Discovery Prevents Amputations in British Troops
London reports a breakthrough that grows new nerves from severed ends, enabling hundreds of soldiers sailors and airmen to avoid paralysis or amputation. At Wingfield-Morris Hospital surgeons join nerve ends with a plasma glue while a cathode-ray oscilloscope tracks early nerve activity. Patients recover at Ripon Hall Annex Boar's Hill Yorkshire where rehab follows new methods.
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London
INS
Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital
Oxford
Ripon Hall Annex
Boar's Hill
Yorkshire
Tojo Warns Diet War Is Growing Tense
Premier General Hideki Tojo addressed an extraordinary session of the Japanese diet stating the war situation is increasingly tense with signs of large scale Allied offensives. He said Japan’s forces are meeting and defeating enemy counter-offensives while pursuing grand scale operations in China and along the Burma India frontier and the Pacific. The diet, powerless in policy, did not question the remarks.
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Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo Radio
Diet
Japan
Domei
U. S
Auc
Tojo
Attu Island
Aleutians
China
Office of War Information
Pacific
Tojo promises independence for Philippines and Burma
Premier Tojo urged East Asia unity and announced promises of independence for the Philippines within the year and a new independent Burmese state. He spoke of cooperation to win the war and said Japan would support a new world order. Emperor Hirohito attended the opening session as eight bills were unveiled to fund military effort.
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Tojo
East Asia
Japan
India
Philippines
Diet
Burma
Ams
Greater East Asia
Tokyo
Hirohito
House of Peers
Berlin
Germany
Italy
Bennington Notes: Local Moves and Service News
North Bennington Mr and Mrs Hiram White hear their son Jay has reached Iran. Miss Frances Corcoran leaves for a ten day swimming course at Camp Kiwanis in South Anson Mass. Anna L Roche engagement to Staff Sergeant Raymond F Sutton of Boise. Donald Knapp has joined the U S Air Corps and leaves for Fort Devens as acting corporal. Miss Jean Corcoran attends a summer course at Castleton Normal School and will teach at Old Bennington Rural School this fall.
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Hiram White
Jay
Iran
Persia
Frances Corcoran
Camp Kiwanis
South Anson
Mass
Anna L. Roche
Charles Butler
Raymond F. Sutton
Boise
Bennington County
Jean Corcoran
Castleton Normal School
Corcoran
Old Bennington
Hoosick News notes and church events in town
Hoosick reports H Rudolph Marshall left for Army service Tuesday. Ladies Aid Union to meet in parsonage tomorrow. Dr. and Mrs. M W Stearns and daughter of Schenectady visited last weekend. Mrs Albert F Marshall of Brattleboro Vermont visited Nellie J Marshall. Miss Mary A Pierce of Troy visited with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Pierce. Rev J J Gould to preach at Baptist Church Sunday at 9:30 and Sunday School at 10:30. All Saints branch Girls Friendly Society picnics Monday night weather permitting. meetings to resume Sept 20. Rev William Garner to preach and administer communion at All Saints Episcopal on Sunday at 11. he will lead St Pauls Mission Raymer town at 9 and preside at evensong at Mission Holy Name Boyntonville at 3. Sgt Ray Sutton of Gowen Field Idaho visiting East Hoosick with cousin Ralph Hall. Pvt Lews D Herrington of Camp McCain on furlough with parents. Tech Sgt Robert Haswell of New York visiting for weekend. Annual Baptist Church meeting held. officers reelected Ernest F Rudd treasurer, Mrs John A Cox clerk, Miss Florence Fonda finance chair.
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H. Rudolph Marshall
Ladies’ Aid Union
M. W. Stearns
Schenectady
Albert F. Marshall
Brattleboro
Nellie J. Marshall
Mary A. Pierce
Troy
Roscoe Pierce
Baptist Church
J. J. Gould
Raymertown
Tech
Robert Haswell
New York
The
Ernest F. Rudd
John A. Cox
Florence Fonda
Stillwater Board reshuffles staff and notices meeting
At a special board meeting George De Wein resigned as seventh grade teacher to become central school principal at Saranac. The vacancy is filled by substitute teacher Welthea Saurbrey from Burnt Hills. Arthur H. Vinett also resigned as board president, due to other duties. his term ends June 30. The annual school meeting is set for the second Tuesday in July in the High School Auditorium. Also notices include a Perry Presbyterian Guild food sale tomorrow at 2 p.m. and a Second Baptist Missionary Society supper and meeting led by Rev W P Stanford. Deceased reports and future plans discussed. A vagrant case with Anthony Simkwecz, 38, is being probed by FBI after his draft card could not be produced.
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Board of Education
George de Wein
de Wein
Saranac
Welthea Saurbrey
Burnt Hills
Arthur H. Vinett
Selective Service Board
Vinett
Perry
Presbyterian Guild
Missionary Society
Missionary Society of the Second Baptist Church
W. P. Stanford
Ralph Walsh
John Hammond
C. 5
Hosking
Burma
Lyman W. Smith
Anthony Simkwecz
Fifth Avenue
Schenectady
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Portugal
Manila
Service Watch
Ney
Third Street
Leon Wilcox
Frank Pierce
North Bennington
Hoosick
Peterman
Stillwater
Nestle
Duart
Bonat
5Th Ave
Beauly Salon
Fifth Ave
North
Ven
Africa
Bataan
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Company
Troy Coca-Cola Bottling Company
108Th Street and
Troy, N. J
Navy
SRA
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