Attu Landing and Wartime Graduation Silence
In a Washington state high school graduation, a wartime blackout halted the program mid ceremony. After lights were extinguished, 45 minutes of patriotic song filled the church as diplomas were already awarded and Dr. Robert Lee Hill spoke before the power returned.
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Boyd White
Resters
Supt
W. A. Erbe
Robet Lee Hill
University of Missouri
Hill
Mr. Whits
America
Daniel
St. Mary's
Washington High School
Mr. White
Marine Corps and
Field Artillery
Naval Academy
Beverly Brown
John McGaffey
Dr. Hill
Go Out at Graduation Harry Anderson Lorene Marie Anderson Ruth E Applegate
A graduation notice lists Harry Anderson Lorene Marie Anderson Ruth E Applegate and William R Arnold as participants. The brief public notice confirms names and event context.
List of High School Graduates Named in 20th Century Roll
A compiled list of names includes Robert Frederick Downing, Robert Bernard Friedel, Kathryn Jean Atchison, Edith Elizabeth Gillespie, William David McCall, Virginia Jane McLaughlin, Rosa Genevieve Baker, Doris C Gray, Geneva FE Palmer, Mary Baldrige, Alpheus Eugene Grecian, Roger K Banks, William J Barth, Dorothy Jean Bear, Marguerite Winnie Benson, Doris Ann Beatty, Marjorie Ruth Benson, Martha Maxine Birka, Arlo D Burham, Elizabeth Ruth Caldwell, Lauren LaVerne Chalupa, Martha Faye Cherwinker, Robert Lloyd Clark, Carrol Henry Coffin, Marjorie Louise Coon, Edith Jean Crandall, Bernice Crile, Richard Earl Crossett, Donald Carl Crossett, Martha Jean Crossett, Robert Leslie Custer, Dorothe Dankwardt, Ila Mae Daniel, William E Hammer, Donald M Hines, Hazel Hildred Hopping, Virginia Mae Hopping, William House, Lois J Hoyle, Lois Katherine Humston, Mary Ardith Jarrard, Bette Kelly, David Palmer Livingston, Margery A Logan, Martha Doreen Long.
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Lauren LaVerne Chalupa Martha Faye Cherwinker
Robert Lloyd Clark Carrol
Henry Coffin Marjorie Louise Coon Edith Jean Crandall
Bernice Crile
Donald M. Hines Hazel Hildred Hopping
Virginia Mae Hopping
William House
Lois J. Hoyle Lois Katherine Humston
Mary Ardith Jarrard
Bette Kelly
David Palmer Livingston Margery A. Logan
Martha Doreen Long
Surprise Blackout Tests County Towns Authorities
Civilian defense authorities appoint May 14 for practice amid a statewide blackout drill. The event gathers officials including Richard Wayne Palmer Wanda Pence and Don Dorothy M. Davidson from local counties to evaluate emergency readiness and community response strategies.
Washington county blackout marks third test during graduation
Washington county held last night ceremonies as a blackout tested community routines. Washington high and junior college graduates received diplomas as crowds observed siren alarms, with CAP observers and State Guard aiding the drill.
Churchill vows UN arms will drive Japanese from China
May 14 in Washington DC Prime Minister Churchill told General Chiang Kai Shek that the day will come when the arms of the United Nations will drive the Japanese invaders from China. The reassurance came amid Allied talks on campaign plans in the Pacific theater.
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Washington, DC
Winston Churchill
Generallissimo
Chiang Kai Shek
United Nations
China
Marriage License Issued to McKenzie and Hoover
A marriage license was issued at the court house this week to David T. McKenzie of Fairfield and Kathryn Hoover of West Chester.
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Court House
David T. McKenzie
Fairfield
Kathryn Hoover
West Chester
Des Moines Business Visitor Harry Cohen
Harry Cohen of Des Moines was a business visitor here yesterday afternoon.
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Harry Cohen
Des Moines
Extend Fathers Furlough Time In Drafts
War department orders extend the post induction furlough for draftees who are fathers from seven to fourteen days by July 1 and to twenty one days by September 1. The move follows Selective Service Director Hershey’s testimony that father drafting would begin by mid August. Nine service commands must apply the longer furlough by July 1.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
War Department Forlouch
Selective Service
Lewis Hershey
Senate
Crawfordsville High Holds Graduation Exercises
Seven boys and four girls graduate at Crawfordsville High School with 11 diplomas awarded. Fred J. Hinkhouse, Parsons College history professor, delivers commencement address. Rees gives salutatory. Dr. Anderson is valedictorian. D. W. Githens presents diplomas. Frank Gault distributes awards and certificates to five students in lieu of medals slated for later exchange after the war.
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Crawfordsville
Fred J. Hinkhouse
Parsons College
I Rees
Ah Anderson
Dorothy
D. W. Githens
Frank Gault
of Education
Crawfordsville Consolidated
Githens
Wer Derson
Dorothy Rees
Robert Darbyshire
Leah An- Charles Whiting
Attu Island Landing Ignites Aleutian Battle
American forces landed on Attu island in the western Aleutians and fought Japanese troops as U S forces seek to retake the key outpost. The move follows Tokyo broadcasts of heavy fighting and aims to push toward Kiska and northern Japan.
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Attu
Aleutians
United Press
Aleutian
North Pacific
United States
Kiska Island
Kiska
Japan
Hitler
Nazi Europe
Senate backs six year installment plan for 1942 taxes
Washington May 14 The Senate in its first vote on pay as you go tax legislation favored Ellender's proposal to collect 1943 taxes on a six year installment plan rather than forgive taxes. The tally was 55 to 241, part of several amendments before any vote on the Rum plan which would forgive one year's taxes and aim to start taxpayers on a current basis July 1.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Ellender
Play Day Highlights Elementary School Sports
A play day yesterday for boys and girls at Lincoln and Stewart elementary schools featured softball games. Stewart defeated Lincoln in the sixth grade 31 to 24 while Lincoln won the fifth grade 63 to 11 and the fourth grade 39 to 12. The event was directed by John Earp for the boys and Josephine Lambert for the girls.
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John Earp
Lincoln
Stewart
Josephine Lambert
Warsaw Ghetto Liquidated After 10 Day Battle
Rabbi Irving Miller, citing Polish sources, said the Warsaw Ghetto, home to about 40 000 Jews, has been liquidated after a ten day fight with Nazi forces. Tanks leveled streets as defenders were silenced and residents were butchered or moved to other parts.
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London
Warsaw
Irving Miller
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Harry Anderson
Lorene Marie Anderson
Ruth E. Applegate
William R. Arnold
Robert Frederick Downing
Robert Bernard Friedel
Kathryn Jean Atchison
Edith Elizabeth Gillespie
William David McCall
Virginia Jane McLaughlin
Robert J. Nicola
Rosa Genevieve Baker
Doris C. Gray
Geneva
Palmer
Mary Baldrige
Alpheus Eugene Grecian
Roger K. Banks
William J. Barth
Richard Earl Crossett Donald Carl Crossett
Martha Jean Crossett Robert Leslie Custer Dorothe Dankwardt
Ila Mae Daniel
William E. Hammer
Richard Wayne Palmer
Wanda Evelyn Pence
John Edward Perdock Lois Ruth Powers
Edward Joseph Prebys, Jr
Siti
Lilie Lu’ Lie
Pulplipe
Praecice
Dorothy M. Davidson Donald Palmer Davis
Richard G. Dawson
Jean Brower
Richard Longer
Lois Lowry
Thelma Lowry
H. LeRoy Luers
G. Kenton Mangold
A. Maxine Mangold
Robert L. Marble Richard Marlowe Marshall
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Ira Fisher Morrison
Charles Mayo
Dean Mathers
Francis Paul Schneider
Grace Schoonover
Thomas Edward Walker
Shirley Peterson
Roberta Wheelan
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Ainsworth
Wellman
Kalona
Rebekah
Theater Bank
Riverside
Hull
Ivan Norton
Defense Corps
Rodney Q. Selby
Defense Council
Edna Klein
W. J. Stevens
Handel
Erbe
Kenneth Freeman
Richard A. Stewart
Board of Education
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Rubio
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
John Lemmon
State Guard Company
Howard Miller
Washlington
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Charles Whiting
Everette Baker
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Kenneth Johnston
Evelyn Williams
Virgil Herring
Keith Long
James Young
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