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Navy officials report a misread line with missing letters about prisoners. A fragment suggests a detainee context but lacks clear names, dates, or places to confirm details.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1943
Page
4
Navy officials report a misread line with missing letters about prisoners. A fragment suggests a detainee context but lacks clear names, dates, or places to confirm details.
A garbled wartime notice offers sparse references to orders and actions. Names, dates, and places are unreadable, leaving only hints of military moves, officer roles, and supply mentions like bandages and charging skin treatment, with no clear events or outcomes.
Senate voted to halt subsidies on butter meat and prices through farm aid and to extend borrowing power by one billion dollars for the CCC. The bill also includes a 500 million dollar increase in CCC borrowing authority and anti roll subsidy measures. Two Senate amendments to the CCC bill were approved as the measure heads to the House.
Allied air forces struck at Nazi Germany and Italy with heavy bombings and anti aircraft fire. Fortresses destroyed German fighters over the Ruhr. RAF bombed Bochum and Gelsenkirchen while American planes hit Messina and Kiska island amid improving reports from the Soviet front near Moscow.
British and Burmese patrols killed about 60 Japanese in the Chin area of West Central Burma. In the Kabaw Valley Highlanders and Seaforths attacked a Japanese camp, with a Japanese officer and others killed. RAF raids and U S air force bombers supported operations near Kalemyo Fort White Mandalay with damaged supply lines.
Bonham begins drilling its third water well led by Major Raleigh Aberwell. The Denver firm Allide Wells Co. of Denver holds the contract to drill and lay mains at the Fisher Jet site in East Bonham. Contract price stands at 983012.75 with operations at eight pumps per day, seven days a week.
The House passed and sent to the Senate a Commodity Credit Corporation extension bill with an amendment prohibiting subsidy payments except where commitments exist. The measure would extend CCC operations two years and allow reimbursement for losses under lend lease while barring subsidies by CCC and other agencies unless prior commitments are in place.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced 799 men arrested in various cities in the last 24 hours for violations of the selective service act. The report notes the crackdown and stresses the seriousness of penalties and enforcement.
In Buenos Aires police closed the Junta De La Vitoria, a leading pro Allied Argentine women’s group, and halted related volunteer clubs preparing bandages and medical supplies for Allied forces. Ana Mara Martinez Gurriero led the Junta, once tolerated under the previous regime, and branches faced closures while officials delayed listening to protests.
In San Antonio on June 26 Commander John Barr reported that every American pilot shot down in northeast India behind Japanese lines has been rescued. He declined to reveal methods, saying it is a military secret. He noted one pilot recovered within 100 yards of Japanese headquarters.
Local supervisors Mrs. Dick Saunders and Mrs. Ray Diehnann appeal for women to volunteer a few hours weekly in Bonham and county surgical dressing workrooms. The county has shipped 18 600 dressings to national HQ for hospitals and military units. The poem urges residents to support war effort by aiding bandage production and boosting county morale.
Amateur photographer Pete Shea of Bonham gains national recognition with a double page spread in Coronet magazine. The Platinum Cascade study features Mrs Dean Copeland of Garland, formerly Katharine Darwin of Bunham, who worked at Lone Star Gas in Bunhan.
A Dutch potato peeling collector bought a donkey and named him Benito, drawing criticism from The Nationale Dagblad which called for action by animal cruelty authorities. The paper argued there are limits to politicizing animal names.
Heavy Eighth Air Force bombers raid Northwest Germany amid cloudy conditions and dense German fighters. Eighteen American planes failed to return while thirty three bombers including eight Canadians were lost in the Elberfeld Wuppertal industrial raid.
An Allied communique says Beaufort bomber damaged a trio of small Japanese cargo ships and a destroyer escort 65 miles SSE of Cape St George near Rabaul. Recon planes noted about 170 to 200 Japanese aircraft at Rabaul, while fires burned in villages southwest of Madang and a gun post was silenced.
Continued warmth this afternoon and tonight across East Texas with widely scattered thundershowers mainly in the south and extreme east portions.
London dispatches report fresh British and American troops moving toward the Middle East as Montgomery’s Eighth Army is sent from North Africa to Germany’s northwest front. American troops reportedly join the effort as parts of the Allied force prepare a major blow in the region. Goebbels signals possible Allied strength for a European landing, while German authorities mobilize older men. Stockholm dispatches note Berlin reports on the shift.
Soviet dispatches claim troops captured an inhabited place near Velikie Luki and pressed further on the Doregobush sector and Singlensk front. Reports describe preparatory artillery and rapid attacks with damaged enemy forces, noting continued Soviet assaults southwest of Velikie Luki and near Kaullnyn front lines.
Fort Worth cattle market week summary shows steer tops around 14.50 per hundredweight and calves near 14.58, yearlings 14.25, fat cows 12.50, cutters 4.30 to 8.60, with nominal totals for the week and overall steady tone.
A new metal lined gunpowder box design lowers copper use in Army Ordnance by enough to equip 25 155 mm howitzers per month.
London reported that the Raed Army breached the front southeast and north of Orel, but both penetrations were sealed. Russians held ground southwest of Velikie Luki though gains were not extended.
In Washington on June 26 the House and Senate overrode President Roosevelt's veto of the Connally-Smith strike measure within hours. The Senate vote was 68 to 25 and the House 366 to 168, enacting a wartime labor policy to curb strikes and seize command of labor disputes.
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