Parsons named coach at Charleston Catholic and Stonewall Jackson
Kanawha county schools announce Russ Parsons as head coach and athletic director at Stonewall Jackson high school, replacing Lawrence Fields who resigned. Clyde Hutson remains as first assistant coach in charge of basketball.
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Oak Hill
Stonewall Jackson High School
Kanawha County
Virgil Flinn
Clyde
Pud) Hutson
Parsons
Lawrence
Shorty) Fields
Colin Rae Chooses Freedom Over Fort MacKenzie
Colin Rae rejects Winnipeg orders and plans to trap on his own, triggering a high stakes confrontation with Rae’s company. As northern isolation deepens, Colin builds a dog team and explores love with Irina while Blair and Tennant face tangled loyalties and a looming conflict at Learmonth.
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Rae
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Tennant
Nate
Dave
Colin Rae
Irina
Trapper
Learmonth
Neverhter
Alec
Trading Post
Ma Corrigate
Lovelorn
Nate Tennant
Soldiers Widow pensions linger as Civil War vets fade
Philadelphia notes the nation nears the end of Civil War veterans with 625 survivors as of 1943 and 32,557 widows on pension rolls. A lone War of 1812 pensioner, age 87, remains, while many widows wed for income.
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Philadelphia
United States Veterans Administration
Congress
Wasted Time Votja Benes Warns On Education
Votja Benes of the Czechoslovak State Council in London argues that Russia’s war effort benefits from a centralized education program combining schools, press, home, and radio. He notes American schooling remains largely confined to classrooms and hours, while homes no longer serve as study centers as in the past.
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Votja Benes
Czechoslovak State Council
London
Germany
United States
Ten Years in Japan reviewed by Selby
JOHN SELBY discusses Joseph Grew's Ten Years in Japan Simon and Schuster 53 70 summarizing Grew's Tokyo ambassadorship from 1932 to Pearl Harbor The book compiles diary speeches and letters to document a decade of US Japan tension and evasive diplomacy amid aggression and expediency
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Japan
Joseph Clark Grew
Simon and Schuster
Grew
Tokyo
Hoover
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
United States
Damocles
America
Grews
China
Indies
Ambassador Grew
Red Skelton Farewell Radio Program May End
Red Skelton plans what was billed as his final radio broadcast May 25 before a possible appeal to his draft status. The piece notes the 100th telegraph anniversary observances with CBS NBC and networks listing talks from Washington and entertainment programs through the night.
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Bernard Baruch
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Bob Hope
Lend-Lease
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Judy Canova
Burns and Allen
Geo. Jessel
Morton Gould
Gorwin
Tel Aviv
Milt Berle
Duffy's Tavern
Paul Lukas
Pick and
Pat
Nick Carter
San Quentin Prison
Sinfonteta
West Virginia War Dept announces temporary promotions
War department announces temporary promotions today with names listed including First Lieutenant to captain Lee zrogs Inf Charleston and Arnold Jarrett Given MC Rensford. Second to first lieutenant James He Tennant Sig C Barracl Kermit Angus Lock¢ 218 Beaver Ave Beckley Thomas Alexis Cook AUS 1419.
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Leutenant
Lee Zrogs
Inf
Charleston
Arnold Jarrett Given
Propaganda claims and Allied surrender in Japanese rhetoric
The article discusses Tokyo's wartime propaganda predicting total Allied surrender and domination of Asia. It notes American observers saw this as a deliberate effort to maintain a victory psychology, while occupied countries largely ignored the theme and risked attention to Japan potentially losing the war.
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Central
Western Pacific
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Far East
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Dean
Ceatrs
Victory Garden
Native mission tale ties to severed heads in New Guinea
Torino related how Father Luttman a German missionary who later died in captivity gave Biblical phrases to the native translator. Beuers recalled the missionary's sadness over potential executions and Turinosa refusal of absolution. Days later Beuers said locals reported the Americans' heads had been cut off though details remained uncertain.
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Torino
Beuers
Father Luttman
New Guinea
Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Renew Italy Assault
Lt Gen Mark W Clark visited the beachhead as Allied forces pressed renewed action in Italy. A May 23 coastal attack by the Fifth Army and an eight army strike targeted German lines with heavy bombing by Liberators and Flying Fortresses. No German fighters were observed during the heavy air offensive.
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Mark W. Clark
U. S
Italy
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
British and German Forces Clash Near Rome Frontline
Berlin dispatches report the Fifth Army assault after heavy artillery, striking southwest and west of Aprilia and in the Cisterna Littoria area. German HQ says reserves pushed south of Rome into the Hitler line as Allied beachhead and main forces counterattack, engaging seventeen German divisions, several already badly mauled.
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Berlin
Fifth Army
Aprilia
Cisterna-Littoria
Rome
Allied Eighth Army Near Cassino With Strong Points Held
In Italy the fifth army pressed northeast of Terracina while the Eighth Army advanced in the Liri valley. London reported Brendan Bracken quoting a German thrashing by Gen Alexander. In Piedimonte near Cassino, Eighth Army forces including Polish troops surrounded the town with street fighting ongoing at strong points four miles west of Cassino.
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Fifth Army
Terracina
Eighth Army
Liri
London
Brendan Bracken
Harold) Alexander
Piedimonte
Cassino
Philippines Raid Marks 15th May Bomber Hit On Ponape Base
Fleet commander in San Francisco and Admiral Nimitz at Pearl Harbor report Seventh Army Air Force bombers struck Ponape in the Japanese Carolines for the 15th time this May. Navy aircraft also blasted enemy installations Friday and Saturday as operations intensified against these isolated targets.
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Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape
Carolines Base
Navy
Montgomery plant seized after labor practice dispute
The plant was seized by the government April 26 amid labor practices controversy. A cyclone typically travels at about 20 miles per hour, notes the report, which continues from page 1.
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Montgomery
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