Churchill Charged With Delaying V E Day Strategy
The Saturday Evening Post editor Martin Sommers accuses Winston Churchill of persuading FDR to delay the 1943 invasion of Normandy and favor the North African campaign. Sommers cites conversations with top American leaders including Marshall and Wedemeyer and notes a shift to the 1944 invasion plan.
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Troop arrivals reach two ships from Bremerhaven and Pearl Harbor
The Lehigh Victory carrying 560 troops and 141 war brides and the George W. Goethals with 140 troops are due in New York from Bremerhaven on Wednesday. In San Francisco the General H. Hunter is due from Pearl Harbor on Wednesday with 391 marines, 221 dependents, and four army personnel.
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San Francisco
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Pearl Harbor
Boone Family to Speak at Sunshine Mission Hearings
The Rev. Edward Boone of Des Moines will speak at Sunshine Mission Wednesday and Thursday at 7 30 p m. Mrs Boone joins the program as do congregational and special singing led by Leland and Mrs Roesink of Cedar Rapids. The Boones, known from radio as the Boone Family, include a composer and author of nine books who leads First Pilgrim Church in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
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Boone
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First Pilgrim Church
No Time To Play Good Samaritan
A boy named George Schmidt slipped on ice in a stream and lay submerged for 90 minutes before a mailman found him. He was unconscious and treated for exposure and a leg fracture after the incident in Hatboro Pennsylvania. A passerby declined to help quoting he had to catch a bus.
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Hatboro
George Schmidt
George
Eccentric leaves estate to childhood love in Maine link
Walter Lynes Smith a 70 year old eccentric dies in St Louis and leaves his entire estate valued at 50 000 to 100 000 to his childhood sweetheart Miss Kate Merryman of Brunswick Maine. The will drawn May 19 1925 in Smiths room at the Kingsway hotel details odd habits and a late heart attack death.
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Kingsway
Notice of Appointment Executrix in Linn County Iowa
Elizabeth Engberg appointed executrix of Mae Stickney Inte of Linn County Iowa deceased on January 21 1947. All debts owed to estate should be paid and all claims must be filed with the Linn County District Court clerk through Kubicek Novak Kubicek Attorneys.
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Linn County
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Aurt
Bombs explode in pastry shops in central Barcelona
Two small bombs detonated in pastry shops near central Barcelona on Wednesday. No casualties reported and damage was minor.
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