Flying Fortress Dishes It Out In Battle Over Lorient
Flying Fortress faces heavy flak and FW 190s while targeting Lorient submarine pens. Bombardier Bentinck dies after a perfect strike, navigator and crew wounded, ship damaged but returns to England. Crew members Stroud and Berring down enemy fighters. Krucher cripples tail gunner’s foe. crew limps home to Brest then coast airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry
England
Lorient
France
Bentinck
Smith
Bill Reed
Krucher
Frishholz
Flying Fortress
Bill Stroud
Stroud
Berring
Brest
Pilot Survives Jungle Trek After Six Days Without Food
Lieutenant Duncan Seffern of Manawa Wisconsin, rescued after a 70 mile trek through dense jungle in a tropical downpour. He and two others were in a plane lost in New Guinea. the crew bailed out and three have returned to base. He survived on one banana after finding a stream and river, crossing three mountains, and sheltering in a makeshift tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Duncan Seffern
Manawa
Wis
New Guinea
Quebec Farmers Expand Wartime Agriculture Output
Canadian growers in Quebec add 98,700 extra acres under a wartime plan to boost food production this year. Local cooperatives and the agricultural ministry coordinate field expansion and harvest targets across the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Thieves Take Heavy Warehouse Goods in Night Theft
John Francis reported theft at a Belleville warehouse of two steam calliopes a pipe organ a truck engine and several tires and wheels. Sheriff notes theft likely occurred at night using a truck due to heavy stolen items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
John Francis
U S Puts Touch On a Panhandler
In New York Harry Engberg a small man panhandled for bread and claimed two boys at home. The court found he had $10 or 50 cents and sentenced him to five days or $10. Treasury agents noted his $683 in old gold backed bills and war bonds as his “sound investment.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Engberg
Engberg
Treasury
D A R Elm Grows But Bloom Is Cherry Blossom
In Raleigh North Carolina D A R members planted a small tree claiming kinship to the Continental Elm from Cambridge Massachusetts. A state forester later identified the bloom as cherry blossoms rather than elm, ending the christening ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh, N. C
North Carolina
Capital Square
Cambridge
Mass
George Washington
J. S. Holmes
Father of Ten Children Files Novel Tax Return
Spokane wage earner Clark Squire reports the Spokane resident sent in an income tax blank only filled to the exemptions space. Enclosed was a photo of the bread winner with his wife and ten children. The tax rate may need to rise before government collects any money from him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father of
Tacoma
Wash
Spokane, Wash
Internal Revenue
Clark Squire
Spokane
Tourists balk at rebate after skunk cabin stay
In Topeka a couple demanded their money back after vacating a Kansas tourist cabin due to skunks under the floor. Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan urged them to forget the rebate, calling the experience worth the price of fleeing before damage. Berne reports the Swiss Federal Railway ordered 20 eight wheeled all-metal passenger cars to draw postwar tourists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Frank J. Ryan
Berne
Swiss Federal Railway
Properly Cook Vegetables For Tender Yet Crisp Texture
Cook vegetables just until tender and not mushy to preserve color and flavor. short heat preserves appearance and taste.
Young America Community Year Ends With Social Program
The Young America community held a pot luck supper at the school on Friday followed by a final program for the year. Graduates include Darlene Humston and Helen Schwartz with Darlene contributing marimba selections. The column notes various local visits, Easter events, measles cases, and community happenings surrounding residents and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young America
Lloyd Humston
Helen Schwartz
Darlene Humston
Bob Brewer
Darlene
Clarence Jackson
Annabelle
Harve Porter
Allen Atkinson
Greenville
Riverside High Plans Graduation Week Events
Riverside May 1. Commencement activities begin next Sunday with the baccalaureate service at Trinity Methodist Church at 8 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Riverside High School
Trinity Methodist Church
Grocery Chart Notes Point Values for Dried Soups
The chart lists point values for popular sizes only and directs checking the official chart at the grocer for other sizes. It covers Dried or Dehydrated Soups in all containers with 1 point for packages up to 4 ounces and 4 points per pound for Peas Beans or Lentils excluding Soybeans and Black-eyed Peas.
Caution On Chart Requires Surrender of Blue Stamps
The notice warns that items on the chart require surrender of Blue Stamps from War Ration Book Two. It directs rationed purchases to comply with wartime controls and reduce shortages by redeeming the specified stamps.
Commencement Exercises Set With Addresses At Lone Tree High
seniors of the 1943 class will attend the program beginning with a processional and include remarks by Rev. Duhan. J Dale Welch of Coe College Cedar Rapids will deliver the commencement address at 8 oclock May 5 in the high school auditorium. Welch a WWI veteran and former Marine has twenty five years in Iowa education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duhan
Reformed Church of
Lone Tree
J. Dale Welch
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Welch
Lowa Education
Anne
Velma Beranek
James Beranek
Rosemarie Luckey
Carl Luckey
Buell Meeks
Orval Meeks
Darlene Sojka
Daaughter
Wes Sojka
Nita Wingler
J. Edward Wingler Cruests
Shehanek
Army Cotton Use Per Soldier Estimated at 250 Pounds
The record notes that the average soldier consumes ten times more cotton than a civilian and conservatively estimates 250 pounds of cotton per soldier to equip an army.
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Capt
Clyde B. Walker
WIN
U. S
Richard Priogie
Rock Island
Frank Pringle
Lloyd Miller
Curran Company
Lloyd
Alliance
Neb. Leonard Marie
Wilh Marie
Harley O'loughly
Anna
Carl Phillips
Richard
Ivan
Mt. Pleasant
Children's Hospital
Iowa City
Brewer
Myron Lee Shields
Merlin Dean Hunter
Lois Humston
Ila Mae Daniel
Leo Marie
Joseph Wolfer
Martha Phillips
Ralph Peiffer
Anna Sanders
Donellson
Charley Palmer
Des Moines
Lloyd Alliman
Grandma Marie
Charley
Edith Stalder
Bessie Schoepfer
Stalder
Pleasant Plain
Morris Lemley
Ned Morrow
S. G. Bell
Mrs. Wilson
Mary Jane Rhodebeck
LEWIS
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
UMW
International
Les
Eowis
GU. B. Government Printing Office
Frank Shimitz
Margaret
William Shebanek
Laverne and
Evelyn
Clarence Rummerhart
Rose Shebanek
Roy G. Green
Camp Perry
Ohio
Anna Griffin
Frances O'Conner
Marycrest College
Davenport
Rita Stransky
Business College
Willian O'Conner
Alvin Stransky
Marjorie Fester
Pat Matis
Mercy Hospital
Lyle Fester
Fami
NAVY
Teat Flight
U. S. Navy
Johnsville
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