Japanese Resistance and Surrender on Guam Chronicle
The account describes a small garrison on an island rear area off Guam, with limited guns and a single aircraft battery. Japanese forces landed December 9 and fought street by street until ammunition ran out. A U.S. radioman recalls escapes and internment fears after surrender on the third day, with women captured or killed and a perilous escape history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weed
Cabras Island
Ile
Aganaghts
Reed
Robinson
Government of Checks Balances in Richmond
A Virginia resident returned a slim slip from the Internal Revenue service about ancient weigh scale use. The article notes the historical link to Egyptian methods and cites a 5,000 B C timeframe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Internal Revenue Office
War labor tensions flare as GM plants halt work
The CIO United Auto Workers prepare a mass meeting in Detroit to end a 7 000 worker stoppage at General Motors Chevrolet gear and axle division after the War Labor Board ordered an immediate end to the strike. Production of aircraft engines tanks and heavy trucks could then resume.
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Detroit
C. I. O.-United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Chevrolet Gear and Axle
War Labor Board
Washington
Warner Gear Company
Muncie
Ind
Spencer Lens Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Gilchrist Curve Named for Beauty on Texas Highway
A curve on United States Highway 290 west of Austin is named Gilchrist Curve after Gibb Gilchrist former state highway engineer and now president of A and M College. Gilchrist kept the curve on the map when a relocation eliminated the long S curve because the scenery was so beautful it had to remain.
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Austin
Tex
Ustin
Gilchrist
Gibb Gilchrist
A. & M. College
Glchrist
Community Visitors and Scouts Highlight Tallulah Notes
Tallulah residents host relatives from Memphis Harlingen Waco and Cherry Point as visitors fill the social calendar. Girl Scouts enjoy an overnight camp on the Andrew Sevier plantation with diverse crafts led by local leaders. Petty Officer Howard Sevier receives a naval gunnery training transfer to Jacksonville Florida.
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Girl Scouts
Tallulah
Andrew Sevier Plantation
Rebecca Hopper
Gayle Poe
Patsy Murphy
Carolyn Ramages
Sybil Russ
Alta Gwynne Garrison
Valenca Ramagos
Mamie T. Mimms
Mary Murphy
Howard Sevier
A. L. Sevier
Jacksonville, Fla
Naval Air Gunnery School
Farmhouses Hit Near Kyushu Quieted By Civilian Efforts
The wireless dispatch from Domei reports strengthened craft intervention drove enemy raiders away with minimal damage. It states at one Kyushu section farm houses were set afire but fires were promptly controlled by civilians.
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Guam
Reef
Merica
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
Anzio
Italy
Government OF Checks, Balances
Halmahera
Yap Islands
Manokwari
New Guinea
Wasile
Domei
Yap Island
Ingineer
Cranzey
Pant Avis
E. Otis Edgerton
Bill Payne
Mrs. Burk Culpepper
Memphis, Tenn
Rufus Yerger
Rufus Jr
Harlingen Field, Texas
Henry C. Sevier
George Yerger Sr
Allen Nadler and Sons
Allen Jr
Andrew
A. J. Sevier
Don Sevier
R. W. Moreland
Dorothea Moreland
Waco, Texas
Albert Sevier
Mas
E. S. Dew
W. P. Yerger
Cherry Point
N. C
Yerger
Dew
R. E. Gilbert
Mr. Gilbert
Mrs
Alice Gilbert
Doniphan, Mo
C. A. Brannon
Hattisburg, Miss
W. E. R. Mitchell
Buddie Mitchell
Louisiana Tech
Barry Mitchell
Vicksburg Infirmary
Ruth Read
Henry Rickey
Farmerville
National
Harmieces
Spatafora Pharmacy
ULL
North Third St
Tory
Autcomery Ward
Soilax
Sue Porch
P EK Paik
Montgomery Ward R
Montgomery Ward
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