Coast Guard Spars Recruiters Visit Cedar Rapids
Spars recruiters from St Louis will visit Cedar Rapids for nine days at the Iowa Electric Light and Power booth from 9 am to 5 pm through Feb 23. Yeomen Leffler and O’Hara arrived Monday, Lt Betty Baur joins Wednesday. Women aged 20 to 36 with schooling, and mothers of eligible coast guardsmen’s wives, may apply. Recruiting notes include training at Palm Beach with boat and possible further instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Women's Reserve
United States Coast Guard
Cedar Rapids
Yeoman
Mary L. Leffler
Ames
Seaman
Dorothy O'Hara
Salem
Mass
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
J. G
Betty Baur
Roosevelt Hotel
Coast Guard
Palm Beach
Fla
Biltmore Hotel
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Masthead and Pricing Motifs
The fragment shows the Cedar Rapids Gazette publication details, pricing by mail and carrier, edition schedules, and advertising reps including Allen-Klapp Company in Chicago and New York. It notes Associated Press and United Press International services and partial mailing rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cidar Rapids Gazette
Gazette Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
U. S. Territories
Allen-Klapp Company
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
New York
New Center Mbilde
Detroit
Media Records
A.N.P.A. Kireny_of_Advertisine
Big Program of National Cemeteries Across States
The War Department drafts a large cemetery expansion plan with at least one national cemetery per state. The House Appropriations Committee approves an $86,911,440 1945 civil functions bill, noting the need for additional burial grounds for soldiers with a $1,224,000 allotment for cemetery expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
House Appropriations Committee
Committee Recommends token $100 and use of $12.1M balances
The committee proposed a token appropriation of 100 dollars and authorized tapping of 12,115,000 dollars in unexpended balances for projects already underway.
Wallace Urges Government Leasing Of War Plants
Vice President Wallace proposes government leases for war plants in the West and South to keep them operating independently after the war. He spoke at a Minnesota event with Farmer-Labor and Democratic leaders and did not address party merger. He urged open licensing, regional development, and measures to aid ten million poorest families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Wallace
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor
West
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
Leaves from a War Correspondent's Notebook
In a Feb 1 dispatch from the Rapido front an 8 year old Italian boy Leonardo is treated for a severe head wound from shrapnel. An American medic and an aid station team care for him as officials note the need for proper hospital care beyond the improvised facility. The boy’s brother Dominic 13 sits with him while the wounded child’s grim condition is described and the limits of frontline medical aid are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapido Front
Leonardo
Thomas Gatana
Boston
Gatana
Dominic
Leonardo, His Small Hand ‘In’ Gatana
Alex Brown
Cleveland
Forrest Benedict
Waterloo
John Huffman
Waukon
Brown
Venafro
Eoyes
Model Housewife Of OPA to Talk In Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Philip L. Crowlie of Huron South Dakota Washington representative of the American housewife for the OPA will speak in Cedar Rapids next Monday. She will address the Woman's club at 2 15 pm and later speak at a public meeting for women in the Glow room of the Town Illinois Gas and Electric company. A noon luncheon in the Glow room will honor her with leaders of local women’s organizations invited. She will explain rationing and price control with focus on housewife enforcement. Crowlie joined the OPA in 1943 to represent the average homemaker and has deep ties to women’s groups and civic work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip L. Crowlie
Huron
S. C
Washington
OPA
Cedar Rapids
Woman’s Club
Iilinois Gas and Electric Company
Prentiss M. Brown
South Dakota
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Parent-Teacher Association
American Legion Auxiliary
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Sicily
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Need for Naval Officers Mounting
The navy department announced Monday an increasing need for officers for amphibious invasion operations and for staff of the expanding fleet. Officials said 80,000 landing craft plus new destroyer escorts and larger vessels are planned by end of 1944, creating demand for officers in amphibious, cargo transport, and convoy roles across the oceans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Navy Department
Navy
Treanor Reports Night Fighting in Cassino with Eighth Army
War correspondent Tom Treanor describes American patrols in Cassino battling German forces under moonlit streets. Patrols led by Lt. Riordan, Lt. Sisco, and Capt. Carter engage machine guns, tanks, and grenades, with heavy fire and close quarters fighting across ruined piazzas and bunkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassino
Eighth Army
Washington C. Carter
Montgomery
Ala
Carter
Paul Riordan
Kansas City
Riordan
Jerry
Warren Chapman
Nevada City
Calif
Nicholas Sisco
Passaic
N. J
Sisco
Luther Spurlock
Pine Bluff
Ark
Valentines Ban Sought by Postmaster General Walker
The piece notes Postmaster General Walker pushing a ban on valentines while readers favor Esquire. It mentions readers upset by drawings and includes a late supper of doughnuts and coffee cooked on a Coleman stove while awaiting word from Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Esquire
Davis
Probate Notice for Emma E Peterson Will
Notice of probate hearing in Linn County Iowa for Emma E Peterson to admit the instruments as her last will and testament. The District Court in Cedar Rapids will hear the matter on February 21, 1944 at 9:00 AM. The notice provides details of the probate process and originating parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Iowa
Linn County
Emma E. Peterson
Cedar Rapids
Iows
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Gazette
Spars
Ibserviiles
Hal Boyle
Philip Crowlie
Treanor Banks
Tom Treanor
Rior
Dan
Spurlock
Chapman
Pfc
Leo Byers
Archer, Ia
No Man’s Land
Stanley Davis
Kingsley, Ia
Adrian van Steenbergen
Sheldon, Ia
Mary Overman
LeMars, Ta
Steenbergen
Valentine
Wayne Fraizer
Jamestown
N. Y
Bill Higgins
Wyoming
Ivan De‘graff
Alton
P. X
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling ‘Company
Newman
Yman
Cressey—Newman
Man
Third Avenue
Third Street
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Arthur Axmear
Dwight Krumholtz
George R. Griner
Zold Tole
Standard
Second Avenue
Lyse
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