Miss Shirley Portzline and Melvin Crocker Wed at Marion Home
Miss Shirley Portzline daughter of John and Mrs Portzline of Marion married Melvin Crocker son of Herbert Crocker of Lisbon at 2 p.m. Monday, at the bride’s parents home. Rev Vernon H Carter officiated. Attendants were Betty Corum and Guy Williams. The couple will reside at 448 Twenty-seventh Street Marion.
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Shirley Portzline
John Kahler
Twenty-sixth Street
Marion
Melvin Crocker
Herbert Crocker
Lisbon
Vernon H. Carter
The
Christian Church
Betty Corum
Guy Williams
Crocker
Local Wedding Announcements Highlight Service Members
Announcement records the marriage of Aviation Metalsmith Robert Wilber of Santa Rosa to Mary Ann Dvorak of Cedar Rapids on December 19 in Cotati California. It notes high school alumni, family travels, and other servicemen homecomings and social visits across Iowa locations Cedar Rapids Marion and Ames as well as Santa Rosa Lake City and Dubuque.
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W. E. Wilber
Aviation Metalsmith
Robert Wilber
Santa Rosa
Calif
Mary Ann Dvorak
WFF
Dvoraks
Bowling Street
Cedar Rapids
Cotati
Wilson High School
Seaman Wilber
Marion High School
Dvorak
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
P. O
Marion
Fielp
Barron Motor Supply
U-370
Gazette
Lafayette Cafe
Ave
Paramount
Vernon Ave
Butterfly Cafe
3Rd Ave
Fernow Suffers Fractures in Haymow Fall
X rays show Marvin Fernow fractured both wrists and three cervical vertebrae after a Friday fall from a haymon at Carl Michel farm. He believes fainting caused the descent while ill with a cold. Condition fair at St Luke's Hospital with no visitors. Sgt Cliff Page and wife Venice of Florida are staying with Sgt Page's brother Cecil.
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Marvin Fernow
Carl Michel Farm
Fernow
St. Luke’s Hospital
Sgt
Cliff Page
Venice, Fla
Sgt. Page
Cecil
Germans Mow Down Captive U S Soldiers in Malmedy Massacre
SHAEF says about 115 American officers and soldiers were murdered near Malmedy on December 17 during the German counter attack. Captives were lined up six abreast, searched, then machine gunned. Only around 15 escapees remained.
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Paris
Supreme Headquarters
Malmedy
SHAEF
St. Vith
Waimes
Romain Rolland Dies at 78 in French Villa
Paris AP reports writer Romain Rolland died Saturday night at his villa near Clamecy. The Nobel laureate in literature for 1916 was 78. His epic Jean Christophe is praised as a landmark musical novel, cited by Paul Robeson.
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Paris
Romain Rolland
Clamecy
Rolland
Jean Christophe
Paul Robeson
Budapest civilians report starvation and water shortages
Pravda dispatch from Moscow reports Budapest crowded with over two million civilians starving and without water. German demolitions destroyed electrical and water systems and bread rations have not been issued since early last week.
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Moscow
Budapest
Pravda
Biggest New Year Spending Spree Sparks War Business Mood
Americans began 1945 by resuming wartime production and a brisk spending spree unseen since the Roaring Twenties. Nightlife in many cities thrived despite Sunday liquor bans with top prices rising to 25 dollars per person and 36.74 per couple on the West Coast. Chicago drew crowds of about a million in the loop at midnight as New York and Washington observed wartime limits, while President Roosevelt toasted the nation at the White House and servicemen enjoyed a free dance at Uline Arena in D.C.
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United Press
West Coast
Mocambo’s
Chicago
Drake Hotel
Camelia House
New York
Times Square
Loop
Washington, D. C
White House
Roosevelt
United States
Washington
Capitol
Maryland
Uline Arena
Eleanor Roosevelt
Year 1944 filled with tragedy and small wonders
A retrospective look at 1944 recounts near-misses and heartbreaks from the Hartford circus fire to a polar bear attack in New York. It recalls Lupe Velez’s death, Eisenhower’s homing grits wish, and the D-day prayers, plus joyful returns and mass adoptions of newborn quads amid wartime service.
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Catherine Searles
Park Avenue
Hartford
Conn
Lupe Velez
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Judy Koch
Judy
D S M to Hobby Wacs Commander
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for her leadership of the Women’s Army Corps. She is the first army woman to receive the decoration and the first woman honored in this war, following six civilian recipients for World War I services.
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Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women's Army Corps
War Department
Army
Lloyd George Named Earl of Dwyfor in New Year Honors
Britain's veteran statesman David Lloyd George receives the earldom Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor on the king's New Year honors list. He had announced last week his retirement from Parliament. The title references a Welsh stream passing his farm in Wales.
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London
David Lloyd George
Britain
Earl Lloyd George
Dwyfor
Wales
Partisans Seize Two Towns in Western Serbia
Marshal Tito announced the capture of two important towns in the Vardiste area west of Uzice in western Serbia, signaling a breakout against Axis forces.
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New York
INS
Marshal Tito
Vardiste
Uzice
Serbia
Yanks Defy Nazis With New Year's Cry Nuts to You
American GIs on a Belgian front mark New Year’s Eve with the chant Nuts to you as they press the German salient. Lt. Buddy Sauer of Dayton and Lt. Lawrence Carr of Chicago report resolve to push the Krauts back. a wounded medalist and other soldiers share winter courage and jokes amid artillery and cold.
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Belgium
INS
G.i.’S
Bastogne
Buddy S. Sauer
Dayton
Ohio
Lawrence A. Carr
Chicago
Carr
Hitler
David E. Thompson
Columbus
Pope Pius XII defies Nazi threat at St. Peter’s Mass
Vatican reports Nazi threats to bomb St. Peter’s Cathedral on Christmas Eve. Pope Pius XII kept the midnight mass for a large crowd despite the danger and explained his wartime audiences policy, saying he welcomed Germans until an order barred them and later received Allied representatives and others.
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Vatican City
Ins
Pius XII
St. Peter’s Cathedral
United Nations
Pius
Vatican
Germany
Chaplin Wounds Leg Kicking Door at Beverly Hills Home
Hollywood reports Charlie Chaplin 55, hospital bound after gashed leg from kicking a glass panel to enter his own Beverly Hills home. Accompanied by wife Oona and daughter, he faces two weeks of non walking recovery and potential wheelchair use if he appears in court Wednesday for the Joan Barry paternity case.
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Hollywood
INS
Charlie Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Oona
Eugene O'Neill
Edward Gourson
Chaplin
Henry M. Willis
Joan Barry
Gourson
British Converge on Burmese Port Akyab
British forces driven from Burma in 1942 converge on Akyab in southern Burma as 15th India corps reach Rathedaung on the Mayu river and push toward the Kaladan valley. Chinese troops consolidate gains near Loi-wing as they move south to secure the Burma China road flank.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Akyab
Mandalay
Southeast Asia Command
15Th India Corps
Rathedaung
Mayu River
Kaladan
Mayu
Loi-wing
Bhamo
Burma-China Road
Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas’s Wife Dies
Mrs. Bessie Douglas, 66, wife of author Lloyd C. Douglas, died Saturday in Los Angeles. The obituary notes her longtime support of her husband’s writing and her prominence in their literary circle.
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Los Angeles
Bessie Douglas
Lloyd C. Douglas
Hoover observes 50th birthday in Washington
J Edgar Hoover the head of the FBI marked his 50th birthday Monday in Washington. He built the agency into a leading crime detection force, recognized worldwide for its reach and effectiveness.
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Edgar Hoover
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Women Push Bid for Equal Rights Clause
In Washington the 79th Congress faces a strong push by women’s groups to adopt an equal rights amendment. Miss Alice Paul announces a joint resolution for a 22nd amendment with Sen. Radcliffe and Rep. Ludlow, with pledges for quick action and new supporters in the Senate and House. Opposition from labor groups centers on fears of rolling back protective laws for women. The amendment would guarantee equality of rights under law regardless of sex, requiring a two thirds Senate and House majority and three fourths state ratification.
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Washington
INS
Alice Paul
National Women’s Party
Congress
Sen. Radcliffe
D-Md
Rep
Ludlow
D-Ind
Miss Paul
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Hiram Johnson
R-Calif
Sen
Gillette
Dia
White
Maine
House
McCormack
Dmass
United States
Pravda Attacks Pope Pius XII Over Christmas Message
Pravda claims the Pope opposed recognizing the people's will and protected Hitler Germany. It accuses the Pontiff of neutrality toward victors and vanquished in peace talks and of failing to condemn Fascist aggression while attacking democratic demands.
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Moscow
Pius XII
Communist Party
Pravda
Germany
International Organization For Peace and Security
Allies to Sink Many New Oil Wells in '45
The Oil and Gas Journal estimates Allied efforts will drill about 1,600 new wells in 1945, including 260 wildcats, in Allied or friendly areas to meet military fuel demands. It excludes drilling in the U S Canada Argentina Russia and China and Axis occupied regions. Improvements in transport, especially tanker fleets, will enable heavier Middle East and Latin American withdrawals.
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Tulsa
Okla
United Nations
Oil and Gas Journal
United States
Canada
Argentina
Russia
China
the Magazine
Army Market for Band Instruments
Brig. Gen. J. E. Barzynski, commander of the Chicago quartermaster depot said the army faces a shortage of band instruments. More than 100 army bands and musical groups have been unable to obtain needed instruments due to curtailments. The army will pay cash on the spot with evaluations based on current market values.
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Chicago
J. E. Barzynski
57th Fighter Group Reaches 3000 Missions in Med Theater
The 57th Fighter Group of the 12th Air Force, the first single engine American unit to shoot down an enemy plane in the Mediterranean, flew its 3000th mission Sunday becoming the first American air force group to reach that total.
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RCME
12Th Air Force
Mediterranean
Jap Premier Foresees Axis Victory in 1945
Premier Kuniaki Koiso told the Japanese people on Monday that 1945 will be the year of final Axis victory by bringing the Anglo-Americans to their knees. The broadcast, heard in San Francisco, urged all East Asiatic nations to concentrate power to destroy this enemy of humanity.
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Kuniako Koiso
San Francisco
Koiso
Memorials and Lost Found Classifieds
War bonds promo and private memorials page update. Local notices list lost items including a solitaire diamond ring at St Luke's Marion and a brown leather billfold. rewards offered. Found items include car keys from Hamilton Seed Co and a plastic framed pair of glasses. contact numbers provided. Also a found bulldog named Johnnie and a found Skipperkee puppy with address and phone for pickup.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Marion
James D, Pope
Montrose Hotel
Hamilton Seed & Coal Co
Johnnie
28Th St. Dr SE
Feaf Personals
Help Wanted Ads and Local Trades From The News
Classified notice indicates male applicants requested for oil work and plumbing roles. Respondents must meet WMC regulations. Listings include contact numbers 2-3055-J, 2-300, 2-2821 for Sparta area trades and hauling ashes rubbish services and Relable man.
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Bowers
Sparta Machine
Omas
J_T_ THOMAS
WMC
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3Rd St. NE
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Cascade
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Coggon
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