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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
2
Burrichter reports transfer from Fort Dix to Camp Charles J. Wood Fort Monmouth New Jersey while on furlough. Others note furloughs and duty changes including Camp Adair Oregon Camp This California and New Guinea postings with several servicemen visiting home or awaiting orders.
George Dirks of Center Junction receives an honorable discharge from the army and plans to return to Jones county to help run the Dirks farm. Several veterans and current service members are mentioned, including furloughing relatives and other service members stationed at Camp Gruber, Camp Pickett, and in Ireland, with farewells and home visits noted across Monticello, Lamont, and nearby communities.
Karl Buck formerly of Monti cello and a Seattle government engineer transfers to government service in Annehursge Alaska for a year then to return to the States. His wife Ardis plans to join him at Anchoraze later Buck has been in Seattle for two years.
Friends of Mr and Mrs Leo Holub of Cedar Rapids learned of the sudden death of Mrs Catherine Molub at the home of their son in law Mr and Mrs Ester Holub. Funeral services were held Friday at the Immaculate Conception in Cedar Rapids with burial at Prairieburg.
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The death of Sterling Hart, a Wisconsin man serving a life sentence in an Iowa prison for a 1933 Manchester bank robbery, was announced. Hart and four accomplices held Farmers and Merchants Bank of Manchester president J. D. Burbridge and his wife hostage. the group escaped, were later captured, and Hart died of tuberculosis at Oakdale state sanatorium.
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