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...veterans who are sweating out an imminent draft call will be allowed ample time to plan for spring registration according to a statement of War Department plans made yesterday by Howard C. Petersen, Assistant Secretary of War at the Statler Hotel in Boston...
Assistant Secretary of War Howard C. Petersen, War Department member of SWNCC (State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee), said he had no knowledge of any State Department effort to get what Editor Elliston calls a "plan" written. But Petersen defended the State Department on the grounds that the Byrnes policy was still young. He disclosed, however, that War Department representatives on SWNCC's staff had, although it was not their function, started a draft rewrite of 1067, and that the draft was now in a SWNCC subcommittee...
...British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to see Hamburg's dignified Oberbürgermeister Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, and plead with him to intervene with British authorities...
...they talked, a well-organized demonstration gathered. Singly, in pairs and in small groups, at first mostly women & children, Hamburgers streamed into the Rathausmarkt outside Petersen's office. Within an hour 4,000 embittered Ausgebombte (bombed outs) were singing the outlawed national anthem Deutschland über Alles, knocking hats off Mitbürger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts...
Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...