Honor Students Aid Linn County War Price Office
Cedar Rapids honor students from public and parochial schools volunteered at the Linn county war price and rationing board office. About 80 juniors and seniors worked as clerks and typists five days a week, handling OPA forms, certificates, and files to assist tire and food registrations. Boys have not yet joined. girls praised for prompt, orderly work.
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ONOR
Cedar Rapids
Linn County War Price and
OPA
Linn County War
A. T. Pleune
Gazette
Linn County War Price and Rationing Board
Dorothy Hendryx
Roosevelt High
Lenore Dvorak
St. Wenceslaus School
Louise Fernow
Franklin
Geraldine Lorence
McKinley
Rose Palumbo
St. Patrick's
Jeanne Jiricek
Wilson School
German salvage craft sunk by magnetic mines in Oresund
Two German salvage boats and a pontoon were sunk by magnetic mines Friday in the Oersund strait between Denmark and Sweden. Reuters reported Saturday from Stockholm.
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London
Oersund
Denmark
Sweden
Reuters
Stockholm
War ration rules outline for May 31 red stamps and fuel coupons
Rationing details cover coffee, meat and processed foods valid until May 31. E stamps from April 25, midnights May 1, May 31. Gasoline coupons five in A book valid for four gallons for two months. D E F in book 2 valid until April 30, G H J valid to May 31. Sugar five pounds until May 31, oil five gallons, shoes four today shoes. Linn county war price and rationing board, T Pleune secretary, in American building. office hours weekdays 10 to 4, Saturdays 10 to 12.
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Linn County War Price and Rationing Board
T. Pleune
American Building
First Avenue and
Second Street SE
Spring Frolic of Industrial League May 22
The Allied Industrial League will hold its annual spring frolic at Memorial Coliseum on Saturday May 22 from 8 p m to midnight. President Harlan King announced the dance is May event sponsored by the Y M C A and attracts about 5000 workers and families. Admission is by ticket only with no charge. Twenty two Cedar Rapids companies are affiliated. Health committee and organizers listed include George Swab Betty Landa Karry Hoyt Dwight Allen Ray Beals Vernon Spurrier Mrs Ray Hamilton Paul Horan Dean Haworth Ray Hamilton Lester Wright Albert Shank Harley Bowser Ed Zeller and others.
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Allied Industrial League
Memorial Coliseum
Harlan King
Cedar Rapids
King
Harley Bowser
Petersen Baking Company
Ed Zeller
Delegates Named For Hawkeye Boys State Nominees
Twenty four Cedar Rapids high school students edge toward Grinnell College for June 6 to 13 as delegates to Hawkeye Boys State. Nominations rose with added posts. Franklin will elect six while McKinley and Roosevelt each choose five.
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Cedar Rapids
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Dwight Krumholtz
Americanism Committee
Hanford Post No. 5
Immaculate Conception
Krumboltz
Franklin
Roosevelt
McKinley
Wilson
St. Patrick's and
St. Wenceslaus
Czech President to Visit Roosevelts as Guest in May
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia will arrive in Washington around May 12 to meet President Roosevelt. He will stay about a week in Washington and then travel to New York and Chicago before returning home.
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Roosevelt
Washington
State Department
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Roose- Benes
New York
Chicago
United States
Italian Claim Sinks Four Atlantic Steamers
Rome radio said without Allied confirmation that an Italian submarine sank four steamers totaling 29 000 tons in the Atlantic. The claim was reported from New York via AP and lacks independent verification.
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New York
Rome
Atlantic
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Daryl Smith
James Doln
Glen Mulherin
William Carney
James Milek
James Blake
Ele Pere
DIAL
Fuel Oil
Ration Board
Industrial League
INS
Merchandise Mart
Charles Hopkins
Kenneth Lavel
Pat McPartland
Owen Rubins
Robert Turner
James Cabalka
William Shuttleworth
George Thompson
Richard Rust
William Fletcher
Benny Pinsky
Ray Scholl
Jim Westcott
Verl Stern
Bob Lester
Gaylord de Vaul
Harry Retz
George McNelly
Nick Thomas
Gerard Mollman
David Birch
Gordon Baker
Richard Buffington
Robert
Newman's
Iowa
Mary Miles
Helena Rubenstein
Arrid
The
American Institute of Laundering
Newman’s Street
Newman
KOTEX
Ictoh
Rayon
Gabardine
Shetland
Newmark Street
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