London Night Life Hectic For Yanks
London during wartime shows Americans adjusting to local hours and venues. pubs function as social hubs while night clubs draw high prices, with members paying extra admission and guests adding costs. The piece notes humor from Allied staff and a playful badge called the Order of the Purple Bottom for long service in pubs.
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London
Red Cross
America
Britain
United States
Manhattan
Bership
Draft Dodgers Convicted Increase 66 Per Cent
The Justice Department reports a 66 percent rise in draft evasion convictions for the first ten months of the 1944 fiscal year compared with the same period last year. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said 4,474 convictions were recorded, up 1,781 from 2,693 a year earlier.
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Washington
Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
He Sa
Mexico Abrogates Order on Rural Defense Corps
Mexico City's defense ministry said rural defense officers may remain in their assigned zones indefinitely, overturning a Jan 16 1942 rule requiring transfers every three years. The change recognizes the value of officers’ familiarity with their territories.
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Mexico City
Defense Ministry
Osborn Urges Continued Search For Missing Sgt Rucker
Governor Osborn asks Arizona Highway Patrol to extend the hunt begun by Coconino County for Sgt William Rucker of Wichita Kansas who reportedly fell from an Army bomber May 16 near Meteor Crater in northern Arizona The missing airman was last reported near Winslow after visiting his mother on Mother's Day and may have fallen in Arizona or New Mexico The search follows guidance from military authorities and a request from former Governor Ratner of Kansas.
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William Rucker
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Meteor Crater
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Flagstaff
California
New Mexico
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Rucker
Loyang Falls to Japanese, Chinese Claim
Report from Chungking says Loyang in Henan may have fallen after communications were cut. Tokyo broadcast claimed capture. Maj. Gen. C C Tseng said the town probably fell but no confirmation. Chinese forces pursued Japanese remnants after retaking Tatangtzu at Yunnang, moving toward the Burma border.
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Loyang
Henan Province
Tokyo
C. C. Tseng
Yunnang
Tatangtzu
Burma
Detective story unravels Tacoma fugitive near FBI HQ
Walter Ray Carroll, 49, wanted for a hold up in Tacoma Washington, paused outside FBI headquarters to finish a detective magazine story. He was captured and jailed after quitting his escape to finish the read, ending his fugitive run.
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Walter Ray Carroll
Tacoma
Wash
FBI
Carroll
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