War Mobilization Bureau clarifies work or fight policy
A regional bulletin from the War Mobilization Commission outlines how selective service boards may permit war workers to change jobs while serving the war effort. It details procedures for 2-A and 2-B deferments, referral rules to priority employment, and the roles of USES and local boards in ensuring continued deferment or action as required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Employment Service
James F. Byrnes
F M. Rarig, Jr
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
WMC
George D. Haskell
Des Moines
H. J. Eberhart
Selective Service Boards
Selective Service Board
USES
Local Selective Service Board
WMC and
Housing for returning veterans tight in Cedar Rapids
The Kenridge Terrace Trailer camp on Leonard avenue NE remains the only current housing for war workers in Cedar Rapids under the Federal Public Housing Authority. Of 100 trailers, 65 are occupied with about 10 new applications daily, while postwar demand grows and carpenters anticipate a building boom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Kenridge Terrace
Leonard Avenue
Thirty Second Street
Federal Public Housing Authority
Ann Gatens
Miss Gatens
Walter Shadle
A. F. of L
More Boys Working In Y M C A Craft Shop
William J. Dawson reports increased participation at the Y M C A craft shop with 387 boys registered in 1944 and expected to be topped in 1945. The shop serves boys 8 and older, operates 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, and produces leather belts wooden articles and mail boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Dawson
Dawson
Landlords Trust Local Housing Network To House Workers
Day notes Davenport has a widespread rental network as landlords accept the judgments of a trusted local broker. He cites minimal eviction trouble under OPA rules and quick compliance when notices go out. Two Cedar Rapids plants run in house room listings for immigrant workers, aiding housing shortages. The Gazette’s call drew over 200 homeowners to offer rooms for about 500 teachers last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Louis H. Day
Davenport Chamber of Commerce
the Gazette
Day
Cedar Rapids
Wilson and Company
Quaker Oats Company
Iowa
Chamber of Commerce
Gazette
the Gazette Company
3Rd Ave
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
Fire hits Mt Clemens downtown causing $250000 damage
A downtown Mt. Clemens blaze Saturday caused about 250000 in damage and destroyed several buildings along with two of the city's largest hotels. No casualties were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Clemens, Mich
Mt. Clemens
Dykstra Leaves For California Job
MADISON Wisconsin UP President Clarence A Dykstra Saturday bade farewell to the University of Wisconsin campus, where he had served nearly eight years. Dykstra left by train for California for a brief vacation before assuming his new duties as provost of the University of California at Los Angeles about Feb 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Clarence A. Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
Dykstra
California
University of California At Los Angeles
Tydings Farm Deferment Plan Faces Roosevelts Push
Washington AP In a bid for farm bloc support the House military committee moved to emphasize the Tydings formula in work or jail legislation for farm workers The panel plans to write a proviso into the bill barring any action that would override the Tydings act The move aims to outpace a rival farm state plan while facing labor objections and a potential showdown over union membership in war plant assignments
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Roosevelt
Mrs. Husted Receives Husband's Purple Heart
The Purple Heart awarded posthumously to Pfe. LaVern F. Husted, 23, for wounds received October 25, 1944, on Leyte, has been received by his wife Shirley Husted of 730 Second Street NW. He died from his injuries.
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Pfe
LaVern F. Husted
Shirley Husted
Second Street NW
Husted
Leyte
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H.J. Eberhart
War Manpower Commission
Chicago
NEW Vision
H. G. Fussell
Optometrist
2Nd Ave
Dial
OPA
North Sea
France
Denmark
Baltic Sea
Austria
Prussia
Hungary
AVIA
Yugoslavia
Anae
Adriatic Sea
Berlin
Poland
Just
Ward's
Steve Pipe
Montgomery Ward
Lakeside
Lakeside Pruner
Pruner
Wara
Gerette
Isix
U.S
Allen-Klapp Company
Michigan Avenue
Fifth Avenue
New York
New Center
Detroit
Median Records
A.N
Tydings
Representative Stewart
Doklah
The
Oklahoman
Draft Board
Mrs. Husted
Purple
Sterling
Ster
Ling
By Sterling
America
Craemer
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