Allies Reach Near Catania in Sicilian Advance
Allied forces push across Sicily as American Seventh Army seizes Caltanissetta and advances toward Catania. Montgomery's Eighth Army drives into Etna's western flank while Italian capital Rome sees Allied air strikes. About 30 000 Axis prisoners taken. Naples bombed. Messina ferry neutralized.
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North Africa
Seventh Army
Caltanissetta
Sicily
Rome
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Catania
Montgomery
Mount Etna
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Piazza Armerina
Grigento
Porto Empedocle
Messina
Associated Press
Noland Norgaard
Eighth Army
Gerbini
Naples
Algiers
Straits of Messina
Reggio Calabria
AFL Chief Warns Inflation Endangers Wartime Economy
AFL President Sam Green told a Brotherhood Maintenance of Way Employes convention that America has failed to curb inflation. He warned wages must rise and called food prices a domestic emergency, accusing OPA and WFA of failing to protect workers as food costs surged 50 to 200 percent since the war began.
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Toetroit
America
Sam Green
Theerican Federation of Labor
Green
Brotherhood
Maintenance of Way
CIO
Philip Urray
Riviera
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
AFL
State aids tomato and corn harvest effort in Ohio
Columbus report states Ohio mobilizes to support Buckeye Canners and growers. The highway department will provide personnel and trucks to prevent field spoilage and packing bottlenecks. On call workers will assist in packing plants and field harvesting to move produce to canneries.
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Columbus
Ohio
Highway Department
Hal G. Sours
Lucy Chevelair Dies In Hospital Sunday
Lucy Chevelair 77 died Sunday morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a short illness following a fall at her Mineral home. Survived by husband, two sons Charles and Joseph Buckley of Mineral, daughter Aggie Blake of Coolville, two sisters Hannah Taylor of Indiana and Mary Pullin of Coolville, and brother Brady LeMasters of Coolville. Funeral at Mission Church Mineral Wednesday 10 am. burial Coolville Cemetery. Visitation at Charles Buckley's home in Mineral.
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Lucy Chevelair
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mineral
Charles
Joseph Buckley
Aggie Blake
Coolville
Hannah Taylor
Indiana
Mary Pullin
Brady LeMasters
Harry Swart
Urial
Charles Buckley
Stabilizer for Tank Gunfire Is Perfected
American Genius develops a mechanical stabilizer enabling steady tank gunfire on rough terrain. Army ordnance approves the device and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company joins in production to meet tank output.
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Washington
Senuis
Army Ordnance
Westinghouselectric
Akron rainfall tops 9.49 inches marking record since 1896
Akron July rainfall reached 9.49 inches the highest on record since 1896 as weekend crowds swarmed streets.
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Akron
Gas and Tire Shortages Intensify Across the Midwest
Washington reports more gasoline for the East as the West loses supply amid a nationwide rationing shift. The OPA bans new tires for spares for months, limits recycled tires, and extends B to R gas coupon validity to reduce panic buying. Public protests by the American Automobile Association accuse the agency of harassment and overreach.
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Washington
Texas
Ickes
Nazi Defenses Crack Under Soviet Blows
Pravda reports the Russian army breached Nazi defenses near Orel on the central front south of Moscow as fighting nears two weeks. Berlin radio notes Soviet offensives northwest of Moscow and near Leningrad with heavy artillery. Germans claim heavy Soviet losses including 33 tanks. Soviet midnight communique claims four miles advance and several villages taken with about 5,000 German troops killed.
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Moscow
Orel
Pravda
Orel-Bryansk
Berlin
Associated Press
Velikie Luki
Neva
Leningrad
Red Army
Eight Enemy Planes Knocked Down by RAF
RAF bombers and fighters destroyed eight enemy aircraft and damaged two vessels in attacks on Nazi airport facilities in France and shipping off the Dutch coast. Mosquito intruders over northwest Germany damaged ten locomotives and bombed railway targets near Dieppe.
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London
France
Air Ministry
Germany
Dieppe
Beightler Sees Postwar Duties For Soldiers
Major General Robert S. Beightler told thousands of soldiers that their duties extend beyond victory in war. He warned that true peace requires enforcing concessions from some nations and criticized Allied appeasement as weak to fascist foes. He said American peace faces strong opposition from German and Japanese hardliners.
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South Pacific
Robert S. Beightler
Ohio
America
Akron Transit Strike Ends
Akron CIO transit workers ended a three day strike affecting buses and street cars in Akron and nearby Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls. More than 400 workers returned service after a War Labor Board deadline was set to present their case. Union leader William H. Wright cited dissatisfaction with a WLB panel’s recommendations.
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Akron
CIO J Transit
War Labor Board
Barberton
Cuyahoga Falls
William H. Wright
WLB
Italian Anti Aircraft Shells Fail To Burst Over Rome
Unconfirmed reports from Italy say Italian anti aircraft shells failed to explode until impact, adding to damage from Allied bombing of Rome. Through early afternoon there was no Italian comment beyond the high command note that damage could not yet be ascertained.
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Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Rome
High Command
Fatal shooting at Union Station Plaza ends DeMolay member life
Louis G. Lower, 41, the first DeMolay member to die in the Masonic youth group, was fatally shot yesterday while challenging a man directing traffic at Union Station Plaza Kansas City. Mrs. Robert W. Dickason, 26, of Green Camp, drowned in a gravel pit yesterday while learning to swim near Marion.
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Kansas City
Louis G. Lower
DeMolay
Masonic Organization
Union Station Plaza
Marion
Robert W. Dickason
Green Camp
GOP Chairman Sees Victory for His Party
GOP Chairman Harrison Spangler forecasts a Republican win in 1944 citing private polls and public opinion. He says the race will hinge on Northern states with the solid South less assured for Democrats as labor and rural Northern voters move toward the GOP.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harrison Spangler
G.O.P. National Committee
Spangler
G.O.P
Labor
Ohio Motor Fuel Tax Drops Three Millions
The state tax department reported net receipts from Ohio's three cent motor fuel tax of 12,047,285 for the first five months of this year, down from 15,894,963 in the same period in 1942. The one cent per gallon tax on gasoline for nonhighway use brought in 4,445,976 to June 1, versus 5,846,916 a year earlier.
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Columbus
State
Ohio
Great Fire Ravages Rouen Engulfing City in Losses
A Paris radio broadcast reported by Reuters said a great fire was raging in Rouen France with damage running into millions of francs. The cause was not disclosed.
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Rouen
London
Paris
Reuters
Syracuse Youth Saves Three Planes in Storm
First Lieutenant Franklin M. Rizer of Syracuse Ohio guided three Army transport planes through zero visibility to an auxiliary field in the South Pacific during a heavy storm. He declined an observer, locating and leading each aircraft to safety. The air medal was awarded for this daring rescue. Rizer is a fighter pilot with Solomons combat experience and a Kelly Field graduate.
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Army
South Pacific
Franklin M. Rizer
Syracuse
Meigs County
Ohio
United States Army Air Forces
War Department
Rizer
Solomons
Daniel Rizer
Army Air Corps
Japanese Destroyer Flotillas Turned Back at Solomons
Allied forces repelled two Japanese destroyer flotillas attempting to reinforce Munda on New Georgia Island. U S airmen sank seven ships and 49 planes, with another Sunday sortie destroying a cargo ship and damaging three vessels. In Tokyo Tojo vowed stronger blows as RAF bombers hit targets in Burma.
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Munda
New Georgia
Pacific
Tokyo
Hideko Tojo
Japan
Berlin
U. S
Buin
Faisi
New Guinea
Burma
No Change Planned In Next Liquor Ration
Columbus report states Ohio retail liquor limits will hold at one quart or fifth or two pints per person for the July 26 to August 21 period. Officials say a dividend may be added later, possibly a pint of brandy gin rum or cordial, depending on department inventories.
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Columbus
Ohio
Regulations for Servicemen’s Rations Expanded
Service men on furlough may apply for food ration stamps at the most convenient ration board office the Office of Price Administration said. Formerly, they had to apply in the locality where they planned to spend their leave.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Former Chillicothe police chief Ben Rout dies at 54
Ben W. Rout, 54, longtime Chillicothe law enforcement figure and former Ross County deputy sheriff, died Sunday.
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Chillicothe
Ben W. Rout
Ross County
Big Inch oil line nears final touch in Phoenixville
The Big Inch pipeline, the world’s largest, nears completion in Phoenixville with three sections left. Oil from Longview Texas travels 1341 miles east at three miles per hour toward Atlantic coast refineries. The $95 million line aims to deliver 12.6 million gallons daily within three weeks of completion.
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Phoenixville
Big Inch
Longview
Tex
Ohio
Atlantic Seaboard
New Flood Control Legislation Aims at River Basins
Senator Clark of Missouri announced a plan to lay before the Senate in September a flood control bill funding programs for entire river basins rather than isolated local projects. He urged integrating reservoirs levees dykes and terracing to prevent midwest floods.
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Washington
Clark
D.mo
Senate
Midwest
High Fascist Officer Pleads for Resistance
Carlo Scorza new secretary of the Fascist party in Rome made a last-ditch radio appeal for resistance to the Allies. He warned Italy faces dismemberment and enslavement if she yields, portraying Italy as a lone group of men standing against two great powers anxious to destroy its unity and rights.
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Bern
Italy
Carlo Scorza
Fascist Party
Rome
Scorza
Allied Bombers Hit Rome in Major WWII Strike
Allied heavy and medium bombers attacked Rome for the first time in the war, targeting a railway marshalling yard and avoiding cultural monuments. Leaflets warned Italians of the operation's military aim while Rome and Vatican proximity heightened risk considerations.
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North Africa
Rome
Italy
Naples
Bologna
Foggia
Algiers
Vatican
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