Iowa Old Press
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Linn co. Iowa
July 4, 1944
Soldier Sends $100 From New Guinea to Pay His Income Tax
DES MOINES (AP)—An Iowa soldier stationed in New
Guinea sent $100 to pay his income tax and said he considered it
a privilege, E. H. Birmingham, federal collector of internal
revenue for Iowa, has reported. Lt. John H. Hageboeck of Avoca
said he would forward whatever was necessary in addition to the
$100, if it were not sufficient. Birmingham said the lieutenant
did not have to make out a return, did not owe any tax and that
his money was being returned to him. The letter, in which Lt.
Hageboeck asked for income tax blanks to sign, said in part:
“I at least can feel that I am square with old Uncle Sam. I
consider it a privilege to fight for and pay taxes in order one
day to live again in the finest county in the world. I guess it
took a few years of being away from it and a couple of close
calls to make me realize this fact.”
Memorial Services Held at Monticello For Richard Hoag
Special to The Gazette. MONTICELLO—Memorial
services were held Monday evening for Lt. Richard N. Hoag, 27,
who was killed in France on D-day, June 6. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Hoag of Chicago. A resident of Monticello until
1938, Lt. Hoag graduated from St. John’s Military school in
Delafield, Wis., and attended Cedar Rapids Business College, the
University of Iowa and Bryant Stratton college in Chicago, where
he moved with his parents from Monticello. He had been in England
since Jan. 30, 1944.
Receives Wings At Texas Field
Lt. W. L. Carran, who received his Army Air Force wings
on June 27, at Blackland army air field, Waco, Texas, and Mrs.
Carran are spending Lt. Carran’s 15-day leave with Mrs.
Carran’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pollock, 1001
Twenty-fifth street SE, Cedar Rapids, and with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Carran of West Branch. At the expiration of his
leave, Carran will report to the San Antonio aviation cadet
center for an administrative course.
[transcribed by L.Z., February 2016]