Evacuation Tale of Land of Greeks Story by AP’s St. John
Robert St. John of the Associated Press foreign staff led a perilous journey from Yugoslavia through Greece to Egypt, dodging bombs, minefields, and naval threats as Allied troops evacuated Greece. He and colleagues endured wounds, shipwreck risks, and constant danger while filing decisive war coverage. The AP published a testimonial to St. John and the many AP reporters in the war. The account details harrowing escapes, Italian and German attacks, and the Allied naval effort that secured the retreat.
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Robert St. John
Associated Press
Greece
Roswell
The
Record
Yugoslavia
St. John
Egypt
Kent Cooper
Alexandria
Belgrade
Russell Hill
New York Herald-Tribune
Leigh White
CBS
Overseas News Agency
Terence Atherton
London Daily Mail
Budva
Atherton
Straits
Otranto
Durazzo
Albania
Sasseno
Gibraltar
Adriatic
Corfu
Ionian Sea
Port Authority
Leukas
Ithaca
Ulysses
Petras
Athens
Messerschmidt
White
Hill
Corinth
Luftwaffe
Stukas
RAF
Argos
Argus
Serbia
Bosnia
Montenegro
Ionian
Allied columns push into Syria as Beirut area seized
Allied forces drive from Trans-Jordan toward Damascus while another column nears Banias and Beirut. British naval forces report landing at the Lebanese coast near Tyre and Merjayoun's capture. Vichy France condemns the assault as aggression.
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Deir-Ez-Zor
Damascus
Hitler
Suez Canal
Jerusalem
Palestine
Trans-Jordan
Vichy
RAF
Cairo
Henry Maitland Wilson
Georges Catroux
Libya
Mediterranean
Beirut
Tripoli
Aleppo
Palmyra
Syria
Floods and hail mix with wartime anxieties in a volatile year
The article weighs the mixed impact of heavy rainfall and floods against livestock gains, recounts dramatic hail damage from several towns, and notes rising wartime tensions. It cites claims of up to two million dollars in flood losses and five to six million in livestock benefits, then shifts to Japan's East Indies demands and possible Pacific war, plus Roosevelt's push to end Pacific defense strikes and calls for sweeping drafts.
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Dexter
Las Vegas
Roswell
Japan
East Indies
Britain
United States
Pacific
Washington
Roosevelt
Pacific Coast
Army
Congress
North American strike erupts into violent street clash
Police, sheriffs, and FBI surround the North American plant as about 1,600 workers gather ready to march. Some 600 officers clear paths while 200 pickets hold lines. Troops from Fort MacArthur and Santa Monica arrive as fighting ends and gates open. Frightened by turmoil, Frankensteen accuses the Communist party of hijacking the strike while Freitag urges workers to stay firm.
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Charles E. Branshaw
Mr. Roosevelt
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
Jackson
Harry L. Hopkins
Stephen Early
North American
CIO
Branshaw
Patterson
Page One
John van Goor
FBI
Jack Postma
Fort MacArthur
Santa Monica
Richard T. Frankensteen
CIO National Director of Aviation
Husky
Hitler
Frankensteen
Communist Party
Freitag
Elmer Freitag
Richard Frankensteen
United Auto Workers
Local 683
UAW Cio
Wyndham Mortimer
John Orr, Sr
Stanford Douglas
Arthur Kearns
John Orr, Jr
Union
British Report Ward Beirut Push Near Meerdjayoun
A British force parts into Meerdjayoun near Tyre and press toward Damascus through Jebel Ed Druz with advancing columns. Vichy French defenders engaged south of Soueida as allied spearheads push from Damascus toward the Levant and Euphrates corridor.
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Beirut
Meerdjayoun
Tyre
Sea of Galilee
Christ
Merdjayoun
Damascus
Haifa
Palestine
Children’s ArtCourse of Museum Roswell studio opens
A children s art class is being organized at the Roswell museum. All children interested in receiving free instruction should see Mrs Bond at the museum.
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Roswell Museum
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Hillman
Los Angeles
War Department
Justice Department
National Defense Mediation Board
OPM
White House
Levaya
Berlin
Germany
France
England
Iraq
Mosul
Levant
Jebel Ed Druz
Soudeida
London
Sour
Merjayoun
Cleopatra
Phoenicia
Great Lebanon
Lebanon
Philippe Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Houston
Connally
Texas
Andrew Jackson Houston
Sam Houston
Tom Connally
United States Senate
Summer
Charles Evans Hughes
U. S. Supreme Court
Hughes
High Court
William Howard Taft
Movement For Liberation
East
Arizona
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