Women in War Work Interview with Mrs Schindler
An interview with Mrs Ruby Schindler at 1106 Eleventh Street NW covers wartime work with Williams and Hunting as a glasier's helper from 7 to 5, family details including a 20 year old son in the engineer corps overseas, two schoolgoing children, and adjustments balancing work, home, and rationing. She expresses views on Roosevelt and Willkie, Japan, and future employment for women after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Schindler
Eleventh Street
The
Williams and Hunting Company
Sister of Dr Munger Honored by Vogue as Outstanding Woman
Miss Elizabeth Munger sister of Dr Grant B Munger of 1921 First Avenue SE is named by Vogue magazine as one of the country's outstanding women. She leads a progressive women’s prison system in Connecticut and has directed the women’s farm for 17 years. Vogue commends her three dimensional liberalism and notes inmates return to the farm for rest.
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Elizabeth Munger
Grant B. Munger
First Avenue SE
Vogue Magazine
America
Connecticut
Munger
Miss. Munger
Vogue
Substantial hot breakfast with creamed chipped beef and corn bread
A column note advocates prep ahead for cold mornings, suggesting creamed chipped beef on corn bread and heated cracklings as a hearty, transportable breakfast. It notes beef tongue as a good sandwich meat and provides a corn meal and crackling recipe with sour milk option.
Frugal Meats and Tongue Dishes From Vintage Menu
A vintage kitchen note outlines cooking dried beef in a flour-thickened sauce served over toast or corn bread, plus boiled smoked beef tongue with celery bay cloves onion and salt and pepper, simmered three hours and served with parsley and lemon.
Palo Couple Noted 60th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Swallom of Palo celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Christmas Day. Married December 24, 1883 in Benton county they reside in Palo. The couple have eight children, 27 grandchildren with nine in the armed forces and 36 great grandchildren.
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John Swallom
Palo
Benton County
Swallom
Mae Martin
Cedar Rapids
Charles Lint
Porter Gillis
Shellsburg
Carl Swallom
William Swallom
Felo
Lyle Ferguson
Sioux Falls
S. D
Frank Swallom
Rapid City
Lyle Kniffin
Tyndall
New Year Eve Radio Delights Across Networks
Radio listeners ring in 1944 with three hour New Year programs on Columbia WMT NBC and WGN featuring Count Basie Duke Ellington Lombardo Spivak Lyman Fields and other ensembles. Special midnight Times Square from WGN plus OWI and Navy broadcasts echo global celebrations. Bowl games Tulsa Georgia Tech Texas A&M and USC Washington set for New Year.
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NCE
Hotel New Yorker
the Blackhawk
Columbia Network
WMT
Count Basie
Tommy Tucker
Guy Lombardo
Duke Ellington
Charlie Spivak
Shep Fields
Sonny Dunham
Eddie Young
Abe Lyman
Harry James
Frankie Masters
NBC
WHO
Mirth
Madness
Roy Clhisla
Aanmnanny Randav
Chmtim
G&l Cuvee
Texas A
Louisa State
CBS
Tulsa
Georgia Tech
Texas
Randolph Field
MBS
WGN
California
Washington
Evening Radio Schedule From December 31, 1943
A fragmentary listing shows hour by hour radio programs on WGN and WHO including Juke Box, Hit Parade, The Parks, and Fred Waring with times mostly around 6:15 to 10:15 p.m. The text references hosts and segments with unclear spellings and partial show names.
New Year’s Night Radio Schedule Across Stations
Headliners tonight include Lucille Manners Kate Smith and Amos n Andy with Navy program Waltz Time Playhouse and Garry Moore on WMT WHO WGN and NBC networks through 11 00. Observers note all nets air New Year’s Eve countdowns at 11 00.
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Lucille Manners
Kate Smith
Navy
WGN
Amos ’N’ Andy
WHO
Garry Moore
WMT
Elmer Davis
WMAQ
NBC
Nets
Lane reports 38000 whisky cases sold in two weeks
DES MOINES. Dick Lane of Davenport, chairman of the state liquor control commission, said we cannot predict beyond January about whisky sales in state stores. In January liquor deliveries will occur every other week. He noted the December surge depleted inventories and 38000 cases were sold versus a 34000 case quota.
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Des Moines
Dick Lane
Davenport
State Liquor Control Commission
Lane
Nazis Claim Bay of 6 Destroyers
London report says the German high command alleges sinking six British destroyers and damaging light cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise, with German losses of one destroyer and two MTBs plus damage to others. Britain counters with sinking three German destroyers and notes a British destroyer sunk by U boats near the Bay of Newfoundland banks.
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London
High Command
Bay of Biscay
Glasgow
Enterprise
Britain
Berlin
Bay of Newfoundland
Hobart Bosworth, Film Actor, Dies
Hobart Bosworth, 76, Hollywood's first movie star, died Thursday after an influenza pneumonia. The veteran stage and screen actor was famed for roles such as Jack London's The Sea Wolf and other early era he-man parts.
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Hollywood
INS
Hobart Bosworth
West Coast
Jack London
Dobermans Sought by Dogs for Defense in Iowa
DES MOINES AP Owners of large male Doberman Pinschers in Iowa were asked Thursday by J H Schuffman of Davenport regional director of Dogs for Defense to donate their dogs for war service. He said a particular need for Dobermans exists, though other breeds can serve too.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. H. Schuffman
Davenport
Dogs For Defense
Schuffman
Von Papen peace plan outlined by Junker pattern
Franz von Papen talks with friends about Hitler's downfall and a peace plan he calls his blueprint for European reconstruction. Gervasi in Collier's says Ankara's neutral climate aids the plan, which favors German interests and envisions an international police force and a 10 year rebuild.
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Washington
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Hitler
Frank Gervasi
Middle East
Collier’s Magazine
Collier’s
Gervasi
Ankara
von Papen
Junker
Germany
Reich
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Austria
Europe
Laval Strengthens Powers as Interior Minister
London dispatch reports the Nazi controlled Vichy radio announcing the strengthening of Pierre Laval s powers as interior minister to preserve France from the threat of civil war. Reuters notes the broadcast was recorded in London.
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London
INL
Vichy Radio
Pierre Laval
France
Reuters News Agency
Woman Second in Command at WAC Training Center
Capt Bernice C Philipps named assistant commandant of the first WAC training center at Fort Des Moines by Col Frank A McCoskrie. She succeeds Col Delbert O Fuller who left for Fort Custer Michigan to attend military government school. Since August 26 Philipps has served as assistant to Fuller under a policy shift to replace regular army officers with WAC officers in key administrative roles.
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Fort Des Moines
INS
Bernice C. Philipps
Frank A. McCoskrie
Philipps
Delbert O. Fuller
United States Army
Fort Custer
Mich
Col. Fuller
McCoskrie
WAC
West Coast Housing Conditions Assailed in Report
A house naval affairs subcommittee on Thursday blasted housing hospital transportation and sanitary conditions in west coast cities and urged swift remedial action before the war effort shifts to the Pacific. The Los Angeles Long Beach area was the chief target of the report chaired by Vinson.
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Washington
INS
House
Naval Affairs
West Coast
Pacific
Vinson
D-Ga
Los Angeles-Long Beach
County Defies U S On Prison Treatment
In Decatur Georgia four De Kalb officers accused of abusing two Negro prisoners face federal action after County Commissioner Scott Candler ordered them to continue investigations and arrests despite federal interference. He criticized charging Chief J T Dailey and three officers rather than presenting the case to the federal grand jury, calling it a carpetbag government reference to postwar rule.
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Decatur, Ga
DeKalb County
Scott Candler
Candler
J. T. Dailey
Tragedy in Newton Coal Mine Accident Victim Dies
Arthur Sanders, 32, Newton coal trucker, died in a Newton hospital from injuries suffered in a December 13 coal mine accident near Monroe. A former Montezuma resident, he is survived by his widow and two sons.
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Newton
Arthur Sanders
Monroe
Montezuma
Tito forms Bulgarian brigade for Partisans
London AP reports Tito organized a brigade of Bulgarians for the Partisans. A contingent of one officer and 65 Bulgarian soldiers joined, alongside earlier defectors, to form a Bulgarian brigade. The communique also notes the Second Macedonian Brigade defeating a Bulgarian unit near Bilovetelija on the Greek frontier.
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London
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Second Macedonian
Bilovetelija
Belgrade
Salonika
Draja Mihailovic
Peter II
Preboj
Bosnia
Mihailovic
Sanjak
Iowan One of Six Missing From Navy Plane
Seattle dispatch reports Lt. Joseph Robert Cranny of Grinnell Iowa among six missing since December 26 after a navy training flight from Whidbey Island Washington. Headquarters said the search had been abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Thirteenth Naval District
Joseph Robert Cranny
Timothy Cranny
Grinnell
Naval Headquarters
Whidbey Island
Wash
Quail crash outs meal plan at Decatur dinner party
In Decatur Illinois a P Grange family attempting to share pheasant and quail with more guests faced an unexpected guest intrusion when a quail burst through the front door pane and was quickly added to the dinner menu.
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Decatur, Ill
P. Grange
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