Atlantic Crossing Eerie Experience
HAL BOYLE writes from London about a storm aboard a blacked out freighter in mid Atlantic. Heavy swells lash the ship as cargo shifts and chairs slide loose while crew cope with damage and a dramatic finger amputation performed by a Navy lieutenant. War changes perspective as morning dawns and weary sailors seek sleep.
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Hal Boyle
London
mid-Atlantic
Ed G. Brewster
Bayside
N. Y
Navy
Robert Horton
Memphis
Tenn
Horton
Wake Island Bombed Twice in Two Days
Liberator bombers of the 7th Air Force struck Wake Island again after 48 hours of attacks. Vice Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced the second daytime raid amid intense antiaircraft fire as Australian manpower officials urge teachers to volunteer for national service during vacations.
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Wake Island
Pearl Harbor
U.P
7Th Aaf
Peale Island
Hee!point
Australia
Manpower Commission
Nervous Nazis Watch Anzio For New Attack
At Anzio Italy May 18 Allied bombardments unsettle German troops. SS units guard foxholes as Fifth Army advances toward Pontine marshes within 37 miles of Rome. Cassino and Monastery Hill victory fuels Allied eagerness for a climax in Italy. Troops enduring hard winter await offensive action. Iceland reports high per capita publishing. Nuffield Foundation grants near $36,000 for potato research.
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Fifth Army
Pontine Marshes
Rome
No Man’s Land
Cassino
Monastery Hill
Italy
Nuffield Foundation of England
Illinois man applies for permit to work as farmer in Mexico
William Haut of Illinois sought a permit at Mexico's ministry to immigrate and work as a small farmer. He plans to settle in Michoacan after touring the country and believes the temperate land there offers good opportunity. Helium gas was first observed on the sun.
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Illinois
Mexico
Mexico City
Ministry of Industrialization and Agricultural Development
William Haut
Argentina
Haut
Michoacan
Mexican Medical Brigade Heads to Yugoslavia Front
A medical group of four Mexican physicians and ten nurses will depart for the Yugoslav front to aid Tito's forces, led by Dr. Juan Goldstray. Mexico is described as the first country to offer such aid, with potential for more medical personnel to join. India has set up a salvage department.
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Mexico City
Juan Goldstray
Mexico
Tito
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