French National Committee of Liberation Formed in Algiers
The French National Committee of Liberation announced its final structure with fourteen ministers. De Gaulle and Giraud share leadership while one member is neutral, guiding war efforts, sovereignty in occupied territories, treaty making, and accrediting diplomats, with a special war committee to handle war matters.
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Algiers
France
French National Committee of Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
Effe.t. de
Burch Truck Lines Incorporated Articles of Incorporation
Public notice of incorporation outlines the corporate name Burch Truck Lines Incorporated with principal office in Cedar Rapids. It details objects to operate a general trucking and construction business, real estate ownership, and machinery, plus contracts to service equipment and build projects nationwide. It sets capital stock at 100000 dollars, stock issuance rules, governance by a board, officer roles, meeting rules, and legal protections for stockholders. Proceedings dated April 14, 1941, with Byron B. Bur as president and L. Burch as secretary.
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Iowa
Burch Truck Lines
Cedar Rapids
Inn County
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Corprate
Rticle TV
Executive Council of
Secretary of State
Oo Corporation
Esc
Jonas McCullough
Lows
R . L. Burch
Madison
Shaw
Presient
Byron B
Wisconsin
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McCullough
Rapis
Wisnsin
Wee Leasure
Serb
Barnes. Chamberlain
Hanzlika Worth
Gaullist Committee Names 12 Associate Members and Portfolios
Gaulle and Giraud will alternately preside over the committee. The 12 associate members and their portfolios include Gen Georges Catroux on Moslem affairs Jean Monnet on arms and supplies Andre Philip interior and underground activities Rene Massigli foreign affairs Gen Alphonse Georges without portfolio Henri Bonnet information Rene Plevens colonial affairs Andre Tixier labor and social affairs Rene Mayer communications and merchant marine Dr Jean Abadie justice national education and public health Maurice de Murville finance and Andre Diethelm production.
Army Engineers Recruiter to Visit Cedar Rapids Monday
Lieut Paul O Jensen, special army engineer recruiting officer, will be at the Cedar Rapids army recruiting office in the post office all day Monday June 14 to interview and accept applicants for a new campaign to enlist 9 000 men monthly. Eligible are men 18 to 50. those enlisted receive a letter to induction stations and go to Westoverield Mass or Camp Claiborne La for basic training. Able bodied construction workers truck drivers painters warehousemen mechanics and many skilled workers are needed. If unable to attend local office interviews may be held at Des Moines recruiting office Iowa Ordnance plant Burlington or Schick General Hospital Clinton.
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Paul O. Jensen
Cedar Rapids
Jack Mobley
Westoverield
Mass
Camp Claiborne
Des Moines
Iowa Ordnance Plant
Burlington
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Company Insists on Slacks. Girls Strike
DETROIT UP Fifty seven women office workers at the Ford Highland Park plant staged a sit down strike Monday in protest against a company order forcing them to wear slacks. The girls came to the plant wearing summer frocks and were ordered to go home and change to slacks. They refused and returned to their typewriters and sat down. A company spokesman said the rule requires girls whose work takes them into the plant to wear slacks. They were not fired or suspended.
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Detroit
Ford
Frost Bite Among Attu Troops Reveals Harsh Frontline Hardships
Nearly 400 Attu veterans recount brutal frostbite and gunshot wounds suffered while fighting in the captured Aleut outpost. Two hundred endured frostbite mainly in the feet as others were wounded. Tales from Laddie Gargulak, Anthon y Sniegolski, and Jacob Chir highlight wet feet, fog, bayonet charges, and close combat with Japanese soldiers.
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San Francisco
Attu
Tian
San Francisco Army Hospital
Corp
Gargulak
Holtz Bay
Pvt
Anthony Sniegolski
Chicago
Sniegolski
Peril in Northwest Australia Remains Underappreciated
Allied fronts in northwestern Australia face a dangerous hold line as American and Australian forces struggle to disrupt Japan's vast empire. An 8,000 mile inspection reports improved but limited ties at home and abroad, urging stronger leadership to press the campaign behind the seas and bases.
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Australia
Ins
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Netherlands Indies
Reconnaissance sweep reveals vast Pacific theater threat
Interview with bomber crews describes a 600000 square mile area of operations extending to Surabaya and a rebuilt Japanese waterfront. Pilots report massive shipping and reinforced enemy strength visible across the front, lamenting that home perception lags behind the actual scale of the campaign.
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Surabaya
Pearl Harbor
Japan
United State
Australia
United States
10 Mile Hike for Carrier Pigeon
At Fort George G. Meade Maryland a carrier pigeon named Clarence drew sympathy from recruits as he endured a 10 mile hike from Odenton where released with others. The flock returned quickly. Clarence arrived the next afternoon exhausted with oil on his wing feathers preventing flight.
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Fort George G. Meade
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