Nurses Follow U S Army to Fort Benning and Beyond
Delpha Shafer, one of Cedar Rapids St Luke's nursing graduates, serves as an army nurse at Fort Benning Ga. She describes duties, life in barracks, and the rank limits for women in the service. Nurses work long shifts and can prescribe when no doctor is present. the article outlines three nurse types and future postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Snider
Mount Auburn
Mercy
New York
California
Alaska
Trinidad
Delpha Shafer
Fort Benning
Miss Shafer
Ray Shafer
LaPorte City
St. Luke’s Nursing School
Cedar Rapids
Armed Service
West Point Military Academy
Benning
Uncle Sam
Shafer
Two Spaniards Arrested in German Officer Death
Vichy envoy Fernand de Brinon said two Spaniards were arrested for the Bordeaux officer’s assassination on Oct 25. Fifty Bordeaux hostages were executed and 50 more held under reprieve while hunts for the killers continue. Reports also say a four man communist gang including a foreigner was captured for a Nantes officer’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VICHY
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
Bordeaux
Nantes
Wife wed him to win a bet in New Jersey divorce
Otto Runge of Plainfield is charged in a Perth Amboy divorce action by Lilly Runge. His sister-in-law Anna Bjorson testified she married him on a bet to win a new automobile. Advisory Master Dougal Herr recommended the uncontested divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
N. J
Otto Runge
Plainfield
Lilly Runge
Perth Amboy
Runge
Anna Bjorson
Dougal Herr
Counterfeit Antique Currency Passed At Indiana Bank
A young man offered 15 tattered large-size five dollar bills to a bank teller claiming they came from a deceased relative. The teller exchanged them for new money. A Chicago clearing house later reported the old currency as counterfeit.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
McGannon Marries Bridgette Ehrler in Lancaster Ohio
William V. McGannon wed Bridgette Jane Ehrler of Lancaster Ohio. The former Notre Dame left halfback Slug McGannon has been playing professionally with the Chicago Cardinals.
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Lancaster, O
NEA
William V. McGannon
Bridgette Jane Ehrler
Lancaster
Slug McGannon
Notre Dame
Chicago Cardinals
Spirit Transfusion Believed in Custody Case
In Los Angeles Mrs. Maxine Gramm testified she became convinced by spiritualism that a spirit transfusion swapped her baby’s blood with that of another couple. The custody suit by Frank Hickerson targets Albert and Beatrice Wandrei over 14 month old Albert Lee Nickerson claiming the child was not born to Gramm.
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Los Angeles
Maxine Gramm
Sally
Industrial League Christmas Pageant Planned For Dec 21
The Allied Industrial league plans its annual Christmas pageant for December 21 at Memorial Coliseum, the site of the Queen's ball and Friday night attendance of 7,000. The league promotes recreational activities including tennis at Coe college and bowling leagues with 500 enrolled, plus 12 softball teams and seven basketball squads in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Industrial League
Memorial Coliseum
Ellis Park
Coe College
Horseshoe
Cedar Rapids
Industrial Basketball League
Quaker Oats Company
Brindisi Air Raid Casualties Revised to 127 Dead
Revised official figures report 127 killed and about 100 wounded in the British air raid on Brindisi in southern Italy on November 7, with casualties updated by Saturday authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brindisi
Rome
Italy
Kroll Named Assistant Director of Coe Military Band
Donald Kroll a Coe college senior from Chicago has been chosen assistant director of the Coe military band by director Stanley Vesely. The 45 member band includes cadet lieutenant Charles Okell of Oak Park and many musicians from Cedar Rapids Chicago and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Kroll
Coe College
Chicago
Coe
Stanley Vesely
Kroll
Herman Kroll
Jaroslas Cimera
Cedar Rapids
Chicago Civic Orchestra
Lake View High School
Vesely
Robert Baker
Wilbur Bakehouse
Sigourney
Charles Barlow
Clear Lake
Milan Beerman
Paullina
William Boston
Robert Brittell
New London
Elmer Bruna
Richard
Mr. Carroll
Ill
Frank Sherman
Independence
Robert Shuey
Marshalltown
Robert Smythe
Howard Steinbeck
Norway
James Stover
Freeport
Dean Tedrow
Monticello
Edwin Timm
Fred Uhlenhopp
Logan Urice
Vinton
Harold Wendorf
Theodore White
Ottumwa
Robert Wilson
Charles Okell
Oak Park
8100 Executions Of Serb Hostages Reported By Nazis
The Yugoslav government in exile says German authorities in Yugoslavia reported 8100 executions in Kragujevac, Shabatz, and Kraljevo. Hostages were said to be taken during fighting with Chetnik guerrillas, with 2300 civilians shot in Kragujevac over two weeks in reprisal for 26 German soldiers killed. Among the victims were intellectuals, schoolmasters, and Serbian Orthodox priests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Yugoslavia
Kragujevac
Shabatz
Kraljevo
Moline Flyer Killed and Wife Hurt in Wisconsin Crash
Darrell Montgomery, 27, was killed and his wife Florence, 28, seriously injured when their small plane crashed in farm fog south of Richland Center Wisconsin. Authorities believe the couple was towing for a landing site when the aircraft went down near a tree.
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Moline Flyer
Richland Center
Darrell Montgomers
Flovne
Mortaonmeny
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U.S. Army
Benton County
Lee
I. Priete Ales Eres
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Tree Peril
Consult
Fred C. Wodrich
Shepherd Agency
Wmational Life Insurance of
Montpelier
Vermont
Dows
Cedar Rapids, Lows
Industrial League
COE Military Band
the Killian Company
Ike Ty
Killian
Miss Bradley
The
Killian Company
TRG Wjavain
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