Army Officer Beaten Into Coma With Two-By-Four
A detailed report recounts the brutal treatment of American and Filipino prisoners during the Bataan death march and subsequent camps. Dyess, Mellvik, and McCoy describe starvation, beatings, forced marches, river of bodies, and minimal water at Corregidor, Camp O’Donnell, and Cabanatuan.
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Dyess
Corregidor
McCoy
Melviik
Camp O'Donnell
Red Cross
Manila
Cabanatuan
Meilisk
Army
Navy
Japan
Myers Melvith
Army Navy and Marine Co.ps
Davao
Uni
Senatorial Battle Over Service Voting Bill Intensifies
Debates on a service voting measure pivot on whether the President should be a candidate. Senators Holman Chandler and Taft clash over attempts to shield military ballots from political advantage while discussing a compromise to speed absentee ballots to service members ahead of the November election. A Ball amendment seeks waiving state registration and expanding ballot accessibility with a 45 day prior mailing requirement and weight limits.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Luras
D-Ill
Holman
Lucas
Oregon
Congressional
Taft
Ohio
Chandler
White House
Secretaries of War and Navy
Ball
R-Minn
Zanelli Beats Jannazzo in Boston Ring Rematch
In a 10 round bout before 7852 at Boston Garden Zanelli, Rhode Island welterweight, outslugged Izzy Jannazzo of Brooklyn to gain a divided decision. Zanelli showed confidence after upset over Fritzie Zivic, landing a smooth body attack and weathering Jannazzo’s rounds I and II. The bout featured a cut on Jannazzo’s nose and a spirited finish as Zanelli pressed for a late win while judges ruled in his favor.
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Boston
Ralph
the Ripper
Zanell
Providence
Izzy Jannazzo
Brooklyn
Boston Garden
Fritzie Zivic
Rhode Island
Jannaz70
Haneliy
Bradley Named Leader Of American Ground Forces In Europe
General Eisenhower selected Lieut. Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley to command American ground forces for the planned invasion of northwest Europe. The Missouri born former mathematics teacher earned a reputation as a master technician who led the Yan kee Second Corps in Tunisia and Sicily, famed for Hill 609 and the fall of Messina. Bradley is described as modest, cool, self confident, with a common touch, fluent in the language of his men, and a disciplined, relentlessly practical strategist who stresses flanking and terrain study.
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Italy
Eisenhower
Omar Nelson Bradley
Europe
Bradley
Hill
Tunisia
Bizerte
Sicily
Ticino
Randazzo
Messina
Horatio Alger
West Point
Abihu
West Pont
Fort Benning
Gabe
MacArthu
Patton
Weither
Srade
Renal
Jap Oiler and Escort Sunk near Eniwetok Atoll
Navy announces Pearl Harbor era action near Eniweton Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Three percent navy search planes damaged an enemy pier and sank one of two small ships escorting the oiler. The oiler may have been sunk. escorting ship not identified.
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Pearl Harbor
Eniweton Atoll
Marshall Island Group
Chester Wo Nimitz
Hockey Scores From Chicago and New York Duel
Chicago and New York defeated Toronto 4 to 2 while Montreal also posted a 2 to 2 draw in a mid season hockey roundup.
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Chicago
New York
Montreal
Tax changes affect medicines liquor and amusements
Conferees approved excise tax tweaks including a nine dollar per gallon rate on alcohol used for non beverage purposes with a six dollar refund. A rule blocks tax avoidance by corporations acquiring control of losing firms. Timber landowners who cut their timber gain capital gains rates. Theater and amusement admissions move toward one cent per five cents, and a 20 percent retail tax replaces earlier rates on purses and handbags. Light bulbs and mutuel betting tax proposals are on hold or rejected.
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House
Senate
Transcription speeds and turntable errors in radio broadcasting
The article explains how transcription records differ from standard phonograph discs, noting 16 inch transcription discs run at 33 1 3 RPM while standard records spin at 72 RPM. It warns that incorrect speeds distort sound and shares an anecdote about a broadcaster misusing speeds causing haunting audio memories.
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Federal Communications Commission
J B Stapleton Dies Prominent Troy Coal Businessman
John B Stapleton former alderman and longtime coal merchant in Troy died yesterday at his Pinewood Avenue home after a brief illness. Born 1864 in Troy he led a family business started by his father William B Stapleton and served in numerous local groups including the Tibbits Cadets and Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was active in St Patrick and St Joseph parishes and is survived by his wife Winifred and a daughter with two sisters. Funeral Monday at 9:30 am from the home and 10 am at St Peters followed by burial in St Josephs Cemetery.
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John B Stapleton
Troy
Pinewood
Pawsing Avenues
Stapleton
Auts
Wiliam B
Mary Stadtbbins
Hero
Twelfth
Tibbits Cadets
Lodge of Ellis
Cribbage League
Order of
St Peters Church
Lelment
St Josephs Cemetery
Saratoga Springs Man Wins 5000 Verdict
A Saratoga Springs man, James Negro, won a 5000 verdict from the Boston and Maine Railroad after a two hour jury deliberation in Ballston Spa. Negro, a freight trucker at the Meebaoreile freight transfer dock, claimed injuries from a July 1937 fall when stopping a truck after another vehicle emerged from a freight door.
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James Negro
Saratoga Springs
Boston and Maine
Supreme Court
Ballston Spa
Negro
Meebaoreile
Nemo
David W Huston
Script Sells for 100000 in Bonds
A handwritten manuscript of Thomas Manns lecture The Coming Victory of Democracy was presented to the New York Public Library by an anonymous buyer who acquired it with a $100,010 war bonds purchase. The War Finance Committee for New York announced the action.
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New York
Thomas Manns
Publite
War Finance Committee For
Comics Picture Troy Flyer Exploit in Mediterranean Rescue
Lieutenant Malcolm Hormats of Pros during his sea service in WWII fought off two Messerschmitt 109s above the Mediterranean, diving to engage and force one plane into the sea. After more than eighty missions including Italy’s invasion, he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal and ten oak leaf clusters and was stationed in Texas.
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Malcolm Hormats
H Seas
Roaf
Ls&s An Corps
U.p S
Ana Pudehsd
Allthefried
Comay
Hormats
Terrecultmimn
Mediterranean
Fist Are
Hormans Wien
Pllot
United States
Saugerties Officials Probe Killing After Motive Murk
Saugerties police and state officers investigated a fatal beating in a Mount Manon home. Mrs Edna Branch was found dead with injuries in the kitchen near a broken coal stove shaker. David Branch, 16, a Saugerties High School student, reportedly fled to a neighbor saying he had “just skull ed my mother.”
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Mount Manon UP
Lister
Saugerties
Harold Mills
Edna Branch
Mills
Branch
Edna Short
David
Noted dancing couple Veloz Velos welcome second son
Beverly Hills announces the birth of Anthony to famed dance duo Yolanda and Frank Veloz known in private life as M. and Mrs. Frank Veloz. The premature baby weighed four pounds and arrived five weeks early.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Veloz I
Yolanda
Frank Veloz
Anthony Weign
State contends Lepke allies seek new trial
The state argues a criminal alliance of former associates pushed to win a new trial for Louis Buchalter Mend Weiss and Louis Capone, leaders of Brooklyn’s crime syndicate. The three death sentences were postponed amid federal vs state control debates and are now set for next March.
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New York
Louis +Leonet Buchalter
Emmanuel ‘Mend. Weiss
Louis Capone
Brounion
Mare de Ine
Leoxe Weiss
Capone
Cansus Sullian
Jaege Franklin Taylor
Kings Courty Court
Gove
Levke
Joseph Rosen
Brooklyn Sand
Hospital Tents Hit by German Fire Behind Allied Lines
The report from the Rome beachfront describes hospital tents and ships under fire as Allied forces advance behind German lines south of Rome. Shells whine overhead while surgeons operate, and casualties are evacuated despite ongoing bombardment and shrapnel.
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Don Whoitik
Rome
Hospitala
Ines
Iuhne
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