Edda Mussolini Ciano Ailing In Swiss Sanatorium After War
NEA under Curt Riess reports Edda Mussolini Ciano, once dubbed Europe’s fatal woman, living in a Swiss mountain sanatorium under a psychiatrist. She remains torn between her late husband’s memory and her father Mussolini, with diaries from Count Ciano sparking tension as she faces public scrutiny and private despair.
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Benito Mussolini
Switzerland
Curt Riess
NEA International
Wrter
Edda Gciano
Mussolini
Ciano
NEA Service, Inc
Paris
Edda Mussolini
Europe
Count Ciano
Il Duce
Edda Mussolini Ciano
Lake Geneva
Edda
Diana
Porta San Sebastiano
Via Appia
Horthy
Goering
eNow
Marchese Pucci
Florence
Pucci
Italy
Diahies
Fucci
Gestapo
I T
Marshal Badoglio
Badoglio
Dino Albieri
Berlin
Count Volpi
Rassed
Edda Ciano
Ing
Food Shortage Stresses German Civilians in June
An official 15th army release warns civilians in occupied Germany face critical food shortages possibly lasting through June. It notes displaced persons rely on German stocks, depleting surplus, while Allied authorities distribute seed potatoes and wheat to boost production. About 88 percent of Rhine province and 96 percent of Westmark farmland are in use, but fertilizer shortages threaten yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ISTH
15Th Army
Germany
Militar
Rhine
Westmark
Japan Can Sustain Long War Despite Allied Strikes
The Foreign Economic Administration says Japan remains capable of a prolonged war, with inner zone industries intact and synthetic oil plants in operation. Dispersed plants, stockpiles of tin and rubber, and new ore sources in Manchuria and China help offset losses from the East Indies.
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Washington
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Korea
Manchuria
North
China
East Indies
Malaya
Philippines
FEA
Burma
Thailand
Indo-China
Tokyo
Nagoya
Osaka
Kobe
New Plans For Lake Texoma Cabin Sites And Ramps
U S engineers report twelve small parking areas and boat launching ramps will be built around Lake Texoma with heavy graveled ramps and turn-around areas. Cabin site leases begin in early July with more areas opened after survey work completes. The homesite plan fits the postwar Master Plan for work recreation and housing with equal public access.
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Lake Texoma
U. S
Durant Daily Democrat
Homesite
Hitler's Only Full Sister Paula Is Captured in Bavaria
Paula Hitler, Hitler's sister, told American occupation authorities in Berchtesgaden that her brother failed in politics and might have been an architect. She described little family connection with Hitler and recalled a 1941 birthday note and a bacon gift. She was released after questioning yet delayed at a food line.
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Berchtesgaden
Hitler
Paula
Fuehrer
Vienna
Berlin
Bavaria
Weather man predicts more showers across Kansas
Weatherman S. D. Flora, surprised while seeking an umbrella in Topeka, forecast additional rain for Kansas. He cited a northerly wind entering the state that rarely brings rain but warned that clouds cover much of the middle west and rain could occur anywhere.
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Topeka
Kas
S. D. Flora
Kansas
Middlewest
Dionne Quints Celebrating Eleven Years With Concert
Dionne quintuplets Annette Cecile Emilie Marie and Yvonne turn eleven in Callander Ontario. Olive Dionne family attends a nine am high mass and a birthday luncheon. An eight pm concert features all twelve Dionne children with gifts including three bicycles amid wartime shortages.
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Callander
Ont
Canada
Dionne
Annette
Cecile
Emilie
Marie
Yvonne
Olive Dionne
Holman Urges Small Businesses Vital To Economy
Eugene Holman president of Standard Oil of New Jersey told University of Oklahoma graduates that the nation’s economic health relies on many small businesses. He warned against over regulation and excessive individualism while urging ongoing intellectual movement and educational adaptation. Dr. George L. Cross awarded 274 degrees.
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Norman
Okla
Eugene Holman
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
University of Oklahoma
Holman
George L. Cross
Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce
West Lolmond
Plane crashes into car during Wright field aviation show
At Wright field Dayton Ohio an experimental Army plane piloted by Captain William Glasgow aged 28 from Niagara Falls New York crashed into a car driven by Wesley Roehm 23 of Lessburg Ohio killing the pilot and critically injuring five civilians. The crowd of over 70 000 had just cheered as the craft dipped and struck the automobile before flipping into a ditch.
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Dayton
Germany
Wright Field
William Glasgow
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Wesley B. Roehm
Lessburg
Roehm
Truman redecorates White House office with historic portraits
President Truman redecorates the White House office placing George Washington and Simon Bolivar portraits on either side of a picture of the frigate Constitution. A bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson is added on the mantle below Old Ironsides, visible to the president from the desk.
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Washington
Truman
White House
George Washington
Simon Boliva
Constitution
Navy
Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Captain MorganWounded Sniper Graze Near Wallet
Capt. William Stretch Morgan of Sioux Falls South Dakota returned to duty after two months in hospital. He drew his pay and carried 800 pesos in bills in his wallet when a Jop sniper grazed his arm and the bullet embedded in the wallet over his heart, not harming him further.
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Luzon
William “Stretch” Morgan
Sioux Falls
S. D
Wounded and Dead In War From Ada Area Names Listed
Army and Navy casualty lists released show Oklahoma soldiers from Ada and surrounding towns. Names include Navy dead Wesley Ronald Osage Longdale and C N Allgood Shawnee. Army dead Lowell Bunn Broken Bow. wounded include J B Blackburn Ada and L Calhoun Tullahoma with multiple others in the Pacific and various states.
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Army
Navy
OWL
Wesley Ronald Osage
Longdale
Weners
C. N. Allgood
Shawnee
W. E. Bainter
Britton
Cleveland
Tulsa
W. H. Covington
Oklahoma City
E. M. Kilhoffer
Canute
J. S. Miller
Weatherford
Herman E. Miller
USMCR
H. E. Miller
Ada
J. L. Palmer
Hugo
B. J. Robertson
Drumright
H. E. Shook
Pacific
Lowell Bunn
Broken Bow
J. B. Blackburn
Jane C. Blackburn
Wyandone
L. Calhoun
Tullahoma
Prior B. Farve
Overbrook
Edgar Gibson
Texhoma
H. R. Hoble
Vici
Cecil King
McAlester
R. E. Millwee
Carnegie
Garland Pratt
Eufaula
W. S. Ratliff
Duncan
T. A. J J. Walkenbach, Jr
Sand Springs
Jack E. Ray Promoted to Sergeant in England Air Bomber Unit
Jack E. Ray 24 of 609 North Miss. has been promoted from corporal to sergeant at an Eighth Air Force bomber station in England. He serves as a radio operator on a B 17 Flying Fortress and took part in bomber operations over Germany. He is married to Mrs. Margaret P. Ray and is a Sulphur High School graduate who attended Fort Central.
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Jack E. Ray
North Miss
Eighth Air Force
England
Ray
Germany
Margaret P. Ray
Sulphur High School
Fast Central
Army and Navy Casualties Listed Across Oklahoma
The OWI bulletin lists multiple Army and Navy casualties and wounded across Oklahoma. Names include 2nd Lt. K. R. Chastain Avant, Sgt. E. Childers Oil- Army, Pvt. F. E. Pearson Tulsa, Pfc. W. A. Porter Hennepin, and many others from Oklahoma City, Ardmore, Tulsa, and surrounding towns.
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Army
Navy
OWI
Wy A. Matter
Optima
T. L. Morehouse
Cushing
T. E. Burris
Oklahoma City
Thomas Chapman Jr
Pawnee
E. Chelf
Ellis Childers
K. R. Chastain
Avant
W. L. Dixon
Anadarko
A. M. Franco
Waynoka
L. P. Lauderdale
Lindsay
J. W. Martin
D. E. Payton
F. E. Pearson
Tulsa
W. A. Porter
Hennepin
O. B
Wanette
L. Johnson
Wagoner
E. J. Lacer
Wewoka
C. W. Lively Jr
Willow
J. W. Mahan
R. M. Martin
Maramec
C. E. McCabb
Durant
Himmler Buried Unceremoniously In Unmarked Grave
In Lueneburg Germany on May 26 the body of Heinrich Himmler was buried privately and unmarked after capture. A British burial party dumped the corpse in a secret grave with no marker, aiming to hide the location and prevent any monument to the Nazi leader.
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Himmler
Lueneberg
Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Dachau
Belsen
Morrison Official of Administrators Morrison Official of Administrators
Rex O Morrison superintendent of Ada schools was elected vice president of the Association of School Administrators of the Oklahoma Education Association for the year starting July 1 This election makes Morrison a member of the organizations executive committee James R Frazier Wewoka secretary notes the association has been hampered by meetings and urges planning George Hann Ardmore superintendent was elected president
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Rex O. Morrison
Ada
Association of
George Hann
Ardmore
General Doolittle to Lead Eighth Air Force in Pacific
The Eighth Air Force will redeploy to the Pacific under Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle to intensify bombing of Japan with land based four engined bombers and fighter cover. Old and new commanders shuffle as Kepner remains deputy and parts of the force stay in Europe until redeployment is complete.
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Gen. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Pacific
Washington
Germany
James H. Doolittle
Army Air Forces
Japan
Hitler
Europe
Doolittle
Tokyo
William E. Kepner
AAF
Air Force
Kepner
Eighth
Mrs Smith Heads to Baltimore Hospital for Postgrad Nursing
Mildred R. Smith, a 1917 St Vincent Hospital graduate and Navy Nurse Corps veteran, leaves Sunday for Syrenham Hospital in Baltimore for a post graduate course in communicable disease nursing. She has held multiple Oklahoma Nursing Association leadership roles and will be joined later by her son Joe Bernard Smith.
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Mildred R. Smith
Baltimore
Syrenham Hospital
Baltimore City
Smith
St. Vincent Hospital
Sherman
Tex
Navy Nurse Corps
American Legion
Oklahoma Nurses Association
Ardmore
Convicts in Solitary Over Insufficient Prison Funds
Two inmates at the Utah State penitentiary are in solitary confinement after making insufficient fund drafts against accounts they had deposited with prison officials.
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Salt Lake City
Utah State Penitentiary
P. C. Department Offers Employment
The Post Office department in Washington DC has openings for stenographers and typists with annual base pay 1400 dollars plus 312 overtime. Prospects of promotion to CAF-3 are noted. Required typing and stenography experience, minimum age 17, temporary housing provided, applications from students and others for summer work. Further details from the local postmaster.
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Post Office Department
Washington, D. C
Washington
Ringling Man Takes Over Doenitz Staff Aboard Ship
Pi-Lt Dan Jackson of Ringling, traveling with the Allied mission in Flensburg, described taking over the German staff billet aboard a former Hamburg line liner Patria. He ordered German troops off to provide quarters for Allied officers, noting Doenitz was aboard and that guards snapped to attention as he passed. He spoke of language exchanges, K rations, and the ship becoming a temporary Allied HQ until the mission arrived.
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Flensburg
Gymrany
Dan * Jackson
Ringling
Ota
Grand Admit
Karl Doenitz
Ameri Hamburg Line
Jackson
Doenitz
SHAEF
Gépman
Raymond Smith Receives Distinguishing Flying Cross
T/Sgt. Raymond L. Smith an Eighth Air Force aerial engineer on a B 24 Liberator has been awarded the Distinguishing Flying Cross He has flown 29 combat missions attacking Cologne Hamburg Kiel St Lo Berlin Stuttgart and other targets with Allied ground advances His mother Mrs Ollie M Hall lives at Allen and his wife resides in Portland Oregon.
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Raymond L. Smith
Eighth Air Force
Cologne
Haiburg
Kunster
St. Lo
Berlin
Kiel
Saarbruecken
Stuttgart
Ollie M. Hall
Allen
Portland
Egon
Kenneth Charon Promoted to Chief Machinist's Mate
Kenneth B. Charon of Coalgate is advanced to chief machinist's mate in the Navy. He enlisted in 1940, is the son of Mrs. Myrtle Charon, and a 1935 Coalgate High School graduate who studied at Murray State School of Agriculture. He has served on a carrier and participated in actions at Marshall Islands, Truk, Palau, Formosa, the Philippines, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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Kenneth B. Charon
Coalgate
USN
Chief Charon
Navy
Myrtle Charon
Coalgate High School
Murray State School of Agriculture
Tishomingo
Marshall Island
Truk
Palau
Formosa
Philippines
Jesie Gul
Gentry Announces Tax Law Set Up in Oklahoma
State Safety Commissioner J. Mic Gentry announced a permanent organization to enforce motor vehicle, beer, cigarette tax revenue laws. The team draws from the highway patrol, State Bureau of Investigation, Highway Commission, and State Tax Commission to inspect freight transports for proper registration, current plates, and tax stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
J. MicGentry
Highway Patrol State Bureau of
State Highway
Jackson Brothers In Ada Family Tale Tells Of Lt Dana Jackson
The Ada story focuses on Lt Dana Jackson who took over Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz staff billet aboard a ship at Flensberg. He is a brother of Mrs Harmon Ebey of Ada and another Ebey brother was killed in action months ago.
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Dana Jackson
News
Karl Doenitz
Flensberg
Ada
Jackson
Harmon Ebey
Townsend
Ebey
New Orleans Leads U.S. Coffee Consumption Per Capita
New Orleans metro area tops the nation in coffee use with two tablespoons per cup and many children starting the beverage by age ten or younger.
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New Orleans
United States
Elders' Funds Grow With Seventh War Loan Plan
Ada News outlines how dividing your elderly’s assets into the Seventh War Loan yields greater returns. The article explains reinvestment options and cautions on risk versus government-backed security.
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Duce
By Daniel Deluce
Ada News
Standard Oil Head
Jack Ray
Charles Chamberlain
Gen. Kepner
Mrs. Smith
Baltimore Hospital
P. C. Department
Raymond Smith
Kenneth Charon
Gentry
News Sunday
Stali Bilice
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