Dewey followers seek Willkie help in 1940 ticket
Albany reports a move to win Willkie support for Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Massachusetts congressmen and candidates invited to confer with Dewey allies. Weeks and Cake named on national executive committee. Weeks says he and Cake will assist Dewey but has no word on inducing Willkie to speak for the ticket. Sprague leads a group pressing for Willkie’s active backing.
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Albany
N. Y
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Altho
G.olp
Willkie
Sen
Sinclair Weeks
Massachussetts
Weeks
Dewey
New York
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Ralph Cake
Oregon
Cake
Wisconsin
Brownell
J. Russell Sprague
Sprague
Worthington Scranton
Pennsylvania
Reeve Schley
New
Chris Carlson
Minnesota
Col
R. B. Creager
Texas
Harry Darby
Kansas
W. P
North Carolina
Harvey Jewett, Jr
South Dakota
Barak T. Mattingly
Missouri
Carroll Reece
Tesiessee
Jessie Williamson
California
Army Ordnance guns adapted for foxhole use and wounds
Major Lynn D. Fargo recalls an ingenious gunner who fixed an Army Ordnance weapon so a lever raised the rose from the foxhole bottom to firing position. A periscope allowed firing without exposure. Sixteen Army Ordnance weapons are in U S infantry use in France, including knives, pistols, grenades, bazookas, rifles, tommy guns, mortars, anti tank guns, howitzers, and an innovative jeep air tube for a wounded commando.
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Lynn D. Fargo
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
U. S
France
War Dept Flying Cross Awards To 1st Lt. Stanley
The War Department announced the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to 1st Lt. Stanley W. Crowley of St. Louis in Washington on July 6. Details describe a World War II division needing thousands of motor vehicles and horses, with armored ordnance costs noted as 3778 for a 4 000 pound Blockbuster bomb.
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Kansan
Washington
The
War Department
1St
St. John
Crowley
St. Louis
Stanley W
Light Carriers on: Halls Of Cruisers Do Good Work
Washington reports nine light aircraft carriers built on cruiser hulls now play a major tactical role in the war against Japan. The U S Navy says these light carriers join larger air groups to strike enemy shipping and islands while protecting task forces and freeing big carriers for primary missions.
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Katie
Entite
U.S. Army
Fifth Air Force
Washington
Navy
Japan
U.S.S. Independence
Princeton
Belleaux
Cowpens
Monterey
Cabot
Laney Bataan
San Jacinto
Washburn University Regents Elect Carruth Chairman
Topeka July 6 Washburn university regents reelected Arthur J Carruth Jr chairman last night and set up a species fund to aid students under the veterans rehabilitation program.
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Carruth Washburn
Topeka
Washburn University Regents
Arthur, J. Carruth, Jr
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