Representative Asks Probe of Courts Martial
Washington May 39 The two year sentence given a soldier for punching German prisoners led to calls for a congressional investigation of all courts martial punishments since Pearl Harbor Representative Barry D N Y proposed a special five member committee to study the issue Barry joined others in Congress who protested the two year term for Pvt Joe McGee Worcester Mass The Navy had suspended a 21 year court sentence voided the dishonorable discharge and returned him to active duty after House leaders and Barry voiced disapproval McGee allegedly struck prisoners who refused to work Other lawmakers Fulton Patton protested excess punishments and spoke of strict military discipline in the Pacific war context
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Barry
D-N. Yo
House
Navy
Avere
Congress
War Department
Joe McGee
Worcester
Mass
France
Department
McGee
McCormack
Massachusetts
Chinese Girls With Yanks Draw Hoots
Chungking May 29 Gen Ilo Yan Gisu mayor of Choneling condemned crowds in Chungking for disrespect toward Chinese girls seen with Americans. An embassy official cited a crowd following and shouting insults as he escorted a Chinese girl home. Ho warned misunderstandings and rumors risk hurting Sino American friendship and cautioned against interpreting every association as evil.
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Chungking
Ilo Yan Gisu
Choneling
Toding
U.S
Plans for more meat for Americans through production and distribution
Washington May 29 Urges abundant production and better distribution to widen meat access. Anderson, soon to head agriculture and the war food program, says beef and pork output rival prewar levels. He cites higher demand and armed forces needs as factors. He proposes channeling more meat to groceries and restaurants to ease shortages.
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Washington
Tood
Anderson
D-N. M
Aericulture
OPA
IT SAYS HERE If Bob Hope grows a garden of jokes
A humorous column by Bob Hope spoofing garden life and weather woes. The narrator muses on quirky garden mishaps from beetles to radium coverings, jokes about radish and lettuce care, and compares cold spells to Pittsburgh lights. Includes a note about radio frost warnings.
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Bob Hope
Tolluce
King Features Syndicate, Inc
New Earl to Return to Civil Engineering
London May 29 The London Daily Mail quotes the new Earl Lloyd George saying his father did not leave the estate to his son because the latter refused to enter politics. The new Earl Major Richard Lloyd George plans to return to his civil engineering profession. Details of the late prime minister’s will remain undisclosed. He is reputed to have a personal fortune around 4 million dollars.
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Earl
London
London Daily’ Mail Today
Earl Lloyd George
Richard Loyd George
Lloyd George
Hospital Ship Back In Home Harbor
The navy hospital ship Confort returned to Los Angeles harbor after a Japanese attack off Okinawa. A suicide pilot rammed the ship, inflicting 31 deaths, 69 injuries, and 500 battle casualties. The vessel bears the starboard scar as evidence of Japanese savagery.
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Wilmington
Calif
Confort
Los Angeles Harbor
Okinawa
Guam
Navy Officer Praises Read Transfer to South Pacific Post
Ensign Allen O Read of the coast guard praised by a Navy officer after his transfer to One South Pacific. He wrote to former associates at the San Antonio YMCA, noting the Honolulu YMCA Mac and the Panama City facility as bright spots for surviving men in the Canal Zone.
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Ensign Allen O. Read
Coast Guard
South Pacific
Ims
San Antonio City
M.S
Honolulu
Y. Mac. 4
Panama City
Canal Zone
Nesneid
Widow Receives Posthumous Bronze Star for Lieut Schockman
The Bath Infantry's First Lieut. Wake TD Schockman was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, presented to his widow Mrs. Winifred Schockman of 26 West Woodlawn Ave. by Brig. Gen. G.O. K. Nulsen at Fort Sam Houston. The citation credits his daylight patrol leadership near Mt. Carano in Italy and his courageous actions under enemy fire that aided the patrol's mission. Also honored posthumously is Pvt. Louis Bevere of the 3201st Infantry Regiment, 84th Division, died December 25, 1944 in Belgium. his widow Mrs. Frances Benare received the medal from Brig. Gen. G. C. K. Nulsen. Bevere is described as an ammunition bearer and later gunner, noted for his standalone initiative under fire and devotion to duty.
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Wake TD. Schockman
Bath Infantry Division
Winifred Schockman
West
Woodlawn Avenue
GO. K. Nulsen
Air Fort Sam Nouttan
Schockman
Mt. Carano
Italy
Rome
Pvt
Louis Bevere
Belgium
Frances Benare
East
Olmos Drive
CG. K. Nulsen
Sam Hotston
Sandra
Edward .Beldinger
Toledo
Ohio
Shiter
Frederick Miller
Columbus
Ohia
Ermore
Lieut Wise's Body Sent to South Carolina Home
First Lieut William L Wise overseas veteran killed in a swimming accident near Bandera. The 36 month Europe service man was sent to Kinhan town Greenwood SC for burial according to Fort Sam Houston officials. He reported to the Houston redistribution center Saturday and had visited a guest ranch with his brother Robert Douglas Wise. The officer apparently dived into shallow water and struck his head as another swimmer stumbled over the body.
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William L. Wise
Bandera
Kin Han
Greenwood
S. C
Portal
Fort Sant Houston
Europe
Mar Sri Houston
Hig Beather
iFirst Steut
Robert Douglas Wise
Flier Crawls Miles to Reach Aid After Plane Crash
Staff Sgt. D. R. Gutierrez, 35, surviving a snowstorm crash, crawled five miles to reach aid. Readings show he was the sole surveyor aboard the plane, rescued by a Frenchman who provided first aid. Gutierrez, son of Mr and Mrs Oiprany Gutierres, lived on Cecelian street, served in England with the Lighthale force, and married the former Belly Hopkins before traveling to Palm Springs via San Antonio.
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D. R. Gutierrez
Prance
Torney General Hospital
Palme Springs
Calif
Guierres
Oiprany Gutierres
Cecelian Street
England
Almout
Belly Hopkins
Wits County
Palm Bprings
San Antonio
Capt Salle Rites Planned for Captain John M Ballec Jr
Memorial services are planned for Captain John M Ballec Jr who was killed in action on May 13 aboard Minadoro island in the Philippines. He served as a flight test pilot with an air service squadron and had earlier fought in New Britain New Guinea and Borneo. Survived by wife Nanette Anderson Sullee and sister Mrs Erwin Baird plus grandmother Mrs A Crall.
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John M. Ballec Jr
John Sallee Sy
Read
Minadoro Island
Philippines
Nanette Anderson Sullee
Miireapolis
Miain
Ballee
Oneircer Toy
Air Service
Adam, Cral
San Antonio
Casualties 21 War Wounded 2 Missing In Action
Army and Navy release lists casualties from San Antonio area. numerous wounded and missing in action across European and Pacific theatres. Names include Henry Jenkins Corpus Christi and Pablo Avila Sonora, with others from San Antonio Harlingen Beeville and Browntown, detailing ranks and spouses.
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Navy
Army
Office of War Information
San Antony and
Vicinry
Henry J. Jenkins
Baker
Mary Virginia Jenkins
Corpus Christi
Charles A. Kelly
John A. Kelly
Harlingen
Donate R. Kellly
US 8
Nevtile R
Isidro V. Meza
Brownavine
Clyde Bennet
Upton
Seaman Fratins
Lorene Hazel
Freer
Pablo G. Avila
Theodora Avila
Sonora
I Staté
Gerald Z. Maecker
Stella Haecker
Astor Street
San Antonio
Rodalto Ybarra
Consuela S. Ybarra
Hidalgo Street
Pacific
Pic
Manuel G. Aleman
Eusebia T. Aleman
Los Fresivas
Johny J. Bonavich
Peter Bonavich
Cody Street
Gabriel
William W. Sutherland
Delphine A. Sutherland
Rosenberg
Germany
Ignacio G. Trevino
Rebecca G. Treving
Bal
Benite
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