Aveston Letter From Weston Soldier in France
East Oregonian reprints extracts from a letter by James Kirkpatrick of Weston serving with Lidth Engineers on detached duty in France. He says soldiers are well fed and in good spirits, notes both losses and gains, praises French politeness, and hopes to return home healthy to walk and kiss his liberty after the war ends.
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East Oregonian
Aveston
James Kirkpatrick
Weston
Lidth Engineers
France
Uncle Sam
Europe
Sherman
Northwest cougar shot after killing six sheep
A sheep-killing cougar in the Hinley and Frank ranches north of Montesano Washington was tracked down by a dog on Wednesday and shot by A. B. Currie. The animal measured six and a half feet long, as reports noted. Further notes describe high Columbia River levels at Mobier Oregon with wheat and garden flooding, plus various regional items from Olympia to Portland and Missoula.
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Montesano
Wash
Hinley
Frank
North River Valley
A. B. Currie
Letieth
Columbia River
Mobier
Ore
George Lt. Darrenport
Portland
Mosier
Pilot Rock Boy Sent Home From Mare Island
Pilot Rock notes report several local movements and events. Mr and Mrs George Royer left for Flycreek for a week. A girl baby born to Mr and Mrs Jack Hodges died the same day at Grace Hospital. Carl Stuart recovering from appendectomy in Walla Walla. A little man fell here, four of ninth testing registered. Charles Mercor and family visited from Ukiah. Myrtle and Rob Ross passed through en route to Pendleton. Tin Sturdivant of Ukiah visited. Mrs Jean Kirkpatrick improved after an injury. Willard MacCullochs moved into George Carnes residence. Eldon Hutchinson, Navy veteran, discharged for foot trouble.
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Baat Gregonlin
Pilot Rock
George Royer
Flycreek
Jack Hodges Wedneaddy
Grace Hospital
Carl Stuart
Walla Walla
Charles Mercor
Uiklah
Myrtle
Rob Ross
Vinson
Pendleton
Henry Nee
Ukiah
Tom
Tin
and Arts
Willard MacCulloch
George Carnes
Eldon Hutchinson
Ernest Hutchinson
Mare Talind
Navy
Joan of Arc figure arrested in German plot
Maude Gonna McBride widow of Major John MacBride, once in command of an Irish brigade in the Boer War, is arrested by British authorities over involvement in a German plot. Her husband was executed for his role in the 1916 rebellion.
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Maude Gonna McBride
Arc
John MacBride
Kan Jean
French Grenade Medallists Score World War II Style Feat
Sergent Meunier and Corfioradi Martin of a French regiment earned the Millterie medal after reportedly throwing 1000 grenades in ten minutes during the Grivesnes defense. Meunier hurled 200 and Martin 100 as they fought behind a stone wall while German forces pressed. Both escaped with minor injuries and the unit suffered few casualties.
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Henry Wood
United Press
Mall
Meunier
Corfioradi Martin
Pollum
Grivesses
Grivesnes
Martin
Tomcnin
Meat Shipments To Allies At 15000 Pounds A Minute
Chicago June 11 shipments of meat to the allies run at 15000 pounds per minute. Over a 10 hour day this amounts to about 9,000,000 pounds daily. The meat goes to U S soldiers and civilians in all war hostilities nations. Announcement came from Charlie McCarthy, Hoover food administration representative, during a Chicago stop en route to the northwest.
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Chicago
United States
Germany
Charlie McCarthy
Herbert Hoover
Northwest
Food Administration
River floods Hood River mudbar north of town
The Columbia River rose to twelve inches over normal today flooding a mudbar of several hundred acres north of Hood River Oregon. The stream continues to rise and is now two inches higher than its peak so far this year.
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Hood River
Ore
Columbia River
Fruit Men To Organize In Clarke County
Prune growers in Clarke county, Vancouver Washington, decided 11 cents per pound is satisfactory for prunes, with bulk prime running 14 cents per pound. A meeting Saturday formed a committee to confer with California prune growers, with a report due at a July meeting.
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Organter
Vancouver
Wash
Clarke County
Bane
California
Uly
Ninety Percent of U.S. Soldiers Wounded at Cantigny to Recover
Paris report states that ninety of every hundred American troops wounded at Cantigny are expected to recover. Wounds were carried from the front to hospitals near Paris, with Gen. Merritte E. Teoland coordinating top surgeons and medical staff from both civilian specialists and the regular army.
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Paris
Cantigny
Cantleny
Veullly Wood
Meritte Treland
Regular Army Medical Corpa
Beans to Boy Stamp Contest Promotes Bean Growing
Collingswood New Jersey June 1943 local page reports youths and girls to buy war savings stamps with beans. The conservation committee offers prizes for best bean crop, with contestants required to have at least 100 square feet of Doane used for cultivation.
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Collingswod
N. J
Conservation Committee
W. B
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