U S Shows Fiery New War Weapons
A wartime display by a U S chemical warfare unit featured a gel gas flame thrower with fuel that fires farther than liquid systems, incendiary bombs that scatter fire up to 100 yards, and a smoke projector creating a fog to cover troops. The devices, weighing around 12 pounds per bomb and packed in clusters of 60, were demonstrated alongside a jelly gasoline flame thrower effective to 100 feet. Ancient pitch was cited as a historical parallel.
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Bayway
Sun Jose
Taal Cary
Line Chemical Warfare
ABO
Trinity Classes Draw San Luis Potosi Course Lineup
Deadline for summer courses at Trinity University in San Luis Potosi is July 1. Programs run July 17 to August 26 offering Spanish conversation Mexican history folklore archaeology drama and music. Students meet at Lhrade on July 27 then travel by Pullman to San Luis Potosi. Hermosa Vista mansion with pool and tennis court provides five living quarters. Entertainment includes visits to old and new Spanish homes government buildings cathedrals markets and places of interest.
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Trinity University
San Luis Potosi
Lhrade
Pullman
Hermosa Vista
No Wall Literature on Nazi Newsstands
A Rus sian Tassels agency dispatch from Zurich reports neutral arrivals saying that Atlantic Wall books pamphlets and pictures have vanished from German bookshops and newsstands since the Allied invasion of Normandy. They were withdrawn on instructions of the propagandists to suppress material tied to the fortifications.
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Moscow
Russlan Tassews Agency
Zurich
Switzerland
Geredning
Randolph Captain Gets Job Done
Ospt. Robert L. Jackson of Lubbock used West Texas pragmatism to solve a Randolph field weight scale shortage. He converted portable warehouse scales into flight line devices, creating three scales that handle planes up to 800 pounds for under $200, instead of $4000 for regulation units, easing training operations.
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Robert L. Jackson
Lubbock
West Texas
Randolph Field
Nis Brovlem
Jackson
Soldier Alive After 90-Ft Fall in Truck
Soldier Ray S Madison 34 of Fort Knox Ky is in critical condition at St Marys hospital after a 90 foot plunge from a truck on the Douglas Mace Arthur bridge over the Mississippi River. He was conscious after the crash but suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries.
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East ST. Louis
Pet
Ray S.madison
Fort Knox
St. Mary's Hospital
Douglas MaceArthur
Mississippi River
White Star Insignia Shown Across Allied Forces
Supreme Headquarters announces the white star insignia is the symbol of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Normandy. The emblem appears on Allied machines and uniforms and should not be confused with any single nation’s insignia or the U S army designation.
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Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
Pilot Morgan Hero Revealed Safe After Germany
New York dispatch reports Johnny Red Morgan Fortress pilot, who guided a wounded crewmate to bail out over Germany, is safe and a prisoner in a Nazi war camp. The tale began after a shell severed the top turret crewman’s arm, Morgan ordered the gunner to jump to save him, and the crewman survived in German hands. Morgan’s mission is noted as completed before capture.
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New York
INS
Johnny “Red” Morgan
Germany
Wissing
Morgan
A. L. Morgen
Considine
Bob Donaldine
International News Service
Tyre C. Weaver Jr
Riverview
Ala
Hannover
Weaver
Yanks Find Wooden Bullets in German Munition Dump
American Rangers in Normandy report capturing a German ammo dump with boxes of hundreds of large explosive wooden bullets. They noted the projectiles were 50 caliber or larger though claimed the Germans used metal air craft rounds against them. The unit describes nearby German snipers and a captured German medic who aided wounded troops.
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Hal Boyle
Twenty-First Army Group
Normandy
Red Courage Under Fire Earns Medal of Honor
Red fought through crippling injuries and unconscious crew to complete a bombing run. He returned to Britain through swarms of German fighters, forever guiding his ship by unloading the dead pilot from the controls. Medal of Honor awarded for the act.
Inter-American conference on education at Incarnate Word College
A three day Inter-American conference on educational problems will be held at Incarnate Word College in June 1921. It is organized in cooperation with the Office of the Co-Ordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Speakers include Archbishop Robert E. Barry and Dr L A Woods state superintendent of education.
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Incarnate Word College
Robert E. Barry
L. A. Woods
Tireman
Confab on Latin American Studies Held at University
Mrs Pauline Kibbe executive secretary of Good Neighbors commission of Texas and Dr George C Engerrand specialiste in ethnology of Latin American peoples with Paul W Pinckney from the U S office of education attended a conference on Inter American curriculum problems at the University of New Mexico and University of Texas.
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University of New Mexico
Pauline Kibbe
Good Neighborscommission of Texas
George C. Engerrand
University of Texas
Paul W. Pinckney
U.S. Office of Education
Reynolds Scores On Nazis In England Air Action
First Lieut Gardner H Reynolds of San Antonio assisted in enemy air and ground actions in England and Germany. He helped destroy a Nazi plane on the ground damaged one himself and aided in shooting up four more. He also split two enemy locomotives with other pilots and delivered blows to another steam engine. Reynolds was commended by Lieut Col John B Herry Jr of Charlotte. His wife Paula lives in San Antonio at 219 Charles Road.
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England
Germany
Gardner H. Reynolds
San Antonio
Reynolds
Little Joe
John B. Herry Jr
Charrottle
Paula
Charlea Road
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Gypsy Rose Lee
Ant Garter
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A. D. Zucht
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