Dark show yields lively jungle night performance
Without lights the show could not be read and a jam session in the dark entertained the restless auditorium. Flashlights from Captain Meinecke arrived after cues passed while Corporal Zim mer directed the Selman band and Corporal May wrote the script. When light returned the broadcast was on schedule and performers included Corporal Testement and Lorenzon Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Meinecke
Selman Dance Band
Docotiha
Poocias Atha
Albert Zimmer
Frank W. Brithe
Myron Testement
Thomas E. May
Lorenzon Smith
Cadet Kernis Aided Doolittle Raiders At Eglin Field
Cadet Melvin Kernis Class 43-15 served as a civilian instrument mechanic at Eglin Field Florida during the buildup to the Doolittle Raid. He worked seven days a week on B 25 bombers installing de icing gear tanks and gauges while keeping details secret. Kernis later enlisted as an aviation cadet on September 12 1942 and hails from Weissport Pennsylvania.
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Doolittle
Tokyo
Selman Field
Melvin Kernis
Eglin Field
Fla
Hornet
Elgin
Kernis
Elgin Field
Japan
John Hilger
Kennis
Induct M B Moore into Seabees Group
Chief R E Whitehurst of the Monroe Navy recruiting station announced M B Moore son of Mr and Mrs W J Moore of 112 Malvern street Monroe left yesterday to be inducted into the Seabees navy construction battalions Moore enlisted as third class petty officer shipfitter after qualifying as a welder at the Tiger Foundry and Machine Works He is a Ouachita Parish High School graduate The Seabees need construction workers and offer service to country while continuing civilian trades
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Whitehurst
United States Navy
M. B. Moore
W. J. Moore
Malvern Street
Monroe
Seabees
Navy
Moore
Tiger Foundry and Machine Works
Ouachita Parish High School
Whitehurst
Nee
French-born WAAC recruit serves in wartime roles
Auxiliary Renee Smith aged 44, a French-born recruit at WAAC Third Training Center Fort Oglethorpe, previously served as a Red Cross nurse and clerical worker in the French army for four years in World War I and as an interpreter for the American occupation for 12 months. She moved to Elkins West Virginia in 1920 and worked as a welder before joining WAAC.
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Fort Oglethorpe
Renee Smith
WAAC
Red Cross
Elkins
W. Va
Fragmented OCR Word Puzzle From Historical Page
The text presents a scrambled list of words and phrases likely from an OCR of a historical page. It includes broken clues and misread entries such as biblical figures, geographic terms, measurements, and miscellaneous terms, with no coherent narrative or single event. The result resembles a glossary or puzzle fragment rather than a news item.
Lightning Fighter Poison Is Tested
In Burbank California on June 25 engineers test a P-38 fighter against a concrete earth embanked tunnel target. The twin engine Lightning fires 8 mm guns and a 20mm cannon at 1,000 inches, penetrating planks sand and steel plate, with 24 inches of concrete and 10 feet of earth behind. Also noted is the 1828 self murder verdict of Samuel H. Pullen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burbank
Calif
Clarence Noerenberg
Noerenberg
On the Beam Vindicated After Nighttime Blackout
The post weekly radio show Selman Field On the Beam suffered a mid program blackout last Tuesday, cutting transmission five minutes after eight. Engineers Keeny Devereux and Charles W Deland fixed the fault within minutes and the cast continued, delivering the rest of the half hour as scheduled.
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Selman
Post
Post Theater
G. L's
Keeny Devereux
Charles W. Deland
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Peer Tivit
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Voral
Avrine
Mik Farms
Paragon
Knighthood
Britain
BY William Ferguson
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England
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NEA Service. Inc
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N.C
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Little
Orphan Annie
Edgar Rice
UKE Fish
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Trange
Syracuse
Kitetna
Ando
Archimedes
Pim ST
V. T. Har
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Lil Abner
Aica
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PRANC
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PETRI
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