Guns To Crack Europe With Heavy Mobile Artillery
The ordnance department reveals ready stock of mobile guns and howitzers from 75 mm to 8 inch, designed for siege and infantry support. Maj. Charles H. Pruden Jr notes howitzers fire high arc shells for hidden bombardment, with 75 mm and larger guns capable of long ranges and plane transport, while 8 inch and 240 mm pieces promise heavy city and fortress bombardment.
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Ordnance Department
Army Service Forces
Hitler
Bristlinuropean
Charles H. Pruden, Jr
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Tunis
Bizerte
Europe
Army Ordnance
Bank raid suspect arrested near Hulbert Oklahoma
A suspect in a $3,000 Hulbert bank robbery was arrested at Wagoner by a small posse after a night of staking out the suspect’s sister’s home. The thief, unarmed and soaked, was among two yet at large pursued by FBI and state and county officers across Cookson Hills. The 1941 Cement bank raid is noted as Oklahoma’s last prior heist.
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Tahlequah
Okla
Hulbert
Wagoner
Strang
A.J. Harriman
Cookson Hills
FBI
Here
A |J
Arkansas
Missouri
T. G. Loftin
O. C. Hilger
Oklahoma
Bank of Cement
Bank Robberies Peak in 1932 Looting 62 Banks
The record notes a nationwide surge in bank robberies culminating in 1932 with 62 banks looted and $131 982 stolen, marking the era as among the worst for such crime. The data highlight the scale and reach of the raids during that year.
Ordnance Changes Support Civilians Tools and War Effort
The article notes that eighteen thousand gallons of gasoline saved on the home front will fuel a tank division for an hour, and outlines ordnance department policy shifts to supply tools to civilian shop workers. It also cites wartime gunfire efficiency and brass savings from using steel cartridge cases.
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Army Ordnance
Ordnance ‘Department
Machin
Army Ordnance Department
Cotton Acreage Dips, Agriculture Dept Reports
The agriculture department reports today that cotton in cultivation is lower this year. Details indicate reduced acreage compared with prior seasons and reflect shifts in farming patterns across major growing regions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Fisherman’s Lure Backfires On Parsons Man
Ike Walton likely would not believe Jesse Jones of Parsons who bought fishing gear and a Minnesota train ticket only to learn gas rationing and wartime rules kept lakes clear of boats. Jones returned home with new tackle while Dave Dients caught a ten pound yellow cat in his yard and wrestled the hook from the cat’s mouth after hours.
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Parsons
Kan
Ike Walton
Jesse Jones
Minnesota
Jones
Dave Dients
Dienst
Urge price protection for record Maine potato crop
The Aroostook county farm bureau executive committee said it asked the federal food distribution administration to announce immediately price support plans for potatoes next fall. It warned a critical situation is developing as Maine planted a huge acreage and expects the largest crop ever harvested, urging steps for storage and a starch and purchase program to ensure price protection.
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Orone
Maine
Aroostook
Wilbur Pine Buys West End Market from Wiley Estate
Wilbur Pine acquires the West End Market from the Millard Wiley estate after a period of negotiation. The deal transfers ownership and operations to Pine, with details of price and terms not disclosed. The change places Pine in charge of a longtime local business located on the West End strip.
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Wilbur Pine
Millard Wiley Estate
Man moves food shop from 1145 Pennsylvania to West End Market
Pantelleria, nine years in business at 1145 Pennsylvania Street, has purchased the West End Market from the Millard Wiley estate. Pine closed his former store and now operates at the new location. He has about 17 years in the grocery business and will continue the store along its established lines.
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Pennsylvania Street
West End
Millard Wiley
Pine
Annie Gilmartin Lobb obituary details life and marriage
Annie Gilmartin Lobb daughter of Ennis and Margaret Gilmartin was born March 29 1868 in Chilli cothe Missouri and died July 4 1948 at the Major clinic in Kansas City Missouri after years of illness She married William Lawrence Lobb on June 12 1886 in Missouri
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Annie Gilmartin Lobb
Annie Gilmartin
Ennis and
Margaret Gilmartin
Chillicothe
Kansas City
William Lawrence Lobb
Obituary of long-serving McLouth resident in 1912 obituary
St Issey England to Chillicothe Missouri then McLouth in 1889. Recrearaary 12 1912 wife mother of nine children. Surviving include Susie Lloyd Kansas City Fred Lobb Lawrence Roy Harry McLouth Hollis Kansas City and Mrs Miles Walker Morris. Father John Gilmartin Hutchinson a brother Michael and sister Ella Glazier preceded her. Eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral July 6 at Methodist Church McLouth with Rev W M Rogers officiating. Burial in McLouth Cemetery.
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St. Issey
England
Chillicothe
McLouth
Richard
Archie
Ores
Virgil
Susie Lloyd
Kansas City
Fred Lobb
Lawrence
Roy
Harry
Hollis
Kansas
City
Miles’ Walker
Morris
Nil
Fother
John Gilmartin
Hutchinson
Michael
Ella Glazier
Methodist Church
Mc- Louth
Kan
W. M. Rogers
Mc- Louth Cemetery
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Ists
Guadalcanal
Lupino
Dennis Morgan
Young - Ladd Smr
Owl Show
Aza
Ruby C. Strickland
U. S. Army Air Forces
Pantelleria
Mediterranean Isle
Rio Grande
Bob Steele
Tom
Tyler
Grouch
Jiumie
Edgar Kennedy
Jacqueline White
Horace McNally
Nella Walker Dowald Meek
Henry O'Neill
Howard Freeman
O'Brien
Randolph
Anne Shirley
Eddie Albert
Tokyo
the Family Theatre
Ove
Sarcats
Overland Mail
the Hadley
Francis Carver
Silewsei
Maynard
Gibson
Betty Miles
Oxfords
Mass
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