Navy Recruits From Cedar Rapids Sent to Des Moines
Cedar Rapids navy recruiting office sent 19 recruits to Des Moines by train for enlistment and training. Among them four from Watkins in Benton county, a town of 90 people, are named in the group with several Cedar Rapids and nearby town participants.
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Cedar Rapids
Navy
Des Moines
Watkins
Benton County
James E. Whipple
Lyle C. Paintin
Oxford
William C. Cones
Edward R. Cones
Donald D. Anderson
R. H
Iowa City
Lester H. Littrell
Theodel D. Davin
Marion
Heavy Rains Flood Iowa City Homes
Des Moines AP reports a heavy rain flood in Iowa City Tuesday with 3.56 inches total. Keokuk received 2.12 inches. Davenport 1.46. Dubuque 0.36. Iowa Falls 0. Weather rose to 78 in spots and 59 at Cherokee Inwood and Sioux City. Ralston Creek overflowed flooding basements, highway 6 traffic halted, and residents used rowboats to evacuate. Police say the flood was among the worst seen. Neighbors saved 700 quarts of canned goods from a flooded cellar.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa City
Keokuk
Davenport
Dubuque
Iowa Falls
Weather Bureau
Cherokee
Inwood
Sioux City
Ralston Creek
Frank Burns
Coast Guard Band Performs For Wacks Victory Dance
The 23 member Coast Guard Band, led by John Paul Jones, played swing and marches at a Des Moines dance honoring the Wacks company which won first in the women’s army auxiliary corps review. The event included five performances and a concert for Coast Guard mothers in Rangers Square downtown.
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Des Moines
Coast Guard
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Henry Wallace
John Paul ‘Jones
Rangers
Faith of Democracy to debut on WSUI radio
University of Iowa officials announce a new radio series Faith of Democracy airing Fridays starting Sept 11 from 7 15 to 7 30 p m with President Virgil M Hancher on the first program The program is hosted by the school of letters and philosophy department and features faculty conversations with notable Iowa City residents and Dr Everett W Hall.
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Iowa City
Charles Howell Foster
University English Department
WSUI
Virgil M. Hancher
School of Letters
Department of Philosophy
Iowa
Naval Aviation Cadets
Patricia Trachsel
Miss Trachsel
Navy
Iowa City Poultry and Egg Company
Treasury Department
Phil 7Palmer
Pril
Miss Minna Hansen to Join Western Illinois Teachers College
Miss Minna Hansen daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hansen living near Wyoming Wyoming will leave for Macomb Ill to join Western Illinois Teachers College in the personnel department She earned a PhD from the University of Chicago her research on student housing and college success She previously served as dean of girls in Duluth Minn and lectured across South Dakota and Nebraska Her BA was from Iowa State Teachers College and MA from Columbia University This makes her the second Wyoming high school graduate to earn a doctorate.
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Gazette
Wyoming
Minna Hansen
John Hansen
Macomb
Ill
Western Illinois Teachers College
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa State Teachers College
Cadar Falls
Columbia University
New York City
Hansen
Wyoming High School
Marguerite Wilker Johnson
Judy the Spirit Lake Auto Joins Junk Yard Tale
Special to The Gazette Spirit Lake Iowa Judy a glamorous automobile once owned by G N Robinson and later claimed by Spirit Lake youths is towed to the junk yard They nicknamed her Wack and plan to carry on to honor the car and its story The group includes Peter Narey cadet at the University of Town and Bob Cornell and Bob LaFontaine in naval reserves at Coe College
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Gazette
Spirit Lake
Judy
WAAC
Jaie
G. N. Robinson
Iowa Supreme Court
Peter B. Narey
Uncle Sam
Peter Narey
Coe Calleze
Eight Hundred Trucks Drafted for Jones County Scrap Drive
Anamosa reports an 800-truck Scrap Harvest drive to collect scrap donations in Jones County. Salvage Chairman R D Finnigan says the campaign began Sept 7 with each township assigning three AAA committeemen alternates and a Farm Bureau chair. A house-to-house canvass proceeds as trucks gather scrap for sale to junkmen. Proceeds go to the Red Cross and USO. Local leaders include Cetil Farmer Edgar Beach and Mayor Earl R Pulver in Anamosa.
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Anamosa
Jones County
R. D. Finnigan
AAA
Township Farm Bureau
Finnigan
Red Cross
USO
Cetil Farmer
Edgar Beach
Earl R. Pulver
Son in Navy Pens 17 Letters to Mother in One Day
COUNCIL BLUFFS AP The postman delivered 17 letters from Bob Crowl in foreign service aboard a navy ship. Letters dated June 10 to Aug 8 recount homey topics like his mother’s fried chicken and cake and his father’s garden. Crowl, radioman third class and ship paper editor, joined the navy in February 1941.
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Council Bluffs
J. C. Crowl
Crowls
Bob
Foreign Service
Navy
Mother Crowl
Young Crowl
War Stamp Corsage Contest Launched in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports a statewide war stamp corsage contest launched by the Iowa war saving staff women's division. County contests will pick winners to enter a statewide event with four prize corsages for winter spring summer and fall and winners receive 50 war bonds.
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Des Moines
Iowa War Saving Staff
Estimate Big Drop In Iowa Tax Levy
The Iowa taxpayers association estimates that total levies for next year will be 3.25 million dollars lower than this year. Elimination of the state property tax would save about 4 million but local levies would rise by 750 thousand dollars, offsetting part of the saving.
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DES Moines
Iowa Taxpayers Association
Iowa
Arsenal wins joint E pennant for war production
Brig. Gen. Norman F. Ramsey announced the Rock Island arsenal will receive the joint army navy E pennant for outstanding war production. Presentation is set for September 30 by Levin H Campbell chief of ordnance who formerly commanded the arsenal.
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Rock Island, Ill
Norman F. Ramsey
Rock Island Arsenal
Levin H Campbell
U. S. Army
Arsenal
Rath Packing Employees Return to Full Operations
Rath Packing Company workers went back to their Waterloo plant on Wednesday morning after a Tuesday walkout. Company officials offered to keep wages at the level paid by other packing plants while federal conciliator P. J. Cullen from Chicago planned talks with management and union representatives. A. T. Stephens of the Packing House Workers Organizing Committee said CIO officials advised returning to work and letting mediation proceed. Stephens noted the walkout was not CIO authorized.
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Des Moines
Packing House Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
United Auto Workers Hall
Stephens
First Woman Leads WAAC Reveille at Fort Des Moines
Des Moines dispatch reports Donna Mae Baldenecker a 22 year old from St. Paul Park Minnesota becomes the first woman to wake the Fort Des Moines army post. The auxiliary trumpet player blew the reveille as dawn broke at 5 45 am signaling the post cannon and she brings eight years of trumpet playing and prior work in an ordnance plant.
Wake Island Screening With Gray Gordon Band in Iowa City
Gray Gordon and his orchestra with two singers will perform in Iowa City on September 21 as a dual attraction to promote war bond purchases over the next two weeks. Admission is via tickets issued with war bond purchases ranging from 25 to 1000 dollars, with the Englert theater providing its facilities and the program offered at no cost to the bond drive.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
Wake Island
Gray Gordon
Frank D. Williams
Johnson County War Bond Committee
Englert Theater
Iowa flyer receives silver wings at Randolph Field
Edward R. Fry son of Mr and Mrs J L Fry of Kalona joins four other Iowa pilots in earning service pilot commissions at Randolph Field Texas. The group will join basic flying schools to free combat instructors for war zones. Fry studied at the University of Arizona 1938 1940 and was active in Alpha Kappa Psi. His brother William F Fry serves in the Marines at San Diego. Fry trained as a civilian pilot at Cedar Rapids Airways and taught at Washington County Airways in Washington Iowa.
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Edward R. Fry
J. L. Fry
Kalona
Iowa
Army Air Forces
Randolph Field
Texas
Fry
University of Arizona
Alpha Kappa Psi
Commerce
William F. Fry
Marines
San Diego
Cedar Rapids Airways
Washington County Airways
Washington
Decorah Man Alton Nelson Named First Lieutenant
Alton J. Nelson of Decorah has been commissioned first lieutenant in the ferrying division of the air transport command at Hensley Field Texas. Former Decorah traffic officer and civilian pilot, he has served as a flying instructor. Harold M Wohlford of Decorah, son of Mr and Mrs H C Wohlford, stationed at Pope Field Fort Bragg has been promoted to private first class in the army air forces and assigned to the communications section of a general air supply command.
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Decorah
Alton J. Nelson
Air Transport Command
Hensley Field
Texas
Harold M Wohlford
H. C. Wohlford
Popefield
Fort Bragg
Army Air Forces
General Air Supply Command
New Assistant to Attorney General Edward White Jr. Takes Post
Youthful Carroll attorney Edward S. White Jr. is shown at the statehouse in Des Moines as he begins his duties as assistant attorney general.
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Edward S. White, Jr
Carroll
Statehouse
Des Moines
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