Women veterans benefits and training program details emerge
The article outlines postwar aid for women veterans including job hunting help, education stipends up to $500 for books and tuition, and $75 for uniforms or gear. It notes unemployment pay up to five percent of wartime service, government-backed loans up to $2000 with total guarantees up to $4000, disability and death pensions, insurance options, and mustering-out pay. It emphasizes access through Selective Service, U.S. attorney support, and vocational rehabilitation for disabled veterans. It also mentions loans for home, farm, or business setup and potential training in beauty, interior decorating, or other trades.
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Jeicess
Eve
Peone
Wee
Pote
Selective Service Board
Department of Justice
U. S
Marines Salvage Corps Keeps Marines Supplied In Pacific
A field salvage unit in the South Pacific repairs gear and patches uniforms to keep troops from sleeping in mud and torn tents. They reclaim ammunition and salvage radios, field glasses, war materiel, aircraft parts, and tools, while shoe repair trailers produce 400 pairs daily and clothing is repurposed for mess uniforms.
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Paul G. Long
NEA
South Pacific
Vazge
Marine Corps
Junk Man
Btue
Srith and Wesson
Ordnance
Two Captains Play Tag With Germans
AP News features a vivid account by SHAEF Husky paratrooper Alton Bell of Denville Maine and Captain Hillman C Dress of Canton Ohio hiding in a hedgerow ditch near a German command post during the Normandy invasion. They lay under American fire and watched the Nazis, with Bell once in Berlin Olympics, visiting Hitler's box for an autograph, until rescue came as the Americans advanced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan A. Moroso
Shaef
Alton Bell
Densville
Maine
Colora
University of Maine
Hillman C. Dress
Canton
Ohio
Normandy
Aslell Sire
Bell
Litte Rock
Boston Red Sox
Hitler
Fuehrer
Dress
Roses Cut Safe Bloom Longer, Cornell Study Finds
AP Newns reports from Ithaca New York that Cornell floriculture researcher Joseph Howland found roses cut in the afternoon last longer than those cut in the morning, with life extended by up to ten hours. He explains sugars accumulate as the sun shines, extending vase life the later stems are cut.
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AP Newns
Ithaca
Cornell University
Joseph EF. Howland
Leager
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