March of Dimes Drive Begins in Cameron
Cameron theaters start a January 31 drive for the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation with a Greer Garson screen appeal. Fifty percent of local funds stay in Milam County to aid children, as part of a statewide effort by the motion picture industry to raise over $500,000.
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Cameron
John Prades
Lovely Greer Garson
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Prude
Roosevelt
Milam County
Lome
Motion Picture
Josephine Stuessel and Walter Marek Wed in Quiet Ceremony
Josephine Stuessel married Pfe. Walter G. Marek Wednesday evening at Terry's Chapel at 8 00 pm Rev Kramer officiated The bride wore a gold dress with brown accessories The groom in full dress uniform The couple will return to Burlington after a brief wedding trip Pfc Marek reports back to McCloskey General Hospital January 31 before marriage Mrs Marek was with First National Bank at Rosebud Parents are Mr and Mrs Ed Stuessel of Burlington and Mr and Mrs Walter W Marek of Burlington
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Josephine Stuessel
Pfe
Walter G. Marek
Terry’s Chapel
Kramer
Leona Weid
Burlington
Richard Ellison
Baileyville
Pfc
Marek
McCloskey General Hospital
Cottonseed flour aids relief fodder supply, says bureau
The bureau of human nutrition and home economics states cottonseed flour provides an economical and practical way to help meet a short age of protein feed for relief in foreign lands.
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Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
DDT Poised to Fight Malaria After War
Army doctor Maj. O P McCoy says DDT, restricted to the armed forces, could revolutionize malaria control postwar by killing larvae and adult mosquitoes. He cautions it is not miraculous but offers long lasting residual spraying to reduce transmission in tropical regions.
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Department E
Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
Conn
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Maj
O. P. McCoy
Surgeon General's Office
American Association For the Advancement of Science
McCoy
Army
Navy
United States Public Health Service
Smithsonian to display wartime bronze statues collection
Smithsonian Institution will place on display a two foot tall wartime bronze statue collection of 50 public figures including President Roosevelt and cabinet members. Sculpted by Max Kalish, the statues were donated by W. M. Kiplinger and are made from melted down bronze from old statues.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Roosevelt
Max Kalish
W. M. Kiplinger
Yanks Scramble for Razor Blades Behind Front Lines
American troops moving through France have been scavenging razor blades matches and toilet articles from captured German stock. Post exchange officers collected and sold these items hoping to bridge supply gaps before front line stocks run out.
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Paris
France
Germany
Post Exchange
Production Ban Lifted On Food Service Equipment
Washington report states the WPB lifted the ban on manufacturing commercial food service items including barbecue machines dish warmers potato chip fryers warming ovens waffle irons plate warmers and peanut roasters. Distribution controls were removed from commercial cooking and plate warming equipment.
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Washington
WPB
Red Army near Berlin as Allied leaders converge
Zhukov's forces sit about 55 miles from Berlin at noon with another Red Army unit 68 miles east. Berlin admits some Germans crave surrender while Ley vows Berlin's defense to the last. Allied leaders Ike Churchill and Eden are reported traveling to meet, amid massed Western divisions and Luzon landings.
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Mashal Gregory Zhukov
Berlin
Zhukov
Dr. Ley
Germany
Hitler
Poland
Reich
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Luzon
38Th
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
London
Churchill
Stalin
Roosevelt
Italy
Russia
North Africa
Promoted Air Medal for Wallace Culpepper in Europe
Wallace H. Culpepper, 19, son of Cameron residents, has been promoted to Staff Sergeant at a 15th AAF base in Italy. A gunner on an RAF Flying Fortress, he earned the Air Medal for meritorious aerial flight after missions over Orienburg and Vienna and service in England, then Italy.
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Wallace H. Culpepper
Hilton P. Culpepper
Cameron
15Th Aaf
Italy
Sgt Culpepper
Yee High School
England
Orienburg
Germany
Vienna
Austria
Milano woman returns home from Newton Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Bob Sue of Milano has returned home from Newton Memorial Hospital. Homer Lee Harris has returned home from Newton Memorial Hospital.
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Bob Sue
Milano
Newton Memorial Hopital
Homer Lee Harris
Newton Memorial Hospital
Red army closes on Breslau as East Prussia cut off
Soviet forces under Marshal Konyev push toward Breslau and Koenigsberg as East Prussia is isolated with about 350000 German troops trapped. Moscow reports German routs across East Prussia, while Luzon reveals Clark Field besieged near Manila. McLain ill in Newton Memorial Hospital.
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Marshal Konnev
Breslau
Red
Baltic
Germany
East Prussia
Moscow
Berlin
Koenigsberg
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Luzon
MacArthur
Clark Field
Manila
Law of the Valley heads to Milam Theatre
Johnny Mack Brown stars as an undercover U S marshal with Raymond Hatton in the Monogram comedy drama Law of the Valley. The pair face a renegade plot in Green Valley as they expose crooked land deals and face hair raising adventures.
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Milam Theatre
Monogram
Johnny Mack Brown
Raymond Hatton
U. S
Green Valley
Local residents report health and family news
Mrs Bever Thomas returned home from Newton Memorial Hospital. Annette Manning daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Manning is ill at Newton Memorial Hospital. Pvt Lenhert Hraz is visiting his family for a few days.
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Annette Manning
Ed Manning
Newton Memorial Hospital
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