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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1944
Page
5
All eastbound buses head to Chicago with tickets purchasable at the Bus Depot and Wingas North Side Cafe. Tickets bought at North Side Square allow travel to distances nationwide, from coast to coast, via the local depot.
A jumble of train timings shows departures and arrivals between Washington Cedar Rapids Iowa City Ft Madison and Winfield with multiple inconsistencies. A bomber crew of ten perished when an B 17 crashed near Sioux City during a training flight 30 miles southeast of the city. the victims’ names were withheld pending family notifications and local farmers assisted at the crash scene.
CHICAGO May 27 Col J Monroe Johnson director of the Office of Defense Transportation asks Americans to stay home over Memorial day weekend to free space on trains and buses for service members. He cites pending military operations and the need to conserve rail and bus facilities for wartime traffic.
Reports from 76 Iowa counties show a critical seasonal labor shortage worsened by floods and replanting needs. Volunteers and high school students with tractors aid around the clock, while towns recruit emergency tractor operators and WAVES from Iowa State Teachers College assist asparagus growers amid wet fields.
Markets show hogs 180 to 270 pounds at 13.75 with holdover near 12,000 for the week. Sows sold 10.60 to 10.85 while cattle saw steers up to 17.15 and loads at 17.10, calves none. Sheep totals 2,000 with wool lambs steady after early declines and good fed woolled Westerns at 15.25 to 15.75.
The statement notes that our farm woodlands cover more land than the total forests of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Italy, highlighting a vast area comparison and regional forest scale difference.
Graduation exercises for St Marys School Riverside will be held Thursday June 1 at 8 oclock in the St Marys. Monsignor Bernard Jacobsmeier will present diplomas to Theresa Cooney Louis Case Lois Schnoebelen Dwayne Heitzman Alberta Kleppfer Paul Simon Edward Metz Vivian Metz Eugene Streb Marie Thomann John Motte William Schneider Merritt Veggy. Following the ceremony seventh and eighth grade girls perform a Grimm fairy tale Dancing Shoes and a senior junior play Mak ing Mother Modern features many named performers. Refreshments follow in the hall with proceeds going to St Marys church treasury.
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