Stranger-Than-Fiction Aviation Rescue Over Solomons
Lt. Wallace L. Dunn of Corpus Christi Texas parachutes from a damaged U S Army Airacobra after strafing Jap camps near Henderson Field Guadalcanal. He lands near a jungle slope ten miles from a Japanese camp, recalling the danger of capture as his rescue outlook grows uncertain.
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Richard Tregaskis
Grumman
Douglas
Henderson Field
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Wallace L. Dunn
Corpus Christi
Texas
John Mitchell
Enid
Miss
Capt. Mitchell
Behemoth Bible hippo and birds in odd trivia
The behemoth is described as a hippopotamus. The riddle also mentions the ostrich and a canary in unrelated trivia.
Star Pilot Favored In Ardsley Handicap At Jamaica
Belmont futurity winner Star Pilot driven by Mrs Elizabeth Arden Graham is favored to win the $15 000 added Ardsley handicap of a mile and 70 yards at Jamaica. The top weighted two year olds, Star Pilot at 126 pounds, will spot the rivals from two to twenty pounds.
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New York
Star Pilot
Elizabeth Arden Graham
Jamaica
Foreign Nations May Get Leather From America
The War Production Board may sell 14 million feet of upper shoe leather to paying liberated European countries. Negotiations were disclosed by John W. Martyn in a letter to Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers. He said domestic manufacturers showed little interest in retention at any price, citing unsuitability for civilian use.
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Washington
War Production Board
Europe
WPB
John W. Martyn
Patterson
Edith Nourse Rogers
R-Mass
Rogers
War Department
United States
Martyn
Rent Controls Lifted in Several Southern Areas
The Office of Price Administration announced rent controls will end November 1 in four areas and parts of six more across Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi South Carolina and Texas. Affected locales include Myrtle Beach Conway Dogwood Neck Socastee Brunswick Brantley Wayne Savannah Tybee Island and nearby counties due to military installations being inactive or reduced staffing creating vacancies. The note also references a 1845 national debt figure of almost 16 million dollars.
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Washington
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
OPA
Myrtle Beach
Conway
Dogwood Neck
Socastee
Ho County
S. C
Spectacular Chicago fire floods skyline area
An abandoned grain elevator on the Chicago river burned fiercely last night sending flames hundreds of feet high and casting a red glow over a thirty mile night sky. The eight story structure built in 1872 with 750000 bushels capacity suffered about 125000 dollars in damage. origin undetermined.
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Chicago
Michael Corrigan
Canada Ranked Third Largest Nation Worldwide
Canada holds the position as the world’s third largest country by total area and is the largest nation in the western hemisphere according to global geographic rankings.
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Canada
Hemisphere
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Wal- Dinn
South Seas
Solomon Islands
SBD
Grummans
Lieut. Dinn
Berton’ Uving
Terenge
Greyhound
Charleston, W. VA
Winston-Salem, N. C
Richmond, VA
Norfolk, VA
Statesville, N.C
Roanoke, VA
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ot Bremered
Ofer
By Jimmy Hatlo
Molly
Oliver Wendell Holmes
America
Kansas City
Hank Postaway
Scott Field
Mack Parshay
Detroit
Lee Savold-Wallace
Ing
Gabe Kaufman
Frank Oakley
Omaha
Neb
Merle Campbell
Billy Conn
Pittsburgh
Joe Louis
al Patterson
International Business Machines Corporation
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
High Point
Washington Street
Coca-Cola
Coke
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