Knights Templar Beauceant Install Friday at Masonic Hall
Knights Templar and Cedar Rapids Beauceant will install officers jointly at Masonic hall Friday at 7 30 p m. Beauceant officers include Mrs Ben L Sh pest president and Mrs D M Robertson assistant marshal. Apollo Commandery to install officers with Edwin E Hruska eminent commander and James G Camwell generalissimo. Program includes dancing cards and refreshments.
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Apollo Commandery
Knights Templar
Cedar Rapids Assembly
Arthur Norman
Charles Earhart
Leo Minehart
Adile Tappen
John Gritzner
Sheldon
A. E. Kannewulf
E. J. Petranek
Edwin E. Hruska
James G. Camwell
Andrew Petersen
Peter McCracken
Herman H. Hull
Charles A. Winter
Frank B. Benesh
Albert N. Hamiston
Charles J. Johnson
Conrad L. Stookey
Alfred K. Falcon
George
Darr Couple Celebrate Sixty Third Anniversary
Mr and Mrs L W Darr celebrate their sixty third wedding anniversary and Mrs Darr his eighty third birthday at their daughter Mrs Will S Collier home 1552 Washington Avenue SE.
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S. W. Darr
A Avenue NE
Rest May Be The Medicine Doctor Will Recommend
Lona L. Trott of the Red Cross Nursing Service urges rest as medicine when doctors refrain from prescriptions. She advises clear instruction on dosing, handwashing, proper pill and liquid administration, and avoiding sharing meds. Describes safe handling, labeling, and disposal of leftovers for individual patients.
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Nature
Lonal
Stress Put on Cooperation of Red Cross Units
Mrs. Paul H. Huston outlines need for cooperation among Linn county Red Cross volunteer corps. War fund drive starts in March. volunteers with typing, accounting, and telephone skills are in demand. ORE workers to prepare kitbags and layettes, yarn shortages noted. Home service branch says prisoner letters may be free, not affecting POW mails on ordinary stationery.
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Red Cross
Paul H. Huston
Linn County Red Cross
Home Service
Blue Cross Iowa Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Blue Cross Hospital Service Inc of Iowa marked its fifth anniversary with over 200000 members. About 23 percent of Cedar Rapids residents rely on hospital care under the plan, now covering 70 Iowa hospitals. Farm enrollment expansion continues, with 10000+ members through county health associations. Total hospital care payments reach 1522133.47, with 107783.42 funneled to Cedar Rapids hospitals. Des Moines remains home office. J P Van Horn joins St Luke's board.
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Hospital Service, Inc
Iowa
Blue Cross Plan
St. Luke’s and
Mercy Hospitals
E. T. Gough
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Blue Cross Way
Sister Mary Mercy
Mercy Hospital
Blue Cross
Farm Bureaus
F. P. G. Lattner
Des Moines
J. P. van Horn
St. Luke's Hospital
U S Women War Worker Delegates to Tour Britain
Four American women workers from AFL CIO and others will undertake a six week visit to Britain to tour war industry and foster understanding between the two nations at war. A parallel exchange of British women workers will visit the United States, following a prior men workers exchange last year. The delegation includes Julia O Connor Parker of Boston Grace Woods Blackett of Detroit and Anne Markovich of Reading Pa with further AFL representation to be named.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Great Britain
Britain
United States
Julia O’connor Parker
Boston
AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Grace Woods Blackett
Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers
UAW Women’s Committee
Anne Markovich
Reading
CIO American Federation of Hosiery Workers
AFL
Office of Labor Fee
War Production
Graham cracker fruit cake for soldiers and home use
Over the Back Fence T ONE suggests a no bake graham cracker fruit cake to feed two adults and a dog while rationing. The recipe uses marshmallows cream wine and various dried fruits with optional whiskey or brandy for moistened storage, plus notes on butter from milk to save red points for meat.
Linn Construction Employees Receive Five Cent Pay Raise
Linn county board of supervisors approved a five cent hourly wage increase for all Linn county construction and maintenance employees for 1945. New rates include 1.08 for shop foreman and 0.88 for several foreman and operators, 0.98 for shop mechanic, 0.81 for maintenance operator and others, with 0.75 for shot helper and 0.63 for extra help. Normal workday is eight hours and the week 48 hours.
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Linn County Construction and Maintenance
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Japan May Risk Remaining Warships in Luzon Battle
Pearl Harbor AP reports Japan may risk its remaining first line warships in a new Pacific action as Luzon campaign opens. The piece notes intensified Japanese reinforcement efforts from homeland and Formosa, with Nimitz and Halsey coordinating carrier power to back MacArthur’s Luzon invasion and the Third Fleet ready to pace the campaign.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan
Sion
Luzon
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Leyte
Philippine Seas
Marianas
Solomons
Empire
MacArthur
Formosa
Halsey
Nimitz
Philippines
Third Fleet
Mrs. Bing Crosby In Hospital Improved
Hollywood AP Mrs Bing Crosby 33 wife of the crooner was reported in improved condition at St Vincent s hospital after collapsing at home with a respiratory infection Taken Tuesday she was placed in an oxygen tent due to a pneumonia threat Bing told reporters she would be all right Dixie Lee former film star and Crosby s wife was hospitalized Tuesday for observation and treatment.
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Hollywood
Bing Crosby
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Bing
Larry
Crosby
Dixie Lee
Two Plead Guilty to Drunkenness Charges
Milo Webb aged 24 of Marion and Lois Hanusch 21 of the Allison hotel were fined 25 dollars and costs each by Police Judge Herry S. Johnson after pleading guilty to drunkenness and disturbing the peace. The fines relate to a Tuesday night disturbance in the Silver Leaf tap room where Webb allegedly knocked a man unconscious. Hanusch insisted on being taken to the station, as did Webb.
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Milo Webb
Marion
Lois Hanusch
Allison Hotel
Herry S. Johnson
Silver Leaf
Webb
Miss Hanusch
Harold Rowe Lecturing Iowa Advertising Class
Harold Rowe president of Ambro Advertising agency lectures weekly to an advanced advertising class at the University of Iowa. Forty six students attend the course.
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Harold Rowe
Iowa
Ambro Advertising Agency
University of Iowa
Sidwell Buys Russell Ice Cream Firm
Albert B. Sidwell in Iowa City buys Russell's Ice Cream from Ben B. Russell. Sidwell will run both Iowa City and Cedar Rapids plants as manager, keeping the Russell name at Iowa City. George Russell stays as salesman, Irving B. Weber leads sales and advertising. Russell founded the firm in 1900, shifted to wholesale ice cream after 1914. Sidwell previously ran Sidwell's Ice Cream in Iowa City since 1908.
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Albert B. Sidwell
Iowa City
Washington
Muscatine
Russell’s Ice Cream Company
Ben B. Russell
Sidwell
Sidwell’s
Cedar Rapids
George Russell
Irving B. Weber
Russell Ice Cream Company
Roosevelt Hotel
No Coat 16 Hours In Sub Zero Cold
A 68 year old farmer Mike Esterby walked 16 hours in below zero cold without an overcoat from his Minnesota home toward Northwood Indiana. He reached Austin after getting lost and wandering in circles. Doctor J G W Havens treated him for frostbitten fingers and nose with no serious injury. He told railroad workers he left at noon Monday intending to go northward.
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Austin, Minn
Norway
Mike Esterby
J. G. W. Havens
Esterby
Northwood
Austin
23 Species Found in Cedar Rapids Bird Club Census
Cedar Rapids Bird Club census inside the city counted 23 species and 514 birds. Participants included E. W. Steffen Lilian Serbousek Myra Willis Hazel Cook and club president Iola Tillapaugh.
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Cedar Rapids
Hillman Seeks International Labor Coalition Support
Sidney Hillman, head of the CIO Political Action committee, says the PAC would back Republicans with an international point of view but not meeting labor’s full requirements, ahead of an isolationist laborite. Hillman rests at a desert guest ranch near Tucson, Arizona.
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Tucson
Ariz
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Wounded in Action Sgt Clarence Bell Named
Sergeant Clarence Bud Bell reported wounded December 21 in Belgium Marine guard unit from Cedar Rapids left March 2 1941 trained at Camp Claiborne La He saw combat in England France and Germany and is listed as the son of Mr and Mrs Charlie Bell of 412 Ninth Avenue SE
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Clarence
Bud” Bell
Belgium
War Department
Charlie Bell
Ninth Avenue SE
Bell
Cedar Rapids
Camp Claiborne
England
France
Germany
Soldier Harold B Merkl Wounded in Luxembourg Action
Harold B. Merkl nineteen year old soldier has been wounded in action in Luxembourg according to a message received Tuesday by his parents Mr and Mrs Harvey Merkl of 837 Tenth Street SW.
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Pfe
Harold B. Merkl
Luxembourg
Harvey Merkl
Tenth Street
Transport Plane Sets Speed Mark
A double decked B-29 based C-97 transport apparently set a cross continent speed record from Seattle to Washington in about six hours. The craft compared with a Mustang LA to NY record of six hours 31 minutes 30 seconds and a Constellation time of six hours 58 minutes LA to Washington. The C-97 uses a B-29 fuselage with a second fuselage superimposed, powered by engines over 3000 hp and designed for 100 daytime passengers in postwar service. It departed Seattle before noon PT and landed at Washington National Airport around 8 40 p m EWT.
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Washington
Army
Seattle
Los Angeles
New York
Army Transport Services
Washington National Airport
Five Teens Die In Belfast Train Collision
BELFAST Ireland AP reports a fatal crash when an electric passenger train struck a stationary work train. Officials say fifteen youths died and at least fifty people were injured in the Wednesday disaster prompting emergency responses across the city and calls for safety reviews.
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Belfast
Ireland
Mythic Hitler Talk Announces U S Annexation Plan
AP reports German prisoners seized mimeographed copies of a spoof speech attributed to Hitler dating to 1950. The satirical text envisions the United States becoming a German colony, with mock praise for Goering Stalin Churchill Pius XXV Rosenberg and Goebbels.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Hitler
United States
England
Ireland
Hermann Goering
Russia
Roosevelt
France
Greater Reich
Petain
Churchill
Stalin
Alfred Rosenberg
Pius XXV
Jerusalem
Goebbels
Palesne
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Chile
New York
Greater Reich Broadcasting System
Japs Have Gone Mad Eyewitness Revelations on Luzon Invasion
NBC correspondent George Folster with invasion forces on Luzon reports the Japanese have vanished from beaches by midday of day two. He says American troops probe deeply into the valley as Japanese resistance falters. Folster notes Japanese planes are used recklessly and soldiers swim out to throw grenades at ships, likening it to snowballs on a hot stove.
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George Thomas Folster
NBC
Luzon
Folster
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S&s
American Institute of Laundering
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Red Cross Nursing Service
Check Label
Tommy
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Birge
Chi-Namel Paint Store
Third Avenue SE
Mation Fuet
Mateo
Vanien
Aece
Science
U. S. Women War Worker
Betty Tibbs
Fourth Avenue SE
Linn Construction
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Floating
Frank Friedl
A.e
Health-Recreation
Y.W.C.A
Mate
Manson
Leif Erickson
Russell Firm
Ben Russell
C. R. Bird Club
Hillman
Sherwin-Williams
Third Ave
DIAL
G. 3. Timmermann & CO
Western Ave
Davenport
Vu Cte O-Cedke
SON Protective
Clarence Bell
Rell
Harold Merkl
U.S. Annexation
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