IN THE NATION'S 2ND WAR LOAN DRIVE
A JEEP Ready to Roll...for Every Name On Our Honor Roll!
That's the slogan of twelve hundred Younker employees for the next three weeks. A great mass-meeting was held last Wednesday morning to organize for this store's one hundred percent participation in this nation-wide campaign. Selling is our business. Enthusiasm is high.
Our plan is to sell enough War Bonds and Stamps to buy a JEEP for every name on our honor roll. A Jeep costs about $1000. 136 of our employees have gone from our store to enter the service. Our goal then is $136,000. Watch our 7th and Walnut Street corner window for daily posting of our progress in this drive.
It's a big job...ours and yours. It must be done quickly, thoroughly and successfully. We've all got to pitch in and help...buy and sell to reach the tremendous goal set for the nation. Younkers has installed special War Bond, Stamp and Corsage booths on nearly every floor for your convenience. Immediate delivery of War Bonds will be made.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, April 12, 1943 (photograph included)
6 IOWA WACS TO GRADUATE
Six Iowa women will be graduated in the thirty-seventh WAC officer candidate class Monday at Fort Des Moines training center.
The graduation will mark the first anniversary of the arrival of the WAC at Fort Des Moines.
Capt. Mary S. Bell, WAC director in the seventh service command at Omaha, Neb., and former dean of women at Coe college in Cedar Rapids, Ia., will be the speaker. She was a member of the first officer candidate graduating class.
Iowans to be graduated are: Aileen Lohrke, Nashua; Vivian V. Long, Davenport; Margaret L. Moore, Centerville; Golda I. Van Tasell, Cedar Rapids; and Dorothy A. deJong, 5004 Woodland ave., Des Moines.
Source: The Des Moines Register, July 17, 1943
Second Lieutenant Dorothy de Jong who will manage the Des Moines theater for the 24-hour showing of the WAC movie, "Women at War," gets some pointers from the theater's manager, L.E. Forester. Lieutenant de Jong is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John de Jong, 5004 Woodland ave.
Source: The DesMoines Register, September 29, 1943 (photo included)
NEW CAP
WAC Styles
WAC styles are yielding slightly with the approach of summer.
Lieut. Dorothy De Jong of Des Moines, WAC recruiter, models the new version of overseas cap which may be used whin summer uniform she is wearing becomes "legal" after Monday.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, May 9, 1944 (photo included)
Eating strawberries straight from the patch are these WACs, who raised their own berries on plot behind officers' quarters at Fort Des Moines. From left, are Lieutenants Mary Sinclair, Kingsville, Tex.; Betty Woods, Minneapolis, Minn., and Dorothy de Jong, Des Moines.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, July 7, 1945 (photo included)
