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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1946
Page
14
Domestic food distribution neared normal levels after a two day rail strike. Officials warn a critical gap in relief shipments could halt UNRRA supplies and leave cities with reduced fruit vegetables and meat for days while grain exports remain stalled in elevators.
Eskimos report a German naval weather station group of 100 men landed on Greenland's east coast in 1942 under a naval captain. They moved 100 miles inland after surrender and are believed to have supplies to last another year.
In Frankfurt amid American occupation, the conservative Christian Social Union rose as the strongest political force as preliminary results emerged. The report notes the CSU gaining momentum and shaping postwar governance in occupied Germany.
A collage of missing items and personal notices lists many lost objects including a brown purse between Whip's and Norway corner on Thursday night with money and papers, a brown billfold at 1st Ave Liggett's, a Scheaffer fountain pen, a gold wrist watch with black band, and a red handle parasol near Mercy Hospital. Rewards offered. contact numbers included. Also features a U N delegates drink to excess remark by Dr Daniel L Marsh at Boston University and assorted classifieds for services, sales, and transportation in Cedar Rapids area.
Los Angeles dispatch reports Robert Porter blamed Tidworth army camp in England for a mysterious illness affecting children of British war brides. He cited unsanitary conditions, forced morning lines, food handled by prisoners of war, and disinterested medical exams as factors in his six month old son Allen’s illness.
FRANKFURT AP The Stars and Stripes reports two ex U S soldiers married German women by a technicality during discharge and while taking War Department jobs in Germany. Charles Quatt 30 Paterson New Jersey and Philip Haeze 24 Pittsburgh lived with their wives in Regensburg overlooking the Danube.
Classified ads seek full time and weekend waitresses at O K Drive Inn and Marion listings, day cook at Union Station Lunchroom, dental assistant for Dr Harmon's office, candy attendant, maid, beauty operator, elderly houseworker, cashier and waitress positions. Also car tires promotion and other job notices appear.
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