Service Members listed with transfers and duties during wartime
A roster of soldiers and sailors reports transfers including Cpl George W Krejci from Mountain Home Idaho to Pyote Texas Pvt Leslie Stickley from Buckley Field Colorado to Truax Field Wisconsin and Sgt Dick Garber arriving in France with a field artillery battalion Other entries note service links with Lockheed Corp in Burbank Calif and hospitals in Iowa England and Illinois Also listed are Lt Gerald M Mulvany credited with destroying two German fighters and Lt Col Keith W Woodhouse transferred to France as chief surgeon with base section duties
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Krejci
A. Krejci
Mountain Home
Idaho
Pyote
Texas
Leslie Stickley
Army Air Force
Buckley Field
Colo
Truaxfield
Wis
Eighth Street
Dick Garber
Earl Garber
Daniels Street
France
Memphis
Sgt
Garber
Des Moines
Pet Garber
The
Waves
Los Angeles
Calif
Miss Garber
Lockheed Corporation
Burbank
William Weaver
Fort Warren
Wyo
Beverly Hills
Avenue NW
Joseph Zbaneck
Camp McClellan
Ala
Ely
James A. Bowler
Albert Bowler
Fairfax
Aleutian Islands
Dallas Morrison
England
J. F. Johnson
Anamosa
Morrison
Camp Gruber
Okla
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Orville M. Price
Grand Island
Neb
Eva M. Price
Fifth Street
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Cpl
Jack Florang
Camp Polk
Keith W. Woodhouse
British Isles
Hollywood Loretta Young Stars With Gary Cooper in Western
Louella Parsons reports Loretta Young will co star with Gary Cooper in an independent western tentatively titled The American Cowboy. William Goetz aims to launch her before cameras while Home is the Sailor is postponed. Granting, more gossip swirls about Bette Davis and other stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jollywood
INS
William Goetz
Loretta Young
Gary Cooper
Gary
Loretta
Local Serviceman Returns From Pacific Duty
With his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Severe of Toddville the returning service member arrived after ten months in the South Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Severe
Toddville
South Pacific
Havana
Martinique
Brazil
Up in Mabel's Room gives laughs from bedroom capers in Hollywood
A lively Hollywood take on the stage farce Up in Mabel's Room features Dennis O'Keefe Gail Patrick and Marjorie Reynolds with Mischa Auer delivering standout comic moments. The single house setting and slapstick devices produce steady chuckles as a slip becomes the key prop in a comic chase through rooms and windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis O'Keefe
Marjorie Reynolds
Misha Auer
Gail Patrick
Bil Boyd
The
State Theater
Mabel
Greene
Mischa Auer
Auer
Bill
Hopalong Cassidy
Cowboy
Nadine Subotnik
Ed Weepie Appointed Adjutant Of Hanford Post No 5
Ed Weepie 1601 First avenue SE was named adjutant of Hanford post No 5 by the post executive committee. He succeeds H H Wage who held the job 18 years. Weepie has held every post in local and county groups and is a charter member of Capt E M Sheehan post No 30 in Independence. He has been a Legionaire 25 years and recently was named a member of the Linn county soldiers relief commission. He also manages the Iowa Securities Cedar Rapids office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Weepie
First Avenue
Hanford
American Legion
H. H. “Bill” Wage
Weepie
Fifth District
Department of Iowa
Capt. E. M. Sheehan
American Legion of Independence
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Soldiers’ Relief Commission
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Securities Company
Heavenly Days and the Army Ban on Fibber McGee Film
The Army bans the RKO film Heavenly Days starring Fibber McGee and Molly, deeming scenes unfit for overseas showing. Gene Farmer notes the ban stems from euphemistic wording and fears of four letter words. The plot follows McGee in Washington as he seeks fame, faces senate embarrassment, and the nation-wide poll on the Average Man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Board of Censors
Army
Mex Gee
U. S. Senate
McGee
Senate
Molly
Washington
Dr. Gallup
Don Douglas
Fibber
Dagwood Bumstead
Paramount Wing and a Prayer and Iowa Heavenly Days Schedule
The Gazette lists Friday times for Paramount Wing and a Prayer with showings at 3:05 5 15 7 25 9 35 and short subjects at 2 35 4 45 6 55 9 05 plus Iowa Heavenly Days at 2 45. Times may change by theater management discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Local Theaters Schedule Dense With Classic Films
A compact card lists showtimes for multiple titles across cinema houses including Palace Rialto Marion and Times venues. Films include Strangers in the Night Mystery Man Tender Comrade It Happened Tomorrow and Cobra Woman with varied daily schedules and staggered start times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel
Palace
Also Mentioned on This Page
Raymond Maroef
Monticello
Ft. Meade, Md
Pvt
Maroef
Camp Hood
Gerald M. Mulvany
Germany
Eighth Air Force
Mulvany
Austin C. Mulvany
Second Street
Richard
Dick) Topinka
Joe Topinka
C Street
Fort Sill
Lee Thomas
Carl D. Thomas
Cottage Grove Avenue
Thomas
Ordnance Section
Kenneth P. Patton
Avenue NE
Army Ground and Service Forces
Hot Springs
Ark
Maxine
Patton
United States
Robert S. Campbell
Fifth Avenue
Mayo Hospital
Galesburg
Ill
Campbell
Africa
Sicily
Signal Corps
Roy S. Carlson
Army Engineers
Thirty-ninth Street
Warren D. Severe
New York City
Killian
Louella Parsons
Hollywood
New York
Bette Davis
Down South
Bette
North Carolina
Pyenoree Stickney
Monter and
Ripley
Anne Shirley
Garbo House
Adrian Scott
RKO
Ava Gardner
Artie Shaw
Mickey Rooney
Sonny Tufts
Mabel's Room
State of
Iowa
Linn County
Stanley E. Maresh
Donald Maresh
Donnelly, Lynch, Anderson & Lynch
Killian’s Men’s Store
Esquire
Fibber McGee and
Afolly
Gene Farmer
Seavaaly
Eugene Pallet
Gordon Oliy
Barbara HA
Dan Dougle
Strangers IN the Night
WM_TERRY
Virginia Grey
Danceland
Tom Owen
Cowboys
Bob Welty
ART
Kassel
Morehouse Barber Shop
Iird Ave
Srd St
Marion
Algeria
Ing
Pacific
Don Ameche
Dana Andrews
William Eythe Bickford - Hardwigke
Charles
s_s
Sir
Cedric
Kevin O'Shea
Richard Jaeckel
Henry Morgan
Renny McEvoy
Richard Crane
Glenn Langan
NEWS
Century-Fox
ARGOS
Maria Montez
Sabu
Jon Hall
Candlelight
Donald Crisp
Alan Hale
Nas
William Boyd
Mystery Man
Ginger Rogers
Robert Ryan
Dick Powell
Eoed Mee
Linda Darnell
Deanna Joseph Durbin Cotte
Witil Chas. Winninger
rLus
Lupino
Dennis Morgan
Joan Leslie
Carson
Deeree
George DE Vincent Sherman
Rialto
Annabella
John Sutton
Calais
Don “Red” Barry
Man
From
Rio Grande
Stooges
Joe Fe, Brown
Casanova
Bill Elliott
Dodge City
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