Smuts Sees Three Front War To Decisive End
Field Marshal Jan Smuts predicted a three front assault on Europe from the east west and south. He said a combined drive would roll back Hitler faster than a single front and could decide the war sooner. Smuts urged a postwar world security body modeled on part of the League of Nations with great powers bearing initial responsibility for peace.
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England
Adolf Hitler
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Smuts
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Europe
World Organization For Security
League of Nations
Escaped German POWs Surrender After Night in Fields
Two German prisoners of war Sgt Gerbert Zeh and Pvt Werner Friedrich who escaped Thursday from a Camp Grant detail surrendered after eight cold hours in wet asparagus fields near Rochelle Illinois. They went to the farm home of John Behrends by nine pm and begged help to return to Camp Grant as Maj A E Mealiff Camp Grant PR director arranged FBI contact and transport.
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Rochelle
Gerbert Zeh
Wener Friedrich
John Behrends
A. E. Mealiff
Behrends
FBI
Chicago
Seven killed in collision at Mt Carmel grade crossing
At Mt Carmel Illinois seven persons seven deaths resulted when an automobile collided with a New York Central passenger train just before midnight Thursday. Four teenage girls and three youths among the dead. Authorities investigated the grade crossing accident and identified the victims.
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MT. Carmel, Ill
New York Central
Leaves From A War Correspondent Notebook
London AP notes sailors swap tales of girls and submarines as U boats threat recedes. A mixed U.S. crew recalls survived attacks, torpedo jitters, and a bombing near Murmansk. Red and Bybus reflect on war memories and a possible future in politics.
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Army
Navy
United States
Murmansk
Trinidad
Red
U S Planes Bomb Mandated Islands
American planes struck hard at Japanese positions across the mandated islands. They knocked out gun positions bombed airfields and sank ships in sustained air operations.
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U.S
Mandated Islands
Washington
Eoiawishee 1283 Gazette Company Notice Card
Notice appears as a historical Cedar Rapids posting indicating second class mail status from June 18 1932. It references Cedar laws and post office procedures under the March 3 act and credits Associated Press United Press International for news service.
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Icard Ave
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Laws
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
Allied Air Attacks Hit Wake Nauru and Ponape Islands
Allied planes struck Wake Island causing large fires after hitting Peacock Point and Wilkes Island. Nauru faced phosphate plant strikes with heavy anti aircraft fire while Mitchell bombers sparked explosions. A damaged aircraft returned to base with both crew wounded. Ponape endured heavy sea and air attacks on seaplane bases and airfields.
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Wake Island
Peacock Point
Wilkes Island
Carolines
Nauru Island
Ers
Ponape Island
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