Service News From Home and Overseas Highlights
Uniformed air and army personnel from Colorado to Great Lakes report furloughs arrivals and promotions. Cpl Ken Wells tours Lowery Field while Pvt William Jacobs reaches Italy and Pvt Erman Lee Cox goes overseas. Lt Paul E Findley earns first lieutenant at Fort Benning as families share updates from Flemington and Oakland. Pfc Rulow rests at Amy ordnance depot while siblings Wade Purlow and Lt Phyllis Furlow serve elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Findley
Flemington
Paul E. Findley
Fort’ Benning
Findley
Jneth Parlow
Atlanta
O. Bishow
Jaincom
Rulow
Amyordance
Miaka
Purlow
Pvt
Wade Purlow
New Guinea
Phyllis Furlow
U. S. Army
Billings General Hospital
Fort Benjamin Hartison
Ind
Wavit FLOODS Mr Big and the Ocean Mystery
A flood event at Miami Florida disrupts the Opera House area with strategic mentions of a tidal wave and property damage. The account intertwines a fictional mystery involving a character named Mr Big and a revenge theme tied to a death, while references to a local figure Welling and a series of cartoon drawings appear in a garbled narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene
Miami
Florida
Halseaiesen
True to the Army at Strand in Pittsburgh a riot of comedy
The Strand Theatre screens True to the Army tonight featuring Jerry Colonna as Field Marshal and Judy Canova as a tightrope walker who hides with him after witnessing a gangster killing. Allan Jones aids in transforming Canova into a buck private amid comic chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Canova
Strand Theatre
Colonna
Allan Jones
Army
Judy
Shake spearean satire sparks hooping share panel
In a lively Sunday House event Joe and Brown entertain fans with a humorous Shakes shows. Brown faces trouble over a double life and a nine month sentence tied to a literary dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
En Republic
Joe
Brown
Shaakesverean Litera- Wernot Colles
Cssanova
German Troops Behind Cassino Held After Night Attacks
Allied dispatches report German forces reoccupying two hills near Cassino and probing Hangman’s Hill while Gurkhas faced isolation. Beachhead raids were repelled on the left flank as Allied artillery engaged targets near Carroceto. A dusk German attack hit the beachhead hospital area after a day raid against shipping. Eighth Army saw quiet sectors amid German shelling in Orisogna and patrol activity. Fortress units hit Imotski airfield in Yugoslavia with other strikes in Adriatic regions. Allied losses: twelve planes, fifteen German aircraft shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassino
Hangman's Hill
Carroceto
Eighth Army
Orisogna
Sofia
Imotski
Yugoslavia
Pattte
Adriatic
Crocodile Attack Injures Captain during Jungle Encounter
Captain Darlington, 6 foot 2, 190 pounds, faced a crocodile that grabbed his arms and twisted underwater. He described fighting for breath, slipping underwater, and finally resurfacing despite torn limbs in a sea of mollasses like water. The struggle ended with the captain reaching the jungle shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Darlington
Charles Lamb and His Friends review by Will D. Howe
The guidepost reviews Will D Howe's Charles Lamb and His Friends a biography that becomes a portrait of Lamb and his circle in late 18th to early 19th century London. Howe details Lambs sympathy and ties to Coleridge Hunt and others, noting his prose mastery and theater familiarity amid poverty and companionship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lamb
Will D. Howe
Bobbs-Merrill
Great Britain
Lamb
Howe
Mary
Coleridge
Morrisworths
Leigh Hunt Hizlitt
Crabb Robinson
Southey
Berry Cornwall
London
Allied air strikes pound Truk and New Guinea bases
Allied aircraft pounded Truk with 200 direct hits and attacked from the south and east. Liberators faced 45 minutes of intercep tion as 90 enemy fighters harassed them. few losses reported. Separate blows at Hollandia and Wewak in New Guinea destroyed or damaged numerous Japanese aircraft, with 15,606 fragmentation bombs dropped and 10-7 enemy interceptors shot down. PT boats suffered losses, and 95 tons of explosives hit shipping and airfields in Wewak, Bogia, Rebel, and Biak. A late note recalls Philadelphia printers striking for a $64 weekly minimum in 1786.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truk
Aese
Holland
Ah Yoriean
By & Headquarters
Bay
New’ Britain
Bi Ileland
Solomons
Wewak
New Guineas
Bogia
New Guines
New Britain
Burma War Front: Allies Drive Toward Myitkyina Base
Reported actions describe Merrill and Wingate jungle forces aiding Stilwell toward Myitkyina in northern Burma as Japanese defenses stall near the pivotal Myitkyina base. British and Chinese units push from different axes to reopen links to China and counter Japan’s advance before the monsoon disrupts operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Merrill
Charles ‘J. Kole
Wingate
Ie Bate
Ditlén Ani Merrill
Burma
Myitkyina
Manipur
China
Ledo
Ane
Stilwell
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Knottsville
Justice of the Peace
D. P. Logan
Grafton
W. Va
Nola J
Klepfel
Fetterman
R. FD
Booths Creek
Irene White
Court House
Flemington District
For Justice of the Peace
Byron
Ross Flemington
Frank Christian
Rosemont
Wy Va
Ss Europe
Colorado
Cpl
Keneth C. Wells
Loweryfield No. 1
Denver
Col
C. W. Wells
West Main Street
Italy
Earl Jacobs
Route 2
William Lee Jacobs
U. S. Infantry
Great Lakes
Earl Franklin ‘Simmons
Bouldt ‘Dawson Simmons
U.S. ‘Naval Training Station
Great ‘Lakes
Arthur Cox
Piedmont Avenue
Pfe Erman Lee Cox
Pfc
Texas
Maginot Line
MR. Big
Calann
New Lauth Pn
Jerry Colonna
Chaplin
Miss Berry
Beverly Hills
Giesler
Ann Miller
Chapl
Seine
Farher Giesler
Waldorf-Astoria
Joan
Mana
Poanis
New York
Weirton Steel
P Cio Urinn
The
CIO
Kincaid
Harvey Hall
Union
Sheriff Wright
Wetton Gates
CIO Union
Weirton
the Literary Guidepost
Mareshall Islands
America
Philadelphia
Uae
Shvapion
Claude Auchinlrck
Itas
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