Britain to Count Votes in Vital Election Tomorrow
London July 95 Britain counts the votes of her July 5 election tomorrow and will learn the government for possibly five years. Churchill would nominate the prime minister, with four possible outcomes affecting cabinet choices and party coalitions.
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London
Britain
Winston Churchill
George
Churchill
King George
Conservative
Parliamnt
Maj
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Attlee
Labor
Liberal Party
Rall
Mght
England
Bank of England
Europe
Carolinians Decorated in Large Navy Air Station Ceremony
At San Diego July 2 a mass awards event honored fifty nine Navy air force personnel with eight Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, Navy and Marine Corps Medal, 41 Air Medals and eight Commendation Ribbons. Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery presented the decorations to recipients including Joseph M. Stacks of Charlotte and Liburt B. Edens of Holly Ridge among others.
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Calif
Navy
Air Force
U. S. Naval Air Station
Alfred E. Montgomery
North Carolina
Joseph M. Stacks
Piednont Courts
Charlotte
Air Media
Liubert B. Edens
Aviation Soto
Holly Ridge
Robert H. Stradley
Aviation Radiomall
Cameron Court
Raleigh
Tinian Becomes Largest B-29 Base in Philippines
On Tinian island in the Marianas, two B-29 wings of the 20th Air Force operate from extended airfields, harbors and 38 miles of roads. The base hosts about 1,200 hospital beds and a vast array of support facilities.
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Marianas Island
Japan
20Th Air Force
Tintin
Saipan
Guam
Marianas
Pacific Fleet Advanced
Prisoners Not To Hinder Vets Getting Jobs
War department policy prohibits using prisoners of war in any job where free civilian labor is available. Col. H. M. Pool at Camp Butnersaid the rule will be enforced in the Durham area. Unemployed workers should seek work at the local employment office. if no work exists, the prisoner camp commander Col. Thomas L. Alexander will remove a prisoner from a job when a qualified civilian is available. The note ends with a stray sentence about the Moors introducing paper making into Europe via Spain.
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Durham
H. M. Pool
Camp Butner
War Department
Pool
United States Employment Service
Thomas L. Alexander
Ingratitude and Sheep Trick in a Lawyer Tale
A humorous piece recounts lawyer John B. Willing sparing a farmer Sol Neerdowell by instructing him to answer “Baa” to every question, leading to a dramatic courtroom dismissal. It also retells Bill Nye’s tale of William Johnson, a Swede jailed in Wyoming Territory, who learns English, endures a trial, and receives a pardon after Nye’s petition and the Swede’s grateful letter.
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A. P. Clatt
John B. Willing
Sol ‘Eerdowell
Sol
Willing
Neerdowell
Jones
Bill Nye
North Carolina
William Johnson
Wyoming Territory
Johnson
Jake Feinn
Wyoming
Nye
Nve
Blair
Thayer
Laramy
Bill Johnson
Doughboys Are Eligibles
Fort Oglethorpe Ga July 25 The returned veterans expected to pass through the redistribution station here will likely be infantry privates with 24 months overseas service and single status Based on records of about 60 000 men processed at the station the composite GI is described as five feet eight inches tall weighing 154 pounds and having attended but not graduated from high school
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Fort Oglethorpe
Camp Butner
N. C
Admiral Halsey calls for navy with wheels in final push
Admiral Halsey, aboard the Third Fleet off Japan, pledged a mobile navy to chase the Japanese inland after coast exits. He described rapid degradation of Japan’s air power and warned suicide raids remain a threat while vowing to strike hard and repeatedly.
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U. S
Japan
Halsey
Re. Halsey
Tokyo Bay
Okinawa
Leyte
Ryukyus
Farm dwellers killed in accidents yearly report
About 17 000 farm dwellers are killed in accidents yearly. Hiamilton plans measures to combat smuggling. During 1944 seventy two new U S areas were brought under rent control.
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Hiamilton
U. S
Prison Said To Be Club For Cupid In Jackson
State’s Attorney General John R. Dethmers accuses Michigan’s southern prison at Jackson of functioning as a cupid club for lovelorn inmates. He alleges a ring of powerful prisoners controlled the facility amid disension and corruption, with women smuggled to inmates and even visits to houses of prostitution. Medley, an inmate later sentenced to death in Washington, D. C., is named among the leading convicts involved.
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Lansing
Mich
John R. Dethmers
Southern
Michigan
Jackson
Dethmers
City of
Joseph D. Medley
Washington, D. C
Recreation center aids wounded at Coonamessett Camp
Falmouth Massachusetts reports that Camp yards hospital authorities use the Coonamessett club and seas of Coonamessett Inn to provide daily care for about 1,000 injured and wounded soldiers. Colone John J. Reddy says the club, built in 1941, cost an estimated $90.00.
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Falmouth
Mass
Coonamessett Club
Coonamessett Inn
Camp Yards
Colone
John J. Reddy
Karafuto Forest Lands Highlight Japan North
Karafuto the southern and Japanese half of Sakhalin is Japan's wild northern region. It holds Japan's most extensive forest lands and marks a key geographical area on the island.
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Japan
Karafuto
Salkkalin
Testing Station Suit Sparks City Trial
Mr and Mrs Arthur W Bell motorists sue the city over injuries to Mrs Bell during a municipal vehicle testing. They allege she was hurled against the windshield when the car was braked suddenly during tests.
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Vancouver
B. C
Arthur W. Bell
Bell
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