Engaged. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 19, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, tall, tough commander of the Army II Corps in Tunisia and Sicily; and West Point Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema ('44), son of West Point's famed geo-politicker; in West Point, N.Y.
Killed in Action. Colonel James Gardiner Conroy, 54, commander of the 16sth Infantry Regiment (New York's old "Fighting 69th"), peacetime National Guard officer. Brooklyn lawyer; during the assault against the Gilbert Islands; on Makin atoll.
Died. Charles ("Charlie") Ray, 52, homespun hero of the silent cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and...
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