Vets Offer Training Plan for Universal Military Service
National Commander Dan V. Walker announced a model bill for universal military training at the California Department convention of the Disabled American Veterans. The plan outlines six points including enrollment from age 18, a three to four month basic training period, and completion through National Guard Organized Reserve Army Navy Air Force ROTC or regular military posts with few exemptions.
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San Francisco
Dan V. Walker
California
Natonal Guard
Organized Reserve
Army
Navy
Air Force R.ovt.c
Pauley Urges Reparations Guided by Weaker Nations
Edwin W. Pauley declared that reparations exacted from Japan should be distributed to aid weaker nations rather than satisfy the claims of great powers. He urged a justice based approach to postwar reparation funds.
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Manila
Edwin W. Pauley
Japan
Shaw Urges Truman to Pardon Conscientious Objectors
George Bernard Shaw signed a petition to President Truman urging a pardon for all conscientious objectors. Dorothy Canfield Fisher said 22 British writers joined the call, with Bertrand Russell Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliot among signers.
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New York
INS
George Bernard Shaw
Truman
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Committee For Amnesty
Bertrand Russell
Arthur Kostler
T. S. Eliot
Apartment Blast Kills Woman in Fifth Floor NY Apt
New York police say Betty Oullette, 30, was killed when a blast wrecked her fifth floor apartment at 310 East 55th Street. The gas range jets were reportedly open and a fire started but was extinguished, leaving the victim found in a bathrobe on a couch.
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New York
Betty Oullette
E. 55Th St
Cullette
Quilette
Sloop Overturns I Escapes 4 Drown In Lake Michigan Tragedy
Patsy Smith 18 daughter of Leather Smith, a major Great Lakes shipbuilder, survived after seven hours in icy Lake Michigan when a sloop overturned. She said her father Leather Smith 60 and three others Alvin Washburn Howard Hunt Mary Loomis drowned.
Rescued Babe in Woods Getting Along Swell in Ark
Eight year old Katherine Van Alco of Kansas City was found after a six day search in Devil's Den State Park Arkansas. She survived on berries and water slept in caves and was brought to Fayetteville hospital in good condition. Porter Chaddick a war veteran helped locate her and she greeted him with thanks. The family planned to return home once she can travel and celebrate their 25th anniversary in the park.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Katherine van Alco
Kansas City
Devil's den Stite Park
Falls Creek
Arkansas
Bang
John van Alst
Park Cabin
Katherine
Com. Gully
Aurnee
University of Arkansas
Porter Chaddick
Pine Bluff
Chaddick
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Hotel
Syracuse
Henry M. Files
Gen. Agr. and Associates
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Sears. Roebuck & Co
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