MacArthur's Bombers Hit Truk in Pacific Raid
Allied bombers struck the Japanese base at Truk for the first time, reporting 200 direct hits on the Truk airfield area and 49 planes destroyed. Other raids hit Woleai Island and Eten Island as Central Pacific forces joined in attacking targets around the Bismarck Sea and New Guinea.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Truk
MacArthur
Woleai Island
Caroline Islands
Eten Island
Truk Atoll
Woleai
Guam
Mariana Islands
Central Pacific
Chester W Nimitz
Moen Island
Hollandia
New Guinea
Bismarck Sea
Rabaw
New Britain
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Babo
McCluer Gulf
Dubch New Guinea
Kavieng
New Iredard
Stahr Wins Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship at Wellesley
Miss Martha Elizabeth Stahr daughter of President and Mrs Henry J Stahr of Hood College has been awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship by Wellesley College. The prize is the largest recognition for scholarship and research. Stahr a 1941 Hood graduate for astronomy studied at the University of California and will finish her doctorate next year after completing a masters. Hood CollegeLibrary marks China Book Week with displays and a talk by Hood freshman Barbara Hagman Yang Kwan Teh on Chinese books.
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Martha Elizabeth Stahr
Henry J. Stahr
Hood College
Alice Freeman Palmer
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Miss Stahr
University of California
Hood
Joseph Henry Apple
China
Barbara Hagman
Yang Kwan-Teh
Brodbeck Hall
Office of War Information
Movement For Byrd Genuine Crusade Grows As Draft Byrd Push
Washington reports John U Barr of New Orleans calls the Byrd draft effort a genuine crusade. Barr brands current government as a mix of fascism Nazism communism and state socialism, saying masses want an outlet for their will. Barr touts Byrd as the top Democrat in the Southeast, while John J O Connor proposes a Republican anti New Deal coalition to block a fourth term. Separately, James E Hood and Elizabeth J Hood receive a license to remarry in Norfolk and Washington after divorce.
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Washington
Senator Byrd
Virginia
John U Barr
New Orleans
Barr
Mulligan
Ballad Singers Concert At Hood College Tonight
American Ballad Singers under Elle Siegmeister perform a two century journey through sea chanties spirituals and country tunes in Brodbeck hall Hood College on Monday at seven. The group tours 24 states covering 15000 miles with sopranos Ruth Fremont Helen Yorke and more.
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Elle S. Siegmeister
Brodbeck Hall
Hood College
United States
America
Ruth Fremont
Helen Yorke
Revekah Crawford
Thomas Edwards
Nelson Magill
Earl Waldo
Service Ribbons And Maritime Medal Awarded
Charles F. Tyeryar of this city has been awarded service ribbons for ten months of study and a Merchant Marine medal. His father, a Frederik police officer, accepted the honors, noting his son does not yet know of the awards. Ribbons include Mediterranean Middle East and Atlantic war zones with a silver shield on the Merchant Marine medal.
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Charles F. Tyeryar
of Geer
Howard Tyeryar
U.S
Maine
Frederik
Mediterranean Middle East
Bardenote Merchant Marine Service
Emery S Land
War Shipping Administration
Forty German planes destroyed on ground near Czernowitz
Soviet aviators reportedly destroyed forty German transport planes with key personnel on the ground at Czernowitz shortly before the city fell to the Red Army. The BBC reported in a recorded broadcast.
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New York
Czernowitz
BBC
OBS
Controversy over dipnetting law prompts letter policy change
The News announces it can no longer publish letters for or against the current dipnetting law. At Hyattstown Christian Church on Sunday a special sermon titled The Triumphal Entry will be delivered by pastor, with musical offerings from Washington-based Od Tumner's Quartet. The quartet includes Robert Kauffman George Sanderson Dave Grady and Steve Pearson.
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Hyaltstown
Od Tumner
Washington
Hyattstown Christian Church
Robert Kauffman
George Sanderson
Dave Grady
Steve Pearson
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