Col Flikke's Army Rank Question Sets Off Legal Debate
Col Julia O Flikke faces questions over her army nurse corps colonelcy as a legal challenge argues no women were in the armed forces when the law creating the army of the United States was passed. The dispute centers on whether qualified women could hold commissions and if the title of colonel is warranted. Colonel Flikke has served since WWI and now commands nearly 10,000 nurses.
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York
Julia O. Flikke
Army Nurse Corps
Army of the United States
Congress
United States
Flikke
Veroqua
Wis
Chicago
Columbia University
Augustana Hospital
Eugene J. Houdry
Baye
Ouree
Ardmore
Houdry
France
Chinese Counteroffensive Regains Rail Line and Ports
Chinese defenders along the Hangchow to Nanchang railway front punch back at Japanese advances, reclaiming a 25 mile wedge and two vital ports Julian and Wenchow in Kiangsi Chekiang. The push pins down new garrisons while some troops move toward Inner Mongolia. Meanwhile in Egypt Rommel’s drive toward Alexandria and Suez is slowed as Maj. Gen. Brereton assumes command of US air forces in the Middle East joining RAF strikes on Axis ports.
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Kiangsi
Chekiang
Julian
Wenchow
Inner Mongolia
Russia
Kangchow
Nanchang
Chungking
Egypt
Rommel
Alexandria
Suez
U. S. Army Air Forces
Cairo
Lewis Brereton
U. S
Middle East
Tobruk
Bengali
United Nations
el- Alamein
Brereton
India
Western Desert
Sean
Fupaceden Abe
Aleutian Islands
North America
Aleutian
Navy
Attu
Kiska
Aggatu
United States
Dutch Harbor
Unalaska
Northwestern
Weekly News Analysis Note from Western Newspaper Union
Editorial analysis released by Western Newspaper Union notes that opinions reflect the service's viewpoint, not necessarily the newspaper. The note clarifies these weekly pieces express analysis rather than direct reporting.
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Western Newspaper Union
Bloodiest Battles on the Russian Front Deepens War Ruin
As Voroshilovgrad falls in the Don basin the German drive southeast toward Millerovo and Rostov threatens a decisive southern push. Russian bulletins claim heavy German losses near Voronezh and Rostov region, with Allied tanks and planes bolstering Soviet lines.
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Voroshilovgrad
Don Basin
Donetz
Millerovo
Rostov
Voronezh
Volga River
Pervozvanovka-Likhaya
Stalingrad
Don
Doctor Margret Lin Receives International College of Surgeons Fellowship
Denver reports Dr Margaret Hie Ding Lin born in Foochow China and practicing in Chicago has been elected a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons. She is the first and only woman to receive this honor in the college's history.
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Denver
Margaret Hie Ding Lin
Foochow
China
Chicago
International College of Surgeons
Government reports on synthetic rubber production
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones says private industry is producing rubber at 25,000 tons annually and two government plants add 30,000 tons of capacity. He projects 100,000 tons by end of 1942, 300,000 by August 1943, and 800,000 tons by end of 1943.
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Jesse Jones
Jones
Line-Up Selective Service Plans New Calling Order
A new memorandum from Selective Service headquarters reshapes draft call order by dependency status acquired before December 8, 1941. Separately FBI arrests 14 in New York and Chicago over Nazi saboteur case as John C. Cullen foils landing by submarine on Long Island.
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National Headquarters of Selective Service
Washington Military Commission
FBI
New York
Chicago
Herbert Haupt
John C. Cullen
Coast
MacArthur Says War Picture in Off the Record Talk
In an extremely frank two hour session with over 100 editors and correspondents General Douglas MacArthur outlined his views on the World War and the Southwest Pacific area. The off the record conference was his second since arriving in Australia and followed a March 23 meeting. He answered questions freely using sports terminology and recalled World War I service as chief of staff of the 42nd division in France.
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Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
MacArthur
Australia
France
Roosevelt Proclaims War With Balkan Nations
Official proclamation declares a state of war with Hungary Romania and Bulgaria following prior joint war resolutions. Anthony Miers earns the Victoria Cross for disobeying orders by torpedoing two ships and surviving a fleet of enemy forces. Norway faces tightening fish rations as its food situation worsens.
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Congress
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Roosevelt
Balkan
Anthony Miers
London News
Norway
Navy submarine sighting and wartime shortages headlined
Reports from Washington describe a Navy air encounter over the Caribbean with a Nazi submarine sighted but not engaged while a governor and a naval pilot prepared depth charges. The item also notes a doctor fixing wartime vision tests with a temporary drug, Nazi plans for communal food distribution, and a batch of home-front notes on defense and industry.
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Rex Tugwell
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Caribbean
Tugwell
Extrain Truster
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