Railroads Face War Strain Yet Maintain Car Supply
War demands stretch US railroads with patched equipment and dwindling crews. Despite severe winter storms that disrupted East–West car movement, loading of Western grain rose May week 3 by 10 028 cars compared to 1944. The piece argues transportation would cripple war effort if car shortages rivaled consumer shortages and urges patience with freight delays. It notes San Francisco Conference confusion and discusses UN security veto reform, urging persistent push for permanent peace.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Nature
San Francisco
David Lawrence
Security Council
Yalta
Vandenberg
Michigan
Dumbarton Oaks
Assembly of the United Nations Organization
British Empire
Russia
White House cordialities amid Hoover Roosevelt transition
Reminiscence notes that Hoover invited Roosevelt to the White House during the transition and that both presidents showed respect for the office. It recalls broad approval in Washington, while signaling reconversion news about rising steel and lumber, with farm machinery resuming production as war-era limits ease.
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E. Jones
Herbert Llouver
White House
Hoover
Roosvelt
Roosevelt
Kert Hoover
Trauma Washington
Predictions on Auto Production Recovery After War
Officials say demand for tre irons and washing machines remains strong and allowances will rise. It may take eight months for producers to begin efficient automobile production and about fifteen months to reach prewar capacity around six million cars annually.
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Tre
Lunch program boosts weight gains in Wilmington children
In Wilmington Delaware a daily school lunch since January shows weight gains for students: six pounds for regular eaters, four pounds for occasional eaters, and two pounds for nonparticipants in one Junior School grade. Similar gains appear in Missouri and New York per official Washington report.
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Wilmington
Delaware
War Foods Administration
Washington
Missouri
New York
High Seas
Great Lakes
Last Weekend Snowstorm Stirs Old Timers in Upstate Region
A weather flashback recalls a unique late week chill as residents compare last Saturday and Sunday to any prior snow events. Local gardeners report extensive tomato crop damage while summer hints appear with a California visitor donning the season’s first straw hat.
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Victory
California
Andrew Contratto
Hugo Keenan
Smoky Joe
Joe
Pike
Five Years Ago in Bessemer Education and Society
Five years ago in Bessemer district two school boards faced elections with four candidates for two trustee posts in the city board and five running for two trustee seats in Bessemer township. Local events included the United States senate reappointment of Bessemer postmaster and the ninth annual American Legion Military Ball hosted by Peter Gedda Post 27 with The Ole Left-Hander Joe Sanders providing music. Graduations featured Miss Cleo Melanson and Miss Rita Jezek from St Scholastica and Stout Institute, while local couples wed at St Sebastian church and Trinity Lutheran church.
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Bessemer City
Peter Gedda
American Legion
Joe Sanders
Legion Committee
James Carpenter
Leonard Kalasavicz
Charles J. Scavarda
Leo J. Isdebski
Alois A. Mazanec
Joseph Jezek
St. Scholastica
Esther Marie Georgi
Bartola Georgi
Anvil
Frank Benedict
William Benedict
Ramsay
St. Sebastian’s Church
Helen E. Balasz
Stephen Balasz
Harry J. Felix
George Felix
Trinity
M. A. Hagerman
Bessemer
Booster Club
Carson City
Mich
Boosters Club
Bessemer Township
Edward J. Mahan
Adelard Parent
Puritan
Arthur Koski
David Rizzie
John H. Nelson
South Bessemer
St. Joseph Hospital of School of Nursing
Ashland
Ruth Olson
Vivian Olson
Johanna Savitski
Evelyn Allen
Rose Forno
Grace Johnson
Stout Institute
Menominee
Wis
William Allen
J. R. Johnson
Paul Cars
Wakefield
Pearce Graham Jr
Maxine Crawford
Elaine Womastek
Robert Duda
Joyce Crawford
Jean Graham
Blanche Anderson
George Wydeth
Robert Lobb
June Pecard
Salem Lutheran Church
Ironwood
Margaret Boline
Leontine Boline
George Jezek
Peter Jezek
St. Sebastian Catholic Church
Isabelle Mayer Becam
James E. Nemacheck
Domenic Longhini
Newport Hospital
Longhini
Antoinette DeStasio
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King Z
Wisconsin
Herald
Rudolph Honz
Paul Becker
Bessemer Cash
Donich
Honz
Ferro Bros
Washington School
Mary O'Keefe
Albert Linder
Melvin Solberg
Leonard Jezek
Frederick Chaney
Raymond Lester
Edwin Nelson
Arvid Holmquist
Joseph Savera
Verner Velin
Wilner Torell
John Costello
Nick Re
John Sartoris
Arthur Hardy
George Ferrari
Zeina Lobb
Anna Buchko
Ellen Haario
Vivian Spencer
Leona Wozniak
Ruby Ek
Loretta Mae
Arthur Johnson
Fred L. Keeler
Lansing
Wilfred B. Massie
Josephine Serra
Anna Olson
Bessemer High School
Jennie Elizabeth Anderson
Clara
Margaret Apitz
Joseph A. Blaha
Allice
Loretta Connelly
Gladys Louise
Margaret B. N. Urquhart
Charles James Vomastek
Elmer Raymond Walton
Isabel Louise Ziebur
Reuben Harrington
William Maccani
Vezio Angherini
College of P. & S
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Elizabeth Donich
Mike Donich
Peter Becker
Duluth
Norbert Kulasavicz
University of Marquette At Milwaukee
Henry William Byrne
George Lyman Clark
Louise Hazel Goodnough
Margaret Mercy Jenkins
Frederick William Knight
Ingrid Heloise Lugvier
Lillian Margaret Nelson
Faith Gladys Osborne
Joseph William Pecard
Alma Point
Harriet Cecelia Schwartz
Leocadia Slomkowski
Bertha Gray
W. F. Truettner
Charles Bernald
Peter Conley
Delbert Bennett
Rose McCann
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Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries
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