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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1945
Page
7
Seaman Richard Peel arrived home on leave to comfort his 3 year old daughter Diana Peel who was gravely ill with acute leukemia. Doctors had given her two weeks to live but she improved after her father’s return and the family celebrated with a hopeful reunion.
Services will be held Tuesday for Joseph Burnea age 76 who died of a heart attack Saturday night. Burnea served as mayor of Atlantic for 22 years and his death ends a long leadership in the Indiana town. He had guided the community through numerous projects and remained a prominent local figure.
About 200 Iowa soldiers were part of 14 289 86th division members welcomed at New York port as they arrived from Europe. They will go to Camp Grant Illinois for final processing before home. Names and hometowns include Cedar Rapids Des Moines Waterloo and others with stories of St Lo and a sniper rifle trophy.
Lucy Leona Furr, 34, leaped from the Grand Avenue Bridge in Des Moines after a quarrel with her husband James Furr at a downtown cafe. Police held Furr in protective custody as divers searched the Des Moines river area for the missing body and shelter.
The Associated Press reserved rights for republication of all news credited or not credited in this paper. Allen Klapp Company lists Chicago New York Detroit offices. The notice references Media Records and APNA membership.
H M Havner of Des Moines was chosen state commander of Spanish American war veterans. H J Watts of Cedar Rapids was senior vice commander. Edward Kurtz of Davenport is junior vice commander, Dr J B Powers of Sioux City surgeon, and Rev E J Laird of Des Moines chaplain.
Iowa City AP report covers Dr. Morris Fishbein at the University of Iowa where 188 medical dental and nursing students graduated. He urged federal aid as grants for hospitals and research not government medical insurance, criticizing foreign systems for stifling initiative and care. He warned that delaying medical training could shrink the profession after 1946.
Burrill A. Peterson of West Union began army life at a nearby reception center Saturday. He is one of nine handpicked secret service men who formerly guarded President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Rear Admiral Claude Sexton Gillette, brother of former Iowa senator Guy Gillette, led salvage operations at Pearl Harbor after the 1941 attack. He later supervised shipbuilding at Electric Boat in Groton and described the fleet salvage, the vast oil sea, and the ghastly odors as ships were raised from the harbor.
Solon Pfc. Floyd D. Looney 21 son of Mr and Mrs Deyo M Looney was killed May 13 on Okinawa. Born Jan 7 1924 in Linn county he was an honor student of the 1941 Solon high school class. He entered service April 11 1944 trained at Camp Pendleton Browning automatic rifle school and overseas eight months ago. He was promoted to private first class on his twenty first birthday. Survived by parents two brothers Pvt Donald S Looney and Harold a sister Doris and grandparents Mrs T J Looney Cedar Rapids and Mr and Mrs H W Smith Cedar Rapids.
West Union Iowa reports Pfc Bill B Wright 23 was killed in action on Okinawa. A 1940 West Union high school graduate he attended the University of Iowa before enlisting in July 1943. Surviving parents twin sister Barbara Wright and maternal grandmother Mrs Harriet Bacon Randalia.
Wreckage of 39 North Western freight cars west of Marshalltown was to be cleared enough by Monday to allow a through track opening. Railroad officials cited the wreck as the cause being unknown at this time.
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