Iowa Pay Tax Returns Rise Ahead of Penalty Deadline
Des Moines AP reports Iowa tax officials expect 250000 to 300000 state income pay returns this year, a at least 25 percent rise. Backlog totals about 100000 returns awaiting processing, with 51647 no pay returns received to date. The new lower rates and medical deduction changes are causing administration headaches as some filers resend corrected payments.
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Des Moines
Lowa Tax Commission
Commission
Veterans of Foreign Wars elects officers in Johnson County
Charlie F. Smith is reelected commander of Johnson county post No. 2581 VFW. Officers include Kite Rowling senior vice commander John Lemons junior vice commander Oral Miller quartermaster John Fielding post advocate Oral Smith chaplain John Halter quartermaster sergeant Ben Whitebook Everett Williams Ernest Bright trustees. Also noted is the death of Pete Karas, former Iowa City resident, in Philadelphia and a spelling contest winner Joyce Ahern. Iowa City lodge No. 4 Masons plans a patriotic meeting with speakers.
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Iowa City
Charlie F. Smith
Johnson County
Kite Rowling
John Lemons
Oral Miller
John Fielding
Oral Smith
John Halter
Ben Whitebook
Everett Williams
Ernest Bright
Pete Karas
Towa City
Philadelphia
Andrew Karas
Greece
Joyce Ahern
Ford L. van Hoesen
Des Moines
Iowa Masons
Roy S Mushrush
Iowa City Lodge
Emory Wells
James E., Waery
H. J Thornton
Naples Bombed on Successive Nights
Cairo reports Allied heavy bombers raid Naples on Sunday night with all aircraft returning. British RAF and Indian high command note raids continued March 22 and Monday's raid on Palermo Sicily killed 38 civilians and wounded 184. Five raiders shot down.
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Cairo
Naples
Middle East
RAF
Sndian High Command
Palermo
Sicily
Belle Plaine Man Featured In 1943 Who’s Who Of Horticulturists
H Roy Mosnat of Belle Plaine is listed in the 1943 Who’s Who in America as a renowned horticulturist. He developed an early long blooming hardy chrysanthemum variety named for Dean George F Kay of the University of Iowa and a crimson chrysanthemum strain named for Prof Samuel Williston of Harvard Law School. He is working on a disease resistant lily variety.
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America
H. Roy Mosnat
Belle Plaine
Mosnat
George F. Kay
University of Iowa Geology Department
Samuel Williston
Harvard University Law School
Tires and Tubes Granted by Jones County Boards
The Jones county rationing boards issued passenger tires and tubes to numerous residents across Anamosa Center Junction Ox ford Junction and Monticello. Recipients include Ala Barber Herman Brunscheen R B Rathbun Tiaald Juelning and several others with various grades and tube allocations. Special notes list farm implement tires for Norman Schutt and extra tires for Jones county hatchery and Horton and Son Onslow.
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Anamosa
Jones County Ration Ag
Ala Barber Anaimore
Herman Brunscheen
Wyoming
Townsend
Roxy Snell Anamosa
Rathbun
Ines Grim Anamosa
Clarence Romer
Kula Anamosa
Tiaald Juelning
Commons
Matelle
E Dusanek
Matt Wyoming
George McDonald
Jumion
Betty Wigeer
Olin
Lee Foster
D J Wasson Onslow
Guy Wolfe
Watters
Watters Anamosa Tube Chis Hansen Wysontine
Lee Peck
Nuk Ehler
Osford Junction
Frank Nowachek
Oxford Junction
Irvin Leggett
Norman Schutt
FH Lathrop
Onslow
Charles Gray
Jones County Hatchery
Ralph Ditch
Jones County
Monticello
George Rieniers
Frank Locher
Laverne O Brien
Cascade
Teddy Martinsen
Irene Roger
John Alferts
R S Bronemann
Wismere Monticello
Nik Rollinger
Bernard
Carl Poppe
Clarence Bollinger
Harry Gerrets
Jay Joslin
Grover and Etten
W. J Talbert
Horton and Son
Tom Shever
Morley Dedicates Service Honor Roll
A Sunday dedication at United Brethren church sponsored by Rev C L Windsor unveiled a service roll honoring Navy Army and Marine service members. Readings from Edgar A Guest and solos by church members accompanied the unveiling, with the roll listing personnel such as Harold W Austin James Oscar Austin Lieut Marshall Cook Verne Embree and John Lewis Willison.
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Cravette Morley
United Brethren Church
C L. Windsor
Edgar A Guest
Edith Russell
Dorothy Guthrie
Lydia Windsor
Ella Austin
Otis Siver
Ivan Hempy
Arthur Free
Cyrus Lamb
Frances Windsor
Margie Windsor
Janette Siver
Mr Windsor
Lucille
Lulu Embree
Windsor
Navy
Harold W. Austin
Floyd Brown
James Brown
Ronald Merle Smith
Harold Wells
Wilbur Leimen
Army
James Oscar Austin
Otho Glenn Brokaw
Marshall Cook
Reuben Colton
Lee Embree
Verne Embree
Clifford Fairbanks
Thomas Hartley
Clarence Lorton
Magnus Nelson
Harold Windsor
Marines
John Lewis Willison
Dorothy Windsor
Workers Launch Move For Sullivan Airfield
New York workers at the Irving Subway Grating plant in Long Island City mobilized to honor the Sullivan brothers of Waterloo Iowa who died on the cruiser Juneau in the Solomons last November. They produced 180 emergency landing mat panels, about 4500 square feet, for Sullivan field and sent a $47.50 wage value check to the Waterloo memorial fund. They also telegraphed War Secretary Henry Stimson asking for an airfield on the Pacific battlefront named in honor of the brothers.
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New York
Theeewis
Waterloo
Ila
Juneau
Solomons
Jast
Long Iland Citys
Irving Subway Grating Company
Thei Tmibute
Sullivan Field
Sullivan Memorial Fund
Tme
Henry Stimson
Paerlie Battlefront
Mm Hony
Brothers
Waterloo Memorial
Sullivan Brothers
Waking Sleepers Service Turned Business
Mrs Jae Pugh runs a remote alarm service with 50 subscribers mainly plant workers. Each pays 30 cents weekly to be awakened at odd hours to avoid missing shifts, using an alarm dock and remote calls to wake customers who rely on the device to stay alert for work.
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Drs Voies
Dex Veeres
Jae Pugh
Atearny
Wnich
Vis Pugh
Sh O
Old Silver Service Presented to New Battleship Iowa
Des Moines Iowa AP reports Capt John V McCrae accepted a silver service for the new battleship Iowa in a ceremony before a joint state senate session. He returned the service to the state for safekeeping until hostilities ceased. Gov Hickenlooper later presented the silver which was then valued at many times its original worth and placed on display for about 20 years. The governor expressed pride that the ship bearing Iowa's name honors the state.
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Hickenlooper
Daily Lenten Devotional Bridging Hearts Through Friendship
Daily devotional by Glenn Atkins for the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America reflects on Jesus embracing sinners and using friendship to heal alienation. It urges Christians to be bridges across divisions with prayers for compassion and reconciliation.
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Dr Gains Glenn Atkins
Churches of Christ In America
Jesus
America
Buider
Margaret G. Townsend
Police raid sweep nets over fifty in Sioux City
Sioux City police arrested more than 50 persons over the weekend in a series of raids on gambling and disorderly houses.
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Sioux City
Timm Heller wedding at Marengo candlelight ceremony
Kenneth Heller son of Mr and Mrs Grover Heller wed in a candlelight ceremony at St Johns Lutheran church in Marengo The Rev Theodore Rettmann officiated Attendants included Arlene Vive, Cypal Heller, Dale Kitheart and Robert Bacow Ushers were Melvin Toran and others The bride a University of Iowa graduate and chemical engineer, worked in a law office The groom a former Army engineer who served in Hawaii and Pearl Harbor period was stationed at Fort Belvoir and later at Paul Harbor during the attack
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Marengo
Kenneth Heller
Maio Yard
Grover Heller
Pers
St. Johns Lautheram
Theodore Rettmann
Arlene
Cypal
Vive HeLer
Dale Kitheart
Belle Plasne
Robert Bacow
Melvin Toran
Chester
Charles Rhodes
Muscatine
Meleus
Paul Young
Rock-Crushing Job Shifted From Cedar County to Nebraska
Cedar County shifted its rock crushing work to Hastings Nebraska after government contract priorities led to the move. Bartell the Cedar County Engineer ordered the relocation on orders from Commander WR Show of the KOS Hayes, transferring Bot Anderson of Cedar Rapids with Mason Construction ballast duties for rail work near an ammunition depot. Anderson is operating southwest of McNallo and will be idle until the 90 day estimate to finish the remaining 16 000 cubic yards of gravel. The tax commission announced Homestead tax credits totaling 708 218 429 dollars allocated to 99 counties for the first half of 1942.
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Cedar County
Bartell
WR Show
KOS Hayes
Bot Anderson
Cea Rapids
Prom
Contrett
Hastings
Neo
Anderson
Mason Construs-ion Company
Naval
Ferguson Quard
McNallo
Cedar Counts
Des Moines
INS
State Tax Commission
Mo LeCompte Enters Naval Hospital for Azule S Nus Treatment
Rep Karl Mo LeCompte of Aluwa registers for naval hospital care amid reports of a surgical option for an azule s nus condition. The public official seeks treatment with potential operation, details unclear.
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Washington
Karl Mo LeCompte
A-luwa
Naval Hospital
Military Rites For Cadet Dupuis At Keota High
Cadet George T. Dupuis 24 will receive military honors at Keota high school auditorium at 2:30 pm Wednesday. Blythen Sheets American Legion post will preside with Rev RL Brown delivering the address. Dupuis died in a midair collision near Cherau with two other cadets. He was born in Keota and graduated from Keota high school in 1936 then worked in California before enlisting. He is survived by his mother and a brother John Dupuis of Los Angeles. his father Henry Dupuis died in 1932.
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Gasette Keota
George T. Dupuis
Keota High School
Blythen- Sheets
American Legion
Re. RL Brown
Methodist Churete
Burl
Dupin
Cherau
Cute
Dedicate Service Flag at Mt Vernon First Presbyterian
The Mt Vernon congregation honors a service flag dedication at First Presbyterian Church led by Rev Lou McKibben. The accompanying plaque lists numerous names including Donald Hall Edward Petiuk Samuel Koch Robert Milholi Waspe Himtor Eldon Jotosen and many others.
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Vernon
Lloyd Ellison
Edward Kimball
Clarence Krumm
James Dye
Robert Kyle
Donald Hunter
Hhutale Beach
Lea Butler
Meiwan Armstrong
Howard Fisher
Donald Krumm
Robert Smith
Leo Petrick
Donald Herring
Darwin Cook
Laurence Yeislex
Robert Fisher
Arlo Eldison
Mollis Fart
Sundaes School
Dale Johnson
Muss Hazel Midkiff
J. McKibben
Mrnngements
Tipton Judge Linville Presides As Jurors Call For Kautz Case
Judge Guy Linville sits in Tipton for Cedar County district court as petit jurors report for duty and a jury is chosen for the case against Paul Kautz of Trypton charged with leaving the scene of an accident and drunken driving. Judge G P Tainville of Cedar Rapids presides at Cedar County’s first session since his election last November.
Benton County Men to Service in March Selective Draft
Thirty three Benton county men were called in a March selective service quota. The group includes Vinton residents George Scott and others, Belle Plaine’s Wayne Myers, Cedar Rapids names, Atkins George Fett, Marengo Robert Johnson, Blairstown Stanley Kovar, Watkins Lloyd Etscheidt, Van Horne Clifford Thompson, Shellsburg George Senft, Waterloo Curtis McNally LeRoy Clemens, and Des Moines Lewis Ward. The article lists towns and individual draftees across the state.
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Vinton
Benton County
George Scott
Leslie G. Halstead
Leo L. Greenley
Max W. Anderson
Lloyd A Eckhart
John C. Fowler
Alvin Ary
Earl D. Fee
Dale H Fry
Boyd Lavern Gunn
Frank DeBales
Belle Plaince
Wayne M. Myers
Navy
Deloss D Allen
Alan L. Fisher
William F Bader
Victor D Birch
Norway
Stanley R Rose
William Eliimgson
Cedar Rapids
Earl H. Cypra
Robert G Kohl
Virgil D Greenwood
Warren R Barr
Atkins
George E Fett
Marengo
Robert A. Johnson
Mal Ines
Blairstown
Stanley E Kovar
Watkins—Lloyd G Etscheidt van Horne
Clifford V. Thompson
Shellsburg
George B. Senft
Waterloo
Curtis McNally
LeRoy Clemens
Vernon
Jack L. Haloupek
Des Moines
Lewis Ray Ward
Chicago
Leslie Benjamin Shirley, Mary
Rites Wednesday For Lowden Pioneer Mrs Miller
Mrs Conrad Miller 86 dies Sunday night. Services Wednesday at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church at 2 pm conducted by Rev F J Abele. Burial in Van Horne cemetery southwest of Lowden. Oldest native-born resident of the area, she lived in the log cabin near Lowden and celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary in 1935, died after a long life.
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Garete
Tavern Operators Challenge Beer Law
Two Iowa tavern operators filed demurrers in district court challenging the states beer law for the second time in a week. Louis Siegel and Sam Martin of the Home Plate tavern are indicted for keeping liquor where beer is sold and were allowed to withdraw pleas of innocent to file the demurrer. A hearing is set for Saturday before District Judge C Edwin Moore.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Louis Siegel
Sam Martin
Home Plate Tavern
H Ward Berson
Charles Devare
Edwin Moore
Marine Corporal From Keota Held Prisoner by Japs
Mrs Pearl D Morris has word from the navy that her son Corporal John L Morris of the marines, reported missing after the fall of Corregidor, is a prisoner of the Japanese. She may communicate with him through the Red Cross in Tokio. Cap Morris is brother of Mrs D D Wickham of Cedar Rapids.
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Keota
Pearl D Morris
Navy Department
Corp
John L. Morris
Marines
Corregidor
Red Cross
Tokio
Cap Morris
D D Wickham
Twelth Street
Cedar Rapids
Watkins Soldier Captive Reported by War Dept
Mrs George H Smith has been notified that her son Pf George H Smith Jr is held prisoner by the Japanese. He had not been heard from since the fall of Bataan. Smith is believed in the same outfit as Capt Robert Moore of Cedar Rapids, also a prisoner, both were to Shanghai before Pearl Harbor.
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Watkins
George H Smith
War Department
George H. Smith, Jr
Bataan
Smith
Robert Moore
Cedar Rapids
Shanghai
Pearl Harbor
19 Schools Entered In Forensic Meet
Iowa City hosts the thirty seventh annual Iowa High School Forensic League contest at the University of Iowa from Thursday to Saturday with speakers from 19 high schools. Schools listed include Decorah East Sioux City Oskaloosa Muscatine Davenport Burlington Ottumwa Webster City Cedar Falls Waterloo Abraham Lincoln Cornell Bluffs Manchester and George.
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Iowa City
Iowa High School Forensic League
University of Iowa
Decorah
East
Sioux City
Oskaloosa
Muscatine
Davenport
Burlington
Ottumwa
Webster City
University
Iowa City Town City Central
Elkader
Cedar Falls
West Waterloo
Abraham Lincoly
Cornell Bluffs
Manchester
Erry and George
New Cedar County Recorder Appointed by Supervisors
Tipton Miss Marjorie McLain was named Cedar County recorder to fill the vacancy after Helen Schriver resigned. Schriver had left for Yuma Arizona after relatives died, and McLain, previously Schriver’s assistant, takes over the office duties.
Ask Congress For Postwar Road Program
A senate concurrent resolution introduced by the highways committee urges immediate authorization of 3 billion dollars for highway construction over three years after the war. It proposes funding through state highway commissions with no new federal agencies, for state primary and secondary roads and city streets, to aid employment amid postwar readjustment.
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Des Moines
Senate
Highways Committee
Congress
American Association of Highway Officials
Senate Committee On Post Offices
House Committee On Roads
Rules for Sending Books to Axis Prisoners Announced
The Office of War Information released rules for distributing books to officially identified prisoners of war and internees in enemy occupied countries. Prohibited are magazines and newspapers and books with technical content. only new books may be sent, with a five pound limit every 30 days, via publishers and the New York censorship station.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Red Cross
OWL
Anis
New York
Office of Censorship
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Wan Ae Ee
Mrs. Heller
Nebraska
NEP
Lecompte III
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Veterinary Medical and Animal Hospital Associations
Keota School
Mt. Vernon
Guy Linville
Tipton
Lowden
Mrs. Miller
Chevrolet
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