chapel
Obituary for John Kretschmar, Cedar Rapids machinist
John Kretschmar, 73, of 1105 Avenue NW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 3 15 pm Friday after a two weeks illness. He was born June 24 1872 in Amana and worked 31 years as a machinist at Rock Island shops before retiring in 1923. Surviving are his wife Wilhelmine, six children Alvin Arcardia Calif Mrs Paul King Los Angeles Calif John A Mrs Roy Henderson Mrs Louis Hanson and Mrs Joe Dostal of Cedar Rapids, 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren, and a sister Mrs William Melhorn of Cedar Rapids. Services will be at Beatty chapel 2 pm Monday conducted by Rev P L Bornhoeft. Burial Cedar Memorial park. Friends may call at the chapel.
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John Kretschmar
Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Amana
Wilhelmine
Alvin
Arcadia
Calif
Paul King
Los Angeles
John A
Roy Henderson
Say Driver Flees Car After Wreck
Police investigated an auto accident at Second avenue and Thirteenth street SE. A Kilborn Photo Paper company car struck Ralph Andersons parked car at 251 Eighteenth street NW, with the driver not identified. Witnesses saw the driver walk east after the crash.
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Second Avenue
Thirteenth Street SE
Kilborn Photo Paper Company
Ralph Anderson
Eighteenth Street NW
Second Avenue SE
Kilborn Company
Thelma Keller
Avenue NE
Mrs. Hickman Elected to Republican National Committee
Mrs. Charles S. Hickman of Iowa won election to the Republican national committee at the Friday meeting after a prior nomination by the Iowa state organization.
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U.C.T
United Commercial Travelers Council No. 161
Auxiliary
Roosevelt Hotel
Bernard L. Feeney
Charles City
Iowa
Bonnie Goff
Davenport
C. B. Curtis
Sheridan
Oscar Sundberg
Ft. Dodge
Chicago
Charles S. Hickman
Republican National Committee
Iowa State Organization
Annual Meeting Notice for First Trust and Savings Bank
Notice states that holders of First Trust and Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids will meet Tuesday January 8 1946 at 3 p.m. in the banking room to elect directors and conduct any business. Fr DVORAK cashier signs the notice.
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First Trust and Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Fr. Dvorak
Ouster Petition Filed Against City Public Safety Chief
Four police officers and a private citizen filed ouster proceedings against George Jui Gibbons commissioner of public safety in district court. Hearing is set for December 18 before District Judge D C Browning. Complaint cites neglect of duties misconduct maladministration and corruption. Affidavits signed by Leonard and Wesley Christensen Otto Schrunk and John Conway. Christensen brothers and Schrunk were part of a county grand jury ruled illegal by Judge Forsling and have appealed to the state supreme court. Petitioners posted 1000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
George Jui Gibbons
Commissioner of Public Safety
D. C. Browning
Gibbons
Leonard
Wesley Christensen
Otto Schrunk
John Conway
Christensen Brothers
Schrunk
Linus B. Forsling
Forsling
State Supreme Court
Youth Sentenced In Hotel Slaying in Chicago
Donald Cook, 16, was sentenced to seven to 14 years for manslaughter in the Stev ens hotel killing of Morton Stein. He also received a concurrent two to four year term for robberies in two Chicago homes. Stein was killed May 11 after a quarrel over loot.
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Chicago
Donald Cook
State Penitentiary
Stevens Hotel
Morton Stein
Cook
Harold G. Ward
Ward
Stein
Gretna
Ottumwa Doctor Sentenced to Twenty Years
Dr. L. R. Wellstead, 66, of Ottumwa, was sentenced to 20 years in Fort Madison penitentiary after a second degree murder conviction. Judge H. C. Taylor handed down the sentence. Wellstead’s medical license had been revoked in 1943 after an alleged illegal procedure caused the death of 23 year old Leona Reeves of Ottumwa. He testified he had no connection to the abortion charge.
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Ottumwa
L. R. Wellstead
Fort Madison
H. C. Taylor
Wellstead
Leona Reeves
Iowa Metropolitan Agents Reject Unions
Des Moines Iowa agents of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company refused to authorize a union to represent them in collective bargaining. In the latest election more voters chose neither union, leading to dismissal of the case and a new election cannot be held for about a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of
New York
National Labor Relations
J. N. Draznin
Draznin
Auto Workers Push For National Labor Party
A union committee representing 42,000 UAW members in Flint urged immediate formation of a national labor party. The citywide UAW CIO strike panel approved a resolution backing efforts to create an active labor political force amid the General Motors shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint
Mich
United Automobile Workers Union (Cio
National Labor Party
Uaw-Cio
General Motors
District Court Notice in Mead vs Mead Divorce Case
In Linn County Iowa Wilma A Mead sues Frank Mead for absolute divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. petition seeks cancellation of a quit claim deed and possible property allocations. Defendant must appear by December 31 1945 or default will be entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of Land
Linn County
Wilma A. Mead
Frank
Petl- Hon
Towit
Hubbard
Greene and
College
Bever
Cedar Rapids
Town
Iowa
Ilinois
Lake McBride
Linn County District Court
Court House
Geo. C. Claassen
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John Pringle
Fourth Street NW
Roscoe Rhodes
First Avenue NW
R. A. Slocum
Center Point
Boyd Jones
Carl G. Hay
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Seventeenth Street
I Avenue
Isa Callahan
Fifth Avenue
Riva Sauer
Third Street
Geneva
Dethon
John Paskek
Oxfax Junction
Ruby
Ber. Ta
Walters
Glendale
Rapdre
Gere Mere Greham
McCafederick Mc
Om Charles Sees
Lars
Seventh Avenue
Dee St
Sixth Street
Fue
Zaczpa
Sa Nemes
Mack
Szi Ceohdzge
Mfeade
Wr. Campbell
Ree
79Th
Inf
Mlo Ganin
Marseilles
EyTth A-A
Automat
Wits Med
Sceseits
le Zgha
Arcomert Hord
Seis
Etténtents
Treadway Cratzee
Jonathan Edwards
Justin Mferrill
Seattle
Davy Crockett
LST 846
USS Bayfield
Chilton
Nagoya
Acheson
Thiel
Think Prep
Satevepost
United Effort
Navy War College
Camera Club
Y.M.C.A
E. I. Copeland
George Lillie
U.S
Sioux City Air Base
Sundberg
Sunberg
Midwest
Dwight McCormack
U. S
Mrs
Say
Hickman
Auto Workers
Marcus Bach
State University of Iowa
First Evangelical & Reformed Church
Eighth Avenue
L Street
Frederick H. Haag
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