Looted funds among Vittel internees reveal meticulous Nazi record keeping
INS dispatch from Vittel France reports that 3.5 million francs belonging to British and American internees were missing after German looting. Allied officers note detailed falsified camp records while discovering 4 million francs later recovered from a German pay truck. Eva Dahlgren, a Red Cross worker, is credited with locating the money. Internees’ monthly allowances varied, with British getting extra Swiss allowances. U.S. internees could not access Red Cross funds.
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Vittel
France
Ins
Nancy
FFI
Eva Dahlgren
Red Cross
Philadelphia
Wall
R. D. Kendell Taylor
Clinton Senator Warns War Not Yet Won
United States Senator David S. Walsh, Mass., chair of Naval Affairs, after touring Pacific bases, cautions that final victory in World War II is not imminent. He says despite Allied victories and postwar planning, Germany and Japan must surrender unconditionally and long campaigns remain before victory.
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Clinton
Mass
INS
David S.alsh
Nate Naval Affairs Committee
Pacific East
Negro Y M C A to Open Headquarters on Washington St
Commodious quarters at 725 Washington Street are renovated to house the Negro Y M C A with a charter meeting tonight at 8 o'clock. White visitors and friends of the movement will be welcomed. white and Negro steering committees praise prospects for an expanding program in the first year of the Y M C A's second century. Senator Walsh reflects on postwar planning, Navy growth, and wartime logistics amid shortages in transportation and materials.
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Washington Street
Walsh
Aedee
California
Pacific
Naval Hospitals
Pacific Coast
Pigeons and red tape ray forge wartime gadgets
Paris dispatch profiles inventive U S Army ideas to outpace German forces. Captain John Semiseney of St Louis attaches a curved metal tube to a pigeon's beak and tail to cool its tail and stimulate faster flight. A new ray machine aims to disrupt enemy documents and mimeograph work by melting paper clips and ribbons. An ordnance sergeant develops a champagne mortar using broken champagne bottles as explosive charges.
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Hal Boyle
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
John Semiseney
St. Louis
Senseiey
Ming
Radio Schedule for December 7 Evening Program Lineup
A detailed December 7 radio lineup lists programs across time slots from 5:46 to 11:00 PM Eastern War Time. It features serials including Captain Midnight and Tom Mix, variety acts, news reports, and sports commentary with stations and network notes.
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Pia Bil
Terry Allen & the Roses
Jack Armstrong
Farrell
Mos-Bae
See Hound
Neveat
Terry
R Ve
Chick Carter
Nibe
Lowell Thomas
Newacast
Nbe
Cbtheory
Mercer
Music Shop
Nice
Waring
Lewis, Jr
Broades
Ile Johnston
Martin Bis
Joy Burns
Hale
Saltenborn
Bowles
Frank Morgana
Frank Siumiser
Arthur Fale
Abner Seria
Sunny Skylar
Dinah Shore
Death Valley
Sheri
Dixie America
Sammy Kaye
Bing Crosby
Music
Gueer
Abbott & Costello Co
Raymond Gram
Ffenry
Gladstone
Andy Russell
Carnegie
Rudy Vailee Varry Douglas
Army Air Forces
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Rib—Marie
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Jack Reroh
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Pat Taylor
Negro Y
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Ray
Tucker
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