Jap Generals Elevated as War Council Expands
San Francisco May 7 six Japanese generals elevated and three admirals promoted to key posts to strengthen Nippon defense. Gen Doihara joins supreme war council. Terada Koizuma Yoshimoto Shimomura Kimura promoted. Obata posthumously honored. Navy also announces three admirals in top bureau roles.
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Nippon
Comei
Kenji Doihara
Supreme War Council
Visory Military Council
Masao Terada
Kyoji Koizuma
Eastern Army Command
Sadan
Shimomura
China
Teiichi Yoshimoto
Tohoku
Japan
Hyotaro Kimura
Burma
Domei
Large Tulip Garden Shown To 4-H Girls
The St. Francis 4-H Girls Club visited Mrs. J. E. Hogge on Friday and toured a yard with three to four thousand tulips and a century plant in bloom. They viewed the herb garden, learned names and uses, and sampled the herbs. The meeting was led by Virginia Detten with several club members and local residents attending.
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St. Francis 4-H
J. E. Hogge
Virginia Detten
Nina Bunner
Dora Koenig
Mary Jo Berg
Pauline Lokey
Potter County
J. R. Hogge
Jimmie
Oscar Detten
Billie
Navy Cross Awarded Lt. Thomas Loftin Andrews Jr
Lt. Thomas Loftin Andrews Jr receives the Navy Cross for his torpedo plane attack that sank a Japanese warship while commanding a torpedo squadron at Pasco Washington. The citation notes his courage and skill inspiring his group as the enemy ship sank hours after the hit.
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Thomas Loftin Andrews
T. L. Andrews
Fillmore
Navy
Andrews
Chapt
J. E. Shoemaker
Naval Air Station
Pasco
Wash
Naval Air Service
Andrew
Globe-News
Charlie Underwood
Tommy
Thomas
van Buren
Adm
T. C. Kinkaid
Washington State Game Department Fish Stock in 1944
The Washington State Game Department released 61,738,504 fish across streams lakes and rivers during 1944 as part of its statewide stocking program. The announcement highlights the scale of the annual effort and its focus on expanding aquatic populations.
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Washington State Game Department
Yank Troops Show Little Excitement in Victory Over Germany
HAL BOYLE reports from American troops in Germany that there is scant exuberance after victory. Soldiers are physically and emotionally tired after 800 miles of campaigning from Normandy, with gradual German collapses replacing a climactic end to hostilities. The war now shifts to plans for final operations against Japan.
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Germany
Normandy
Corporal Becomes a Moneyed Man in Alaska Bus Biz
Cpl eKn O'Hara, a quiet, modest sergeant who runs a thriving Alaska bus empire, grew from a Pfc to a major local operator. He controls 26 buses with four more on order, runs inter city routes, a lodge, homes, garages, apartments, a boat, and a restaurant grossing 10 000 to 12 000 dollars monthly while driving a staff car for the army transportation service.
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Fort Richardson
Alaska
Cpl
eKn O'Hara
O'Hara
O’hara
Pfc
Paul Bunyan
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State
Fairbank
Fairbanks
Livengood
Ladd Field
Shorty Baird
Anchorage
Palmer
Gulkana
Return of U S War Dead Bodies To Families Delayed
Congress notes War Department plans to repatriate American war dead at government expense upon next of kin request. Families can choose burial in national cemeteries or return home, with details on death and burial provided by Washington agencies. Prior WWI returns varied by family wishes and cemeteries.
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Gene Worley
War Department
Adjutant General's Department
Washington
Quartermaster General
Memorial Division
National Cemetery
Veteran troops reluctant to fight Japan say they want peace
A small share of veterans express little desire to face the Japanese as widespread nostalgia for home grows among battle weary troops who have marched from Cherbourg to the Elbe. A North Africa Sicily France Belgium Luxembourg and Germany veteran jokes he would go to the Pacific only if his uncle needs him and only if they drop the salutes, as soldiers feel confined in a straightjacket.
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Cherbourg
Elbe
North Africa
Sicily
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
Pacific
Relief for Rheumatism Pain With NORITO Promise
Thousands of sufferers report rapid relief from rheumatism sciatica lumbago neuralgia and neuritis using NORITO. The ad promises quick acting relief with an ironclad guarantee refund if the first three doses fail to ease pain. See your druggist today.
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Norito
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