Service Members and Promotions Across Pacific Fronts
The article lists numerous personnel from the United States military, detailing promotions to sergeant and lieutenant colonel, awards of the Purple Heart and Meritorious Service Unit Plaque, and deployments in the Pacific, Philippine Sea and Okinawa. It names individuals with addresses and family ties, including Spaniel G Kelly, Richard Spochl, Charles J Shara, Douglas Smith, Edwin Burter, Robert Snaveley, Paul Rodrigues, Ambrosio Martinez, Elizabeth Long, Allen Moravitz, and many others. It notes actions like cave demolitions on Luzon, ward campaigns in the Marshalls and Okinawa, and service aboard destroyers and submarines.
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Spaniel
Kelly
West Magnolia Avenue
168Th “Rainbow Regiment
Gunes
Italy
A. Syecht
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Richard Spochl
T ‘Ie Pacific
Philippine Sea
Robert K. Snaveley
Yexts State Guard
Yaltalinn
Bar Aftonto
Paul G. Rodrigues
Rodriguez
Morales Steeel Tan
Ambrosio B. Martinez
San Tas Atrent
Las Weel
Laughlinfeild
de Rio
Willa
Greene
Elzabeth Long
Nogalitan Street
Manila
Ial 'Willian Th
Elvigl
General
Agenun
Allen B. Moravitz
Red 1
Luzon
Pyt. Guillermy
M. Villarreal
Aurora
Tucca Street
Pacific
Henry
A Udgenski
Eleanor Caidaensiel
Las
M. Gaytan
Round Street
Tars Lake
Path
Maurice Vewawler
Cnak
W. B. Bowler
Exton
British Plan Thanksgiving and Parliament Opening
British plans for a national service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral proceed with the king and queen to attend. The cabinet met but did not announce further details on Javanese matters. Opening of Parliament goes ahead with Lords’ robes simplified, guards to wear armor replacements.
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St Pauls Cathedral
Sintay
House of Lords
Buckingham Palace
Parliament
London Peaches Reach High Prices in Local Market
The London market reports home grown peaches selling at about $1.30 each amid a limited supply. The Daily Express notes imports are scarce and local growers have a boom, with few specimens available and improved skin protection methods mentioned.
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London
Dually Express
Toliin
Vattanwook
Pine Bluff Arsenal Construction Halts
Construction at Pine Bluff Arsenal was halted including a $2.5 million expansion project. Hiring of workers at the chemical installation in Pine Bluff was stopped.
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Pine Bluff Arsenal
Fine Blupp
Are
Ani
Phil Belt
Chemical Welfare
Fing Bloff Alta
Industry To Absorb War Workers In San Antonio
San Antonio officials and business leaders expect minimal unemployment as war contracts wind down. Warner manpower head FE Elliott and Dallas regional director J. H. Bond say 360,000 Texas workers can be absorbed with few layoffs, aided by civil service and unemployment offices. Local firms report readiness to reconvert to peacetime production and keep workers, with women expected to enter or rejoin the labor market after the war.
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San Antonio
FE. A. Elliott
War Manpower Commission
Texas
J. H. Bond
Dallas
Bouth
Pexas
Contine
Randolph Kehl
Brooke General Hospital
Cluiter
WMC
Bexar Mid Nueces
Heer
Kelly
Civil Service
U.S. Employment Commission
Ie A. F. Priedvich Sales Corporation
Mart
George Frieumion
War Department
Duel
San Antonin Manufacteters Association
Nallody
Verdas
San Antonin
Faeline
Sai Autouig
Ivons
Fisalagis
Jim Jager Peerls
13 Dead in Detroit Boxing Plant Fire
Police and officials probe one of Detroit’s worst disasters at the Export Box and Sealer works where 13 workers perished and more than a score were injured. The two story plant burned mid afternoon as employees, many escaping through windows, tried to flee. Victims ranged 20 to 64. two men in custody. company employs about 100. Injury and death tolls rose as investigators assessed an inflammable material leak theory.
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O—Upi
Gre
Detroit
Ihiege
Eimptoyes
Wets
Raward W. Tull
Truman meets Soviet trade union leader in Moscow talks
President Truman sees Vasily Kone Kelsey, representative of the All Soviet trade unions, in Moscow for discussions with C.F. O. and Plibius Aayray. The visit centers on wartime coordination and upcoming conferences as tensions ease.
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Truman
Law Firm to Collect Back School Taxes
The Warlandale Independent School District announced Tuesday that back taxes totaling 64.23 dollars as of August 1 would be collected by Edwards and Irvit Law Firm, hired after a Monday meeting. O. D. Foster, school business manager, stated the firm would pursue delinquent taxes.
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House
Mercer
Edwards
Irvit
National Bank
Warlandale
O. D. Foster
Foster
Fim
Yonth
Pilot Earns Mexico Award for Valor in War Effort
Lieutenant Kester, veteran of the Solomon Islands campaign, receives Mexican Air Force golden pilot wings for service with the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. He instructed during training in August 1944 and later flew in the Philippine Liberation campaign with low level bombing and strafing missions. He earned nine oak leaf clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his wartime service.
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Piyot Laont
William Leater
Richard B. Kester
Min Ora
Solomons
Kester
Parateto
Idaho
Teacing Neviad
Pith
Ain Torre
Jpster Wolds
Veteran wheels 65 miles home to Danville in chair
Danville reports Aug 14 a 65 mile trek by a wounded Army veteran William Beans in a wheelchair. He left Indiana to reunite with family, walking the route to seek work and a new home, recalling hardship while en route.
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Danville
William Beanis
Ind
Béans
Fourth Armored Division
York
Gable Set for Sequel to Mutiny
Hollywood gossip notes Clark Gable will star in a planned sequel to Mutiny on the Bounty, continuing the adventures of Mr. Christian on Pitcairn Island. The piece mentions treatment details, cast rumors, and project chatter involving Frances Langford, Annabella, Tyrone Power, and others amid studio bidding and industry speculation.
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Christian Mat J
Pitcairn Island
Care
Hollywood
Farma Jaden
M-G-M
New York
Shie
Hekel
WA Wendy
Apar
Clark Gable
Mehey
Opening of Intracoastal Canal Urged by Agencies
The text expresses a strong opinion from the Fish and Wildlife Service and allied agencies to push for immediate authorization or action to open the Intracoastal Canal. It emphasizes coordinating with the Fish and Oyster Commission and others to achieve the earliest feasible opening.
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Fish and Wildlife Service
Ame
Fish and Oyster Commission
Revival Show Set for Broadway New Year's Eve
The theater revival produced by Jerome Terri and Oscar Hammerstein I will open on Broadway New Year’s Eve. The note also mentions actor Ola San 7 with Steve Crane in a captioned photo and Sonny Tufts with a sling, while a tragedy is reported near Abilene where W A Stewman and his wife Brith drowned on Fork Phantom Lake.
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Steve Crane
Sonny Tufts
Mura
Jerome Terri
Oscar Hammerstein
Will Jent
Tomorics
Abilene
Aig
W. A. Stewman
Abilent Cafe
Brith
Herg
Werespectiverer
Ent
Dali
Cigarettes Available by Cartons Across New York
New York shoppers greeted a wartime order to curb cigarette purchases with relief as cigarets became available by carton. Army plans to limit purchases to 24 million packs per four months starting V J Day prompted signs in tobacco shops offering any brand at 1.70 dollars a carton.
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Carta
Reagan
Army
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