Second Tragic Error Over Sicily Revealed
Washington reports disclose a second Sicily air loss in July with 44 American fatalities after ten transport planes were shot down at Catania. Five were due to friendly fire, while earlier Gela losses near Sicily involved 23 planes and 410 men. Officials defend delayed disclosure and emphasize security considerations and wartime complexities.
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War Department
Catania
Sicily
Gela
Drew Pearson
Reds Repulse Nazi Assaults In Old Poland
Moscow reports Russian armies breached inner Sevastopol defenses and battled along the 1941 42 siege lines while German tank and infantry attacks in southeast Poland were repulsed. Lwow bombed. Russians claim capture of Sedyukhiny heights and outflanking of Sakharna Galovka as Sevastopol siege tightens. Axis air support and evacuations faced Russian countermeasures. 800 Axis troops killed on Dnestr front near Chisinau.
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London
Old Poland
Fedyukhiny Heights
Liwow
Stanislawow
Nadworna
Stanislawo
Lwow
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Sedyukhiny Heights
Crimea
Bessarabian
Dnestr
Chisinau
One Rain Follows Another in Iowa Weather Watch
Showers were forecast across Iowa with Cedar Rapids recording .50 inch at 2 30 pm and heavier rains in the west. Atlantic .92 Fort Dodge .71 Council Bluffs Ames .64 each Decorah .20 Town City .19. Temperatures ranged from 52 to 63 with overcast skies and a cool trend east and central Iowa.
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Ames
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Town City
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Cardinal O'Connell in Serious Condition
Boston report says Cardinal William Cardinal O'Connell aged 84, dean of America's Catholic hierarchy, was seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia on Thursday. The suffering leader faces a critical health situation as doctors monitor his condition.
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William Cardinal O'Connell
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Turkey to Halt Chrome Exports
London AP Reuters dispatch says Turkey formally announced it would stop chrome exports, citing need to secure supplies for munition production amid wartime demand. The move affects Germany and other buyers, signaling tighter controls on strategic materials.
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London
Reuters
Ankara
Germany
Black Mart May Reduce Gas Rations
Washington reports that OPA official Shad Polier warned Congress that counterfeit gas coupons and black market sales could force a reduction in civilian gas rations. He cited a daily 2.5 million gallon “tribute” from thieves, boosting B ration mileage and expanding GIs’ civilian limits, with hot coupons and legal transport eroding the system nationwide.
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Office of Price Administration
House
Polier
California
Pacific Northwest
Gulf Coast
Polter
Paper Commandos call citywide waste drive Saturday
A 9 a.m. Saturday citywide waste paper roundup is announced by Henry E. Haegg Linn county civilian defense director and commander in chief of the Paper Commandos. Children will canvass neighborhoods Saturday morning placing and collecting bundled paper on porches corners and curbs. Civilian defense trucks will pick up the paper and volunteers are urged to report by 8:30 a.m. at the Hearn Stevenson lot near The Gazette building.
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Henry E. Haegg
Linn County
Hearn-Stevenson
Gazette
Third Street
Wallace Visit to Siberia Rumored
Washington AP reports speculation that Vice President Wallace will visit Siberia Russia during his trip to Chungking in late spring or early summer. The office of the vice president withheld comment on the rumor.
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Washington
Wallace
Siberian
Russia
Chungking
Report Red Peace Terms to Romania
London dispatch reports Russia tendered peace terms to Romania on Thursday while warning Germany’s satellite must act quickly or face the Red army. Details likely reached the United States and Britain.
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London
Russia
Romania
United States
Britain
Solons Urge Permanent U S Retention of Bases
A House naval subcommittee urged making permanent U S possession of Western hemisphere bases acquired from Britain in the 50 destroyer deal. The report cites $130 million spent on eight bases and calls for expanded Latin American defense ties, more use of Guantanamo and Trinidad, and shipping surpluses to friendly nations, while critiquing Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico as unjustified.
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House Naval
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Herbert
D-La
Cole
Hess
R-Ohio
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Guantanamo Bay
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Trinidad
Bombers Hit France Italy and Germany On Birthday Observance
Allied air raids from British bases and over Italy and France marked Hitler’s fifty fifth birthday. U S Marauder bombers attacked north France while British Halifaxes struck Plovdiv rail junction in Bulgaria. Heavy raids over Kassel caused major damage per American communique, with Paris region bombings producing thousands of casualties. American losses included five bombers and two fighters as RAF and US air forces pressed a high volume assault across occupied Europe.
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France
Italy
Plovdivas
Britain
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Germany
Focke-Wulf
Kassel
Paris
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Belgium
English
Sabang
Shonga
Mountbatten
Badoglio Forms New Government In Italy
Marshal Pietro Badoglio formed a new Italian government with six opposition parties participating and with Count Carlo Sforza and Benedetto Croce serving as ministers with out portfolio. Several anti-Badoglio parties stayed away in line with their policy of noncooperation.
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Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Carlo Sforza
Benedetto Croce
Action
Badoglio
Supervisors Never Given 41 Audit in Linn County
The reconvened grand jury learned Linn county supervisors never received the 1941 state audit of county affairs from former Auditor Robert M Wesely. Two board members said they never could study the report. Beeson said he got a copy last January, over a year after it was filed. The audit, with a recommendation to record all transactions in Vesely’s cash book, had not been released until Thursday. The grand jury, completing its second day of inquiry into Vesely’s resignation amid a $3,638.40 shortage, recessed until Friday and heard testimony from the supervisors, state examiners, and the auditor.
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Robert M Wesely
Elmer Seevell
Clare Petty
Clarence L. Beeson
Frank F Bates
Vesely
Grand Jury
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Bates
Beeson
British Indian relief troops close on Kohima amid siege
In Ceylon report relief forces train heavy mountain guns facing Japanese positions around Kohima as British and Indian troops advance from Dimapur. Dispatches say preparations near completion for a final assault to relieve the Kohima garrison, with Dimapur and Imphal operations continuing while Stratemeyer shifts HQ to Calcutta and Stilwell advances in Burma.
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Ceylon
Kohima
Dimapur
Calcutta
India
Burma
Bengal- Assam
Tokyo
George E Stratemeyer
Eastern Air Command
New Delhi
Joseph W. Stilwell
Wararup
Private Robert Armstrong Killed at Camp Shelby
Pvt. Robert Armstrong 20 of 877 Daniels St NE died during maneuvers at Camp Shelby Mississippi Sunday. Survived by parents G T and spouse, five siblings, Nurse Cadet Geraldine Armstrong Akron and siblings Carol Jane Gerald Roger at home. Body to Chicago then Dubuque for services Saturday 3 pm at Egelhof Funeral Home. Burial in Farley.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
G. T. Armstrong
Daniels Street
Armstrong
Geraldine Armstrong
Akron
Ohio
Carol
Jane
Gerald
Roger
Egelhof Funeral Home
Farley
Roemig Denies Starting Fire at Amana During Defense
Federal court hears Louie Roemig Jr deny involvement in the June 7 1943 Amana refrigeration plant blaze. He admits going to the plant night of the fire to hide a beer bottle but says he remembers little, cites memory lapses, and questions the June 11 confession signed under FBI questioning.
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Louis Roemig, Jr
Amana
Roemiig
Henry N. Graven
Roeniig
R. S. Milner
Confes
Sion
FBI
James White
Lewis Hogan
Roemig
Allied fleet blasts Sabang and Lhonga airfields
Allied carrier planes hit Sabang and Lhonga in Sumatra, destroying docks, airfields, and ships while shelling Sabang dockyards. The operation involved a large task force sweeping from Ceylon, with no Allied losses reported. The raid, linked to Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia HQ, signals growing air sea strike capability and possible future amphibious actions against Japan.
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Sumatra
Singapore
Malaya
Sabang
Lhonga
Indian Ocean
Ceylon
James Somerville
Lord Louis Mountbatten
South East Asia Command
New Delhi
India
Kandy
Associated Press
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Mountbatten
Somerville
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Tojo
Burma
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