War Dog Units at Camp Lejeune
Camp Lejeune analyzes the Marine War Dog unit structure with 62 dogs per platoon, four four-footed messengers, and a supervising officer. Each squad includes six scouts and an equal number of messenger dogs, plus three supernumeraries and a noncommissioned officer. A separate note mentions Garden State Park’s 50 day meet at Camden from July 5 with an estimated $50 million in handle and $2 million in new taxes projected.
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Camp Lejeune
N. C
INS
Marines
Camden
N. J
Betat Garden State Park
Imer Mahoney
Amerah Mutuels
New Jersey
Pick Up Check For Dinner At Swanky Hotel
A London dispatch reports American airmen entertained royally at the Hotel Moscow in Moscow after aiding Allied efforts. The dinner for 20 cost about 840 dollars per guest, with the Russians paying the bill. A Red Cross palm reader amused locals before a pilot was told his life line suggested trouble. The piece also notes Allied front actors and a Montgomery anecdote. Also includes a 1944 land sale notice in High Point, North Carolina.
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Hal Boyle
London
Moscow
Germany
Red Cross
City of
High Point
N.C
Guilford County
North Carolina
E Green Street
Twin Oaks Court Dr
E. Green
Arnold J. Koonce
N. C
High Point Township
East Green St
Twin Oaks Court Drive
E. Green St
BE. Green St
San Francisco Soldier Donates Blood for English Lodge
Staff Sergeant Lavern C. Felciano, x-ray technician at a U S Army hospital in England, answered an urgent blood donation request from an Elks Lodge in San Francisco. He completed the questionnaire, supplied his overseas APO street address, and wrote YES.
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London
INS
Lavern C. Felciano
United States Army
England
Elks Lodge
San Francisco
Felciano
First noted American novelist and other trivia
Answers: 1 James Fennimore Cooper 2 Richard I 3 At Domremy France.
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James Fennimore Cooper
Richard I
Domremy
France
Donation Lab Transportation Question Prompt
A search of a blood donor lab question asks if transport can be provided to and from the donor facility. The inquiry seeks details on logistics, scheduling, and availability for donors needing travel assistance.
Oil firms lease southern New Jersey land for test drilling
Woodbine mayor Dr. Joseph Levenson says Sun Oil and Sinclair have leased ground in southern New Jersey for test drilling. Each company pays 10 cents per acre annually and landowners could receive up to 12 percent of the yield if wells are productive.
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Jersey
Woodbine
N. J
INS
New Jersey
Joseph Levenson
Sun Oil
Sinclair
British Women Serve American Forces In England
About 35 000 British women assist U S forces in Britain with 27 000 in the Red Cross and the rest in U S Army Navy and Air Forces. Most are paid by the British Ministry of Labor scale and many are volunteers. only 1 000 are directly employed by the American Government with wages ranging from 800 to 1 600 dollars a year.
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England
London
INS
Britain
Red Cross
U. S. Army
Navy
Air
U. S
Ministry of Labor
United States
Rotary
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New York
J.B
Tex
Oyiely
Efird’s Dept. Store
South Main St
Swanky
Saul Rmack
Royal Artillery
Algiers
Cairo
Mediterranean
Casablanca
Naples
C Fs
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Montgomery
India
Gneisenau
Teutonic
Monty
Benjamin Goldstein
FBI
Goldstein
Joan Ellis
Associated Press
International
King of
Coeur de Lion
Joan of Arcborn
Rochefoucauld
Movel Enterprises
Joe Foss
Maj
Enterprise
Oran
Capudine
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