Wartime Style Boosts Nonmetal Costume Jewelry
The article notes a Cedar Rapids push to replace priority metals with plastics wood yarn string leather and shells for costume jewelry during wartime. Designers showcase whimsical pins clips and bracelets made from everyday materials including lucite shells cotton felt raffia pine cones and fish scales, highlighting variety durability and lighter wear.
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Ciic American Awomen
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P T A Meetings in Arthur Kenwood and Van Buren
Arthur P T A meets Wednesday at 2 p m at the school with Mrs Freder ick G Murray speaking on Value of Maintaining a Normal Home Life in Wartime. Kenwood P T A meets Wednesday at 2 p m in the school auditorium with executive board hostesses. Van Buren P T A meets Tuesday at 2 p m at the school with Mrs P H Brown presenting her Camp Fire group and a talk on Salvage.
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Adelka Crane
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Frederick G. Murray
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P. H. Brown
Riverside farewell honors army inductees Robert Frank Clen Gerat
Robert Frank and Clen Gerat, who left this week for induction into the army, were honored Monday at a farewell partly at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerat southeast of Riverside.
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Clen Gerat
Robert Gerat
Riverside
Whip-Poor-Will Club Plans North Liberty Meeting
The Whip-Poor-Will club will meet Wednesday at the North Liberty Methodist church parlors to sew air raid shelter quilts. The project is sponsored by the Red Cross Sustaining Wings and United Women of Iowa, with an invitation extended to all women of the community.
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Picnic Supper Noted by Shellsburg Eastern Star
The Eastern Star lodge at Shellsburg hosted a Friday picnic supper at the Masonic hall with Mrs. Ralph Little as organizer. Numerous social gatherings are noted including dinners for visiting guests and members, birthday celebrations, and farewells among locals and guests from Mt. Vernon Evanston Hopkinton Beneicia California City Oklahoma City and Newbury.
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Masonic Hall
Ralph Little
Nettie Dickinson
Mary Chapman
Mt. Vernon
Carl Penny
Della Penny
Vernon Alden
Earl Bull
Emmett Cripps
Earl Kibbie
Oklahoma City
Kathryn Kibbie
Evanston
Ill
Ivan Kibbie
Hopkinton
Will McGranahan
Homer Spurgeon
Gordon
Richard Kibbie
Delbert Kibbie
Benecia
Calif
Nora Clay
Newbury
Ida Meek
Porter Mullinex
Tom Maxwell
Williamsburg Community Plans School Reception and Club Events
A reception for Wil- Harmsburg school teachers is planned for Wednesday in the grade school auditorium with Miss Catherine Lilley and Miss Winifred Chamberlain in charge. Nine new teachers in Chapter CN meet with Miss Emma Blythe to mark the chapter’s fortieth anniversary. The Williamsburg Federated club holds a reorganization meeting Monday at City Hall. Birthdays are noted for Mrs. Burton Jones’s daughter Mary Ellen and Mrs. Walter Lenock’s daughter Myrna.
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Wil- Harmsburg
Catherine Lilley
Winifred Chamberlain
W. T. Baird
W. R. Sears
H. F. Witte
L. A. Winborn
M. A. Sears
J. J Sinn
L. H. Yoder
R. W. Childress
Irene Edwards
A. A
Teresa Humphrey
Williamsburg Federated Club
City Hall
Burton Jones
W. J. Cash
Mary Ellen
Walter Lenock
Myrna Ue
Desert bridge luncheon in Onslow honors six prize winners
Mrs Ed Hodeval and Mrs Marvin Ingwersen entertained at a dessert bridge luncheon in the Onslow community room. Prizes went to Mrs Russell Chaplin, Mrs Clare Westphal, Miss Alvena Paulsen, Mrs John Paulsen, Mrs Marvin Hanwardsen and Mrs A J Hamilton.
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Ed Hodeval
Marvin Ingwersen
Onslow
Russell Chaplin
Clare Westphal
Alvena Paulsen
John Paulsen
Marvin Hanwardsen
A. J. Hamilton
61 Ship Survivors Search Seas for Missing Seamen
Sixty one men spent three days at sea in two lifeboats after a Dutch freighter was sunk by enemy action in the eastern Atlantic. The survivors searched for two missing seamen, boarded rafts, and took water and food supplies before a corvette rescued them. They were later transferred to west bound Allied ships and Atlantic ports.
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Dempsey and Hatch Lead in New Mexico
Early returns from New Mexico's Democratic primaries show former Congressman John J. Dempsey leading over Bryan G. Johnson for governor. Senator Carl Hatch leads the senate race by about ten to one over Dr. J. J. Clark, with Clark ahead of Robert E. Putney. Balloting faced security presence from state guard troopers at some booths.
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Santa FE
N. M
INS
New Mexico
John J. Dempsey
Bryan G. Johnson
Carl Hatch
J. J. Clark
Artesia
Clark
Robert E. Putney
Albuquerque
Pershing Honored On Eve Of 82nd Birthday
Washington AP report notes General John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF in World War I, being honored by U.S. military leaders on the night before his 82nd birthday as they shifted from war duties.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Cedar Rapids Woman Commissioned WAAC Third Officer
Elizabeth Louise Flanagan of Cedar Rapids, 21, was commissioned a third officer in the WAAC at Fort Des Moines graduation exercises. She was one of six Iowa graduates in a class of 243, with Cedar Rapids colleagues Col. and Mrs. Flanagan and Major and Mrs. Rutgers in attendance. Flanagan praised the WAAC and urged her sister to join, noting the course was less hard than expected and detailing the adjustment to military life.
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Fort Des Moines
Elizabeth Louise Flanagan
Cedar Rapids
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
WAAC
Miss Flanagan
F. M. Flanagan
Iowa
Mary Bell
Flanagan
Forest S. Rutgers
Frank Miller
Greeley
Miller
Marcella Miller McCue
WAAC Officers Bound for Aircraft Warning Service
Sixty two WAAC third officers, first large group to leave Fort Des Moines for duty away from training, will be sent to New York Boston Norfolk Jacksonville and other eastern seaboard posts. They are commissioned second lieutenants and were part of the first officer candidate class. A second group of 242 women also received commissions as third officers that Saturday.
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Fort Des Moines
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Draftee Arrested for Drunkenness Awaiting Army Status
John Burns 39 of 516 B avenue NE was taken to city jail after a 4 p.m. arrest for drunkenness and disturbing family peace. His wife called police as he prepared to leave for induction. Officers expect AWOL classification and possible army camp transfer. he is due in police court Monday.
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John Burns
B Avenue
Nelson Urges War Workers to Vote Duty Over Privilege
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson told war workers that voting is a duty not a privilege and urged them to leave their machines to cast ballots. He spoke Saturday night in Washington urging participation in the election.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Packers Enjoined in Price Control Violations
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey signed decrees enjoining Des Moines Packing and Bookey Packing, both Des Moines firms, from violating the federal price control act.
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Charles A. Dewey
Des Moines Packing Company
Bookey Packing Company
Berlin Reports Two U S Transports Sunk By Japs
The Berlin radio claimed Japanese submarines sank two U S transports in the Tasman Sea with 4000 troops lost on board. It said a U S battleship and a heavy cruiser were damaged by dive bombers in the South Pacific with large fires and explosions observed on the ships.
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North America
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Far East
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South Pacific
Allies clash with Nazi planes over Egyptian desert
Allied fighters smashed a large formation of German dive bombers with escort in a 15 minute air battle over the Egyptian desert. At least two enemy planes were shot down, more than 12 crippled and the rest forced to retreat. Earlier, Allied medium bombers hit Axis supply ports at Tobruk and Mersa Matruh, and U S heavy bombers struck shipping in Sudan bay Crete.
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Willkie Arrives in Baghdad for Neutral Nations Outreach
Wendell L. Willkie landed in Baghdad from Jerusalem en route to the Far East and Russia to explain the American war effort to neutral and allied nations. He was met by top government representatives including a regent delegate, the Lord Mayor, the police chief, and members of British and American legations. He dined at Premier Nuri Pasha es-Said’s home with cabinet guests.
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Wendell L. Willkie
Jerusalem
Far East
Russia
Nuri Pasha es-Said
Washington High School 1906 Class Holds a Reunion
The 1906 Washington High School graduating class, numbering 86, held their first reunion at the Roosevelt hotel with 26 members present from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Horace G. Hedges served as emcee, two instructors honored, and attendees shared experiences since graduation.
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Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Horace G
Cap” Hedges
Washington High
Ina Hibbard
Lucile Powell
Mines
Sioux Leefers Fuhrmeister
Marguerite Sefton Batchelder
Elsie Stary Jirst
Blanche Stauffer Stone
Wava Reichling Young
Josephine Hubbard Wilson
Hazel Searles Butler
Oak Park
Ill
Helen Cushman Bradley
Barrington
Lillian Beck
Jessie Chambers
Nelle Bravin
Florence Jameson
Grace Low
Frances Swab
Addie Zika
Ella Harding
Marion
Fred Diserens
Warren Franks
Horace G. Hedges
William Kramar
Barney McPartland
Albert Menary
Herbert Morehead
Haven Y. Simmons
Secret talks rumoured between Japan and Russia
London reports whisper of secret negotiations on a vital issue with hints that Russia's ambassador to Tokyo met Emperor Hirohito. The Sun Day Dispatch cites Malik and staff at the imperial palace amid German propaganda rumors of Japanese Russian tension.
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Japan
Russia
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Jacob A. Malik
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Religious Education Week Declared in Iowa
Gov. George A. Wilson proclaimed September 27 as Religious Education Week in Iowa. The twelfth annual observance will include community services and programs with the theme Foundations of Freedom and a general spiritual reawakening.
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George A. Wilson
Iowa
Red Cross Drives to Enroll Nurse Aides in Linn County
A September enrollment campaign by the Red Cross and Office of Civilian Defense aims to add Linn County nurse's aides. Mrs. Irvin L. Huffman announces day and night classes starting October 6 at St Luke's and Mercy Hospital with interviews at the YMCA. The program requires 150 hours yearly, an 80 hour training course, and culminates in caps and pins with Red Cross insignia.
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Office of Civilian Defense
Linn County
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Y.M.C.A
CS. Krause
Krause
St. Luke's
Mercy Hospital
Vivien Buser
Crescent Street
Nursing Council On National Defense
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Seawall Catch Nets 300-Pound Crude Rubber Bale
In New Orleans a veteran Bar Pilot Rene Clere casting from a Mississippi seawall hauled ashore a 300 pound bale of crude rubber after hooking and yanking it from the water.
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