U S Prisoners in Axis Camps to Get Smokes
Washington May 1 United States prisoners and civilian internees held in Germany and Japan will receive tobacco packages every 60 days under a War Production Board plan. Each 60 day allotment includes two gift bundles with three cartons of cigarettes or 32 two ounce packages of tobacco or 100 cigars or about 24 ounces of chewing tobacco. Smaller mixes not accepted. A prisoner will receive two tobacco labels every two months to be used by the relative or recipient and mailed with funds to a tobacco manufacturer who sends the tobacco direct to the prisoner.
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War Production Board
Japan
Count Treet
Darby
Philadelphia Phillies
Boston ‘Braves
Hommel
San Antonio
Vino's
Africa
Jatin W. Dielmann
Henry
Dielmann
S.A
Robert M. Condaty
San Diego
Calif
B.D
Jotka
Rodriguez
A Letter From Home Brings News To APO Readers in May
The Light Staff salutes subscribers who send letters to soldiers in the APO network. Readable notes from San Antonio tide a current of home front updates, mix humor with resolve, and promise fresh mail to troops abroad. Updates cover Tunisia front reports, city politics, WAACs in training, and local letters from service members.
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Geronimo Gertrude
APO
Fellows
Pollygrenna
Diill
Tunisia
Reiter
San Antonio
Old City
Ration crackdown hits town gas stations
OPA this week cracked town on filling stations found violating gas proline rationing, suspended operations at three for from 10 days to three weeks. Pete Onton was happy after capturing three hives of beer to make up for the one that got away. Ration headline of the week notes Bean Loaf Is Sturdyish as sugar rationing raises concern.
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OPA
Dudge John
Pete Onton
Legion Leader Calls Lewis Dictator in Speech in Indianapolis
American Legion national executive committee moves to adopt resolutions denouncing John L. Lewis as a dictator. Rasne Waring cites wartime desertion by coal miners and Nazi threats, calls for unity among Allied forces, praises British troops in Africa, and warns of high costs to achieve victory.
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Rasne Waring
John L. Lewis
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America
Smade
Berlin
Waring
Hawaii
Far East
North Africa
Alled Armies
Africa
Noell
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Asien
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Rye
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