Boy Bicycles 236 Miles In Three Days To Enroll At Coe College
A Coe College freshman rode 236 miles from Chicago to Cedar Rapids in three days to enroll, stopping at Leaf River Miles and Greene Hall. Weather and headwinds slowed a planned two day trip. Clifford Lighthart 21 a Time Magazine staffer bicycle trips include 1107 miles around Lake Michigan in 11 days.
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Chicago
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Leaf River
Miles
Greene Hall
Clifford Lighthart
Time Magazine
Time
Lake Michigan
Clifford
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Nazis Poilus Face To Face On Rhine Observation Report
Swiss observation posts near Basle report no combat on the Rhine front. Nazi guards and French poilus are seen fishing across the river with wash lines fluttering behind forts. Five Allied planes fly toward Germany but withdraw without anti aircraft fire.
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Adolf Hitler
France
Rhine
Basle
Alsace
Germany
Tullingen
Genoa
Italy
Pigs In City Apartment Prompt Police Questioning
Four men were jailed Saturday after failing to explain why they slept with four pigs in a city apartment. A fifth man says the hogs were taken from his feed yard near Denver. Neighbors alerted police due to all night squealing.
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Denver
INS
Presence of U. S. Ship Prevents Sub Attack on Britons
LISBON Portugal United Press says the U S S Jacob Jones destroyer with the American Mediterranean squadron saved the British steamer Constant from a German submarine attack. Rear Admiral Charles E Courtney disclosed Saturday aboard his flagship the cruiser Trenton after arriving in Lisbon he said he picked up an SOS from the Constant.
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Mediterranean
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Trenton
Constant at Sea Escorted by Navy to Aid Crew
A distress call reports the Constant chased by a German submarine after sailing from Gibraltar eight days earlier. Admiral Courtney ordered the Jacob Jones to supply water and provisions to the Constant’s exhausted crew, and the Uboat appeared then vanished upon seeing the escort ship.
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Primary Detours In Eastern Iowa Listed
Detours for the week ending Sept 29 show multiple Iowa highways with closures and alternatives. Iowa 64 3.5 miles from Preston to Miles, detour 4 miles gravel. Iowa 74 3 miles from Bennett west and north, detour 2 miles oil and gravel. Iowa 78 6 miles Wayland to U S 218, detour 9 miles gravel.
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Clayton County
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Oxford Junction
State Hospital
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Courageous Toll Reported Lost After Submarine Attack
The admiralty says 518 officers and men are believed lost when the German U boat torpedoed the aircraft carrier Courageous. The ministry of information announced the casualty estimate Saturday.
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Admiralty
Ministry of Information
Courageous
Y M Swim Team Rally To Recruit New Members
The Y M C A swimming team will hold a father and son pep rally Monday evening at seven thirty in the Y M C A cafeteria. Coach Leo Baughman and Aquatic Director Bill Clemenger will speak. Afterward, attendees visit Allen Motor Co to see Billy Rose's Aquacade films and fair features. Partners include Hamilton Bell Grant Collins John Condon Wallace Emmons Richard Elliot Kenneth Marsh George Henry and George Ross.
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Leo Baughman
Aquatic
Bill Clemenger
Allen Motor Company
Billy Rose
Hamilton Bell
Grant Collins
John Condon
Wallace Emmons
Richard Elliot
Kenneth Marsh
George Henry
George Ross
New Books Display At Library With Early Access
The public library will showcase new fiction and non fiction in the lobby from Monday to Thursday for reader examination. Patrons reserve books during display four day window. Books circulate Friday on a first come basis with a limit of one new book per patron.
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Public Library
Nomura Chosen as Japanese Foreign Minister in Abe Cabinet
Admiral Kichi Saburo Nomura, former naval attache in Washington, accepted appointment as Japanese foreign minister in Premier Noboyuki Abe's cabinet on a Saturday in Tokyo.
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Nomura
Washington
Noboyuki Abe
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