Former labor leader gets jail term for bigamy
Noah Gray a 37 year old former minister and labor organizer was sentenced to one to three years for bigamy after pleading guilty to having three simultaneous wives. He married Thelma Temple Gray Vienna Maki Gray and Adeline Prohaska Gray across 18 years producing 10 children and facing a possible further marriage record. The judge denied probation despite a government job offer in the Aleutians, and the wives attended alongside Gray’s defense and prosecutors.
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Noah Gray
Peter Schwaba
Gray
Aleutians
Francis McCurrie
Thelma Temple Gray
Vienna Maki Gray
Criminal Court
Peter M. Schwaba
Vienna
Maki Gray
Thelma
Adeline Prohaska Gray
Sind Gray
Anna Y. Szellman
Crown Point
Ind
Francis McCurrie McCurrie
McCurrie
Portsmouth
McDonald, O
Chicago
Ellis Ave
Adeline
Hanford
Wash
Schwaba
Ray Beling Begins Naval Indoc at Great Lakes
Ray Beling age 18 son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Beling Wakefield is starting his initial naval indoctrination at the U S Naval Training Center Great Lakes Ill. He will undergo seamanship drills naval procedures and aptitude tests to determine assignment to a service school shore station or immediate sea duty. After recruit training he will receive a period of leave.
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Ray Beling
Great Lakes
Raymond Beling
Joseph Beling
Wakefield
U.S. Naval Training Center
Ill
Naval Service
War Bond Drive Urges Full Support in Wakefield Area
Local appeals urge all residents to back the Sixth War Loan with maximum effort and bond purchases. Officials note Wakefield and Wakefield township lag behind, with less than 40 percent of the quota subscribed, and urge both new buyers and existing holders to increase their contributions to help bring service members home.
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Eisenhower
Ike
Wakefield
Wakefield Township
Chief Asks Coast ing Areas For Children
Chief Tyack asks city commission to provide coast ing areas for children on a hill near west Hancock street and near the Mattila farm on Bedell avenue. He says these areas would eliminate traffic danger and could be prepared at a small cost. Warning signs at Aschermann and Pierce streets exist, but coasting remains risky on streets.
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Stahley Tyack
City Commission
Hancock Street
Mattila Farm
Bedell Avenue
Tyack
Aschermann
Pierce
Carl Kleimola Chosen Master of Masons at Lodge Election
Carl E. Kleimola was elected worshipful master at the annual officers election held Thursday evening. Clarence warden and Edwin Carter junior warden were named alongside new secretary A. F. Olson treasurer J. A. Frederickson senior deacon Alvin Erickson junior deacon Robert Laurie Tyler Melvin Mellstrom chaplain Frank Ringsmith stewards Einar E Wahlberg Albert Hanson marshal Harlan Johnson. The installation is set for December 27 with the Eastern Star lodge as guests.
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Carl E. Kleimola
Masonic Lodge
Clarence Warden
Edwin Carter
A. F. Olson
J. A. Frederickson
Alvin Erickson
Robert Laurie. Tyler
Melvin Mellstrom
Frank Ringsmith
Einar E. Wahlberg
Albert Hanson
Harlan Johnson
Eastern Star Lodge
Paratrooper trainee fractures both leg bones in landing
Andrew Maki of Plymouth is recovering in Fort Benning Ga after a paratrooper training jump left him with fractures in both leg bones. A Wakefield Woman's club dance following the Iron River Wakefield game raised funds for the Girl Scouts. Plans are underway to donate future dance proceeds to various charities.
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Andrew Maki
Plymouth
Fort Benning, Ga
Wakefield Woman's Club
Wakefield
Girl Scouts
Yank Captures German Father in War Photo Tale
Wakefield soldier narrates a remarkable event from the front. After sniper fire felled several squad members, a concealed German sniper nest was found in a tree. The German surrendered, cried Komrad, and then embraced the American who, stunned, realized his captive was his own father who had been drafted into the German army at the war’s start.
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Komrad
Yank
Germany
Wakefield High School Adds Notable New Books
The Wakefield high school library received several new titles including Caravan by Robert Fulton and And Gladly Teach, an autobiography by Bliss Terry. The additions replace older volumes and broaden the library’s collection, featuring stories of travel and education. Don Richardson, a basketball coach, is highlighted in Caravan for his personal journey and ambitions.
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Wakefield High School
Robert Fulton
Myer
Bliss Terry
America
Expect Two Sons Home For Christmas
Sgt Steve Vidako vich and Pvt Nick Vidako vich are due home to spend Christmas with parents Mr and Mrs Paul Vidakovich. Father has been ill at Grand View hospital for eight weeks. Steve has 27 months in the South Pacific and hasn’t been home in three years. He wired that he arrived in the States. Nick was wounded Sept 29 in Italy. He has been overseas nine months and received the Order of the Purple Heart. He is at an Indiana army hospital for treatment before furloughing home.
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Sgt
Steve
Pvt
Nick Vidakovich
Paul Vidakovich
Grand View Hospital
South Pacific
States
Nick
Italy
Indiana Army Hospital
All-School Assembly Opens to Parents Tuesday Noon
The community building auditorium hosts a Tuesday noon assembly at 2 30 featuring Emil E Liers known as the subject. The program highlights a rare wild creature seen by few, with woodsmen as the only others to glimpse it. War stamp sales at the high school total 130 this week, the year’s high and about 50 above the next best week. Koch's room reports 100 percent participation for the fourth straight week. Junior High war stamp sales reach 117 40 this week.
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Emil E. Liers
Ashland Soloist Pleases At Christmas Program
Ashland Woman's Club hosted a Christmas program with songs I Love Life I Love Thee and Holy Night by Grieg and Adams. A radio skit Song of Heaven featured Drama club members, with cast lists and a floral decorated setting. The club voted to support Starr Commonwealth fund and urged participation in Save the Children's Project and bond reporting through the federation.
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Mire Verme Goewe
Harry Trezise
Cochairmen
Arthur Stoughton
Drama
Starr Commonwealth Fund
Injuries Fatal To Charles Seeke
Charles Seeke, 63, died Tuesday at Wakefield hospital from injuries suffered at Ketola's camp near Wakefield. He arrived Sunday after a skull fracture from a tree branch and multiple internal injuries. Born in Finland October 15, 1881, he immigrated to the United States in 1900, lived in Negaunee and Minnesota, moved to Gogebic in 1906, and made Wakefield his home. He is survived by his widow in Bessemer, one daughter Mrs. John Saari of Bessemer, and four sons Walter of Barberton Ohio, John of Akron Ohio, William of Fort Henry New York, and Wilbert of Wakefield. Funeral services are planned Saturday in Bessemer.
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Charles Seeke
Wakefield
Ketola
Eact
Finland
United States
Negaunee
Minnesota
Gogebic Range
Bessemer
John Saari
Walter
Barberton
John
Akron
William
Fort Henry
N. Y
Wilbert
Evening Crash on River Street Ends Ambiguous Journey
A collision occurred on River Street north of US 2 as Earl Walton Wakefield drove west with his family. The report states the accident seems unavoidable and leaves details sparse about injuries or damages.
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River Street
Earl Walton Wakefield
City Dog Tag Fees Subject to March Increase
The city treasurer announces dog license tags available at the ac countant's office with fees of one dollar for male dogs and two dollars for females after January 1, rising on March 1 to two dollars for males and four dollars for females. A census will follow. unlicensed, loose or stray dogs will be impounded or disposed after warnings exhausted. Chief Tyack says the ordinance will be expanded to curb the dog nuisance. Also tabled is a $500 landscape contract from Melvyn R. Matson for post war improvements including Sunday Lake Parkway landscaping and a master plan for Sunday Lake park and arterial highway portal signs.
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Tyack
Melvyn R. Matson
Ironwood
Laundry Man in Pacific Jungles Builds Homemade Wash
Pvt. Godfrey G. Agriesti of the 40th Infantry Division in New Britain crafts improvised laundries from salvage and 50 gallon drums. Using hand power, water wheels, or small engines, he and fellow soldiers keep uniforms clean in stifling tropical jungle conditions.
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Godfrey Agriesti
Pacific
U.S. Army
Southwest Pacific
40Th Infantry
New Britain
Godfrey G. Agriesti
Vincent Agriesti
Wakefield
Discharged Army Doctor Returns Home to Albion
Dr. Ivan Wilcox and his wife Mrs. Wilcox and their daughter Susan left Tuesday for Albion to establish residence. The doctor, formerly a captain in the medical corps, received an honorable discharge after three and a half years of service, including fourteen months in Iceland, and the family had stayed with Mrs. Amelia Teppo, Mrs. Wilcox's mother, for a month.
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Ivan Wilcox
Susan
Wilcox
Amelia Teppo
Albion
Medical Corps
Army
Iceland
Drama Club Party Announced By High School Leaders
The high school Drama Club met on Tuesday December 5 with LaVerne Carr newly elected president presiding. A party for members and guests is planned for Tuesday evening December 12 with entertainment and light refreshments provided.
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High School Drama Club
LaVerne Carr
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Michigan State College
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Detroit
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Rockford
State Board of Agriculture
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CWA
WPA
FBI
the Tribune
Carl Kleimola
Father
Ashland
Rotes
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Main Street
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