Queen of the Skies resurfaces for postwar airship push
Goodyear Aircraft engineers promote the rigid airship as a transoceanic option, led by Dr Karl Arnstein. They tout helium filled craft with 85,000 pound payloads, 6,000 mile ranges, and potential passenger fleets. They compare costs to airplanes and envision revenue from San Francisco to Honolulu routes.
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Akron
Goodyear
San Francisco
Honolulu
Shanghai
San Francisco-Honolulu
Arnstein
Polonus
Sioux City undertaker runs German POW camp in Ingolstadt
Lt. C. W. Deag of Sioux City Iowa heads a German POW camp where 5100 prisoners including SS men are kept. He enforces strict discipline with the help of Ninth Division veterans Doty and Nelson. Music is provided by SS troops and Sunday services are mandatory. Two Hungarian soccer players were recruited as ringers. Two escapes occurred, one fatal, and three SS men faced discipline for an attempted escape. Most SS are expected to remain until August.
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Howard Cowan
Hal Boyle
Ingolstadt
Germany
Sioux City
Iowa
C. W. Deag
Lindsay Nelson
Columbia
Tenn
Doty
Nelson
Africa
SS PW
Atténtoon
Seaman Held In Beer Bottle Killing In Miami
A 19 year old seaman is held in the death of Mrs. Ella Mae Eames 42 wife of a former army chaplain. He allegedly said he struck her with a beer bottle in his hotel room and dumped the body into an alley. Civilian and naval authorities will confer on action.
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Miami
Fla
Ella Mae Eames
Divid
Richard Giffen
William Wells Parker
Toledo
Boston
Owen W. Eames
Springfield
Mass
Terriby
Parker
Navy
Eameses
RAF builds four air stations in Northern Ireland
During the war the Royal air force built four air stations in Northern Ireland at a cost of about 125 million dollars. More than half of these were loaned to the United States air force.
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Belfast
INS
Royal Air Force
Northern Ireland
United States Air Force
Columbia May Make Voting Compulsory
The dominant liberal party in Bogota proposes compulsory voting with a 25 percent tax surcharge on non voters. A one peso fine is set for not voting, and tax bills would rise 25 percent for a year after elections. Government workers could be removed from office for abstaining and non voters cannot hold office for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bogota
Colombia
Liberal Party
National Congress
Street Cleaner quits after curses then returns after apologies
Harold Kingham quit his Luton street cleaning job saying he was sick of people swearing at him. The Luton rural council then visited each person on his route to obtain personal apologies and assurances they would not swear again. The article notes a shift from flax sailcloth to nylon for durability and lightness.
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Luton
England
Harold Kingham
Refrigerated Ships Improve Navy Food Freshness and Health
The navy operates a fleet of refrigeration ships known as reefers to supply fresh fruit vegetables eggs cheese meats fish and butter on Pacific routes. Each five ton unit holds enough food for 2888 meals and is designed for rapid unloading within 48 hours to maintain a balanced diet and prevent scurvy among crews.
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Pacific
South Pacific
Inebriated Passenger Quizzes Conductor
In Rumford Maine a passenger who had been drinking asked a conductor the distance between Dixfield and Rumford. The conductor said five miles. The same passenger later asked the distance back, and the conductor noted the symmetry. The passenger replied that time is relative, citing the span from Christmas to New Year’s as long though between dates is short.
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Rumford
INS
Dixfield
Submarines for Sale by Australian Disposal Commission
The Australian Commonwealth Disposals Commission offers two Dutch submarines in good condition but stranded on reefs. One ran ashore between Sydney and Brisbane, on an even keel with 30,000 gallons of fuel aboard valued at $6,500. The other lies off western Australia.
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New York
Australian Commonwealth Disposals Commission
Australian News and Information Bureau
Sydney
Brisbane
Western Australia
Yugoslav Immigrant Rises to Lieutenant Colonel in U S Barracks
Aberdeen based report notes Lt. Col. George Barber, born in Desne Yugoslavia, came to the United States in 1913 to avoid conscription, joined the army six months later, and now heads the northwest branch of the U S disciplinary barracks at Fort Missoula Montana. The piece also mentions Romans using a material named tuga in early buildings.
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Aberdeen
Wash
INS
United States
Army
Northwest
U. S
Fort Missoula
Mont
George Barber
Desne
Yugoslavia
Austria-Hungary
Policeman’s Good Work Goes Over With A Bang
Miami Police Traf fic Officer A B Rossman cited a car parked near a fire plug. The owner praised his diligence and returned with a cigar which exploded in his face when lit, a comic twist ending the incident.
Navy Becomes New Hire at Bainbridge and Bell Returns to Miami Beach
IN SERVICE ly completed a period of instruction at the naval training center Bainbridge Md. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Pugh of Franklinville before enlisting in the navy he was employed by the Randolph Mills company He was graduated from Grays Chapel high school Pfc Charles G Bell 34 husband of o Eula H Bell of High an C has returned from service Lao the continental United States and is now being processed through the army ground and ser ice forces redistribution station in Miami Beach where his next assignment will be determined Pfc Bell served six months as a member of the infantry corps unit in the European theatre of nations while there he awarded the bronze medal meritorious achievement the come bat infantryman badge and the European campaign ribbon with two battle stars.
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Rere Davis
Akron
Goodyear Aircraft
Goodyearnes
Karl Arnstein
Zeppelin
Zeppelin Organization
Principe
Harold A. Polonus
Goodyear
Chicago
Hindenburg
Americas
Naval Training Center
Bainbridge, Md
Charles Pugh
Franklinville
Navy
Randolph Mills Company
Grays Chapel High School
Bullabough Promoted at Camp Gordon
Cpl. Edgar Bullabough has been promoted from private first class at Camp Gordon Georgia where he serves as a cadre member with the IRLC. He is married to former Miss Juanita Vaugher a High Point Memorial hospital graduate of 1944. Mrs Bullabough has nursed for ten months at a Greensboro hospital.
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Bullabough
Edgar Bullabough
Camp Gordon
IRLC
Juanita Vaugher
Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospital
Greensro
Furlough for Clark as 104th Infantry in Europe
S Sgt Gilbert Clark returns home on furlough. He served with the Timberwolf 104th division in Holland Belgium and Germany earning the Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman Badge.
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Clark
Gilbert Clark
Melba Clark
Rt. 1
Jamestown
Timberwolf
104Th
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Pvt Rayford Richardson Receives Purple Heart at Battey Hosp
Pvt Rayford Richardson of 317 Coltrane Street High Point North Carolina was awarded the Purple Heart for shoulder wounds from shell fragments near Pregum Germany on February 10 1945. He received the medal from Col. D B Faust at Battey General Hospital where he has been a patient since March 28 1945. He is also awarded the good conduct ribbon and the European African Middle East campaign ribbon with three stars.
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Rome
Pvt
Rayford Richardson
Coltrane Street
High Point
N. C
Germany
Battey General Hospital
D. B. Faust
Richardson
E. H. Richardson
Westminster
S. C
377Th Coast Artillery
Pregum
Hea
States
Seaman Pugh Arrives for Training at Norfolk naval station
David Mitchell Pugh 18 of Franklinville North Carolina arrives at the Norfolk Virginia naval training station to undergo duties aboard a new destroyer of the Atlantic fleet following recent assignment as a second class USNR seaman.
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Seaman Pugh
David Mitchell Pugh
Sean
USNR
Franklinville
N. C
Naval Training Station
Norfolk
Walter Anderson Jr Leads First Airbox Army Into Berlin
Technical Sergeant Walter Anderson Jr from High Point joins Major Gene Floyd L. Parks's first army entering Berlin to establish U S headquarters in the American sector. Brigadier Generals Ransom and Cutler command the operation guarding the city for the postwar administration.
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Walter Anderson, JR
Berlin
Coltrane Street
High Poin
Gene Floyd L. Park
U. S
General Parks
Paul Ransom
Galesburg
Stuart Cutler
Auburn
N. Y
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Los Angeles
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Gabriel Farrell
Perkins Institute For the Blind
Watertown
Washington
Magellan
America
Sam
Navy Supply Corps
Ronmns
Tuga
A. B. Rossman
Rossman
Odell H. Johnson
Fifth Amphibious Corps
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Odell Howard Johnson
Roy E. Johnson
Rt. 4
Johnson
Marine Corps
Raleigh
Allen Jay High School
On Hosiery Mills, Inc
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Trailways
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National Trailways
Union Bus Terminal
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National Trailways Bus System
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