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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1943
Page
7
Second Lieut. Alice Radcliffe, a Los Angeles physio therapist, writes of army nurses in New Guinea near Buna. She describes scarce showers, mosquito swarms, longing for comforts of home, fashion fantasies, and hopes for leave, stressing life as women in a male‑dominated war zone.
Co-Operative club met at the Colonial with Pvt. Merle McKinney speaking briefly on furlough. Antonio Lulli of Lima Peru, KU political science senior, will address the group next week. The May 20 meeting is canceled due to Hoch auditorium high school commencement. The wives will be guests at a party on May 27. Helen Wallace sues for divorce from Walter LeRoy Wallace, married in Lawrence January 9, 1942, seeking temporary and permanent alimony and property division.
Step by step listing for a layered strawberry ice box dessert with honey custard, macaroon crumbs and lady fingers plus a note that the Market Basket prize next week goes to the best chicken in patty shells recipe. Six servings.
The food distribution administration released 15,000 pounds of meat to Salina and vicinity after appeals from city officials and leaders. Kansas FDA director Paul Phillips ordered the shipment, backed by N. C. Grant of the wartime food management committee. A telegram from Rep. Frank Carlson to OPA Administrator Brown reinforced the demand, noting Salina would run out in 24 hours without relief.
W. P. Gehrean Jr cites a daily shortfall of about 13 head of livestock for Salina and nearby areas, underscoring pressing local supply gaps.
American War Dads at the Sunflower Ordnance Works announce a Saturday May 15 benefit party in Kansas City's municipal auditorium. The program features a star floor show, dancing to Harry Kaufmann's 15 piece band, and acts from the Olathe Naval Base Orchestra directed by Seaman Paul Crumbaugh and the Blue Jacket chorus with Yeoman Pat Dunn. All uniformed men admitted free. proceeds fund the chapter's ongoing program.
The local chapter aids entertainment for service members by running the Kansas City Canteen and paying all expenses for a dance series in the Community building. Tickets cost $1 and are sold at Rankin's, Stowits Rexall, Round Corner, Eldridge Pharmacy, Gibbs, Ober's, Palace, and Carl's.
Washington reports the War Production Board announced a program to send cigarets and tobacco to United States prisoners and civilian internees in Germany and Italy every two months starting next Monday. Japanese prisoners may be included when shipments are feasible. Each bundle contains three cartons of cigarets or equivalent tobacco products.
The piece describes a program sending tobacco labels to prisoners of war next of kin every 60 days and months of labels via the prisoner of war information bureau. It notes labels may be used by civilians or forwarded with money to tobacco manufacturers for direct prisoner delivery. It also mentions classified ads and an ad-taker at phone 2.
In district court yesterday Jeanne Kathryn Clogston files for divorce from Will Samuel Clogston of Wichita whom she wed November 1, 1941. She asks restoration of her maiden name Bright.
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