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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
4
Local notes list visits and family tales from Fort Dodge to Storm Lake, Sioux City, and Rochester. Readers share trips to Emmetsburg, Webster City, and Minneapolis, plus war related work, new school hires, and the Hardy school’s grade reorganization due to teacher shortages.
Community snippets recount visits and family events across Carroll Bogard Estherville Ottosen Des Moines Clarion and other towns. Social gatherings include dinners, Mothers Day visits, and a clinic in Rochester. Weather turns cold with frosts. a few residents work in Burlington and defense plants.
Emmanuel Evangelical Church continues services with a baccalaureate clash at Vernon High School. Pastor Pieper and congregation seek fellowship and mutual aid in the new conference year. Local notices record visits, births, and travel, including S. H. Klassie advertising soy beans, and Pvi. Wm. Bierman from Milwaukee visiting this week.
A wartime appeal notes rural electrification has advanced over ten years but copper wiring and fixtures are scarce. Farmers can fund continued progress by buying War Bonds, with a promise of $4 back for every $3 invested.
The Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency Service known as WAVES has been formed in the Navy. They perform vital work to free men for active service. A WAVES uniform costs about 237 dollars and 23 cents, covering suit, skirt, hat, overcoat, reincoat, and service bag. Buying War Bonds funds these uniforms. Buy War Bonds every payday with at least ten percent of income. U. S. Treasury.
PINE BLUFF ARK An army captain at the arsenal has solved the problem of having things ship shape for inspection. The arsenal s public relations department said the captain loaded everything he didn t have room for one truck and kept it cruising about the reservation until the inspection was completed.
Under secretary of war Robert T. Patterson reports February output at American ordnance plants set new highs. Fifty shells per minute produced totals 1,932 high explosive projectiles, plus 419,000 bombs. February small arms ammo reaches 1,244,006,000 cartridges. January-February totals include 150,000 machine guns, 134,000 submachine guns, 5,000 tanks, 28,000 army trucks, and 7,800 combat-vehicle bearing weapons. Patterson says armament production is 300 percent higher than a year ago and the 1943 program aims at 57 billion dollars in arms and supplies.
Master Sergeant Luis C. de Pineres y Torre Viejas, age 60 in Ephrata Washington, remains active in the United States Army after a storied career across Colombia, France, Spain, and the United States. He passed a rigorous overseas readiness exam and has earned numerous decorations including Croix de Guerre with two palms and the Purple Heart.
The Wings for Victory committee says private messages from Britons to Germans will be carried by bombs. Messages will be pasted on 2,000 heavy bombs and stamped with buyers names or short notes. Bombs will be unloaded in Germany after the drive ends in June. no return is expected beyond the satisfaction of the messages.
Radio Moscow reports Ivan Bokyo and his wife, workers at an armament factory, built a tank and used their life savings to buy it. They reportedly received Premier Stalin’s permission to take the tank to the front and fight.
Veteran World War I heroes, aged yet active, rejoin or support the war effort across the Pacific, Arctic, Tunisia, and Europe. Notables include Eddie Rickenbacker, Robert P. Patterson, William J. Donovan, Hazy Gambrel, Alvin York, and others serving as officers, strategists, consultants, or on the home front, continuing to contribute amid modern battles.
Philadelphia report quotes Newell J. Nessen of the Quaker City Federal Savings and Loan Association. He notes Americans are saving rather than spending and many mortgages are being paid in full or reduced. President Roosevelt urged larger payments to curb inflation, and responses from home financing groups show a steady rise in paid mortgages.
London reports the king has resumed a traditional horse drawn brougham to carry messengers and documents as part of his save-gasoline campaign. A liveried coachman in a black cocked hat drives the vehicle through royal duties and communications.
Washington reports the United States has seized 50 009 German held patents as part of wartime asset nationalization. The alien property custodian notes assets include I G Farben operations and other German controlled companies, with licenses issued for normal patent life and no exclusive rights. The seizure extends to ships, stocks, and even Japanese patents and investments, aiming to deny Axis access to critical technologies.
In Berners Street the Berners Street fire station began a home pork project. Firemen built brick and timber pigsties from bombed shops and fed pigs with scraps from local canteens and hotels. In ten months they raised 5 to 60 porkers.
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