Stored Subs Could Return To Activity In 10 Days
Submarines of the 19th fleet, inactive Pacific, head to Mare Island for overhaul and preservation to remain combat ready in ten to thirty days. At Tiburon Bay tenders Griffin Pelias and Aegir assist, with dehumidification and anti corrosion work. Crew overhauls engines radios sonar and propellers while hulls and decks are treated and stored for future use. Decommissioning marks final ceremony as colors are presented to longest serving crew member.
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Mare Island Navy Yard
Cal
INS
U. S
Hirohito
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Pacific
Mare Island
Tiburon Bay
Tinosa
Uncle Sam
Tiburon
Griffin
Pelias
Aegir
RPC
Build It Yourself End Housing Problem in Richmond
Major William E. Tucker, a former transportation corps veteran, arrived in Richmond to enter the Medical College of Virginia but could not find a house or contractor. He applied for a building permit and, with three GI helpers in uniform, is constructing a two-story story and a half home with five rooms downstairs and three upstairs, using magazine ideas for plans.
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Richmond
William E. Tucker
Transportation Corps
Europe
Medical College of Virginia
Tucker
Newark man catalogs jokes 15 years in 170000 collection
Leo Fechtner of Newark has spent 15 years gathering jokes in several languages. He now shifts focus to cartoons, saying his dog-eared joke collection of 170000 items has few new funny stories left to hear.
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Newark
Leopold Fechtner
Fechtner
Die Hard Nazis Adopt Secret Eight Cue To Heil Hitler
Budapest reports describe unregenerate Nazis in Germany adopting a covert salute. Prisoners and displaced persons recount a Nazi greeting around Nuremberg where one nods to another with eight eight in a sotto voce, interpreted as the letter H for Heil Hitler.
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Budapest
Germany
Nuremberg
Hitler
Peale Painting Acquired by Princeton University
Princeton New Jersey has received a fifth Charles Willson Peale work a portrait of Elias Boudinot a Princeton trustee from 1772 to 1821 and former President of the United States in Congress assembled An anonymous alumnus donated the painting Peale's George Washington at the Battle of Princeton is also noted as part of the collection formerly painted during Washingtons stay near Rocky Hill.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Charles Willson Peale
Elias Boudinot
New Jersey
United States
a_ university
Peale
George Washington
Washington
Rocky Hill
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