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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1942
Page
9
Wartime analysis notes German and Russian moves in Ukraine and Crimea, with Timoshenko pressing Kharkov while German forces threaten Kerch. Observers doubt a clean advance toward the Caucasus, citing Sevastopol, Black Sea base, and Finnish blockage as complicating factors.
German army men scout private tips about Gen. Emmanuel List, Hitler’s blitzkrieg expert, to Norway. He is reported to be in Latvia, prompting speculation he might organize a northern drive from both sides as Swedish resistance weighs options and sea routes across the Gulf of Finland.
Minneapolis born custody case centers on Judith Ann 5, amid a 1937 Rochester kidnapping. Mrs. Vern Ashcroft says a cafe owner abducted her baby at gunpoint and later placed the child with a Minneapolis couple, now challenged through habeas corpus. The Jensens claim adoption proceedings were started with the child.
The record notes that Judith Ann received the children from a third party and that the custodial party had never met the childrens mother.
Dr. C. F. Phillips, acting head of the tire rationing division, said rubber shortages are so severe that army tanks are being equipped with steel treads. He warned thousands of private automobile owners may soon surrender tires to the federal government for essential transportation.
London AP reports several MPs form a new party named the People. Led by W. G. Brown the group opposes Prime Minister Churchill and suggests a focus on abolishing inefficiency in politics. Founding members include Capt Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid and Edgar Louis Granville.
Springfield reports Dr. Gerald D Timmons of the American Dental Association and the procurement and assignment service states every U S dentist under 37 who is physically and professionally qualified will be inducted under current plans.
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