Letter From Prisoner Lt Boyd Seeks News From Home
A letter from Lt. William K. Boyd prisoner of the Japanese reports his July 6 note reaching his Texas parents on his 28th birthday. He asks friends to write and provides mailing details to Zentsuji Prison Camp Japan via New York with 25 word limit and block type.
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Battle of
Corrégidor
William K. Boyd
Polk Street News-Globe
M. M. Boyd
Tohoka
Amarillo
Zentsuji
Island of Shikoku
Japan
New York
N. Y
Markets Briefs and Livestock Prices from Kansas City and Chicago
Dow Jones mixed with industrials at 134.16, rails up, utilities down. Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets show steady to firm cattle and hog prices with modest gains, large salable lists, and activity varying by weight class and species.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Kansas City
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Iran Premier Resigns Reported by Radio France
Radio France at Algiers quoted Iran’s Teheran radio announcing the resignation of Prime Minister Ali Soheily. No independent confirmation available from other sources.
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Iran
London
Radio France
Algiers
Teheran Radio Today
Ali Soheily
Italy Continues Air Attacks Near Cassino and Rome
RAF Boston attacks on Pontecorvo and ships in CivitaVecchia harbor followed by heavy fighter-bomber sorties over battlelines and along the Jugoslav coast. Fourteen planes reported lost with one pilot saved in the Athens raid. Foreign Secretary Eden says Tehran Cairo talks produced no secret treaties among the United States USSR Britain and China.
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Italy
Royal Air Force
Pontecorvo
Cassino
Fifth Army
Civiltavecchia
Rome
Jugoslav
Athens
London
U.P
Anthony Eden
Commons
Tehran
Cairo
United States
Russia
Great Britain
China
Japs Bombed and Strafed by Allies in Burma War Burden
In a Mountbatten Southeast Asia command communique a week of heavy air strikes by United States and British forces damaged runways dumps and barracks in northern Burma and along Japanese lines of communication. Japanese counterattacks hit Fort Hertz and an American base in Assam with Allied losses noted.
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New Delhi
United States
Burma
Asia Command
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Hukawng Valley
Fort Hertz
Assam
Phillips 66 Shield Signals War Effort and Chemical Reach
A historical note explains how youths experimenting with model planes reflect future aviation progress and how Phillips refineries produce not only fuels but also synthetic rubber precursors like butadiene and 100 octane aviation gasoline for military allies, highlighting petroleum as a basis for chemicals and weapons.
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Phillips
United Nations
Prmiirs Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
Oklo
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Financial Industrial Fund
NEW York Stock Exchange
Tel & Tel
Armour & Co
AT& S&F +e aes
Aviation Corp
Baldwin
Dome Mines
Douglas Aircraft Centree Electric
Harold Joseph Cummings
St. Paul
Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company
Leo Bock
White Motors Sneet
Woolworth
Warner Bros
Western Union Vee
Tommy
League of Nations
Tommy Bird
Meyer and
Meyer
Ny A
Opto Re
Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. V. Robertson & CO
Oliver Eakle Bidg
J. Douglas Smyth
Public Accountant
Roduces Nation Fuel
Pye
Phillips Research
U.S
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