Gavin Farewell Marks 82nd Airborne Leader’s Last Parade
A farewell for Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin, longtime 82nd Airborne commander, who is promoted to chief of staff of the Fifth Army in Chicago. The 150 veterans recall his leadership, camaraderie, and courage from Sicily to the Bulge as they pledge his memory will live on in their division.
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Hal Boyle
FT. Bragg
N. C
Eighty-Second Airborne Division
Europe
Battle of the Bulge
Slim Jim’ Gavin
Fifth Army
Chicago
Jim
Slim Jim
Gavin
Army
Sicily
Italy
France
Holland
New DDT Type Devised by Penn Salt Plant
A new agricultural and household DDT product called Penntech has been developed by Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. The innovation allows production of technical grade DDT without fusing 50 percent concentrates and will be marketed under the Penntech brand.
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Philadelphia
Mar
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company
Penngalt
Penntech
Leaking Vessel Speeds Water Boiling Into Steam
Increasing the rate of heat causes the water under a vessel to convert to steam more quickly. The process accelerates as the energy input rises, transforming liquid water into gaseous steam faster than before.
Newark Irish Celebrate Early Parade Sees McGoverns Absent
Thirty thousand Newark Irish marched through the city for an early St Patrick's Day celebration. About 150,000 spectators watched the parade, but the McGovern family group stayed away for a second year, angry at being assigned to the rear. They announced plans for a separate parade on Easter Sunday.
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Newark
N. J
McGoverns
Frank McGovern
Confused Robber Winds Up In Jail
In Valdosta Georgia on March 15 John R Whittington 35 of Macon was jailed charged with a 7250 bank depository burglary. He allegedly walked into a police station with the money after a taxi driver mistook the station for a restaurant. The police chief quoted Whittington claiming he had placed planks in the vault chute and later retrieved the bundles.
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Valdosta
John R. Whittington
Macon
Whittington
Wilbur Perkerson
Whitlington
First National Bank
Bluebird chair set crochet pattern and Laura Wheeler book offer
An Indiana Evening Gazette Needlecraft Dept advertises pattern 646 for bluebird chair sets with Laura Wheeler patterns. Includes requests for twenty cents, name, address, and zone to mail to Brooklyn, NY. Also promotes Pattern 4950 in teenage sizes with twenty five cents, and the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with instructions and illustrations. An Anne Adams Spring Look catalog promotion offers fifteen cents and a free hat and bag pattern.
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Laura
Laura Wheeler
Indiana, Evening Gazette Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Anne Adams
Plant Your Own Vegetable Garden for New Eating Thrills
NEA Service presents a six part guide to home gardening. It urges careful planning for space sunlight and crop rotation, with practical tips on seed quantities row layouts marking seeds and succession planting. It promotes year round home grown produce and basic canning ideas.
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NEA Service
Bob Hope
Lana Turner
Butt Sniping Made An Art
AP News reports Berlin butt hunters prize cigarette ends as scarce currency. Collectors salvage discarded butts from theaters and repack American and German cigarettes, selling for high marks. Even German rationing drives enthusiasm as sanitation workers at Allied sites value butts over salaries.
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AP News
Berlin
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