Local News Items Across Eagle Grove and Surrounding Areas
Mrs. Guy Hanson of Eagle Grove visited here with her mother Mrs. G H Kelling. Edward Oppedahl and children visited the Henry Knutson and Hans Moklebust homes at Thor. Braden Richardson extended visit with uncle Herbert Braden in Ree Heights SD. Alice Irene Halverson of Hardy enlisted in the Wave SPARS in Des Moines awaiting orders. A baby girl named Myrna Ree Mills born June 27 at Le Marey hospital Fort Dodge. George Mills and family welcomed another child. Edward Marty and sons visited at the Dick Elmer home. Several locals attended funerals and visits with relatives in nearby towns. Green's Food Market added to local business closures for July 5. Numerous residents engaged in travel, visits, and military obligations. Pvt George McCurry returned from Miami with honorable discharge over age. Fort Dodge Mercy hospital visits noted and community social events highlighted.
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Guy Hanson
Eagle Grove
G. H. Kelling
Edward Oppedahl
Henry Knutson
Hans Moklebust
Thor
George Mills
le Marey Hospital
Fort Dodge
Myrna Ree
M. B. Richardson
Hubbard
Frank Gibbs
Sioux City
Agdl ‘Gimer
Gibbs
A. D. Gim‘er
Green’s
Dorothy Blesie
Rochester
Minn
Corwin Peer
Carmen “Peer
James Foster
Algona
J. E. Tauick
Soldier crawled four miles in glacier to aid fellow survivor
VALDEZ ALASKA Died in line of duty. A young soldier sleeps in a Valdez glacier crevasse after helping a weaker comrade escape an avalanche. Twenty men faced the storm. three remained missing until a seven day rescue. One survivor crawled four miles through ice to reach town, leaving his fallen buddy signs of their bond.
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Valdez
Alaska
War Department
Fate
Hunter Kills Wolf on Wrong Side of Road
Albany Missouri report says Lewrence Deris shot a wolf on the wrong side of the road. The animal fled many miles before Snelly darted into a fence and became entangled, allowing Derks to kill it. The road divides Gentry and Nodaway counties, affecting a potential five dollar bounty if shot on the other side.
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Hunter
Wolf
Albany
Lewrence Deris
Snelly
Derks
Gentry
Nodaway
Gentry County
Man forgets teeth delaying breakfast march at camp Edwards
CAMP EDWARDS MASS Soldiers of the Thirty-ninth General hospital were lined up for breakfast when Pvt. Thomas F. Hessian of New Haven Conn rode from the ranks. The sergeant asked why he acted and Hessian replied he had forgotten his teeth, delaying the march.
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Edwards
Mass
Thirty-ninth General Hospital
Thomas F. Hession
New Eaven, Conn
Hessian
Father Hears of Son's Death and Carries On
South Bend Indiana Frank Woltman of South Bend was informed his son Frank Woltman Jr. 25 a Flying Fortress pilot died in action on the North African front January 31. After hearing the news Woltman returned to engine work to save another man’s son saying boys over there don’t quit when someone gets hurt and I can’t either.
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South Bend
Ind
Frank Woltman
Frank Woltman Jr
Woltman
Blind man drives scrap drive collects five tons of metal
Graysville Tenn. Aaron Smith, blind, organized and led a door to door scrap drive amassing more than five tons of metal by pushing five carts through the neighborhood, contributing sizable support to the war effort.
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Blind Man
Graysville
Tenn
Aaron Smith
Smith
Rooster Adapts To Central War Time In Oregon
A rooster from Clarinda Iowa persists in waking the Emery Peterson family in Gresham at 2 a m by crowing on central war time. Peterson quips that winter mornings feel the same at 2 and 4, and the bird still believes it is in Iowa.
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Gresham
Ore
Oregon
Clarinda
Towa
Emery Peterson
Peterson
Iowa
Battle of the Shadow Over Guadalcanal Night Mission
In the South Pacific a U S ship conducts a bombardment near Japanese shores north of Guadalcanal and for ten minutes battles its own shadow as it speeds past a Japanese controlled island group. The crew recalls phantom warfare and heat lightning lighting a silhouetted ship amid a tense withdrawal.
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South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Admiral Snagge hints at U boat menace nearing solution
Vice Admiral Arthur Lionel Snagge on the retired list of the Royal Navy spoke at a Purley Surrey address. He said the problem of the U-boat menace is on the point of being solved, though he could not say more. He urged the audience to draw their own conclusions amid wartime tension.
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Forestes
Purley
Surrey
England
Arthur Lionel Snagge
Royal Navy
Sts
Atestion
Conisdon
Montgomery Receives Five Marriage Proposals
London Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army, says he received five proposals of marriage. He noted both came by the same ghostly source and called it a record. The 55 year old widower since 1937 shared the tale in a letter to his mother, Lady Montgomery.
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Montgomery London
Bernard, L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Lady Montgomery
Canada Bars Food Exports To Buyers Across Border
Fort Erie Ontario Americans seeking to dodge rationing led Ottawa to tighten export rules. George H Osborn acting collector of customs said new instruction prohibits export of any food or other commodities rationed in the importing country effective immediately.
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Canada
Fort Erie
Ont
George H. Osborn
Ottawa
Marine Pays a Debt by Donating Blood Pint
Jack I. Nelson a Marine Corps gunner volunteered at a Red Cross blood donor center saying he owed a pint after a blood transfusion last August from wounds suffered in the Solomon Islands Campaign. He donated blood to repay the Red Cross and explained his gesture.
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Washington
Jack I. Nelson
Marine Corps
Red Cross
Nelson
Solomon Islands
Bloodthirsty Youngster Presses Police for Action
In Pueblo Colorado Zelma Fox, four, demanded police remove a neighbor who had struck her with a rock. She called seven times and on the last call Sergt Roy Harper asked what she wanted. She replied that she wished him electrocuted.
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Pueblo
Colo
Zelma Fox
Sergt
Roy Harper
London Cuts Wartime Tickets To Save Paper
London transport officials say 1942 ticket sizes were reduced saving 600 tons of paper. The overhaul also salvaged 600 tons of old tickets and 300 tons of old records for pulping, as announced by the London Passenger Transport board.
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London
London Passenger Transport Board
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Hardy
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Osteopathic and General Practice
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Tojo
Steamucy
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Los Angelo Exalainer
U.S. Treasury
Valdez Glacier
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