First Essex-class carrier launches at Newport News
The 23,000-ton Essex, first of a new carrier class, slides down the ways at Newport News Shipbuilding. Sponsor L. Gates, wife of the secretary of the navy for air, will christen the ship. The vessel will carry 75 to 80 planes and at least 16 five inch guns.
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Norfolk
U. S
Essex
America
Pearl Harbor
Newport Newstower
Myer
L. Gates
Ieast
Navy
Air
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drynck Company
Lexington
Coral Sea
Sara
Fega
Enterprise
Hornet
Yorktown
Solons Study Meat Shortage Probe Demands
Congress examined calls for a five member committee to probe meat shortages and possible rationing. The inquiry would review shipments, production costs, livestock prices, pricing ceilings, slaughtering effects, cattle for market, and lend lease meat exports amid military and domestic demand. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers led the measure amid reports of shortages in New England.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Edith Nourse Rogers
R-Mass
Fiverman
New England
Navy Plans Expansion with 14 000 Ton Carriers and 25 000 Ton Class
The report notes additional 14 000 ton carriers Wasp and Ranger as part of a build-up after congressional action. Ten more carriers authorized, adding 500 000 tons, will follow the Essex in the 25 000 ton class including ships named Bon Homme Richard Intrepid Krarsatge Frankils Hancock Ran.
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Wasp
Mediterranean
Ranger
Congress
Essex
Bon Homme Richard
Intrepid
Krarsatge
Frankils
Hancock
Ran
Essex Named for Historic Vessels in Royal Navy Line
The Essex, with keel laid April 28, 194], honors three famed earlier ships in naval history and continues a tradition alongside Cabot, Bunker Hill, Oriskany, and Ticonderoga.
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Dolph
Cabot
Bunker Hill
Oriskany
Ticonderoga
Essex
Eight of Family In Nursing Service Leads War Effort
The Toilettes of 155 Astor Street show a large nursing and defense effort. Eight family members serve as nurses or defense workers, with two in army nursing, one heading a clinic, and Mary Ethel set to join the army after May graduation. Additional daughters and sons work in defense, with homes in Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston.
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Wid
John J. Toilette
Astor Ghrect
Red Cross
Somerset
Tho
Mary Ethel
Tollettes
Harold Massey
Walter Zurz
Grace Tollette
Army
Agnes
Evelyn Tollette
Charles E. Grant
Geraldine Tollette
Nina ‘Tollette
Horace J
W. P. Tollette
Galveston
Anna Crofton
Dallas
Joe Bassolli
San Antonio
Ghost Man Arrested After Nine Months Hidden in Attic
In Denver a man identified as Matthew Cornish, 59, confessed to fatally beating Peter Peters, 18, during a burglary last October. He fled to a spider’s nest high in the victim’s attic, surviving on scraps until neighbors reported “ghosts were walking” inside the house.
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Denver
Ins
Tan
James BE. Childers
Pau Peter
Apt
Matthew Gomish
Tonawanda
Cornish
Childers
Peters
Iman
March Hens First Cadet To Nll Wife Class Finishes
New York reports Mrs Antoinette Brasquies wins a round in her separation suit against Gabriel Brasquies after World War II era raids. She is awarded 7500 weekly alimony pending trial.
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Mar Hens
New York
R.A. F
Germany
Antoinette Brasquies
Cologrte
London Air Raid Kills Resident During Night Defense
Londoners faced new anti aircraft barrages as heavy shells struck a home killing one man and injuring a woman during an early morning attack. Amid wartime notices a San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center graduation will award diplomas Saturday morning to 12 local residents with Maj. Gen. H. R. Harmon to review and present.
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London
San Antonio
SAACG
Harvey W. Prosser
Kelly Field
Col
Hlanton T. Smith
Brooks
Arthur F. Hubbard
Themaa A. Rousse
Paul A. Henshaw
Harvey FP
Tsehibiart
Samuel C. Bwearlinen
William C. Davis
Jack 8 Millard
Roy W. Annwood
Charles D. Hieronymus
Samuel L. Fly
Johomas J. Mitchel
Jacob B. Hornberger
Germans Capture U S Ship Captain
A German submarine captured the captain of an American ship and held him as a prisoner of war after the vessel sank in the western Atlantic. The loss included the Brazilian freighter Famendare, raising submarine sinkings in the area to 44, with survivors recounting pleas as the U boat fired torpedoes.
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AAS Adr Lariat
Navy
U. S
Atlante
Famendare
Bragditin
Associatedress
Tnifflelay
Sutvivora
South Atlantic
Dient
Ifeheath
Summarine
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Eciema
W. M. Donovan
Brooks Fields
Solons
Sair
Meg
Frametecs
Wek Coigeleun
Wade Excello Mats So
Larawrans Windsors
Athene
Wwerts
Houston ST
Dia
John Tollette
ASTOR
Usk
Walter Kurz
Agnes Tollette
C. E. Grant
Geralding
Mary Abhel Tollette
Family In Nursing
Attic
U.S
Checy
Aria
Ritz
Mabisco
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