Horror Plant Where Germans Made Soap Of Poles and Russians
Danzig Poland. An experimental German lab used to manufacture soap from human bodies was found in a red shaded house behind the Danzig Medical School. Inspectors saw pressure boilers, soap residues, bones, skulls, and tanks of corpses from Poles and Russians used in the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danzig
Poland
Anatomical and Pharmacological Institute
Danzig Medical School
Delbruck St
Anatomical School
Sigmund Mazur
State Security
Spanner
Mazur
Notice to Subscribers Sending Subscriptions to Men in Service
This newspaper mails many copies to men in the service each week. If you sent a subscription to a service member and believe your prepaid period has expired, please come in to verify and renew if you wish it continued. Notify us promptly of any change of address. News items about men in service are welcome.
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The
Sun
Germans cry for American corned beef and cocoa
Berlin mayor Dr. Arthur Werner appealing for U.S. aid says Americans should resume trade and send corned beef cocoa and fats. He cites candy for German children from U.S. soldiers and thanks Red Army deliveries but cannot provide figures on the totals. An airship dock at the Akron consumes nearly one dollar in electricity to swing its doors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Arthur Werner
Werner
America
Germany
Red Army
Brandenburg
Russia
U. S. S. Akron
Price policies blamed for meat shortage in report
The Agriculture Department said government price policies contribute to a meat shortage and aligned with the House Food Shortage Investigating Committee. It cited declines in hog production in 1944 and 1945, with 1945 production outlook below last year and a fall pig crop down 34 percent. The spring crop was the smallest since the war began, 9 percent under the War Food Administration goal.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
House Food Shortage Investigating Committee
War Food Administration
Wall Street Tax Scheme Lifts Veil on $500 Million Heist
Rep. Lyle Boren charged a 1935 Holding Company Act loophole creates a "Swindle, Inc." scheme to strip the U.S. Treasury of about $500 million yearly. He named Howard L. Aller and Guy C. Myers as key figures, saying revenue bonds divert profits to financiers. Blames Wall Street banks and large utilities for tax-free profiteering and reduced public electric rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wall Street
U. S. Treasury
Congress
House
Federal
Treasury
Mind of Man
Lyle H. Boren
Oklahoma
Swindle, Inc
Boren
Interstate Commerce
John W Murphy
Pennsylvania
H. Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Guy C. Myers
Howard L. Aller
American Power & Light Co
New York City
Blythe & Co
Nuveen & Co
First Boston
Dillon-Reed
Quick Potato Trick for Faster Baked Potatoes
In a hurry to bake potatoes use an apple cover to remove a one inch cylindrical end from each potato before baking. This helps them cook more quickly on the oven shelf.
Mine Costs Soldier Both Arms and Legs
The first battle casualty of the current war to lose parts of both arms and legs is now a patient at Percy Jones Hospital. Master Sgt. Fredric Hensel, 26, of Corbin Kentucky, residing in Salem Indiana, stepped on an anti tank mine in Okinawa on June 2. The blast blew off both legs above the knees and his left arm above the elbow with his right hand severely damaged. He was returned to the United States aboard the U S S Samaritan.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Percy Jones Hospital
Joseph E. Bastion
Fredric Hensel
Jewell Hensel
Corbin
Salem
Ind
Hensel
Okinawa
United States
U. S. S. Samaritan
Big Spring to get 250 bed Veterans Hospital
President Truman approved a 250 bed veterans hospital for West Texas to be built in Big Spring. The General medical and surgical institution will cost about 2 million dollars on a 31 acre city gift site.
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Washington
Truman
Veterans’ Hospital
West Texas
Big Spring
Veterans Administration
Auto Loans Offered by Finance Company
Want Ads announce automobile loans for any reason or car refinances with smaller payments. Immediate service with title papers and vehicle inspection. Saves you money. Auto Finance Company F. W. Creager, Manager. 121% So. Travis, Sherman.
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Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Sugar Supply Due Shortly in Sherman Area
The Office of Price Administration reports improvement in sugar supply with offshore shipments easing shortages in Texas and Oklahoma. A Puerto Rico shipment of 3,046,900 pounds arrived three weeks ago, and a Cuban load of 5,000,000 pounds reached Houston last week. Distributions target 11 Texas shortage cities, with Sherman among future recipients.
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Office of Price Administration
Dallas
Sherman
Texas
Oklahoma
OPA
Puerto Rico
Houston
Denison
Amarillo
Brownsville
San Antonio
Temple
Waco
Corpus Christi
Lufkin
Wichita Falls
Ranger
Soldier shoots prisoners in Salina camp
Pvt. Clarence V. Bertucci confessed to firing a mounted machine gun from a guard tower at a prisoner camp near Salina Utah. He killed eight and wounded 20 saying he did not like Germans. Col. Arthur J. Ericsson said Bertucci offered no other reason and was under mental observation.
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Salina
Utah
Clarence V. Bertucci
Arthur J. Ericsson
Here
Bertucci
Ericsson
Cotton Acreage Hits New Low Across U S
The Agriculture Department estimates a July 1 cotton in cultivation of 18,355,000 acres, down 9.8 percent from last year and 30 percent below the 10 year average. If abandonment matches the last decade, harvest would total about 18,034,000 acres, the smallest since 1885.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Claude Donihoo
The Donihoo family thanks friends for sympathy after the death of Mrs. Claude Donihoo. They will always cherish the memory of their thoughtfulness from Claude Donihoo and children and E. Gilbreth and family.
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Claude Donihoo
E. Gilbreth
Unemployment Pay Bill Introduced in House by Doughton
Chairman Dough ton of North Carolina introduced legislation in the House Ways and Means Committee to authorize postwar unemployment benefits up to 25 dollars weekly. The article notes the typical automobile life as seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
Door Closed To Special Session Of Legislature
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson closed the door on a special session to change the submission date of a constitutional amendment on a soldier land plan sale. He said no direct precedent but an analogy suggests a special session cannot alter the date.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Pierson Named President of Katy in Texas
Lewis E. Pierson of New York was elected president and director of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad Company of Texas at a special meeting, succeeding the late Matthew S. Sloan. Pierson, previously chairman of the parent company, is in Dallas on an inspection tour after visits to Denison and Wichita Falls.
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Dallas
Lewis E. Pierson
New York
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company of
Texas
Matthew S. Sloan
Texas Lines
Pierson
Denison
Wichita Falls
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