Jump to content

Des Moines Tribune/1952/A former Des Moines woman …

From Wikisource
A former Des Moines woman … (1952)

Gretchen Frances Hahnen (1902-1986) in the Des Moines Tribune on September 26, 1952.

3467044A former Des Moines woman …1952

A former Des Moines woman has just presented her late first husband's aviation trophies, books, scrapbooks, etc., to the Smithsonian Institution where they will be cataloged in his name as the Eddie Schneider Memorial Library. Eddie Schneider, who was killed in a 1940 plane crash at New York when he was 33, was a veteran of transcontinental speed races, winner of the Great Lakes trophy, and one of four American leaders of the Yankee squadron that fought for loyalist Spain. Schneider's widow, now Mrs. Grant Black of Fort Worth, Texas, was Gretchen Hahnen of Des Moines, daughter of Mrs. Zora M. Hahnen, 2915 Logan.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.

Works could have had their copyright renewed between January 1st of the 27th year after publication or registration and December 31st of the 28th year. As this work's copyright was not renewed, it entered the public domain on January 1st of the 29th year.


This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

It is imperative that contributors ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse