Shirt-Tail Flapping Dick Amerine Wins Fame in War Tales
Lawrence Kansas honors Dick Amerine a former Kansas Jayhawk star who flew in Guadalcanal battles. The Marine lieutenant, born in Oklahoma City, earned wings in 1942 after a standout Kansas career. He fought with grit, surviving a week in hostile terrain and earning a furlough home to Lawrence.
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Dick Amerine
Kansas
Guadalcanal Island
Burton Benjamin
NEA_ Service
Alahama
Lawrence
Richard Ronald Amerine
States Marine Corps
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
Mpus
Amerine
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Blackwell
Okla
Liberty, Mo
Pleasanton
Wans
Lowshire
R.W. Amerine
Carl
Williams Ftown
Jayhawks
Marines
Tie
Deneise
Denny) Lemoine
Richard R. Amerime
Seut
Richard R. Amerine
Marine Corps Headquarters
Fleet Kansas
Casual Comment By W. A. BIVINS
A column discusses soldiers receiving care packages and home ties, noting a furlough in Arkansas and a wartime outlook. It mentions a Red Barber connection and a World War II era English tribute, with reflections on patriotism and overseas service.
Army Mess Menu Serves as Home Health Guide
Letter from Private Paul Ochojski of Camp Pickett highlights raw fruits and vegetables in Army diet. It notes daily raw veg and milk with meals, eggs and meat twice daily, and meals well prepared. Includes Waldorf Salad and Peanut Butter Dressing recipe, plus a sample tomorrow menu featuring prunes, oatmeal, toasted cheese, corned beef hash, and steamed marmalade pudding.
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Gaynor Maddox
NEA Service
Paul Ocholski
Camp Pickett
Ochojski
Patrician Club Meets at Alonzo Holmes Home
The Patrician Club gathered at 211 Hay Street on a Friday evening October 2 with vice president Willis Hart leading. Guest speaker Dr J C Morgan, civilian defense coordinator for Negroes, spoke on Negroes Place in Civilian Defense, followed by a round table discussion and a hosted repast. Participants included Dr J J Wilson W H Wilson and John Williams of Charlotte.
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Patrician Club
Alonzo Holmes
Hay Street
Willis Hart
J. C. Morgan
J. J. Wilson
W. H. Wilson
John Williams
Charlotte
Nathaniel Alexander Freighter Launched in Wilmington
The Liberty freighter Na thaniel Alexander was launched yesterday at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company yards in Wilmington. It marks the 32nd vessel to go down the ways, named for an early North Carolina physician and statesman. A note mentions that 33 pounds of tin used in solder for a medium tank could yield about 10 000 tin cans.
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Wilmington
Nathaniel Alexander
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
North Carolina
War Industry Labor Notice and ADLERIKA Ad
An important wartime notice requests that workers in critical war industries remain at their current plants and employers refrain from firing current war workers to avoid labor disruption. The ad meanwhile promotes ADLERIKA as a relief for gas bloating sour stomach constipation.
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G. D. Calif
War Manpower Commission
Davidson County Surpasses War Bond Sale Quota
Davidson County leads in the War Savings bond drive with over subscription of the September quota, reporting total sales of 8,186,148.00 against a $124,500.09 county goal. Locations include Commercial Bank of Lexington, First National Bank of Thomasville, and various post offices and banks across Lexington, Denton, and Erlanger. In Winston-Salem, Joe Isom, a 43-year-old Black man, is hospitalized after a stabbing with six stitches in his heart.
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Thomasville
DaVidson County
Walter W. Rapp
Rapp
Commercial Bank of
Legington
First National Bank of
Lexington
Davidson Theatre Company
Carolina Bank & Trust Company
Denton
Industrial Bank of
Mutual B. & L
Lenington
Erlanger
Winston-Salem
Joe Isom
Isom
Kiwanis Meet Set for Pinehurst October 25 27
Kiwanians of the Carolinas district plan a three day gathering in Pinehurst October 25 27. The event will bring Kiwanis Club delegates from across the region to discuss club service projects and district affairs.
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Pinehurst
Kiwanis Clubs
Carolinas
Goering warns winter to be harder on German fronts
Reichsmarshal Goering warned Berlin that the coming winter would not be easy on fighting fronts yet assured food supply for workers and prisoners of war. He boasted of a large foreign labor force, a record potato crop, and a strong air fleet while asserting discipline for cowardice and desertion. Also reports a Charlotte, North Carolina, officer missing in action and a note on auto iron and steel costs.
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Goering
Bern
Switzerland
Reichsmarshal Goering
Europe
Germany
Berlin
Reichsmarshal
England
Hitler
Ile
Thomasville Youth Chosen as Naval Aviation Cadet
Thomasville youth Jesse Raymond, born 1920, route 1 Thomasville N C, has been selected for naval aviation cadet training and will report for active duty soon. He graduated from Hasty High School and studied at High Point College for a year. He will train at a pre flight school at UNC Chapel Hill or UGA Athens for three months before primary flight training at a Navy reserve base.
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Atlanta
Meredith Jesse Raymond
Thomasville
N.C
Raymond
Hasty High School
High Point College
US & Navy
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
University of Georgia
Athens
Georgia
Navy
Woman's College Anniversary Has Noted Speakers
In Insboro on October 5 the 350th anniversary program at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina featured addresses by notable figures. Lieut. Commer. Mildred H. McAfee head of the Women's Naval Reserve and president of Wellesley College and Dr Isaiah Bowman president of Johns Hopkins University were listed as speakers along with UNC's Dr W C Jackson and Governor Broughton. Dr Ben R Lacy Jr of Union Theological Seminary spoke yesterday.
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Gal Insboro
CPI
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
Mildred H. McAfee
Women's Naval Reserve
Wellesley College
Isaiah Bowman
Johms Hopkins University
W. C. Jackson
Broughton
Ben R. Lacy, Jr
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond, Va
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W. A. Bivins
Warren tRed Grady
Fromrkansas
Indiana
Uncle Sam
Iager
Franklin
Roosevelt
Erman
Italn
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Barber
Saason
Fla
Red
University of Flora
Cincinnati
Crosley
WLW
WSAT
New York
Brooklyn Dodgers
Stanly
Maude Lay Elton
Enterprise
Kent
Army Mess
C. FE. Vorely
Baxter S. Moore, Jr
B. S. Moore
Moore
University of the South
Harvard School of Business Administration
Woman’s College
Capudine
Fabver
American Newspaper Publishers Association
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