Allied Forces Press Sicily Campaign From Etna Line
Allied troops push through rough terrain in Sicily advancing toward Castel Di Tusa and Troina while British and Indian forces breach defenses near a key junction. Air and sea power hammer Italian positions along Naples to Messina as Axis reinforcements arrive across the Strait of Messina.
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North Africa
Stefano
Sicy
Toy
Eohth
Catania
Nap Ia
Italy
King Foot
San Stefano
Etna Line
Vibo Calentia Marina
Gulf of San Ufemio
Ossina
Oliva
Theorth
Crotone
Ionian Sea
Canada
Mt. Etna
Castel di Tusa
Arrhenian Sea
Mot
Petineo
Castel di Lucio
Aunnel
Xis
Seventh Army
Nicosia
Yestern
Ovet
Toad Junction
Strait of Messina
Renewal of Air Assaults on Naples and Axis Centers
Allied forces renewed air attacks on Naples while Italy faced mass civilian exodus as Badoglio’s government faced surrender demands. Eisenhower warned of aerial death if German troops remained, amid fragmented peace signals and reports of unrest across Italian cities.
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Naples
London
Italy
Pietro Badogne
Apprete Res
Rome
Vatican
Badoglio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bern
Algiers
War Lord of China Becomes Its President
Lin Sen, aged yet unnamed, a Chinese Republic elder educated in America, wed after a long illness. Chiang Kai-Shek designated by the Central Committee as acting president. Lin Sen ascends to the presidency in 1932 after Chiang resigned to focus on military preparations for war with Japan.
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Chungking
Lin Sen
Chinese Republic
Heralissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Koomintan Central Committee
Hghest
Ang Kai-Shek
Japan
Pipeline Workers Return to Jobs After Stoppage
Cincinnati reports a cross pipeline dispute easing as workers resume 20 inch line construction. Walter Mack of Elden Construction says the stoppage originated from a dispute among crews, now settled. Meanwhile Colonel Lynn Thys, state patrol superintendent, filed for divorce from Dorothy L from California.
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Cincinnati
Upe
Ne &T
Walter Mack
Orne Construction
Lynn Thy
Ra ‘Y Patrol
Dorothy L
Angeles
Yank fliers raid Ploesti oil fields in massive bomber strike
An armada of 175 Liberator bombers from the U S Ninth Air Force flew a 2400 mile round trip to dump 300 tons of explosives on seven Ploesti refineries in Romania. Middle East Air Command says 20 bombers were shot down and over 50 enemy aircraft claimed destroyed. Pilot J M Blyer of Tulsa described the mission as very successful with targets likely destroyed.
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Cairo
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Ploesti
Romania
Lewis H. Brereton
Middle East Air Command
Polesti
Bucharest
Brereton
Victor H. Strahm
Turkey
Red Army Air Force
J. M. Blyer
Tulsa
Okla
Blyer
Germans Build New Defense Line in Brenner Pass Area
The Brenner Pass area in Northern Italy is reported by today’s notes as a site where Germans are constructing a new defense line in anticipation of a collapse of their southern allies. Some decisive World War I battles were fought in Northern Italy.
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Brenner Pass
Italy
Soviet Claims New Advances Around Orel
Moscow dispatches report Red Army forces driving from Orel area capturing villages and tightening surrounds. Front lines say 40 villages taken north and northwest of the city with heavy German losses to counterattacks. Air force harassed the Nazis and minefields slowed southward progress as overall Donets basin actions continued.
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Moscow
Orel
Pravda
Red Army
Voroshilovgrad
Donets Basin
Congress Eyes Scrutiny of New Deal Spending and Taxes
Congress and Senate leaders push for tighter control of budget plans as President Roosevelt seeks higher taxes and spending. Senators Wherry Radcliffe and Taft call for curbing unnecessary outlays and probing Army and Navy requests amid a revised 105.869 million budget and a shift in war expenditures toward the Pacific.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Wherry
R-Neb
America
Wheely
Radcliffe
Dmd
Army
Navy
Tat
R-io
Taft
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue
Pacific
Military Currency Is Being Used in Sicily
Allied invasion troops in Sicily use a special military currency stamped Issued In Sicily. Printed by the Treasury and flown to the island, the notes serve as the medium of exchange in the territory now held by Allied forces.
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Sicily
Washington
Treasury
War Departments
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Italy
Former Logan Coach Accepts Fostoria Position
Shelby High School coach and PE instructor Thomas Bender resigns to take a similar role at Fostoria High School. He arrived at Shelby a year ago from Logan tgs School.
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Logan
Fostoria
Shelby
Thomas_ Bender
Shelby High School
Fostoria High School
Logan Tgs School
Nourishing, If Less, God Is on American Tables
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the nation's diet has grown more nutritious over the past four years. Civilians gained calories protein fat minerals and vitamins in 1940 41 and 42 versus prewar years with per capita nutrition likely higher again this year despite war demands. Production may rise about four percent while per capita consumption falls roughly 3.7 percent due to military needs.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Rioting in Harlem Claims Four Lives During Battles
Four Negroes were dead and 155 persons injured, including 40 police, after a night of Harlem disorders. Mayor La Guardia appealed for calm as 363 were arrested. hospitals overflowed with injured civilians, while looting and smashed windows marked the unrest.
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Harlem
NEW York
la Guardia
Ten Die as Army Glider Crashes at Lambert Field
A troop-carrying Army glider crash near Lambert-St. Louis Field killed ten people including Maj William Bertson and Mayor William Becker during the Army's first public glider demonstration. Lt Col Johnston called it the first fatal glider accident in two years. The tow plane dropped the glider as the wing failed.
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ST. Louis
Lambert-St. Louis Field
William B.bertson
Pioneer Airplane
William Dee Becker
Thomas N. Dysart
Chamber of Commerce
J. R. Johnston
Army Airforce
Army
Joseph C. Payne
Gallia Airman Killed in Crash Near Willoughby
Two naval air cadets on leave from Glenview Air School were killed when a small civilian plane crashed at Willoughby Municipal Airport. Eugene Wardzinski 25 North Royalton Ohio and Thomas Stanley Bidwell Gallia County Ohio died after the aircraft, flying about an hour, apparently developed motor trouble during approach. Deputy Clyde Jones investigated.
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Willoughby
Naval Air
Glenview
Ill
Willoughby Municipal
Eugene Wardzinski
North Royalton
Thomas Stanley
Bidwell
Gallia County
Clyde Jones
Italian Diplomat Augusto Rosso Named Italy Secretary General
Berlin dispatch reports Dr. Augusto Rosso veteran Italian diplomat with an American wife has been appointed secretary general of the Italian Foreign Office. Ankara source had said Rosso was cancelled as ambassador to Turkey due to German protests.
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London
Berlin
DNB
Augusto Rosso
Associated Press
Ankara
Rosso
Turkey
US Fliers Lead in Burma Air Attack
U S B 25 bombers blasted wharves warehouses and shipping facilities at Katha in Burma during Sunday operations by American and British squadrons. All planes returned. Separate Akron report: 13 year old Gene Albritton unintentionally ran his car into his grandmother Verda Wilson 68 killing her.
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New Delhi
Katha
Irrawaddy
Burma
Akron
Gene Albritton
Verda Wilson
Salina surgeon general of veterans dies at 90
Dr. Mel chair Gist Cockey 90 longtime Salina Kas resident and surgeon general of the United Spanish War Veterans died yesterday.
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Kansas City
Melchair Gist Cockey
Salina
Kas
The
United Spanish War Veterans
U-Boat Blows Light in July
The Associated Press notes Churchill’s claim that German U-boat hopes are sinking as fast as the boats themselves. Western Atlantic ship sinkings last month total six, unchanged from June, with one U S vessel loss announced last week. AP tally shows 676 Allied and neutral merchant ships lost in Western Atlantic since U S entered the war, including 272 U S losses since Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
Winston Churchill
Western Atlantic
United States
America
Pearl Harbor
Monroe Weaver Dies At Home In Syracuse
Monroe Weaver, 72, died this morning at his Syracuse home. Funeral arrangements are being made. He is survived by his wife Cassie and five daughters Emma Williamson of Columbus Lucie Justis of Chester Marie Michael of Rutland Mary Wolfe of Racine and Ruth Betzing of Minersville. also 14 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Pomeroy
Monroe Weaver
Syracuse
Weaver
Cassie
Emma Williamson
Columbus
Lucie Justis
Chester
Marie Michael
Rutland
Mary Wolfe
Racine
Ruth Betzing
Minersville
Fremont Woman elected president of Ohio Moose Association
Joan Horn of Fremont was elected the new president of the Ohio Moose Association at the state convention in Columbus.
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Columbus
Joan Horn
Fremont
Ohio Moose Association
German Forces Fortify North Italy As War Moves South
Reported German strength around northern Italy includes 18 divisions with confidence Badoglio could cede only territory south of the Po. Strong units occupy the Adige valley region near Trento, which lies about 70 miles south of the Brenner Pass, amid renewed fighting.
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Madrid
Italy
Badogno
Adige
Trento
Brenner Pass
Italian Press Demands Honor After Fascism's End
Rome reports and broadcasts criticized the Allies for not granting Italy a place among nations after fascism ended. The tone urged negotiation without capitulation, reflecting local sentiment on postwar status and terms.
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Rome
Italy
Italy awaits neutrality plan as clash with Allies looms
Reports say Badoglio aims to keep Italy out of the war while avoiding Allied occupation, a line ridiculed in the press which argues Italy will serve as an Allied base against Germany whether it surrenders or is seized. Vatican talks with diplomats continue, while Crete sees German fear of Italian collapse and armed resistance. Berlin urges evacuation and prepares civilians for unprecedented bombings.
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Badoglio
Italy
Germany
Vatican
Madrid
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Papal
Mgr
Giovanni Battista Montoni
Cardinal Maglione
Harold Tittman
Royal
Middle East
Cairo
Crete
Balkans
Berlin
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Meigs County Infant Dies in Mason Clinic
Kathleen Van Cooney 10 months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Van Cooney of Rutland dies at Mason County Clinic Point Pleasant. Funeral at Bradford Church Tuesday at two with burial at Middleport Cemetery. She is survived by her parents and four sisters.
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Pomeroy
Kathleen van Cooney
Wilbur van Cooney
Rutland
Bradford
Middleport
Mason County
Point Pleasant
Catholic Bishop Ends Long Battle Area Trip
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York returns home after a six month tour of Africa the Mediterranean and the British Isles including a Vatican visit. He serves as Catholic military vicar of the U S armed forces.
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New York
Francis J. Spellman
Africa
Mediterranean
British Isles
Vatican
United States
U S Air Force Highlights Sharp Aircraft Output Amid War News
The USAAF marked its 36th birthday with claims of growing air power as production tops 7 000 planes a month surpassing Axis output. Since Pearl Harbor factories delivered 73 132 aircraft, with 1944 plans totaling 95 000 including 36 000 bombers and 38 000 fighters.
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Washington
U. S. Army Air Force
Europe
Africa
Pacific
USAAF
Ploesti
Rumania
U. S
Army Air Force
Axis
Germany
Japan
Italy
Russia
Britain
Pearl Harbor
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Soldiers Get Plenty To Eat
General Patton praises home front sacrifices for Sicilian campaign and rations. He notes butter at all meals coffee three times daily and eggs for breakfast. He says soldiers have improved and are now veterans in the true sense.
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Hamilton Mass
Sicilian
George S. Patton
Sicily
Perseid Meteor Shower to Peak August 11 12
The United States Naval Observatory reports the annual display of shooting stars over the northeastern skies will peak on the night of August 11 12. It notes the meteors are best seen the preceding night from 1 am until dawn with 30 or more meteors visible in an hour.
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Washington
United States Naval Observatory
Military Called To Aid In Savannah Outbreak
Heavily armed military and civil police were deployed to disperse a crowd that formed on West Broad Street near Union Station after a Negro soldier, Sergt. Ed Levant, allegedly interfered with an arrest of a Negro woman by city police on Sunday in Savannah Georgia.
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Savannah
West Broad St
Union Station
L. C. Nosworthy
Sergt
Ed Levant
Sicily Capture Nets Ten Thousand Allied Prisoners
Allied headquarters in North Africa announced that about ten thousand prisoners fell into American hands with the capture of Misterta six miles from the north coast of Sicily. The seizure followed a daylight assault by Allied forces.
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North Africa
Mistretta
Sicily
Smuts Plans US Visit, Johannesburg Dispatch Says
The London Express reports from Johannesburg that Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts premier of the Union of South Africa plans to visit the United States soon. The dispatch notes Smuts as a key diplomatic figure amid postwar relations and seeks to gauge potential talks and visits.
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London
London Express
Johannesburg
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