Marines Share Foxhole in Pacific Front
Marine Sergeant William Wilkinson of Floral Park New York and a buddy occupied a foxhole when a bedraggled Japanese soldier buried to the neck in a nearby hole was found. The sergeant and his comrade quarreled over who would surrender the foe but both maintained discipline while the enemy tried to move. Wilkinson, a Fourth Marine Division member, had been a New York City salesman before enlisting.
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Marianas Islands
Williamon
Floral Park
Mader
Wilkinson
New York City
Fourth Marine Division
William Yandel Elliott
Harvard
Man Mountain
War Production Board
Georgia-Florida weed prices advance on tobacco market
Valdosta Georgia report notes price increases of 1 to 2 dollars per hundred for fair to choice leaf on Georgia Florida tobacco markets. Best quality grades sold to 44 dollars a basket as war food administration details said. Total sales for two weeks reached 69,713,328 pounds at 37.87 cents average.
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Valdosta
War Food Administration
Distinguished Flying Cross Awarded to S Sgt Earl Mana
Washington announces Earl Mana a 17th Street Greensboro North Carolina is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service with the U S Fifth Air Force. The War Department confirmed the recognition at its daily briefing on August 15.
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Washington
War Department
Earl M
17Th St
Greensboro
Ete
Ed U Fifth Air Force
Oil Pact Aims to Preserve World Peace With Allied Oil Rationing
The Anglo American petroleum pact is pitched as the best path to permanent peace by tying postwar oil allocation to world order. It envisions United Nations oversight and allied commissioners to ration fuel, preventing aggressor nations from arming, with China possibly included for diplomacy. The plan hinges on durable U S Britain and Russia cooperation and cautions about potential loopholes.
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United States
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Japan
Italy
United Nations
China
Hitler
War era economic notes pulse through a fragmented column
The column surveys postwar prospects including an Elliott proposal for an economic league to control critical materials, the impact of oil export prohibitions, and forecasts for sales, prices, meat, and textiles. It notes potential shortages, inflation risks, and reconversion questions as nations move from war to peacetime, with occasional local industry mentions.
Areas Usually Wet Are Dry This Summer
Washington reports a freakish summer with rainfall patterns reversed. Western states received above normal rain while eastern areas including Ohio Valley faced severe droughts. June and July figures show wide regional differences with Kentucky Tennessee Illinois Indiana and Ohio among the hardest hit.
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J. B. Kincer
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ation
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Western
Kincer
Aeag
Ohio
Tennes
Kentucky
Indiana
Illi
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Ilinois
Écnugie
Mercury
Men and Women in Service Ferguson Returns to Camp
Pic. Lawrence Lee returned to Ft. Myers Virginia after a 12 day furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Mayfield Ferguson of 1312 Ragan St. Ferguson has served 18 months and recently received the good conduct medal. T/SeT, ROACH T Set. Harold Roach is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Roach and has served overseas two and a half years.
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Lawrence Lee
Ft. Myers
Mayfield Ferguson
Ragan Street
Pic. Ferguson
Roach
Harold Roach Roy
H. M. Roach
High Point Resident Enters Intensive Training Base
Ted R. Fitsgerald of High Point goes into intensive training at the am training base near Little Creek as reported in Pittsgerald in Virginia.
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Ted R. Fitsgerald
High Point
Little ‘Creak
Border Belt Tobacco Prices Are Unchanged
Florence S C Aug 15 The price averages were unchanged or day as to are final Sevier Goh tobacco markets began the second week of auction sales but logs were unchanged to two cents hr and best thin nondescript vanced three cents the war food administration reported. A slight decrease in the volume of lugs was offset by a corresponding increase in cutters. Most grades were unchanged but good lemon lugs were up one cent at 45 fair lemon lugs up one at 44 low orange lugs up two cents at 43 Best thin nondescript averaged 33 cents up three.
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Florence
S. C
War Food Administration
Tokyo Rose Nearly Gets A Fan Letter
A Panamanian unit in the Panama Canal Command sent Tokyo Rose a fan note asking her to play a requested Tin Pan Alley tune on her midnight shortwave show. The letter urged broadcasting a familiar wartime song Remember Pearl Harbor.
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Panama Canal Department
INS
Panama Coast Artillery Command
Pear Harbor
Soldiers crave candy and smokes most of all overseas
An Inquiring Reporter for the Redistrica Post notes that soldiers overseas prize candy and cigarettes above all gifts. Veterans from Africa, Italy, England, and the Pacific emphasize chocolates, cigars, and practical items like socks, shirts, and lighters, with photos and hometown papers also valued.
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INS
Redistrica Post
No. 1
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Africa
Italy
Tech
Walter Schildt
Frederick
John Rosson
New York
Southwest Pacific
Russell S. Moyer
Blooming Glenn Pa
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New Guinea
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Fletcher H. Guess, Jr
Brooksville
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Morris M. Canelli
New Haven
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Sol Rubin
Miami
Ae Army
U S Russia Divide On Postwar World Council Plan
Washington August 15 The United States and Soviet Union clash over inclusion of small nations in the world security council as four power talks begin next week Officials see Russia and U S plans converging on core issues but widen gaps on governance structure Liteningrad based Zvezda article may reflect Litvinov ideas suggesting a directive organ to enforce peace with all nations in a larger assembly Roosevelt favors an annually elected representative body including the four powers and others
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Russia
United States
Council of
World Security Organization
Council
Zvezda
Leningrad
N. Malinin
U Yed
Litvinov
World Peace Agency
Roosevelt
Hospitalized Pfc Bundy and Cpl Clark in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs headquarters of the Second Air Force reports Pfc Jack Bundy of Kansas City Kansas admitted with appendicitis at Peterson field hospital. The next day Cpl Bernie Clark of New York City, visiting from a return flight, also was admitted after learning Bundy was ill. Both men remained in the hospital.
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Colo
INS
Jack Bundy
Kansas City
Kan
Second Air Force
Peterson Field
Bernie Clark
New York City
Pfc
Bundy
Pfc. Bundy
Cpl. Clark
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