Joint Federal State Role Asked on Service Voting
Washington lawmakers debate who should run soldiers absentee ballots as Rep Ramspeck pushes for a mixed federal state system. Worley backs broader federal participation while Rankin seeks to move bills to the veterans committee. The issue centers on ensuring servicemen overseas can vote.
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Washington
Ramspeck
D-Ga
Senate
Worley
Texas
House Elections Committee
United States
Rep
Rankin
Veterans Committee
House
Double Timer Patterns By Anne Adams
Two piece dress with hip top jacket and slim waist makes a strong office or date impression. Includes a one piece dress option and a transfer embroidery motif. Patterns 4585 available in junior miss sizes 9 through 18. requires 13 yards 54 inch for blouse and 1% yard skirt for size 13. Send 20 cents per pattern plus 10 cents for fall book to Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department
West
Randolph St
Chicago
Ill
Army Reinstates 10 Percent Christmas Furlough Rule
The army will again limit Christmas and New Year furloughs to 10 percent of each post’s strength due to transportation limits. Furloughs last up to 14 days with travel restrictions on Christmas Eve and Day. One day passes count toward the 10 percent quota. travelers must begin and end travel within specified dates.
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Washington
Army
Polio Victim Awaits Stork as Husband Flown Home
Portland hospital staff prepare for the birth of a baby to a 20 year old polio victim on iron lung care. Her husband, Corporal Marvin Wilson, was flown home from India on military leave after Red Cross intervention and chaplain support. She has improved enough to be taken out of the iron lung briefly.
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Portland, Ore
INS
Portland
Marvin Wilson
Cpl
Army Air Force
India
Red Cross
WMT names William Quarton new general manager
William B Quarton Jr is named the new general manager of radio station WMT. announced in Des Moines by Gardner Cowles Jr president of the Iowa Broadcasting Company. Quarton succeeds Sumner D Quarton who resigned. He has been WMT commercial manager for 10 years and holds posts with Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Broadcasters.
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William B. Quarton, Jr
WMT
Des Moines
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Iowa Broadcasting Company
Sumner D. Quarton
William Quarton
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Young Men’s Bureau
National Association of Broadcasters
Cpl Leon Ralston Wounded in Sicily Landing
Cpl Leon D. Ralston age 29 son of Mr and Mrs Louis Ralston of 1404 E avenue NE is wounded in Sicily landing losing sight in one eye. He is in a North Africa base hospital with doctors attempting to save his remaining sight. His wife Adria Ralston teaches at Manchester. He entered service in July.
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Cpl
Leon D. Ralston
Louis Ralston
E Avenue NE
North Africa
Sicily
Ralston
Adria Ralston
Manchester
Short Circuit Cuts Off Angeles Power
A power fault on Los Angeles three main lines from Boulder dam left the city without electricity for five to 23 minutes Tuesday. War production halted downtown traffic and radio shows were interrupted while investigators suspected a glider towline or airplane line dropped across the lines with an attached load of 450 million watts.
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Los Angeles
Boulder Dam
Mailing Regulation On Parcels to Men Recently Left States
Cedar Rapids postal officials remind that December 10 is the deadline to mail Christmas parcels to army personnel overseas who left the states after October 15. Rules require proof of address change, weight and size limits, clear "Christmas parcel" marking, one parcel per addressee, and no inflammatory perishable or alcoholic contents.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa’s Land of Opportunity Cited by Canopus Club Speaker
Royal Holbrook of Iowa State College spoke to Canopus club members detailing Iowa’s history as an ordinary land with big opportunities. He noted the shift from a 90 percent farming populace to under 40 percent farming while crop quality and quantity rose, and referenced the emergence of small factories in the late 1870s and 1880s.
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U.S.A
Iowa
Royal Holbrook
Canopus Club
Holbrook
Iowa State College
Iowa poised by fairs and a taxon flag tale
A speaker recalls Iowa farm produce boosting national recognition through county and state fairs and a Belgian horse show in Water that helped put Iowa on the map. He notes the Iowa state flag, chosen by the D A R at Iowa City, cannot be bought in state and instead comes from New York.
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Iowa
D.A.R
Iowa City
New York
Sherwood Plans Pacific Propaganda War With MacArthur
Robert Sherwood of the OWI heads to Australia to outline a full scale propaganda offensive against Japan with Gen Douglas MacArthur. Plans include setting up radio transmitters in Australia New Guinea and nearby islands. Pacific operations may rely on coordinated British and American efforts and expand from San Francisco headquarters.
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Washington
Robert Sherwood
Office of War Information
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
MacArthur
OWI
Bataan and
Corregidor
New Guinea
Pacific
Sherwood
Elmer Davis
Far East
Europe
United States
San Francisco
Owen Lattimore
Chiang Kai-shek
Hawaii
China
Germany
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Glenn Kerres
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Army Air Forces Training Command
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Jack) Downer
Roy Downer
Fifteenth Street
Shannon Eugene Estill
G. E. Estill
Eighteenth Street SE
Moorefield
Arthur L. Hulshizer
A. L. Hulshizer
Covington Road
Blackland Field
Glenn A. Kerres
Frank Kerres
Myrtle A. Popelka
First Avenue
Foster Field
Wilson
The
Anne Adams
Apy
Vicks
Sdemhaebanediman
Vicks VapoRub
Leon Ralston
Angeles
Johns-Manville
B Ave
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Third Ave
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