Italy's Fleet Is Still Powerful
Italy's navy, though facing unconditional surrender, remains a potent force with eight battleships, numerous cruisers and destroyers, and three carriers. Germans may scuttle or move ships from Taranto, Pola, and Trieste to deny Allies. The race to seize or neutralize these vessels hinges on speed and luck before scuttling or destruction by mines and torpedoes.
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John A. Moroso
New York
Italy
Taranto
Andrea Doria
Caio Duilio
Pola
Trieste
Littoria
Vittorio Veneto
Roma
Spezia
Giulio Cesare
Impero
Cavour
Toulon
Armistice Terms End Hostilities With Italy Immediate
The Italian government pledges to honor terms without reservation. The armistice, signed by the Italian and Allied representatives, becomes effective immediately and ends hostilities between the United Nations and Italy at once.
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United Nations
Marshal Badoglio
Italy
German convoy pushes toward Italian mainland
The German International Information Bureau says two large convoys totaling 200 freighters and transports are moving off Italy. The Berlin broadcast claims troops may be aboard for another mainland landing and notes notable American and British shipping activity north and west of northern Calabria.
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London
German International Information Bureau
Italy
Berlin
Associated Press
Calabria
Italy Armistice Confirmed by Allied Headquarters
Allied headquarters announced the armistice with Italy, signed in Sicily and to take effect at a mutually agreed moment. Marshal Badoglio sent the proclamation to Allied commanders, signaling Italy's ceasefire and neutral stand against further resistance unless attacked at sea or by air.
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Sicily
Rome
Badoglio
Fisenhower
Hollywood War Progress Boosts Film Craft
JIMMY FIDLER reports from Hollywood praising war pictures for driving technical progress under material shortages and travel limits. He cites Air Force as a marvel of process stage miniatures and notes how studios replicate grand backgrounds with tricks like camera effects, shaping postwar film techniques. The piece blends idol chatter and light anecdotes about Bela Lugosi, Katina Paxinou, Una Merkel, and others to illustrate Hollywood culture during wartime.
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Hollywood
Greer Garson
Bela Lugosi
Joan Davis
John Carroll
Una Merkel
ZaSu Pitts
Henry Fonda
John Ridgely
Katina Paxmnou
Lightnings and Warhawks Sink Six Jap Ships
American P-38 Lightnings and P-40 Warhawks sank six Japanese vessels on the Yangtze River below Hankow. The attack damaged ships at Shihweiyao and set one vessel afire, with four locomotives blown up at an iron foundry. Additional strikes hit river craft, a radio station, and a railroad water tower, with about 100 Japanese troops killed at Sitang.
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Chungking
Yangtze River
Hankow
Shihweiyao
Tung Ting Lake
Sitang
Puchi
War Stress Drives Rail Accidents Across Nation
FBI says no wartime sabotage in railroad wrecks since Pearl Harbor yet accidents rise with alarming force. The Con gressional Limited crash near Philadelphia killed at least 78, followed by the 20th Century Limited boiler explosion near Canastota with fatalities, and earlier wrecks in Wayland and other sites blamed on speed, axle parts, and obstructions. War pressures strain equipment, personnel, and maintenance across railroads, with higher miles but unclear injury rates.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pearl Harbor
Philadelphia
Congressional Limited
20Th Century Limited
Canastota
N. Y
New York
Lackawanna Limited
Wayland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Association of Railroads
ICC
AAR
Lieutenant Evans Rites Arranged for 19 Year Old War Hero
Military funeral services for Lt. Herbert W. Evans will be held at 2:30 PM tomorrow in Blackburn-Shaw memorial chapel. Evans, co pilot of a B 24, died in a Sioux City Iowa crash Saturday at age 19 after earning his wings and commission on July 22. He attended Amarillo High School and served in the National Guard. Burial at Llano Cemetery.
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Herbert W
Billy) Evans
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Evans
Sioux City
Amarillo
National Guard
Llano Cemetery
Fall of Mussolini Ends Italian Fascist Era in World War II
The piece reviews Italy's collapse under Allied pressure, Mussolini's ouster on July 25, 1943, and the Axis defeat in North Africa and Sicily. It notes Greece, Egypt, and Tunisia battles, Nazi occupation, food shortages, and the loss of naval power as Italy's fortunes deteriorated.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Sicily
Rome
Nice
Corsica
Tunis
Mediterranean
Mussolini
France
Ethiopia
Albania
Black Shirts
Egypt
Greece
Adriatic Sea
Hitler
Africa
Bengali
North
Dwight D. Eisenhower
el Alamein
Eighth
Tripoli
Tunisia
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Sardinia
Grand Jury In Session In Potter County
The Potter County grand jury is in session today and has made no report this week. Soldiers at Camp Howze cheered the army’s morale effort a rolling post exchange with two trucks delivering dry and wet goods to the field.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Camp Howze
Tex
U.P
Yanks Bomb Jap Boats Soul of Hankow
Four Yangtze River boats two tugs and two barges were sunk and five other river boats were burned or damaged. One Japanese plane was shot down. Docks at Shih welyao were struck and an iron foundry destroyed. Nearby Sita saw eight machinegun nests knocked out with about 100 Japanese casualties. Lena Smith provides weekend recreation for soldiers in Whitesboro.
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Yochow
Sita
Let Us Go On Dreaming Aired in Germany After Italy Capitulated
Berlin radio broadcast a musical program titled Let Us Go On Dreaming about ninety minutes after Italy announced its capitulation. The report notes London received word first while Berlin aired the song as the news spread.
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Germany
Italy
London
Berlin
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Employed couple in essential industry seek a half day housekeeper. Call 6658 in the evening for details.
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