Perils of Jungle Include Gift of Wife
Captain T. H. Forsberg recalls jungle dangers while leading air rescue work in Liberia. He describes diplomatic negotiations with chiefs and a near marriage incident, plus risks from heat jungle snakes and a fierce buffalo during C-47 search missions.
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Mcchord Field
Wash
T. H. Forsberg
McChord Field Air Rescue Service
Liberia
Casablanca
Forsberg
Roberts Field
Monrovia
State Department
Army Air Base
Chicago
Fosberg
Fernsberg
Markets Close As Cattle And Hogs Move Steadily
Kansas City livestock quotes show cattle steady to 25 higher with grain fed steers around 27.50 to 30.50 per cwt and calves near 27.00 to 30.50. Hogs ease 25 to 50 cents with most sales 25.75 to 28.50, while sheep and lambs post mixed results. Chicago livestock lists moderate declines across hogs and steady to higher cattle and yearlings with varios weights and dairy sows priced lower. Markets reflect tentative demand and thin stocker activity amid mid-July trading.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Chicago
Fuch. Pierce, Fenner & Beane Close Bs
Armour & Coeee
Sneer Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locom
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Blaw-Knox
Borden
Braniffa
Briggs Mfc
Chrysler
Cent Motors
Cent Oil Co
Tee
Curtiss Wright Ae Et Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
General Motors
Gillette Razor
Goodrich
Goodyear
Gulf Pet
Ill Cent
Interlake
Harvester
MA Jones
Kennecott
Lockheed
Glenn L Martin
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvinator
Nat Gipsum
Pac Ryeer
Ohio
Packard
St Jo
Theeeee
Sham Ol & Gaswane
Shell Union
Sinclair
Socony Vac
Eee Eee Eenre So Pac
Eeenee
Spiegal Inc
Stand Brands
Stand Oil Ind Peneeeeene
Studebaker
Texas Corp
Tex Gul Sylph Wee
Motorcyclists Pack West Yellowstone for National Meet
The town hosts the annual national motorcycling convention drawing over a thousand delegates, many couples from across Texas, with women on bikes described as stylish and confident. Riders parade through town and park, while observers note motorcycle costs from 750 up to 2500 dollars and horseback opinions on riding.
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West Yellowstone
Motorcyclists Speak For Freedom and Adventure On Tours
A convention feature quotes Mr and Mrs Derrick and Mr Gerardin praising motos over autos. They stress freedom, ease of travel, and a strong camaraderie among riders, noting most owners choose motorcycles by preference rather than economy. Texans share enthusiasm for outdoor living and country travel.
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Houghton
Tack
Exas City
Texas City
Texas
Harry Gerardin
Vernon Derrick
Gerardin
Derrick
Montsanto
Award Contract For Sewer Line To W S Dickey Company
The city awarded a contract to W S Dickey Manufacturing of Texarkana for over 46000 feet of clay sewer pipe at 261646.79 dollars, 32000 below the next bid. Three firms bid. Delivery within 41 months. Pipe to be used for an outfall line to the disposal plant nine miles northeast.
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W. S. Dickey Manufacturing Company
Texarkana
Tex
Dickey
City Commission
US Plans to Turn Over 10 Cargo Ships to Turkey
Secretary of State Marshall said the United States will transfer ten merchant ships to Turkey as a first move to bolster Turkish armed forces. With Navy approval, the Maritime Commission is asked to sell six government owned cargo-passenger ships and four surplus vessels to Turkey.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
Turkey
Navy
Maritime Commission
Meeting Dog Restores War Victim memory in Sardinia
A 10 year old boy who lost his memory during a wartime bombardment four years ago regained his identity after meeting a dog while walking with a widow who had adopted him. The lad recalled his name and childhood while his father died in the bombardment and his mother had died when he was under a year old.
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Cagliari
Sardinia
Tiny Atomic Bombs Aid Research Work
University of Pittsburgh professors use miniature atomic bombs to explore new jet fuel materials and heat resistant alloys. Led by Dr Gebbard Stegeman and Dr Leon Mason the program, partly funded by the US Navy Department with a $75,834 grant, aims to advance synthetic organic chemistry and aerospace applications.
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Pittsburgh (P
University of Pittsburgh
Gebbard Stegeman
Leon Mason
US Navy Department
Burro No Longer Treads Old Santa Fe Trail
In Santa Fe New Mexico the burro has vanished from the plaza once common twenty years ago when wood haulers used trucks. Residents complained of trampling gardens and light sleepers were kept awake by its nightly calls described as an amplified snore and bandsaw like cutting through a knot.
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Santa FE
Third Victim Is Taken By Humble Refinery Blast
Baytown July 16 Edward J. Daniel 33 year old machinist became the third victim of the Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown plant explosion Sunday night He died today at Baytown Hospital Earlier victims Carl Frey former Texas League baseball player and B W Wunsch died from burns after a compressor explosion and flash fire
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Baytown
Edward J. Daniel
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Daniels
Carl Frey
B. W. Wunsch
Bugsy Siegel's Girlfriend Virginia Hill Treated in Paris
Paris reports reveal Virginia Hill, tainted by the Siegel murder, was briefly hospitalized in Paris for an overdose of sleeping pills. American dispatches warned assassins were en route to France to confront Hill about Siegel's affairs following Siegel's death last June.
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Paris
Monte Carlo
Virginia Hill
California
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel
Parisien Libere
United States
France
Miss Hill
Siegel
Medicine Proposed for Blackhead Prevention in Turkeys
An American Veterinary Medical Association article recommends a preventive drug for enterhepatisis in poults, a disease known as blackhead. The suggested medicine is Dissobuty phenoxyethoxyethyl dimethylbenzyliammonium chloride.
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Chicago
Current Journal of the
American Veterinary Medical Association
Americans Went to Town On Ice Cream in 1946
In 1946 the average American consumed nearly 20 pounds of ice cream as a record year for production. U S output reached about 750 million gallons, surpassing 1945 and prewar levels. Pennsylvania led states in production with New York Ohio Illinois and California following.
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Chicago
U.P
United States
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Illinois
California
Grandmother in College Under GI Rights Bill
Marie Barksdale of Derry Pa is highlighted as the only grandmother enrolled as a student under the GI rights bill. Her backstory includes WWI high school work completion and wartime service with the AAF as a WAC after her husband Earl Barksdale was killed overseas. The piece notes a diaper changing derby at Woodbury College in Los Angeles.
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Latrobe
Pa WU
Woodbury College
Los Angeles
Marie Barksdale
Derry
Earl Boring
Mrs. Barksdale
AAF
318000 Drivers Lose Licenses in 1946
A national survey by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators reports about 318000 drivers had licenses suspended in 1946 for traffic violations. Lack of financial responsibility led the suspensions in a quarter of cases, with drunken driving as the second major cause.
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Washington W
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Motor vehicles rise in Bermuda to about 1,477
Vehicles introduced during the war have grown to 1,477 in Bermuda and are projected to exceed 2,300 soon. Meanwhile a zoo-born royal white goat named Billy departs London for Singapore Malaysia to serve as mascot for the Royal Welch Pusilliers unit.
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Bermuda
Billy
London
Singapore
Malaya
Royal Welch Pusilliers
Maps of US Enlighten European Children
The Junior Red Cross sent 100000 United States maps to schools in France Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg and Denmark to educate five Western European nations about the United States. National Geographic Society drew the charts and Lille students in France sent thanks.
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Washington
Atlantic
Hitler
Red Cross
United States
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Denmark
National Geographic Society
Lille
Art of Oratory Dying, Says Speech Expert
Dr. Elbert R Moses, founder of the Pittsburgh School of Speech, says Churchill’s “blood, sweat and tears” speech marks the last surge of life in the dying art of oratory. He argues schools treat speech as a science in laboratories rather than an art.
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Pittsburgh
Winston Churchill
Elbert R Moses
Moses
Pittsburgh School of Speech
William Jennings Bryan
General Motors to shut down Monday
General Motors Corp. will take a week off from manufacturing passenger cars starting Monday due to disturbed steel conditions and coal mining issues. About 180,000 workers will be laid off from GM assembly lines as production slows amid reduced steel and coal supplies.
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General Motors
Detroit
General Motors Corp
Dalhart Woman Recovers After Fall From Moving Car
Dalhart July 16 Mrs Guy Southern wife of the new Fort Worth and Denver railway agent in Dalhart is recovering from serious injuries suffered in a freak accident. En route to Dalhart she opened her door to check tires, the car jerked, she lost grip on the wheel and tumbled to the pavement as her 13 year old daughter Joann stopped the car.
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Dalhart
Guy Southern
New
Groom's Appendix Sets Wedding Time
In Hastings Nebraska on July 16 the wedding occurred hours before the ceremony was announced. The First Methodist Church organist and soloist performed as about 100 guests gathered. Rev Ralph Rasmussen announced that Robert Kellog and Miss Phyllis Osterbuhr married earlier so Kellog could be rushed to hospital for emergency appendectomy.
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Hastings
Neb
First Methodist Church
Ralph Rasmussen
Robert Kellog
Phyllis Osterbuhr
Kellog
Scotland's first night horse racing stalls at Lanarkshire
Scotland planned its first night horse racing event in Lanarkshire but the meeting has not yet started. Officials expect action to begin once conditions allow.
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Scotland
Lanarkshire
Hacksaw Obligato Hits a Sour Note
In Crescent City California Sheriff Charles W Glover announced a jailbreak plot at Del Norte county jail was foiled. Fourteen prisoners were involved and one prisoner Robert R Chittenden admitted the plan after eleven days of investigation noting unusual violin playing as a cover.
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Crescent City
Cal
del Norte County
Charles W. Glover
Glover
Robert R. Chittenden
Strike Ends in Hawaii Pineapple Industry
The Hawaii pineapple industry worth 65 million dollars closed its six day strike. Federal Mediator Nathan Feinsinger announced the CIO Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union ended the walkout and talks to reopen contract negotiations immediately. ILWU leader Harry Bridges said workers would return at noon and demand a 15 cent raise. Base pay is 80 cents for men and 70 cents for women.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Nathan P. Feinsinger
CIO
ILWU
Harry Bridges
Railway Spur Linked to Mpanda Lead Mine Discovery
A 125 mile rail spur will run from near Tabora in Tanganyika to the Mpanda lead mine recently found. A Nairobi plane carried 18 live baboons in crates bound for an animal dealer in Copenhagen Denmark.
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Tabora
Tanganyika
Mpanda
Nairobi
Kenya
Copenhagen
Denmark
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