Commencement Exercises Held at University of Nevada
Fury fourth annual commencement at the University of Nevada marked the first graduation from the new gymnasium. Acting President Gorman presided as diplomas were awarded and an honorary degree conferred, with awards announced by Dr. Harold N. Brown and the civic oath administered by Chief Justice William Orr.
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University of Nevada
Charles H. Gorman
Reno
Marvin Trigero
Theodore H. Post
Alan Bible
state of
Nevada
Harold N. Brown
William E. Orr
supreme court of Nevada
Gorman
Leon W. Hartman
university
Lawrence J. Osborne
First Methodist Episcopal church
Mendelssohn
Peace terms in Meiho publish demands to U S
Berlin broadcast reports Japan would seize all American ships and turn merchant fleet vessels over to Japan. It claims Tokyo would destroy naval bases stations docks and arsenals and would require the United States to cover the costs of taking over ships and naval education centers.
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LONDON
United States
Meiho
Berlin
Japan
Gold Medal Awarded to Senior from Reno
Ada May Bachman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Marshall Bachman of Reno, won the gold medal scholarship at the fifty fourth annual University of Nevada commencement. She held a 3.77 average across 181 units, majored in English, and will teach the subject at Overton school next fall.
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University of Nevada
Ada May Bachman
Marshall Bachman
West Tenth street
Reno
RB. Herz
Reno jewelers
Bachman
college of arts and science
Overton
Harald N. Brown
Dr. Brown
Janet McClellan
Berkeley
Calif
Lois Welden
Nita Reifschneider
Lois Bradshaw
Miss Bachman
Miss Welden
Miss McClellan
Sheriff Sends Prisoner To Retrieve Gun From Car
In Elbertson Georgia on May 22 Sheriff John Starke brought a black prisoner to his office. He discovered the prisoner had left his six shooter in a car down the street. He ordered the man to go fetch the gun and the prisoner complied.
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ELBERTSON
John Starke
Labor Board Head Explains Action at Ward's
William H Davis chairman of the war labor board testified before a House committee that the WLB must act in the Montgomery Ward dispute to preserve a no strike policy and prevent a nationwide shutdown. He warned a failure to intervene could disrupt the war effort and argued Ward is a major wartime economic factor supplying farms and households across 47 states with large shares of goods. He urged strong support for the no strike no lockout program as essential to national duty.
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WASHINGTON
William H Davis
war labor board
house
Montgomery Ward
Davis
Chicago
WLB
congress
Dewey
R-N
Ward
halesale
Wards
Italian Patriots Reported Active in Italy Front
Allied headquarters in Naples reported that Italian patriot forces declared six of twenty five German divisions in Italy had been sent north to fight patriots and Yugoslav partisans on the Italian border. The communique warned further development could block German use against the Sth and 8th British American armies.
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Naples
Italy
Harold Alexander
Aled
American Arms Sent to Allies at Faster Pace
Washington May 22 Roosevelt told Congress lend lease arms and equipment to aid a three way invasion of Europe are moving from the United States at a steadily increasing speed. The fifteenth lend lease report shows 24.225 billion dollars worth of matériel sent to Britain and Russia, with large shipments also to China and other allies. In the first two months of 1944 over two thousand lend lease planes and tens of thousands of other vehicles were dispatched, while Russia received nearly 4.75 billion dollars in aid in the past year. The report notes a rising total of reverse lend lease and reiterates allied pooling of fighting equipment.
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HOWARD FLIEGER
WASHINGTON
Europe
Roosevelt
congress
United Nations
Britain
Russia
China
United Kingdom
Germany
Africa
Middle East
Mediterranean
India
Australia
New Zealand
Latin America
Pacific
Far East
Japan
Guns Mounted In Freight Cars In German Air Attacks
May 22 The German air defense novelty includes anti aircraft guns mounted in freight cars with sides that fold down as trains approach. Lt John B Westwood a Thunderbolt pilot from Lewis Kansas reported attacking a six car train northwest of Paris during yesterday's wide spread sweeps. He described the third box car opening to reveal four 20 millimeter guns that opened fire.
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U. 3
EXGLAXD
John B. Westwood
Lewis
Kas
Thunderbolt
Paris
Devastating Raids On Reich Continue
London reports wide sweeping Allied air strikes across Germany and France as more than 3,000 planes attack Duisburg Hannover Bel lamp and other targets. RAF and US bombers with fighters pound Kiel Pas de Calais and northern France rail and air facilities. heavy losses noted on both sides.
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LONDON
Kiel
Pas-de-Calais
France
Duisburg
Germany
inlang
air ministry
RAF Mitchel
Boston
spitfire
typhoon
mustang
Clermont
Le Treport
Motteville
Estrees-Saint Denis
Buchy
Creil
English channel
Cape Frehel
St. Malo
Japanese raid reports on Marcus Island in Pacific
Tokyo radio quoted a Japanese communique saying enemy naval units attacked Marcus Island 1,200 miles southeast of Tokyo with aerial strikes on Saturday and Sunday. The bulletin claimed at least thirty two raiding planes were shot down and noted damage to Japanese installations. Marcus Island lies midway between the Marshall Islands and Japan, about 600 miles east of the Bonin Islands.
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LONDON
Tokyo radio today
central Pacific
Minamitori island
Tokyo
Associated Press
Minamitori
Marcus island
Marshall islands
Bonin group
U. S
Allies Advance Despite Rains In Burma Fight
Allied forces push through mud and monsoon to take control of roads west and north of Myitkyina in northern Burma. A four mile arc against Charpate Namkwi blocks Burma railway links to Mogaung and Fort Hertz as air raids strike Kamaing Mogaung Myitkyina fronts. Chinese report a column advancing past the north landing strip.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
Kandy
Ceylon
Myitkyina
Burma
Mogaung
Fort Hertz
Charpate
Namkwi
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Kamaing-Mogaung-Myitkyina
Kumon hills
Anti-Liquor Bill Hearings Delayed
Washington May 22 congressional prohibitionists faced a setback as a house judiciary subcommittee posted no dates for hearings on a wartime anti liquor bill. An informal poll showed at least half of committee members opposed to the legislation and chairman Hobbs said there would be no hearings soon. One member suggested hearings would likely wait until after the elections due to the bill being too hot to handle politically.
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WASHINGTON
house judiciary
Hobbs
D-Ala
Brion
D-SC
Damage Mounts In Iowa Floods
Des Moines May 22 floods across Iowa left nine dead since Thursday as rivers overflowed, submerging farm lands and crops. Iowa River waters devastated land near Belle Plaine and Chelsea, with heavy livestock losses and many residents homeless.
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DES MOINES
Here's a Way to Collect Matrimonial Candidates
New York on May 22. P Girls have a new way of selecting civil ian candidates for matrimony. One was overheard telling another a well baked rock's the thing to look for. That's where you get burned working in a victory garden. And with ration points the way they are a good provider's what you want these days.
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NEW YORK
Allied Patrols Forced Back in Battle For City
Allied forces press on the Terracina front near Anzio as German reserves flood the coast. U S troops form a line near Terracina while swift counterattacks southwest of Cisterna test the beachhead. Prisoners are taken, and columns clash along the Liri valley with Monte Leucio and Pontecorvo in focus as Pico becomes pivotal.
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Naples
Terracina
U. S
Pico
Mark W. Clark
Anzio
Rome
Just
Monte Leucio
Pontecorvo
Liri
Pontine
Cisterna
Piedimonte
Cassino
Pontecorvo - Pico
the
Judge Rules Out Mistrial Motion in Sedition Case
Judge Edward C. Escher rejected all defense motions for a mistrial in the mass sedition conspiracy trial. Twenty nine defendants face a six week proceeding as prosecutors claim opening remarks were within permissible bounds. Following the ruling defendant Lawrence Dennis resumed his opening statement focusing on free speech as the sole issue.
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WASHINGTON
Edward C. Escher
John Rogge
Eicher
Lawrence Dennis
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