Be Creators Not Restorers Warns Grinnell President
Dr Samuel N Stevens president of Grinnell college challenged Roosevelt Wilson McKinley and Franklin high schools graduating classes to be creators not restorers He quoted London 1661 rebuilding after fire and William and Marys Civil War era revival to urge enduring optimism and sacrificial hope for the hard days ahead He urged graduates to ring bells of idealism in the future.
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Samuel N. Stevens
Grinnell College
Roosevelt
Wilson
McKinley
Franklin
Memorial Coliseum
Stevens
London
Christopher Wren
Wren
William and Mary College
Japanese Mass Troops Close On Changsha In China
Chungking dispatches report four Japanese columns pressing toward Changsha and Changteh while 90 000 additional troops mass near Canton for a coordinated northern push to clear eastern China. Advanced units reach within 30 miles of Changsha and Changteh as major battles loom along the Canton rail corridor.
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Chungking
Changsha
Changteh
Canton
China
Tung Ting Lake
Nazis Claim Seven More Ship Sinkings
London dispatch reports Germany sank a sanitary tanker and six coaster vessels southwest of Lipenit. The broadcast claimed 129 soldiers were captured including British, Russian and American troops. 37 women and five children also taken. No Allied confirmation available.
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London
Yusnslavian
Lipenit
Referee’s Report of Sale in Linn County Partition
District Court of Iowa Linn County No 54953 William A Clymer et al plaintiffs versus Mate Platner et al defendants Notice of on file Referee’s Report of Sale real estate NW34 NW of quarter etc 36 section 36 township 83 range 6 west of St P M Linn County Iowa Ten acre tract offered at 650 cash and 28.5 acre tract at 1400 hearing date June 10 1944 at Cedar Rapids court house Objections in writing required Referee in Partition Steve Pazdera
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District Court of Iowa
Linn County
William A. Clymer
Mate Platner
Iowa
St. P.M
Tennecre
District Court
Cedar Rapids
Cannoneer's Hop Explained by Artilleryman
Cannoneer's hop is a sequence of curt commands used to ready a gun crew for action. New recruits struggle at first but after months of practice and supervision, the crew handles the gun as smoothly as a well oiled machine.
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Cannoneer
Marshall’s Stepson Killed by Grenade South of Rome
Lt Allen Tupper Brown 27 stepson of Gen George C Marshall was killed by a hand grenade from ambush while leading a light tank detachment with American infantry against Germans south of Rome on May 29 1944. The Army chief of staff’s relation was disclosed in a Weekly report May 30.
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Fifth Army
Rome
Allen Tupper Brown
George C. Marshall
Deails
Brown
Stolen Wheel Assembly Adds to Police Records
A new theft was logged Friday as a wheel assembly with tire Lube and Jim disappeared from Mrs. JL. C. Kolar’s garage on Wednesday night valued at $30. Police also noted the theft of 20 White Rock chickens from HF. Harris’s rear-yard pen on the same night.
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JL. C. Kolar
Tongwood Drive
Jim
Hf. G. Harris
Hillside Drive
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