Stranger-Than-Fiction Adventure In Jungles
Lieut. Wallace L. Dunn of Corpus Christi undertakes a jungle trek after parachuting to a Japanese held Solomons island. He frees a captured pilot, endures treacherous canoe travel, stores water in bamboo, and organizes a small commando raid before returning to Guadalcanal with prisoners and rescued pilots.
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Wallace L. Dunn
Corpus Christi
Texas
South Pacific Army
Millard F. Harmon
Lieut
Dinn
Solomons
Richard Tregaskis
News
Lieut. Dinn
Dunn
Guadalcanal
Joe
Faijydin
Fairydin
Openet
Jesus
Jungly
Solomon Islands
Peremer
Iaemel
Author Dowdy Returns to Richmond to Research New Civil War Novel
Richmond novelist Clifford Dowdy revisits the city to complete revisions on Where My Love Sleeps and to research a forthcoming non-fiction south study. He notes decades of southern history research sharpened his view of regional problems and the need to explain the south through its past.
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Richmond
Clifford Dowdy
Little, Brown and Company
South
Dowdy
Virginia
Gamble
Tidewater
North
West
Arizona
J. E. B. Stuart
White House
Confederacy
Edgar Allen Poe
Mary Johnston
Linden Row
Dow
Eugles Blow No
Johnny Reb
Richmond News Leader
Belgian thief Van Cnhout gets life for selling bells
Nicholas Van Cnhout was convicted by the High Court for selling bells stolen from Belgian churches to German munitions firms during the occupation and sentenced to life imprisonment. The case notes he amassed nearly $3,000,000. Also a separate line reports several million bushels of potatoes spoil each year from sprout growth in storage.
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Brussels
Nicholas van C Nhout
High Court
Washington to get a half billion dollar postwar city plan
A proposed postwar Washington plan envisions a half billion dollar upgrade with new federal and non government buildings, a memorial stadium, parks, new highways and underground streetcar lines. It foresees population growth to 1.4 million by 1955 and includes extensive federal construction and slum clearance efforts.
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Washington
Potomac
Greater
Maryland
Virginia
Washington Board of Trade
Committee For Economic Development
Greater Washington
Truman
Federal Works Agency
District of Columbia
Congress
Board of Trade
Navy Department
War Department
21St Street
Virginia Avenue NW
Pentagon
State Department
General Accounting Office
Bureau of Standards
FBI
Public Building Administration
Smithsonian Institution
House
Senate
National Zoologica Park
Potomat
Anacostia River
Soldiers Complete Four-Week Term at Florence Study Center
Several hundred soldiers finish a four week term at the Mediterranean theater university study center in Florence Italy. The facility sits in a park on the city outskirts and features ten modern buildings a swimming pool athletic fields and riding stables. The aim is to provide productive time for troops awaiting redeployment.
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University Study Center
Florence
Italy
Robert S. Bolton
Morris Street
Peter M. Cooke
Carter Street
Floyd J. Evans
East Green Street
Alonzo M. Peggins
Bynum Street
High Point
Mediterranean Theater
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Canada
Hemisphere
Plymouth
DODGE
DE Soto
Chrysler
Hanesknit
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
HANES
By Jimmy Hailo
E. Kentor
Fort
Msclellan
Alabama
J. Frank Tragle
Monticello
Ill
Monticello High School
Jack Jordan
Harold Jordan
Ryan
Icine
Uncle Sam
Armed Forces
Army
U. S
Prioi
National Service Life Insurance
A.U.S
van A Hae
Service Forces
AIR Forge
U. S. Army Recruiting Station
P. O. Bidg
Winston-Salem, N. C
Greensboro, N. C
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