Wives Stand Prepared Says Widow of War Hero
Mrs. Colin Kelly, widow of the World War II ace, urges aid to the Red Cross in Des Moines. She recalls talks with her husband, notes flyers wives are calm, and encourages money or time donations to Red Cross work. She knit for the Red Cross in Hawaii and supports her son's future education.
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Kelly
DES Moines
Colin Kellys
Red Cross
Colin Kelly
Philippine Islands
Hawaiian Islands
American Red Cross
One Cedar Rapids Merchant Denied Food Stamp
Eight Sioux City merchants and one Cedar Rapids merchant were denied participation in the federal food stamp plan. A. O. Wilmot of the Surplus Marketing administration said charges mainly involved sale of non-surplus items for blue stamps or non-food items for orange and blue stamps. Officials cite an education drive to end violations and warn that submitting stamps for payment under false claims harms the government.
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Des Moines
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
A. O. Wilmot
Surplus Marketing Administration
Iowa
Wilmot
United States Treasury
Former Belgium Premier To Visit On SUI Campus
Dr. Paul Van Zeeland, former Belgian prime minister, will lecture Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Macbride auditorium as part of the University of Iowa series. He will speak Sunday to Wednesday and lead discussions in history, political science and commerce. Tickets go on sale at the Iowa Union main desk.
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Iowa City
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
University of Iowa
Macbride
Iowa Union
van Zeeland
England
Coordinating Foundation
United States
Europe
Red Cross drive in Marion reaches two thirds of goal
Marion and Marion township have raised 1273.53 dollars toward a 2000 dollar Red Cross war fund goal. Chairman Z N Lundy urges more gifts, noting 726.47 remains to be collected and asking workers to reach every adult this week.
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Z. N. Lundy
Marion
The
Red Cross
Marion Township
Lundy
Mr. Lundy
Elmer R. Michel
A. R. McElwain
Home Building and Loan Company
Marion and Davenport Couple Wed at Presbyterian Church
Horace Edison of Marion and Meda Chartier of Davenport wed at 11 a.m. in Davenport with Rev. Alfred S. Nickless officiating. Edison has run a Cedar Rapids Marion drug business for 14 years and recently sold his local store to his brother Marvin Edison.
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Horace Edison
Marion
Meda Chartier
Davenport
Presbyterian Church
Alfred S. Nickless
Edison
Cedar Rapids
Marvin Edison
Marvin Oxley
Iowa Fire Loss in 1941 Forecast to Fall Below 4 Million
State Fire Marshal John Strohm reported Iowa’s 1941 fire losses would total under 4 million dollars, a second time in 25 years. He noted a drop from 1940, crediting fire inspection and prevention in major cities, with farm fires holding steady. The peak loss on record remains 1922 at 10 million dollars.
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Des Moines
INS
John Strohm
Iowa
Strohm
Willard Archie To Head Intelligence Section Of Guard
Gov George Wilson appoints Willard Archie of Shenandoah as lieutenant colonel commanding the G 2 intelligence section of the Iowa state guard Headquarters staff Eugene G Elston of Council Bluffs named a first lieutenant and personal aide Ned McMahan of Council Bluffs named captain and assistant to the G 1 staff head Other appointments First regiment First lieutenants Richard Lloyd Spry Des Moines adjutant of Second battalion Paul Hicks Mishler Centerville Headquarters Company Second lieutenants Harry Leo Dukes Centerville Headquarters company Edward McLeod Lin yon Burlington Company A
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Des Moines
George Wilson
Willard Archie
Shenandoah
Iowa State Guard
Eugene G. Elston
Council Bluffs
Ned McMahan
Richard Lloyd Spry
Paul Hicks
Kurdistan Defined as Cross-Border Region Across Iran Iraq and Turkey
The Kurdistan area spans across northwest Iran northeast Iraq and southeast Turkey cutting across national boundaries and placing the region under varied cultural and political considerations.
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Kurdistan
Iran
Iraq
Turkey
North Iowa Faces Severe Cold With Subzero Lows
Des Moines reports show Iowans enduring a sixth straight day of extreme subzero weather. Thermometer readings ranged from 30 below to 15 below in various northern, western, and southern areas with Dubuque and Mason City among the coldest spots.
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Des Moines
Mercury
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Dubuque
Mason City
Charles City
Fort Dodge
Ames
Sioux City
Iowa City
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Burlington
Temperature plunge hits Decorah area Wednesday
The government station two miles south of Decorah logged 35 degrees below zero Wednesday morning with unofficial readings in Sera from 20 to 25 below.
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Decorah
Sera
Elkader records 28 degrees below zero Wednesday
The unofficial temperature reading in Elkader Wednesday morning measured 28 degrees below zero, indicating an extreme cold snap in the area. No injuries or additional weather details reported.
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Elkader
Six Events Limit Set for State Music Festival at Iowa City
The University of Iowa 1942 state high school music festival will limit entries to six events. Schools are divided into three classes by enrollment and will participate only in orchestra concert band marching band chorus and boys and girls glee clubs. Participants may enter either contest or clinical divisions. The festival runs April 23 24 and 25, moved up a week.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
E. E Harper
School of Fine Arts
Harper
West Okoboji Club Grounds Offered For War Use
D M Sterns of Okoboji Iowa owner of the West Okoboji Country club offers 120 acres and equipment to the government for the war. H E Narey Dickinson county defense council chairman said the property and surrounding area can house up to 1000 men. The offer was made via Senator Clyde L Herring with a proposal that West Okoboji lake be used as an inland naval or army training base.
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Spirit Lake
D M Sterns
Okoboji
Iowa
West Okoboji
Liquor Stores Drive Defense Stamp Sales in December
DES MOINES AP Patrons of Iowa liquor stores bought more than 11370 dollars and 50 cents in defense stamps and bonds during the last half of December. Chairman M L Curtis of the Iowa liquor control commission noted 16 of 177 stores had not reported. Most sales were in small denomination stamps with bonds totaling 187 dollars and 50 cents. Curtis called the showing good given holiday trade and limited time for stamps discussions.
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DES Moines
Iowa
M. L. Curtis
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Curtis
Wages at Ordnance Plant In Line With Army Rules
Des Moines reports clarify overtime pay rules for Des Moines ordnance plant workers. Hourly wage earners do not receive overtime, with pay scales aligned to local conditions in the seventh corps area. Skilled and unskilled workers earn 75 cents to 1.60 per hour, while weekly wages span from 20 dollars for messengers to 85 dollars for certain foremen and clerks, with higher figures for specialized roles.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Army
Victor Wade
Seventh Corps
Vinton Council Offered 14000 for Municipal Building
VINTON The council received a bid of 14000 from W Harold Brenton of Des Moines and W Palmer Wilson with George G Kelly of Dallas Center for the municipal building formerly the Peoples Savings Bank. They propose a five year basement lease and mayoral office use. The bank would be Benton County Bank and Trust with 50000 capital and 10000 surplus. The trio operates six Iowa banks.
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Vinton
W. Harold Brenton
Des Moines
W. Palmer Wilson
George G Kelly
Dallas Center
Peoples Savings Bank
Benton County Bank and Trust Company
Iowa
Five Percent Of Income To Buy Defense Bonds
DES MOINES AP At least five per cent of each Iowans income should go to United States defense bonds, the Iowa defense savings campaign advisory committee was told Tuesday. Boyd Fisher and C E Roth said the payroll deduction plan is the most successful method for purchasing bonds. Farmers may designate a pig or cow as a United States animal, using sale proceeds for defense bonds.
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Des Moines
United States Defense
Iowa Defense Savings Campaign Advisory Committee
Boyd Fisher
Federal Treasury
C. E. Roth
Washington, D. C
United States
Iowans and the War Across Diverse Towns
AP report highlights wartime efforts and personal stories from Iowa towns. George Sweet delays navy enlistment after severe coffee burns. Ottumwa bellhop earns defense stamps. Pendergast exchanges pennies for bonds. sailor Melvin Scott missing Ralph. Ottumwa asks about charging evacuee tuition. Emil Solek donates $10 for Rock Island arsenal defense. Red Cross auction raises $41 with buyers re donating proceeds.
Tama nurse Carrie Burley offers services to Army Nursing Corps
Carrie M Kinley Burley of Tama a World War I veteran and charter member and long time commander of the Fnright Schrader post has offered her nursing services to the Army Nursing Corps She spent nine months at Fort Omaha served as chaplain county relief director and worked in camp hospitals in France She trained in 1903 at Wrights Hospital Carroll and became Tama counties first graduate nurse later first registered nurse in the county
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Tama
Carrie M. Kinley Burley
American Legion
Army Nursing Corps
Burley
Fnright-Schrader
Tam
Ost
Fort Omaha
Ellis Island
Hoboken
France
Wright's Hospital
Carroll
Tama County
Packing Firm To Issue Stamp Books For School Children
Ottumwa Iowa March 1944 T Henry Foster president of John Morrell and company announced the meat packing firm will start defense savings for school children in Ottumwa Sioux Falls S C and Topeka Kan the three cities with packing plants Each pupil receives a 10 cent defense stamp booklet about 30000 pupils total Foster said they expect youths to fill their books and help defeat the enemy by collecting stamps
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Ottumwa
T. Henry Foster
John Morrell and Company
Sioux Falls
S. C
Topeka
Kan
Foster
Begin Book Collection For U S Forces Jan 12
Sioux City hosts a nationwide drive to place 10,000,000 books for U S armed forces. Miss Mildred Pike says Iowa collections will span USO houses dayrooms ships and bases with centers allowing loan and return across locations. The committee includes library trustees and school librarians from Grinnell Marshalltown Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
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Sioux City
INS
Mildred Pike
Iowa
Iowa Library Association
American Red Cross
USO
Eugene Henely
Grinnell
Eugene H Wilson
Iowa State College
Anna Kelly
Marshalltown
Marcella Klein
Cedar Rapid
Morton Whitley
Edith Sperry
Des Moines
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Stephen B Fuller
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Brownsville
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Eldora
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Red Cross War Relief Fund
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Fourth Street
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Marion Boulevard
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Fred M. Blakeslee
Meyer Berger
Entre Nous Club
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Howard
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Theristmas
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Colombia
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Mt Vernon
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Reamer Nursing Home
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St. Louis
Crouch
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Twelfth Street
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Methodist
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Eighth Avenue
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Anne Jordan
James A. Pringle
San Antonio
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Jordan's Grove
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Marvin Nielsen
Central Avenue
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O. O. P. Club
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Lulu B. Secrist
Wisconsin
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North Iowa
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Tom H. Pendergast
Melvin Scott
Japan
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Emil Solek
Rock Island Arsenal
Solek
Norman F. Ramsey
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