Central City Boy Lights Up Macassar Sea Thriller
R W Hanson, a Central City electrician’s mate second class, operated a searchlight aboard a destroyer during the Macassar straits battle. He recounts multiple torpedo strikes, close ships, and a Bali maneuver that almost trapped them, noting light casualties and praise for Australian hospitality during later ports of call.
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Central City Boy
Central City
R. W. Hanson
Pacific
Macassar Straits
Hanson
Cedar Rapids
Tarian
Borneo
Macassar
Bali
Kid Improvised Entry to Pitch Life-Saving Device
Eleven year old Philip Van Reeth and 11 year old companion James Rogan talked armed guards into granting a hearing with Col. Alfred Lindeburg at an army air corps technical school. Van Reeth presented a device idea to prevent pilots from losing consciousness during vertical dives, insisting it could save hundreds of lives.
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Chicago
Philip van Reeth
Army Air Corps Technical School
van Reeth
James Rogan
Alfred T. Lindeburg
Lindeburg
Boy Inventor Proposes Free Army Plane Device
Lindeburg studies proposals as Van Reeth explains a cable driven pulley that would pull the joystick to lift the aircraft when the pilot blacks out. The device aims to pull the plane from a dive into a climb and the inventor offers it to the army free of charge.
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Lindeburg
van Reeth
Tobin Heads to England to Review Britain War Production
Daniel J. Tobin president of the Teamsters and AFL vice president leaves for England with Roosevelt's approval to study British war production. White House secretary Stephen Early said Tobin will visit labor circles and industrial centers in Britain to report back a true picture of Allied efforts to win the war.
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Washington
Daniel J. Tobin
The
Teamsters Union
American Federation of Labor
England
Roosevelt
United States
Stephen Early
White House
Tobin
Early
Britain
Great Britain
Instructors Needed at Fort Crook Auto School Interview
An Omaha representative of the United States civil service commission and a Fort Crook motor transport school rep will interview applicants at the United States employment service office, 308 Third Street SE, next Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon.
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Omaha
United States Civil Service Commission
Fort Crook Motor Transport School
Fort Crook, Neb
United States Employment Service Office
Third Street SE
Automobile Mechanic Instructor Post at Fort Crook
The position requires no age limit if the applicant passes a physical exam prior to appointment. Applicants must be in draft deferred status and not employed in a war industry. Obtain Form No. 8 from the post office, fill it out, and present it at the interview. A large city newspaper uses about 2,000 acres of forest annually for paper pulp.
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Fort Crook
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Dora Jane Hamblin
Front Row View
Macassarstraitst
Ball
Australia
Panama
Cuba
China
Philippines
R Gazette
W. T. Sands Printing Ph
2Nd St. NE
Roosevelt Hotel
Sahara
Sahara Coal
Cedar “Rapids
Fuel CO
Soboda
HUSKY
Second Street
DIAL
Montgomery Ward
Darien Jrs
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