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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1945
Page
6
A humorous illustrated exchange questions summer air conditioning value and windshield safety while railing against cluttered designs. A wartime diary notes Clare Luce firing a howitzer, fashion details, and hopes for future campaigns with Lana Turner and others.
A Navy fighter plane crash lands in Groton Connecticut tearing a house roof and snatching a baby's blanket. The child Margaret Morton was buried under plaster but escaped with minor injuries as her father Thomas freed her. Pilot Lieutenant W J McCartney of Toledo Ohio suffered slight injuries.
In Norfolk a merchant seaman applied for food ration stamps and later asked the rationing board for his own address. He admitted he had forgotten where they lived since they had just moved that week and had not seen his wife.
Niklaas Barkhuizen, in Petrusburg South Africa, reached into his lunch pail without looking and pulled out a five foot yellow cobra rearing to strike. He slammed the lid shut to trap the snake and avoid injury.
The War Production Board announced 152 441 000 dollars of civilian production approval for 772 plants not needed for war. Items include vacuum cleaners 10 735 000 dollars bed springs and mattresses 35 971 000 dollars and household aluminum ware 15 537 000 dollars over 12 months. Consumers durable goods exceed two thirds of the total.
Sweden is manufacturing and storing goods for future export as war ends. The wood pulp industry holds hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical pulp in storage awaiting peace time exports, while railway car plants are fulfilling a large order for the Netherlands, the department of commerce said.
Mustang Pilot Lieut. Lyle M. Wright of Buffalo New York was hit by flak over Germany injuring his shoulder and blinding his sight. He radioed for help as Lieut. Bill Stockton of Orion New Jersey guided him to a safe landing in England. Wright’s canopy was jammed and bail out failed. The war department notified his wife Edna Wright on September 21 of serious injuries.
Brooklyn driver Eugene McBride steered his ten ton truck to avoid a small dog, the vehicle overturned blocking traffic and causing four thousand dollars in damage. The dog escaped unharmed as police and an emergency squad arrived. The driver then patted the dog and blamed the mishap on the animal.
Lord Langford a 59 year old Irish peer was sentenced in Farnham Surrey to one year in prison for fraud after being found guilty of obtaining 3200 dollars from a woman under false pretenses. Prosecutors alleged he forged a King George VI letter claiming 2000 dollars yearly from the king's privy purse keeper for a service to Edward VII.
Spec McClure's tribute from Belgium recalls Frances Slanger, an army nurse killed Oct 21 1944 after sending a grateful open letter to Stars and Stripes. The piece honors her selfless devotion and argues for renewed integrity to win both war and peace.
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