Louis names all opponent team with Baer and Braddock top picks
Western Union released Joe Louis who as World Heavyweight champion named an all-opponent team for Stars and Stripes. He picked Max Baer as toughest foe and Jim Braddock as bearer of the most potent right hand. Louis noted Conn as smartest and recalled others like Schmeling, Paycheck, and Delaney in his selections.
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Joe Louis
Stars and Stripes
Max Baer
Jim Braddock
Baer
Joe
Schmeling
Max
New York
Louis
Braddock
Chicago
Billy Conn
Conn
Polo Grounds
Lee Ramey
Arturo Godoy
Bob Pastor
Johnny Paycheck
al Delaney
Paulino Uzcudun
I.Q
Tulagi Pipe Trade Nets Soldiers Rare Native Craft
Corp. Richard Schlievert recalls a Tulagi exchange where an American soldier carved a pipe and sold it to a native for 15 dollars. The native showed it to a second American who paid 75 dollars for the piece and still cherishes it as a rare native handicraft.
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Tulagi
Humboldt
Iowa
Corp
Richard Schlievert
Southwest Pacific
Hunt Graves of Yanks in Tunisia
In Gafsa Tunisia a small group of American troops searches mined Tunisian hills for hastily buried doughboys. Bodies are moved to expanding American military cemeteries as mines injure searchers. Graves registration worker Sgt Donald McHenry says many unmarked graves exist. Arabs, who often strip clothing, rarely steal dog tags.
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Gafsa
Tunisia
Tunisian
Donald McHenry
New York City
McHenry
Women Now Head Family In 5 Million U. S. Homes
A 1940 census survey released by the U S Census Bureau shows women headed 5 302 940 of 35 088 840 U S families and that 3 326 080 heads were widowed 393 520 divorced and 898 340 single. Housing shortages in 1940 fed into 2 858 560 total households ledgers.
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Washington
America
U. S. Census Bureau
Jettisoned bombs hit German airfield during raid
A US Flying Fortress returning from a Berlin raid jettisoned bombs near a German airfield after the bombardier Lieut. George H. Nye spotted the target. He used the toe of his boot as a sight and dropped the payload into an operational building, triggering a large smoke column as German defenses fired none.
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United States
England
Flying Fortress
Berlin
Channel
George H. Nye
Compton
Calif
400 Year Old Murder Found in Viterbo Sarcophagus
Allied bombing revealed a 400 year old murder in Viterbo Italy. Discovered inside Cardinal Vice Domini’s sarcophagus are two men and a woman with fractured skulls, all in 16th century dress, as workers readied the damaged church for relocation.
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Lisbon
Viterbo
Rome
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Vice Domini
Yanks in India Have Good Malaria Record
Philadelphia report cites Lieut. Col. Thomas Fitz-Hugh of the Army Medical Corps stating American troops in India endured malaria better than locals. He notes American mortality under one-tenth of 1 percent, versus up to 1 percent among Chinese allies, attributing it to superior health and nutrition.
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Philadelphia
India
Thomas Fitz-Hugh
Army Medical Corps
American College of Surgeons
Remarkable Yale prodigy Kenneth Wolf at age 12
Twelve year old Kenneth Wolf, son of Cleveland lawyers, repeats astonishing feats of intellect and normal boyhood. He is a Yale sophomore with plans to advance to a bachelor degree by fourteen and pursue a PhD by sixteen in music and other studies.
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New Haven
Conn
Kenneth Wolf
Yale
Kenneth
Morris Herbert Wolf
Cleveland
Chef Loses Medal Returns By Theater Finders Gift
In New York Gaston Hetrich, chef at Cafe Dubois, mourned a Paris society medal vanished from his wrist chain. Actor Jose Ferrer found it under a table and returned it, later receiving a ribboned thank you note and the playful inscription about honor among finders keepers.
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New York
Gaston Hetrich
Cafe
Dubois
Paris
Jose Ferrer
Iago
Theater Guild
Gaston
Ferrer
Exalted
Order of Finders Don
Free Spender Returns to Pay Off Debt After War Job
A man once mocked as a free spender disappears during wartime, then reappears six months later. He repays a small cafe bill with $200 after starting work in a defense plant in Trenton, but then loses the money in a gin Rummy game that night.
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New York
Trenton
Home Blown On Tracks In Storm Hit Tragedy
Mr and Mrs Thomas Mullins and their five year old son were injured as a farm home was blown onto Illinois Central railroad tracks by a storm and smashed by a passing train. Mullins rescued his wife and child from the wreckage during the incident.
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Jackson
Miss
Thomas Mullins
Mullins
Strawberry Patch Quilt Described with Berry Applique
A vintage description highlights a Strawberry Patch quilt with large berries about 5 inches across appliqued in plain blocks, white strawberry flower motifs to be quilted, and a pale green leaf border stitched in thread.
Squid Arms and Size Describe Ocean Denizen
The article explains squid anatomy with ten arms eight for feeding and two longer ones to seize prey. It notes they are invertebrates with a heart brain and eyes and range from three feet to giants. A Nova Scotia catch measured 20 feet body and 35 feet arms totaling 55 feet.
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Nova Scotia
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