Salute to a Lady Oy by Victoria Wolf and wartime memories
A vivid fragment recounts Red Cross nurses en route to North Africa during World War II. The narrator joins American troops in Algiers after Darlan's ceasefire order, meets Mrs. Lindsay and a French hospital staff, and observes logistics, food transport, and cross-cultural interactions amid mounting anticipation of battles in Oran and Casablanca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Morse
Americas Hurteng
Anna
Yvonne
Elizabeth
North Africa
Algiers
Florence Nightingale
Darlan
Cesser le Feu
Oran
Casablanca
Lindsay
al- &Trian
le Societe Anonyme
Lyon
Marseille
Avenue of Palms
Lolase
Anis
France
Paris
South Dakota Weekly Farm Review Highlights Big Crop Prospects
The extension service urges farmers to prep storage as threshing starts and warns of possible elevator jams similar to 1942 due to transport and labor issues. It notes government loans on multiple grains, pheasant damage to corn and sorghum, and a large harvest labor need with 5,000 extra seasonal workers and 300 custom combines planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extension
Nsion Service of
South Dakota
Biste College
State College Extension Service
Mark Nelson
Nelson
Otto Thue
Hamlin
Thue
W. E. Dittmer
State College Extension Sevice
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
AAA and
Extension Service
Tabor
Office of Labor
Dittmer
AAA
Department of Agriculture
Brookings Man Named To Library Board
Chester Linscheid of Brookings named to the state library commission to serve out the term of H. D. Stallings. Stallings resigned to enter the navy, with the term ending in April 1946. Governor Sharpe announced the appointment on July 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookings
Pierre
Chester Linscheid
State Library Commission
Sharpe
Linscheid
H. D. Stallings
Honor Custer Family At Picnic Dinner
A picnic and family reunion in Springs Park honored Mr and Mrs C W Smith and their two children of Custer. Attending were the families of Julius Brandenburg Ernest Brandenburg James Linafelter Sam Burnis John Kieffer and Frank Dethlefs and all their married children.
Baby Kidnapped From Crib Sparks City Search
New York police launch one of the citys largest kidnapping hunts for six month old Barbara Anne Goggin who vanished from the New York Foundling Hospital crib. Assistant District Attorney Alfred J Scotti says no definite clue exists and officials say the investigation stalls. The childs mother prepares for gall bladder surgery and was unaware of the disappearance until a nurse reported the crib missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Barbara Anne Goggin
Alfred J. Scotti
Patrick Kenny
Scotti
Atbara
Anne
Walter Goggin
Saipan gains, Nagumo death noted as Guam invasion looms
In a Saipan dispatch, U S forces say they overran two Japanese garrisons near the Tanapag harbor entrance while Saipan air and naval units neutralize Japanese facilities on Tinian. A communique confirms the deaths of Vice Admiral Nagumo and Rear Admiral Yano on Saipan as operations press toward Guam with heavy burial counts of Japanese dead and Garapan cited as the former central Pacific HQ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tinian
Saipan
Tanapag Harbor
Adm
Chuichi Nagarmo
Central Pacific
Japanese Imperial Navy
Yano
Nagumo
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Guam
U.S
Tokyo
Nimitz
Japan
Garapan
Central Pacific Area
Mackenzie Warns Hitler Threat Demands United Action
The editorial voice portrays Adolf Hitler as a savage dictator whose past atrocities prove he seeks a bloodbath to conquer Europe. It calls on the German people to reject such course and urges the United Nations to mobilize fully to defeat Nazism and Prussianism. The piece stresses fear and resolve as Germany’s menace grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacKenzie
Hitler
Europe
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
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Mr. Nebsen
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Livestock Improvement Association
Agi
Westra
Greer Garson
TE Studios
Gee
Ron Corr Yoo
Bud
Mae
Sahib
Apiai
Sea
Vel
Iema
Pondent Poe
RK Shill Square
Mazor
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