Local News Wrapup Highlights School, Staffing, and Community Moves
News notes list leaves of absence for navy service, staff resignations, and new hires in education. Helen Harrison moves to Chicago and Eugenia Hoffert joins Gas Service Co. in Kansas City. Mrs. Vlasta Smith elected at Lincoln school, Mrs. Latehem sells West Main home to the Sheetzes. Calendar items include Decoration Day crowd, garden clinics, and sugar ration reports. Local families welcome visitors, marriages bloom, and a Cedar Rapids job transfer is noted as Georganne Rudiger joins the credit department.
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Helen Harrison
Montgomery City
Chicago and
Southern Airlines
Eugenia Hoffert
Carrington
N. P
The
Gas Service Co
Kansas City
Local families honor fallen serviceman Bob Shannon
In a heartfelt tribute, the community recalls Bob Shannon a radio installer from Washington Iowa who served with the U S forces. The piece shares memories of Bob with the Shannon family praising his kindness toward children and his warm handshake with the home front. A memorial party plans long distance calls and a buffet supper with Iowa sourced foods. servicemen will mark their hometowns on a map and local organizers from Davenport Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids coordinate the event.
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Iowa
King of Lampedusa: RAF Sergt Cohen Captures Island
Sergt Sidney Cohen, 22, of the Royal Air Force, is hailed as the king of Lampedusa after landing his Swordfish during a bombardment and guiding Italian forces to surrender. He and his crew were on a sea rescue mission when forced to land and were greeted by an Italian officer who handed him a surrender certificate.
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Sergt
Sidney Cohen
Royal Air Force
Lampedusa
Mediterranean
Cohen
Ras
Salem Farmers Plow Their Corn
Salem residents report oats ahead of corn with some fields still to be planted. Most farmers finished corn planting and soybeans, while Roy Krotz, Charles Marek, and Roy Carter's sons Raymond and Bob lead recent plowing efforts totaling about 55 acres and 30 acres respectively.
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Dewey Weeks
Salem
Roy Krotz
Charles Marek
Roy Carter
Raymond
Bob
Plan Iowa Night At Chicago USO Event
CHICAGO June 19 Soldiers sailors marines and WAACs WAVES SPARS from Iowa will be guests of honor at a Plan Iowa Night at the USO club 131 South Wabash Avenue June 27 Local organizers formerly from re sponsoring the event prize pigs filled with pennies and banks for guessing corn kernels in a jar tail on a hog drawing and city darts games.
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Chicago
Iowa
Army
Navy
Use’ Club
South Wale
Sil Avenue
Tow
Baseball and track aid modern Japanese sports spread
A 1913 14 American baseball tour to Japan helped popularize the game among locals. Japanese teams also played Philippine and Hawaiian squads, boosting baseball's foreign appeal. Track and field gained pace after a 1912 Stockholm Olympic debut, which spurred better training with American coaching.
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Japan
Stockholm
Olive Famine Strikes Europe Detailed Dispatches
News dispatches describe severe olive shortages across Italy France and Greece and explain how olives substitute for milk and fats in daily diets. In Greece the salt-cured fruit becomes a staple, used in breakfast lunch and dinner with oil bread and fish.
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Europe
Italy
France
Greece
America
Wolfe Family Reunion at Prairie Center
At the C H Wolfe home in Prairie Center a large family gathering brings together numerous relatives from Iowa Illinois Missouri and Washington The event includes visits with Perry graduates and extended kin from Davenport Dubuque Burlington Washington and Kalona with several dinners and Sunday calls noted The letter ends with the writer planning to retire as correspondent.
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Wolfe
Prairie Center
Geo. Koehler
C. H. Wolfe
Harm Stubbs
George, Iowa
Howard Wolfe
Chickie
Marjorie
Rosalind
Decatur, Ill
Thomas Wolfe
Bobby
Kansas City
Lester Pronga
Louis
Melvin
Dubuque
Iowa
George Zeck
Annabelle
Terry
Andrea
Washington
Esther
Harm Stubbe
Howard
Tommy
Tom Wolfe
Burlington
C. H
Joe Wolfe
Ernest Jones
Mary Marr
Ernest Meyer
Patty Lou
Shelby Jean
Wess Meyer
Maurice Meyer
Son
Richard
Hattiesburg
Miss
Sgt
Camp Shelby
Columbus Junction
Ehme Koehler
Carl Koehler
John Weerman
Wellman
Marshall Koehler
Marsha Ann
Davenport
Basil McBee
Malcolm Montgomery
Ray Miller
Polly
Don Simmering
Sam Warren
Billa
Norbert TeBockhorst
Kalona
Rex Smith
Albert Frye
Rock Island
H. (. Finney
Helen
Linda
Patty Lou Stewart
Joe Wilson
Ralph Wilson
Japan's early track success shifts toward 1940 Olympics
The article notes Japan's progress in track and field from 1913 through the 1930s, highlighting 38 points in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games and two individual event winners. It explains Japan's aim for the 1940 Tokyo Games, later cancelled due to World War II in Europe.
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Japan
China
Philippines
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Europe
War mobilization totals private cars trucks and buses on road
At the war’s start U S highway equipment included about 27 million private cars 4.5 million trucks and 51 thousand buses not counting 93 thousand school buses.
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U. S
Girl Drives Tractor at Four in Glendale Community
In Glendale a four year old girl Caretta Schantz helps her father with the tractor, driving down the road with skill. The neighbor notes five flickers nesting in an apple tree and follows local family news including medical updates and school activities.
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Caretta Schantz
Joe Schantz
Iu & Gate
Mother Flicker
Pilot Logan Survives Japanese Attack In Flight Rescue
Lieutenant Samuel S. Logan, 22, of Paolo Kansas, parachuted to earth when a Zero pilot strafed him. The attacker slashed off a foot and part of the other as he swooped onto Logan during a third run. Logan survived and was rescued.
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Samuel S. Logan
Paolo, Kan
Earth
Logan
U. S
Chaplin Weds Oona O Neill in Surprising California Ceremony
Charles Chaplin age 54 marries his 18 year old bride Oona O Neill in Carpenteria California in a surprise ceremony. The exclusive photo shows the justice of the peace Clinton P Moore Chaplin's secretary Catherine Hunter and columnist Harry Crocker as the ring is placed on her finger.
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Charles Chaplin
Oona O'Neill
Carpenteria
Cal
The
Justice of the Peace
Clinton P. Moore
Catherine Hunter
Chaplin
Harry Crocker
Los Angeles Examiner
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