Washington Looking Ahead Amid Postwar Dilemmas
Aug 11 Washington news survey finds anxiety over atomic bomb effects on naval fleets and army plans, with debates on peacetime training and large standing forces. Other items cover wage board limits, China trade postwar plans, SHAEF control moves, passport surges for Tibet travel, Guayule rubber potential, more radio stations, air force veteran hiring, and early atomic test fallout in New Mexico towns.
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Chambers of Commerce
New Mexico
War Department
Tried To Infect Enemies With Malaria
London report tells how Allied malaria program countered a German plot to spread malaria in Italy. P G Shute describes using infected mosquitoes and new drugs like mepacrine to save thousands of troops.
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Foundamsell Star
London
Italy
P. G. Shute
Biit Ministry of Health
Shute
Medical Council
War Office
Philippines
Burma
England
Guinea
Europe
Britain
Roundup Ration Details for Foods and Fuel
Community ration bulletin lists stamps and coupons by item and period. Meats fats and processed foods dates cover Aug to Nov. sugar five pounds through Aug 31. shoes stamps indefinite. gasoline and fuel oil coupons through Sept 21 and Aug 31 respectively.
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OPA
SoldierHOME Plan Delayed by Fort Dix Discharge
Cpl Harold Schwartz a member of the 9th Air Force called his wife Ruth in New York from Atlantic Citys AAF redistribution station telling her the bad news that he could not return home that weekend and that he must go to Fort Dix to be discharged.
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Atlantic City
N. J
INS
Harold Schwartz
9Th Air Force
New York
AAF
Ruth
Fort Dix
Yanks Have A Sense Of Humor On Two Jima
Robbin Coons reports on American soldiers showing humor amid heat on Iwo Jima. Lt James E Coleman, farmraised from Yazoo City Mississippi, tends chickens and a garden with two fellow pilots Bennett Commer and Ralph Coleman while building an electric icebox for cooling.
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Robbin Coons
Jima
Los Angeles
Ivo
James E. Coleman
Yazoo City
Miss
Tinian
Wreck Victims Identified Delayed In North Dakota Collision
Officials sought to identify more than half of 34 dead after the Empire Builder wreck near N. Dak. Major W. H. Murray said service members burned beyond recognition hindered efforts. Nine identified with names withheld pending kin notification. five had been positively identified.
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Michigan
N. D
Aug
W. H. Murray
Fort Snelling
Minn
Burns
Murray
Modernistic Nest Stuns The Dalles Wire Crew
In The Dalles Oregon F L Stephens a Western Union lineman climbed from The Dalles to the Deschutes River to locate a mysterious short circuit. He finally found it and brushed away a spider web which proved to be a thin copper wire nest possibly built by a bird experimenting with electricity.
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Dalles
Ore
INS
F. L. Stephens
Deschutes River
Western Union
Couch Leaves U N C Press for New Post at Chicago
William T. Couch resigns as director of the University of North Carolina Press to become director of the University of Chicago Press. He will wind up duties in Chapel Hill and assume the new post on October 1. The UNC Press grew under his leadership, publishing about 400 titles and earning national recognition.
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Chapel Hill
William T. Couch
University of North Carolina Press
University of Chicago Press
the Press
Couch
Carl van Doren
Yale
Carolina
University of Chicago
Colleye
Louis R. Wilson
Wilson
American Association of University Presses
American Institute of i Graphic Arts
Southern Policy Committee
America
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Peace bid sparks wild rejoicing across Australia
Australia erupted in celebration after Japan's peace bid. Prime Minister Chifley declared holidays, crowds cheered with American and British troops. Jubilation included jiterbugging atop cars in Perth and a V sign at Parafield airport, while Melbourne shops suffered broken windows.
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Sydney
Japan
Australia
Joseph Chifley
Perth
Parafield
Melbourne
Drainage Boosts Corn Yield at Raleigh State Farm
Drainage improvements at the Raleigh state hospital farm increased corn yield from one in five years to a bumper crop of about 65 bushels per acre this year. The update highlights practical farming gains from improved drainage.
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State Hospital
Raleigh
Heavy Water Smuggling Linked to Allied Atomic Efforts
A British report recounts the 1940 escape of heavy water from Norway to France and England to aid Allied atomic research. It notes French scientists Halban and Kowalski transporting 165 litres on a last Bordeaux boat, with German intercept attempts and statements by Raoul Dautry on wartime discoveries about nuclear energy and the feasibility of an atomic bomb.
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Oe Ndon
Eee
England
Attlee
Edouard Daladier
Norway
French Scientoteurie
Bordeaux
Halban
Kowalski
Paris
Raoul Dautry
Armaments
Ueed
Becquerel
Reger
Earth
Bothe
Becker
Hahn and Strassman
de F Frisch
Prof
Peierls
Birmingham University
United States
Canada
Six-Foot Snake Slithers Onto Cambridge School Yard
A six foot three inch black snake from Charles river basin slithered onto Grazier road near Russell school in Cambridge. Children alerted police. Patrolman Walsh summoned Captain Douglas and the snake squad. After firing with a service pistol the serpent died and was burned at the city incinerator.
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Cambridge
Mass
INS
Charles River Basin
Russell School
Grazier Road
Leonard Walsh
Douglas
Billy
No Smoking Sign Causes Injury to Warr in Union City
Loy L. Warr, a civilian employee with the fourth service command in Union City, Ga., was injured when a NO SMOKING sign fell on him shortly after a safety council announced no disabling injuries in 30 days. He received a cerebral concussion.
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Atlanta
INS
Loy L. Warr
Union City
Fourth Service Command
Safety Council
Warr
Luck And Looks Pay Off In Film Careers For Glenn Langan
Hollywood profile details Glenn Langan’s rise from a Denver firehouse to film roles at Fox. It notes his height blue eyes and charm, early gigs in Hanover Square Dragonyck A Bell for Adano and Johnny Belinda, plus aid from Lucille Weston and Mitch Leisen.
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Rosalind Shaffer
Hollywood
Glenn Langan
Hanover Square
Thomas Langan
Lucille Weston
Lucille
Glenna
Roxy Theater
New York
Johnny Belinda
Louise Rainer
Paramount
Mitchell Leisen
Glenn
Oney
Two youths register with local draft board five
James Harold Craven of 109% Thurston street and Robert J C Tucker of Route 2 High Point reach eligibility age and register with draft board five.
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James Harold Craven
Thurston Street
Robert J. C. Tucker
High Point
Draft Board Five
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Tibet
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FCC
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
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New London
Conn
U.N.C. Press
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Gregory Ratoff
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Santa Monica
Gene Tierney
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