Washington Digest on POW Escape in German Camps
A Washington digest describes American POWs in German camps using both literal and mental escapes. It details prison life, Red Cross reports, German treatment under Geneva rules, and prisoner activities from theater to sports and daily routines.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Germany
War Department
Red Cross
Reich
International
Kipling
Webster
Kriegie Times
Stalag
Luft Ill
Sagan
Our Town
Tobacco Road
Stalingrad
Flieger
Briefs on POW aid and milkweed drive during war
Special diet packages are sent to German POW hospitals. Red Cross kits head to prisoners in transit camps as they are captured in Normandy. German POWs volunteer to help harvest in Britain. Youth groups back a drive to recruit school age milkweed pod harvesters to replace kapok in life tankers for the armed forces.
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Kriegie
Germany
Army
Red Cross
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Marseille
Switzerland
Lisbon
Normandy
Great Britain
Unions, Byrnes, and Murray Kilgore Bill Turmoil
Washington reports say the Murray Kilgore unemployment bill faced Senate defeat with Roosevelt elusive on the issue. Byrnes may retire from the White House postwar demobilization role as CIO Hillman leadership splits the labor movement, while CIO locals break with Hillman in Salt Lake City over voting strategies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Truman
Wallace
Byrnes
Jimmy Byrnes
Doughton Committee
South Carolina
White House
Supreme Bench
Chicago
Ed Kelly
Boss Hague
Flynn
CIO
Hillman
Salt Lake City
Bauer
Teele
Cio-Pac
East Moline
Supreme Court
John Lewis
Sam Gompers
Trapped Eight Days in Plane Lives and Grins
Ernie Pyle recounts a British RAF pilot trapped in an inverted crash for eight days in a ruined village near La Detinais on the Western Front. The survivor, with leg injury and burned back, remained calm despite blood and debris as American rescuers pried him free. He spoke calmly, apologized for delaying the rescue, and expressed grit that impressed the rescuers.
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London
Oxford
GI Wounded Never Give Up In Enemy Plane Crash
A wounded GI endures agony and delirium as he is saved after a plane crash. He clings to hope while doctors and rescuers confirm he was trapped in the wreck, not outside, and his leg injury is treated on the stretcher.
Sewing Circle Crochet Bag Pattern Pat. 6499
Public notice advertises a folding market bag pattern using crochet cotton and twine. It offers 18 cents to obtain complete instructions and pattern number 6499, noting wartime demand may delay shipments and directing readers where to send orders.
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Sewing Circle Needlework
South Wells St
Chicago
Practical Household Tips From Common Tricks
This excerpt lists quick kitchen and home hints such as dusting flour on bacon before frying for juiciness, using a paper plate to hold paint cans during indoor painting, and preventing messy cleanup. It covers pastry failures from overworking, flaky dough water needs, peppermint oil in chocolate pie, matching threads for garment repairs, and using sandpaper on suede accessories.
Bless the Soldier Sock Note Found in Boot Heel
A marching soldier limped across the drill field and found a blistered toe in his boot. He tore off his boot and sock to reveal a neatly wadded note inside the sock that read Bless the soldier who wears these socks.
Growth of Pipe Organ at West Point Cadet Chapel
The West Point Cadet chapel organ has expanded from 2418 pipes and a 1911 cost of 12000 dollars to 13529 pipes, funded by memorial contributions in graduates names, now valued at 150000 dollars and the largest church organ in the Western Hemisphere.
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West Point
Hemisphere
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Yank
Bankhage
Western New
Venance Union
Ernie Pyle
Ace
la Detinais
Pap
Hochstitts
Saarli
RTRI
KICD
KBON
WLOL
WMT
iLerd
Angeles
Calif
Sioux City
Bishop's
Wey
Kellogg's
Wāde
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