AWVS Button Brigadiers Keep Uniforms In Shape
NEA Service reports AWVS Button Brigadiers serve in 14 states providing on site sewing for armed forces. They repair uniforms and insignia, alter apparel, and even craft curtains and slippers. Units like Treasure Island and Reno Air Base keep teams sewing daily, with many sailors returning for repeat repairs.
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NEA Service
New York
AWVS5
Armed Services
AWVS
Treasure Island
Cal
Reno Air Base
Daring 840 mph Dive Sets World Speed Mark Claim
Second Lieutenant Robert H. Knapp of Norwich New York reportedly reached about 840 miles per hour in a dive over Emden Germany while escorting Flying Fortresses in a raid. If confirmed this would surpass the prior official fighter speed record of 780 miles per hour set by Colonel Cass Hough in England.
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United States
England
Robert H. Knapp
South Broad
Norwich
N. Y
Emdes
Germany
Knapp
Cass Hough
Eighth Air Force Fighter Command
Fire Chief's Own Home Fire Tragedy Plays Out
PORTSMOUTH O AP Anglicant Fire Chief Ray Elwell Jearnil] faced a startling moment when a call from his own home reported a fire. While on duty at the local station he received the alarm and responded with a calm inquiry asking who was speaking, only to hear his own voice answer Me. The incident highlights how fires sometimes begin at home.
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Portsmouth
Ray Elwell Jearnil
Elwell
Elall
Covers for pistols fit army Bibles adopted by Chenlalns Corps
The War Department reports pistol covers sized to hold army Bibles. Made from a translucent waterproof vinyl, the buoyant covers protect the books as standard issue for the Chenlalns Corps, highlighting a curious wartime incongruity.
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Washington
War Department
Eugene Hawkins Dies At Jackson Hospital
Eugene Hawkins seventy five son of Judge Hawkins of Fionna's Supreme Court and Mrs Emily Tillinghest Hawkins died in Jackson hospital in Marianna Special He had worked twenty years at the State Capitol Surviving are two sisters Mrs John Wakefield Apalachicola and Mrs Caroline Coyle New York City.
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Marianna
Eugene Hawkins
Theleta Judge Hawkins
Fionna
Supreme Court
Emily Tillinghest Hawkins
Jackson Hospital
State Capitol
John Wakefield
Apalachicola
Caroline Coyle
New York City
Enemies Of Nazis Hold Party Posts Declared By Swedish Writer
Stockholm AP reports Arvid Fredborg asserts secret Nazi opponents operate within Germany including in Hitler Youth. He outlines four main groups monarchists liberalists social democrats and communists, noting underground radio and mass resistance remain risky yet active amid Gestapo surveillance.
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Edwin Shanee
Stockholm
Nazregime
Arvid Fredborg
Fredberg
Germany
Austria
House of Hohenzollen
Bayer
House of Wittelsbach
Hungary
Gestapo
Iberalz
Berlin
Social Democrata
Hitler
Jugendend Labor Services
Nazijam
Paris Resistance Reflected In Occupied City Scenes
From wartime Paris images passed through neutral sources show German guests ignored by crowds near Mazim's cafe as black marketeering and false IDs proliferate. The piece notes Austrian opposition, Nazi failures, and the Catholic Church leading conscience resistance, with figures like Bishop Preysing and Van Galen cited.
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Regio
Paris
WU. O
Opera
Mazim's
State awards $5,525 in employee's death
Mrs Lewis Bert Ussery, widow of the State Highway Department's chief radio engineer, will receive $5,525 under an award by the State Board of Adjustment. Ussery was killed Sept. 20 in an automobile accident near Troy while on assignment by the highway department.
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Montgomery
Lewis Bert Ussery
State Highway Department
State Board of Adjustment
Ussery
Troy
Highway Department
Sales Tax Excess Payment Not Credited
In a decision requested by State Revenue Commissioner H G Dowling Attorney General William McQueen ruled that an overpayment on sales taxes cannot be credited to next year's taxes. The Department of Revenue is without authority to credit excess payment by a taxpayer against a subsequent sales tax when it becomes due.
700000 Items to Africa Invasion Gear List Revealed
The North African invasion required 700 000 different items of American made battle equipment. The list included bridges bulldozers well digging machinery storage tanks railroad locomotives and more than 39 clothing items.
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Hapsburg
Bio
Vienna
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Clemens van Galen
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Cologne
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Africa
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Dothan
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Lely Ming
Slocomb
Jackson County
Graceville
Fla
A. J. Crutchfield
Pitcher's Hatchery
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Fismear
Pleasant Grove Cleareh
Georgia
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Box 47
Cedar Springs
W. K. Golden
D. J. Kelly
Walter Store
Ashford
Bob Love
Dothan Run
Blumberg’s
A. D. Tew
Hartford
H. D. Tew
Jersey Cow
J. B. Casey
Hodgesville Road
George Lowe
Big Creek Church
Campbellton Highway
Lewis McCord
O. H. Littleton
Midland City
Greenwood Products Company
Malone
Dothan’s Retail Stores
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