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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
8
An article describes turning old furniture and odds and ends into rose decorated pieces. A blue painted rocker, window shade, tin tray, cream walls, lamp base from a milk can, parchment shade, chest, and footstool are stenciled with pink roses. Patterns 240 offer large, small, medium roses and vine motifs, available for 15 cents.
Lieut Frank Kurtz recalls the fatal day in the Philippines eight crewmen killed, escape to Java and Davao Bay raid. The convoy battles fog, Zeros and anti aircraft as the Fortresses strike ships and head home, with perilous climbs and split bombing runs.
A feature praising Canada as America’s top ally in World War II notes Canada’s lean toward gifts rather than debt, highlighting its dominance as a producer of aluminum nickel asbestos lead zinc mercury and radium. It cites vast shipbuilding newsprint aviation and munitions outputs, with expansive RCAF and RAF collaboration and a strong role in signaling and code work.
Islanders punish criminals with public songs that recount the offense, a practice so effective jails are rare. As military bases arrive, confinement becomes a milder punishment than a public harsh ballad.
Since 1941 the U S navy has salvaged naval and merchant ships and cargoes with a total salvage value of 500000000 dollars, or 126 times the cost of saving them, excluding the Normandy operations.
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