27 Service Years All Shorty Asked
Hal Boyle recalls a devoted sergeant in France who joined an overseas mission despite illness. Shorty, five foot four and Russian by birth, earned praise for bravery and two Purple Hearts as he crawled toward a German machine gun nest to draw fire for his comrades. He died in battle, legendary for loyalty and courage.
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Hal Boyle
France
Shorty
United States
Edward Sasson
Los Angeles
James Kuhns
Greensburg
Nathan M. Quinn
Spencer
Mass
Sgt
Joe L. Plotnick
Baltimore
Control Tightens on Equipment Purchases
The state highway commission orders all equipment and supplies purchases routed through W. Frerichs or his designee. Secretary Gene Eagles cites warehouse stock being bought as the reason. Hourly highway department workers gain six extra vacation days per year starting September 1 under a new directive.
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State Highway Commission
W. ¥. Frerichs
Gene Eagles
Commission
Highway Department
Verdun Campaign Echoes From Allied Leaders
The article reflects on wartime rhetoric near Verdun and the push toward unconditional surrender. It highlights Allied optimism, General Eisenhower’s pledge to press into the Reich, and the aim to transform Germany into a peaceable nation after final victory.
Dealers May Still Have Shell and Cartridge Stocks
The war production board lifted the ban on ammunitions sales to hunters with immediate effect but some dealers may lack stock while many neighborhood hardware stores report sizable inventories from prior permits. Hunters must sign a dealer supplied statement proving that purchases plus reserves stay within allotted quotas. Purchasers need not show a hunting license.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Midwest GOP Prospect Bright Says Brownell
Chicago September 1 Herbert Brownell Jr Republican national chairman says prospects for a Republican victory in November in the area between the Alleghenies and the Rockies are bright after conferring with midwest political leaders He adds that Dewey and Bricker will sweep the middle west if Republicans stay united Brownell was to meet with young Republican leaders to discuss further unity and strategy
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Chicago
Alleghenies
Rockies
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Midwest
Brownell
Dewey
Bricker
Middle West
Oregon Supreme Court Rules Alimony Delinquents Pay Interest
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled in a suit by Sarah Elizabeth Kern against the estate of her former husband Don Kern that divorced spouses who miss alimony must pay back the arrears plus interest. The decision awards Kern 13 277.39 dollars, with 2 949.60 dollars interest for deprived use of funds.
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Salem
Ore
Supreme Court
Stae
Sarah Elizabeth Kern
Don Kern
Arizona Senator Protest Over Prolonged Overseas Duty
Sen. McFarland of Arizona protests to the War Department about about 1,000 Arizona guardsmen with the 158th Infantry kept in the South Pacific since shortly after Pearl Harbor. He calls for an investigation and relief to rest camps due to malaria and long duty. The rotation plan is criticized as ineffective and slow.
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Arizona National Guardsmen
South Pacific
McFarland
Washington
Sen. McFarland
D-Ariz
War Department
Arizona National
158Th Infantry
Pearl Harbor
Prizo
Arizona
Stranger Carried 400 Miles by Father for Allowance
A staff officer in East Africa reports a seven year old native boy was sent 400 miles alone by his father to collect the father's family allowance as driver for the officer.
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East Africa
Belgians Brace For Ordeal Of Battle Again
London Aug 31. Belgians brace for renewed combat as American troops near the Belgian border. Underground leaders report sabotage successes including two railroad depots 23 locomotives and many cars. Authorities note mass arrests and a hardened resistance despite Nazi deportations and executions.
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Alex Singleton
London
Belgium
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hubert Pierlot
France
Hitler
Germany
Oklahoma School Land Board Bonds Investment Cleared
Attorney General Randall S. Cobb ruled the Oklahoma School Land Commission may invest 2 million dollars in federal government bonds maturing in 1965 and 1970. The opinion was requested by Walter Marlin, the commission secretary.
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Oklahoma City
Randall S. Cobb
Oklahoma School Land Commission
Walter Marlin
Commission
Portable Pipe Lines Keeping Oil Moving To Patton Tanks
Acting Secretary of War Patterson said Allied supply flow to western France keeps pace with operations. Oil pipes are laid at 70 miles daily and bridge equipment moved from Britain. He warned winter would complicate cargo handling but port facilities and French rail restoration will mitigate shortages.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
France
Patterson
Europe
Britain
Channel
Patton
Cherbourg
War Readiness Calls for Stepped Up Production in U S Fronts
Patterson warned that without rapid increases in production this year the Allied timetable on multiple fronts could slip. He cited vital needs such as big guns trucks tires tractors cranes portable flame throwers and cotton duck as driving the expansion. Mexico's guayule patches suffer from overwork amid a rubber shortage exhausting the plants.
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Paris
Patterson
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East Allen Road
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Tidmarsh Engineering Company
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