Iowa faces teacher shortage after war impact
Iowa education faces a looming decline as Miss Agnes Samuelson of the Iowa State Teachers association reports enrollment in college education courses has fallen to less than half prewar levels, with only one fifth of high school seniors planning teacher training next year. Many teachers have left for higher pay or military service, hinting at deteriorating instruction quality in the coming years. The piece links policy choices to pay and public support, urging prompt action.
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Iowa
Agnes Samuelson
Iowa State Teachers Association
Miss Samuelson
Yanks Hit Polish Plants and German Targets in Major Day of Bombing
A thousand American heavy bombers escorted by 1,200 fighters raided two Polish aircraft factories at Poznan and Kreisling and four in eastern Germany at Leipzig Tutow Cottbus and Sorau. Lesser bombers struck French invasion ports as fleets split into pearheads to confuse defenses. Seven bombers landed in Sweden after a long roundtrip to Poznan.
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London
Germany
Poland
U. S
Poznan
Kreisling
Leipzig
Tutow
Cottbus
Sorau
Lower Danube
Italy
Berlin
Sweden
Stockholm
Reich
Gemany
Dresden
Magdeburg
United States
Ruhland
Lutzkendorf
Merseburg
Chinese Face Grave Crisis At Changsha
Japanese forces pressed toward Changsha along the Hankow Canton railway in Hunan, within 80 miles, as Chinese defenses under Little Tiger Yueh strive to halt the fourth battle for the city. The push extends from Yoyang with battles near Tungcheng, while Maj. Gen. Claire Chennaults Fourteenth air force joins the Hunan fight amid broader Chinese operations in Henan Shanxi and Yunnan.
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Chungking
Hunan
Changsha
China
Hankow-Canton
Yoyang
Yochow
Tungting Lake
Tungcheng
Hupeh
Little Tiger
Hsueh Yueh
Canton
Henan
Shansi
Yunnan
Burma
Claire Chennault
Fourteenth Air Force
Joseph W. Stilwell
Lt. Roland Darsee Wounded in Action Third Time This Year
Cedar Rapids news reports Lt. Roland A. Darsee, an officer in a cannon infantry division, wounded in Italy for the third time this year. The letter, sent to his sister, says he suffered injuries May 10 to 14, after a shell exploded near him, injuring a leg. Previous wounds occurred February 20 and March 18, with a May 3 citation for heroic and meritorious duty. Darsee, son of Mrs. Clifford Shriver and Charles J. Darsee of Martelle, attended Coe College. his wife resides in Galesburg, Illinois.
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Cedar Rapids
Roland A. Darsee
Italy
Carl Butterfield
Maplewood Drive
Darsee
Clifford Shriver
Charles J. Darsee
Martelle
St. Darseé
Coe College
Galesburg
Ill
Adeline Montillon Former Cleveland Principal Dies
Adeline Euelah Montillon, longtime principal of Cleveland school from 1920 until her retirement in 1948, died at her Cedar Rapids home Monday at 6:50 am. Born September 26, 1879 in Tipton, she taught at Van Buren since 1900 and was active in Peoples church, the B P W and AAUW. Survived by brothers Herbert H. Montillon of Cedar Rapids and George H. Montillon of Knoxville. Services set for 4 pm Wednesday at Turner chapel. visitation Tuesday.
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Cedar Rounds
Adeline Euelah Montillon
First Avenue NW
Cleveland School
Miss Montillon
Tipton
Enen
van Buren
The
Peoples Church
American Association of University Women
Washington High School
Coe College
Herbert H. Montillon
Cedar Rapids
George H. Montillon
Knoxville, Tenn
Turner Chapel
Sawmill Strike Threatens Major Longview Mills
In Longview Washington CIO workers at the world’s two largest mills, Longbell and Weyerhaeuser, voted at a mass meeting Sunday night to go fishing Monday, signaling potential closures.
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Longview
Wash
Longbell and Weyer-~ Haueser
CIO
Allied Campaign For New Guinea About Concluded
Allied ground and air forces pushed on Biak island as Gen. MacArthur confirmed near completion of the New Guinea campaign. Bosnek and Mokmer airfields were within reach, with 288 tons of bombs dropped and nine enemy planes downed. The liberation of 200 Japanese laborers was announced as bombers targeted more positions.
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New Guinea
Allied
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Biak
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Sposnek
Mokmer
Bosnek
Bial
Schouten
Palau
South Seas
Carolines
MacArthur
Wakde Island
Sarmi
Maffin
Barbara Douglas to Wed Lt Arnold in Santa Monica
Barbara Douglas daughter of aviation pioneer Donald W. Douglas will marry Lt William Bruce Arnold son of General Henry H Arnold at the Santa Monica home of her parents on June 10. Arnold’s mother will attend from Fort Meyer Virginia and Arnold is stationed at Camp Haan near Riverside California.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Barbara Douglas
Donald W. Douglas
William Bruce Arnold
Air Forces
H. H. Arnold
Douglas
Lt. Arnold
Haan
Riverside
War Production Board Reports April Munitions Lag Behind Schedule
Chairman Donald M. Nelson disclosed that munitions output in April ran three percent behind schedule and two percent under the March quota, as Washington reports the War Production Board data.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
Mail Vesely 49 35 Check As a Refund
The Linn county auditor directed by state examiners mailed a 49.35 refund check drawn on county funds to former public official Robert M. Vesely. The complex action followed a 1944 audit and was tied to a 109.20 shortage in Vesely’s office, with 58 of that amount from dog licenses. The check will be mailed with an explanatory letter detailing the issuance and timing.
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Robert M. Vesely
Linn
Ray C. Coutts
Vesely
William H. Bennett
Coutts
Governors Hear From President At War Conference
President Roosevelt congratulated governors on quick mobilization of resources for unified war action and urged continued cooperation. Governor Leverett Saltonstall opened the thirty-sixth annual meeting, stressing US leadership in global stability and a bottom up approach to governance.
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Hershey
Roosevelt
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
National Conference of Governors
New York
America
Governors’ Conference
Saltonstall
United States
Drowning in Cedar River After Sinking Boat
Two youths, Lloyd Bennett McCalley Jr. 17 and John Swanson 16, nearly died when a boat carrying five boys swamped in the Cedar River near the old Ellis Park bathing beach. McCalley drowned. Swanson was rescued after both struggled in the water as police searched through Sunday night and into Monday morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Ellis Park
Lloyd Bennett McCalley, Jr
Forest Drive
John Swanson
Avenue NE
McCalley
Swanson
Robert Klopp
J Avenue
Jack McFartland
First Avenue
Derritt Clendening
C Avenue
Carl Clendening
Kopp
Clendening
Carl
McCaley
Three Nazi Divisions Wiped Out Near Rome
Allied forces thrust toward Rome from the Alban hills and across the Liri and Sacco valleys as Fifth and Eighth Army units push to breach the Anzio Albano lines. German resistance remains fierce with counter attacks, while French and American troops seize key towns and bridgeheads in a broad offensive launched May 11. More than 15,000 prisoners are reported taken.
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Allied
Naples
Fifth Army
Eternal City
Aprilia
Fifth
Compoleone
Rome
Valmontone
Casilina
Via
Campoleone- Valmontone
Velletri
Appian
Lanuvia
Alban
Pontine
Associated Press
Edward Kennedy
Eighth Army
Liri
Sacco
Sermoneta
Bassiano
Norma
Ville Santo Stefano
Monte Siserno
Ceprano
Oliver Leese
Pofi
Arce
Monte Orro
Santo Padre
Anzio- Albano
Dewey Signals Possible GOP Nomination Run
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in Hershey, says he is not discouraging talk of his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He tells about 100 reporters that talk has moved beyond rumor and that he may have suggestions for the convention, as the pre convention delegate contest intensifies. Continuous coverage on Page 2.
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Mr. Johnson
Hershey
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Yank Draftees Smash One Nazi Flank in Italy
The Eighty fifth and Eighty eighth divisions, fully draftee units, joined the Second Army Corps under Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes in Italy. The two divisions pushed along the coast through Formia Gaeta Itri Terracina Fondi and fought on the right flank at Fondi Santa Maria Infante Spigno Monte San Angelo. Many men hailed from New York New Jersey and the Midwest and South. Both units trained in North Africa and served in World War I, then reactivated by selective service for this war.
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Fifth Army
Italy
America
Second
Geoffrey Keyes
Eighty-fifth
John B. Coulter
el Paso
Texas
Formia
Gaeta
Itri
Terracina
Fondi
Highty-eighth
John E. ‘Sloan
Greenville
S. C
Santa Maria Infante
Spigno
Monte San Angelo
Eighty-eighth
New York
New Jersey
Midwest
South
North Africa
Good Invasion Weather Ahead
London report says three months of favorable invasion weather are forecast with dry summers and low cloud, aiding Allied striking plans into Western Europe. Lord Croft notes Italy campaign as the opening act of what he calls the greatest drama in war, with more fighting anticipated on the southern front.
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London
Lord Croft
Europe
London Sunday Express
Holland
Belgium
France
Italy
Alexander
Croft
Detroit Truckers End Wildcat Strike At Chrysler Plant
insurgent United Automobile Workers members returned to work at Chrysler Highland Park plant after a 3 to 1 vote to end the wildcat stoppage. The action averted a broader shutdown of seven Chrysler plants as 1,000 truck drivers at 47 bakeries refused War Labor Board orders to return. Bread shortages forced rationing of loaves in groceries and home bakeries.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Chrysler Corporation
Highland‘park
Chrysler
War Labor Board
Index and features tease from a a faded page
Fragmentary OCR lists sections such as Deaths, Farm, Movies, Sports and features names like David Lawrence and Marion. Paul Mallon appears in a brief line. The page mentions Walter Winchell and Women’s Features in a blurred index style, with no coherent article details.
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Marquis Whthde
David Lawrence
Paul Mallon
Marion
Walter Winchell
Fetures
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Gerald W. Johnson
Baltimore
New York Times
Willkie
Johnson
Mr. Willkie
White House
Coln
OPA
Atzgerdssdorf
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
Nord and
Wollersdorf
Messerschmitt
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Austria
R.A.F
Angers
Ludwigshafen
Roland Darsee
Adeline Montillon
Cleveland
Decoration Day Gazette
Nathan F. Twining
Fifteenth U. S. Air Force
Arnold
Cedar Rapids News
Franklin School
L. B. McCalley
Margaret Louise
J. M. Cooper
Humboldt
E. J. Fogler
George Newland
B Avenue NE
C. H. Zempfer
Waukon
Penick and
Ford
Alban Hills
Pound
Dewey
Detroit Truckers
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