Local Social Notes Highlight 1944 Community Events
MRNEC FOR FAREION CLEANERS- Employees enjoyed a Sunday steak dinner at tana Park with fishing and rest. BURFRISE SHOWER GIVEN BRIDE- A surprise shower for Mrs J Elberg featured lunch and a floor lamp gift as she prepares to move to Clarion. JUNE ACTIVITIES- VFW card party and auxiliary meetings report quilts for armed forces and funds raised for the treasury. McCormick Ishman Wedding- Irene McCormick and Pfc Perry Ishman wed at a Catholic parsonage. C. E. MEETING ENJOYED- Griffith Woman's Relief Corps held a June meeting with reports on conventions and plans, plus a Twilight Memorial at Oakdale cemetery. CLUB CALENDAR- St. Margaret's Circle meets at parish hall with hostess.
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F. W
Alice Frame
Vaitha Munger
Alta Safranek
Carrie Fox
Meccormick-Ishman
Irene McCormick
Oelwein
Pfc
Perry Ishman
Ed Ishman
E. J. O'Hagan
Ishman
Sacred Heart School
Ravenwood Hospital
Chicago
Pfe
Eagle Mt
Fort Worth
Texas
Waterlong
Wr. C
Griffith Woman's Relief Corps No
Grand Army of the Republic
Gladys Welch
Lenora Driscoll
Crawford
Elsie Walker
Dept
Davenport
Fort Dodge
Mae Born
Soldiers Orphans Home
Hall
Sully
Pierre
S. D
Griffith
Minnie Laundry
Monila Struckman
Stella Beare
WRC
Oakdale Cemetery
Mary Basham
Martyn Lundstrom
Eleanor Wagner
Helen Kirkpatrick
Maizie Lundstrom
Shirley Williams
Janet Heldt
Margaret Stegzal
Hazleton
Press Cor
Russia Asks Second Front In War Dispatch
The article reports renewed Soviet call for a second front as Allied aid increases. It claims stronger Red Army actions in the east and growing Allied air attacks on Germany and Italy, while asserting German military and political weakness and loss of cadres and officers. It says fascist adventurers aim to undermine Soviet power.
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Red Army
North
Africa
Germany
Italy
Bitler
Line of Demarcation in Bridge Bids and No Trump Potentials
Barclay on Bridge discusses why top bidders avoid forcing with minor suits and seek better bids to reach slam potential. It analyzes a deal where South’s 4 bid creates a dilemma, with No Trump as the likely final contract if diamonds are stopped, while North’s alternative bids at other tables yield better outcomes.
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South West North East
Pasa Sh
North
South
Thi
King
Wage board stalls on union wage pact and underground travel pay
The Wage Stabilization Board says it cannot enforce any settlement unless both sides accept it and defers to legal questions about underground travel pay under the wage hour law. It responded to UM charges calling the pact a yellow dog contract, noting the 1941 agreement with 25 cents daily concessions.
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Ickes
WLB
Yester Fe
Detroit Race Riots Chronicle Second Night of Unrest
The article recounts Detroit riots ongoing from Sunday night on the Belle Isle bridge through Monday, with organized threats by the Ku Klux Klan and other fifth column elements. Soldiers in armored cars cleared streets. scenes showed burned houses, smashed windows, looted shops, and bloodstains as police and state officers fought snipers from upper windows.
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Fifth Column
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Detroit
Belle Isle Park
City Hall
Woodward Cave
Inquiring Reporter Polls War Wives Dreams and Plans
Mrs Ruth Abend of Wilkes Barre says she longs for home and a reunion with her Navy family after the war, while others in Wilmington New York and Philadelphia share hopes of rest travel and resuming peacetime careers. The piece captures longings for home vacations and family life postwar with varied civilian and service ties.
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Ruth Abend
Wilkes Barre
Stemtgraphic Department
Navy
Cedar Springs
Washington, D.C
Detroit Race Riot of 41 Ends in Bloodshed and Siege
A two and a half hour riot in Detroit leaves two Black men dead and a policeman badly hurt as white mobs attack Black residents. The outbreak, linked to wartime migration, overwhelmed authorities. about 700 injured and many imprisoned as violence spreads through Woodward Avenue and city streets.
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St. Louis
Detroit
South
Midwest
Woodward Avenue
Fatal shooting at theater sparks racial tensions
A Black man was found dead in a theater with six bullet wounds while a White man was found struck to passing in the Black person section. Local authorities probe the incident as a possible hate crime and review theater security.
Russian Air Force Defends Moscow as Luftwaffe Masses
News in brief reports Soviet officers say the Red Air Force will meet any assault as about 2,200 German fighters and bombers stand on the central front near Moscow. The battle enters its third year with Moscow defended despite Axis offensive plans. The same dispatch notes a Franco North Africa power split, and an Adapazari earthquake death toll rise.
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Moscow
Luftwaffe
Red Air Force
Grow Food Seed Project in Puerto Rico Expansion
Grow Food Seed Puerto Rico allocates half of 8 million dollars to increase seed production to save shipping space for war materials. US food shipments will be cut accordingly as 18 000 workers come on site to till over 4 300 acres.
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J. J. Iverson
K. M
Edgemoor
U. S
Canal Zone
Jack Crumline
Sun Shipyard
Philadelphia
Penn
Holland Tunnel
Texas
Puerto Rico
United States
Mrs Hoffman Heads Hazelton Legion Auxiliary
The American Legion Auxiliary elected officers for the coming year led by Mrs. Hoffman as president and includes Mrs. Arthur Silka first vice, Mrs. K F Weitman second vice, Ilma Destival secretary, Vaun Buckman treasurer, Ruby Silka chaplain, Harvey Kifer Sgt. at Arms, and Glen Copenhaver historian. The unit reports a new tennis net and volley ball set for the park court, a short program, and lunch hosted by Mrs. K F Weitman and Clifford Heidt.
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Msdm
K. F. Weitman
Clifford Heidt
F. J. Hodge
L. E. Hodge
Cedar Rapids
A. Harold
I .A. Morey
J. W. Donnell
Hudson
Hazleton
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MRNEC
Fareion Cleaners
Tana Park
New Home Cafe
St. Margaret’s Circle
W. H. Payne
Russia
Cote
Barclay ON
Auepata
Barclay Ru
West
Eatures Syndicate, Inc
Daily Register
Cunningham
City
Delaware Ave
Willington
Del
Wilmington
Migs
Madeline Trowbridge
New York City
Pacific
U. S. Marine Corps
States
Algiers
French Committee For National Lberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Giraud
de Gaulle
Ankara
Adapazari
Lana Turner
Robert Young
Jan Garber
Band
Whee
Frances Langford
Robert Paige
Birdsell
GE Dance
Anine Vaabans
PRI
Gary Cooper
John Walker
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Kborn
Camden
Oneida County
New York
John
Marion Walker
Emma F. Smith
Tama County
Jennie
Robert
L. C. Lahore
Rockford
Iowa
J. D. Neale
San Francisco
Calif
Independence
Bosshardt Funeral Home
A. W. Gable
Methodist Church
Dale Kelly
George Kelley
Hans Olsen
H. E. Worman
Charles Blunt
Z. E. Campbell
O— E. W. Lee
Tom Foffel
Carl Brown
Priscilla Club
Vernon Lawless
Carroll
F. M. Cowell
Gertrude Hillman
Ankeny
Des Moines
P. Kemp
Robert Lee
Howley
E. W.lee
Ralph Catshall
Lincoln
Nebr
Herbert
Kate Thomas
Rochester
Minn
George Shoemaker
Frederika
Vivian Armstrong
Bluebird Club
Hazleton Park
Kate Michels
Waterloo
Laurence Roth
Klatter Klub
Kenneth Wilson
Verne Haworth
Dren
Linn Schermerhorn
Maria Catshall
Roy Netcott
Norma Jean Holmstrom
Ida Rohrig
Carrie Menney
Jesup
Hull
Ae Ptt PL
Armstrong Quaker
Wonlgomeny Land
Hops, Ma
Armstron
Armstrong
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