Service Records Highlight World War II Veterans
Soldiers and sailors from the area are noted for promotions transfers and leave status. Barney McPartland Jr. rises to captain at Fort Worth Army Air Field while Louis and Donald Burgus head to the Italian theater. Others report calls to England the Southwest Pacific and California bases as they complete training and await reassignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney McPartland, Jr
Army Air Corps
Barney McPartland
First Avenue NE
Fort Worth
Texas
Army Air Field
Franklin High School
Coe College
Kelly Field
Louis R. Burgus
Donald R. Burgus
L. D. Burgus
Seventh Avenue SE
Army Air Service
William C. Grady
South America
Army Air Base
England
Tenth Street
Cpl
Virgil B. Dvorak
Keeslerfield
Miss
Christie
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Calif
Robert C. Wright
Airborne Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
N. C
Camp Mackall
Charles Wright
Johnson Avenue
William
Bill” Stolba
Dalhart
Wendl Stolba
Twenty Eighth Avenue
Robert Barker
Army Air Forces Base
Kansas City
Fifth Avenue
Lumir J. Serovy
Fort Dix
Mary Serovy
Seventeenth Avenue
Russell W. Warrington
Sixteenth Street
Harrington
Southwest Pacific
Claire A. Porter
Angel Island
San Francisco Bay
Charles A. ‘Porter
Thirty-fourth Street
Charles Mathews
F Avenue
Charles A. Cameron
West Coast
Walter J. Cameron
Rebecca
J Avenue No
Pfe
Ark
Cedar Rapids
WAC
Fort Oglethorpe
Hot Springs
Robert B. Cook
Fort Robinson
Neb
Bobby
First Avenue
B. W. Cook
Sixth Street
John G. Cepowski
Farragut
Idaho
Seventh Street
Leroy E. Arp
Camp Peary
Williamsburg
Robins I. Jackson
Lester T. Jackson
Linden Drive
Smokey Hill Army Airfield
Salina
Kan
Jackson
Chanute Field
Don S. Young
Seabees
Guadalcanal
Sam Young
Mechanicsville
California
Rawson Resigns as Argentine Legate Amid Axis Break
Gen. Arturo Rawson resigns as Argentina's ambassador to Brazil as upheaval grows after June revolution. He clashed with Gen Pedro Ramirez over Axis relations while Ramirez counters he led the revolt but did not intend a rupture with the Axis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montevideo
Uruguay
Arturo Rawson
Argentina
Brazil
Axis
Rawson
Pedro Ramirez
Ramirez
Five Re-elected by Sunshine Mission
Five members of the board of directors were re-elected and one new member was chosen at the forty-eighth annual Sunshine Mission meeting. Fifty-six delegates, including ten ministers, from Cedar Rapids churches attended. re-elected were J. J. Merritt A. T. Pleune president George Vavra and Carl Hendrickson. Chester Ainsworth was elected to succeed O. J. Larson who requested release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Sunshine Mission
Cedar Rapids
J. J. Merritt
A. T. Pleune
George Vavra
Carl Hendrickson
Chester Ainsworth
O. J. Larson
Flaherty Reports on AFL-Farmer Meeting
Frank Flaherty presented a report on a Dubuque meeting of AFL representatives and Second district farmers held January 16 to discuss political issues. The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor will host the next farmer group meeting in Dyersville with John W. Evans slated to attend a Chicago MCA district meeting on February 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
Dubuque
Frank Flaherty
Cedar Rapids
Senate Attacks OPA Point Rationing System
A bipartisan Senate group condemns OPA point rationing as impractical and calls for sweeping revisions to adapt to changing wartime conditions. The Agriculture Subcommittee will join the FTC to probe food distribution costs and middleman margins within a week or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Senate
OPA
Senate Agriculture
Federal Trade Commission
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Sen. Russell
D-Ga
Agriculture Committee
Russell
Sen. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Lone-Wolf Scout Leads Inland Push From Bridgehead
Lt. Lewis F. Bixby, a lone-wolf recon specialist from Kalamazoo and key liaison for Col. Lionel C. McGarr, penetrated deep into enemy lines south of Rome. He reports near-constant contact with German forces and claims to have narrowly avoided engagement while gathering intelligence for Allied invasion forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Lewis F. Bixby
Kalamazoo
Mich
Gazette
Bixby
Lionel C. McGarr
Phoenix
Ariz
Masterly Synchronization In U S Bridgehead Drive
Allied forces expanded the beachhead to 70 square miles near Rome as a coordinated American attack repelled several German counterattacks led by 60 ton Tiger tanks. Will Lang described the operation as a masterful synchronization of infantry weapons amid harsh weather and heavy shelling.
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Rome
Will Lang
United States
Lang
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Lyle F. Buchanan
R. T. Buchanan
Avenue NE
Fort McClellan
Ala
Buchanan
University of Iowa
Davenport
Fort Des Moines
Tiff
Flaherty
Afl-Farmer Meeting
Don Whitehead
Combined
U. S. Press
U.S
Albano Mountains
Castel Gandolfo
Albano
Genzano
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Army Air Forces
Associated Press
Elizabeth Born
Patricia Goodbody
Frank Starr Williams
Police Department
Crime Detection Laboratory
Chicago
Robert Taylor
United States Naval Air Station
Liversmore
Taylor
United States Navy
Gordon F. Chamberlain
Burma
Ledo
China
Betty Leay
Virginia
Ange
J. F. Miller
Humboldt
Glenn E. Robinson
Colesburg
W. P. Knowlton
Decorah
Bob
Tarawa
F. A. Latchaw
Muscatine
Poston
Maria Theresa of Dusts
Browder Gaylesville
William Allen White
Emporia
I. Ner
Flying Fortress
James Hamilton
Georgetown
Oschersleben
Germany