Surrendered Nazis Work To Rebuild Italy On The Front Lines
In a Po Valley camp near the 5th Army, 68,247 Germans and 642 Fascist Italians are being redeployed into service and labor units. Six German trucking companies are formed while others build benches, desks, and chapel spaces under American supervision. Once active soldiers now perform painting, carpentry, housekeeping, and rubble removal with disciplined efficiency, awaiting loftier decisions on further tasks.
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Stan Swinton
5Th Army
Wehrmacht
Italy
Po Valley
Hitler
Cpl
Harry Saxton
Worcester
Mass
Saxton
71St
Germany
Negro Choir Inspires Italians With American Music in Genoa
Wings Over Jordan, an 18 voice Negro gospel chorus based in Cleveland, tours with the 92nd Division in Genoa inspiring Italian audiences beyond their view of American music. Rev. Glynn Settle leads the group with Miss Mildred Ridley and Miss Hattye Easley as conductor, highlighting spirituals like Little David.
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Genoa
America
Wings Over Jordan
92Nd
Wings Over
Jordan
U. S
Glynn T. Settle
Gethsemane Baptist Church
Cleveland
Ohio
Columbia Broadcasting System
Setile
Little David
Ellison B. White
Cairo
Rhoda Chatman
Memphis
Mixed Scoop Of Oddities From Across The Nation
Stephen Dickson of The Bronx faces bookmaking charges in New York. A Glasgow Montana mother threw five children from a Milk River bridge before leaping to her death. No Civil War veterans attended New York’s Memorial Day march. The Atlantic Coast Line’s northbound Champion halted after a fatality, engineer James L. Crow died. An electro magnet was recovered from Chester Creek, Philadelphia, tied to a Phantom Burglar. Hoboes favor the Hiawatha train. Skyscraper Tower in Miami tops jails. A Miami divorce suit claims threats to feed wife to alligators. Nutley wolves bait a decoy cop, a disguise prompts a sudden arrest. Lost Cabin Wyoming sells out with 57,500 acres plus town site. Sgt John Coleman’s honeymoon pairs an Australian view with an American girl. Kansas City police uncover a body in a white sack that is a stolen payphone. An alarm clock ends a Bronx argument with a gash to Reynold Heuer. Portland and Vancouver planners weigh wartime housing shifts amid Vanport’s prominence.
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Main Street
Stephen Dickson
Bronx
Glasgow, Mont
Andrew Campbell
Milk River
New York
Florida
Atlantic Coast Line
James L. Crow
Chester Creek
Philadelphia
Hoboes of America, Inc
Jeff Davis
U. S
Hiawatha
Chicago
Skyscraper Tower
Miami
Jack Coppinger
Jack
Nutley
N. J
St. Louis
John Coleman
Kansas City
Reynold Heuer
Postwar plans loom amid wartime news and obits
Wartime and postwar items span aviation, labor, health, and society. Notes include child births, deportations, refinery output, wage rules, truck production, hotel repairs, mail pay cuts, food campaigns, and a deadly Edgewood Arsenal explosion. Obituaries mark Cmdr Eugene Sarsfield’s Bath naming destroyer and pilots Capt Charley Beard and others.
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THE
NAVY
Acme
Sgt, Roe Stars
Starj
Ert Meyer
Andrew Sullivan
71St AA Brigade
230Th
Warren Bixler
Buffalo
N. Y
442Nd Rct
Lagerpost
SHAEF
Psychological Welfare Bureau
PWB
Lost Cabin
Wyo
Portland
Ore
Vancouver
Wash
U.S
Vanport
Stork Club
John D. Harle
Marceline
Miss
Patricia Ann
James W. Tucker
Angelo Disco
Lewis
Emil Lersch
Pittsburgh
Kathryn Evelyn
Petroleum Administration
WPB
J. A. Krug
Washington
War Labor Board
American Hotel Association
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pan American Airways
New York State
U. S. Employment Office
Anthony Volpe
Capone
New York City
Bath
Maine
Cmdr
Eugene Sarsfield
Maddox
Mueller Brass Company
Port Huron
Mich
Charles §. Stephenson
American Cancer Society
Earl Garthwaite
Ireton
Iowa
Edgewood Arsenal
James T. du Priest
Los Angeles
Robert M. la Follette
Washington, D. C
Atlantic City Commission
Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ogden
Lincoln Streets
Joseph Walleck
Boston Egg
Augustana Hospital
Mississippi
Charley Beard
Irvin 8
Cobb
Clitton
Tenn
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