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ing daily from Mason City.Famed OsageRed Cross GirlmOsage, (jp) —OsageV •world-famed ' Ann . GOplarud, the Red Cross girl who won the hearts of thousands of GIs overseas during World war. II as “Anaio Ann,” is back once more with the fighting mem - \ : ;•She is one, of 7 girls serving in Pusah, Korea, with the Red Cross unit for the United Nations and her letters .to her parents, the Clifford Gopleruds, are filled with de* scriptions 6t the disorder and confusion in ih^t wftr-tom area. -Ahn's aoft appealing voice sent her thousands of miles through Europe singing for service men during the last war. She was the subject'of magazine and news-;i§tep_paper articles and the symbol; of .the girl back home5' tor AmericanREAD HICKENLOOPER TELEGRAM—-Reading * rongrmtuktory telepranr frofa Senator Bourke Hickenlooper at the state hoaw in; DesMoines Tuesday are, left to right: Uines Mount, reacting clerk; Rep. W H. (Bill) Tate, and Lt. Gov.,Bill Nicholas; Standing, Jeft to right: Viola Tonrle, Cedar Rapids,.now secretary to Nicholas, and Senator Herman K. Knutson, All but Miss Towle are from Mason City.soldiers .10 Europe. She arrived in Korea in. October and since then had been trying to make connec-Bone, Sinclair: Lewis, bit-iogly? realistic novelist of modem American life who1 brought Anierl-can literature Its 1st'Nobel prite, died here ■Wednesday. He would have been 66:next Feb. 7,'.' -'-x”The noted author of 21 hooks, most of them best sellers, 'died at the Villa Electri clinic, where he had been a patient with bronchial pneumonia since Dee. 31... Hospital-attendants -said' ha. Suffered also from an inflammation of.tote heart: ; Creator of George BaWtt, the typical American businessman of the 1820’s, Lewis made literary history also with such, searching; studies of American life as “Main Street,” ,?Arrowsmith;” “Elmer Grantry,” “podaworth,”: Ttcan’t Happen -Here” and “KingsblooUx..: '--V'VFrtoe lain#He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1950, chiefly1 for Babbitt: Four years before; he hid refused a -Pulitter prize because he. disagreed with the terms of Joseph Puliuer’s wiU setting up the;pme.His 21st book, The God-Seek-er,” wai published in 1949.The famous author , had been under treatment .for some time. Friends said. he .realized his death was meat and wanted to die in Italy, where he wrote“Babbitt” and where he met his 2nd wife, Columnist-Commentator DorothyThompson. . V ’After a visit to Italy, in 1949, he returned:to the United States, his friends said, to put bis affairs in order; He returned- here ;eatty this -year, and after a sojourn in Florence' took an apartment• In Rome with hie secretary, Alex-under Hanson.Associates disclosed that he hadSINCLAIR LEWIS1930's banned. ••‘It Can’t Happen Here,” a warning against ‘faScism in the United'States.Lewis was married twice.-Both his 1st wife, Grace, Livingston Hegger, and Miss Thompson divorced him.Wells Lewis; somby his lit mar--riage and an army lieutenant In ‘World ww II; was killed In action in France: Michael Lewis, his son by Miss Thompson, reportedly returned to the United States last week to vieit hls mother. He had been studying dramatics in Lob-dim. ' ‘The novelist'* brother, Claude Lewis, lives in St. Cloud, Minn.T o k y.f,; General .MacAr-thur's pfficial spokesman . Wednesday denied there were', any facts td a story printed - in- the United State£ t h a t the general had. recommended; withdrawal ;.of all Uiiited. Nations: fortes from Korea. ***'.'•. • :-T,He refeired to a copyrighted story by Keyes Beech, : Chicago Daily News correspondent cover-ihg ‘ MacArthur’s '1 headquarters, Which: said.. MacArthur-.. was “understood tto ; have- recommended to- Washington. withdrawal of all United Nations forces from? Ko-ALLIEStroops Vi The alii* continue aouth; 1 and Taeg General -concentn of SeoulWoiBy lrea;” , Beech said he obtained hisinformation. from - “authoritativesources:’’--.. '■ f v - - J.Asked to comment on the story, Col. :MaWon\'P;-. Echols, MacAr-thur’s official spokesman said:\ “There has ,beea.:, nothing offir cial. or unofficial said regarding the evacuation of K o r e a. Thatstory is purely a figment of the writer’s imagination.” .- In Washington the pentagon said it had received no recommendation from Gen. MacArthur for * withdrawal of United Nations'forces from Korea.' ;Tekye, 0French troc day fought central Ko Wonju... The towi to the redsof tough li Field OilANN GOPLERUDControls NowWasMvttn, (flV-John L. Lewis told:the wage stabilization board Wednesday he opposes any price Or wage controls at this time. The. president ot the Unitedtion with her brother, Capfc Pedei4Goplerrud, serving there with an evacuation hospital unit. The t^o finally met the day .after Christmas.-• 1the; emotion she felt at that meeting was no greater than the; Christmas- party given at the UN club in Pusan for 200 war orphans. Men of the United Nations forces held the children on their laps, she: writes,.' and stuffed 1 them with doughnuts, cocoa and candy—remembering their own children back* home.And, when the 200 high squeaky voices. were raised to sing^ i4QoA. Bless America” in English,- Ann says there were tears running down the cheeks of the hardened veterans who had survived war. in all its horrors- ■- / Ann knows about that, too, because she was the 1st woman to go on the beachhead at Anzio, where she sang, for the battle weary troops.pany-sire]Korean coi into.WohJu ;,The 2nd French I sxi deep snow Riain^high^ There we AP . Corresi nird report vision front - Other ele ground 100 from 'the. 3-cqunterattac Tnis lorce, Chungju-Wi reported tw cento,, •• WGen. -Eisenhower Arrives in HollandThe Ann teams law* retake Won; storm Tiii tfirough aJ ahd; small su; Wonju co leadingsinU Korea.; ; The attac veterans -a Chohgchon biggest Uni effort in da;4lt;We are ; Koreans, no give them 1maixdec saidCoirespon battle -scene card picture , “There w; ley,. majeat ahd a peao, Snow sifted “But mu from foothil and the roaclied artillerahd echoed and aroun#
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 10, 1951
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