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...Crossroads. In November, when the British Eighth Army began to roll into Libya, the Italians told Bennie Hermer to prepare to leave for a prison camp in Europe. That night he escaped, and next day he joined advance forces of Montgomery's army pushing toward Benghasi. The day Olda stepped out of the train at Cairo's main station, Bennie arrived at the Cairo hospital from Benghasi...
...joined the South African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
...Even in prison Colonel Booth kept up her work of saving souls. She would stop abruptly before a fellow internee and thrust out her finger with the words: "Do you believe in God? Do you believe you'll be saved?" Though for the most part her only answer was a look of astonishment, she did talk frequently with old men & women, tried in her way to ease the lot of some young British sailors, cabin boys from the torpedoed transport Orama who, still in their early 'teens, had spells of loneliness for home and mother. (Three of them...
Waupun, Wis. On the walls of Publisher George W. Greene's office at the Waupun Leader-News are 15 ribbons and plaques given him for topnotch editorial writing, newspaper promotion, civic enterprise. The people of Waupun, a center of the dairy industry (pop. 5,768, including the State prison's 1,600-odd prisoners) are proud of their newspaper, for it ranks with the best U.S. weeklies...
CHICAGO--Three German-American men were sentenced today to death on chargea of aiding a Nazi saboteur who already has been executed and the wives of the three were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime of treason which the court described as "the most iniquitous offense in the unholy list of crimes...