Madame Wei Tao Ming a Revolutionary Chinese Patriot
Madame Wei Tao Ming, wife of China's ambassador in Washington, says Russia breaking neutrality with Japan could hasten the war’s end. She recalls her youth, trail of revolutionary acts, and China’s long fight for independence and democratic ideals.
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Washington
Wei Tao-Ming
Russia
Japan
Twin Oaks
Madame Wei
Sorbonne
Dr. Wei
China
Shanghai
Chiense Law College
Shantung Peninsula
Koo
Dr. Wang
Lou
Minute Make Ups and Diplomatic Dinner Table Talk
A mixed set of domestic crafts and wartime era commentary. Gabrielle shows how to repurpose old items into fashion and decor while Madame Wei discusses the Versailles and San Francisco conferences and Chinese cooking as ration-friendly and plentiful in soy beans vegetables noodles and rice.
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San Francisco
Madame Wei
Versailles
Gay Gadgets Fashion Hints for Modern High School Girls
A witty column by Nancy Pepper riffs on girls and homemaking culture with playful jabs at fashion trends. It lampoons white dish towels as head coverings and badges of service, noting fringe edges, insignia sewing, and button decorations as kitschy style statements.
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McGee
Drac and Frank Charm Steady Daters in New Customs
The piece notes a fad among steady daters in S. D. naming a pair Drac and Frank after Dracula and Frankenstein. It describes gifts like identification bracelets and cedar heart pins given to girls as tokens, and introduces a new craze of presenting a miniature animal as a keepsake.
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Drac
Frank
Dracula
Frankenstein
That Little Moron Again
A quirky joke reel uses witty one liners about a man who misuses everyday items. The humor hinges on wordplay about plastered windows gunpowder and sunrise. An anthropomorphic coffee pot delivers a pun about not being a drip in life.
USOs Help Disabled Vets Find Normal Life in Martinsburg Club
Civilians in Martinsburg West Virginia support a USO club for ambulatory patients from Newton D Baker hospital. The club, directed by Mrs Sallie Ailes, serves soldiers from early morning to late at night offering meals reading dancing ping pong and conversation. Col E L Cooke praises the USO as a warm welcome and aiding both soldiers and their families during recovery and discharge processes.
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Usos
Norman T. Kirk
Army Medical Corps
Martinsburg
W. Va
USO Club
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
USO
National War Fund
Sallie Ailes
Col. E. L. Cooke
Baker Hospital
Ed Armstrong
Saltville
USC
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Remote indicating compass aids aircraft navigation
General Electric in Lynn Massachusetts is manufacturing a remote indicating compass to be placed in wing tips or the tail. The device aligns permanent magnets with the earths magnetic field to move cockpit indicators, giving pilots the same guidance as a cockpit compass.
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General Electric Company
Lynn
Mass
Jailed German Mayor Leaps to His Death
In Schweinfurt a jailed Ober burgomeister and chief S S official killed himself by jumping from a schoolhouse window where he was held. His name was not disclosed. U S troops hanged 11 soldiers caught trying to surrender.
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Schweinfurt
Germany
S. S
U. S
German Prisoners to Eat Only Livers Hearts Now
Capt. Robert McFadden of the quartermaster general's office announced that fresh meat for enemy prisoners of war would be restricted to hearts, livers and kidneys. He spoke at a conference of army post food supervisors about expanded use of substitutes for scarcer foods.
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New York
Robert McFadden
Food Service
Quartermaster General's Office
Army Post
McFadden
Yanks Make Selves at Home in Quaint Okinawa Village
Ernie Pyle describes Marines digging in on Okinawa near a bombed village. The men convert a rise into a command post, build improvised stone stoves and doghouses from debris, wear local robes for amusement, and patrol surrounding hills while adjusting to life under fire.
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Okinawa Village
Okinawa
First Division
Sicily
Italy
Raymond Adams
Gleason, Tenn
Love Day on Okinawa Aboard LCVP
Soldiers recall crowded shoreward ride on Love Day morning at Okinawa aboard an LCVP. Marines from the ship rescue boat huddled together, soaked and shivering, sharing tense, uneasy chatter about fear and relief after a long wet landing.
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Okinawa
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Peking
Madame Wei Tao-Ming
Gabrielle
Ledger Syndicate
Paris
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Ike
ED Neher
Telefact
Eeeei
Ernie Pyle
Pacific
Ie Island
Adams
France
Bird Dog Clayton
Billings
Montana
Chas. Matson
Shelby
Leggat Hotel
Butte
B. H. Station
Coos Bay
Oregon
Sher
W. A. Mitchell
Miles City
Mont
E. W. Heule
3Rd St
Great Falls
Montara
Office of Defense Transportation
Los Angeles
B. F. Goodrich
Bfgoodrich
Sulhe
UBL Air
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkhamis
WNU
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