Bexar Ration Board Seeks Volunteers For War Effort
The Bexar Ration Board calls for volunteer workers to assist returning veterans and families of convalescent soldiers. Applications for tires gasoline and food are being accepted at a rate of about 70 daily. Special windows open to handle ration requests. Volunteers will help process applications. few hours of work are appreciated.
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Bexar County Nation Board
By & Spires
Spires
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Shreveport to Get Wet Hospital Approved for City Gift
President Truman on Thursday approved construction of a new 440 bed veterans hospital in Shreveport Louisiana. The $1.6 million project will be on an eight acre site in the FortHoward area provided as a city gift. The Veterans Administration announced the plan. Kreisler Residence Destroyed in Berlin Raid Also reported, violinist Fritz Kreisler’s Berlin home was burned in the December 16 1942 Allied raid.
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Washington
Veterans’ Hospital A
Shreveport
Trumas
Thne Veterans. Administration
Fort Hombug
Kreisler
Berlin
Fritz Kreisler
Joint Funeral Services Set For Coupte
Joint funeral services will be held at Porter Loring chapel on Monday for Frederick Bygone Mills, 69, of San Antonio, and his wife Caroline Mills, 69, who died within a day of each other. Mills, a native of Illinois and World War I veteran, had lived in San Antonio since 1918 and is survived by a son, Frederick, a brother, Dr. Albert Mills, and sisters. Caroline Mills leaves a brother and two sisters, with a nephew, Col. E. W. Cowan of Fort Bliss, among others. Burial will be in Rose Jawaa Cemetery Park.
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Nave
Illinois
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Tawa
Radiant
Order of the Eastern Star
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Streeter, Ill
Milla
Albert Mills
Pearl
Eva Authstrong
Chicago
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Frank Vai Dalden
Monroe
G. B. Dodge
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Mary Schroer
Ie. W. Cowan
Fort Brits
Plane carrying British delegates missing on flight to London
A Liberator flying from Montreal to London with 15 passengers and crew aboard including Jilly G. London legal adviser to the British foreign office among the missing since Monday. The plane was returning personnel from the San Francisco conference and was reported missing by the air ministry.
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Jilly G
William Malkin
British Foreign Office
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Air Ministry
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San Francisco
Whaler Returns From War Treated Voyage With Cargo
Capetown July 41 The first whaling vessel to brave wartime peril has set sail for the United States with 146 000 barrels of whale oil. The 14 000 ton whaler Sir James Clark Ross named Ner scentinas has been at sea since last October on a voyage to the ant anti war zones between the United States and Europe.
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Majors Field to Be Inactivated July 15
Greenville dispatch reports Majors Field will be inactivated around July 15. General approval noted the training base will transfer personnel to other facilities as instructors and permanent staff prepare to depart.
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Frankie Returns From Overseas Tour
Frankie Singaran arrived today at Lacuardin Field on a transport coming from Casablanca after a six week USO tour of the Mediterranean theater. Comedy Pill Gilvers, a troupe member, arrived on the same line.
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Destroyer Survives 7 Deaths From Selfless Action
A prolonged battle near the Newcomb and Leutze sees seven Japanese planes attack two destroyers. Comdr Ira B McMillan of Fort Worth leads amid fires as crews fight back, rescue wounded, and keep ships afloat. Flames and smoke erupt as planes crash and wreckage trails the vessels.
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Paterson
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Grenade Blamed in Fire Death of Four in Massachusetts
Massachusetts fire officials were summoned to investigate a blaze at the Murphy home after an explosion from a hand grenade, killing four people: Mrs. Mirory Murphy 41, her daughters Jane 8 and Ann 3, and her brother Harry Dooley 3. The fire began early this morning.
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Public Health Urges Immediate Pigeon Culling in Philadelphia
Dr Rufoy Reeves of the Public Health department demanded that Philadelphia's pigeons be executed immediately. City council had set April 1 as the opening date for the entr e campaign, insisting the mating season end by then. Tests showed birds infected with disease causing paral fever and pneumonia germs.
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Otle
Vinson Named as Morgenthau Replacement in Washington Roundup
Washington Roundup reports possible Morgenthau successor among candidates led by War Mobilizer Fred Vinson. Truman signals major reshuffle with Hoberts resignation and broader cabinet changes linked to postwar treaties and UN security council posts. Senate actions loom over wartime agencies funding, FEPC, and U.N. charter ratification timing.
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Filipino man cured of stomach ulcers after Japanese mistreatment
Pacific scene report relays Anastacio Ramoran, a Filipino bedridden three years, who recovered after Japanese captors forced him to drink seawater and abused him. Rev. C. M. Periyr cites the story as evidence of divine aid, with Ramoran now working his rice fields.
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Plane Sighted in Snowbound Sierra Nevada Area
Visalia dispatch reports a search party with 31 pack animals moving into an isolated Sierra Nevada region after reports of a wrecked army plane sighting and possibly 12 bodies. Hammer Field officials sent researchers following youths' sighting near Mb Whitney in the west area.
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OPA Offices to Close at Noon on Saturdays
The Alexnt county ration board will close its offices at noon Saturdays starting this week. Fenner Heth, the strict OPA board official, announced the change due to a federal shift to a 44 hour work week impacting government employees.
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Fenner Heth
OPA
Strike Roundup Reports Wide Steel Mill Shutdowns
Strike actions halted the nations steel complex with the nation s second largest mill shutting Friday while Akron tire plants ramped up production. United Rubber workers returned to Goodyear plants after a 20 day strike. Republic Steel and Carnegie-Illinois segments faced stoppages. Coal, railroad, and newspaper unions also affected, paralyzing delivery and operations across several states.
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Two Navy Fliers Die in Training Plane Crash
Two Navy pilots were killed when their training planes collided near Mitchel Lake on Thursday night during a routine flight from Kings-William station. Authorities released few details as investigations proceed, with no identities yet announced. A third plane reportedly escaped unharmed.
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Government Secures Title to 303 Acres for Navy Hospital
Federal District attorney W R Smith Jr announced Friday that complete title and possession to 363 acres of land north of Austin, awarded in a condemnation suit, has been gained by the government. The city of Austin had purchased the property and would donate it to the Navy Department for a naval hospital.
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Pullmans For Civilians Cut 50 Percent
Washington reports civilian Pullman space will be reduced by at least half as redeployment proceeds ahead of schedule. About 3000 civilian Pullmans will be transferred to the military pool, with more than 50 percent of civilian space shifted as military needs rise. Col. J. Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation said some day coaches will also be reassigned to troops, citing impossible to supply all troop movement needs without warning.
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Senate Probes Travel Arrangements for Returning Veterans
Senate war investigating committee moved swiftly to investigate the assignment of day coaches to 520 veterans returning from war for a July trip from Boston to Camp Reale. Committee chair Mead said an immediate investigation would examine reports that veterans were crowded into tandem seating on the long journey.
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Dimes Stolen From Two Homes In Pountes Reports
Police received reports of burglaries at two residences. Bailey Reese on Ral Street noted pennies were taken after forced entry with a pass key. James B. Hunt of 337 West Rosewood Avenue reported $3 in dimes stolen from his home.
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Maj Stevens Fails to Visit Wife in New Canaan
New Canaan, July 6. Imogene Stevens, a glamorous sharpshooter linked to a fatal shooting, recounts bewilderment as her army paratrooper husband on furlough has not visited. She faces trial for slaying Albert Kovacs, mistaken for a burglar, in the home of neighbor Charles Milton. coroner notes a prior affair with Milton while her husband was overseas. Father George R Stevens Sr. resists posting $50,000 bail.
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No Matter What Kruschen Laxative Ad Promises Fast Relief
An old fashioned advertisement touts Kruschen Laxative with hyperbolic claims of quick relief. It emphasizes worldwide popularity with a figure of 245 million bottles sold, urges readers to regulate dosage and buy from druggists, promising double your money back if not satisfied.
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