Loan Backers Expect Ok Loan Through Congress
Washington dispatch notes administration leaders expect the 3.75 billion loan to Britain to win congressional approval with strong opposition and speeches. Private leaders say passage is likely, despite claims Britain has not repaid WWI debts. The package totals 4.4 billion with a 650 million lend lease settlement bearing no American cash.
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Max Hall
Washington
Congress
Ton Woods
Britain
Hencs Ste
Spence
D-Ky
Use Banking Committee
Dalam Doi AB
Bretton Woods
U. S
Truman
United States
Emasculations Aid Offenders In Sex Crimes
AP News reports Pasadena Superior Court Judge Frank C. Collier has offered 45 men the choice of life imprisonment or emasculation for sexual offenses, with 43 choosing surgery. He claims the method keeps them from reoffending, places offenders on probation afterward, and notes minimal hospital time and no major harms.
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Pasadena
Calif
Frank C. Collier
Judge Collier
South Pasadena
Santa Monica
W. C
T. U
Collier
Mc Narney Formulates Soviet Banquet Etiquette
In Berlin a Soviet banquet left many non Russians full and unable to keep pace with generous hospitality. General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of the occupation forces, offers a simple remedy: when your host says now you must try some, reply I’ll take some if you will. He says he devised this at a luncheon with Marshal Georgi Zhukov after an Allied Control Council meeting.
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Berlin
Joseph T. McNarney
McNarney
Georgi Zhukov
Allied Control Council
Victor Herbert An Irishman By Birth And American By Adoption
Composer Victor Herbert is described as Irish by birth German educated Bohemian by temperament and American by adoption reflecting his diverse background and career in music.
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Victor Herbert
Cub Pack Meeting Called Tuesday
Cab Pack No 5 of the Boy Scouts of America sponsored by the Decatur Civitan club will hold a pack meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Riverside high school. All parents of Cubs and others interested were invited to attend. Civitan leaders invited new boys aged nine to 12 to register and start in Scout work.
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Cab
Boy Scouts’ of America
Decatur Civitan Club
Riverside High School
Civitan
Names of countries after celebrated figures
Feats of naming nations reflect fame, with Bolivia Bolivar nations Bolivia Venezuela Bolivar Columbus Colon Costa Rica El Salvador Sucre Ecuador Balboa Panama Balboa Nunez de Balboa.
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Bolivia
Boliver
Venezuela
Simon Boliver
Colon
Costa Rica
el Salvador
Columbus
Sucre
Ecuador
General de Sucre
Balboa
Panama
Vasco ‘Nunez de Balboa
Harbinger Title for Quartermaster General Mentioned
The former title of Quartermaster was "harbinger's clerk" while the quartermaster-general carried the title harbinger. This historical note reflects period styling of senior Army staff roles and ceremonial naming.
Reenlistment Offers Broad Air and Overseas Options
The speaker highlights choosing any Air Ground or Service Forces branch after a 3 year reenlistment, with overseas theater selection possible. Benefits include supplied food clothing quarters and medical dental care, access to 200 training skills, 30 to 90 days furlough on full pay with travel paid, plus 30 days annual furlough with pay. Retire after 20 years at half pay rising to 75 percent after 30 years, with prior active service counted toward retirement time.
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State Department
The
Nuernberg
Tauchs
International Tribunal
Herman Goering
Rudolph Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Bearrow
Karl Doenitz
Erich Raeder
Baldur von Schirach
Fritz Sauckel
West Moulton
T. R. Harrison
Transportation Service
Southern Railway
Unity
Southland
Southern
South
Scott
San Francisco
California
R. J. Scott
U.s
Canada
AP News
Judy.Hackman
Buckley, Wash
John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Alfred Blalock
Red
Army
George Seal
Milford
Victory Bend
Walter Reed General Hospital
Washington, D. C
Appoi
Mio
U.S. Army
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