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Show CAP FLIES CANDY AS FOOD TO FLOOD WORKERS CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILL. Immediately after staging an imaginary bombing of Chicago and suburbs in cooperation with the Office of Civilian D?fense, Civil Air Patrol Squadron 613-4 here left on a mission of mercy t- the Beardstown, HI., flood area. Shown above is Lloyd Reckner, member of the squadron, receiving from Alida Linnaus the first box of a cargo of Baby Ruth Candy bars which filled a six-plane convoy and was flown to the Beardstown area to provide supplementary food for servicemen and volunteer flood workers. More than 400 pounds of candy for this purpose' was provided by Otto Schnering, president of Curtiss Candy Company, as a result of information received from Col. R. R. Snapp, Chief of the Special Service Branch of the Sixth Service Command, that candy was needed , as a quick-energy food that would supplement the limited rations in the flood area. ' |
