Officials fret over Nazi access to Roosevelt letter
Washington officials voiced concern that Germany obtained a personal Roosevelt letter to Stalin through espionage. The German version differed slightly in salutation and closing but mirrored the White House copy. The episode raised fears that secret documents of higher military value could be obtained via Nazi intelligence channels.
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Washington
Germany
Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
DNB
Berlin
White House
Stalin
Moscow
Mr. Stalin
Harriman
Hitler
Man Finds Wrapper After Losing $60 Candy Bar Cash
In Seattle AP reports Thomas Hentz bought a 360 candy bar for 60 dollars. While driving across a bridge he discarded the wrapper with three twenty dollar bills inside. He retraced his steps hoping to recover the money but only found the wrapper.
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Seattle
Thomas Hentz
Celebrates 86th Birthday With Dinner For Twelve
Mrs. Martha Stoner of 343 Fifth Avenue SW marked her eighty sixth birthday Tuesday with many well wishers. The main celebration happened last Sunday when she cooked a full birthday dinner for more than a dozen relatives, despite using a crutch to get around.
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Martha Stoner
Fifth Avenue SW
Stoner
Remarkable octogenarian recalls lively life and faith
The subject, a member of the Rebekah lodge and Second Christian church Sunday school, suffered a broken hip in a fall six years ago but remains active. She plans to live to 100, keeps busy cooking and sewing quilt pins, visits relatives in Illinois, and attends monthly Sunday school parties. her husband died in 1910.
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Rebekah Lodge
Second Christian Church
Stoner
Illinois
Obituary notices for Albert Kohl and Lillian A. Swanson
Albert Kohl, 73, of Lisbon died at a local hospital after a brief illness at 6 am. Born August 27, 1868 in Cedar county, he worked 31 years for the Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway and lived with his son Harry in Lisbon. Surviving are four sons, a daughter, a sister, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements and calling hours at Moon chapel. Lillian A. Swanson funeral scheduled at Beatty chapel at 2:30 pm Friday, conducted by Rev. H G Schwegler of the First Lutheran Church. burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery. calling hours at Beatty chapel.
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Albert Kohl
Lisbon
Thursaday
Cedar County
Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway Company
Harry
W. C and
Earl R
Cedar Rapids
Harry C
Bert D
Chicago
Velmar Johnston
Mount Vernon
Lavina Koch
Hampton
Moon Chapel
Lillian A. Swanson
Beatty Chapel
H G Schwegler
First Lutheran Church
Britain Blamed by Reich for Prisoner Exchange Collapse
Berlin charged Britain with derailing the proposed exchange of seriously wounded POWs after Germany raised a numbers gap by 1,143 Britons to 50 Germans. Germany had proposed using its civilian internees, but Britain rejected that, though considered repatriating German women.
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Berlin
INS
Germany
England
Switzerland
Reich
United States
London
France
British Claims About Exchange Faced With False Statements
A Nazi statement said the British hospital ship failed to arrive and Britain's radio announced nullification of the exchange. It charged Britain with publishing false statements to vindicate itself.
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Britain
Girl Packing House Worker Claims Millionaire Father
Lucy Fay Bales a packing house worker insists she is the daughter of late multi millionaire Michael Francis O'Dea. Lawyers seek to prove she inherits a five million dollar estate and joins about 400 relatives who filed claims after his death three years ago in a Los Angeles hotel room. Her mother was actress Mary Crane.
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Los Angeles
Lucy Fay Bales
Chenie
Honie Department
Michael Francis O'Dea
O’dea
Farm Debt Advisory Meeting Held in Eastern Iowa
Lafe Young and C H Galagan of the state committee attended a conference of the eastern Iowa farm debt adjustment group at the post office building. Howard J Dodge said 17 counties were represented with eight Farm Security Administration supervisors. Discussion covered farm debt adjustment and tenure problems.
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Lafe Young
C. H. Galagan
State Farm Debt Adjustment Committee
Ames
Iowa
Farm Debt Adjustment Advisory Committee
Farm Security Administration
Howard J Dodge
Dodge
Clayton
Dubuque
Delaware
Buchanan
Marshall
Tama
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Clin
Eastern Iowa farm debt committee district outlined
The eastern Iowa district of the farm debt adjustment committee includes Ton, Cedar, Johnson, Muscatine and Scott counties as part of the regional structure.
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Ton, Cedar, Johnson, Iowa
Poweshick, Muscatine
Scott Counties
Eastern
Iowa
The
Farm Debt Adjustment Committee
Change In Time Means Nothing To Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott radio broadcaster kept friends waiting until 1 p.m. Wednesday as he claims to still run on eastern standard time in London. Upon rising he handed out lipsticks cigarets silk stockings razor blades and other American luxuries to his theatrical and literary acquaintances. He arrived in England Tuesday night by steamer, preferring boat travel over limited plane accommodations for his luggage and himself.
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London
Alexander Woollcott
East
Woollcott
England
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