Air Blitzes Narrow Jap Reckoning in New Guinea
Allied communique reports heavy air strikes crippling Japanese strength in northeastern New Guinea. Wewak fleet reduced from 225 to 10 aircraft, with over 1,500 Japanese killed. Salamaua and Balikpapan raids damaged ships, barges, and oil refineries as Allied forces press long distance bombing campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Yates McDaniel
Southwest Pacific
Japan
New Guinea
Wewak
Salamaua
New Britain
New Ireland
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Borneo
Vella Lavella
United States
Vila
Kolombangara
Mendaco Promises Quick Relief for Bronchial Asthma Sufferers
Physicians private practice remedy Mendaco circulated through blood to bronchial tubes, liquefying mucus for easier breathing and better sleep. Available in drug stores for 60c with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Ranchers Press OPA Over Cottonseed Cake Shortage
Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico ranchers say OPA policy creates scarcity of cottonseed cake for winter feeding. Mills can charge $1 a ton more in the North than South, diverting cottonseed products northward. Panhandle Livestock Association seeks rescission, with President Jack Roach telegramming Grover Hill for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
OPA
Panhandle Livestock Association
Jack Roach
Grover Hill
War Food Administration
Air Freights Predicted for Postwar World
Roy A. Watkins, Chicago aircraft executive, said coast to coast non stop aerial freight trains could emerge after the war. He described farmers owning or leasing fuselages that become freight gliders loaded at airports and joined to aerial freight trains, with gliders swapped via aerial switchers. He called the vision feasible once peace policies are settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Roy A. Watkins
Chicago Aircraft Company
Watkins
Rotary
Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
Howard Aircraft Corporation
Rev Randall Poling In Critical Condition
Rev Randall Poling lay in critical condition and unconscious in a Clovis hospital after being thrown from a horse on his brother’s ranch near Melrose New Mexico. He was assistant pastor of the Gospel Temple at 500 McMasters last year and is brother of Mrs Kelly Merritt of 405 McMasters Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randall Poling
Clovis
Poling
Melrose
N. M
Kelly Merritt
McMasters Street
The
Gospel Temple
McMasters
Noisy Fish Give Subs Real Trouble
Washington reports reveal navy and wildlife service records show many fish and crustaceans produce loud noises. Toadfish croakers black drum and red drum generate rumblings rivaling submarine sounds, complicating undersea detections for training sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Interior Department
Fish and Wildlife Service
Atlantic
Chesapeake Bay
Optical Glass For Services In Production In Hackensack
In Hackensack New Jersey hundreds of workers trained in optics push production in a former roller skating rink. Bendix Eclipse Pioneer unit reports output up to ten times pre Pearl Harbor levels with new rapid methods enabling unskilled workers to build complex lenses and prisms for aircraft devices used by the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth McGrath
Eclipse-Pioneer
Bendix Aviation, Corporation
McGrath
Hackensack Glass Works Improves Grinding Output
Bendix engineers at Hackensack introduced V-channeled blocks for precision grinding and polishing machines capable of handling 18 to 360 units per operation. Production time reportedly cut by 90 percent. The plant makes various senses and prisms from 7 mm to 4 inches diameter and parts must meet tight tolerances for army and navy tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackensack
Bendix
McGrath
Army Draws Draft Dodger After Yellowstone Diet
Alvin Lawrence, 30, fled draft resisters for 10 days in Yellowstone living on berries and rattlesnakes before surrendering to join the armed forces. The story notes his choice of enlistment over continuing subsistence in the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cail
U.P
Alvin Lawrence
Yellowstone National Park
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Jap Doom
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Amarillo
KOTEX
Allbran
Morton
Oleo Meadowlake
Hilling
West 7Th Ave
Washington
Optical Glass
Grandma
Dean
Doan
Jenkins
Kelly Tire Service
Los Angeles
Goo
Rancho Amigos
Hondee
Reg
Spot
Ansley Cleaners
Globe News
Lon Conners
United Nations
KGNC
United Press
National Broadcasting Company
Kaltenborn
Close
Harkness
Beatty
Drier
Vandercook
St. John
Hughes
National Broadcasting
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