Sailor Returns From Long Deployment For Belated Honeymoon
Storekeeper First Class Jack Speckels, 22, of 1411 Nelan Street, is on a 20 day leave in San Antonio with his wife Doris Boethels. The couple married two years ago but a three day leave delayed their honeymoon until now. Speckels wore campaign ribbons with stars for major battles and has never been wounded. He served on a cruiser in the Atlantic and later an aircraft carrier in the Pacific and General theaters.
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Jack Syeckels
Nelan Street
San Antonio
Iis
Doris Boethels
Speckers
Marshall Islands
Speckel
Speckels
Mary Tin
Atlantic
General
South Pacific
Labor leaders reveal wartime equipment shortages in Paris reports
Chicago August 26 A F L C IO delegation visiting European battlefields disclosed to the war department a report listing critical shortages in trucks and transit gear, heavy shells, cannons, mortars, tanks, tents, and cotton quick for troop housing. President Green urged speedier production and warned against delays. The text also mentions Hawaiian origin of the islands formed by volcanic activity.
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Ghicago
War Department
WAFL
William Green
Waa
A. PF
Executive Council
Chicago
S A Nurse In France
Second Lieutenant Catherine K. Daves, Army nurse and daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Kener, now serves at an evacuation hospital in France. A Ursuline Academy and Santa Rosa alumna, her early assignments included Trellan prison camp near Florence Arizona and Fort Rosencrans Georgia before heading to England and then France after D day. Her sister Mia Margaret Kramer Carter resides in Le Mesa California.
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Catherine K. Daves
Cars
X Town
Kener
France
Ursuline Academy
Santa Rose
Trellan
Florence
Ariz
Fort Rosencrans
Gaul
England
de Day
San Ailentaris
Mia
Margaret Kramer Carter
Yves
le Mesa
Calif
Ungirded Gals to Give Up War Time Frills
Wartime shortages altered women’s fashion with stockings girdles and other items scarce. Postwar plans spark questions on return to prewar dress as informality grows hats fade and wardrobe casualties linger in memory.
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Vitler
Crosby Arrives in London to Entertain Allied Troops
The British radio reports Hing Crosby has arrived in London to entertain Allied troops in the European theater. The broadcast hints at postwar fashion shifts with stockings and hats anticipated within fifty days.
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Geosay
London
New York
ING
British Radio
Hing Crosby
Elf
War Mothers and Dads to Hear Carroll
A joint meeting of United War Mothers and American Way Dads is scheduled for Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the west wing of the Municipal building. C. W. Carroll of the Universal Bookbindery will speak on What About the Future of Our Returning Veterans. S. Rarl Mn y will introduce Carroll. All parents with sons or daughters in the service are invited.
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United War Mothers
American Way Dads
P.m
Municipal Architectun
C. W. Carroll
Universal’ Bookbindery Company
S. Rarl Mntheny
Carroll
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Sailor
Sack Speckels
Ihiege
Hawaiian Islands
S.A
Katherine Daves
Louise Major Tan
Milady
Ming
Sears
Sears Savings
Enbron
Seara
Sears, Roebuck and
Vippera
Govdr Manies
SAN Antonio Transit Company
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