High Point Boy Serves Aboard Hornet During Tokyo Raid
Darrell Bost, Yeoman Second Class from High Point, rode the Hornet when Doolittle’s bombers launched on April 21 1943. He recalls Army planes aboard for a test flight, the dramatic mission, and the loss at sea as USS Hornet cruised toward Japan. His brother Vernon serves in the Pacific.
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High Point
Tokyo
Hornet
Darrell Bost
General Doolittle
C. A. Bost
United States
Bost
Seattle
Carrier Aircraft Service Unit
Wash
Vernon
Navy
Pacific
Japan
Survivor recollects Hornet battle and Tokyo broadcasts
An American survivor recounts the October 2 1942 air attack on the USS Hornet. He recalls Japanese claims of Tokyo bombing and the chaotic deck as dive bombers and torpedo planes struck. Eight U.S. fighters fought off the assault, and the Hornet was later sunk after salvage efforts failed.
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Tokyo
Bost
Santa Cruz
Hornet
Protector
Farm Security Adds Demonstrations On Guilford Farms
FSA supervisors led twelve hands on workshops across Guilford County farms to boost milk poultry egg production and hog raising with Soil Conservation Service support. The Thompson family, rebuilding after a November fire, hosted one session and shared how neighbors aided recovery while outlining a 1943 farm production plan backed by FSA.
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Soil Conservation Service
J. H. Campbell
Guilford
FSA
Edgar H. Anderson
Herndon Hopkins
Mildred A.huskins
Worshop
J. S. Thompson
Freeman's Mill
Greensboro
Thompsons
Thompson
Erma Lee
Shelba Jean
Patricia
Wanda
South Georgia
High Point
Farm City
Hampshire
Jersey
Guernsey
Nelson Creates Office For Civilian Needs
WPB chairman Donald M. Nelson created a new office of civilian requirements with Arthur D. Whiteside as director. The civilian czar will set rationing policies and issue directives to the Office of Price Administration on consumer goods except food housing and transportation. Whiteside supersedes Rubber Director William M. Jeffers to allocate rubber for civilians and decide its use for tires or other goods. The office operates within the WPB replacing the old civilian supply office headed by Joseph L. Weiner.
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Washington
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Arthur D. Whiteside
Dun and Bradstreet Inc
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Whiteside
William M. Jeffers
Board
Joseph L. Weiner
Farm Security helps Guilford families boost war farming
Thompson and another small farmer in Guilford County detail 1945 crops including wheat corn and tobacco with lespedeza. They credit Farm Security Administration loans for survival and plans, noting wives’ mill work and FSA workshops as key supports for increasing production for the war effort.
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Thompson
Farm Security Administration
Upsons
Guilford County
FSA
Officer Recalls Cutter Sinking U boat and Nazi capture
Lieut Commander Maurice Jester spoke of the cutter Icarus sinking a German submarine off the Carolina coast. Depth charges, a torpedo, and gunfire led to 33 POWs including the captain. One Nazi died. 32 prisoners were taken to Charleston, reported by Washington. Also notes Camp Butner bridge warning and Scouts reaching 13,000 feet in Kolhapur.
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Miami
Fla
Maurice D. Jester
United States Coast Guard
Carolina
Rman
Charleston
S. C
Jester
Coast Guard
Seventh Naval District
Washington
Boy Scouts of
Kolhapur
India
Himalayas
Vegetable cheese Made From Cow Tree Milk in British Guiana
A historical note describes vegetable cheese produced from cow tree milk in British Guiana, a dairy practice linking local flora to alternative cheese production in a colonial setting.
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British Guiana
Wartime In Washington Reveals Home Front Strains
In Washington the talk centers on manpower shortages blamed on the back-to-the-farm push and CIO warnings of up to 650000 unemployed soon. District scenes include a mosquito oil fuel fix for a heating plant and doubts about a women’s land army solving farm labor gaps.
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Washington
CIO
New York City
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Arizona
California
United States
District of Columbia
England
Blakely Named Chairman at General Synod Meeting
May 1 Kings Mountain resident W FE Blakely was named chairman of the men's work of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church at the closing session of the 139th general synod held at Bonclarken assembly ground near Hendersonville this week.
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Hendersonville
W.fe. Blakely
Kings Mountain
Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church
139Th General Synod
Bonclarken
Here
Tokyo students barred from billiard halls and bars
Reports indicate students in Tokyo are barred from billiard halls shooting galleries and bars while regional trade notes expect whiskey shipments from Scotland to America to continue at prewar levels and New Mexico is described as the second youngest state in the Union.
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Tokyo
Japan
Scotland
America
New Mexico
Union
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