Marine Receives Courtesy Note After Overtime Parking
Sergt. W. W. Halyman of the Marine Corps, wounded in the Solomons, returned to Charleston from San Diego. He apologized to Municipal Judge Harald Neff for overtime parking and enclosed a $1 bill. The judge welcomed him back and praised his thoughtfulness.
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Charleston
Harald Neff
Sergt
W. W. Halyman
Marine Corps
New River
San Diego
Cal
Solomons
Neff
Pravda counters Nazi front strength claims on Soviet line
Pravda disputed London reports that 50 German divisions were redeployed from the Soviet front. It tallies 211 German divisions on the Russian front with none shifted, and lower totals on other fronts including 91 in Europe and 8 to 10 in the Balkans, noting many are in reserve or have restricted capacity.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Pravda
Germany
Reich
High Command
London
Europe
France
Balkans
Russia
Low Countries
Italy
Norway
Secret
Maly
Belgium
Holland
Austria
Every One A Rooster
In Chicago a Easter rabbit left six baby chicks at Circuit Judge Robert J. Dunne’s home. Neighbors learned the chicks were all roosters and Dunne dryly noted they would not lay eggs.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert J. Dunne
Dunne
Judge Dunne
Bombs in His Belly Belly Landing Story
Allied reports detail Second Lt. Jig Buster Jr. from Selma Alabama who belly landed a Boston bomber on Pantelleria after hydraulic failure. Bombs remained in the bay as anti air fire damaged the aircraft and crew prepared to evacuate.
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Associated Press
North Africa
Jig Buster, Jr
Selma
Ala
Jig
Boston
Pantelleria Island
Trapani
Jig Buster
Panieljlevia
Desert air war tale shows new Allied insignia shift
In Cairo a reporter and Maj. Harry Bowers observe a B 24 squadron returning from a Messina raid. The piece notes the yellow circled insignia now used on all American planes in the Middle East for visibility and security, replacing the white star on blue. The tale highlights the dangers of combat and lessons of war.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Desert
Harry Bowers
St. Louis
California
Deeds
Bowers
Middle East
Drastic Food Shortages Forecast For Winter
Carroll R Miller of the West Virginia horticulture society warned at a luncheon that bread will be plentiful while cereals meat vegetables and fats will be scarce. He cited a 50 percent reduction in civilian canned vegetables and noted the apple crop will be the smallest since 1936 with storage and distribution plans urged to balance scarce supplies.
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Martinsburg
Carroll R Miller
West Virginia Horticulture Society
Miller
War Food Administration
Washington
Congress Given Papers Of Booker Washington
The Library of Congress received the Booker T. Washington papers from Tuskegee Institute. The collection, valued as a premier source on Negro history, contains about 180000 pieces including correspondence with Roosevelt Root and Taft. Papers stay at Tuskegee until fall to avoid disrupting ongoing research.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
William Howard Taft
Tuskegee
Stored Cars Could Solve The Automobile Problem
About a million car owners have stored their vehicles for the duration. Automotive News warns the used-car stockpile is shrinking and a transport crisis could follow unless stored cars are sold. Dealers use local papers and priority offers to "smoke out" idle cars for postwar delivery. No new cars have been assembled since February 1942 and dealer inventories total around 150,000.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Automotive News
Half Million Technicians Turned Out by Air Forces
The Army Air Forces Technical Training Command reported it had trained over 500000 ground and air combat crew technicians in about 27 months since organization. It highlighted June 1940 to facilitate wartime needs and praised the hotel plan across 452 properties in Miami Beach, Atlantic City, Chicago and other cities for rapid facilities.
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Associated Press
Knollwood Field
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Air Corps
TTC
Maj
Walter R. Weaver
Miami Beach
Atlantic City
Chicago
Air Forces
Why the East Is Teacher's Gasoline Pet
Washington report explains why the East lags in oil production while the Southwest leads. It outlines five oil districts, notes district 3 produces more than all others and must compensate for district 1, with changes in wartime shipment costs from tanker to tank car.
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James Marlowe
George Zielke
Washington
United States
Southwest
Maine
Florida
Virginia
Pennsylvania
East
Gulf Coast
Tumker
Middle-West
New York
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Mexico
Texas
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
California
Paw
Curtailment At West Virginia Ordnance Works Cited as War-Driven
The West Virginia Ordnance Works restricts production as war demands shift. Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell Jr. says curtailment reflects fluid warfare, not management or worker performance. Plant Manager Harry S. Bowen notes changes stem from battle conditions.
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Associated Press
Point Pleasant
West Virginia
Harry S. Bowen
Campbell
H . C. Ingraham
Conservation officials plan talks with army officers
Conservation Director Jack Shipman will confer at Elkins next week with army officers on game protection during future battle drills in the Monogahela national forest area. He will be joined by Chief Game Protector R Morris and Game Technician W Degarmo, meeting Col. A W Gower of the West Virginia maneuver area.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Jack Shipman
Elkins
Monogahela National Forest
R. Morris
WR. Dégarmo
Shipman
Col
A. W. Gower
West Virginia
Depot Fills Orders In Jig Time At Ogden Utah
Ogden Utah depot houses about a half million varied articles for the army excluding munitions The seven depot complex handles chemical engineer signal transportation quartermaster medical and ordnance operations Brig Gen Ralph Talbot Jr coordinating a labor pool and 6500 000 square feet of roofed storage Non lethal gases kept in bomb resistant igloos guarded by trained dogs and civilian guards night and day
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Ogden
Utah
Utah Army Service Forces
Gores
Great Salt Lake
New Guinea
Nems
Aleutians
Army
Air Corps
Ralph ‘Talbot, Jr
Greying
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