New Fleet Leader Kimmel Praised as Honorable and Ready
The article profiles Admiral Kimmel, noting his three decades in service, roles as director of the Budget Office, and three sons in the Navy. Associates describe him as calm under pressure, with a long Kentucky upbringing and a penchant for straightforward navy focus. Admiral Bloch lauds him as a forceful, alert, and honest leader heading the world’s strongest fleet.
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Office of Naval Operations
Budget Office
Enfleet
Claude C. Bloch
James O. Richardson
Carcuses
Kimmel
W. S. Delany
New York Harbor
Admiral Kimmel
Manning Marius Kimmel
J. G
Thomas Kinkaid Kimmel
Edward Ralph Kimmel
Princeton
Manila
Navy
Kim
Henderson
Kentucky
Immel
Lieut
Dorothy Kinkaid
Thomas W. Kinkaid
Annapolis, Md
Mexico
Bloch
Iowa Only State That Made Navy Enlistment Quota
Cedar Rapids set an all time local record with 30 enlistments in January. Nationally 10,790 were inducted with Iowa contributing 312. Navy vacancies remain, and qualified applicants are assured induction once paperwork clears.
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Town
M. C. Madson
Navy
Federal
Cedar Rapids
Madson
Iowa
Moore State Dept Counselor Dies at 81
Fairfax Virginia state department counselor R Walton Moore died at his home after several weeks illness and a two day coma from pneumonia.
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Fairfax, Va
INS
R. Walton Moore
State Department
Kiel Canal Blocked For Large Vessels In Collision
Helsinki reports that Germanys Kiel canal linking the North Sea with the Baltic is blocked to large ships after a collision involving the Finnish steamer Inga of 1926 tons and a Spanish vessel. The canal is passable to smaller ships.
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Kiel Canal
Helsinki
Finland
Germany
North Sea
Baltic
Inga
World War II Headlines Rally Across Fronts
Reported speed records in the British westward push captured Cirene and Bengasi while Eritrean advances squeezed Italians toward the coast. British raids, Kenyan drives into Italian Somaliland and German air raids forewarn a major assault as RAF guns target coastal ports and Romania enforces strict death edicts under Nazi-backed rule. Cuban turmoil ends with Batista stabilizing power after a coup attempt.
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Rome
Cirene
Libya
Bengasi
Barentu
Eritrea
Kenya
Britain
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Navy
Angel Gonzalez
Japan Mediation Brings Peace in Thailand and Indo-China
The text notes Thailand and French Indo-China remain at peace through Japanese mediation. It claims bloodless concessions favored Japan, enabling exploitation and new military bases.
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Thailand
French
Indo-China
Japan
Linn County Folk Complete Red Cross First Aid Course
The Linn County Red Cross announced completion of standard first aid courses by residents from Coggan Linn township and Marion areas. Names include Mrs Daisy Ashby Julian Bliss Mrs Dorothy Buess and many others with junior certificates awarded to Lloyd Mallie Dale Stinger and John Towne. Rural teachers at Marion also listed.
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Linn County
Red Cross
Coggon
Linn Township
Marion
Coggan
Daisy Ashby
Julian Bliss
Dorothy Buess
Grover Davis
Oliver Domer
Walter Ellsworth
Esther Henderson
Stela Patton
Walter Walters
Wayne Henderson
Hillis Henderson
E. L. Hill
Lelia Jerome
Roy Jerome
A. Johnston
Tillie M. Leijndahl
Gene McAreavy
Lillian Mills
Linn Township Grange Hall
Vesta G. Fischer
Melvin Haessler
Frank Hartzell
Selma Leigh
Emil Mallie
Arlo K. Stinger
Lloyd Mallie
Dale Stinger
John Towne
Alice Bliss
Clifford Burns
Stephen Crouse
Millie Crouse
A. O. Edwards
Doris Ford
Zeloa Gillmore
Lyle Kindig
Dorothy Knapp
Jean Moore
Marion Schneider
Wilma Smeltzer
Bernard Tudeen
Naturalist Maslowski to Speak at McKinley Lyceum
Karl Maslowski president of the Ohio Audubon Society will present A Naturalist s Diary a pictorial record of the four seasons at McKinley High School Thursday at 1 30 p.m. He formerly wrote a nature column for the Cincinnati Enquirer and worked at the Cincinnati Natural History Museum.
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Karl H. Maslowski
McKinley High School
Maslowski
Ohio Audubon Society
Cincinnati Enquirer
Natural History Museum
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