Fort Des Moines Turns 1 WAAC Year Strength Soars
Fort Des Moines marks one year as WAAC training center and a turning point for the wartime force. The WAACs have grown to 60 000 with duties at over 100 posts, Africa, and the British Isles. Des Moines boosts housing and city life as civilians adjust to the women’s army era.
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George S. Mills
Fort Des Moines
West Point
United States
Africa
British Isles
Frank A. McKoskrie
WAAC
Army
Des Moines
Pearl Harbor
Motor Corps
Cooks and Bakers School
Drake University
Des Moines Coliseum
Boy 11 Injured Jumping From Railroad Bridge
Special to The Gazette. Jack Marshall 11 was injured after falling or jumping 25 feet from a railroad bridge into the Iowa river near Columbus Junction. He was rescued by companion Gordon Pine and taken to a Muscatine hospital. The river was waist deep and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Marshall.
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the Gazette
Columbus Junction
Jack Marshall
Iowa River
Muscatine
Young Marshall
Gordon Pine
R. L. Marshall
Average Weekly Wage Tops In Iowa For Ten Years
DES MOINES AP The Iowa State Department of Labor reported that the average weekly wage in Iowa industry reached 35.54 in April the highest in ten years of surveys The department said the April figure likely stands as the highest since World War I The April average rose 1.3 percent from March Total employment declined 08 percent from March but was 54 percent higher than April 1942
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DES Moines
State Department of Labor
Iowa
Department
Traer Soldier Missing in Africa
Traer Sgt Ralph Hootman, son of Mr and Mrs C J Hootman, is listed missing in action in North Africa. No word has been received by his parents. Hootman entered service with an Atlantic national guard unit.
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Hootman
Traer
North Africa
Atlantic National Guard
Rams Collide Train and Freight Near Mitchellville
A passenger train sideswiped a freight train entering a siding near Mitchellville, 15 miles east of Des Moines, injuring a brakeman and shaking passengers. The wreck derailed the locomotive and two passenger cars and two freight cars. crews rerouted traffic while investigators probe signal failures. The WAAC band from Fort Des Moines rode the train. no serious injuries reported.
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Des Moines
Rock Island
Mitchellville
J. L. Halpin
Halpin
Allerton
WAAC
Fort Des Moines
Katherine Stull
Post
Davenport
Harriet Gould
Congressmen May Contact Farmers To Learn Problems
Rep Paul Cunningham chairs a Republican subcommittee plan to interview farmers directly about farm labor and machinery issues. The effort will start in Delaware to gather real facts for forthcoming legislation and may expand to the Midwest if successful.
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Congressmen
Washington
Midwest
Congress
Paul Cunningham
R-Ts
Republican Congressional Food Study Subcommittee
Cunningham
Delaware
Middle West
Runaway Car Driver Dies On Track West Of Cedar Falls
Emil G Werle a Manly railroad section worker died likely of a heart attack while delivering a road master light section car between Clarksville and Shell Rock. The runaway vehicle was overtaken near Shell Rock by a five man crew and stopped twelve miles from its start. Coroner Sidney D Smith ruled death by heart attack. An extra freight to Manly was delayed until the car was stopped.
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Waterloo
Rock Island Railroad
Cedar Falls
Emil G Werle
Manly
Shell Rock
Clarksville
Clarence Ball
Werle
Black Hawk
Sidney D. Smith
Delaware Man 89 Applies for Fishing License
Manchester reports Jacob Chambers age 89 the oldest local applicant for a fishing license this year. Licenses issued also to Carl Hartman Jr 81 and John Zumbach 81 both of Manchester. Last month receipts totaled 426.50 from 116 fishing and 205 combination licenses with two non resident licenses at 15 each.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Jacob Chambers
Lindsay Bridge
Carl Hartman, Jr
John Zumbach
Decorah Soldier Receives Silver Star for North Africa Action
Decorah Staff Sergeant Orval Spilde son of Mr and Mrs Henry Spilde Decorah has been awarded a Silver Star for gallantry in action He was one of 14 volunteers who stormed an enemy fortification in North Africa on November 8 1942 and captured 250 prisoners.
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Gazette
Decorah
Orval Spilde
Henry Spilde
Spilde
North Africa
Portrait of a Sheriff Jim Smith Of Linn County
Portrait of Jim Smith the Linn County sheriff who has served nearly a decade in office and who spent years as a cook before entering public service. Born on a Victor farm he trained at Great Lakes and cooked in Mason City Cedar Rapids and the Pullman cafe.
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Cedar Rapids
James Herbert Smith
James Herbert
James
Jim
Chef
Jups
Great Lakes
Victor
Jim Smith
Camp Dodge
Navy
Linn County
Prison inmates tied to forged checks exposed by LA arrest
Harold Huey 30 confessed with three Iowa inmates to printing and circulating over 100 bogus checks from a prison print shop. He allegedly amassed 3000 to 5000 dollars in wrongfully cashed checks across the Midwest, mainly Nebraska and Iowa. Iowa prison officials deny any ring and play down the print shop’s reach.
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Los Angeles
W. M Robison
Harold Huey
Iowa
Nebraska
Robison
Huey
Council Bluffs
C A. Bangs
George Mayne II
Bangs
Midwest
Bourke Hickenlooper
Reformatory Deputy Questions Fake Check Tale
Deputy Warden L J Womachka said no bogus check printing occurred at the state men's reformatory print shop. He noted Harold Huey was released in 1934 but cannot verify if the Los Angeles prisoner by that name is the same man. He called the claimant tale a fairy tale.
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Anamosa
State Men's Reformatory
L. J. Womachka
Harold Huey
Los Angeles
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Women's Army
Reynolds Photos
Gure
James Albright
Lincoln Heights
Rosedale No. 2
Rosedale
Tyler
Ralph Hootman
T Farmer
Ted
Sheriff Smith
Percy Lainson
Ft. Madison
Lainson
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