Allied forces Press Ahead in Sicily Drive and Raids
Allied troops report five towns seized and three miles gained in Northern Sicily as Patton's Seventh Army advances near Troina and Nicosia. British forces push toward Catania amid strong defenses while air strikes target Messina and coastal targets.
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North Africa
Sicily
Catania
U. S
Italy
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
San Mauro Castelverdi
Sperlinga
Nicosia
San Mauro
Castelverdi
Castelbouono
San Stefano
Mount Etna
Troina
Associated Press
Noland Norgaard
Eighth Army
Norgaard
Messina
San Agata
Milazzo
Biancavilla
Adrano
Malta
Greece
Middle East
Reggio Calabria
Nazis Plan To Seize Italian Fleet
Cairo dispatches report Germany preparing to seize the Italian fleet and already taking 15 Italian submarines. Massing naval crews to control northern Italy and key points, with clashes reported at Brescia and plans to disarm Balkans troops.
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London
U.P
Germany
Cairo
Italy
Brescia
Adriatic
Jugoslavia
Madrid
Milan
Balkans
Crete
Bombers Strike Ploesti Oil Fields in Major Allied Raid
Two hundred American Liberator aircraft attacked the Ploesti oil complex in Romania, a key German fuel source, with about 2,000 airmen. The long overwater mission extended from North Africa via the Mediterranean, part of a coordinated Allied air offensive against Italian and Axis targets as Badoglio’s government faces pressure.
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Associated Press
Ploesti
Romania
Europe
U. S. Air Force
Mediterranean
Bengazi Hump
North Africa
Ciaro
Algiers
England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pietro Badoglio
Big Refineries Left Burning
The Ninth U S Air Force attacked Ploesti oil refineries in Romania with 150 to 200 Liberator bombers. They bombed storage tanks distilleries and cracking plants. fires raged long after the raid. The operation aimed to cripple one third of Axis oil supply for Europe and may affect Italy and Russia fronts.
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Washington
Victor H. Strahm
Cairo
Ploesti
War Department
America
U. 8S. Air Force
Europe
Lewis H. Brereton
Romania
Ninth Air Force
Axis
Italy
Russia
Spanish Press Reports German Defenses Hardening
Spanish press notes a shift as Germany abandons hopes of a new offensive and prepares the population for a defense battle of hard times. Berlin spokesmen talk of a wall of blood, with Italy weakening and tremors in the Balkans signaling a potential last stand as observers recall earlier July expectations of eastern front offensives.
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Madrid
Germany
Italy
Ilin
Balkans
Berlin
Sicily
President Lin Sen of China Dies in Beijing
Chinese leader Lin Sen dies after a long illness, authorities report in Chungking. Chiang Kai-shek is formally endorsed as acting president, marking a formal transition of power.
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Lin Sen
China
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Jap Defense Of Stolen Isles Proving Costly
The Japanese defense of their occupied Southwest Pacific is costly in men and material. In two weeks nine warships including two light cruisers and six destroyers were sunk, with three more destroyers damaged. Air losses include 146 Allied planes shot down and 32 destroyed or damaged. Allied forces also destroyed 63 barges while suffering losses.
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Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
Salamaua-Lae
Munda
Komiatum
Marine Corps
Navy Hike Seen As Hint to Tojo
Washington reports a strong forecast of heavier amphibious naval forces against Japan as Roosevelt shifts 4 billion dollars of potential army spending to the navy. Senator Burton says growth in naval outlays signals bad news for Tokyo, with expansion likely to bolster Pacific forces. Secretary Knox notes strategic shifts toward targeting key Japanese empire junctures.
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Washington
Pacific
Roosevelt
Navy
Burton
Ohio
Truman War Investigating Committee
Tokyo
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Frank Knox
Amarillo Weather Forecast From 1943 Almanac
Weather summary for Amarillo and vicinity notes little temperature change Monday with moderate to fresh winds. West Texas shows similar temps, New Mexico expects widely scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Monday afternoon. Today's observed highs and lows and sunrise sunset times are listed from the 1943 edition of The Amarillo Sunday News.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Iy Sands
Actucascae
Yeat
Reds Capture 100 Towns As Nazi Forces Retreat
Soviet dispatches report the Red Army surged forward across debris strewn battlefields and captured Paslovo and Nikulina near Orel along with several other villages northwest to southeast of Orel. The German retreat alarms fronts from Leningrad to Voroshilovgrad as tanks and infantry were lost and many German planes and tanks were destroyed.
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London
Moscow
Orel
Red Army
Imilas Tadan
Soviet Monitor
Paslovo
Nikulina
Uspensky
Chernaya
Samarka
Kutma
Palchikovo
Krasnaya Kamenka
Kamenovo
Verkhne
Upper
Nigne
Putinets
Plotskay
Ploti
Alexeyevka
Gutereva
Yakovleva
Nadehada
Krasnikovo
Leningrad
Donets Ae
Voroshilovgrad
Donets
Cotton Acreage Rules Relaxed For 1944 War Demands
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones told Representative Patman that wartime needs for cottonseed products and higher grade cotton justify lifting restrictions on 1944 production. He noted two thirds of cotton by weight is seed and explained seed use includes oil meal feed hulls and linters for war needs. Jones also said 1943 allotment was 3 million acres above 1942 but actual plantings fell about 1.5 million acres, the smallest since 1895. Restrictions on 1943 and 1944 crops were removed in July.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
Patman
Texas
Jones
Goodrich Head To Speak Here
Seventy five Amarillo business and civic leaders and county and city officials will attend a dinner at the Herring Hotel Friday evening marking the start of operations at the government synthetic rubber plant near Borger. James J. Newman of B. F. Goodrich will be the principal speaker outlining the rubber shortage solution through plants like Borger, converting butadiene from Phillips Petroleum into man made rubber.
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Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Borger
J. W. Frasche
James J. Newman
B. F. Goodrich Company
Prasche
Newman
B. F. Goodrich
Phillips Petroleum Company
Air Force Production Surpasses Axis Output in 1943
The army air forces report monthly production of about 4,500 aircraft, surpassing total Axis output. In 18 months to last July 1, the force accepted 73,132 planes, with total U S aircraft production over 7,000 monthly. The comparison notes Axis output around 4,000 monthly, while Russia and Britain together outproduce the Axis.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Germany
Japan
Italy
Army
United States
Navy
Russia
Britain
O. P. Echols
Allies press across Europe in multiple fronts amid blitz raids
American bombers hit Romanian oil fields triggering large fires while American and Canadian forces push in Sicily. Soviet forces advance near Orei despite heavy rain as civilians flee Hamburg’s bomb damage and Berliners brace for more saturation raids.
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Hamburg
Berlin panics as residents dig shelters amid feared air attacks
Aftonbladet reported near panic in Berlin with people digging trenches and air raid shelters while authorities urged spiritual mobilization. Hamburg suffered massive destruction, with half its population evacuated and fire, rubble, and disrupted water supply hampering rescue efforts.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Hamburg
Charlemagne
Germany
Norway
St. Paul’s
St Louis Officials Die in Glider Crash at Field
Ten persons including St Louis Mayor William Dee Becker died when a glider crashed at Lambert St Louis Field during the first public Army troop and cargo glider demonstration. The list included city and business leaders and military officers.
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St. Louis
William Dee Becker
Army
Lambert-St. Louis Field
State Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
Becker
Thomas N. Dysart
Dollar Day Ad Offers Amid OPA Rules In August
The article notes OPA rulings limit special sales but Dollar Day remains allowed as a longstanding market tradition. It urges housewives and buyers to study Sunday News-Globe ads for participating merchants and plan downtown shopping to save on purchases.
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OPA
News-Globe
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He Ee
Badoglio
Eisenhower
Trieste
Pola
Fiume
Ministry of Information
Rome
Il Popolo di Roma
Rome Radio Today
Leghorn
Mussolini
Reuters
Nda
Stefani
Great Britain
Tojo
Gilobe
United Nations
Palermo
Goodrich
Rumanian
Orei
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