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Flashes of Life from the Associated Press
A roundup of brief wartime vignettes: Eddie Jordan receives a draft induction notice via card and a wife. Ruby Sutherland's claim of a stolen new shoe. contrasting soldier tall tales about Pvt Robert Long and Corp Clarence Short. Roy Myers jailed after bond theft with a sewn war bond in his pants. Pvt Fred E Howard's son Douglas' fourth cross country train trip for cash from selling papers. Ira Wert makes a girdle via wartime repair. John Sailor enlists. and Illinois researchers claim a future furnace design could halve fuel use by burning smokey gases.
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Associated Press
West Hartford
Conn
Eddie Jordan
Salt Lake City
Fred E. Howard
Salt Lake Army Air Base
Douglas
Chicago