Heavenly Body opens at State Theatre with Powell Lamarr
A domestic comedy about an astronomer husband and his bored wife who takes up astrology. Hedy Lamarr stirs romance with James Craig while Powell discovers a new comet. The plot escalates to misreadings, double talk, and a escape to safety with comic warfare and romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Theatre
William Powell
Hedy Lamarr
James Craig
Miss Lamarr
Bill
Hedy
Craig
RKO Comedy Race Ends Up In Burmese Jungle Prison
A riot from beginning to end as RKO Radio's Rookies in Burma opens at the Fox Theatre. Wally Brown and Alan Carney star in a nide splitting farce where two dim witted privates in the Burmese jungles battle the Japs. Captured they are led to a prison camp as Sergeant Burke, a friendly enemy, is also taken prisoner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RKO Radio
Burma
Fox
Wally Brown
Alan Carney
Burke
News of Our Men and Women in Uniform
Charles Baker at Camp Butner updates address. Several servicemen including George Benson in Italy promoted to Staff Sergeant. Day family entries list four sons in navy, Lance Corporal Meant entries and captains with addresses. Lt David Hotle and others report overseas postings and recoveries. News covers transfers, hospital discharges, prisoner of war Leo Wagner status, and local family letters from Washington residents with multiple service members.
Deaths of the Week Continued
Pvt. Raymond Rittenhouse will depart tonight for Camp Lee Virginia while Mrs. Rittenhouse and their son Bobby return to Des Moines after a weeklong furlough with his mother. Mrs Jesse Campbell Mr Campbell and relatives Albert A Stalder OM 2/C and James Hartman Stk 2/C of Texas left last night for the east coast. Stalder had ten days leave with his wife and son Dennis. Hartman had seven days with the Stalder family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Rittenhouse
Camp Lee
Albert A. Stalder
James Hartman
Texas
Mr. Stalder
Dennis
Mr. Hartman
Stalder
Missing In Action and Obituary Notices for Local Families
Teem Clarence Dodds missing in action. Robert L Bauer missing since May 24, grandson of Chris Bauer and son of Roy and Mrs Bauer of West Chester Set. Lyle R Edmondson missing since May 24, WWI veteran aged 7 died at North Marion Avenue home. He leaves wife and two sons Richard and Kenneth. Belville Amrine Belville daughter, Davenport resident, died in Davenport. Funeral services held here Friday. Bond of Mr and Mrs T Ks Dodds died Davenport Thursday. aged 53.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Bauer
Chris Bauer
Roy Bauer
West Chester
Lyle R. Edmondson
Edmondson
Germany
North Marion Avenue
Richard
Kenneth
John Belville
Mary Ann Amrine Belville
Davenport
Bond
T. Ks Dodds
Burger staff sergeant with Fifteenth Air Force promoted
Staff Sergeant Donald F. Burger, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Burger of Washington Iowa, was promoted from sergeant. A tail gunner with a B 24 Liberator group in the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, he joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 after working at Lockheed and on a farm. His brother Harold C. Fink, 18, is an Air Cadet in St Louis Missouri. parents Emil Fink and spouse are Keota Iowa residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Benson
Italy
Benson
Washington
E. M. Benson
Washington County Hospital
Addison Murphy
East Second Street
Glen R. Murphy
England
Pfe
William K. Murphy
Camp Sibert
Ala
South Pacific
Jack Murphy
New Guinea
Harry Murphy
Milan
Ill
Iowa
Harold C. Fink
St. Louis
Missouri
Emil Fink
Keota
Air Medal for 2nd Lt Robert W. Baker Liberator pilot
2d Lt Robert W. Baker 23 formerly of 504 West Washington Washington Iowa now a co pilot on a Liberator bomber with the 15th Army Air Force in Italy has received the air medal for meritorious achievement in aerial flight during sustained operational activities against the enemy. He is with a 15th AAF Liberator bombardment group bombing targets in Austria Romania Hungary and Northern Italy. He was employed at Sitler's Auto Parts as a salesman before joining the service and was commissioned at Waco Texas on December 5 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
15Th Army Air Force
Robert W. Baker
West Washington Street
Washington
Iowa
15Th Army Air Force Headquarters
Baker
Italy
15Th Aaf
Local airman earns aerial gunner wings in Texas
Cpl. Glenn E. Mace, son of Mr and Mrs G E Mace of 614 East Washington St Washington Iowa, graduated from the Army Air Forces flexible gunnery school at Laredo Field Texas. He is now qualified to join a bomber combat crew and received silver wings and a promotion during brief graduation exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Glenn E. Mace
G. E. Mace
East Washington Bt
Washington
Iowa
Army Air Forces Flexible
Laredo Army Air Field
Laredo
Texas
AAF Training Command
Eighth RAF Compos ite Station Lab Chief Keeps Eyes on Damage
Staff Sergeant Ernest C. Fink 25 of Keota Iowa serves as laboratory chief at the Combat Crew Replacement Center in England. He coordinates laboratory technicians aerial photographers and printers and oversees hundreds of film developments weekly revealing damage from Eighth Air Force strikes on German targets. He has spent 23 of 28 months in the Army in the European Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RAF
England
Ernest C. Fink
Keota
Iowa
Eighth Aaf
Air Force
Fink
Air Service Station Man Works On Modification Kits Abroad
Pfe. Paul F. Evans husband of Alberta L. Evans of 1051 W. Madison St. Washington is overseas with the air service command. He helps manufacture modification kits for ground crews to upgrade planes at home bases and repairs plexiglass canopies and wings. He previously worked as a mechanic at Bud Fields garage in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AIR Service Command
England
Pfe
Paul F. Evans
Alberta L. Evans
W. Madison St
Washington
America
Festing Europa
Army
Bud Fields
Oak Leaf Cluster Awarded to B 17 Gunner Crone
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal was awarded to Robert G. Crone top turret gunner of a B 17 Flying Fortress for meritorious achievement on bomber attacks in Europe. Crone 21 son of Mr and Mrs Victor Crone is a Washington high school and junior college alumnus who joined the service June 20 1942 after working in his father's grocery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Robert G. Crone
East Second Street
Washington
Europe
United States
Sergeant Crone
Victor Crone
Washington High School
Washington Junior College
Promotion for Corporal Raymond A. Witting at Fourth Ferrying Group
Raymond A. Witting of Washington Iowa is promoted to corporal and serves as a link trainer instructor at the Fourth Ferrying Group in Memphis Tennessee. He attended Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and taught at Roland School before enlisting March 10 1943. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H L Wittrig Route 1 Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis, Tenn
Raymond A. Witting
Washington
Iowa
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Roland School
Cpl. Wittrig
H. L. Wittrig
Morrison commissioned Ensign after Navy midshipmen training
Great Lakes Illinois May 18 Donald Lansing Morrison 21 son of Mr and Mrs George Fisher Morrison 314 Washington St Washington Iowa was commissioned an Ensign in the U S Naval Reserve when he graduated recently from Naval Training School for midshipmen at Abbott Hall Northwestern University
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes, Ill
Donald Lansing Morrison
George Fisher Morrison
Washington St
Washington
Iowa
U. S. Naval Reserve
Naval Training School
Abbott Hall
Northwestern Univer
Brighton Girl Receives War Bond Award Honor
Mary Lou Stacy of the Good Luck 4 H club at Brighton will receive a $25 war bond from Standard Oil. The award, plus a distinctive merit award and a signed phono record by Everett Mitchell, will be presented during a national hook-up on June 12. The local presentation will occur at a June 13 canning clinic at the Brighton Methodist church. Stacy is recognized for home economies achievements in 4 H, including a county winning canning medal, and her war effort through a victory garden and farm chores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Stacy
Brighton
Standard Oil Company
Everette Mitchell
Stacy
Des Moines
Red Cross
Loyal Women's Class Meeting At Yard Home
Mrs. A W Yard and Mrs. Mary Starr hosted the Loyal Women’s class of the Baptist church in the Yard home. Mrs. W P Moore led devotions and Mrs Cy Bush presided over a brief business session. Entertainment by Mrs Johnson and Mrs Yard included Bible contests and games with pink rose decor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Yard
Mary Starr
Mary Johnson
Yard
Loyal Women’s
The
Baptist Church
W. P. Moore
Cy Bush
Johnson
Bible Co
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FOX Sunday
Edgar Kennedy i
Billie Burke Gu
Radio Rampage
21St Keefe
Havo News
Ord
Tamura
Pana
Williams Rux
Phillips & Hebner
West Side Druggists
Charles Baker
Camp Butner
Charles E. Baker
Hogq. Co
355Th Inf
N. C
Wilbur R. Mottley
Camp Scott
Farragut
Idaho
Wilbur Day
Navy
William K. Day
Great Lakes
Ensign J. R. Day
S. Lumpkin
Athens
Richard T. Day
Deth
Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Denver
Coto
David W. Day
Bt Mae
Pioneer Hall
Minneapolis
Minn
David Jackson
Treasure’ Island
Calif
Clarence Jackson
Robert Risk
Sana Francisco
Harry L. Renoux
A/S Co
Camp Waldron
U. S. N. T. C. Farragut
Jimmie Custer
Camp Roberts
N.C
Alvin V. Jones
C.J
Posmaster
New York
N. Y
Lyle P. Kelsey
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
Ralph Kelsey
David J. Hotle
Wayland
Douglas McClintic
Camp Meade
Camp Meade Hospital
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
America Smelting and Refining Company
Omaha
Nebr
G. B. Holden
Servce
Charles Holden
Naval Base
Shoemaker
Harvey Holden
A. S
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
PLC
Edgar Holden
Fort Francis EK. Warren
Cheyenne
Wyo
Rirchard Holden
S 1
North Africa
Lester Wagner
Leo Wagner
Kodak Films
Bob
Bill Young
Emma Young
Manchester
Robert Young
Sheppard Field
Naples
Dean Young
Air Corps
Noble
Bud
Callistus J. Kern
A.P.O
Camp Rucker
William Walker
H. Lloyd Walker
Florida
Walter Conner
Baton Rouge
Major Conner
Robert Conner
Army Air Corps
Bluenthenthal Field
Dorothy Conner
WAC
Eglinfield, Fla
Duane C. Griggs
Fort Custer
Mich
Griggs
Barbara
L. C. Willits
South Fourth Avenue
Military Police Division
COAI
John Shields
FURL
SUN
WED
IN Love
TVG Dae
USC
Sei A. Ae
METRO
Goldwyn Stan Studde Az
Mexico City
Featuring
Tipica Orchestra
Pathe News
Teem
Clarence Dodds
James Cameron
Mrs
Mina Putnam
Army and Navy
Mace A Graduate
Sgt. Finke
Morrison
Cery
People’s
South
Brighton Girl
A. Yard
City
Chicago, Ill
Wolverine
Ilinois
Western
Kentucky Coal
Bush Coal Company
Farmers’ Co-Operative Store
John Shields & Sons
Washington Lumber & Fuel
Wilson Coal & Ice Company
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