Nurses Hit Dust When Nazis Fire In France
Five American nurses and a woman Red Cross worker helped establish a hospital near Chartres. They sheltered in ditches under heavy shelling, opened the unit to treat wounded, and earned praise for not flinching. A nurse leader shouted to lie low, while others assisted in burial work amid hedgerow fighting and shortages. A five-nurse contingent demonstrated frontline courage with American troops in France.
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France
Red Cross
Chartres
Helen King
South Hill
Herbert Kerr
Philadelphia
Warren Hoffman
Dwight, Nil
Hoffman
Two Accused Of Selling Marijuana To Juveniles
Phoenix reports com plaints prepared by Maricopa county attorney's office against two men accused of selling marijuana cigarettes to juveniles. A federal narcotics agent four sheriff's deputies and two juvenile probation officers seized the men in a raid that yielded a small quantity of marijuana cigarettes after seven months of investigation. They said fifty youths of Spanish American Japanese and Negro race identities reported purchases.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
World War II Fronts Shift as Red Forces Advance
The article notes a weakened German Fifteenth Army along the Seine coast facing Allied air superiority. In the east, the Red army drives into Romania through the Galati gap, threatening supply lines and the Danube gateway. Russians push at the Vistula above Warsaw, signaling a broader offensive and potential collapse of German defenses as casualties mount.
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England
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Carpathian Mountains
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Warsaw
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Duchess of Gloucester gives birth to fifth in line
The Duchess of Gloucester gave birth on Saturday to a son, extending the latest line of succession to the British throne. The Duke of Gloucester, King George’s youngest brother, is governor general designate to Australia.
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London
Duchess of Gloucester
Duke of Gloucester
George
Australia
Farm Voters Showing Great FDR Defection
George Gallup reports that U S farmers tilt strongly Republican with Dewey favored outside the South by about two to one. In the South Roosevelt still leads 66 to 34, while nationwide trends show farm discontent over wasteful spending regulation and labor policy.
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George Gallup
American Institute of Paltic Opinion
Princeton, N. J
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
South
Dewey Diserkaneid
Dewey
Washington
Deer Illegally Captured Put In Tucson Mountains
The Arizona Fish and Game Department warns against keeping fawns out of season as possession of deer is illegal. State game warden Fred Merkle urges notifying a game warden if a motherless or injured fawn is found and notes that released captives this year have mainly gone to Tucson Mountain Park.
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Fred Merkle
Game Commission
Merkle
Tucson Mountain Park
Coolidge Man Jailed Charged With Murder
Florence August 28 A 65 year old Coolidge mail carrier Robert Emmett Cosgrove was held in Pinal county jail without bail pending appearance before Justice of Peace William G Roche for first degree murder in the slaying of his stepson Pfc Earl W Figgins 20. The soldier was killed at the Cosgrove residence during a dispute over the family car. Cosgrove was nearing retirement from his postal route next month. The curious insects known as water striders do not walk on water they slide on it.
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Florence
Coolidge
Robert Emmett Cosgrove
Pinal County
William G. Roche
Tom Fulbright
Cosgrove
Earl W. Figgins
Those To Be 21 By Election May Vote
Arizona registration books for the November general election open to residents who will be 21 by November 7. State Attorney General Joe Conway advised Secretary of State Dan Garvey that the Supreme Court has ruled registration laws must uphold the citizen's right to vote.
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Phoenix
Joe Conway
Dan FE. Garvey
Conway
Supreme Court
Registration Eligibility for 21-year-olds for Election
The law allows individuals who are 21 or will be by the next general election to register during the official registration period. Separately, between September 1939 and August 1944 the U S automobile industry produced war goods valued at 19 billion dollars.
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U. S
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