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)
Julia Oliver Dies in West
Miss Julia Jane Oliver, WAVE daughter of a Des Moines navy man, died Tuesday in the naval hospital at Oakland, Calif., after several months illness.
Miss Oliver, a storekeeper second class, was a graduate of North High school in 1940 and was in the auditing department of Younkers before joining the WAVES in September 1942.
A daughter of Chief Commissary Steward and Mrs. Rex Oliver, 135 E. Douglas ave., Miss Oliver had been serving at the naval air base in Alemeda, Cal., after training at the University of Indiana.
Besides her parents, Miss Oliver is survived by two sisters, Barbara Lee and Ione Oliver, both at home.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, April 19, 1944
JULIA OLIVER RITES TODAY
Services for Julia Jane Oliver, storekeeper second class of the WAVES, will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lilly's Funeral home.
Burial with full military honors will at Glendale Masonic cemetery.
Miss Oliver died Tuesday at Oak Knolls Naval hospital in Oakland, Cal., after an illness of several months. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Oliver; and her two sisters Barbara Lee and Ione. Mr. Oliver is the chief commissary steward attached to the Des Moines recruiting station.
Source: The DesMoines Register, April 22, 1944 (photo included)
