Mount Vesuvius lava flow dominates Naples area
Lieutenant Colonel John Adams Warner, former New York State Police head, directs AMGs public safety operations in the disaster zone near Mount Vesuvius. Col Kincaid and Col Poletti also aid refugees as lava advances, destroying villages San Sebastiano and Massa Di Sormina while soldiers evacuate residents and search collapsed buildings.
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Mount Vesuvius
Teel
Stecpme
Mt. Vesuvius
John Adams Warner
New York State Police
AMG
Naples
Troy
Italy
James Leslie Kincaid
American Hotels Corp
Hendrick Hudson
Pollena
Kincaid
Charles Poletti
LOS
Arthur Carter
Amsterdam
Associated Press
Edward Kennedy
San Sebastiano
Vesuvius
Massa di Sormina
A.M.G
Hunt Resumed for Flyers Adrift on Ice
Twelve civilian and military aircraft searched the ice clogged lower Gulf of St Lawrence for three men marooned beside a stranded air liner on a big tie floe for a week. An icebreaker fought heavy seas toward Belle Isle as an improvised rescue continued. The three were two unidentified Canadian Pacific Airways employees and a passenger. The downed plane was forced by fog near Harrington Harbor 800 miles east of Quebec City. Supplies were dropped and the men were not seen after Saturday.
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Montreal
Gulf of St Lawrence
Newfoundland
Strait
Belle Isle
Isle
Canadian Pacific Airlimes
Gulf
Harrington Harbor
Quebec City
Hartford OPA office cat given inflation themed names
The Hartford OPA board's office cat was named Inflation. Inflation produced four kittens named Rollback, Question Form 1309, and Directive. The sire remains unnamed, nicknamed Black Market.
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Hartford, Conn
OPA
Wounded Soldier Finds Neighbor Nurse in Africa
Pfc. John E. Gorski of Stop 382 Troy-Schenectady Road was wounded twice in Africa and Italy while serving with the First Ranger Battalion. An old neighbor Lieut. Lowse A. Goark of Latham led his care in a North Africa hospital, where she has served since 1942 and earned the Purple Heart. Gorski, a Watervliet High School graduate, later joined his battalion after recovering, and his letters describe sending home wartime photos.
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John E. Gorski
Stop
Troy- Schenectady Road
North Africa
Louise A. Goark
Latham
Army Nurse Corps
Joseph A. Gorski
Stop 382
Troy-Schenectady Road
Africa
Lieut
Lowse A. Guark
Gorski
Ranger
John
Joseph
Sicily
Italy
Cassino
Hart
Watervliet High School
Watervliet Arsenal
Corp Stanley Gorski
Arsenal
American Red Cross
Parisian Bluebeard Dr Marcel Fellot Reported Dead in River
London and Paris reports from German radio allege Dr Marcel Fellot the Parisian Bluebeard killed many patients. Broadcasts claim bodies of victims found in the Yonne near Fontainebleau and in his offices at 21 Rue Lesueur. Details vary on the number murdered and method, including poisoning and disposal with lime or burning.
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London
Vichy
Marcel Fellot
Bluebeard
Yonne
Fontaineble
Radio Vichy
Petiot
Rue Lesueur
Navy moves to synthetic rubber in 75 percent of needs
Navy reports a major shift to synthetic rubber in 75 percent of requirements, with over 2,000 tons reclaimed from 13 theaters. Small tires are fully synthetic, intermediates about 70 percent, large tires still crude due to rayon cord shortages. Gas tanks, masks, clothing, footwear largely synthetic. cocked toward wire, cables, hoses, and mechanical rubber at about 90 to 95 percent synthetic. Flotation gear and submarine battery jars to switch by April 1. Navy Rubber Director Arthur M. Hill disclosed the progress.
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Washington
Navy
War Producti O Board
Arthur M. Hill
Charleston
W. Va
Four More Vichyites Executed at Algiers
In Algiers four guards at the Bechar Colomb o internment camp were executed by a French firing squad after a March 3 military court verdict for murder and brutality in North Africa under the Vichy regime. Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy interior minister, was executed Monday.
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Algiers
Bechar Colombo
North Africa
Pierre Pucheu
Hen rides on axle in Mishawaka car
Herman Coppens, a Mishawaka coal yard operator, left his Stillwell farm and made several stops before reaching his office. There he found one of his white pullet hens perched on the car axle, having ridden about 30 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mishawaka
Ind
Herman Coppens
Stillwell
Senate McCarran Panel Probes Liquor Industry Shortages
The McCarran Senate Judiciary subcommittee, reorganized under Pat McCarran, steps up a broad inquiry into the liquor industry. It seeks data from distillers and government agencies, reviews stockpiles, and considers reform measures while avoiding Prohibition issues. The probe targets industry consolidation, wartime practices, and the 1944 alcohol production plan.
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Allout
Reorganized
Senate Judiciary
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Department of Justice
Frederick van Nuys
Indiana
J. G. Sourwine
George M. Moore
Congressional Joint Committee
Senator McCarran
Industrial Alcohol Division
War Production Board
WPE
Alcohol Tax Unit
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Securities and Exchange Commission
Anti-Trust Division
Schenley
Seagram
Hiram Walker
McCarran
Senate
38 Escort Carriers Delivered to Britain
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that 38 escort aircraft carriers built in the United States have been delivered to Great Britain under lend lease. He said the United States has about fifty of these vessels operating with the fleet, each about 10,000 tons, and that escort carriers form part of the anti submarine fleet of the Allies.
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Washington
Frank Knox
United States
Great Britain
Knox
Harold R. Stark
Wilkes-Barre
Admiral Stark
Admr
Royal E. Ingersoll
U. S. Atlantic
Atlantic
Bombs and Birds and Admirals in Wartime
A wry wartime column recounts bombs causing odd effects aboard ships including a canary left unharmed apart from shedding feathers. The piece profiles Adm Harold Stark and other US Navy leaders in British waters, with comments on Allied naval efforts and submarine threats and Hal Hall’s service record and temperament aboard warships.
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John A. Mobosy
U. & Navy
Britain
Study pool sterilization at Michigan State College
East Lansing researchers at Michigan State College will study conditioning and sterilization of swimming pool waters. A $4,000 grant from Wallace and Tiernan Co of New York City funds the research, recently accepted by the college.
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East Lansing
Mich
Michigan State College
Wallace and Tiernan Co
New York City
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