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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1944
Page
7
The Massachusetts Probate Court cites interested parties in Maynard and Acton regarding wills and administrations. Objectors must file appearances by August 17 1944 with First Judge John C Leggat. notices list executors Francesco Gangemi and Ethel M of Acton, and Register Loring P Jordan.
Probate Court of Middlesex hears petition in Acton, Massachusetts for Herbert L. Sprague of Hudson to be named administrator of Herbert B. Sprague estate without bond. Written appearance urged by July 17 before ten in the forenoon at Cambridge. witness John C. Leggat. July 3, 1944. Register Loring P. Jordan. Dates July 6, 12, 20.
Special administrator presents first account for the estate of Jusita ce late of Maynard deceased. Interested persons may object by filing an appearance before the forenoon of July 25 1944. Court date set to July 25 1944. Dated June 30 1944. Loring P. Jordan clerk.
Allied forces pressed on in Normandy enveloping La Haye and St. Lo while British and Canadian troops attacked toward Caen. In Washington, De Gaulle seeks U.S. recognition of a liberated French government as talks with Roosevelt continue.
A circus fire at Ringling shows 35 dead mostly children as 64 miners trapped at Powhatan mine near Bellaire face oxygen shortage and new tunnels. A Louisville and Nashville derailment near Clear Fork River gorge yields 25 dead while Chinese forces resist Japanese advances along the eastern coast in a broad wartime clash.
War Food Administration estimates indicate 700000 additional laborers are needed for harvest. Many would come from cities, with officials noting shortages and regional mobilization. Unrest spreads in Central America as uprisings flare in El Salvador amid Nicaragua turmoil.
Navy Secretary Leo Forrestal said U S submarines and air force shipping have lately sunk 15 Japanese cargo vessels and two warships, curbing Japan's war program. He noted Japan must move a million tons yearly to the home islands while losing oil and gas supply to the East. He also cited heavy U S marine losses but asserted Japan still has stockpiles and surplus prewar shipping to draw on.
Lend lease shipments to the Allies remained steady in the first ten months of 1944 with varied commodity volumes and little effect on domestic supplies. About 9.3 percent of U.S. meat supply was under lend lease, mostly pork, and roughly 15.6 percent of pork was sent abroad as the United Kingdom and Russia continued to receive most end-use food, with the U.S. supplying 10 percent of British needs.
A muddled wartime notice blends farmers fighting crop borers with wasp and fly predators, and mentions Britain’s air threats and Allied debates. It notes Texas dust control at Biggs field and Prairie hay measures, with Grama grass seed efforts and machinery in action.
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