Mormons Add To Food Stock During War Effort
Salt Lake City, Utah The Latter Day Saints welfare program reports it supports the national Food for Victory drive with over 1.0 billion ration points worth of food. J Reuben Clark Jr states that the program has earned more than 50 million cans of food this season, aided by ward stake and mission group canning projects and plant operations. Since 1937 the program has grown to include 14 500 acres under cultivation 89 bishop stores 65 canneries 755 livestock projects and 314 processing plants. The program began as work for aid and was reviewed with the OPA after concerns about hoarding. The OPA now treats the warehouse as wholesale and oversees member participation.
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Salt Lake City
Latter Day Saints Mormons Church
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
Clark
Cooperative Security Corporation
Welfare
Harold B. Lee
CPA
Utah Opa
OPA
Community canning aids relief under welfare service effort
The article notes members can move canned foods from the warehouse to forfeit ration points nationally. Home grown and family canned foods do not require ration points. The LDS welfare service provides community canning facilities to help avoid OPA rules and urges saving, sharing, and aiding neighbors in need. Clarke emphasizes what can be done if they commit, urging mindful use of food within regulations.
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LDS Welfare Service
OPA
Clarke
Mother Spanked For Childs Names In Courtroom Outcome
Milwaukee reports a dispute over a child named Nancy with the insult Nancy is nuts written on the sidewalk. Theodore Volkmann spanked Nancy's mother Josephine Ewert after witnessing the exchange. Judge Harvey L Neelen ordered the children to settle their own quarrels in court.
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Milwaukee
G.P
Jane
Nancy Ewert
Theodore Volkmann
Josephine Ewert
Nancy
Harvey L. Neelen
Volkmann
Neelen
Foxes Overrun Farm Endangering Winter Pork Supplies
On Rayburn’s farm in Aiken many foxes have overrun the land, threatening his winter pork supply. Local hunters were invited to hunt on the grounds after foxes attacked several small hogs, a surprising event for the area.
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Aiken
5. C
Tom Raburn
Rayburn
Nazi Prison Inspector To Speak War Chest Campaign Opens
The Allied Communities War Chest launches its second annual appeal at a noon luncheon at The Hendrick Hudson. About 200 reservations aimed to raise 325000 for 37 local and national social agencies and war relief groups with Dr. D A Davis set to speak. He will be introduced by Earnest L. Warnecke as division heads are announced.
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Allied Communities War Chest Campaign
Hendrick Hudson
War Chest
Troy
Rensselaer Couny
Watervliet
Green Island
Waterford
D. A. Davis
Germany
Davis
Earnest L. Warnecke
Warnecke
United States
Europe
Australia
India
Egypt
Palestine
Geneva
Switzerland
England
France
Bowman Citations For Heroic Action at Guadalcanal
George Logan Bowman of Salem received a birthday citation for heroic action on August 9 1942 at Guadalcanal while on foreign duty. The award honors his service against the Japanese during World War II.
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Salem
Up Corp
George Logan Bowman
Saten
Bowman
Guadalcanal
Names in the News: Ukrainian towns and Pacific airfields
A compact guide to correct pronunciations of Bug river Bug Terekop Kherson and other Ukrainian railroad towns with the noted accents, plus Pacific airfields near Rabaul and Bougainville including Vunakanau Tobera Kara Ballale Savona Varazze and Porto Maurizio in a pronunciation-focused briefing.
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Bug
Ukraine
Terekop
Crimea
Pay-Ray
Kawp
Kherson
Perekop
Pacific
Vunakanau
Rabaul
Tobera
Toe Bay-Rah
Kara
Buin
Savona
Riviera
Varazze
Porto Maurizio
WAC Veteran Of Two Wars Fort Oglethorpe Feature
Fort Oglethorpe Ga. Pt Lieut Grace Auer of Detroit recalls both world wars from service in British WAAT and American WASC. She trained at Bristol School of Women Police and became the WAC provost marshal at Fort Des Moines. Her brother serves in the British navy and her son in the U S Army Air Forces.
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Fort Oglethorpe
Grace Auer
Detroit
WAC
America
WASC
Bristol
England
School of Women Police
Fort Des Moines
A Brer
Army Air Forces
Reader's Corner letters on language and origins
A collection of reader notes and quips discussing phonetics and word origins. Comments reference Professor Phamwock, the word FACETIOUSLY, the JOOK term, and a historical anecdote about plantation slaves. The piece ends with a prompt to request an Anthem pamphlet and a note on engine maintenance and octane affecting emissions.
Helium Plant Named In Honor of Navajos Window Rock
The United States Bureau of Mines announces a new helium plant on the Navajo Reservation named the Navajo Helium Plant. Construction is under way at the old Rattlesnake Field in northeastern Arizona with a pipeline to a railroad spur for tank filling. Currently Amarillo Texas is the only U S source, and the project aims to greatly supplement helium supply in the United States.
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Window Rock
Ariz
United States Bureau of Mines
Arizona
United States
Amarillo
Tex
Feld
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ares
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American Red Cross
Italy
Sardinia
Pershing
Dr. Davis
Foyer du Saldat
Turkey
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Greece
Latvia
Harrisburg
Valley Forge State Park
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
Don Juan
Tome
Hey
Niagara Falls
By Paul Ford
Portugal
Antonio DE Oliveira Salazar
Reader's Corner
M. Walker
Akron
Professor Phamwock
Knopite Pauli van Dyke
Kansas City
Arthur G. Kennettannes
Robert Quillen
C. Frank Dunn
Lexington
Susanna
Monsieur
Archangel
J. H. Buchanan, Jr
Jacksonville
Frank Colby
Beverwyck Breweries
Albany, NY
the People
River Street
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