County Works Program Drives Postwar Agenda in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports five committees submitted reports to the state postwar rehabilitation commission as a three day session opens. The county projects panel proposed a 20 million dollar plan to create 650 000 man days of work through county road and bridge projects ready to start when peace arrives.
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Des Moines
State Postwar Rehabilitation Commission
County Projects Committee
Jim O. Henry
Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors
Emmet
Guthrie
Marshal County
Iowa
Professions Committee
Rehabilitation Commission
Don Berry
Indianola
Longest Pheasant Season in History for Iowa Hunters
Iowa state conservation commission announced the longest pheasant hunting season in state history with 64 counties open for 42 days from Oct 28 to Dec 8 and 27 counties from Oct 28 to Nov 6. Quail season runs 45 days in 34 counties and 30 days in two counties from Nov 1 to Dec 15 and Nov 1 to Nov 30 respectively.
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Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Butler
Bremer
Floyd
Chickasaw
Mitchell
Howard
North Central
Wright
Franklin
Cerro Gordo
Madison
Warren
Marion
Mahaska
Keokuk
Washington
Louisa
Union
Clark
Lucas
Monroe
Wapello
Jefferson
Henry
Taylor
Ringgold
Decatur
Wayne
Appanoose
Davis
van Buren
Lee
Johnson
Muscatine
Cedar
Scott
Clinton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Delaware
Dallas
Polk
Dubuque
Page
Plan Sorority For Girls Who Neither Smoke Nor Drink
Des Moines reports Global Thinkers Inc launches a sorority for 1000 Iowa junior high girls who will abstain from smoking and drinking. Myrtle McClean Banister of Nashville outlines a nonsectarian nonpartisan nonprofit program sponsored by 1000 Iowa women. The plan aims to establish the state unit in two years.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Global Thinkers, Inc
Myrtle McClean Banister
Nashville, Tenn
Monay
Global Thinkers
Iowa aids 8331 in maternity infant care for service wives
Iowa Health Department said 8,331 cases were authorized under the emergency maternity and infant care program for wives and infants of servicemen through Aug 31. An additional 3,173 cases were incomplete at year end, with ~600 pending, including 10 second pregnancies.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department of Health
J. M. Hayek
Division of
Maternal and Child Health Care
Hayek
Hayes
Wacs From Iowa Arrive in Paris After Liberation
Five Iowa women among the first Wacs to reach Paris a week after the city’s liberation. They join roles as telephone operators jeep drivers statisticians draftswomen secretaries and interpreters. Notable Iowa names include Emma M. Weathers Cresco Dorothy Schubert Fort Dodge June Milner Marion and Florence A. Davis Traer.
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Paris
Iowa
Wacs
Iowa Wacs
Helen H. Foote
Anamosa
Emma M. Weathers
Cresco
Dorothy Schubert
Fort Dodge
June Milner
Marion
Florence A. Davis
Traer
Solon Sergeant In Italy Feasts With Partisans
Special to The Gazette with the Fifth Army describes Sgt. Louis Rebal of Solon Indiana and Pvt. George Membrez of St. Paul Minnesota joining a Fifth Army field artillery unit on a secret mission into the Italian mountains. They met a well organized partisan band led by a wounded Italian leader. The group included Poles Russians and three German deserters plus two American air corpsmen who had parachuted in. They sheltered several hundred Italian women in a cave guarding them from German danger. The band cooked fresh meat over open fire and shared field bread with the liaison group. The Partisans were armed with small arms and grenades scavenged in the mountains and lacked only cigarettes and soap.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Louis Rebal
Edward L. Rebal
Solon
George ‘Membrez
St. Paul
Minn
Rebal
Warsaw
Strangst
Membrez
Blue accuses Roosevelt of failing to keep world peace
Iowa City Lt. Gov. Robert D. Blue the Republican nominee for governor told about 200 Johnson County Republican leaders that President Roosevelt has been consistently unsuccessful in preserving the peace of the world in a Monday night address.
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Iowa City
Robert D. Blue
Roosevelt
Johnson County
Earlville Pilot Lt Forrest Diesch Killed in Plane Mishap
Lt. Forrest Diesch 25 of Earlville died last month in a sea plane accident in the Guadalcanal area. Four crew were killed, two baled out. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Martin Diesch and brother Capt. Gerald Diesch in the South Pacific. He was a Farm Near Earlville native, Earlville High School graduate, Iowa State College student, wings earned at Corpus Christi, last leave in May 1943.
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Earlville
Forrest Diesch
Martin Diesch
Guadalcanal
Diesch
Iowa State College
Corpus Christi
Texas
Capt
Gerald Diesch
Marines
South Pacific
Reconversion Underway at University of Iowa Dorms and Union
The University of Iowa plans reconversion as two former ASTP dormitories return to university students and the Iowa Memorial Union resumes serving civilians from Oct. 2, end of May 1943 restrictions. Eastlawn girls' dormitory is back with 63 dental students released.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
ASTP
Iowa Memorial Union
Eastlawn
Army to convert campus housing to ease girls' housing shortage
Law Commons, which in peace time housed 153 men, will be returned to the university Oct. 1 by the army. The move aims to alleviate the housing shortage for girls.
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Law Commons
More Than 100 State College Men Killed in War
AMES CP One hundred four graduates and former Iowa State college students have been killed in World war II Wallace E Barron secretary of the alumni association said Tuesday The number of prisoners of war totals 29 and 96 have been discharged he said A total of 6121 former students and graduates now are serving their country Barron said.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Wallace E. Barron
Alumni Association
Barron
Christian Education Meeting at Volga City
Clayton county Christian education convention will be held at the Presbyterian church in Volga City on Thursday under the Clayton and Iowa inter church councils. Rev. Russell P. Nelson will host. Theme is Evangelism Motivation and Process with speakers Arthur L. Bray Fay ette Paul Kitterer Elkader E E Dierks and local women A R Kunzman H F Baars Walter Roys Frank Oldfather and Mrs Richard McWilliams Elkader.
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Volga City
Clayton County
Presbyterian Church
Clayton
Iowa
Russell P. Nelson
Arthur L. Bray
Fayette
Paul Kitterer
Elkader
E. E. Dierks
A. R. Kunzman
H. F. Baars
Walter Roys
Frank Oldfather
Richard McWilliams
Cedar Rapids Gazette Historical Masthead Snapshot
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 by The Gazette Company and printed at 500 3rd Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. It notes postal details from 1932 and lists circulation and subscription rates with Associated Press United Press International wire services and broad publishing rights.
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Cedar Rapids
the Gazette Company
3Rd Ave
Towa
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
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