Test Loom For Presidential Candidates In GOP Showdown
A GOP Chicago meeting to pick the nominating convention site and decide the arrangements committee faces two key fights among presidential camps. Wendell Willkie supporters push to relocate the convention, while Bricker allies weigh control of the arrangements panel and keynote selection. Senator Taft hints outsiders may seek a vote to name the committee, challenging standard chairman control. DROPS TREE ON NATS BEND, Ore. A quirky note follows about a man who drops a tree on a nail and a Bend official’s hesitation, plus a line on average annual vegetable consumption.
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Jack Bell Washington
Republican National Committee
Chicago
New York City
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicao
National Committee
Harrison Emsom
Nats Bend
Ore
INS
William Scribner
Bend
Scribner
Saginaw River
Columbia River
American Woman, 65, Heroine of Paris Underground
Mrs. Etta Shiber, aged 65, aided British soldiers escaping Nazi France then faced Gestapo danger. She hid a British deserter, helped 200 soldiers reach liberty, and endured prison and hunger before returning as an exchange prisoner. Her story, Paris Underground, tops best seller lists.
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Gestapo
France
Gilbert Swan
Central Press
New York
Etta Shiber
Mrs. Shiber
Edith Cavell
Nazi
Nurse Cavell
Shiber
Paris
Etta Shibers
Pish
Cherche-Midi
Kitty “Beaurepos
Kitty
North Africa
Fighting Flares On Italy Front Ahead Of Cassino Push
Allied forces renewed their drive toward Cassino on the Italian front as infantry faced heavy German artillery and new concrete pillboxes built by Italian labor. Weather hindered air raids until noon, then fighter bombers hit four guns while Germans pounded roads toward the front.
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Italy
Cassino
Rome
Tar Heel Aces Smash Jap Planes in China
United States air base in China hosts Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault’s bombers as they target Japanese planes. The score sheet lists several Norwich area flyers credited with two to three confirmed kills and multiple probables from June 3 to December 10, with some pilots deceased.
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U.S
China
Dee
O— E
Claire Chennault
Tokyo
Chennault
J. Lee
Route 7
Box 335
Greensboro
N.C
J. D. Bullard
East Church St
Lanne
T.R Meas
Broad St
News
J.M. Morrison
Box 127
Beaufort
H.P. Elias
Converse St
Spartans
L.H. Couch
Franklin St
Monroe
Morton Sher
Augusta Road
Greenville
S.C
E.F. Rector
Marshall
N. C
Postwar trend pushes more women into college fields
At Penn State Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray notes rising coed enrollment reflects a long term trend, not wartime spur. The piece cites 1943 U S munitions output rising 85 percent over 1942.
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Story State College
INS
Charlotte E. Ray
Penn State
Miss Ray
U. S
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West End
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Thur
Curtis
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Burrie
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Eleanor
High Point
Chesterfield
Belk-Stevens CO
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