Iowa
Old Press
The Des Moines Tribune, Monday, April 5, 1943
Twenty Des Moines women were graduated Saturday from the Navy’s general indoctrination school for WAVES at Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, Ia.
Some of the graduates will be sent to one of the 13 schools in the nation now being used by the WAVES for advanced training. Others may be immediately assigned to active duty where qualified for such service.
DeMoines women in the class were:
Thesa Marie Boyd, 214 ½ High st.
Marie A. Davidsaver, 1725 York st.
Lenore Margaret Flannery, 1326 E. Thirteenth st.
Mary Catherine Giannobule, 2900 S.W. Ninth st.
Ruby M. Jensen, 1301 Stephenson Way.
Betty Jean Jordan, 1443 Harding road.
Marjorie Alice Osterhout,l 1180 Nineteenth st.
Mabel Ann Pearson, 169 E. Broad st.
Martha Warren Powell, 709 Morton ave.
Martina S. Poyseur, 3201 Third st.
Dorothy Marguerite Rousch, 2719 Forty-first place.
Doris Elaine Shoning, 1349 E. Fifteenth st.
Mary Ann Smith, Route 4.
Evelyn Elvera Stansberry, 1305 E. Twelfth st.
Doris Marie Tellis, 2228 E. Walnut st.
Mary Elizabeth Watkins, 932 Thirtieth st.
Roberta Williams, 2323 Fortieth st.
Margaret L. Willis, 428 Pleasant View drive.
Patricia Wolcott, 1607 York st.
Mary Aloyse Wright, 1402 Ninth st.
[transcribed by LZ, Dec 2019]
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Polk co. Iowa
April 29, 1943
War Prisoners Tell of Needs - URGE PARENTS NOT TO WORRY -
Shaving Equipment, Cigarets Wanted.
(The Register’s Iowa News Service.)
Iowa parents Wednesday continued to get letters from sons in
prison camps. Typical of these were the messages received by Mr.
and Mrs. Lennie Cox, of Leon, and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Knapp, of
Sibley.
Pvt. (f. c.) Clifford Cox, 24, taken prisoner in Tunisia Feb. 17,
wrote from a German prison camp on Mar. 18. He told his parents
not to worry and stated he was in “comfortable quarters,
getting plenty of sleep and food and in good health.” Cox
asked his family to contact the Red Cross about sending letters
and packages to him and said he needed “a towel, shaving
brush, shaving stick, tooth brush, razor blades, cigarets and
candy.”
Warrant Officer Austin L. Knapp, officially reported a German
prisoner of war on Apr. 16, wrote he was “taken prisoner on
St. Valentine’s day and lost everything but the clothes I
had on.” “I beg of you not to worry,” he
continued, “for I am well, living inside, eating, doing a
lot of reading and waiting for word from home. Save the county
papers for me, please, for a month or so.”
Other Iowans reported prisoners are:
Sibley—Sergt. Ivan L. Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Sanders, previously reported missing in North Africa Feb. 17, now
prisoner in Germany.
Ashton—Sergt. Merrill Devries, 21, son of H. P. Devries,
previously reported missing in North Africa, Feb. 17, now
prisoner in Germany. (Photo included)
Waterloo—Pvt. John M. Hounshendeaux, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Hounshendeaux, prisoner of Japanese in the Philippines.
Atlantic—Chester PIcken, son of Mrs. Emma Picken, previously
reported missing in action in North Africa, Feb. 17, now prisoner
in Germany.
Bristow—Private (f. c.) Richard Schoneman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Schoneman, previously reported missing in North Africa
Mar. 10, now prisoner in Italy.
Clarinda—Rodger Long, previously reported missing in action
in Tunisia Feb. 17, now prisoner in Germany.
Fort Dodge—Pvt. Allison Hill, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Hill, previously reported missing in North Africa, Feb. 17, now a
prisoner in Germany.
Dows—Averon Gaulke, previously reported missing in Africa
Feb. 14, now is a prisoner in Germany.
[transcribed by L.Z., July 2016]