Gripsholm to unload Red Cross parcels for POWs
About 900 Americans and Britons waited aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm as it unloaded roughly 1,600 Red Cross mail parcels for prisoners of war in Germany. The ship plans to dock in North Africa and the United Kingdom on return, arriving in New York around June 10.
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Spain
Gripsholm
Red Cross
Germany
Washington
State Department
North Africa
United Kingdom
New York
Gadisca
Larry Allen
Associated Press
International Red Cross
Berlin
Marti
Allen
Postwar airline seeks New York to Moscow service
United States Midnight Sun Air Line of Whitehouse New Jersey applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to operate a route linking New York with Moscow via stops in Canada Greenland Iceland Norway and Finland with layovers to Lea.
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New York
United States
Midnight Sun Airline
Whitehouse
N. J
Civil Aeronautics Board
Moscow
Lea
Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Norway
Finland
Russia Poland Take Step Toward Unity
Washington May 18 Russia and Poland showed a small but real start toward patching differences and optimism grew that a UN breach could close. Polish council in London urged separating successor to the president from the commander in chief Sosnkowski.
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Russia
Poland
Washington
United Nations
Polish National Council
London
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Orlemanski
J. Oskar Lange
University of Chicago
Norfolk editor chosen to helm Norfolk Se{?}er-Dispatch
Lenoir Chambers named editor of the Norfolk Star Dispatch to succeed the late Gordan. Chambers, ex associate editor of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot since 1929, has wide prior experience in Greensboro and UNC news work. He is a World War I veteran and active in Norfolk civic groups.
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Norfolk, Va
Lenoir Chambers
Norfolk Secter-Dispatch
Gordon
Paul S. Huber
Norfolk Newspapers, Inc
Huber
Joseph A. Leslie, Jr
Henry D. Perkins
Chambers
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Virginian-Pilot
Greensboro Daily News
Norfolk
University of North Carolina
Phi Beta Kappa
Columbia University School of Journalism
New York
New Republic News Service
Washington
Mr. Chambers
Charlotte
N. C
Woodbury Forest School
Virginia
American Expeditionary Force
France
American Army of Occupation
Germany
Norfolk Forum
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Carbine praised by Merritt Raiders commander
Merritt’s Raiders veteran says the Fri ordnance carbine is fast handling and gets a bullet into a Jap in a hurry. The remark underscores close combat effectiveness cited by the unit in Boston.
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Carbine
Boston
INS
Merrit Edaon
U.S.M.C
Merrirtt
Raiders
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