Submarine War Drives Japanese Losses as U S Vessels Strike
American subs account for about 215 Japanese ships sunk or damaged since the war began with the Seawolf earning the most credited hits. Admiral Nimitz, a former pigboat skipper, leads an epic submarine campaign across the Indian Ocean and toward the Japanese coast.
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Washington
U. S
Seawolf
Pacific Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Husband E. Kimmel
Nimitz
Indian Ocean
Dutch Indies
Cat Loses All Nine When Ship Sinks
A British merchant ship carrying refugees from the Far East was torpedoed in the Atlantic last Saturday. Only a cat died. 290 survivors and three kittens were rescued by a United States naval vessel and brought to TON, S. C.
Marshall Talks With Chief of Commandos
General George C. Marshall, U S army chief of staff, conferred several times yesterday with Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Britain s hard hitting commandos, and arranged for further conferences to day.
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London
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
Louis Mountbatten
Britain
Globe News
Ancient Romanian Icons Restored by Pitt Librarian
At the University of Pittsburgh a young staff artist restored 18 centuries old Romanian icons from the Romanian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Damaged by bugs and damp gesso were repaired using gelatin chalk cheese beeswax and eggs. The work took about six months and the icons will join a new nationality room in the Cathedral of Learning.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Pitt
Cathedral of Learning
du Pont Cornelius
Cornelius
A and M Parents Club To Meet Tonight
Members of the Texas A and M Parents Club plan their regular business and social session tonight at 7 30 in the Federated Club rooms. Lewis P Fields serves as club president. Egypt is warring on food hoarders.
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Texas A. & M. Parents Club
Federated Club Rooms
Lewis P. Fields
Bedoued Woman Dropped Outside Front Door in 1934 Divorce
Barbara Bacret Winter testified in a divorce suit that Merch Winter lifted her from a bath and dropped her nude outside the front door after a quarrel. He broke a door lock, placed her in a car, and later the home was found unsecured. The judge granted an interlocutory divorce and joint custody with nine weeks set for the father.
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Redwood City
Cal
Barbara Bacret Winter
San Francisco
Merch Winter
Merch
Tran
Mrs. Winter
George Godfrey Winter
Knif e and Fork Talker to Speak in Amarillo
DeWitt M. Emery, Akron management counselor and founder of the National Small Business Men's Association, arrives in Amarillo to deliver "American Business in a Post-War World" at the Knife and Fork Club tomorrow night. Reservations required by noon at Maxor Drug Store or Amarillo Hotel news stand. dinner lecture starts 7 15 at the Country Club.
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DeWitt M. Emery
Akron
National
Small Business Men's Association
Amarillo
Knife and Fork Club
Emery
Maxor Drug Store
Fisk Building
Country Club
Officers Employ Portable PA System At Camp Roberts
Lieut Norman O Willey introduces a portable public address system to drill at Camp Roberts California. The device allows one officer to command a large unit during parades and marches and can be moved by jeep for longer operations. It also amplifies marching music to help soldiers stay in step.
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Camp Roberts
Cal
Norman O. Willey
Australian munitions minister announces 13 factories
Canberra April 14 Herman J. M. Makin Australia’s munitions minister announced that 13 munitions factories have been established or are being erected across three states as part of a large decentralization plan for war materiel.
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Canberra
Australia
Herman J. M. Makin
Army's Flying Brothers Have Shipboard Reunion
Two Webster Groves brothers in the Army Air Corps were en route to Australia when they met on a ship at sea after a San Francisco layover. Robert C. Selbert, 27, had been at Fort Wayne Indiana. Richard Selbert, 24, trained at Sheppard Field Texas before boarding for San Francisco.
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ST. Louis
Webster Groves
Army Air Corps
Australia
Robert C
Richard Selbert
San Francisco
Robert
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sheppard Field
Tex
Nylon money going around in test circulation
Treasury officials disclosed that currency printed on nylon paper was put into test circulation recently but no one noticed. Sweden has lost one fifth of its merchant ship tonnage during the war.
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Washington
Treasury
Sweden
Hoyt's Compound Promises Quick Relief for Indigestion
Mrs. Earl Winters of Route No 5 Lubbock shares a lengthy testimonial praising Hoyt's Compound for relief from constipation stomach distress gas bloating and sourness after years of poor digestion. She notes rapid improvement after few doses and reports regular bowels and better limbs. Cretney Drug Store sells Hoyt's Compound at $1.25 per bottle two for $2 with mail orders available.
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Hoyt
Earl Winters
Lubbock
Cretney
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Philippines
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Commandos
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Sally Lea Cotton
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