Texas Gave Big Bend Park Deed to U S
Alpine September six ceremony transferred ownership of about 700000 acres of Big Bend to the federal government with Governor Goke R Stevenson and M R Tillotson saying the move will foster good will with Mexico. Mexican officials attended and a future cross border park was hinted at as a symbol of unity.
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Alpine
Big Bend National Park
Mexico
Goke R. Stevenson
M. R. Tillotson
National Park Service
Ojinaga
Rio Grande
United States
Luis Duplan
Austin
Texas
Tillotson
Secretary of the Interior
Big Bend
Raymond Dillars
Mexia
J. D. Sandofer
Breckenridge
Wendell
West Coast Labor Controls Tighten Production Plans
Washington reports government orders to curb manpower shortages in West coast aircraft and shipbuilding plants. By presiding War Mobilization Director Byrnes outlines Septem ber 15 effective controls with potential expansion, including worker transfers and production schedule mapping by the War Production Committee to secure vital war items and avert idle capacity.
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Washington
Damts F. Byrnes
Byrnes
WMG
East Indies Raid Largest of War
Liberator bombers of the 16th U S Army Air Force completed one of the war’s largest combat flights. B 24s flew about a 2000 mile round trip from India to Car Nicobar and back to strike westernmost Japanese possessions in the East Indies. The raid was likened to the Ploesti operation in Romania last month.
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EW Uelnt
INS
Army Air Force
Car Nicobar Island
East Indies
Ploesti Oli Fields
Rumania
Marigny Keeps Busy in Cell in Bahamas Prison
Alfred de Marigny, held on suspicion of murdering his father in law Sir Harry Oakes, conducts farm business from his Nassau cell. His 19 year old wife Nancy says he runs a chicken farm, consults with Eddie H. Cadet, and plans poultry operations while awaiting trial. De Marigny reads, writes letters, exercises, and tightens farm plans alongside attorney Godfrey Higgs.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Nancy
Eddie H. Cadet
Godfrey Higgs
de Marigny
Hast Bay
Yank Tells Creed In Account Book
DENVER Sept 6 The last item written in the household account book of Francis Reed a 48 year old furniture dealer with a wife and five children explains why there will be no more He kept a careful record of family finances and life Then when the war came he enlisted against his own plans He wrote I am leaving Denver tomorrow for parts unknown to serve my country and I feel sure I can be of more service in this crisis in the service than I can as a furniture man I still feel overjoyed that I am an American Yesterday the navy department informed Mrs Reed her husband nodded in the line of duty in the Southwest Pacific Marine area or theater
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Denver
Francis Reed
Reed
Navy
Lse
Navy Department
Female Jury Not New in Idaho
Twin Falls residents observed the state s first all woman jury under a new amendment. A six woman panel in Twin Falls 31 years ago convicted a woman defendant in a case over legal use of firearms during a farm property dispute.
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Idaho
Twin Falls
Jaano
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