Aboard A Sub Going Jap Hunting
Aboard a submarine story from Richmond Virginia features Torpedoman William E. Short and Chief Machinist's Mate F D Draper recalling near misses with Japanese destroyers. The piece highlights life aboard, thoughts of home, kangaroo capers in Australia, and submarine poker as morale during patrols.
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Paul
Barksdale Boatswain's
John Daffron
AP Features
Richmond
Australia
William E. Short
Bronx
New York
Short
Bill
F. D. Draper
Wilmington
Del
Drapers
Draper
Hopper
Soybeans as wartime substitute advised by North Carolina Extension
The Tar Heel Gardener urges civilians to replace meats with soybeans due to wartime scarcity. It highlights soybeans as a cheap, protein rich food with vitamins A and B, notes easy cultivation, and provides planting tips and varieties like Rokusun Easy Cook Seminole Funks Delicious and Banise.
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N.C. Extension Service
State College
Raleigh
N. C
Sr High Orchestra Needs Transport For Greensboro Concert
The Senior High School orchestra seeks volunteers with station wagons to transport the group to a Greensboro Basic Training Center concert. The board authorized providing enough gasoline for six wagons, and organizers urge local volunteers to offer their vehicles. The note ends with an unrelated fact about the Saguaro cactus surviving three years without rain.
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Basic Training Center
Greensboro
E Raion Board
Casual Comment By W. A. Bivins Reflects Everyday Philosophy
A column by W A Bivins gathers amused anecdotes on planting fishing drinking courting and a joke about Japan cutting candy sugar. The piece weaves short tales from a bus conversation and a professor’s romance ending with a light note on marriage and a playful jab at sugar rationing.
Rationing Roundup Update on Wartime Controls
The Office of War Information provides weekly guidance on rationing. Bicycles are available to workers and students with certificates. Blue stamps cover certain foods through May, coffee stamps valid to May 30, fuel coupons through Sept 30, gasoline book A No 5 from March 22 to July 21, red stamps S F G H varying by dates, shoes No 17 valid to June 15, stoves and fuel oil restrictions, sugar stamp No 12 valid to May 31, and typewriter rental rules under certificate provisions.
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Office of War Information
North Carolina
Greenville man shoots self in home melee
Coroner W H Garrett reports Roger L Cunningham 40 died yesterday from a self inflicted .22 rifle shot at a relative’s home in Greenville. A note blamed ill health and requested funeral in Asheville North Carolina at 3 p m tomorrow.
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Greenville
S. C
W. H. Garrett
Roger L. Cunningham
Cunningham
Asheville
N. C
Warrant Issued For Speeder Who Shot Patrolman
A warrant issued by U S Commissioner Nat White names Allen Carruthers alias Rodney Allen for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after he shot State Highway Patrolman B T Collins in Gastonia. Collins, wounded and recovering, had stopped a speeding car when the incident occurred late Friday night.
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Charlotte
Nat White
Allen Carruthers
Rodney Allen
B. T. Collins
Gastonia
Collins
Trivia Qs and a Nun’s Death in Ennis Eire
Answers cover Greek drachma linked to Greece not Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia and Maritime Provinces as Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. WWI Allied casualties vary with Russia highest Japan lowest. Eldest hand is the left of the dealer. Elizabeth studies French due to diplomacy. First national election Jan 7 1789 with Washington and Adams. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the first million selling American novel. Sister Corry dies at Ennis convent after 64 years in religious work.
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Maritime Provinces
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Canada
Russia
Japan
Baptist Corry
Convent of Mercy
Ennis
Eire
BC Belief on Quick Relief for Headache and Neuralgia
The BC formula provides rapid, easily assimilated ingredients for fast relief from headaches neuralgic pains muscular aches and periodic pains. Keep a 10c or 25c package handy and use as directed. Consult a physician if pains persist.
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John H. Harris
N. C. State College
Sr. High Orchestra
War Production Board
W. A. Bivins
John Doe
Richard Roe
Richard
John
O.K
Riichard
Sol
Bill Eager
Hometown
Sally Ernest
Sally
Central Hotel
Loder
Professor Eager
Morocco
Mark Clark
Caid
Speeder
FBI
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Elizabeth
Geo Washington
John Adams
Harriet Beecher Jones
Air Force
Jeanne Flaherty
Jeanne
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Benne
Toharce Company
Winston Ralem
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