Panamanian Students Audit English at Coe College
Carlos Alberto Pereschi and Nora Isabel Arengo, new Panama students auditing English courses at Coe College Cedar Rapids, are learning American language and culture with the help of Dr. Boyd G. Carter. They live on campus, study hard, and enjoy Cedar Rapids yet find some American habits unfamiliar.
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Carlos Alberto Pereschi
Nora Isabel Arengo
Coe College
Ceder Rapids
Coe
Joon
Carlos
Instituto Nacional de Panama
Nora
University of Panama
Cedar Rapids
Carter
Vernon Jones
C. W. Perkins
Velma Davis
Charles Anderson
Voorhees Hall
Cee
Bays
America
Baths and Bundles of Home Front Anecdotes from Algeria
American soldier Seret. Allen N. Hamer recounts experiences in Algeria including a strict bath routine, a rough rub down, and culture clashes with Arab attendants. He notes Yankee bargaining, a page from The Gazette, and a quip about soldiers adapting to local life. He and his wife and seven month old son live at 825 Fifth Avenue SE.
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Africa
Alth
Seret
Allen N. Hamer
Hamer
William Hamer
O Avenue NW
Algeria
Fifth Avenue
Iowa Soldiers Receive Silver Star For North Africa Action
Master Sergeant Karl L. Sorensen of Cedar Rapids and Staff Sergeant Orval R. Spilde of Decorah earned Silver Star medals for gallantry in the North African theater. The general order of March 3 lists 14 air corps volunteers who stormed a fort on November 8 and captured 250 prisoners. Sorensen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. L. Sorensen, received the documents for safekeeping. Sorensen enlisted August 24, 1927.
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Karl L. Sorensen
Cedar Rapids
Orval R. Spilde
Decorah
Army
Air Corps
Air Support Command
Sergiorensen
J. K. L. Sorensen
Thirtieth Street
Sergt. Sorensen
United
Sergt
Sorensen
City Groups Honor Mothers With Cards And Flowers
Cedar Rapids groups remember Gold Star mothers and mothers with sons missing in action or prisoners of war. Disabled American Veterans presented flowers, Veterans of Foreign Wars issued corsages, Women's Relief Corps and T. Z. Cook post sent corsages, and American Legion auxiliary provided Mother's Day cards.
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Cedar Rapids
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Women’s Relief
Crps
T. Z. Cook Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Immaculate Conception Seniors Stage Dont Take My Penny
Immaculate Conception high school seniors present Dont Take My Penny by Ann Colter Martans tonight at 8 in the school auditorium. Catharine Hunt Petrick directs a cast including Therese Buhrman Bill Custer Gene Thoennes Zane Ferguson Shirley Baschnagel Weslie Estill Williard Weibel Shirley Zemanek Robert McAleer Ellen Kennedy Bill Kelly Leo Marion Phylis Buck Catherine O Connell Marion Barta Ellen Klima Margaret Jacobs Ayn Ryan and Harry Fee. Admission is a small fee and the public is welcome.
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Immaculate Conception High School
Ann Colter Martans
Catharine Hunt Petrick
Therese Buhrman
Bill Custer
Gene Thoennes
Zane Ferguson
Shirley Baschnagel
Weslie Estill
Williard Weibel
Shirley Zemanek
Robert McAleer
Ellen Kennedy
Bill Kelly
Leo Marion
Phylis Buck
Catherine O'Connell
Watch Em Grow Victory Gardens Mostly Planted
By week’s end children will finish planting victory gardens the playground commission office says. Mrs. Leonard J. Smith schedules planting sessions from 4 p.m. at Arthur and Tyler on Tuesday John son and Harrison on Wednesday Lincoln and Fillmore on Thursday Cleveland and Kenwood on Friday the Children’s Home and Polk and Garfield on Saturday at 8 a.m. Some plots already planted but Mrs. Smith will visit to answer questions and help with gardening problems.
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Victory Gardens
Playground Commission
Leonard J. Smith
Arthur
Tyler
Johnson and Harrison
Lincoln
Fillmore
Cleveland
Kenwood
Polk
Garfield
Gable Froze Hands During Antwerp Raid Action
AP reports Captain Clark Gable of the U S Army Air Forces endured extreme cold during a raid over Antwerp. He wore leather and electric gloves, had numb purple hands afterward, and his Flying Fortress sustained no serious damage though a German shell hit its nose. He served as gunnery captain in the radio compartment amidship with two cameras failing from cold.
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London
Clark Gable
Hollywood
United States Air Forces
Antwerp
Gable
Ice in Sitka Frozen Swan Lake Triggers School Closure
In January 1910 Swan Lake near Sitka froze solid allowing children to skate during a rare Alaska cold spell. Officials reported ice conditions that led to a day with school dismissed for recreation on the frozen lake.
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Alaska
Swan Lake
Sitka
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Panama
Boyd G. Carter
Voorhees
Sergt. Hamer
C. R
the Gazette
U.S
Acousticon Institute
G. Alexander
Security Labourchants Natl Bank Bldg
Paramount Pharmacy
Paramount Theater Building
Tatras
Jing
Iowa
I. C
Second Street
AVING
Rocky Road
Young
Palmolive
Derry
Dorothy Perkins
J&j
Teehell
Thorates & Miner
Thorstes & Miner
Nujol
Borden
Swift
Swifts
Dr. Lyon’s Tooth
Eal
Folger's
Hemo
Lh. Jar
Cuttyhunk
Bieren In
Sete Uesta
Serrti
Siegel's
Second Avenue SE
Troy
Troy Laundry
First Street
Dial
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