Allied Alignment South of Europe Has Axis Puzzled
Allied planners weight multiple threatenings along the southern European coast. The Axis defends 3000 miles of coastline from Spain to the Dodecanese and Corsica to Crete, while Allied forces mass across North Africa and the Middle East. Observers note Montgomery’s movements, supply timelines, and air dominance as decisive factors before any Sicily invasion.
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Pantelleria
Crete
Aegean
Dodecanese Islands
Mark W. Clark
Algeria
Tunisia
Scribes Indictment Flailed as Free Press Defense
Julius Klein of the St Louis Star Times is indicted on charges of offering bribes to two jail inmates to alter their testimony about Edward Melendes's death in a police station cell. The newspaper denounces the move as an attack on press freedom while Klein denies the accusations as false.
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Edward Melendes
Star-Times
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Circuit Court
Warren P. Gresham
James P. Carleton
Melendes
Gresham
Carleton
Andrew Brinkley
Brinkley
Roosevelt dodges press freedom question at Hot Springs
President Roosevelt declined to comment on reports that reporter restrictions at the United Nations food conference limit press freedom. He joked about adding seating for journalists, noting one suggestion for a cabinet room tier and joking about observers in his office.
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Roosevelt
Hot Springs
White House
Soviet Report Claims Heavy Losses in Kuban River Action
Soviet midday communique says Russian troops repelled a German attack northeast of Novorossisk and killed about 100 Germans while sinking four boats. German sources say Reds massing near Leningrad Kuban and Orel sectors with artillery duels in Donets basin Seiysk region and a Soviet pilot captured the downed German crew after forcing their aircraft to land.
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Donets
Sievsk
Live Grenade in Paralyzed Hand Saves Marine
Pfc. Nesh Phillips of Fayetteville North Carolina 22 survived a live grenade explosion on Guadalcanal after his right arm and hand were paralyzed by shrapnel. He fell forward pushing the grenade into the mud as it exploded and credits instinct for saving his life.
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Brenda Marshall Expecting Baby in November
Hollywood film star Brenda Marshall is reportedly expecting a baby in November according to a studio disclosure made on Wednesday.
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Brenda Marshall
Williamsburg Woman to Swear In as Waves Recruit
Jane Gilmore Blythe of Williamsburg will join about 30 young women sworn into the Waves and Spars at a mass enlistment ceremony in Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum on Friday evening, May 28. She earned a liberal arts degree from the University of Iowa last Easter and previously studied at Santa Maria junior college and Whittier college.
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Williamsburg
Memorial Coliseum
Cedar Rapids
Fred R. Blythe
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University of Iowa
Santa Maria Junior College
Whittier College
California
Delta Xi Omega Dramatic Sorority
First Cedar Rapids oath ceremony to enlist women of service
Eastern Iowa will see young women take allegiance oaths for military service in a Cedar Rapids recruiting office program. The event includes the Preflight School band from Iowa City and a large Waves and Spars contingent from Cedar Falls training station, with a speaker to finish the program.
Escort Carriers Battling U-Boats
A British port disclosed the newest United Nations counter measure to U boat danger, with HMS Battler among the first of its kind built under lend lease by Ingalls at Pascagoula. Commissioned last October, these carriers will guard convoys especially in the mid Atlantic blind spot beyond shore patrols.
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Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Pascagoula
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mid-Atlantic
Battleship Battler detailed with seven decks and heavy armament
The Battler features seven decks and hangars for fighter and torpedo bomber squadrons, with workshops for machinery replacement and all-welded prefabricated construction. The flight deck runs 450 by 80 feet. Length is 492 feet with a crew of 70 officers and 450 men, including 30 officers and 150 sailors of the fleet air arm. One squadron assigned has already bagged 23 Nazi planes.
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Fleet Air Arm
Churchill's Grandchild Born in London Family Adds Fourth Child
Prime Minister Churchill's son in law Lieut. Col. Edwin Duncan Sandys and his wife welcomed a daughter in London. The baby is the couple's fourth child, deepening the Sandys family line in the wartime era.
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Churchill
Edwin Duncan Sandys
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