Servicemen Hear From Home Adopters at Troy Luncheon
A Troy luncheon highlighted civilian supporters of Camp Rucker USO including Saul Elgart Jewish USO director. Delta Psi sorority funded a radio phonograph for a medical unit while local Jewish Community Center volunteers oversee monthly shipments, religious services, and letters to service members.
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Saul Ss. Elgart
USO
Camp Rucker
Ale
National Jewish Welfare Board
USO Council For
Troy
Hendrick Hudson
Rucker
USO Council
Mr. Elgar
Elgar
Delta Psi Sorority
Jewish Community Center
Fred A. Glass
Jewish Welfare Board
Navy
RPL
Aron
Camp Adopted
Glass
Myron W. Jacobs
Frank Sutland
Lester EB. Tick
Cochairman
Fred Lowinger
Abraham C. Goldstein
Raymond Kranson
Gloria Vigadi
Gertrude Schonwetter
Waves Too Tattoo Artist Does Business With Sailors
Bert Grimm runs tattoo shops Waves and Spars Too in St Louis with a sailor clientele from the fleet. He began at 15 and has tattooed sailors across the country and beyond from Suez to Attu. Marines, Army, and aircrew clients fill his studios with designs like Sailor’s Grave and Semper Fidelis, and he recalls odd orders including a misread Chinese script that was meant to say Good Luck but ended up meaning four pairs socks and more.
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St. Louis
Bert Grimm
Bert
Hackensack
Suez
Attu
Grieam
Tommy Stevens
Biloxi
Miss
Sergeant Stevens
Jerusalem
America
Combined City-County Ration Boards Open Headquarters
The consolidated Rationing Board for Troy and Rensselaer County opened at The Hotel Troy, merging city and county operations. Patrick Flannery leads the executive team with Charles Freihofer as chair, and Mrs. Gertrude Burns named administrative officer. New group supervisors include Rita Fitzsimmons, Elaine Schroeder, Mary Doyle, Florence Vaughn, Ettelina Gallo, and Alvin Ford, coordinating price panels and fuel and processed-food sections.
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Ration Board
Rensselaer County
Troy City
Consolidated Rationing Board
City of
Troy
County of Rensselaer
Hoosiick Fairg
City of Rensselaer
Rensselaer County Board
Court House
City Board
Hotel Troy
River Street
Patrick 3. Flannery
Charles C. Freihofer
Rahoning
Freihofer
Gertrude M. Burns
Flannery
Rita M. Fitzsimmons
Edward J. Rowan
Elaine Schroeder
Mary C. Doyle
Florence A. Vaughn
Ettelina Gallo
Alvin &. Ford
Apple Tree All Out for Victory in Overland Garden
An Overland Missouri apple tree is described as fruiting unusually with apples growing in clusters along the trunk and major branches on inch-long stems. Missouri Botanical Garden's George H. Pring notes the behavior is uncommon but has been seen before and attributes it to adventitious buds. Mrs. Enoch Jordan says all the apples are cooking quality and the tree’s previous bearing is unknown.
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Thomas D. Masters
NEA
Armed Services
Masters
St. Louis
George H. Pring
Missouri Botanical Garden
Enoch Jordan
Public Help Sought to Fund Expensive Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
Public assistance suggested to lessen rheumatoid arthritis impact by funding long costly therapies, echoing how tuberculosis and infantile paralysis care were financed. The note urges broad support from citizens to cover treatment costs.
Farmers Paid For Damages Done by Troops
In Tennessee maneuver area farmers report crop and property losses from army operations. The Fourth Service Command rents and claims board handles filings from towns near Lebanon. Damages cited include barbed wire fences gates posts and crop fields with several farmers filing large claims up to $2000. Cases recount watermelon theft windows broken by dynamite and pasture damage as tanks and tanks parts moved through fields.
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Lebanon
UPI
Uncle Sam
Middle Tennessee
Fourth Service Command
Cornwell
Warship Named U S S Shangri La
The Navy announced a new aircraft carrier under construction at the U S Navy Yard in Portsmouth Virginia will be named U S S Shangri La The name echoes a fictional utopian valley from a James Hilton novel and has appeared in War Bond campaigns.
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Washington
Navy
U.S.S. Shangri-la
U. S. Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Tokyo
Shangrita
James Hilton
Treasury
Intensify War Bond Drive In Third Campaign
Secretary Morgenthau announced plans to intensify the war loan drive with a home front army of civilian defense workers to sell 15 billion dollars in War Bonds next month. James M. Landis urged state and local defense councils to aid finance committees so no citizen is left unsolicited in the record campaign.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
James M. Landis
Far
Beer Shortage Persists as Demand Surges in War Years
Washington says beer remains hard to get with demand 50 percent above production. Brewers face material shortages and cap supply while WPB orders 3.2 beer for service members, ensuring soldiers receive beer first, civilians soon after.
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Washington
Ins
WPB
United States
Maine
California
America
Detached Shoe Stamps Usable Only for Mail Orders
The Office of Price Administration warns that loose shoe stamps detached from ration books may be used only for bona fide mail order purchases. An amended rule bans selecting shoes in stores and mailing a stamp for delivery. If a stamp is accidentally detached, a person may obtain a special shoe stamp from the local ration board by certifying the facts.
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Washington LLP
Office of Price Administration
OPA
New Blue Stamps To Be Valid Sept 1
The Office of Price Administration announced that blue stamps U V and W in War Ration Book I become valid September 1 and may be redeemed for processed foods through October 20. Stamps R S and T, valid since August 1, remain good through September 20.
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Office of Price Administration
Doan's Pills Promise Backache Relief
Many never suspect the cause of backaches may be kidney function disorder. Doan's Pills, used by millions for over 40 years, claim to flush out poisons and relieve nagging pains, swelling, and fatigue with a simple remedy from the druggist.
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Doana Pilin
Pre Pearl Harbor Fathers in the Army
Selective Service officials disclosed that some men who became fathers before Pearl Harbor are already in the armed forces. They serve by volunteering, being drafted from nondeferrable jobs, lacking a bona fide home family relation, through local board misunderstandings, as National Guard members, or having wives and children with independent means inducted before June 23, 1942. No specific cases were known since Hershey banned such inductions last summer.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Selective Service Headquarters
National Guard
Headquarters
Lewis B. Hershey
Judge rules two discharged married men may be released
Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut ruled that two Worcester County men inducted as single men but now married and childless are entitled to release, via habeas corpus writs. The cases involve Stanley Gilmer Bayly, 37, and Roland Frank Bevins, 35, both of Pocomoke City. The decision does not bar future proper induction.
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Baltimore
W. Calvin Chesnut
Armed Services
Worcester County
Chesnut
Stanley Gilmer Bayly
Roland Frank Bevins
Pocomoke City
Deferment Rules For Draftees And Pearl Harbor Fathers
The war draft rules required a man to have a child born before September 15, 1942 and to live with and support the child in a bona fide home relationship. Inductions of fathers were corrected when boards erred, with leaders noting cases of non‑compliant living arrangements. The text also notes Florida’s first snowfall records from 1774 and two small flurries in 1834–35.
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Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
McNutt and
Hershey
Pearl Harbor
Florida
Newsprint cuts likely after October 1 in U S press
Washington WPB announced potential 5 to 7 percent cut in newsprint after Oct 1 due to dwindling Canadian pulpwood and paper supplies. A new WPB supervising board under Donald Nelson will coordinate paper production and distribution as shortages worsen. Canada currently supplies about 70 to 75 percent of U S newsprint, with monthly imports dropping from 210,000 to around 190,000 tons in Q4.
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Washington
INL
War Production Board
Canada
WPB
WPS
Donald Nelson
WPE
United States
Post Office Dept. Business Booms
Washington UPI says the Post Office Department shows strong gains in fiscal 1943 with 3 billion more mail pieces than the previous year and stamp sales up 151 percent. Loss for the year totaled 3,543,122 dollars, the smallest deficiency in 24 years, announced by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Frank C. Walker
Juicy Bologna Burgers Kickoff Quick Supper Idea
A reader touts Armour's Star Bologna as the star of a fast, hearty supper. Heat bologna slices to make eight large burgers, claiming a meat rich blend of beef and pork with high vitamin content that satisfies and pleases families.
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Homne
Troy Board
Bath
Ace Taft
New York Times Square
Radio City
Sing & Bing Management
Max E. Rubin
Third Street
Arrhave
Home Front
Hotel
Troy Area
Troy Milk Bottle Exchange
Sixth Ave
Star Ay
Armour and Company
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