Seabee Walter Finds Bomb Barber Pole and Gets BS
Seabee Walter Willis A. Walter GM 1C from Buffalo is nicknamed BS by the Fifth Special Battalion at Camp Parks. After a 100 pound bomb vanished in the Aleutians it reappeared as a barber pole, proving Walter’s role in tracking missing ordnance and earning the nickname bomb sleuth.
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Walter
Barber Polo
Seabees
Shoemaker
Calif
Willis A. Walter GM
Buffalo, . C
Camp Parks
Talion
Aleutians
Aleutian
32Nd
Attu
Pope Pius Warns Neutral Vatican City Stance
The Holy See affirms neutrality regardless of Rome’s ruler and urges war correspondents to seek peace as a guiding aim. Pope Pius, in English, told reporters to write for a peace that preserves human dignity and freedom. An unusual reception included women in trousers and photographers using flash, with the Pope granting autographs and a rosary.
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Vatican City
Rome
Holy See
Pius
Vatican
Fifth Army
School Actor Continues After Mother's Death
Hazelton, Pa. June 8. A Hazelton high school senior, Gerald Hassel, performed last night in the school play despite learning that his mother, Mrs. Lottie Vera Hassel, had died. She attended and watched from her seat as he continued in his role.
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Hazelton
Hazelton High School
Gerald Hassel
Lottie Vera Hassel
Man Turns In Alarm After Finding Wife With Another
Charles Collin testified in court he was angered by discovering his separated wife with another man and triggered a fire alarm to summon police. The record notes Saint Valentine’s martyrdom in the third century.
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New York
June & Wih
Charles Collin
Valentine
Pacific Electric Workers Likely Strike Over Wages
In Los Angeles on June 8 an incomplete tally shows most of 2600 Pacific Electric railway employees favor a walkout over wage rate adjustments. Of 2000 ballots counted 97 percent support the strike, said Don H. Sheets, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen official, with about 500 ballots still to be counted.
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Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Railway
Don H. Sheets
Brotherhood of Railway
Wei Li-Huang the Sausage General Reforms Chinese Forces Near Salween
Gen Wei Li-Huang, called the sausage by friends and chewing gum by foes, commands Chinese expeditionary forces near the Salween. The 47 year old leader is famed for breaking through with Stilwell from Yunnan, after years of resisting Japanese pressure in Shansi.
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Chungking
Wei Li-Huang
Joseph Stilwell
Yunnan Province
Salween
Wei
Shansi
Wei Teaches Authority and Reading Habits of a Chinese General
The article profiles Wei, a three star general and Chiang Kai-shek ally who rose from private to commander of the CEF. A self taught scholar with a multilingual library, he studies terrain and maps before campaigns and earns the nickname surprise attack general. He enjoys tennis and maintains a famed secretariat including a tennis coach.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Qld
Boss
War College
Nanking
Joseph Pulitzer
Wei
Paign
Salween
Burma
Weil
CEF
Chen Cheng
Honan Front
Diamondback Terrapins Bred Like Chickens at Pivers Island
Forty year tests at the U S Fisheries Laboratory on Pivers Island North Carolina show that the diamond back terrapin can be bred as easily as chickens.
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U. S. Fisheries Laboratory
Piver’s Island
N. C
Promotions Announced For Arizona Officers
The War Department announced three promotions of Arizona Army officers from first lieutenant to captain: Richard Carron Borden in the medical administrative corps from Kingman, David Virgil Nelson in field artillery from Phoenix, and John Blake Gibbs in the air corps from Phoenix. Dora O. Quesada of Wickenburg was appointed second lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps.
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Washington
Arizona
War Department
Richard Carron Borden
Medical Administrative Corps
Kingman
David Virgil Nelson
Field Artillery
Phoenix
John Blake Gibbs
Air Corps
Army Nurses Corps
Dora O. Quesada
Wickenburg
Rural Canadians Remain Majority in 1871
In 1871 Canada's rural inhabitants surpassed urban residents by more than two million, indicating a dominant rural population distribution despite growing towns and cities.
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Canada
Skin Eruptions Prompt Patchy Public Advisories
A fragment notes skin eruptions linked to external itching and burning sensations. Mentions antiseptic stimulation and a famous Black and White peace motif as context.
Two Arizonans Die In Mediterranean Ship Sinkage
The War Department announced that 504 Army men perished when an unidentified ship sank in the Mediterranean. Among the dead were Arizona natives Pfc. Antonio H. Martinez of Tombstone and Pvt. Pete V. Duran of Holbrook, sons of Mrs. Francisco H. Martinez and Pete Duran respectively.
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Washington
Mediterranean
War Department
Antonio H. Martinez
Francisco H. Martinez
Tombstone
Pete V. Duran
Pete Duran
Holbrook
Introducing Ostren Tonle Tablets At Local Drugstores
An old advertisement notes a tonic labeled Ostren Tonle Tablets promising relief from weakness and fatigue. It cites a 35 cent introductory price and lists Tucson stores including T Ed Litt Drug and Waren as local suppliers.
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Soonent
Fesling
Tucson
T. Ed Litt Drug and Waren
Mercerized Cotton Named After John Mercer
Mercerized cotton derives its name from John Mercer who found that treating ordinary cotton with caustic soda strengthens fibers and increases luster, a discovery that transformed textile processing.
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John Mercer
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