Marines survive four days adrift in Guadalcanal jungle stream
Lt. Robert N. Harris and Sgt. Richard H. Gilbert Jr. crash during a training flight in Guadalcanal. They ride a jungle river on a rope of parachute shroud for four days, fording rapids and avoiding food, until rescued near the sea. They reach Aola station, receive meals and care, and return to camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Hague
Marine Corps
Guadalcanal
CNS
Robert N. Harris
Denver
Richard H.gilbert, Jr
Rockwell City
Harris
Gilbert
Joe
Reveille
Aola
Mother appeals to Roosevelt to let Medal of Honor hero visit
Pittsburgh AP reports Mrs Irene Kelly, blind and nearly deaf, asks President Roosevelt to grant a furlough home for her son Tech. Sgt. Charles E. Kelly, recent Medal of Honor recipient in Italy. Seven sons in service. Howard 16 and Danny 11 at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Kelly
Roosevelt
Tech
Charles E. Kelly
Italy
Irene Kelly
Howard
Danny
Charles
Mom
Linn county inducts 28 into armed forces in Friday sendoff
Twenty-eight men from Linn county selective service boards 2 and 1 left for active service Friday morning comprising 15 in the army and 13 in the navy. Names include Paul Sperry Cedar Rapids Charles Ross Don Donegan Peter Rathmann and many others with residences in Marion Cedar Rapids Ankeny and Alburnett. Navy inductees include Watson Springville Gramling Alburnett Etzel Palo and others. Five more left after induction furloughs, with three navy and two army selections from board No 1 East Side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Selective Service Board No. 2
Army
Navy
United Service Aides
Paul Calvin Sperry
Cedar Rapids
Charles Edmond Ross
Fifth Avenue
Donald Franklin Donegan
Thirty-fourth Street
Peter Nick’ Rathmann
Ankeny
Weston Edwin Carver
Marion
Gayten Merle Caylor
Dale Otis Taylor
625 Sixth Street
Donald DeVere Knudsen
Center Point
Eugene Ware Dunn
Henry Adam Stark
Francis Burl Andrews
Benjamin Lloyd Wright
Keokuk
Dorman Clifford Bowyers
Earnest Tilton Hooker
Alburnett
Robert Gale Wilkes
Redwood City
Calif
William Merritt Watson
Mason Dale Gramling
Springville
Kenneth Erwin Etzel
Curtis Jerald Hayes
Palo
Arthur Emerson Burton
Ferguson
Robert Merle Techau
Second Street
Franklin Leroy Chrisman
Leland Ward Burns
Ralph Frederick Rauch
Edward Clair Freeman
Marion Jesse Price
Coggan
Melvin Earl Jones
L Street
Noel Albert Rose
Ellis Boulevard
Linn County Board No. 1
East Side
Robert Charles Chamipar
Tenth Street
Robert W. Barnett
Third Avenue
Frank A. Remington
William S. Baird
Fifteenth Street
William Floyd Abshire
Swisher
Dorothy Mueller Receives Columbia Lydia Roberts Fellowship
Dorothy Mueller daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Mueller Jr of 1701 C avenue NE earned first honors at Coe college and won a Lydia Roberts fellowship for 1944 45 at Columbia university She plans a masters in social science and held multiple honors including Knox scholarship Phi Kappa Phi Crescent Alpha Lambda Delta and leadership roles in Alpha Xi Delta YWCA Mu Phi Epsilon Dorian Pi Gamma Mu and Phi Sigma Iota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Mueller
Frank Mueller
C Avenue
Coe College
Lydia Roberts
Columbia University
Coe
Miss Mueller
Knox
Phi Kappa Phi
Crescent
Alpha Lambda Delta
Alpha Xi Delta Social Sorority
Y.W.C.A
Mu Phi Epsilon
Dorian
Pi Gamma Mu
Phi Sigma Iota
Debate on 18 year olds voting in society
Editor draft argues against granting 18 year olds the vote citing age of majority and educational status. Letter from Don Andrew at 1003 Fourteenth Avenue SW urges adults to decide presidents while youths learn citizenship and voting importance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Don Andrew
Fourteenth Avenue SW
Masaryk Heads Czechoslovak Delegation to Labor Conference
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of the exiled Czech government, will lead its delegation to the International Labour Conference in Philadelphia. The announcement came Friday from London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jan Masaryk
Philadelphia
Challenges to Hawaii Martial Law Questioned
In Honolulu a habeas corpus hearing questioned the necessity of martial law in Hawaii. Defense counsel asserted more than 2,000,000 tons of cargo reached Honolulu in 1942 1943 without ship losses despite attacks. He cited military intelligence letters claiming no sabotage and quotes from Halsey Hale and others arguing Hawaii was a support base rather than a combat area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Hawaii
Delbert C. Metzger
Garner Anthony
Pearl Harbor
William F. Halsey
Willis Hale
Non-Combatants Return to Gibraltar After Absence
Dispatches from La Linea report 1,400 women, children and other non-combatants returned to the Rock from refuge. Children play in the streets of Gibraltar signaling resumed normal life after nearly four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Gibraltar
la Linea
Rock
Allied Airs Bomb Zagreb and Italy in Intensive War Raid
American Fifteenth Air Force heavy bombers struck Zagreb's German airfield while Spitfires hit Banja Luka and airfields near Sarajevo. In Italy medium bombers attacked Perugia, Terni hydro plant, Capronica rail hub, and Rome outskirts. March anti aircraft claims cite 80 to 136 German planes destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Naples
United States
Fifteenth Air Force
Balkan
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Anzio
Carrace
Fifth Army
Associated Press
Kenneth L. Dixon
Rome
Dixon
Cassino
Banja Luka
Sarajevo
Italy
Perugia
Terni
Capronica
Maccarese
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Native Hut
Hero
F.R
Columbia
People’s Forum
Masaryk
Croat
U. S. Navy
Mt. Vesuvius
San Sebastiano
Gazette
Charlie Harmer
The
Charlie
Charles A. Lindbergh
Marine Hospital
Staten Island
N. Y
Louis Oliver
Princeton
N. J
Vinh
Indo-China
U. S. Army
14Th Air Force
Hanoi
Gulf of Tonkin
Kantokuzenka
Russia
Jodessa
Akker
Ovidiopol
Black Sea
RED
Odessa
Baden
Starlye-Belyary
Ubanka
Dniester
Bessarabia
Burma
O. C. Kissinger
Glenvil Village
Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot
Hastings
Neb
Will Rogers
Okloma City
John Bayne
Arthiganish, Nova
Scona
John Druffel
Hyde Park
Circinnati
Ohio
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