Night in German Town Reveals Allied Wakeup
Drs. Frank Knapp Jr and Chaplain Edmond Lynn drove Army chaplains into a small German village late in WWII. They woke to find the town still under German control as an American reconnaissance party advanced nearby. This European Theater dispatch recounts their overnight misdirection and the morning realization.
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Frank Knapp, Jr
European Theater of Operations
Cpl. Knapp
Edmond R. Lynn
Hettinger
N .D
Unblock Your Digestive Tract with Carter's Pills
An old ad promotes Carter's Pills as a solution to indigestion by unblocking the intestinal tract rather than using soda or alkalizers. It claims the real issue lies in digestion within the intestines and promises gentle cleansing to restore natural digestion, with a 25 cent price and drugstore availability.
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Nature
Carter
Town Surrenders as 76th Infantry Invades
A dispatch from Europe identifies the force as the 76th Infantry Division and places the action near Wiederau. Local youth and a chaplain had sheltered with Russian slave laborers, believing Yank forces held the town, until the surrender was observed from within the town gates.
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Europe
76Th Infantry Division
Wiederau
Feigley Begins 30 Day Furlough After 30 Missions
Bob Feigley a Staff Sgt in the Army Air Forces is home on a 30 day furlough after completing thirty missions on B 24 Liberators over Germany with no injuries. He visits his mother at 913 Chestnut street in this city. An engineer gunner with eight months overseas and 20 months in the Army he holds the Air Medal with four clusters the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star Medal. He formerly worked in the machine shop at Fairchild before enlistment and expects a transfer soon to a B 29 as an engineer gunner.
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Bob Feigiley
Germany
Mary Feigley
Chestnut Street
Europe
Army Air Forces
Feigley
Fairchild
Army
Pangborn Joins Committee for Civil Service Region
Thomas W Pangborn has been named a member of a committee to assist the Civil Service Commission in its fourth region. It aims to obtain qualified government administrative officers and utilize returning veterans. The region includes Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Other members include Floyd Akers Henry B Treide Harry C Byrd Charles P McCormick Frank T de Vyver Paul De Buford Carl M Frasure J G Holtzclaw and George M Ivey.
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Thomas W. Pangborn
Civil Service Commission
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
District of Columbia
Civil Service
Floyd DC. Akers
Washington
Henry B. Treide
Harry C. Byrd
University of Maryland
Charles P. McCormick
Baltimore
Frank T. de Vyver
Duke University
Paul Dc. Buford
Roanoke
Carl M. Frasure
West Virginia University
J. G. Holtzclaw
Richmond
George M. Ivey
Charlotte
N.C
Germans uncover radium treasure in Bavarian mountains
A joint American and German science party located Germanys entire radium supply in the Bavarian mountains. The buried cache weighed 21 1 10 grams and was valued at $2,000,000, according to Dr Karl Frederick Weiss who asserted it represented the full German radium stock.
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Bad Tolz
Germany
Bavarian
Karl Frederick Weiss
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