Portuguese Radio Visitors Tour Cedar Rapids Exhibit
Almeida Grace and Augusto Serras of Lisbon visit Cedar Rapids to view radio parts and discuss language ease. Miss Garnet Ramsey hosts a Roosevelt hotel dinner with local and visiting guests after a Chicago trip for the national radio parts show.
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Almeida Grace
Augusto Serras
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Portugal
Cedar Rapids
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Midwest
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Chicago
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Serras
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Roosevelt Hotel
Campbell-Gazette
Center
Romanian Premier Arrives in Munich for Talks
The DNB reports Premier Ion Antonescu of Romania arrived in Munich by plane and was welcomed by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He is the latest Balkan official to visit Germany after King Boris of Bulgaria and Ante Pavelic. Hungary’s Ladislaus de Bardossy also met Mussolini in Rome.
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DNB
Ion Antonescue
Rumania
Munich
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Antonescu
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Boris
Bulgaria
Ante Pavelic
Ladislaus de Bardossy
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Priority orders place aluminum scrap zinc under full defense control
Washington reports that Priority Director E. R. Stettinius Jr ordered aluminum scrap and zinc under full priority for defense needs. An emergency zinc pool will meet urgent needs while remaining zinc goes to competing civilian demands. The OPM notes aluminum shortages will require over 80 percent of June production for defense.
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Washington
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
Stettinius
OPM Pri
Celebrate 55th Wedding Anniversary At Lowden
LOWDEN The fifty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs George Kruckenberg was observed Tuesday by a family dinner in their home and a reception for relatives and friends. Mrs Kruckenberg is nearly 75 and her husband 80. He is crippled with rheumatism but both enjoy visits from relatives. Mr Kruckenberg was born Sept.
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George Kruckenberg
Longtime London couple celebrate golden wedding
16 1859 near Addison Illinois and moved with parents at eight. Wife Wilhelmina Kroemer came from Germany at age two. They wed June 0 1886 in London. Two attendants Mrs Herman Wenndt and CE Kroemer remain in the area. The Kruckenbergs spent five years farming near Hartley then settled in London in 1912. They lost two infants but Paul and Martha Scheeper live nearby. They reared two foster children Fred Pieper and Luella Boechl now Mrs Emil Gehrls of London. Grandchildren include two sets of twins.
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Addison
Ill
Wilhelmina Kroemer
Germany
London
Herman Wenndt
Kroemer
Hartley
British Bomber Sinks Axis Ship With US Bombsight
A reliable US source says a British bomber using a US developed bombsight sank an axis ship off the Dutch coast on June 7 with the first bomb at 8000 feet. The Norden sight remains a military secret and not supplied to Britain.
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London
United States
Britain
Sperry
America
Navy Department
Ivory Colors Found in African Elephants
Ivory is not always white as African elephants show tusks in black brown and rose colors. Researchers note color variation across individuals and populations.
Cost of living rises 0.6 percent in May
The Industrial Conference Board reports a 0.6 percent rise in the cost of living for wage earners' families in May. Food prices are cited as the main cause, with overall May costs up 2.6 percent from 1940, and 21.9 percent above April 1933 levels.
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New York
United States
Industrial Conference Board
Reeport
Boy Drowned in Camp Lake Tragedy Sparks Five-Hour Search
In Brainerd Minnesota the body of 4 year old Earl Swendsen was recovered from Camp Lake after a five hour search by 35 volunteers. The incident was reported by United Press.
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Brainerd, Minn
Earl Swendsen
Camp Lake
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