Coe College Spring Program Sunday at 4 PM
Coe College music department presents its annual spring program in Sinclair Memorial chapel featuring Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem. Paul S. Ray directs the college orchestra with vocal ensembles. violin soloist Joseph Kitchin. soprano Grace Huddle Lockhoff. organist Eleanor Taylor Wendland. other performers include the vesper choirs.
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Sinclair Memorial Chapel
Coe College Music Department
R. Vaughan Williams
Paul S. Ray
Williams
John Bright
Walt Whitman
Ray
Joseph Kitchin
Grace Huddle Lockhoff
Eleanor Taylor Wendland
Coe Music Department
Benny Saves Ann Sheridan From Lightning Save
Comedian Jack Benny protected Ann Sheridan on a sound stage during a simulated lightning storm. A tree limb fell unexpectedly, smashing Benny’s fiddle while he grabbed Sheridan to safety. Benny recovered the broken instrument and sent it to New York for rebuilding.
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Hollywood
Jack Benny
Ann Sheridan
Miss Sheridan
Benny
New York
Organizational Details of Women's Army Revealed
The War Department plans for the WAAC outline a noncombatant corps with Oveta Hobby likely as director. The unit will be led by officers and 250 enlisted women per company, with 50 companies initially and potential expansion to 150,000. Roles include clerks, operators, dietitians, hostesses, and more.
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Thursae
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Army
War Department
Henry L. Stimson
WAAC
Oveta Culp Hobby
Houston
Congress
U S Flyers in India Ferrying Arms to China
An AP dispatch describes a northern India airfield serving the U S ferry command for supplying Free China and the Chinese army. It notes the small, secret base behind Burma, guarded by jeeps and that the service operates mainly at night in harsh weather, with troops well fed and drinking local tea.
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U.S
India
China
United States
New Delhi
United States Army Ferry Command
Burma
Free China
Gage
One Killed Seven Hurt in Hotel Fire
A seven story Texan hotel fire in Wichita Falls left one man dead and at least seven others injured some seriously. The blaze spread to the nearby four and a half story Studio hotel and threatened additional structures nearby.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Texan
Man pleads guilty to slugging phones for love
Michael Fontana 26 admitted using coin slugs to place calls to his girlfriend, averaging 20 calls daily. Judge James O'Toole sentenced him to 30 years of postage stamp access. A telephone company worker testified Fontana's booth yielded 29.85 in slugs in one month, enabling 597 calls.
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Pittsburgh
Michael Fontana
James O'Toole
Fontana
Tire Permits for 18 Day Period Listed
A long list details tire permits issued for an 18 day period covering many individuals and companies. Entries include passenger car tires for Meryl L. Terry Merrill S. Hughes Dale E. Young and others as well as truck tires for LaPlant-Choate Co H. W. Motor Express Charles H. Dewoody James Ironside and numerous firms. Several retread tires are noted for carriers and builders.
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Meryl L. Terry
CPT
Merrill S. Hughes
Dale E. Young
LaPlant-Choate Co
Defense
H. W. Motor Express Company
Charles H. Dewoody
James Ironside
G. H. Lowe
Koehring-Wheeler
Leo Trachta
Takin Bros
Hazel Johnson
Burch Construction Company
Bernard Stark
Stusak and Company
Polehna Brothers
F. Lyle French
Glen Wagner
H. and W. Express Company
Wapsie Valley Creamery
Sioux City Brewing Company
Central City Produce Company
J. J. Murphy
George C. Oxley
E. Brague
G. H. Cameron
Eugene C. Wieneke
Chadima Coal Company
Linn County
James E. Martin
J. R. Couplin
Gerald E. Wolfe
Lem Postel
Clarence W. Hoke
Watchman Defense
Rock Island Railway
C. R. Radi Service Company
Lynch Transfer and Storage Company
John Cox
Ivan E. Hoge
Ivan K. Gibson
E. H. Hunter
John Willer
Co-Operative Dairy
Holland Company
Furnace Crea
Ralph C. Little
Lloyd Donald Craft
George L. Rose
Edward E. Reyhous
City of
Cedar Rapids
Walter B. Strong
Iowa Electric Company
Railway Expresses Express
F. O. Hillinan
Harold A. Lockhart
Albion R. King
Link-Speeder Company
Leonard
Jen Davis
Charles M. Fels
Public Safety
Sarah A. Hayes
J. K. von Lackum
Center Point Canning Company
Charles Rohlena
Lewis Kubek
Forrest Mol
Leo
Nazi plan to enslave Europe's workers revealed
United Press reports a Nazi proposal to relocate labor globally with equal rights for foreign workers while wages are settled. Das Schwarze Korps asserts civilians have no rights and needs obedience as Hitler consolidates power, arguing rights cannot stand against might.
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Europe
Biegiebel
Biegre
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Hitler
Palooka strip misstates citizenship rule for officers training schools
The Gazette notes May 11 comic Joe Palooka claimed only native born Americans could join officers training schools. The correction clarifies that naturalized citizens may be admitted, not just those born in the U S.
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Joe Palooka
the Gazette
Ham Fisher
Officers’ Training
Train wrecker pleads guilty in Cheyenne case
Laverne H. Nicodemus 26, a former employee, entered a guilty plea in federal district court to charges of attempting to wreck a Union Pacific train between Cheyenne Wyoming and Kimball Nebraska.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
INS
Union Pacific
Kimball
Neb
Federal District Court
Laverne H. Nicodemus
Mrs. Bosworth Moves Canteen To Parked Car After Eviction
Mrs Hobart Bosworth moved her Home Hospitality Volunteers canteen from an eviction threatened building to a parked car at night. Soldiers helped set up outside as deputies served the order. The eviction stemmed from alleged mismanagement of the program and a $1 rent on the bank property. Bosworth vowed to continue aiding soldiers, sailors, and marines.
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Los Angeles
Hobart Bosworth
W. Fenimore Cooper
Bosworth
George Hankston
Dorothea Wilson
Mrs. Bosworth
Hankston
Miss Wilson
Tea Consumption Gap Between US and Britain Highlighted
Per capita tea use in the United States stays under one pound annually while residents of the British Isles consume about nine pounds each year indicating a wide cultural difference in tea drinking habits.
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United States
British Isles
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NEWY
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Homemakers Shop
First Avenue East
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