Vessels Leave Little America For Polar Venture
Three thin skinned ships departed Little America as Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and 197 men stayed in a tent town on the windswept ice cap. A possible South Pole flight was mapped while weather and ice conditions dominated plans for evacuating Byrd’s base around March 1.
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Mt. Olymnus
Little America
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
Byrd
Richard H. Cruz
Olympus
Yanceyary
Merrick
Wehyah
Butte Tolland
Scott Island
Market Basket Prize and Dessert Recipe Fragment
Mixed text covers a Market Basket prize for a baked beans recipe and a Valentine meringue recipe, then shifts to a naval icebreaker convoy report with weather, ships named Olympus, Yanceyary, Merrick, and Butte Tolland, plus evacuation details. Unclear fragments include dates and rankings.
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The
Panther Scare Prompts Parkville Hunt For Creature
In Rocky Point near Parkville Missouri residents plan a Sunday dawn drive to capture the three foot high prowling “panther.” William Cully of Swope Park Zoo Kansas City will direct the round up with a zoo crew and plane spotter. Sightings describe a beast weighing about 70 pounds with tracks like large fruit jars.
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Parkville
Rocky Point
William Cully
Swope Park Zoo
Kansas
Vane
Charles Campbel
Reverie Smarvoof
Hat City Plante Fy Bere
Art Ax Snotters
Awarded an Air Medal Kenneth G Kempter
Kenneth G Kempter, now employed at a Lawrence service station, was awarded the Air Medal for serving as flight engineer on a C-34 transport plane that landed first in occupied Japan near Tokyo. The aircraft S84 carried a communications signal group during the August landing. Major L E Cook, Army recruiting officer from Topeka, reported the award.
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L. E. Cook
Topeka
Tal Ny
Kenneth G. Kemp
Ateng Airport
Tokyo
Kempter
Japan
Lawrence
Geologists Predict Vast Gold Boom in South Africa
The article notes a new gold ore body offshore of Rich African Golf near Shore, South Africa. Scientists estimate the deposit could yield significant ounces within a few years, potentially outpacing the Rand field's six decades of output.
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South Afres
Odemiaaistrust
Rand
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Tennessee Street
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Beal Bros
Gereer
West
Calfernia
Haverty
Ninth Street Market
Pork
Bennet
Swift
Quality Foods
del Monte
Winsaap
Don
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Scotties
Heeta
Scott
Kellogg's
Landrith’s
Finer Foods
Om Maurader
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Milwaukee
Alli Chalmers Manufacturing
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Ralph Pine
Lipton’s
Parsons
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Midwest
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Cello
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Gray
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California
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Lee
Girey
Leebow
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Drake’s Bakery
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