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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
4
President Roosevelt told his conference he weighs Congress as more effective to curb living costs and asked focus on what the average family pays. War Labor Boards and wage rules loom as potential stabilizers while union dues and national membership issues figure in policy discussions.
War measures extend rationing and price controls as federal agencies regulate gasoline and sugar supplies while warning of continued shortages. A Cairo dispatch notes General Brereton leads air operations in the Middle East with heavy bombers and allied losses in the Battle of Midway. Roosevelt proclaims war with Hungary Romania and Bulgaria, expands lend-lease and foreign aid pacts, and discusses troop deployments, morale, and defense moves amid global conflict.
Fragmented notices describe a lost compact case and dog, a wanted boy to work at Vander Plage Bakery, and a 7 room barn with new outbuildings on a stock farm. Also listed are sales offers for Swan and Prairie City properties with stock, water, and acre prices, plus a travel notice about Mr. Paul Vander Shuis’s trip to Stockton, California with his husband.
Marion County collected 205.9 tons of rubber surpassing the 10 pounds per capita quota. The county weighed 16.2 pounds per person, exceeding the target by 141,805 pounds or 500 percent, per the Knoxville Journal. Much of the rubber arrived before weighing. Local salvage chairman J. B. Van Hemert cites 91,000 pounds gathered locally.
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