Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several years ago), Negro troops gathered along the railroad tracks one night and peppered the town with a barrage of rifle shots. No one was hurt. A few weeks ago Negro soldiers rode through Duck Hill firing blanks, frightening the whites out of their wits. Recently at Brookley Field, Ala. Negro troops fired on M.P. s who came into their barracks looking for a man supposed to have assaulted a bootlegger. Their white general quelled the uproar, mainly by diplomatic handling of his angry troops...
...large part of the Negro 92nd Infantry Division trained for almost a year at Fort McClellan, Ala., with no serious trouble. San Diego reported a lower percentage of rape cases among Negroes than among white servicemen. Tucson's Chief of Police reported: "Conditions excellent, due to exceptionally good, behavior...
Fish Story. In Montgomery, Ala., Fisherman Gene Handy was disgustedly reeling in his plug after several luckless hours when a big-mouthed bass suddenly jumped for the plug, missed, landed squarely in the boat. The bass weighed 10 lb., 4 oz., said Fisherman Handy...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
...Maxwell Field, Ala...