Bronze Star awarded to T/5 Raymond L. Barber
Raymond L. Barber of Webster Wisconsin received the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in action as a truck driver with a service company during operations in Germany on April 10 1945. When mud blocked the column he and a comrade installed a dead man and pulled 24 trucks free in 12 hours demonstrating ingenuity and devotion to duty.
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Burnett County Enterprise
Webster
Wis
Raymond L. Barber
Germany
Barber
Bananas or Soap Dilemma Boosts Family Meal Joy
In Salem on September 5 Mrs Dewey Weeks recalls choosing bananas over laundry soap powder for her four girls. The family celebrated together after learning a neighbor sent a substitute the next day, a gesture she hails as true friendship.
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Dewey Weeks
Salem
Eversharp Pens with Pencils Now Complete
Complete line of Eversharp fountain pens with pencils offered for sale prompts readers to see them before purchasing. The ad highlights the full assortment available at the store.
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Eversharp
Soldier Barber Earns Bronze Star For World War II Service
Technician Barber, a Webster high school graduate from Crawfordsville Iowa, served as a truck driver with R A Beauchamp and joined the Timberwolf division in December 1942 at Cane Adair Oregon. He is entitled to wear the Good Conduct Ribbon Combat Infantryman's Badge Driver's badge and Bar Meritorious Service Unit Plaque and two Bronze Service Stars for Northern France and Germany. He and his wife and two children now live in Winfield and he has returned to work for R A Beauchamp.
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Barber
Webster High School
Army
Crawfordsville
Iowa
R. A. Beauchamp
Timberwolf Division
Cane Adair
Ore
France
Germany
Winfield
Crack-Up Aboard Stage Promises Sleuthing Amid Art Theft
Pat O’Brien stars as an art expert in the RKO mystery Crack-Up. Claire Trevor and Herbert Marshall play key roles in a plot about world famous paintings stolen by sabotage and forgeries during the postwar recovery era. O’Brien investigates as a curator is murdered and allies reveal hidden identities.
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Pat O'Brien
RKO Radio
Claire Trevor
Herbert Marshall
O'Brien
New York
Trevor
Scotland Yard
O'Brien Questions Marshall Interest in Miss Trevor
A glimpse of romantic tension with Marshall teased by O'Brien as Miss Trevor becomes focal. Supporting players Wallace Ford Erskine Sanford Damian O’Flynn Mary Ware and Ray Collins fill the cast in this early scene description.
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Ray Collins
Wallace Ford
Dean Harens
Rang Reis
O’brien
Marshall
Miss Trevor
Erskine Sanford
Damian O'Flynn
Mary Ware
Local births and staff changes noted in Columbus Junction
Columbus Junction while Martha Butler reports several family news items. Warren Long staff and wife welcomed twin sons born August 31 at Hershey hospital Muscatine. Robert Fulton and Ottumwa parents welcomed a son born August 15 in Ottumwa hospital. Mulfried Orr teaching kindergarten at Monticello after graduating Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Rodney Reeves moved to a position at Bentecca store after army discharge, succeeding Enoch Sanford who will return to school. Visitors to A. H. Pritchard home include Mrs. Alice Kennedy Mitchellville Mrs. Ellen Kinny Bondurant and Mr. Ward Thompson with three children Sioux Rapids. Fred Crawford Columbus City seriously ill at Bellevue hospital Muscatine.
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Columbus Junction
Warren Longstaff
Hershey Hospital
Muscatine
Robert Fulton
Ottumwa
Robert Bradley
Mulfried Orr
Iowa State Teacher's College
Cedar Falls
Monticello
Rodney Reeves
Hedrie and
Sigourney
Bentecca
Enoch Sanford
Alice Kennedy
Mitehellville
Ellen Kinny
Bondurant
Ward Thompson
Sioux Rapids
Fred Crawford
Columbus City
Bellevue Hospital Muscatine
Young Women to Teach This Year In Nearby Towns
Marguerite Roth and Alice Resehly began teaching in the Wyman schools while Edith Roth started in Kalona and iary Schantz began in Oregon Two. The article notes community visits, family gatherings, and relief service volunteers from the Eicher Mennonite church joining overseas assignments in Manilla Marseille Henan and China.
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Vernon Frey
Noble
Marguerite Roth
Alice Resehly
Wyman
Edith Roth
Kalona
Iary Schantz
Oregon
Milton Nebel
Burington
Virgil Blosser
Wayland
Regier
Arthur Davison
Near West Chester
John Bill Hulme
Margaret Wittings
Dannie Schantz
Sean Edwards
Gerald Bexier
Milton Nobel
K. Schantz
Ralph Wengers
Glenn Shumaker
Tommy
Mt. Pleasant
Clayton Nebel
Ralph Wenger
Washington County Hospital
Sam Nebel
Evelyn Roth
Bradley Roth
Glenn Roth
Benjie
Bradley
Allen Roth
Walter H. Regier
Charles
E.S. Mullett
Spirit Leake
Max Graber
D. S. Graber
Newton
Kan
Bethel College
Arlene Frey
Packwood
Otto Frey
Speeding Youth Jailed in Ottumwa Police Court
Cornelius Ellis, 20, was sentenced to two days in jail in Ottumwa Iowa Police Court for speeding 50 mph in a 25 mph zone. He is the first offender jailed after the city announced jail terms instead of fines to curb reckless driving.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
U.P
Cornelius Ellis
Pickens cafe looted in Davis City Iowa
The Pickens cafe was entered and merchandise valued at 500 dollars stolen. Deputy Sheriff John Fullton reports items taken include butter lard hams 150 cartons of cigarettes candy nuts pipes and canned goods.
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Davis City
Towa
Pickens
John Fullton
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