Mt Holly Girl Dominates Softball Regional Title Defense
Mt Holly's star pitcher led American Yarn Processing to three straight shutout wins including a no hit final in the southern regional women's softball championship. The team advances to the national tournament in Cleveland September 16 21. Tampa reached the final after a protest over Anna Geise.
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Tampa
Fla
Miss Johnson
Mt. Holly
Cleveland
Birmingham
Ala
National Softball Commission
Anna Geise
Peertess
Chattanooga
German War Loot Imagery in Captured Supply Warehouse
Sgt Leon Rosenthal guides HAL Boyle through a captured Nazi warehouse near Orleans revealing shelves full of Hitler Goering and Himmler pictures. American officers confiscate usable enemy gear while guards note the dogs and scarce food as Germans fled leaving soda water and caricatures behind.
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Hal Boyle
AEF
France
Hitler
Goering
Himmler
Leon Rosenthal
South 42Nd St
Philadelphia
Orleans
Pvts
F. D. Hrowd
New Kensington
Joe
Cogdell
Halifax St
Rawigh
N.C
Major League Baseball Scores From Last Night
Yankees blanked by Walt Dubiel and Mel Queen as New York wins 19 to 0 in opener. Browns beat St Louis 6 to 4 with Cullenbine homering, then fall 5 to 1 in nightcap. Tigers rout White Sox 12 to 3 behind Ed Lopet four hits. Metkovich homers as Red Sox top Senators 11 to 7. Cubs hold Cincinnati 3 to 0. Pirates beat Chicago 6 to 3. Dodgers top Giants 4 to 1. Phillies swept by Feldman and Karl 7 to 0 and 4 to 1.
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Walt Dubiel
Mel Queen
Yankees
Dubiel
Queen
New York
Cullenbine
Indians
Vern Stephens
Browns
Crusher
St. Loos
Ome
Cramer
Tigers
Ed Lopet
Detroit
Bill Nicholson
Cubs
Frankie Zoek
Pirates
Nicholson
Chicago
Rine
Zak
Nale
Dixie Walker
Ben
Chapman Dodgers
Walker
Erfrage
Devigers
Borton
Chapman
Herve Feldman
Andy Karl
Phil Feldman
Phils
Karl
Gunboat Soemba Brings Odd Animal Crew To Normandy War
The Netherlands Navy gunboat Soemba, active since D-Day, houses a rabbit crew in the forecastle, two battle-tested cats with their own stations, and a sea pigeon dubbed Dove of War. The animals join the crew during intense action as the ship paddles ashore in the Normandy invasion and across other fronts.
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Netherlands Naal
Normandy
INS
Netherlands
Soemba
Sormba
Sicily
One Yard Apron Pattern 4671 Offers Sized Options
Heartbeat apron project guides a home sewers kit using Pattern 4671. It lists stay put shoulder design and sizes small medium and large with fabric needs note small size uses one yard of 35 inch fabric.
WAC Cooks Please General And Staff
London reports that 600 WACs ran a mess hall that also serves the general and staff. The meals mirror the WAC menu with roast beef, potatoes, vegetables, pineapple salad, dessert, coffee. The effort pleased both general and WACs, validating the experiment.
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WAC
London
INS
WACS
Sora
Ona Wacs
G. I
FAC
Salvation Lassies Run For Stockings in Pittsburgh
Salvation Army lasses hunt for stockings as a uniform item with black stockings scarce. Capt. Betty Jaap says when stores have stock they buy as many pairs as possible. A $7.50 fee is deemed too low.
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Pittsburgh
Salvation Army
Betty Jaap
Doe raids city flowers in Colorado Springs
Police officer Norman Bochman spotted a large doe eating flower buds in a city flower bed. The deer ran across the Colorado college campus and vanished as the officer approached.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
INS
Fred Bochman
Colorado College
Army Shipping Hospital Units Ready To Use
Toledo Army Medical Depot operates in an old four story building to assemble and ship complete hospital units from 10 bed clearing stations to 1000 bed hospitals. Opened 1941 the depot employs several hundred workers packing thousands of items including many glass bottles for drugs and medicines. Shipments are prepared to endure extreme heat and cold for worldwide delivery.
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Toledo
INS
Medical Department of the Army
Military Hospital
Army
Tractors called allieS for tanks used by Marines in 1924 maneuvers
Washington reports that amphibian tractors nicknamed allieS for tanks were first employed by Marine units during 1924 maneuvers, marking an early use of tracked vehicles in amphibious training.
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Washington
TNS
Submersion and Hard Knocks of Wartime Transport
Wartime depots solved packing problems with manufacturer help as consultants. Shipments were condensed from 23 to 11 freight cars for a 1,000 bed hospital. Items include blankets, washing machines, refrigerators in weather tight boxes, and cold weather apparel. A second depot operates in Atlanta with overseas supplies routed from filler stations.
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South
Medical Department
Atlanta
Army
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Ford
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Taem Bureau
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War Hood
Rouge
Mercury
Lincoln
Eiffel Tower
Paris
United States Army Signal Corps
International Soundphoto
Stance G. Deide
Westminster Road
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Federal Hospital
Bath
Sergt
Omie Heath
Augusta
Georgia
Children's Oxfords
Oxfords
South Main St
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Army Shipping Hospital
Clark Gardner
Osage
Cash Enel
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