Marion Man on Missing Heir Program to Receive 5000 Bequest
Marion, Ohio reporter George William Lawrence is slated to receive a 5000 dollar bequest from the estate of his uncle Lewis Van Antwerp Lawrance. The Missing Heir program on CBS announced the uncle’s death January 22, 1941, and located Lawrence, who will appear on air to recount the discovery. The program airs 7 to 7 30 p.m. Tuesday.
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George William Lawrence
Marion Sentinel
Ejla Lawrence
Sixth Avenue
Marion
CBS
Lawrence
Lewis van Antwerp Lawrance
Lake Worth Fla
Lawrance
Recital by Miss Mabel Kearns Pupil Group at Home
Miss Mabel Kearns presented a piano pupil group at her Cedar Rapids home on Saturday with 22 attendees including Mrs William Cech. Pupils Edna Mae Razek Bobby Cech Barbara Cech Eileen Hurt Joan Morgan Ronald Then Haus Norma Green Patricia Jansen Phyllis Helms and Nancy Elms performed.
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Mabel Kearns
William Cech
Cedar Rapids
Kearns
Edna Mae Razek
Bobby Cech
Barbara Cech
Eileen Hurt
Joan Morgan
Ronald Thenhaus
Norma Green
Patricia Johnsen
Phyllis Helms
Nancy Elms
Funeral services for Mrs Carrie B Fernow
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Yocom chapel for Carrie B. Fernow 76 lifelong Linn county resident with Rev C W R DeJong officiating. Pallbearers included R N Fitzgerald A J Taube and others. Burial in Oak Shade cemetery. New library books listed for public library with multiple authors and subjects. Community notices include PTAs church events and a dinner gathering for Linn county rural carriers. Probate notice announces final report hearing for Edith J Passmore estate in Linn County District Court with December 27 1941 date set.
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Carrie B. Fernow
Linn County
Yocom Chapel
W R DeJong
Presbyterian Church
R N Fitzgerald
A J Taube
Fred McShane
George Munier
Clyde Kearns
W B Sebern
Oak Shade Cemetery
District Court of Iowa
Linn
Edith J Passmore
J W Wingate
Nellie Barton
Annie Colgan
Edward Bernsdorf
J Grunewald
Anna Q Machacek
Anna Marie Decastello
Emma Grunewald
Cedar Rapids Art Association of
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
St Lukes Methodist Hospital
Fred Women
Jennie E Westfall
W J Grunewald
Fred R Cornish
Earch
Clerk of the District Court of
W. 3
Grunewald
Cour
District Court
Peel
Fred Whan
Ken Grunewald
Edi J. Passmore
Aise
School Band To Play In Marion Program
The Marion school band directed by Glenn L. Lyman will perform Thursday at 7 45 p.m. in the band room. The public is invited with no admission fee. The program includes marches, overtures, selections by Offenbach Rossini Ippolitow Iwanow and other pieces, with Richard Schrimpfer as soloist.
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Marion
Glenn L. Lyman
Holzman
Offenbach
Rossini
Richard Schrimper
Christmas party and meeting notes from Cedar Rapids ad items
Helen Mann Mary Swayne and Anna Detlefsen attend a Christmas party with a grab bag in the afternoon and officers to be elected. The Royal Purple degree will be conferred at Centennial Encampment No 91 I O O F hall tonight at 730 PM. Coast to Coast Store ads promote holiday gifts and Marionette show details with Junior League Cedar Rapids sponsorship.
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Methodist Sunday School
Helen Mann
Mary Swayne
Anna Detlefsen
I. O. O F. Hall
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Legionnaires Stand Against Tobey in New Hampshire
The New Hampshire American Legion urged Sen. Charles W Tobey to show undivided allegiance to the country by backing the proper civil and military authorities. State Commander William J Johnson said the Legion’s executive committee sent Tobey a telegram declaring his Senate remarks after Pearl Harbor do not reflect Legion sentiment.
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Department of the American Legion
Charles W Tobey
William J Johnson
Tobey
Senate
Pearl Harbor
Legion
Three Boys Hurt in Mt Vernon Coasting Accident
Three young boys were injured in a coasting accident in Mt Vernon on a Saturday morning. Bobbie Ehle aged 9 suffered a fractured knee while Howard Boxwell 7 and Edward Boxwell 5 were treated for shock and bruises after a sled collision with a car driven by George Rompet at South Third Street and Highway 26. They were treated at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids and released the next day.
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Sprelal
The
Gazette
MT Vernon
Bobbie Ehle
Howard Boxwell
Edward Boxwell
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
George Rompet
South Third Street
Ehle
Josephine Ehle
Boxwell
Deaths at Mt Vernon and Watkins Texas? (Cannot determine)
Tedford a Mt Vernon resident died at home after a short illness born July 3 1856 worked as a sign painter. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday Neff funeral home Mt Vernon cemetery burial friends may call. Delbert Glen Swick 35 of Watkins died Saturday in Chicago born August 14 1906 married August 19 1929 to Bessie Hutton. Surviving wife three daughters father Herbert Swick of Watkins and Mrs Ben Miller of Blairstown brother Ivan Swick nine nieces and nephews. Services Wednesday 2 p.m. Watkins Community church burial Mound cemetery.
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Mt. Vernon
Hughes Tedford
Neff
Glenn Rowley
Mt Vernon
Watkins
Delbert Glen Swick
Chicago
Bessie Hutton
Deloras
Sdna May
Florence
Herbert Swick
Ben Miller
Blairstown
Ivan Swick
S O. Arnold
Watkins Community Church
Mound Cemetery
Mettlin Found Not Guilty In Assault Case
Floyd J. Mettlin was acquitted by Superior Court Judge Dan Woods of assault and battery stemming from a complaint by Mrs. Jess Richards alleging he attacked her son James during a fight between the youths. The Monona notes report lodge club met and a Gazette driver sustained three broken ribs in a gravel-road collision near West Union.
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Oelwein
Floyd J. Mettlin
Superior Court
Dan Woods
Jess Richards
Mettlin
James
Monona
QO. E. S
A. L. Currie
Lizzie Killen
Toll from Peru flood may reach two thousand dead
In Huaraz the Santa river disaster swept away half the residential district and left entire families missing as water rocks lava and mud flowed through the valley. President Manuel Prado and other officials visited the affected area after the weekend flood.
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Lima
Peru
Huaraz
Santa River
Manuel Prado
Auto Tags 1913 to 1941 On Display At Anamosa
Special to The Gazette Anamosa residents display auto license plates spanning 1913 to 1941 in the Jones County Treasurer’s office. The exhibit notes changes from Des Moines issued plates to county redistribution in 1922 and a 1925 factory at the Anamosa reform school.
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Anamosa
Roy Moreland
Olin Farmer
Jones County
Don S. Ruhl
A. B. Snyder
Des Moines
Uncle Sam
George W. Beaman
British Submarine Tetrarch Declared Overdue Lost
The Admiralty announced in London that submarine Tetrarch is overdue and must be considered lost. The vessel, a Triton class patrol submarine launched in 1940, carried a crew of 53 with one four inch gun two smaller guns ten torpedo tubes.
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London
Admiralty
Jane’s Fighting Ships
New Parking Ban Implements Snow Removal Measures
City street department workers and a traffic patrolman posted no parking signs on loop streets as Captain Gordon Hughes announced a snow removal ordinance. The ban runs 2 to 6 30 a.m. from November 1 to May 1, aiming to speed plowing and save about 20000 dollars per winter.
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City Street Department
Gordon Hughes
Loop
Court ruling taxes DC government workers expands tax scope
The Supreme Court held DC residents are domiciled where they live without fixed intent to return, reversing a DC Circuit ruling and affecting up to 20 000 Washington residents. The decision directs further steps to decide tax imposition. Also denial of review in Fahy discharge case related to union activity.
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Washington
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Jackson
United States Court of Appeals
Newark
N. J
Morning Ledger
National Labor Relations Board
Agnes Fahy
American Newspaper Guild
Miss Fahy
Charles Fahy
Pa Congressman Pushes 20-Year Draft Age Limit Proposal
Rep. Charles E. Faddis would amend the selective service bill to bar drafting men under 20 and require one year of training before combat. The House committee recessed without decision as Speaker Rayburn said action would come Wednesday. Senate committee delayed action amid disputes over age limits and potential reductions from 21.
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Washington
Charles E. Faddis
Faddis
House Miliary Affairs Committee
Sam Rayburn
House
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Family Clings To Hope For Missing Ordnance Employe
Dwight Strawhacker 20 Burlington an employee on the ordnance plant shell loading line remains unaccounted after Friday's blast His wife and parents said Monday they had only an unverified report but cling to hope he is alive and may be in shock His description was broadcast by police radio at the family's request
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Burlington
Dwight Strawhacker
Zimmerman
Strawhacker
Axis ship losses 60 percent in Mediterranean route
A British radio broadcast reported by CBS on Monday said 60 percent of Axis ships attempting to pass the Mediterranean blockade to Libya have been sunk.
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New York
Ins
CBS
Mediterranean
Libya
Williamsburg Cook Enlists After Midnight Recruitment
Robert Paul Mahan a 20 year old Williamsburg restaurant cook left his apron at 2 a.m. and drove to Cedar Rapids to enlist after reading in The Gazette that the federal building navy recruiting office is open 24 hours. He passed entrance tests before M C Madson and will join the cooks and bakers school. Many others plan to appear before the naval aviation cadet selection board in Cedar Rapids Wednesday. Interviews and physicals will be held at the federal building.
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Cedar Rapids
Federal Building
Robert Paul Mahan
McCune’s
Williamsburg
Patch Widow To Testify In Dubuque Grand Jury Probe
Gladys Patch widow of L A Dan Patch will testify before the Dubuque county grand jury in the Sageville road death investigation. The grand jury convened after District Judge Milton J Glenn instructed them as the coroner cited injuries suggesting a hit and run or automobile strike. Patch’s widow had been hospitalized for an overdose of sleeping pills on the day of his funeral.
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Dubuque
E J. Kean
Gladys Patch
L. A
Dan) Patch
Patch
Sageville
Price Ceilings Set on Iron and Steel Goods
Washington March -- Price Administrator Leon Henderson imposed price ceilings on iron and steel products at every distribution stage except retail. The limits reflect April 16 levels, aiming to curb profiteering by some jobbers while noting cooperation from leading distributors and higher costs faced by manufacturers seeking steel.
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Washington
INS
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Mortar Equipment of U S Complete
The army announced all troops are now fully equipped with mortars. One model fires over 1,500 yards, light enough for a single man to carry, while another exceeds twice that range. The weapons support infantry rifle companies and are used by armored divisions, military police, parachute battalions and cavalry units.
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Washington
Army
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Arizona
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Sigfred Clothing
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Kings Daughters
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Metta Whitcomb
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Rural Mothers Club
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Eldora High School
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Colfax Circle
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Genevieve Hutton
Rollins
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Snow White and the
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Children's Theater Department
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Legionaires
Iowa News
the Gazette
Will Really
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Third Avenue SE
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