Allied push in New Guinea nets heavy Japan losses
A MacArthur communique reports about 700 Japanese killed and 100 captured in the Mambare area north of the Ambasi and Kumusi rivers. US air forces hit targets at Mambare, Kumasi estuaries, and Gasmata on New Britain, with widespread bombing of Lae and surrounding coastlines.
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MacArthur
Mambare
Ambasi
Kumusi
United States
Kumasi
Gasmata
New Britain Island
Andang
New Guinea
Finsch Harbor
Lae
Lorengau Harbor
Admiralty Islands
Solomons Sea
Milne Bay
Red Cross Sees 800 Percent Aid Rise at Home Service School
In St. Louis the first United States home service training school discussed wartime aid needs for World War II veterans and families. Red Cross requests surged from about 500 daily before December 7 1941 to over 4000 daily with Cedar Rapids cases rising from 56 to 321 monthly. Most aid connected to servicemen inquiries in combat zones hospitals overseas and prison camps. Additional training schools planned for San Francisco New York and Alexandria Virginia.
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Armo
St. Louis
United States
J. B. Sigmund
Linn County
Red Cross Home Service
Sigmund
Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
San Francisco
New York
Alexandria
Japanese radio urges sleep not on tracks to prevent rail accidents
A Bangkok broadcast cited by United Press recommended natives avoid sleeping and leaving parcels on rail lines to reduce accidents. The Office of War Information relayed the note on the safety suggestion. A probate executrix notice from Linn County Iowa names Mary A Arp as executrix of Cari E Arp ite and calls for claims to be filed with the county clerk by the deadline.
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Bangkok
Office of War Information
A. Linn
Cari E. Arpiate
Linn County
Iowa
Linn
Mary A. Arp
Charles Penningroth
Ettorney
State of
Mery
Seed Starting Box A Handy Spring Project
Start with a seed starting box for 1943 spring gardening. A wick feeder keeps soil damp as the box is submerged then drained before dark storage. Once sprouts appear, move to a sunny window with warmth and humidity for strong transplants.
Use Objectors as Mobile Land Army to Help Farmers
Draft Director Hershey says about 500 conscientious objectors are available as a mobile land army to assist farmers. They can be moved where agriculture certifies need, with potential to grow by about 1,000. Objectors will have farm wages withheld and redirected to peaceful postwar government uses. Many have volunteered to train as troopers to fight forest fires.
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Washington
Hershey
Department of Agriculture
Treasury
Posthumous Purple Heart for Sergt Meyer in Africa
Sergeant Maurice B. Meyer, killed in action in the African theater in January, is awarded the Purple Heart posthumously. A War Department letter to his mother Mrs. Goldena Meyer notes the decoration and an engraved certificate will be sent later.
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Maurice B. Meyer
Army Air Forces
War Department
Goldena Meyer
First Avenue
Florists Cut City Mileage With Delivery Pool
Downtown Des Moines florists cut mileage by 20 to 50 percent through a shared delivery system. The pool has run three weeks with two daily city deliveries. Two trucks operate, one handling east side routes and the Bezdek greenhouse truck handling west side routes, meeting in the loop each morning and afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Florists
East Side
Bezdek Greenhouse
West Side
Bezdek
Delivery Schedule Notes for Flower Orders and Pickups
The document outlines pickup procedures for flowers with two trucks handling packages. Orders for hospitals luncheons and funerals must be placed by 10 a.m. for same day noon delivery, with afternoon deliveries in residential areas and a last florist stop at 10:45.
Delivery Schedule Tied to Florist Stops and Defense Transport
A note sets a latest placement time of 3 p m as a truck departs the final florist stop at 3 45. The delivery pool was created at the request of the Office of Defense Transportation.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Speaker to Discuss Rail Retirement Act Amendment
A meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Memorial hall Marion will hear plans to amend the railroad retirement act to extend social security protections to widows and dependent children of railroad workers. James L. Cosgrove of Chicago will be chief speaker representing the Railroad Employes National Pension Association Inc. The current rule offers protection only for wives whose husbands had retired into a joint and survivor annuity.
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Memorial Hall
Marion
James L. Cosgrove
Chicago
Railroad Employesational Pension Association, Inc
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United Press
Leibsohn’s
Chada
Birch
Ba iOa Inks
Devel
U.S. Army Aviation Cadet
Ing
Armed Forces
Tion
Selective Service Board
Joint
Army-Navy Personnel Board
Army
Aviation Cadet Examining Board
Air Corps
Adjutant General
Washington, D. C
Federal Building
Des Moines
U. S. Army
Sergt. Meyer
Africa
By d’Alessio
Greece
Emily A
Fred W. Hann
Attorner
Sage
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