Lift on Aviation Cadet Quota Expands Training Access
Army Aviation Cadet program in the Chicago area opens to 17 to 26 year olds with no diploma needed. Applicants submit three letters of recommendation, birth proof, and consent for 17 year olds. Vision must be 20/20, and after tests, interviews, and physicals, cadets receive stipends, housing, insurance, and future education benefits. Cadets progress to Flight Officer or Second Lieutenant with monthly pay and postwar aviation prospects.
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Army
F. A. Wiggs
Air Corps
Chicago
Aviation Cadet Examining Board
W. van Buren Street
Wilgus
Lauvis M. Eck
Sixth Service Command
America
Selective Service Board
Army Air Forces
Navy Benefit Show at Chicago Stadium On July 30
Navy recruits from Great Lakes Naval Training Station perform a three hour morale building show at Chicago Stadium to boost seamen spirit. The event highlights Uncle Sam’s wartime effort and aims to strengthen loyalty and morale among service members.
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Chicago
Kelly
U. S
Cook County Council of the American Legion
Mutual Network
WLS
Great Lakes
Hjalmar Hansen
Eddie Peabody
Banjo King
John Carter
Metropolitan Opera Company
Uncle Sam’s Navy
Frank Metlach
Billy de Wolfe
Navy
Stadium
Uncle Sam
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Busbey Proposes War Damage Insurance Premium Refund
Congressman Busbey introduces a House bill to return unabsorbed premiums from the War Damage Insurance program after the war ends. The measure allows pre termination refunds if the secretary of commerce approves, and seeks to encourage self protection with insurance for war damage.
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Busbey
Secretary of Commerce
House of Representatives
Senate
Brooks
Ilinois
War Damage Corporation
Bushey
Jr Women to Hold 3rd Golf Tournament in Riverdale
The Dalton Riverdale Junior Women's club stages its third annual golf tourney on Sunday July 18 at 10 am at Pipe O Peace club Riverdale with a small entry fee. Reservations by July 16 to Katherine Kurz or Millicent Dieck. Transportation meet at 9 45 at Kurz home 13716 Indiana Ave.
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Dalton-Riverdale
Pipe O’peace Club
Riverdale
Katherine Kurz
Millicent Dieck
Kurz
Indiana Avenue
Doyton- Riverdale Junior Woman's Club
Millicent Dreck
Dalton
Evolution of Resuscitation exhibit at Chicago museum
Six of twenty dioramas portray the history of life saving in the American Red Cross exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park Chicago. Artist Howard Cox crafts medically authentic scenes from ancient times to today showing resuscitation methods including the Schafer method for drowning and suffocation. The exhibit titled Evolution of Resuscitation was donated by Public Service Company of Northern Illinois and attracts thousands taking wartime first aid courses.
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American Red Cross
Museum of Science and Industry
Jackson Park
Chicago
Howard Cox
Schafer
Public Service Company of
Northern
Ilinois
Manpower Is Where You Find It in War Training
Safety director at Sherwin-Williams plant discusses training old workers and women for new jobs amid wartime shortages. Article stresses creating the new old worker, patient instruction, full machine knowledge, clothing and respiratory protections for women, and integrated safety training with proper PPE and functioning safety devices.
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Charles E. Colebourn
Michigan Avenue
Riverdale
Sherwin-Williams Co
National Safety Council, Inc
Colebourn
Riverdale Red Cross Drive Falls Short of Village Quota
Riverdale residents and business houses contributed 2003.41 toward the Red Cross War Fund, with Hugo Schmidt as chairman announcing the totals. The village quota was set at 2250.
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Red Cross Drive
Riverdale
Hugo Schmidt
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Thos. M. Kinney
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Illinois
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Ford
Lincoln Avenue
Dolton, III
Dolton
AMCO
J. F. Chandler Roofing CO
Chicago ST
Boston, Ill
Dulton
Riverdale Inn
Fred Keyl
Central Garage
Pohlers & Stahnke
Props
Washington Ave
Anthony Basile Plumbing
Chicago Street
August C. Reich
Interocean
Malloy Coal Co
Lincoln Ave
Carl Dieck
Coal and
Park Avenue
J.F. Chandler Roofing Co
Acme Coal CO
Commodore
Acme
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