Marines Adopt Queer Mascots
A Marine Communications unit notes mascots accompany troops across Pacific theaters. Major Joe the black cocker spaniel shared in Tarawa and Saipan action, while other units boast an eagle, a lion cub, Queenie the pig, a leopard kitten, and Thor the Great Dane. Mascots receive ranks, records, and uniforms and may be wounded or killed in action.
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Washington
United States
Bill Ross
Marine Corps
Uncle Sam
Second Marine Division
Joe
Saipan
Tarawa
Cpl
Laddie R. Stansbury
Lake Charles
Stansbury
Tun Tavern
Philadelphia
Sixth Marine Division
Burma
C. B. Bryan
Falls Church
Black Zombie
Kingston
N. C
Zombie
Camp Lejeune
Thor
H. C. Wallace
Tulsa
Oklo
Pacific
Dummy City setup to fool Bonn Raiders in war
Six captured Germans disclosed a dummy city near Bonn used to mislead RAF night raiders. Lights activated during raids for three years, with five other prisoners ready with water buckets to quell fires as bombs fell. The Germans lamented the tactic despite sparklers and colored lights.
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Bonn
Germany
Coast to Coast in Eight Hours Set by Big Plane
A Pan American Airways crew flew a Constellation from Los Angeles to Miami in 8 hours and 5 minutes, a 38 minute improvement on the previous record. Captain Victor Wright piloted the routine flight for the Army Air Transport Command Africa-Orient division.
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Los Angeles
Pan American Airways
Constellation
Miami
Victor Wright
Army Air Transport Command
Africa-Orient
Doctors Find Way To Prevent Palsy
In St Louis a brain operation for shaking palsy Parkinsons disease reports a cure rate of 78 percent from removing a premotor brain fold. Dr Roland M Klemme devised the method, arguing loss of nerve balance between premotor area and basal ganglia causes tremors.
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St, Louis
Roland M. Klemme
Klemme
Best Safety Record Made By Nation's Coal Mines
Secretary Harold L. Ickes announced that in 1944 the U S coal mines achieved the best safety record in history despite wartime shortages. Fatalities totaled 1,306, yielding a rate of 1.91 lives per 1,000,000 tons produced, better than 2.26 per 1,000,000 in 1943.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Skunk Convoy Draws Inebriate-Eyed Motorists
In Albany a convoy of skunks estimated at 300 crossed the four lane Albany Schenectady road to flee brush fires. Drivers rubbed eyes and rolled up windows as the mammals created a stinky spectacle.
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Albany
Albany-Schenectady
Aircraft Worker Speeds Up as His Family Grows
LOS ANGELES. Ceil Langston, an aircraft worker, told his wife's physician that the stork was near. The doctor urged haste to the hospital. While en route Langston phoned again saying there is a baby in the back seat. He called again later reporting two babies had arrived. The mother and twin daughters were later in good health at the hospital.
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Los Angeles
Ceil Langston
Langston
Bill Reneker
Swift
Bill
Pittsburgh
Plants Can Bite Back Against Bugs at Cornell
Ithaca reports Cornell University has developed a method to make plants supply poison to pests. Dr. W E Blauvelt says sodium selenate, taken up by roots, accumulates in sap and leaves, so insects ingest poison while feeding. The system promises automatic pest control without sprays or dusts.
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Ithaca
Cornell University
W. E. Blauvelt
V Bomb Kills Parents As Girl Goes to School
London report details a 13 year old Daphne Newton who lost her parents when a V bomb fell as she left for school. The neighborhood has endured a mine ordinary bomb and two flying bombs since 1940. The head teacher notes many children would have died had the strike occurred later.
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London
England
Daphne Newton
Daphne
Death Rate of Prisoners of War Reported Dropping
New York New York John F. Cotton assistant director of relief to war prisoners service of the American Red Cross said the death rate among American service men held by the Japanese declined in the last year He told about 300 relatives that 42 of 600 prisoners died in eight months at a single camp in 1942 43 but from August 1943 to August this year only 12 of the remainder have died He cited an estimated 20000 American prisoners including 9000 civilians still held in the Philippines and noted limited medical supplies in macar for the camp
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New York
N. Y
John F. Cotton
War Prisoners Service
American Red Cross
Cotton
Philippines
Mactecamas
Yank Writes Novel On One Diary Page
Battle Creek reports Sgt. Joe Orlando of Erie Pennsylvania kept a diary from six days in an abandoned German tank after being wounded He describes shelling bayonets near him and the arrival of U S troops rescuing him The diary ends with his extraction and gratitude for survival
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Yank
Battle Creek
Mich
Joe Orlando
Joe
Erie
Jerry
U. S
Tank
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