Propaganda Chief Goebbels Found Dead in Underground Berlin City
Red Star reported Goebbels and family died by their own hand in an underground Berlin complex 20 meters below the surface. The sprawling subterranean city housed factories, offices, arsenals, with redacted Nazi leaders’ apartments and a vast network of tunnels and depots under Wilhelmstrasse and Unter Den Linden.
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Moscow
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Red Army
Red Star
Goebbels
Hermann Goering
Goering
Wilhelmstrasse
Dispatch
Gestapo
Unter den Linden
Hitler
Sergeant Turns Into Gun Safety Advocate In Fort Bragg Tale
Fort Bragg reports a hard boiled sergeant catching two privates dropping rifles in dirt. He scolds them sharply then orders them to stand up front kiss their rifles hug them and declare they will not repeat the act.
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Fort Bragg
Texan Accepts Death to Stay With Buddies
Texan Marine Cpl. Billy R. Wright 19 of Groesbeck Texas led a squad against a ridge top machine gun near the village of China Okinawa He ordered the unwounded to withdraw then stayed behind to cover the wounded and was found dead with eight other Marines after the position fell to the enemy.
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Okinawa
Billy R. Wright
Groesbeck
Texas
China
Wright
Pointblank
Long Beard War Record Revealed by Lt. Col Loyd
Lt. Col. Frank R. Loyd boasts a waist-long beard from three years behind enemy lines in the Philippines. He survived eight months alone near Bataan then joined three other officers, living on scarce food and evading Japanese forces. Loyd recalls meeting loyal local Filipinos and describes the Norigitos as tiny, loyal allies.
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San Antonio
Frank R. Loyd
Philippines
Bataan
Loyd
Big Liners Still To Carry Troops
The Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary, together delivering over a million soldiers to Europe, will continue Atlantic troop and casualty transport. Operated by American and British crews, the liners have moved troops and patients for three years, each able to carry a full division per voyage. The 85,000 ton Queen Elizabeth is among the largest liners ever built. Female mosquitoes are the only ones which bite.
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Paris
Atlantic
United States
Six Grasses Used For Lawns As Texas Soil Climate Vary
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station notes lawn success depends on moisture soil fertility and drainage. It lists six perennial grasses Bermuda Buffalo St Augustine Centipede Carpet and Manila as common Texas lawn choices with regional suitability and growth traits.
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Texas
College Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Bermuda
Buffalo
St. Augustine
Manila
Fort Worth
Gulf Coast Prairie
Governor's Mansion at Austin Built in 1855
The Governor's mansion in Austin Texas was built in 1855 with a total cost of 17000 dollars.
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Austin
Texas
Want Ads Offer and Sale Listings in Sherman Area
A clustered set of want ads. Buyers seek bois d arc posts, a well located dwelling lot, and various houses for sale in Whitewright area. Several dwellings in Whitewright listed for sale. Jersey cows for sale or trade. A 119 acre farm between Whitewright and Orangeville offered at $50 per acre. Land or city property wanted or for sale via Tom Barbee. Used furniture and sewing machines wanted by Square Deal Furniture Store. Various furniture items for sale. Auto loans and refinancing offered by Auto Finance Company.
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Whitewright
Orangeville
Black Top Road
Tom Barbee
Square Deal Furniture
West
Houston
Sherman
Guy Ellis
Farmers Federal Insurance Forum By Ernest L Tutt
Sam and Charles, longtime friends, both became army majors and supporters of elderly parents. Charles’ parents receive $37 monthly survivors benefits. Sam’s do not because farmers are excluded from survivors insurance. If Sam had similar coverage, his parents would get $37 monthly for life and he would pay $192 in taxes. Next week’s note promises more on orphan survivors insurance.
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Sam
Charles
The
Power and Light Company
Army Reserve
Army
Seventh Army denies Goering friendly gesture
The United States Seventh Army issued a statement denying any handshakes or chicken dinners at its headquarters for captured Reichmarshal Hermann Goering. The denial follows Eisenhower's remarks at Supreme Headquarters condemning sympathetic treatment of captured Nazi officials and public criticism of the Goering reception.
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United States Seventh Army
United States
Seventh Army
Hermann Goering
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Goering
War Production Board eases alarm clock limits and galvanized wave output
The War Production Board removed restraints on spring driven and electric alarm clock manufacturing to boost output as materials become available. They cautioned no sharp rise soon and that prewar clock production may not be reached until the war ends, while lifting controls on galvanized wave production amid steel sheet shortages.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
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By Henry Shapir
Long Beard
Shop Ayres
Seersucker
Axres & Son Peters
Stets Son Hats
Bois D'Arc
Luther Gordon
Route One
Joe Johnson
Glenn Doss
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Stephens & Bryant
Flowers of
Carl May
Floyd Bassett
Jersey
R. A. Vestal
John Pace
Emmet Pennle
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
A & H Tire CO
N. Crockett
Farmers Federal Insurance Forum
Ernest L. Tutt
R. P. Childress
J. W
Johnnie” Weaver
Tire Company —Seiberling Tires
Denison
S. Crockett
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