Coe Alumni Honor Dr Bryant and Dinner Milestones
Dr George W Bryant of the Coe College class of 1894 was elected alumni association president at the Voorhees hall dinner during commencement festivities. The gathering honored veterans and long‑serving alumni, with remarks on the class memorial for 1944 and the retirement of Dean Stephen Stookey, plus recognition of WWII service among several classes.
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Dr. Bryant
Coe
Coe College
Voorhees Hall
George W. Bryant
Alumni Association
C. W Gray
Cings McDaniel
Cedar Rapids
Russell F. Knapp
Fred N Lutz
Arbon Chehak
Frank J. Walkup
Minneapolis
Hazel Brown
Nadine Menary
George Harless
Everett E. Schenefelt
Helen Tufts
T. M. Sinclair Memorial Chapel
Rosalee Gill
Strawberry Point
Bryant
Knapp
Stephen W. Stookey
Cve
Gray
Bernard Bolton
Charles Joss
Miss Gill
Charles A. Anderson
Bettie Thomas
Janice Owens
Darleen Payne
Jeanette Miller
Ruth Buresh
What the Jungle Means to Marine Fighting the Japs
Sgt Gordon D Marston writes on jungle warfare for Marines facing Japan. The piece contrasts mud filled ranks, relentless jungle hazards, mass casualties, and the psychological toll of long overseas service. It portrays Marines as hardened, stoic, and deeply tested by combat.
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Gordon D. Marston
Marine Corps
International News Service
Rationing at a Glance and War Time Stamp Details
Degree day totals to date show 8 percent warmer than last season and 3 percent above normal with a deficiency equal to 83 percent of a full season. War ration rules cover brown and red stamps for meat fats dairy and canned goods, with validity dates through March May and September, plus vehicle and tire inspections and gasoline and sugar ration details for Linn county. Local ration board chief clerk A T Pleune operates from the American Building with standard weekday and Saturday hours.
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Linn County War Price and Rationing Board
A. T. Pleune
American Building
First Avenue
Second Street
War’s gray dawn hardens heroes in jungle frontline
A Marine charges a pill box with a grenade feeling he would have done it with rocks. Men weigh how they earned medals and stomach the war’s toll. The enemy’s mortar wakes them at breakfast. In thirty seconds a man can tire of the fighting, and many wonder if folks back home grasp the true jungle ordeal.
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Foreign Service
United States
States
Limited civilian goods expected in coming months
Washington reports only modest quality improvement and small increases in minor civilian goods. No early revival of heavy durable items like autos and appliances due to ongoing war production needs. Clothing shortages loom unless output speeds up while the military situation stays unsettled. Industry must stay flexible to switch to war work as needed.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
War Production Board
Ickes Orders Net Increase in Oil Output for April
Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes ordered a net increase of 79 100 barrels daily in April over March. He certified an all time high production rate of 4 720 000 barrels daily to oil producing states for next month. Exceptions were in the Rocky Mountain states and California which were to reduce rates slightly.
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Washington
INS
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Rocky Mountain States
California
Lonergan to Plead Insanity in Heiress Wife Murder
New York Sunday Mirror reports Wayne Lonergan will plead insanity at trial for the murder of his heiress wife Patricia Burton Lonergan. The case centers on Lonergan's bid to avoid the death penalty as proceedings open Monday.
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New York
INS
The
New York Sunday Mirror
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Winners Named in Camp Fire Girls Cake Contest
Citywide Camp Fire girls cake baking contest winners were announced by Mrs. John R. Battin. In fat cakes younger group first went to Sandra Studer and Norvine Fenner topped the older group. Sponge division winners were Keen Fisher and Mary Ann Rebec with several runners up. Fifty eight cakes from 23 groups entered and judged by three home economics teachers. cakes were taken to the USO for Aircrew students.
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John R. Battin
Sandra Studer
Thomas Radloff
Norvine Fenner
D. W Anderson
Jocelyn England
Ola May Waggener
James Edmunds
Mary Holvenstor
R J Lubbock
Patty Smith
Harold Smith
Keen Fisher
Edmunds
Mary Ann Rebec
Jerry Machacek
Martita Noell
Patty Tomlinson
L. C. Schuknecht
Joan Seda
Darlene Eggleston
Clifford Lawrence
USO
Virginia Stauffer
Adele Janzow
Mildred Hutchins
Notre Dame Medal Awarded to Anne O Hare McCormick
The Rev J Hugh ODonnell Notre Dame president announced Anne O Hare McCormick New York Times foreign correspondent as the 62nd Laetare Medal recipient. The Columbus Ohio born McCormick is a Notre Dame alumna and wife of Francis J McCormick Dayton Ohio manufacturer, the fourteenth woman to win the honor. The 1943 Laetare Medal went to Thomas F Woodlock.
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South Bend
Ind
J. Hugh O'Donnell
University of Notre Dame
Anne O'Hare McCormick
New York Times
United States
McCormick
St. Mary's College
Columbus
Ohio
Francis J. McCormick
Dayton
Dutch dread Nazis may flood over half of Holland
London dispatch reports Dutch fear Nazi plans to destroy drainage works and flood coastal areas to thwart Allied invasion. Beemster polder near Amsterdam already submerged. evacuation orders issued for Zeeland and South Holland islands and Flemish areas. Dutch army had outlined a north south inundation to cut off coastal provinces, but saboteurs and treachery by Nazi forces halted those defenses.
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Adriaan K. van
Zeeland
South Holland Islands
Belgium
Flanders
Holland
Zuider Zee
Meuse
Waal
North
South Holland
Price Ceiling Push Extends to Work Clothes and Drugs
The Office of Price Administration consumer advisory committee urged flat dollars and cents ceilings beyond food to include work clothes hardware and drugs. They want easily recognizable prices and stronger rationing information for Negro communities, plus targeted outreach and staffing at local boards and regional offices.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Chester Bowles
OPA
Victory Model
Farm Price Relations Highlighted in Control Program
A fragment outlines the link between farmers as consumers in the price control program and how farm income affects prices on consumer tables. The note emphasizes the balance between agricultural earnings and household budgets.
Amputated Own Leg at Cassino Hero Recalls Sacrifice
Captain H. M. Vines of the Forty fifth division, Birmingham, Alabama, aboard a train of casualties at McCloskey General Hospital, recounted amputating his own left leg with a saber borrowed from a sergeant near Cassino. He described the wound as shell fire just before supper and noted giving his sulfa to other wounded men. He survived, receiving blood transfusions and plasma through the night.
Hollywood romance in Santa Monica licenses couple
Evelyn Keyes a 25 year old film actress and Charles Vidor a 48 year old Hungarian born director obtained a marriage license in Santa Monica California on Saturday. Both have prior marriages.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Evelyn Keyes
Charles Vidor
Landon challenges Ickes on Middle East oil plan
Alf Landon, ex governor and GOP presidential nominee, attacked Harold Ickes in a Kansas City debate over the Middle East postwar oil project. Landon said Ickes claimed government neutrality while funding huge oil firms, warning taxpayers will bear the cost for foreign ventures.
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Topeka
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Harold L. Ickes
Middle-East
Landon
Ickes
War
The
Petroleum Reserves Corp
E. H. Moore
Oklahoma
Standard Oil
Kansan
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