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Sept. 27, 1945
HARTINGTON — Motion picture fans in the Hartington area will find plenty to enjoy at the Lyric Theatre in the coming week, as the management rolls out a lineup of star-studded features sure to please every taste.
On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, audiences can take in a double dose of excitement with a pair of pictures. The first, High Powered, promises thrills and fast-moving drama, while the second feature, Blond from Brooklyn, is a lively comedy certain to provide plenty of laughs.
The weekend’s entertainment will give way to a splash of Technicolor Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and 2, when Betty Grable and Dick Haymes head an all-star cast in Diamond Horseshoe. This musical comedy is billed as a “dandy” spectacle, filled with song, dance, and color to brighten the early autumn nights.
The following week, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 3 and 4, patrons will see This Gun for Hire, a gripping story of undercover intrigue that has been hailed as a standout in its class. Starring a special cast, the picture is expected to draw strong interest among fans of crime and suspense films.
As always, short subjects and newsreels will round out the program, giving patrons the latest headlines along with their Hollywood favorites.
With such a varied program on the bill, the Lyric Theatre continues to hold its place as the community’s first choice for entertainment.
Sept. 27, 1945
HARTINGTON — Pfc. Ralph Noecker, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Noecker of Sioux City, former Hartington residents, died in an army hospital on Luzon in the Philippines Sept. 10 from injuries he received in an explosion Sept. 5, relatives here have been notified.
Pfc. Noecker had been in the service four years, three of which were spent in the South Pacific.
He was wounded while fighting in New Guinea and was in a hospital for 11 months. He was awarded the Purple Heart medal.
In addition to his parents, Pfc. Noecker is survived by three brothers, Irvin of Hartington, Seaman 2/c Wilfred, now stationed in San Diego, and Pvt. Arthur, somewhere in France, and two sisters, Helen and Mildred, who live with their parents in Sioux City.
Pfc. Noecker was born on a farm near Menominee and was graduated from St. Boniface school there. Prior to entering the service he lived in Iowa.
Sept. 27, 1945
FORDYCE—Richard F. Hans, a gunner’s mate on the U.S.S. Phoenix and the son of Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Hans of Fordyce, participated in the first and last naval engagements of World War II.
Hans was at Pearl Harbor at the start of the war and was in on the finish at Balakipian, Borneo. Hans, who has another year to complete his six-year enlistment, has returned to Philadelphia where his ship is docked after spending a 30-day furlough with his parents.
The Fordyce sailor has eleven Bronze Stars, representing eleven major battles, the American Defense Ribbon with one star, the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with eight stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two stars, and the Good Conduct Medal. Hans also took part in sixteen invasion bombardments.
Sept. 27, 1945
ZAMBOANGA, P. I. —Hauling cargo, evacuating wounded, and carrying passengers enabled Marine Tech. Sgt. Joseph F. Brandl of Coleridge, Nebr., to see nearly every American controlled airfield in the Pacific before the final Jap surrender.
As crew chief on a Marine Douglas transport, Brandl landed in Australia, the Solomons, the Admiralties, the Netherlands Indies, the Carolines and the Philippines. And despite the routine nature of his job, he had his close calls.
“Take the time we rescued two Marine pilots,” he recalled. They had been forced to crash land north of Davao during the first air strikes against that Jap stronghold. They both made it to the guerillas, and were taken to a strip the Filipinos had hacked from the jungle.
“We took the ship in and loaded the pilots and as many wounded guerillas as possible aboard. The ship’s crew took some dynamite and went into the hills to the crashed ships and blasted what was left of them to keep them from the Japs.”
Before Mindanao was invaded, Brandl’s was one of the Marine transports making regular runs to drop para pack loads of ammunition, weapons, and medical supplies to the guerillas.
Sgt. Brandl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brandl.
Sept. 27, 1945
HARTINGTON — Hamburger, sausage and luncheon meats will become ration-free October 1, and point values on about 15 per cent of the total meat supply will be nullified then, the OPA has announced.
The three lower grades of beef—canner, cutter and utility—will be made ration free next month. Red points may also be lifted for lower grades of lamb and veal, it was reported in Washington.
