Vets Chief Protests Jap Action Over Soldier Fate
VFW leader Cooper Holt called for removal of Rear Adm Hubbard and demanded charges be dropped after the surrender of an American airman to Japanese authorities. The soldier, William B. Girard, from Ottawa LaSalle Illinois, is accused in the death of a Japanese woman at a firing range scrap metal site. Japanese officials say jurisdiction was waived by the U S and review order was late. Holt urged a public apology and that the soldier be kept in U S custody.
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Kansas City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Cooper T. Holt
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles Wilson
William
Girard
U.S
Ottawa-LaSilea
Wilson
Adm
Miles M. Hubbard
Far East
Holt
Hubbard
Mother Excluded From Prayer
In Milwaukee a family illness scene shows a 4 year old Donnie praying for his mother who was at the doctor for flu and cold symptoms. The piece centers on a simple domestic moment amid a family health scare.
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Milwaukee
Donald Laine
Donnie
Daddy
Hanging Judge Parker Memorial Opens With Gallows Exhibit
A Fort Smith memorial documents Judge Isaac Parker, known as the Hanging Judge, who sentenced 164 men to death from his 1875 to 1896 tenure. Fort Smith, with 47,000 residents, hosted his court that oversaw vast western territory and criminal cases, including 344 murder and rape trials. Public funds and unions support restoration of his gallows, jail, and courtroom.
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Isaac Charles Parker
U. S. District Court
Fort Smith
Parker
Arkansas
Old West
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
US Supreme Court
St. Joseph
Youngers
Daltons
Cherokee Bill
Whisky Jack
Belle Starr
Hollywood
Plains
U. S
Government Concern Over Farm Surpluses International Fallout
Washington reports that foreign governments fear lasting farm export subsidies will tilt world markets. The United States defends subsidies as temporary while Benson pushes authority to set lower price supports and reduce reliance on subsidized disposals abroad.
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Washington
U. S
Ae & S
U.S
Benson
War Bride Tears Reunion With Husband After Poison Act
In Independence Missouri a Japanese warbride Mrs Tomiko Samuel 28 gave poison to herself and three children after her airman husband Sgt Roy Samuel asked for divorce. A hospital chaplain arranged a tearful hospital reunion between the couple with a brief conversation by the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church and the husband’s return from McChord Air Base Washington.
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Independence
Raymond Ashenhurst
Tomiko Samuel
Roy Samuel
McChord Air Base
Tacoma
Wash
Latter Day Saints Church
Samuel
Davidson County Officers Nab 15 In Liquor Raid
Davidson County and federal officers rounded up fifteen suspects in a Friday night raid targeting wholesale retail and manufacturing liquor outlets. Three moonshine stills were destroyed in Emmons Township and several arrests involved tax paid and non tax paid whiskey counts. Bonds ranged from 500 to 1500 dollars with trials set in local courts. The group includes six women and nine men, with charges of non tax paid whiskey and related counts. The raid followed weeks of undercover work by an alcohol control agent.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Alcohol Control Unit
Sheriff's Office
Ford
Emmons
Thomasville
Walltown
Ruth Peoples
13Th Street
Savannah Hill
Emmons Township
Alice Virginia Kennedy
E. J
Local Residents Listed in Non Tax Records
Clyde Hedrich age 52 of Emmons Township, John Hudson 32 of Thomasville Route 3, and Coy Cody of Emmons are named in non tax records. Entries note racial descriptors and a mix of townships and routes with no tax linkage.
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Clyde Hedrich
Emmons Township
John Hudson
Thomasville
Cody
Emmons
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Dixie Street
Ira Brown
Charlie Dawes Kindley
Conrad Hill Township
Herschel Banks
Republic of Sudan
Africa
Texas
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Maidenform
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