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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1944
Page
16
Lovella Parsons reports Belita leads a summer ice troupe in a national tour and a complete technicolor movie titled Holiday On Ice. The venture, with Belita financing, will span months across the country as the caravan on skates travels.
This old treatment claims backache relief when kidney function is impaired. Doan's Pills are advertised as helping kidneys flush out poisonous waste, with claims of long use and widespread relief.
Billie Rogers the Girl with a Horn brings a 13 man orchestra to Danceland ballroom for Saturday and Sunday shows. She previously starred as vocalist and trumpeter with Woody Herman for two and a half years and has film credits in Whats Cookin with the Andrews Sisters and Wintertime with Sonja Henie.
Linn County selective board No 3 Tuesday announced four men who reported for army duty after post induction furloughs. They are William Wayne Strait Decorah, John Albert Hartley Davenport, Lester Henry Kelsey Cedar Rapids, and Charles Theodore Clark Marion.
Linn county relief department reports March caseload 272, down 195 from March 1943. Expenditures fall from 14404.61 to 8760.61. The period includes 87 general relief family cases, 65 general relief single cases, 120 medical only cases, and 270 service cases.
The Gazette lists Tuesday showtimes for Paramount with Lady in the Dark and short subjects, Iowa with Earl Carroll's Vanities and The Whistler, State with Crazy House and The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, Palace with What a Woman and Bar 20, Rialto with Is Everybody Happy and Hail to the Rangers, Times with Watch on the Rhine Juke Girl and Johnny Come Lately, and Marion with Victory Through Air Power. An automobile speedometer note warns tires to proper pressure.
Dr. Wilson M. Hume, regional YMCA secretary for northern India, described 22 months as a prisoner in Manila. Internees included 68 Army and 12 Navy nurses. The camp was crowded with 3,000 to 3,500 Americans and Britons in Santo Tomas, facing food and space shortages but generally cooperative despite rats and pests.
Cedar Rapids officials announced that high school boys 16 and older may take railroad jobs during weekends and vacations, learn trades such as machinist and electrician, and enter early apprenticeships. Brehm cited 90 percent productivity compared with men in tests and said the program expands nationwide in eastern Iowa.
Notice records that on April 24 1944 Dwight Krumbolt and Geo R Griner were appointed as administrators of Emma E Peterson estate in Linn County Iowa. Debts and claims must be presented to the county district court with proper authentication.
Washington AP reports the War Production Board rescinded its move to freeze civilian production in key labor areas. Senator Wherry says WPB officials notified him the order was abandoned after complaints that small plants would stay idle while larger competitors restarted peacetime work.
The program supplying labor for war plants faced field reports of numerous technical and practical difficulties. Wherry said civilian production like flatirons and auto parts could operate under limits in some areas. Chairman Nelson, then on vacation, ordered the relief, promising modifications after his return. Congress protested as the 1944 civilian electric iron program was cut from 2,000,000 to 20,000 units.
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