Portable Navy Hotels Dock Floating Luxuries In Hong Kong
The U S Navy operates about 50 portable hotels called APLs Auxiliary Ship Personnel Living that tow between ports. The New Yorker serves as a floating hotel in Hong Kong with 600 bunks plus a full amenities list including a laundry barber shop post office and libraries. Commander Lt Paul Haberkorn leads the ship which acts as a receiving station for personnel en route home and fleet replacements. The ship displaces 2300 tons spans 240 feet and can produce 12 000 gallons of water daily.
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Hong Kong
Army
Navy
APL
The
New Yorker
Paul A. Haberkorn
Peoria
Journal-Transcript
Tommy Voss
Calumet, Mich
Twelfth Street
Haberkorn
Ulithi
Leyte
Philippines
Berkorn
Cmdr. W. Tesoreo
Brooklyn
N.Y
Ens
John E. Barnes
Chestertown
Carl L. Hysen
Missoula
Mont
Herbert L. Moore
Ridgeway
N. G. Henthorne, Jr
Tulsa, Ohls
Daily World
Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Dies At 57 In California
Mrs. Ethel V. Mars of River Forest Illinois died in a California hospital at age 57 while visiting, having assumed control of the Mars candy company and Milky Way farms after the death of her husband Frank C. Mars in 1934.
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William K. Kruppenbacher
Chicago
Mars
Milky Way Stables
Pulaski, Tenn
Kruppenbacher
Patricia Feeney
Phoenix, Ariz
la Jola
Cal
Ethel V. Mars
Mars Candy Company
Milky Way Farms Racing
Frank C. Mars
C. V. Newman Raises 1300 Turkeys for Market
C V Newman of route 5 delivered a 31 pound full dressed turkey to a Lawrence customer. This year he raised 1300 turkeys from eggs hatched at his place and sold them in Lawrence, Leavenworth and Kansas City. Newman retired as district field supervisor for the Farm Credit Administration after 1032 years of service and will devote time to his turkey business.
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Lawrence
C. V. Newman
Route 5
Leavenworth
Kansas City
Newman
Farm Credit Administration
Japanese Rear Admiral Sakaibara to be hanged for Wake Island massacres
A military commission at Kwajalein sentenced Rear Admiral Shiga Sakaibara and Lt Commander Soichi Tachibana to death for the 1943 Wake Island executions of nine Pan-American Airways employees. The ruling followed his admission of ordering the killings.
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Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
UPA
Shigamatsu
Sakaibara
Wake Island
Soichi Tachbana
Pan-American Airways
Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Japan
Robbers Loot Five and Ten Store Safe in Oklahoma City
A five and ten cent store in Oklahoma City was broken into and the safe robbed. The thieves knocked off the safe’s combination lock, battered the door, and dragged it to a park where police recovered it. Officer Lee Mullinix opened the unlatched door and found about $2,500 inside. The incident followed reports of suspected assailants who might have targeted Wake.
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Oklahoma City
Lee Mullinix
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Earl Robbins
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