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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1944
Page
7
Washington debates draft age groups as critics urge earlier selection and General Marshall warns against artificial standards. By April 6 the armed services aim to recruit 18 to 26 year olds, while questions linger over next groups and overall manpower management amid ongoing wartime controversy.
Newspaper publishers report a 14.9 percent drop in paper consumption in March 1944 compared to March 1943 and a 22 percent drop versus March 1941, based on data from 525 papers in a study by the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
Mrs May Marie Stanwix Route one wins the Market Basket prize for a chicken pie recipe using leftovers. Instructions detail chicken prep, mushroom filling, a baking powder biscuit crust, and baking steps. Next week’s prize invites Angelfood Cake recipe ideas. Also notes March tonnage and paper stock figures from the ANPA.
Mrs Louise Flack, 28, was held in a Kansas City jail on April 14 to await removal to San Francisco where she is charged with murder in the death of her.
An eight year old daughter identified as Dolores is described as crippled. Mrs. Flack was turned over to Ada Kennedy, San Francisco police matron, at Garnett Kansas yesterday and brought to California. Mrs. Kennedy said she would likely leave for California next Tuesday due to train reservation delays. Mrs. Flack had been held in Garnett jail since her arrest March 30 at Iola while visiting her parents. Her daughter's body remains a focal point of the report.
March 29 officials said an investigation found she died of starvation in a San Francisco apartment. The piece, appearing in a magazine, asserts home front accidents are killing and injuring far more people than the war, referencing Business Week reporting.
Three Kansas 4-H clubbers Joan Butcher Gray county Katherine Launnart Harvey county and Junior Elred Morris county will receive college scholarships from the Farm Underwriters Association Chicago. The piece notes industrial accident figures and compares disabled workers to war casualties, reflecting wartime concerns in the period.
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