Graphic Battle Front Reports Fierce Libyan Clash
An eyewitness London Daily Express dispatch from Sollum describes a major clash between British and Axis forces. Tanks, infantry, and air action collide on sunbaked desert plains as German fortifications loom along the escarpment. The reporter notes intense hand to hand fighting and large tank actions before retreating to safety.
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Libya
Sollum
London Daily Express
Archibald Wavell
Kent
Six year old girl serves as official lollipop taster
Barbara Schulze, a six year old from Evanston NL, acts as an adviser to a candy company. She tastes new lollipop flavors, shares samples with friends, and is paid in lollipops, impressing the company board with her connoisseur like judgments.
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IT International News Service
Evanston
Barbara Schulze
Barbara
Ramsey family marks multi generation wedding anniversaries
In Wilmington Pa an International News Service report notes Lou M. Ramsey of Warren Ohio and his wife reached their golden anniversary while a week later John E. Ramsey aged 91 and his wife aged 88 celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary, highlighting long marriages in the family.
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Ramsey
Lou M. Ramsey
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John E. Ramsey
Aviation Queen of 1941 Named at Middletown Meet
Elaine Marie Wood, senior at the University of Michigan, has been chosen Miss Collegiate Aviation of 1941 at the National Intercollegiate Flying Club three day meet in Middletown. She led a field of contestants from multiple colleges and universities as judges scored the competition.
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National Intercollegiate Flying Club
Middletown
Elaine Marie Wood
University of Michigan
New Wilmington Forms Defense Committee For Emergency
Acting with state and national defense groups New Wilmington sets up a local defense committee with Filmore Campbell as chairman and members handling agriculture consumers housing health welfare recreation civil liberties education. Duties include organizing civilians for emergencies and forming home defense units against parachute troops saboteurs and more.
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New Wilmington
Filmore Campbell
Jake Bumgardner
Ralph Shawkey
Ross Ellis
Hugh Hart
H. N. Anderson
David Boyd
Wallace McKean
William Reuter
British War Relief Food Tour Reaches Brooklyn Benefit
A 500-person gathering in Brooklyn sampled food served to civilians in bombed areas of Great Britain. The event, sponsored by the British War Relief society, showcased mobile kitchens and canteens in England serving sandwiches and doughnuts on paper plates with coffee from agate Canteens, illustrating direct civilian aid.
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New York
Brooklyn
Great Britain
British War Relief Society
England
Agate
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