Gripsholm Repatriates Welcome Home at New York Harbor
Amid cheers and songs, 1 236 Americans and 221 Canadians repatriated from Japanese internment camps aboard the Gripsholm passed the Statue of Liberty and docked in New York. Government and Red Cross teams prepared aid as relatives awaited clearance and transport, with many in need of clothing and assistance.
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Red Cross
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Far Hast
Group to Develop Musical Genius in American Youths
Articles of incorporation filed in Colorado outline the Franz Liszt Foundation of America to foster musical talent in young Americans and train future concert artists. Jon P. James asserts the aim is early identification and training of potential geniuses to benefit the public as they mature.
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Franz Liszt Foundation of America
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Americas
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Victoria Crosses Awarded Ghurkas Who Brave Death
British India Gurkhas win two Victoria Crosses for courage in Burma and North Africa. Havildar Gaje Ghale led a platoon in a brutal assault on a well defended Japanese position in the Chin hills, rallying men after wounds and heavy fire to seize the hill, then consolidating under fire. Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa earned his VC at Wadi Akarit in fighting the Afrika Korps.
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Green Island students track jeep campaign votes
At Heatly School in Green Island a thermometer by freshman Richard Stoliker records votes for high school alumni in the armed forces who might sponsor equipment from the triple threat campaign. Students pledged to buy War Bonds to fund a flying jeep by December 7 and have raised 6,298.70 overall with 1,025.55 raised Monday. Final votes show Cunningham leading with 7,724, Banit 7,512, Yakes 2,060, Johnson 1,697, Carter 1,678, English 1,312, Volz 724, Paul 589.
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Heatly School
Richard Stoliker
Richard Cunningham
Bohdan Banit
George Yakes
Arthur Johnson
Thomas Carter
Leo English
James Volz
John Paul
Auxiliary Will Elect at December Meeting in Webster Bailey
The Webster-Bailey Auxiliary Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will elect officers at its December 13 meeting. No nominating committee exists. nominations will be made from the floor. An avatar would break his wrist if he stole his hand from a plane traveling 400 miles an hour.
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Webster-Bailey Auxiliary
Sons of Union Veterans of the
Solar House May Cut Winter Heat From Sun Light
The living room of a postwar solar house may remain warm without coal as sunlit heat is trapped by multiple glazed windows with dehydrated air between panes and a metal seal. Illinois Institute of Technology tests sponsored by Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. found the solar heat equaled one twentieth of a ton of coal on sunny winter days.
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Ilinois Institute of Technology
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co
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