Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers Too. Soldiers of the 86th ("Blackhawk") Infantry Division, waiting at Pittsburg, Calif., to be redeployed to the Pacific after 28 days of combat in Europe, sent telegrams to editors: "The Regular Army wishes to send additional divisions rather than individuals so that they can keep control over large organizations . . . for the retention of their temporary wartime high ranks. . . ." The battle-seasoned 95th Infantry Division, reassembling for Pacific deployment at Camp Shelby, Miss., sent petitions to newspapers and Congressmen: "Why should we serve on two fronts when there are many who never served...
...SKUCE Redlands, Calif...
Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...
Died. Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti, 63, able Finnish statesman, who as Foreign Minister reaffirmed "good neighbor" relations with Russia in 1937, as delegate to the League of Nations obtained Russia's expulsion for her attack in 1939; after an abdominal operation; in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments...
Retainer. In Sacramento, Calif., John O'Day, 76, arrested 73 times since he first hit a bartender with a bucket of whitewash in 1915, persuaded the county supervisors to award him a $50-a-month pension, on the ground that it would be cheaper than supporting him in jail...