Nursery schools aid working families in Cedar Rapids
Children at Jane Boyd Community House and Sunshine Mission nurseries learn colors, counting, and manners while caregivers praise orderly rooms and high engagement. With Lanham Act funds expanding sites, new extended school centers are planned to serve after school and Saturday needs. parents contact Mrs. Lloyd Davis for information.
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Cedar Rapids
Jane Boyd
Sharlene Goldsberry
Donna Byrd
Ellen Sulek
Gazette-Hambiin
Dale Lewis
Connie Lou Newman
Sunshine Mission Nursery School
Lloyd Davis
Linn County Ocd
Sunshine Mission
Mission Nursery
Separate Butter Rationing Is Out In 1944 Plan
Washington dispatch says OPA will not implement separate butter rationing despite shortages and dairy industry pleas. Butter remains part of the meat fats and oils rationing program. WFA allocates 416 million pounds of jams jellies spreads and fruit butters for civilians in 1944, including 56 million jam, 200 million jelly, 110 million marmalade and 50 million apple butter.
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Washington
INS
OPA
War Food Administration
WFA
Penetro Salve Promises Quick Cold Relief This Year
An advertisement warns of yearly illness and promotes Penetro salve with Warnetie vapors for nasal and throat relief and circulation boost. It offers 25 cents with a double supply for 35 cents and claims modern medication in a base with old fashioned ingredients.
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Grandma
Government urges sugar use to offset butter shortages
The government promotes using sugar and fruit in preserves to offset reduced supplies of butter and spreads and maintain bread consumption. Wisconsin averages 20 pounds of butter per person annually, Alabama about half a pound, with concerns over distribution and stamps would lower national butter allotment to about a pound per person per month. Shortages tied to reduced pork ration points shift demand to butter.
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Lend Lease
WFA
OPA
Wisconsin
Alabama
Jobby in London
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby commander of the United States WAC and Maj. Betty Bankel staff director of the air force branch arrived in London Sunday with a delegation in wartime coordination.
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London
Oveta Culp Hobby
United States
WAC
Betty. Bankel
Tucson
Ariz
Air Force
Shipyard Troup at Philadelphia Ends
Nearly 17 000 workers massed at Cramp Shipbuilding in Philadelphia to end a four day strike after voting to return to work. They booed national union president John Green and refused his resignation as local leaders held to their positions. The walkout followed the firing of 52 painters over spray gun pay disputes and low turnout for Green’s return order. Navy labor relations officer Lt. Comdr Joslin announced Navy support to urge resolution.
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Philadelphia
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
John Green
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
Green
Lnion
Comdr
J. M. L. Joslin
Navy
Unclear Text Negotiations Prompt Union Action
The article fragment notes the company to open immediate negotiations on several grievances and the membership approving a resolution asking the union's general executive committee to investigate strained relations between Green and local officers.
Newspapers Slash Revenues to Preserve War News Coverage
New York AP report shows American papers cutting advertising space and circulation to save paper under WPB orders. Measures include smaller ads, restricted circulation, fewer features, and printing without ads on key editions. Some papers skip holidays to conserve pages.
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New York
War Production Board
WPB
Associated Press
Abilene
Tex
Reporter- News
Snowballing Watchman Charged With Disorderly Conduct
In Chicago a 27 year old watchman at a war plant was charged with disorderly conduct after snowball volleys woke Southside residents. Passerby Jacob Schuster tried to intervene and was pelted. Officers Sylvester and Brady were driven off before Michau was jailed after exhausting his supply.
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Chicago
Donald O Michau
Jacob Schuster
Michau
Phillip Sylvester
Charles Brady
President Smetona Dies in Cleveland Fire
Antanas Smetona the 70 year old former president of Lithuania died in a Cleveland fire caused by an overheated furnace in his brother Julius Smetona’s home. He was found unconscious in the kitchen and died at a local hospital despite resuscitation efforts.
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Smetona of
Lithuania
Cleveland
INS
Antanas Smetona
Russia
Julius
Smetona
K. S Karpius
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
Chicago
Uzulenis
St Petersburg
Leningrad
Vilna
Grinius
Berlin
Germany
Hiller
United States
New York
Navy weighs demobilization plan for postwar personnel
The navy opened a preliminary study on orderly demobilization of service members, aiming for a national approach with other services. It considers service length, dependents, skills in demand, and a weighted point system to determine release priority while avoiding a chaotic job market.
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Washington
Navy
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Bureau
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National Cash Registers
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RIAL
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Iowa
United Press International News Service
U.S
Allen-Klapp Company
Michican Avenue
Fifth Avenue
New Center Rlde
Detroit
OK — Metal
Media Records
A.n.p.al Bureau of Advertising
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Hitler
Hirohito
Mussolini
U.S. Employment Service
Wacs
U. S. Army
ARMY
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YYAC
Ds Army Corps
Towa
Shevid
Neme
City
Steve
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