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Dependent peoples everywhere in the world were stirring, seeking self-government. Those under U.S. rule were no exception. Last week, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug fanned libertarian fires across the Pacific. For Guam, Samoa and the former Japanese mandates he urged civil administration (under his own department) instead of Navy rule, as a first step toward self-government...
...Guam to the Azores. 5. San Francisco to Perth...
...grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...
Told by reporters at Guam that he had been named to succeed James F. Byrnes the five-star General declined to discuss his plans for problems...
...been built up in the store, especially during the war. "We acted as Navy Store-PN to the servicemen around Harvard, and even got special permission from the Navy to obtain scarce items like soap and cigarettes. As a result, we're still getting postcards from Hawaii and Guam and places all over the world. It's an international reputation we enjoy...