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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
8
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains a shortage of metal curtain rods yet promotes elaborate window treatments. The piece describes separate end jabots, cross and center swags, bias ends, pleating, and tacked mounts with measurements and assembly notes. It notes this is a series adaptation and offers books for sale.
A grave digger one day worked so deeply into a grave that he could not climb out. At dusk he cried for help and a passerby, sensing his plight, joked that he had no dirt on him as the dirt was already below.
Washington digest notes two developments easing Sino American strain. Vice President Wallace’s visit to Chiang Kai shek boosts morale and signaling, while Burma battlefield gains under Stilwell bolster trust. Chinese officials seek consumer goods to stabilize inflation and avert collapse, urging shipments of aspirin and other essentials via planes.
Nagakage Okabe announces government plans to intensify Thought Measure Research Societies activities and to provide thought training to heads of industrial organizations and to many students.
A sweeping wartime overview explains how farm truck fleets face shortages as most of the 1.2 million farm trucks are over seven years old. The piece notes new U.S. war demands, fleet divestment, and the creation of 142 district offices and 20 931 transportation advisory committees to coordinate farm vehicle use and keep food moving to market amid shortages.
Ernie Pyle profiles a B 26 crew stationed in England as they fly up to four missions daily during the invasion buildup. He highlights Chief Collins as a fearless leader, Red Dog Arnold’s veteran mindset, and Sgt. Gaines the married engineer, detailing leave habits, camaraderie, and the blend of routine work with dangerous combat.
The radioman gunner Sgt John Siebert of Charlestown Massachusetts learned to fly before the war with about 800 hours as pilot yet one defective eye kept him from cadet school He spent two years at MIT and hopes to finish after the war Sgt Kermit Pruitt the tail gunner is the old Arizona cowboy who talks and sings and sometimes sings cowboy songs over the interphone during bomb runs
A scrambled quiz item lists six questions about geography history and literature. Questions cover Alaska versus Texas size, Arlington National Shrine founder, a windmill tilting character, reason knights sat at a round table, whether absentee voting was allowed for soldiers, and the Grand Banks location offshore.
A compact item lists six points including Alaska’s size relative to another area and notes about Gen Robert E Lee Don Quixote distinctions in rank voting rights for Union soldiers in the Civil War and Newfoundland as a location. The entry presents quick factoids in a plain question answer style.
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