Iowa Pay Tax Returns See Surge Despite Lower Rates
Des Moines reports 250000 to 300000 Iowa pay returns expected this year, up at least 25 percent from last year, with 59700 filing full state income taxes and 735 on installment pay. A backlog of 100000 returns and 51647 no pay returns are in process. Tax yield so far is 1322445, near 1942 levels, and up to 10000 more returns may come from residents unaware of rate cuts. Medical deduction changes add to administration headaches.
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Des Moines
Commission
Veterans of Foreign Wars post reelected in Johnson County
Charlie F. Smith was reelected commander of Johnson county post No. 2581 VFW. New officers include Kite Rowling senior vice commander John Lemons junior vice commander Oral Muir quartermaster John Fielding advocate Oral Smith chaplain John Halter quartermaster sergeant Ben Whitebook Everett Williams Ernest Bright trustees. Pete Karas a former Iowa City resident died in Philadelphia at 55. Surviving wife and brothers in Iowa City and Greece. Joyce Ahern won the Johnson county spelling contest with 39 entrants. Iowa City lodge No. 4 Masons to hold patriotic meeting per Des Moines grand master Ford L. Van Hoesen. attendees announced.
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Iowa City
Charlie F. Smith
Johnson County
Kite Rowling
John Lemons
Oral Muir
John Fielding
Oral Smith
Chapin
John Halter
Ben Whitebook
Everett Williams
Ernest Bright
Pete Karas
Philadelphia
Andrew Karas
Greece
Joyce Ahern
D. J. Ahern
East Lucas Township
Loyal Order of Masons
Ford L. van Hoesen
Des Moines
Iowa Masons
Roy S. Mushrush
The
Iowa
Ers Wi
Ly Wells
James E. Waery
H. J. Thornton
Naples Bombed on Successive Nights
Cairo AP reports Allied air forces conducted a second consecutive night raid on Naples, with bombers returning safely. Italy's high command claimed no damage to Naples from the March 22 raid and said a Monday Sicily strike killed 38 civilians and injured 184, with several buildings destroyed and a few aircraft shot down.
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Cairo
Eine
Middle East
Hich
Naples
Sicily
Belle Plaine Horticulturist Missed History In Who's Who
H Roy Mosnat of Belle Plaine is listed in the 1943 Who's Who in America as the town's only resident thus honored. A renowned horticulturist, he created an early long blooming hardy chrysanthemum variety named for Dean George F Kay of the University of Iowa geology department. He developed a crimson chrysanthemum variety named for Prof Samuel Williston of Harvard Law School and is working on a disease resistant lily cultivar.
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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
Jones County boards grant tires and tubes
Anamosa reporters list 44 tires and tubes issued by the South Jones county rationing board last week. Recipients include Alva Barber Anamosa and H J Townsend Center Junction with various grade tires and multiple tubes. Additional allocations cover residents from Wyoming Oxford Junction and Onslow with truck and farm implement tires plus a Jones county hatchery truck tire and tube.
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Anamosa
South Jones County
W. H. Ee Martelle
G. E Dusanek
Wyoming
W. A. Mott
George McDonald
Center Junction
Betty Wigger
Olin
Lee Foster
D. J. Wasson
Onslow
W. H. Hansen
Guy Wolfe
Jones County Hatchery
Ralph
Jones County
Monticello War Price Board Issues Tires and Tubes
Special to The Gazette Monticello The Monticello war price and rationing board last week issued passenger tires and tubes listing buyers by name town and quantity Grade 2 tires for George Rieniers Frank Locher Monticello two each Laverne O Brien Cascade Teddy Martinsen Cascade Irene Rogers Cascade John Alferts Anamosa R S Bronemann Monticello H L Wismeier Monticello and others and two tubes for Nick Rollinger Bernard Carl Poppe Monticello Clarence Rollinger Cascade Harry Gerrets Monticello one tube plus truck tires for Jay Joslin Anamosa two and one tube Grover and Etten Monticello two and two tubes W J Talbert Cascade tube Implement tires F Horton and Son Onslow one Tom Shov er Monticello four and four tubes
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Monticello
George Rieniers
Frank Locher
Laverne O'Brien
Ascade
Teddy Martinsen
Cascade
Irene Rogers
John Alferts
Anamosa
R. S. Bronemann
H. L. Wismeier
Nick Rollinger
Bernard
Carl Poppe
Clarence Rollinger
Harry Gerrets
Jay Joslin
Grover and Etten
W. J. Talbert
F. Horton and Son
Onslow
Tom Shover
Morley Dedicates Service Honor Roll
A community service roll was dedicated Sunday at the United Brethren church in Morley under Rev. C. L. Windsor. Readings from Edgar A. Guest and musical numbers highlighted the event while the roll lists Navy, Army, and Marine servicemen including Harold W. Austin Floyd Brown James Brown Ronald Merle Smith Harold Wells Wilbur Leven Lieut Marshall Cook Reuben Colton Lieut Lee Embree Verne Embree Thomas Hartley Clarence Lorton Magnus Nelson Harold Windsor and others.
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Navy
Harold W. Austin
Floyd Brown
James Brown
Ronald Merle Smith
Harold Wells
Wilbur Levien
Army
James Oscar Austin
Otho Glenn Brokaw
Marshall Cook
Reuben Colton
Lee Embree
Verne Embree
Fairbanks
Thomas Hartley
Clarence Lorton
Magnus Nelson
Harold Windsor
Marines
John Ne Taea
Pean Wee
Workers Launch Move For Sullivan Airfield
In New York a three way memorial salute honors five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo Iowa who died on the cruiser Juneau in the Solomons. Workers at Irving Subway Grating in Long Island City add 180 emergency landing panels to a Sullivan field fund donation totaling $472.50 and urge a Pacific front airfield be named for the brothers.
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New York
Sullivan Brothers
Waterloo
Juneau
Solomons
Long Island City
Irving Subway Grating Company
Sullivan Field
Sullivan Memorial Fund
Henry Stimson
Pacific Battlefront
Waterloo Memorial
U. S
Alarm Service in Des Moines Wakes Heavy Sleepers
Des Moines woman Mrs. Joe Pugh runs an alarm service with 50 subscribers, mainly ordnance plant workers, at 50 cents weekly each. She calls customers who fear oversleeping and uses a clock to wake them, managing the enterprise from home while caring for her grandson and chickens.
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DES Moines
Stahd
Joe Pugh
Ordnance Plant
Old Silver Service Presented to New Battleship Iowa
Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper presented the silver service of the old battleship Iowa to the new Iowa in a ceremony before the Iowa legislature. Capt. John McCrae accepted then returned the service to the state for safekeeping until hostilities end. The silver, now valued higher, will be kept at the state historical museum where it has been displayed for about 20 years.
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Des Moines
John McCrae
Iowa
State Senate
House
B. B. Hickenlooper
State Department Historical Museum
Hickenlooper
Bridging Hearts Through Christian Friendship
Daily Lenten Devotional urges Christians to build friendship across groups and nations. It cites Jesus reaching out to publicans and sinners as a model for healing alienation. The piece warns America faces internal group divides and calls believers to be bridge-builders using near ness and understanding.
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Jesus
America
Margaret G. Townsend
Raids Target Gambling Hubs In Sioux City Weekend Sweep
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
Naomi Timm daughter of Mr and Mrs Otto Timm wed Lieut Kenneth Heller at St John’s Lutheran church in Marengo in a candlelight ceremony. Attendants were Arlene Heller Opal Mae Heller and Dale Kithecart. Ushers included Robert Buelow Melvin Timm and others. Bride a Marengo High School graduate worked in a law office. Groom a University of Iowa graduate chemical engineer served 18 months and was at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.
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Marengo
Naomi Timm
Otto Timm
Kenneth Heller
Grover Heller
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Theodore Rottmann
Arlene
Opal Mae Heller
Dale Kithecart
Belle Plaine
Robert Buelow
Melvin Timm
Chester
Charles Rhodes
Muscatine
Marcus
Paul Young
Marengo High School
F. Paul Harned
Lieut
Heller
University of Iowa
Army Engineer School
Fort Belvoir
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Rock-Crushing Job Moved From Cedar County to Hastings
Cedar County halted rock crushing when Commander W. B. Shore of the U S navy ordered B L Anderson of Cedar Rapids released from his Cedar County contract to move to Hastings Nebraska. Anderson works under Maxon Construction to ballast 75 miles of railroad for a naval depot and will finish the Cedar County project after 90 days.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Bartell
W. B. Shore
U. S. Navy
B. L. Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Hastings
Neb
Anderson
Maxon Construction Company
Ferguson Quarry
McVitie
Homestead tax credits in Iowa reach 7.08 million for first half 1942
The Iowa state tax commission said 7,082,185.29 dollars in Homestead tax credits were allocated to all 99 counties for the first half of 1942.
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Des Moines
INS
State Tax Commission
LeCompte Undergoes Hospital Care for Sinus Infection
Rep Karl M LeCompte of Iowa is in a naval hospital for treatment and possible surgery for an acute sinus infection. The situation is described as routine medical care with potential operation depending on his response to treatment.
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Washington
Karl M. LeCompte
AlIona
Naval Hospital
Military Rites At Keota For Air Cadet Dupuis
Keota high school auditorium hosts 2:30 p.m. Wednesday services for Air Cadet George T. Dupuis 24 in charge of Blythen Sheets American Legion post. Rev R L Brown will deliver the address with burial in Keota cemetery. Dupuis died in a midair collision near Cherau Colorado. He was the eldest son of Mrs Henry Dupuis and a Keota native who later worked in California before enlisting in the air corps. He is survived by his mother and brother John Dupuis of Los Angeles. his father died in 1932.
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Keota
George T. Dupuis
Keota High School
Blythen- Sheets Post
American Legion
R. L. Brown
The
Methodist Church
Dupuis
Cherau
Colo
la Junta
Militar
Henry Dupuis
California
Air Corps
John Dupuis
Los Angeles
Dedicate Service Flag at Mt. Vernon
A service flag with 31 stars was dedicated at First Presbyterian Church Mt. Vernon by Rev. L L McKibben. The plaque honors Donald Hall Edward Petrick Samuel Koch and 27 others while the Sunday school presented the flag with Mrs. Dale Johnson Hazel Midkiff and Mrs. L L McKibben coordinating arrangements.
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MT. Vernon
Friends
Navy
First Presbyterian Church
L. L. McKibben
Donald Hall
Edward Petrick
Samuel Koch
Robert Milholm
Wayne Hunter
Eldon Johnson
Victor Blaine
Reed Needles
Vernon Sadler
Arlo Simonds
Morris Simonds
Robert Scroggie
Lioyd Ellison
Edward Kimball
Clarence Krumm
James Dye
Robert Kyle
Donald Hunter
Harold Beach
Leo Butler
Mervyn Armstrong
Howard Fisher
Donald Krumm
Robert Smith
Leo Petrick
Donald Herring
Darwin Cook
Laurence Weisley
Robert Fisher
Arlo Edison
Morris Farr
Dale Johnson
Hazel Midkiff
Judge Linville Heads Tipton Cedar County Court Session
Petit jurors for the March term reported for duty and a jury was chosen to hear Paul Kautz of Tipton charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Kautz also faces drunken driving in a later case. Judge G P Linville of Cedar Rapids presides at the first Cedar County session since his November election.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Benton County Selective Service Quota Departures Listed
Special to The Gazette reports thirty three Benton county men called for service as the March selective service quota heads to the army after a week furlough. The roster includes names from Vinton Belle Plaine Norway Cedar Rapids Atkins Marengo Blairstown Watkins Van Horne Shellsburg Vernon Maines and Chicago among others with various branches noted such as navy and marines.
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Vinton
Benton County
Army
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 DeBates
Belle Plaine
Wayne M. Myers
Navy
Deloss D. Allen
Rites Wednesday For Lowden Pioneer Mrs Miller
Mrs. Conrad Miller 86, longtime Lowden native, dies Sunday night. Services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church with Rev. F. J. Abele. Burial in Van Horne cemetery. She and husband Mr Miller marked their sixtieth anniversary in 1935. She to be buried in her wedding gown.
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Lowden
Conrad Miller
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
F.J. Abele
van Horne
Tavern Operators Challenge Beer Law
Des Moines AP report notes two tavern operators filed demurrers in district court challenging Iowa beer law as unconstitutional for a second time in a week. Louis Siegel and Sam Martin of Home Plate tavern withdrew pleas of innocent to allow the demurrer. H Ward Benson and Charles Devore of a dinner club filed a similar move. A hearing before District Judge C Edwin Moore is set for Saturday.
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C. Edwin Moore
Marine Corporal From Keota Held Prisoner by Japs
Keota residents learn Corp. John L. Morris a Marine prisoner of Japan after the fall of Corregidor. Mrs. Pearl D. Morris, his mother, may contact him through the Red Cross in Tokio. He 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
Morris
D. D. Wickham
Twelth Street
Cedar Rapids
Smith son held prisoner by Japanese in World War II
Mrs. George H. Smith was informed by the War Department that her son Prc. ee H. Smith Jr. is prisoner of the Japanese. He had not been heard from since the fall of Bataan and is believed connected to Capt. Robert Moore of Cedar Rapids, who is also a Japanese prisoner and was in Shanghai before Pearl Harbor.
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Watkins
George H. Smith
War Department
Prc
Ee H. Smith, Jr
Bataan
Smith
Robert Moore
Cedar Rapids
Shanghai
Pearl Harbor
Seventeen High Schools Meet Forensic Contest At Iowa
Speakers from 19 high schools will compete in the thirty seventh annual Iowa High School Forensic league contests at the University of Iowa from Thursday to Saturday. Qualified schools include Decorah East Sioux City Oskaloosa Muscatine Davenport Burlington Ottumwa Webster City University Iowa City Central Sioux City Elkader Cedar Falls East West Waterloo Abraham Lincoln Council Bluffs Manchester Perry and George.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa High School Forensic League
University of Iowa
Decorah
East
Sioux City
Oskaloosa
Muscatine
Davenport
Burlington
Ottumwa
Webster City
University
Central
Elkader
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Abraham Lincoln
Council Bluffs
Manchester
Perry
George
McLain Named Cedar County Recorder After Vacancy
TIPTON Marjorie McLain was appointed Cedar County recorder by the board of supervisors to fill the vacancy from Helen R. Schriver’s resignation. Schriver left for Yuma Arizona after her sister and brother-in-law died and remains there to manage their estate. McLain had been Schriver’s assistant.
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Tipton
Marjorie McLain
Cedar County
Board of Supervisors
Helen R. Schriver
Miss Schriver
Yuma
Ariz
Miss McLain
Miss. Schriver
Recorder
Ask Congress For Postwar Road Program
A senate concurrent resolution introduced by the highways committee urges immediate expenditure of 3 billion dollars on highway construction over three years after the war. It proposes state highway commissions control and no new federal agencies, improving state primary roads secondary roads and city streets to aid postwar employment.
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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 OWI with Red Cross and seven agencies issued guidelines for distributing books to officially identified prisoners of war and Axis civilian detainees. Prohibited materials include nautical charts, espionage or propaganda content, technical or scientific works, and all magazines or newspapers. Only new books may be sent directly. each sender may mail one package of up to five pounds every 30 days after providing the prisoner details to the publisher and obtaining approval.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Red Cross
OWI
Monay
New York
Office of Censorship
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Nebraska
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