Shangri La Diary Excerpt Signals Escape After Crash
A WW II era diary recounts WAC Corporal Margaret W Hunstings della and two soldiers surviving a jungle crash in New Guinea after a 24 passenger army transport to a hidden valley. Five died in flames and two more died later. The diary serializes in The Light starting July 22 with daily installments.
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Southwest Pacific
Hidden Valley
New Guinea
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Margaret W Hunstings Della
Driver Held As Rapist in Houston Case
A man delivering a passenger to a Houston hotel was arrested after a 20 year old woman reported a violent sexual assault during a trip from Los Angeles. She identified the driver, provided the vehicle number and description, and stated she was coerced into submission before being abandoned on a city street.
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Los Angeles
Houston
Travel Bureau
Bob Garcia
Bureau
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Halifax Blasts Sink Munitions Depot in Nova Scotia
Daylight explosions rocked the Dartmouth Halifax area as Canadian naval munitions magazines near Bedford Basin detonated repeatedly. Civilians fled, 13 dead 12 injured and one missing. Evacuations affected about 10,000, with widespread damage and shattered windows across Halifax and Dartmouth.
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Casedian Navy
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Jetty Tire
Halifax
Bartmouth
St. John
N. B
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Seres
Dartmouth
Bedford Basin
Te Naval Depot
Scong
Talifax
Binat
32nd Division Marks 600th Day in Combat
The U S God Red Arrow division marks 600 days in combat tomorrow July 20 in the Philippines. Members of the division have fought at Huna Saidor Attape Morotai Leyte and Luzon and killed more than 32000 Japanese in Philippine campaigns. Under Maj Gen William Gutierrez they work to wrap up isolated pockets of Japanese resistance on northern Luzon.
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Manila
U.S
Huna
Saidor
Attape
Morotai
Leyte
Luzon
Southwest Pacific
Unter
William Gut
U S to Seize Houston Plant
Washington reports President Truman directed Petroxum Administrator Ickes to seize the Sinelate Rubber plant in Houston Texas after workers voted to strike and an emergency order cited a real immediate disruption to butadiene production for synthetic rubber.
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Washington
Tyumen
Petroxum
Ickes
Anyopera
Sinelate Rubber Company
Houston
Texas
Alltire
Who
Paris Black Market Café Diners Fined
Paris authorities fined diners at black market cafes for illegal dining. The crackdown, announced January 1, targeted operators and patrons including an ambassador, two judges, and 2000 Thanders, leading to about 300 cafe closures and broader market disruption.
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Sly
UIIS
Bix
Yants Sine
Laday
Arive
Ute
Hester
Motions in murder cases heard in Criminal District Court
District Attorney John R. Shoot filed motions in the Criminal District Court, with Judge Hy D. Barrow presiding, asking for dismissal or further action on 14 murder cases. Defendants face varied circumstances from self defense to lack of evidence, and rulings will await Judge W. McCrory after his vacation.
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John R. Shoot
Russell Wing
Criminal District Court
D. Barrow
Jourdahton
WW Mccrory
Mio
Ale
Becaien
Welteefonse
United States
Atorney
Military Leaders Plan for 17 More Months of War
Washington reports army and navy planners expect Japan to fight to end of 1946 with an unconditional surrender on reach. They plan clean up campaigns in China depending on Soviet entry and redeployments to support possible operations in the Pacific.
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Asia
Japan
Trimanis
U. S
Russia
Washington
Army
China
Berlin
Fittery
Bothery
Navy
Hehtan
State Department
Tokyo
Okinawa
Nazi Aries
Europe
Pacific
Chinal
Manchuria
Moscow
Far East
Baptists Plan Hospital in Los Angeles and Texas
Baptist leaders outline plans for a network of hospitals including a Los Angeles facility and a joint Texas project. Dr. Webb and Dr. Bristow advanced the program with the Southern and Texas Baptist conventions, aiming to expand postwar hospital capacity with new institutions in San Antonio and nearby areas.
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Inyiner
Narisons
Texas and
Southern Baptist Conventions
South
Elty
Nashville
Pansioh
Plazida and
Giltornia
Ax Sal Antonio
Franco Forms New Spanish Cabinet
Madrid dispatch reports Franco reshuffles the Spanish government forming a cabinet says Geneva officials and civilian church spokesmen influenced the lineup, including Don Juan and Falangists deemphasized. The aim is a preparative period before a new regime phase as Germany promises reforms. Governor Smith to speak at a trade meeting on motor transport’s wartime aid.
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Don Juan Mosarehtets
Catholic Church of Spain
Prac
Mmeanyahyte
Beverage Alcohol Output to Continue in War Era
Washington dispatch reports beverage alcohol production will continue during the war, with distilleries at 20 to 25 percent capacity. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson allocated 2,500,000 bushels of grain other than corn for this purpose. Industrial alcohol makers were allowed to test beverage alcohol during duty, as the policy shifts to ensure wartime needs.
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Washington
Aaust
Andersson
Anderson Grith
Adebo
Mexico Decorates Medal of Honor Vet
Sergeant M. Lopez from Brownsville Texas, Medal of Honor recipient, was awarded Mexico’s Medal of Defenders of the Republic at ceremonies yesterday at the tomb of Benito Juarez. Juarez’s death anniversary was observed as the event honored loyalty to sovereignty and democracy.
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Mexico
Dose M. Lopez
Brownsville
Texas
Benito Juarez
Juarez
Mazlallio
Hansburg
Kemi
Two More Annexations Proposed by City Council
Acting Mayor Anderson introduced two ordinances at the council meeting to annex Exposition Park and Willow Springs into the city limits. He noted the plan excludes distressed farmers, citing a separate recent ordinance involving Belgewood and County Commissioner Sam Anderson. The session also covered transit rerouting bids, a canceled swim pool bid turnout, and municipal officials away on other duties.
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Exposition Park
Willow Springs
Belgewood
Sam Anderson
Fisprragita
Belgium
Transit Company
North Side
Mauermann
Galvestan
Comn! Power! Miant Salt and ‘Tax Commission
Alfred Callaghan
New Gulf Storm Brews Near Texas Coast
A tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, about 260 miles east of Brownsville, is moving northwest at 10 to 12 mph. It is expected to strike between Port Arthur and Lake Charles Friday morning, bringing rain and gale winds to parts of Texas coast and Victoria Roexport if it veers farther south.
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Gulf of Mexico
Henry Jartae
Thursiday Toming
Brownsville
Abow
Preeport
Lake Charles
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Gulf
Victoria
Roexport
San Antonis
Pore east San Antonio weather forecast brief
Pore east San Antonio and Vicinity: Partly cloudy Thursday afternoon night and Friday with a high near 98 Thursday. Lows around 40s. East Texas shows partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies with moderate to heavy showers and squalls near the coast. Winds rise to near gale force on the coast late Thursday night into Friday.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West Arc Worth
Air Sea Attack Continues Against Japan In Pacific Action
In a third day of air and sea assault, over 600 B 29s targeted Hacks and an oil refinery near Tokyo. Night bombardment near Nojima Point and Yokosuka involved cruisers Dayton Atlanta and others with destroyers Aull and Weeks. Allied planes and ships pounded coastal defenses as carrier raids expanded, wrecking numerous vessels and factories. continued attacks suggest looming invasion pressure.
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Imperial Palace
Nojima Point
Iran
Onosuka Naval Base
Tokyo Bay
Hulsey
Japan
Holden
Gapan
Palny
Boso Peninsula
Tokyo Hay
Yopeka
Oklahoma City
Atlanta
Dayton
Aull
John W. Weeks
Yokosuka Naval Yard
Hanshi Island
Wagan
Bootlegging Suspects Linked to Sugar Stamp Fraud
Alcohol tax unit and OPA investigators here tracked a bootlegging ring involved in tampering sugar stamps. Of 13 000 stamps checked locally, more than 6 percent were counterfeit, higher than other areas. Counterfeit stamps traced to bootleggers in Mississippi and Georgia, possibly used in Texas. A team including Louis Lang and Paul Rathbone worked to ferret out the ring. misprint stamps showed a common defect, the triangle inverted from its official design.
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Alcohol Tax Unit
OPA
Phursiay
Alvin Stewart
Federut Alcohoal
Mont
Stewart
Mississippi
Georgia
Texas
Baye Weel
Exes
Louis~iang
Mississipoi
Paul Rathbone
Ue Sin
Antonio Disliclh
William Dobbins
CFA
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