Allied push in Italy tightens around Leghorn and Florence
Allied forces press northward on Highway One toward Leghorn and Florence with heavy artillery. Germans set roadblocks and destroy villages to delay the advance but are slowing. Monticlano and Castagneto exchanges yield gains as Americans reach within 12 miles of Silene on the Rome Florence highway.
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Rome
Teghorn
Ust
Florence
Siena Highy
Trem
Italy
Lake Trasimeno
Eighth Army
Leghorn
Castagneta
Castagneto
Monticlano
Rome-Florence
Metall
Montalcirello
Monteclano
Subsidy Payments for May June Start July 1
Dairy feed subsidies for May and June will begin July 3, announced by Dan Barnard county secretary of the ACA. Producers should bring sales tickets dated and signed to the AAA officer. payments will be 45 cents per gallon of whole milk and six cents per pound of butterfat, issued throughout July.
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Dan Barnard
ACA
Barnard
AAA
Pitched Battles Reported Between French and Germans
Allied high command in London reports Maquis clashes with German and mercenary forces across three French sectors. Vichy cabinet convenes in a feared, extraordinary session as German movements push through the Normand and Italian border areas. Rome dispatches note a Franco Italian underground coordination to curb German advances.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
A.P
France
Vichy Tebinet
Rome
Dispatchera
New Year’s Eve Poison Plot Threat Looms in Wrightsville
Ellery Queen confronts a staged party in Nora’s New Year celebration that hides a deadly arsenic poisoning plan. Nora’s fragile threats and a looming January 1 death drive the tension as Ellery suspects Nora’s circles and Jim’s movements amid a mansion full of guests and secrets.
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Ellery
Pat
Bald Mountain
Bill York
Wrightsville
Hermy
John F
Nora
Mr Queen
Elery
Judge Martins
Doc Willoughby
Frank Lloyd
Carter Bradford
Bradford
Cart
Carmel Pettigrew
Alberta
el Martin
Tabitha
Tabby
Manhattan
Clarice Martin
Clarice
Lola
Rosemary Haight
Soviets Close To Minsk In Major Summer Offensive Push
Soviet forces drive toward Minsk within 13 miles as the Red Army reports heavy German losses in the first week of the campaign. Petrozavodsk falls to Soviet troops while operations push Finns from Peetrozavodsk and threaten northern supply lines. More than 6,690 towns fallen as 52,090 Germans killed and 26,300 captured in five days of battles.
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Minsk
Petrozavodsk
Moscow
White Rus Jan
Polatsk
Crove
Vilnit
Vilnau
Lithuaik
Red Army
Qorsha
Soviet Information Bureau
Inetushvev
Ivan C Barronian
Ivan Ow Chermakhov
Hitler Reported Hoarding Food And Supplies
The Fairy Mail dispatch from On the German Frontier reports trucks delivering large supplies to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. It claims he is converting the eagle's nest into a last stand fortress and storing enough provisions to sustain his regime for years. Berchtesgaden is in the Bavarian mountains reachable by elevators, housing Hitler's key documents.
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London
Fairy Mail
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Bavarian
Hitler
Trial Of French Collaborationists To Start Soon
In Bayeux France on June 30 the first trial of Frenchmen accused of collaboration with the Nazis is due to begin next Tuesday before a court set up by De Gaulle's provisional government. Several collaborators are in custody including four handed to police after the invasion. a jail building has been requisitioned for the proceedings.
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Bayeux
France
Charles de Gaulle
Women Fliers Urge WASP Training Continuance
Stranded women fliers in Texas and nearby states appealed to General Hap Arnold to continue the WASP training program after its abrupt termination by Congress. They urged the army to keep the program active and to allow continued operation despite the shutdown.
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Sweetwater
Tex
Arnold
First Referrals To Be For Jobe With Highest Priorities
Orville W. Erringer, area director of the war manpower commission, said first referrals of all qualified male workers by the U S Employment Service after July 1 will be to jobs with highest priorities outside the Dallas labor area except as the WMC rules allow. He added workers may face opportunities in war plants with the highest urgency ratings.
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Dali
Tex
Orville W. Erringer
War Manpower Commission
U .S. Employment Service
Dallas
WMC
Global aura of lingering jet action creates sunset glow
Jet action sometimes remains suspended in the atmosphere for years drifting worldwide and causing a peculiar tcy glow seen at sunset.
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