Courage on the Front: Pvt Miller’s Red Cross Valor in France
Associated Press report recalls Pvt Marshall Miller of Greenville South Carolina tending wounded under direct fire in Normandy. He evacuated 28 wounded, then led volunteers to retrieve 15 more, all while wearing a Red Cross arm band.
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Hal Boyle
Associated Press
AEF
France
Pvt
Marshall Miller
Greenville
S. C
Red Cross
Miller
General Revenue Fund At Last Remains Not In Red
Austin reported the state general revenue fund is out of the red for the first time since March 18, 1933, with a net balance of 93,179.32 dollars. A month earlier the deficit stood at 3,699,865 dollars as economies and tax collection gains improved the fiscal picture.
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Austin
Jess James
Treasury
Polish Soviet Accord Talks Open as Standoff Evolves
In Moscow discussions between Soviet officials and the Polish government in exile aim to test whether a framework for future relations can be agreed. Neither Stalin nor Mikolajczyk presented concrete proposals at the first meeting, with general views exchanged and specific offers to come in later talks.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Stalin
Mikolajczyk
Tadeusz Romer
Guerrilla War Flares in Paris Area, French Workers Rise
Incoming reports from Paris say French factory workers in the communist belt around the capital have begun open guerrilla warfare against German occupation forces. The movement is described as spread across the red belt with active resistance and clashes noted.
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Madrid
Paris
War Investigators of Senate Plan Probes
The Senate war investigating committee reorganized with James M. Mead as chair and Hugh Fulton’s severance looming. New inquiries will explore defense efforts and navy contracts linked to Norden Bomb Light, and a former partner’s ties to Corrigan Osborne Wells.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Harry S. Truman
James M. Mead
New York
Capitol
Hugh Fulton
Mead
Fulton
Truman
Rudolf Halley
New Yorker
Navy
Norden Bomb Light Company
Naval
John J. Corrigan
Corrigan, Osborne and Wells
Norden
Manville Plans Marriage And Adoption Of Child
New York August 5 Tom Manville announced he will marry Collette Francis a 30 year old former Earl Carroll showgirl by September 1 She will be Manvilles eighth wife They have known each other 13 years and describe their relationship as very dear friends They plan to adopt a child seeking companionship rather than romance
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Manville
New York
Tommy Manville
Collette Francis
Earl Carroll
Qaid Manville
Two Miners Killed in Mine Accident at Gallup
In Gallup New Mexico two miners died after a rock fell from the mine ceiling at the Men Can mine yesterday afternoon. Foreman Steve Radosevich of Gallup and Navajo trackman Joe Kee Oenett were identified by mine superintendent A Manda.
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Gallup
N. M
A. Manda
acMonde
Steve Radosevich
Joe Kee Oenett
Captain Melvin Best Bombed Jap Ship in North Africa Theater
Capt Melvin L Best 23, son of Mr and Mrs George Best of 2514 Twenty fifth Street, is home after 14 months in New Guinea with 62 combat missions. He earned the Air Medal for ship bombing and sinking a Japanese vessel in December 1943, and three Oak Leaf Clusters. He flew a B 25 with the Fifth Air Force, received his commission at Ellington Field in 1942, and will report to Santa Monica Aug 14.
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Melvin L. Best
George Best
Twenty-fifth Street
Fifth Air Force
New Guinea
Best
Ellington Field
Texas Technological College
Air Corps
Santa Monica
Calif
Nazi Officer In West Connected With Plot
A German POW told U S officers a corps commander on the western front was relieved for links to the Hitler assassination plot. He said regulars resented Hitler's order to use the Nazi salute. A captured document by Gen Paul Hausser noted a tense weapons supply and urged careful use.
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West
U. SS. First Army
France
Western Front
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Paul Hausser
Seventh Army
Normandy
Downed U S Airman Rescued In Romania
American fighter pilots strafed the German airdrome at Focsani Romania and then rescued a downed comrade on a shuttle mission from Italy to Russian air bases Flight Officer Richard Andrews 20 of Portland Ore landed near Focsani and carried Lt Richard E Willsie 23 of Long Beach Cal with one engine shot out Andrews threw away his parachute and carried Willsie under attack by a Messerschmitt formation Lt N A Pate of Austin shot down one enemy plane and damaged another Willsie was uninjured in the forced landing.
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Moscow
Focsani
Romania
Italy
Richard Andrews
Portland
Ore
Richard E. Willsie
Long Beach
Calif
Andrews
Willsie
Messerschmitt
N. A. Pate
Austin
Car Pooling Becomes Required for B and C Card Holders
Lubbock area ration boards will issue only 30 day gasoline rations for home to work driving by B and C card holders unless they join a car pool or prove joining is impossible. Ely Fonville said pooling is mandatory to save gasoline tires and cars and that the drive is nationwide.
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Lubbock
Price Administration
Ely Fonville
Plans for a state school for delinquent Negro girls
Austin Aug 5 Plans to provide a state school for delinquent Negro girls were discussed at a Texas Social Welfare Association meeting. Mrs H A Wilson of Houston said the next state legislature will be asked to appropriate funds. A prior legislature appropriated 60000 but wartime material shortages prevented construction. A county sub committee will study the problem locally.
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Austin
U.1
Texas Social Welfare Association
H. A. Wilson
Houston
Danes Begin Strike Over Danish Artist's Death
A general strike started in Hel singer Denmark to protest the killing of Otto Bulow, a Danish globe trotter and artist, by German occupying forces, according to a Copenhagen report dated August 5.
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Stockholm
Helsinger
Denmark
Otto Bulow
Globe Trotter
Copenhagen
More Australian War Brides Reach U. S
Twenty five Australian war brides of American service men arrived in San Francisco. An estimated 300 more brides and 72 babies were due to arrive in the coming weeks. The first large group reached the city about four months ago.
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San Francisco
U.P
Barcel Your Figure Restore Youthful Curves Ad Copy
An inexpensive home remedy advertises Barcel Your Figure using 4 oz of Barcelel concentrate mixed with grapefruit juice to make a pint and two tablespoons taken twice daily. The ad promises weight loss without strenuous exercise or starvation and offers a money back guarantee.
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Mark Halsey Drug S
Tores
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