Open House For Co L Iowa Guard Displays New Equipment
Company L of the Iowa state guard will host an open house at the armory 520 A avenue NE at p.m. Tuesday to showcase rifles bayonets ammunition gas masks and clothing. The unit formed in 1941 for federal service deployment to Camp Dodge and seeks recruits as it prepares for summer training July 8 21.
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Y L
Iowa State
Bli
Paul W. Andersen
Iowa State Guard
Iowa National Guard
Company L
Clarence J. Scanlon
Company
Armed Services
Camp Dodge
Andersen
Jack S
Jack S. Farwell
Eugene J. Hedlund
Charles H. Vyskocil
Richard L. Wager
J. Keith Noll
Elmer McGinty
Six Cedar Rapids Library Branches Expand Patron Reach
The Cedar Rapids public library system shows 30 percent of 1944 circulation from six branches with Mt. Vernon station opening in June. Total circulation reached 340,007, distributed among main library, branches, hospitals, schools, and other centers, with a city appropriation of 44,200 and a year-end balance of 124.15.
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Jane Swearingen
Cedar Rapids
Daniels Park
Center Point Road
Kenwood
First Avenue
Lincoln
Fifteenth Avenue
Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Ellis Boulevard
Sixteenth Avenue
Erniele
Miss Story
Russia
Brooklyn
Adana
Tells of War's Wake on Okinawa
A combat photographer Pfc. R G West of the Sixth Marine Division writes from the city left ravaged on Okinawa. He portrays destroyed streets, shattered buildings, Seabees bridges and weary Marines sleeping in repurposed Japanese cabinets. He recalls burial vaults, eerie urns, and hopes for rest camps, meals, movies, and small comforts after a brutal clash 350 miles from Japan.
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Okinawa
Pfc
R. G. West
Sixth Marine Division
Allison Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Yugoslavia Sets First General Elections
A Red Star dispatch reports Yugoslavia ordered general elections in which women vote for the first time and all soldiers may cast ballots. The vote will include many teenage Partisans as eligible voters.
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Moscow
Red Star
Yugoslavia
FBI Agent Fires After Stamper Kidnapping
Police say Russell Stamper kidnapped FBI agent B Scott Reardon in Chicago on Saturday. Reardon shot Stamper during pursuit in a stolen car, Stamper died later in hospital.
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FBI
Chicago
Albert Petik
Russell Stamper
Stamper
Petik
B. Scott Reardon
Reardon
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Charles W. Leksa
Philip T. Chandler
Chester C. Dougherty
George R. Starman
George E. Bradley
Jerry P. Drahovzal
Wendl Lippert, Jr
John Vosatka
Reginald K. Watters
Dale
O. McRoberts
George P. Cavros
Clarence W. Reinert
Horace F. Spratt
Gerald F. Tickal
Rowe G. Zehms
Leonard F. Brush
Elmer P. Kelly
Bert I. McDowell
Clarence J. Scanlan
Joseph E. Shearer
L. Barta
John W. Breckle
Bert L. Hubacek
Leeks Jelinek
Joseph C. Kucera
Oak L. Mikulas
Gien M
Capt
Farwell
Vyskocil
Noll
Hedlund
Chandler
Wager
Pvt
McGinty
Iowa
Kresge
Japan
The
Pacific
Pies
Mazela Oil
Graham
Fe Morris
Son Une Eve
Razop. Blades
Larvex
A Absorbine JR
Lydia Pinkham
Edwards
FITCH
Dand Rem
Phillips
Magnesia
Eveready
May
Red River
Burns Soc Unguentine
Vick
Sloan’s
Rhy
Dt Scholls
Henner
Kay Daumit
Toliet
Hiltbrunner Music CO
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