The Persuasive Pitch to Join the WAAC in Wartime
A Wartime feature argues women should consider joining the WAAC, outlining roles from clerks to cooks, training, duties, and age requirements. It clarifies you may be posted anywhere, must meet health and education standards, and notes the contrast with male volunteers who need spousal support.
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Women's Army
Barbara Frietchie
Molly Pitcher
Joan of Arce
Dora Dear
WAAC
Uncle Sam
War Department
Johnny Doughboy
United States
Regular Army
Australia
Russia
Des Moines
Local Permits Issued Last Week Citywide
Ed Anderson seeks to remodel a dwelling at 3314 Avenue NE for 20 dollars. Many residents file permits for reroofing and remodeling dwellings including Harold Downer 1815 Second Street SW 125 dollars and Rebecca Goddard 1266 Thirty Een Street NE, reroof. New dwellings, garages, and removals appear across multiple streets and neighborhoods.
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Ed Anderson
Avenue
TI. Cowell
Mt Vernon Road
Rebecca Goddard
Thirtyeen Street
Harold Downer
Second Street
Mabel Coin
Mallory Street
Irma V. Lyman. Shaffer
Avenue NE
Clark S Green
C Avenue
Ernest Rimrodt
Nineteenth Avenue
Harry Glime
Eleventh Avenue
H. J. Reynolds
Fourth Street
William Kuda
Ho Avenue
I. H. Erickson
Juliana Jaimek
F Avenue
F. J Bohac
Seventeenth Street
Chester Williams
Twentieth Street
Mrs
T T Lynch
Fourth Avenue
Sindelar
First Avenue
Charles Vantalge
Westwood Drive
Julius Ho Markert
Sinclair Avenue
Maud M Lutz
Mt. Vernon Road
Frank K. Cisler
Sixteenth Avenue
A J Emmerich
Second Avenue
Joe Skala
Mae Auld
B Avenue
Leon Stusak
Third Street
Vern Haworth
Sixteenth Street
John Cabalka
Wildwood Drive
D. E. Thom
Twelfth Street
Oomph Girl Wins In Art Battle on High School Vote
In Chicago, 3,733 high school students surveyed on art appreciation under a Rockefeller grant named George Petty as the top favorite artist. Following Petty were Innes Monet Doris Lee Homer Breton Caravaggio Renoir Monet Sargent and Van Gogh in that order.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Art Institute
Rockefeller Foundation
George Petty
Petty
Innes
Monet
Doris Lee
Homer
Breton
Caravaggio
Renoir
Sargent
van Gogh
Lat ines filed notice of intention to wed
Katherine Schumann Heink age 19 granddaughter of Mme Ernestine Schumann Heink and Richard Vedowa 24 aircraft engineer filed intention to wed in Burbank California United States News Service report confirms the couple plans marriage with formal notice filed in the local registrar.
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Burbank
Calif
Ins
Katherine Schumann-Heink
Mme
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Richard Vedowa
Arnold to Speak at Madison June 21
Assist ant Attorney General Thurman Arnold will deliver the principal address at the 17th annual memorial services for the late Robert Moo LeFallette Sr on Sunday June 21 in Madison Wisconsin.
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Arnold
Madison
Aladison
Wis
Thurman Arnold
Robert Moo LeFallette
Five Hundred Women Begin WAC Officer Candidate Exams
Five hundred women started reporting Saturday at nine army corps area headquarters to take examinations for officer candidate status in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Washington
Army Corps
Work More Work and Babies Besides Nazi Slogan
In wartime Germany women bear main wartime duties as men serve abroad. They run electric routes, drive, deliver mail, operate telephones, work in munitions, farm, and manage home tasks while bearing children. Despite strain, birth rates stay strong per authorities and press.
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New York
Germany
North Cape
Spanish
Atlantic Seaboard
Soviet Russia
Bad Nauheim
Tate
Robert F. Leo
Kausfrau
Destruction of Eight Square Miles of Cologne Shown
London AP reports aerial photographs from RAF raids indicate eight square miles of Cologne destroyed and widespread fires across the Rhine city and suburbs. The study notes large parts of the old town heavily burned with much of the metropolitan area in ruin.
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Cologne
R.A.F
London
Rhineland
Ammimistus
Subiban
Cologne Bombing Destroys Industrial Areas and Cathedral Safe
The Valcian works Rheinfelt plant and K. G. Mauser works were wiped out by explosions and fire amid RAF raids. The Hohenzollern bridge bore the blast while Cologne’s 14th century cathedral appeared undamaged on film. Death toll in Cologne climbed to 305 with observers doubting the official count.
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Valcian
Rheinfelt
K. G. Mauser
Hohenzollern
Rhine
Cologne
Berlin
Exemption Sought for Livestock Truck Operators
The National Livestock Exchange urged the Office of Defense Transportation to exempt livestock trucks from rules requiring full loads outward and 75 percent return capacity. A convention resolution called for price ceiling relief from the Office of Price Administration. Charles R. Rice of Chicago and all officers were reelected.
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Chicago
National Livestock Exchange
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Price Administration
Charles R Rice
Boy to Be Tried June 9 for Murder
Circuit Judge Geoffrey Dixon set June 9 as the trial date for a 12 year old boy charged with murder in the April 8 killing of his foster parents Mr and Mrs Charles Krugiohann near Shannon Mountain Carroll.
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Frefport
UPI
Jacdie Geof Dixon
Tine
Mount Carroll
William Cemreman
Vere
Charles Krugiohann
Shannan
Gen Haynes Funeral Planned in Centerville Monday
Funeral services for Brig Gen Glenn C C Haynes 66 longtime warden of the state penitentiary will be held Monday at Centerville Iowa. Haynes died Saturday after suffering periodic heart attacks for several months and was taken to a hospital before being released to his home.
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Fort Madison
Glenn CC Haynes
State Penitenties
Centerville
Jewis Hie
Haynes
City Briefs Notes Meetings and Personal Updates in Iowa
City briefs list 1245 pm meeting on the plaza for coliseum services and Townsend No 2 meeting at 7:45 pm in city hall superior court room with a state convention report. Private William L. King visits from Camp Gordon for a 10 day furlough. Elmer Brinkman to speak on conserv ing resources at Optimist club. Carl Kuhn transfers to officers candidate school at Lowry Field Colorado. John D Taylor promoted to fifth technician at Camp Barkeley Texas. Scout troop and Cub pack IT Buchanan hold a dinner at Bever Park pavilion 3:30 to 6 pm. First Lutheran Men’s Brotherhood meeting postponed to June 18 at 7 pm at Bever Park horseshoe pits.
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Townsend Club No. 2
Superior Court
City Hall
Culuren Mens
Vendav
Bever Park
Piente Alb Men of
Y’s Men Plan Picnic and Cabin Ceremony at Camp Wapsie
The Ys Men club invites members to attend a picnic at Camp Wapsie Y for today and to install a Y's Men's emblem on their cabin before the Camp opens on June 14.
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Y’s
Ys Mens Club
Camp Wapsie
Y's
Camp Wapsie “Y
Hanford Legion Post Picnic Moves to Armory
The Hanford post of the American Legion will open its summer picnics on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The event is moved to the Memorial building armory to conserve tires and will admit 1942 members with membership cards.
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Hanford
American Legion
Memorial Building
Congress Bloc Sticks to 50 Base Pay for Enlisted
Congress supporters refuse compromise on a $46 to $50 base pay proposal for the lowest enlisted ranks. A conference report for $38 monthly base pay will be debated in the Senate, while Rep John Rin pushes for the $50 figure in the House. Senator LaFollette vows to fight to the finish.
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Washington
LLP
Senate
House
Noth Bodizes
Robert M LaFollette
John E Rana Rin
Two Die in Army Plane Crash Near Lubbock Base
Two army officers died when a plane crashed near the Lubbock air base. The victims were Second Lieutenant Thomas To and Lieutenant James P. Noble both listed as missing prior to the announcement by authorities on Saturday.
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Lubbock
Tex
Thomas
Tortcher
Richmond
James PF Noble Sovalo
Lubbock Air Base
Fuilier
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dorothy Box Wide World
Jenny
SEARS
Sears, Roebuck
3Rd Ave
Hausfrau
S Louis Plociiier
Frankfurter Zeitung
Chum
Tion
Gen. Haynes
City Briefs
Iowa Volunteer Auxiliary
William L. King
Camp Gordon
Augusta
William O King
Ninth Street
Elmer Brinkman
Haegg Roofing and Insulation Company
Optimist Club
Carl B Kuhn
CB. Kuhn
Twelfth Avenue SE
Jefferson Barracks
Lowryfield
Colo
John D Taylor
Camp Barkeley
Tea
Mer
John D. Taylor
Scout Treap
Bevee Park
Church
Legion Picnic
Congress Bloc
Monogram
Norge and
Junger
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