Gripsholm Repatriates Put Ashore
Disembarkation of repatriates from the exchange aboard the Gripsholm continued slowly as officials expected all 128 remaining passengers to be aboard by nightfall. The ship docked with 682 detained in German camps. 534 were cleared after examinations, 19 sent to Ellis Island. Among those who left yesterday was Mrs Mathilda Metzl of Painesville Ohio, who had been in Europe since 1927 and lived with her Chicago dealer brother Robert Ehrick after her husband’s death.
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Versey City
N. O
Marcel
Painesville
Ohio
Europe
Robert Ehriick
Chicago
Caechasloy Vakin
British American Teamwork Cited at Rotary Meeting
Lieut. Gen. Edward F. Lascelles, retired New Zealand officer, spoke at the SS Anthony hotel stressing peace and prosperity through British American cooperation. A veteran of the Boer War and World War I, he now leads the New Zealand War Services association and advocates for a British war ton movement.
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Edward F. Lascelles
New Zealand
Rotary Club
SS. Anthony
Kitchener
Lascelles
London
Rotary
Institute of Inuwonaional
Health Office Keeps O'Brien Retains Manager With Pay Cut
Dr. Lewis C. Robbins, city health director, announced that O'Brien will be retained as business manager with a salary reduction of 50 dollars per month. He said all questions about O'Brien's connection with the board of health have been ironed out to the satisfaction of O'Brien, the board of health members, and himself, with a new salary of 300 dollars a month.
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Lewis C. Robbing
Friday Gald
Jack Perea
Health Department
Robbins
O'Brien
Board of Health
Board of Yours
War Chest of San Antonio elects new members
The War Chest of San Antonio and Bexar county will elect new members at its second annual meeting held at 9 a.m. on Thursday in the municipal auditorium.
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WAR Chest
Heara
War Chest of
San Antonio
Bexar County
Cdl
Purticipal
Medals for 35 wheelchair heroes arrive at Halloran Hospital
Thirty five returned prisoners of war in wheelchairs, via Gripsholm, held an open house at Halloran General Hospital. They wore maroon robes and medals for wounds and valor, greeting proud families as Col. Sumner Waite pinned Purple Hearts. Major Robert P. Post, ironical tales of escape and loss emerged, while Silver Star recipients and injured pilots recounted battles from Sicily to Tunisia. Families cried, band played America the Beautiful, and censors limited comments on German camps.
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Wey York
America
Gripsholm
Halloran General Hospital
Vheir
American Red Cross
Sumner Waite
Jong
Edmond Kennedy
Cambridge
Mass
Kennedy
Africa
Fair Pass
Post
Halloran
Philip E. Guter
Maplewood
N. Od
Lieut
jRobert ‘Young
Wooster
Obie
Tunis
Thunderbolt
Don Marshall
Bath
Maine
Ypres
Dim Seegars
Buford
Tunisia
Beegars
Elbory
Waiter
Germany
January Traffic Deaths Decline
Austin report shows twenty nine fewer persons killed in January 1944 than January 1943. State public safety department notes pedestrians and vehicle accidents contributed to total deaths. overall January 1944 figures indicate a decline amid fewer fatal incidents.
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Austin
State Department of Public Aatety
Tsargary
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