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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1945
Page
8
A rambling column recalls store sales and quirky dining scenes with humor about consumer excess. It mentions Mrs. Kissam Vanderbilt’s vast fortune, taxes, and a potpourri of anecdotes from hamburger orders to eating habits and a Washington prodigy with a legendary appetite.
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Joe Link, deceased, dated June 1 1945, has been filed and will be probated in Washington County District Court. A hearing to prove the will is set for August 2 1945 at 9:00 a.m. at the Washington Court House before the District Court or Clerk. All interested persons must appear to show cause why the instrument should not be probated. Clerk R R Noonan issued July 26 1945.
U S carrier aircraft attacked remnants of the Japanese fleet found hiding in Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo Bay. A concurrent American task force bombarded shore installations at Nojima cape about 50 miles southeast of Tokyo.
Riverside locals recount travels with Edna Jardon returning from Moline Illinois to Riverside after visiting Willis Cupp family and Lorraine Jardon of Chicago. Granddaughter Kath leen Cupp accompanies her. Marlene Schnoebelen visits from Iowa City to see Charles Rath grandparents. James Martin family of Davenport stays with Joseph Shrader and wife. Olin Gingerich of Iowa City guests Albert Down residence southwest of town.
Washington caller Floyd Jones and Homer Parcel visited Mt Pleasant on Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs Edwin Wanerus were also noted in the Brighton district report.
Capt George W Manussier of Washington Iowa a P 38 pilot stationed at Sheppard Field brings a private menagerie to Texas amid desert humor and dog coin stories Lightning a Heinz dog and a pet coon share a barracks yard with a mimicking retort from the coon and a jealous chase scene He has flown hundreds of hours in bombers and transports earning the Air Medal and six Oak Leaf Clusters while Lightning waits for a mission that cannot carry a dog aboard.
A quiz item asks who ran, saved MacArthur at Bataan, and was among America’s first war heroes. It includes multiple choice on weapon identity and asks about Coventry’s wartime change and the figure Reinhard Heydrich.
The report recalls Commander Bulkeley involvement and notes a British city razed by 500 Nazi planes, with all maps and the village of Lidice destroyed. It mentions a Nazi protector of Bohemia who was killed, triggering retaliatory actions.
Community dinner at Wellman Golf Club on Friday accompanies a roundup of local news. Homeward-bound Harold Weidlein from the U S Army tours a 30 day furlough before Pacific training, while Scout troops and residents like Ruth Marine recover from injuries and plan summer activities.
After World War I the United States counted 26 million families and about 7 million registered cars. By 1944 the figures rose to 35 million families and 25.5 million cars, though many were stored or retired.
Pvt. Howard R. Jones of Camp Fannin Texas is released from the camp hospital after eight days with ivy poisoning. Burdette R. Brown leaves for Alamena California after furlough with his parents. Pte. George M. Holland, who joined in August 1942 and trained at Camp Robinson Arkansas, receives an honorable discharge after guarding German prisoners.
A jumble of names and towns shows Sgt Ralph Oak returning to McCook Nebraska from furlough with his mother Mrs H J Oak. Roberta Hauenstein taught second grade in Je lIon, Rochester New York, this summer. S/Sgt Robert Dircks and Les Leo Chircks visited Jack Shopman in Freeport last week. Mrs Vern Brown refired from Bellevue Hospital in Mescatine after recovery. Marsha Mae, Farrel Gabriel and others are noted with husbands sent overseas or at home with relatives.
A Cedar Rapids couple and their son were Sunday visitors at the home of Andy Oswalt, returning for a family gathering.
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