Who's News This Week Feature by Lemuel P Parton
A collage of wartime rumor and notable figures. Elmer Davis narrates a prize controversy over a $50,000 serial prize with a New York novelist and a runner up, then Lieut. Gen Delos Emmons' rise from rejected to pivotal air service figure. Also noted: Britain’s education chief Richard Austen Butler and Cambridge roots shaping policy.
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EW York
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
New York
Ace
City Room
Miss Blank
Delos C. Emmons
Air Service
Midway Island
Emmons
Hawaiian Department
Roosevelt
Army
Harvard University
Hawaii
Islands
Eighteenth Wing Command
March Field
Calif
Nazi Sabotage Plot Foiled on Amagansett and Ponte Vedra Beaches
FBI rounds up eight master saboteurs trained by Nazi experts landed by submarines at Amagansett Long Island and Ponte Vedra Florida. They buried explosives and carried $170000 in currency with forged credentials. Accomplices arrested in Chicago. Russian front reports Kursk offensive activity and Soviet counterattacks near Kharkov era.
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United States
FBI
Amagansett Beach
Long Island
Ponte Vedra Beach
Fla
Hell Gate Railroad Bridge
New York City
New York
Chicago
US confirms heavy bomber involvement in Bremen raid
The British air raid on Bremen marks a rare acknowledgment that U S made aircraft joined major operations. Reported aircraft include Lockheed Hudsons normally used for anti submarine work at sea rather than base bombing roles.
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Royal Air Force
Bremen
Nazi spies captured in East as sabotage plot is foiled
Western Newspaper Union reports that federal agents halted a sabotage plan by Nazi agents in the East and captured key operatives. Rommel’s units push toward Suez while Germany opens a Russian front, signaling intensified World War II activity.
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East
Rommel
Suez
Germany
Rommel Drives Axis Toward Matruh and Suez in Egypt
In Egypt Rommel with three armored divisions backs by artillery and infantry attacks the British Eighth Army near Matruh. Axis forces threaten Alexandria and the Suez Canal within 150 miles of the Nile valley as Italian and Nazi commands claim advances and prisoner captures along the coast road beyond Matruh.
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Rommel
Alexandria
Suez Canal
Tobruk
Canal
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Crete
Greece
Palestine
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Suez
Eighth Army
Matruh
Nile Valley
Matrub
Battle of Midway scores and sugar ration notes
Official naval release details a decisive Midway victory with high Allied losses for Japan including four aircraft carriers sunk and several ships damaged. American losses include a carrier damaged and a destroyer sunk. A looming sugar ration increase may occur as U S stocks lag behind 1941 levels and Caribbean shipments influence policy.
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Midway
Navy Department
Office of Price Administration
United States
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Caribbean
Roosevelt Breaks Wartime Production Silence With Figures
President Roosevelt disclosed May production totals breaking wartime secrecy. U.S. factories built nearly 4,000 planes, 1,500 tanks, 2,000 artillery and antitank guns, 50,000 machine guns, and about 50,000 sub machine guns as Churchill and Roosevelt outlined a plan to move supplies to a second front and aid Russia.
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America
Roosevelt
Washington
U. S
White House
Russia
Senate ties and Wallace save CCC financing vote
Vice President Wallace cast a deciding vote to break a 32 to 32 Senate tie, approving 76.5 million dollars for CCC financing for 1943 as House plans to liquidate the agency loom. Separately Chinese forces recaptured Linhsien near Linping in north China amid post recapture counterattacks.
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Henry A. Wallace
Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate
CCC
House
Labor Department
Federal Security Administration
Wallace
Lindsiert
Henan-Shansi
Peiping-Hankow
Linhsien
Russia
North China
Siberia
Chiang Kai-shek
Blood money split for Heydrich assassination rewards
Two Czech men share a 10 000 000 crown German reward for tips leading to the shooting of Reinhard Heydrich. Berlin radio adds that seven Germans and 52 Czechs received an extra half million crowns. The item notes the high payments tied to the Nazi official’s death.
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Reinhard Heydrich
Reich Hangman
Berlin
Ottawa
Washington
W. L. Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Claire Chennault
China
Flying Tigers
United States Air Force
Britain’s Bombing, Russian Aid Shift War Odds
The piece outlines how southward polar ice narrows Arctic convoy lanes to Murmansk increasing Nazi threats from Trondheim and Norwegian bases. It notes French resistance, British air actions, and U S entry shaping France, plus the strategic aim of bombing Romanian oil to cut Hitler’s fuel supply and aid Russia.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
United States
U. S
Murmansk
Norway
Trondheim
France
England
State Department
U. S Bet Department
French North Africa
Britain
Renault Motor Plant
Champs Elysee
Hitler
AXIS
North Australia
General MacArthur
Java
Coral Sea
Australia
Rumania
Germany
Second Front Hopes Rise Amid Allied Unity Claims
The article notes Russian fears of a failed second front eased by a statement from Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov and a joint Roosevelt Churchill message affirming unity on a United Nations offensive in the west. The communiqué is hailed as evidence of an impending Allied offensive.
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Russia
V. M. Molotov
Washington
London
United Nations
Roosevelt
Churchill
Smartly Flounced Blanket Chest for Bed Room Use
A smartly flounced blanket chest with a contrasting cushion serves as a handy seat and storage for extra covers on chilly nights. Plan a suitable size, around 15 inches high, made of one inch pine, with a double fullness flounce.
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Moscow
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Ukraine
Semyon Timoshenko
Kupyanks
Kharkov Front
Red Army
Europe
Western Newspaper Union
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Cairo
Birkuk
Linping
Kianksi-Hunan
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
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