Poverty Ridden Areas Of France Welcome Advancing Allies
Rosette Hargrove reports that as Allied forces push into Normandy the rural wealth shows through while poverty bites in poorer regions. German requisitions left some towns fed, but rationing hit bread and dairy. luxury items vanished as hunger rose and housing deteriorated. The piece notes better welcomes may await beyond rich Normandy.
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France
Rosette Hargrove
Frante
neLces
Normandy
Normande ‘Cs
Europe
Denmark
Best Comine
Delivrande
Atantic Wall
Hollywood
Bayeux
Army Uses Broadway Method To Keep Men Up To Date
At Fort Hamilton New York the Army’s orientation program now uses Broadway style shows to teach world events. Sgt William Mulvey and Glenn Jordan created a half hour daily show called The Gripers with writers and performers from the Special Service Branch drawing 500 regular attendees. The effort blends humor songs and pantomime to educate and motivate soldiers and may spread to other camps nationwide.
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Vivian Brown
Fort Hamilton
Army
William Mulvey
Glenn Jordan
Broadway
Wiliam G. Nicklas
Infantry
Ft. Hamilton
Special Service Branch
Dick Fehr
Wallter Murphy
Carl Pearl
WAC
Patricia Kuehner
Jordan
Mulvey
Cpl
Harold Rome
Maurice Basseches
Unswerving Birds Show Slow Evolution in Birds
AP reports Dr Love Holmes Miller of UC Berkeley notes birds evolve more slowly than mammals. New Pliocene bird fossils from Oregon and Idaho suggest some species stayed structurally unchanged for about a million years.
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Los Angeles
Love Holmes Miller
University of California
Oregon
Idaho
Miller
Refugees Welcome Home After Turbulent War Years
A fragment suggests displaced people returning from conflict will be greeted warmly by communities that endured occupation and hardship. The text references destruction caused by war and the burdens borne by those who suffered during invasion.
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Ante
Jap Marines Yet Rotting On Tarawa Beach
On Betio Island Tarawa, remnants of Japanese Imperial Marines lie among rusting tanks and landing craft. The battle for the Pacific left heavy casualties as American Marines fought fiercely. Most Japanese were buried, but visitors still uncover bones on the sands.
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Betio Island
Tarawa
Pacific
Necktie Parties at Goodyear Plant Spark Odd Ritual
In Phoenix Arkansas AP report, workers promoted to supervisory roles celebrate with a quirky habit. Some take the severed ends of their scarves as good luck charms, linking promotion to superstition in the factory culture.
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Phoenix, Ark
Goodyear Aircraft
Thor
U S Health Standards High Despite Wartime Disease Hazards
Wartime conditions test public health as influenza, measles, and scarlet fever rise. Despite doctor shortages and crowded cities, epidemics have been controlled, with influenza deadliest in 1918, but 1934 showing far lower death rates. Measles and meningitis rise. infantile paralysis remains untreatable.
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U. S
SY & Burton
Meath
Neattall Corriepeade
Washington
Great Lakes
Disease cycles drive recurrent outbreaks nationwide
Public health records show measles immunity waning as babies outgrow coverage creating new susceptible cohorts. February saw a smallpox outbreak in southern California and typhoid scares in Harrodsburg Kentucky and Peru Indiana linked to infected cheese. Two bubonic plague cases were reported on the west coast last year while malaria in war camps dropped to three per 10 000 men at home bases as sulfonamides and penicillin curb syphilis and gonorrhea.
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Thomas Parran
California
Harrodsburg
Peru
Ind
Pleas Of Guilty Entered By Negroes
Two Black defendants Foster Helms and Isom Safford pleaded guilty in county court to prohibition violations and received $50 fines and 20 day jail terms. Other cases included Roy Holland found guilty of assault with a weapon with $1 fine and $800 appeal bond. Clark Safford guilty of violation with $10 fine and $300 bond. D Hutchinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon with $1 fine. Court calendar listed 85 cases, most continued or dismissed for lack of evidence.
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Builty
Foster Helms
Isom Safford
Saxon P. Poyner
Roy Holland
D. Hutchinson
Clark Safford
Lost wedding rings found in Empire State salvage
The one month paper salvage drive in the Empire State Building yielded three lost wedding rings. No claims or owners identified. Additional notes mention the Cape Verde Islands of ten islands and five islets and Ontario’s former name Upper Canada from 1701 to 1887.
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New York
Empire State Building
Cape Verde
Ontario
Upper Canada
Miracle repair depots lift crippled bombers in Britain
War diary from an air service depot details how crashed American bombers are salvaged in the United Kingdom. Engineers and pilots, led by Joseph Wildeman, swiftly improvise runways and replace wings and engines to ready damaged aircraft for flight within days.
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Tom Wol
England
Fh Air BP
Britain
Air Force
Air Service
United Kingdom
Thig
Beth
8Th Air Force
Channel
Unt
Joseph Wildeman
Oklahome
Fion
Miracle Pilots
9Th Air Force
Richard H. McLe
Buena Park
Calif
Hollywood Aviation
Wings
Hell's
J. W. Mareh
Sancisco
Shine & Vair
Great Falls Reader Seeks Sitters for Jitterbug Band
A Great Falls resident seeks a sitter for help with practice on a concrete floor after long days at work. The complainant cites difficulty in cutting a jitterbug road and asks for understanding of the band’s grinding schedule.
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Great Falls
Mont
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Donald Beck
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