Yoemen Win Hearne Tournament Saturday
Coach Dick Young’s fast stepping Cameron Yoemen won the Hearne invitation by defeating Rockdale in a final that showcased a comeback four times. Navasota Rattlers and A&M Consolidated were eliminated 34–19 and six free throws, with Cameron’s six stars praised for team play.
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Dick Young
Hearne
Rockdale
Tiger
Texas
Tigers
Coach Young
Cameron
Yeomen
Yoemen
Navasota Rattlers
A & M Consolidated
Gillis Graham
Ioward Kennedy
Set Clarence Sisa With Service Command
Buckholts native TiSgt Clarence Sisa serves in the Air Service Command Modification Depot in England. He helps produce bomb racks armor plate and propaganda-bomb components as combat air tactics require last minute changes. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Joe W Sisa of Buckholts Rt 2. Earlier he worked as a mechanic before enlisting in 1948.
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Clarence Sisa
Buckholts
Air Service Command
England
TiSgt. Sisa
Joe W. Sisa
Rt. 2
Army
Roy Wohlleb Returns Home From Newton Memorial Hospital
Roy Wohlleb has returned home after receiving treatment at Newton Memorial Hospital. He is resting and expected to resume normal activities in the coming days.
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Roy Wohlleb
Newton Memorial Hospital
New Type Rockets Fired at Germans in France
The United States Ninth Air Force reports fighter-bombers in western Europe using high velocity rockets. Maj. Gen. Ewood R. Quesada says Thunderbolt squadrons mine armor with rockets, while still bombing and flying effectively. Navy-developed rockets enabled earlier use in France. Several rocket-equipped planes have since fallen into German hands.
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United States
Ninth Air Force
France
Europe
Ewood R. Quesada
Ninth Tactical Air Command
Thunderbolt
Quesada
United States Navy
Navy
German Officer Learns About Allied Advance
In Arras a German lieutenant, captured by a 16 year old French Maquisard, is led to a British field HQ. A British officer shows him a map and a battle chart, explaining Allied tanks troops and guns storming across France toward Belgium, prompting the German to admit the war may be over.
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Arras
France
Begium
Star of German Films Blackballed in Sweden
Stockholm report says Zarah Leander Swedish film star will not appear in Karl Gerhard revue in Stockholm this fall due to protests by Danish and Norwegian refugee artists in Sweden. She had signed with producer Karl Gerhard and had previously clashed with the Nazis over her contract.
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Stockholm
Zarah Leander
Karl Gerhard
Sweden
Gerhard
Zarah
Germany
Thought Capsules Aid Alcoholics in Recovery
New York reports that so called Thought Capsules aid rehab by Edward McGodrick, director of the bureau of alcoholic therapy. Seventeen capsules illustrate the idea with statements such as I must abstain for self esteem and I do not need alcohol, reflecting that an alcoholic is made not born and that drinking never solved a problem.
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New York
Edward McGodrick
Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy
GI Art Professor Will Help Restore Cassino
Pvt. Frank Kacmarcick of North St Paul plans postwar restoration of Beuron liturgical art destroyed in the Monte Cassino bombing. He is a Minneapolis Art School graduate and former St John’s University teacher who studied Beuron art from the Benedictine Beuron Abbey in Germany.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Frank Kacmarcick
North St. Paul
Beuron
Monte Cassino
Kacmarcick
Minneapolis School of Art
St. John’s University
Collegeville
Germany
Postal Money Orders Not Legal Tender in Debt Payment
Justice George H. Potter of the third Bristol district court ruled that a post office money order is not legal tender for debt payments. The decision came while granting an eviction order for non payment of tenants rent in New Bedford Massachusetts.
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New Bedford
Mass
District Court
George H. Potter
Third
Bristol District Court
Unruly kids may be hungry says Chicago scholar
Dr. Daniel A. Prescott of the University of Chicago outlines that misbehavior in youngsters often stems from hunger fatigue or love and hopes for the future. He cites a commission of educators assessing child development and urges teachers to base judgments on past experiences and present circumstances.
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Chicago
Timre
Daniel A. Prescott
Prescott
University of Chicago
Collaboration Center On Human Development and Education
Commission On Teacher Education
Commission
Nazis Roll Bomb Like Bowling Ball at Yanks
In South France the Seventh Army facing German forces sees attempts to roll Teller mine bombs shaped like bowling balls down mountain roads. Each attempt bounced harmlessly into shrubbery as American troops advance on the Nice front. The joke ends with mock taunt to Adolf.
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Seventh Army
France
Adolf
Army Medics Praise Atabrine as Quinine Substitute
Washington reports the Army Medical Department endorses atabrine, a synthetic alternative to quinine, as "even better" for suppressing and treating malaria. The statement marks the first unequivocal acknowledgment of the drug's effectiveness, adopted widely after quinine shortages due to Japanese advances in the Dutch East Indies.
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Washington
Army Medical Department
Army
Dutch East Indies
Thousands of alien sailors desert U S ports during war
About 6,000 alien merchant seamen have deserted their ships in United States ports since the war began and are being rounded up by the immigration and sterilization service. Those found will be offered the choice of returning to ships of their nationality or deportation, per the War Shipping Administration.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Immigration and
Nsterilization Service
War Shipping Administration
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Fred Lazek
T-Set
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C. B. Hewett
James C. Pogue
Temple
Tracy Hobson
Hewitt
McCloskey General Hospital
Karl S. Austin
QMC
KE. A. Camp
E. B. Camp
Chas. J. Brown
Caperton’s
Kodak
Grossain
de Roll
Cassino
U. S
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City, N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., of
Caldwell
Emory B. Camp
G.S Baskin
Cameron, Texas
Cinderella
Cheeves Bros
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