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...from Amesbury, Massachusetts, received the Kelleher Memorial Scholarship, awarded for the first time in the memory of a Marine Corns capitan who was killed in action on Tinian. The Kelleher fund is included in the National Scholarship program...
...freshman and an even 53 ex-serviceman stars. The line, a coach's dream, bristles with the likes of ex-Gob Zygmont Czarobski, a 213-lb. bonecrusher tackle, and 205-lb. End Jim Martin, a husky ex-Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty, slippery Emil Sitko...
...Micronesia, each of the three great archipelagoes (Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) has some atolls or mountain tops which the U.S. wants: Kwajalein and Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Truk and Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has announced no policy for their trusteeship or control-because the military and civilian departments within the Government are fighting with each other. Final disposition of the islands must await the signing of a peace treaty-and the Russians are already warming up a propaganda campaign against "U.S. imperialism...
...soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...
Established anonymously in honor of Capt. David A. Kelleher, Jr. '41, a Marine artilleryman who was killed in action on Tinian in July, 1944, a scholarship for an entering Freshman from Essex County has been included in the University's National Scholarship program, Provost Buck announced yesterday...