Allen, Now Nazi Prisoner, Tells Of 28 Months With British Fleet
Larry Allen recounts 28 months aboard British battleships carriers cruisers and destroyers in the Mediterranean. He describes near nightly dive bombing and torpedo attacks totaling 110000 miles of dangerous cruising, escapes from death, and a daring rescue after a Galatea torpedo strike. He was later captured in Tobruk.
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Allen
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Wide World
New York
Tobruk
Britain
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Henry Harwood
Mediterranean Fleet
Jonah
Pantelleria
Rey
Valletta
Malta
He's On Winning Side In This War
ST PAUL Oct 8 A Barnesville Minn school bus driver who fought two years in the German army during World War I has picked a winner this time Emil Schneider 44 now awaiting induction into the United States Army at Fort Snelling He served as a corporal in the German army took part in major Argonne Forest battles and was wounded twice Schneider immigrated to the United States in 1924 He has had no word from his family in years and believes a brother may be in the German army today
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ST. Paul
Barnesville
Minn
Emil Schneider
United States
Fort Snelling
Argonne Forest
Schneider
Germany on brink of collapse predicts Allied victory in a year
Dr. Mel Palyi, international economist, told a wartime conference in Chicago that September marked the turning point in favor of the Allies and that Germany would fall within about a year if Allied bombing halts 25 percent of its production. He warned Germany’s war effort could collapse as it battles on multiple fronts and noted his former role as adviser to Berlin banks.
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Chicago
Melchoir Palyi
Germany
Palyi
National Restaurant Association
Dr. Palyi
Reichsbank
Deutsche Bank
Berlin
ROTC Instructors Ordered to Attend Fitness School
Brookings two day program runs October 18 to 21 at South Dakota State College under Col R W Briggs. Training covers commando drills judo and parachutist exercises with Capt Raillins Emmierich coordinating. Brig Irwin invites university and college physical education instructors in the Seventh Service Command to attend. Namur Belgium famed for historic river floods and stilt waters component noted.
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Brookings
Seventh Service Command
R. W. Briggs
South Dakota State College
Burr PF
Irwin
State College
ROTC
Raillins Emmierich
State
Col-lege
Briggs
Alpena Study Club Meets for Paper and Lunch
The Progressive Study Club met at Mrs. J. E. Shull’s home Thursday afternoon with good attendance. Mrs. Lewis Aye presented a paper and lunch was served.
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Alpena
Progressive Study Club
J. E. Shull
Lewis Aye
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