08 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1943
Page
1
Crowds demand break with Vichy and report states Jreport Island is willing to make a change. The state department takes part in Giraud's reception as tensions shift toward new leadership.
Washington officials anticipate General Henri Giraud will discuss invasion plans with President Roosevelt and top U.S. leaders in Washington. The French commander, arriving from Algiers, is on a military mission amid talks about Martinique and Guadeloupe shifting to Allied control and potential changes in the French high commissioner post.
Edward Hoaoh faces larceny charges for allegedly taking $100 from A. Vl. Aikens, an Automobile dealer on First Avenue. He was held for a hearing before Alderman George Gordon after a preliminary arraignment conducted Sunday afternoon. Police reported the suspect struggled with officers as the bar entry was made, with the bill retrieved. The Fire Ward youth received fines totaling 85 for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Allied air forces pounded Sicily and Sardinia with a sustained assault, reporting 10 Axis planes shot down at a cost of five Allied aircraft. American Fortresses and fighters targeted Gerbini and surrounding airfields, while Wellington bombs struck Palermo and Sciacca yards, causing extensive fires and runway damage across multiple airstrips.
Associated Press reports Moscow tallying heavy losses on both sides in the Kursk clash. Soviet brief claims 30,000 enemy dead, 1,53 tanks damaged, 649 planes shot down across three days. German broadcasts counter with vast tank and plane losses. Officials caution against premature conclusions as battles unfold along the 165 mile front between Orel and Belgorod.
Washington states that Democratic Leader Barkley says Congress may back a House bill extending the Commodity Credit Corporation and a meat-butter price rollback while avoiding a full subsidy ban. Senate and House conference tensions loom as talks pursue a middle ground to sustain subsidy payments without broad prohibition. The debate delays recess until mid September amid party splits over subsidy rollbacks and CCC life extension.
Regional OPA price division officials expect an order freezing restaurant prices across New York Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware New Jersey and the District of Columbia. The regulation will set caps on food and drink prices charged from April 4 to 10 1943 by individual eateries and cover Baltimore area firms. The spokesman said the action is in process and will come from the regional office with cooperation of trade.
Lake City Fla July chase through three counties ends with Lawrence D Harvey and Sibert Edwards bound for Louisville Ky for questioning in a murder case. FBI accuses them of stealing a car in connection with Gail Heitanr slaying in Louisville. Harvey says from Meadville Pa Edwards from Tampa Fla both claim Army desertion. Sheriff Davis notes they attacked and robbed Helt laut then drove car to Florida and attempted to rob a bar near the Georgia line with a young Louisville woman.
Washington reports new secret fighter planes are rolling from assembly lines to boost Allied offensives. WPB executive J Charles E Wilson declined to reveal details. Production chiefs say peak output may exceed 19 000 planes monthly once capacity is reached, but manpower shortages grow in many states.
Gas ration weeks set July 22 for Eastern area. Office of Price Administration issues Number 6 coupons valid in Pittsburgh and west of the Pennsylvania Ohio border with expiration July 21. West zone coupons expire earlier and will be torn from books after that date.
Treasury moves to approve salary increases after two months of delay caused by the hold the line order of April eight. D O Spencer says the treasury, awaiting clarifications, has resumed processing requests for pay rises for executive, administrative, and professional staff earning above $2080 weekly threshold and over $5080 yearly. War Labor Board handles other wages.
Hearings in OPA cases alleging violations of a pleasure ban will be conducted by a visiting commissioner from the district OPA offices at Erie. No hearings have been scheduled yet as officials consider relief from the Corruptions Board and await assignment of a presiding representative.
Toronto July 8 Associated Press reports North America will nearly double Axis surrender supplies this year. War Production Board chair Donald M. Nelson told the Canadian Club the United States and Canada will produce four planes every 42 9 minutes around the clock and have issued enough small arms ammunition to fire 1 800 bullets at every Axis soldier.
Chinese troops drive Japanese from Mengting in Burma-Yunnan border area amid a general retreat. hundreds of casualties reported from a counterattack. On Kirwina Island Japanese survivors of the Bismarck Sea battle are captured by Trobriand natives and handed to Australian forces. In Washington the agriculture committee defeats a price-raising bill, while Newark OPA outlines vacation relief measures and rationing board distribution plans.
Reading Pa December 14 1930 Philemon S Lewis 54 general manager of Reading Company died in a hospital after a fall from a second floor sleeping gallery to a concrete sidewalk near his home in Wyomissing. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in the accident.
Stenley E Ansersom, science and vice principal, on leave for two years serving as civilian instructor at a Gulf Army Air Corps base, will resume US teaching duties at the Senior High School in September. A resignation from another high school instructor is anticipated at Monday Board of Education meeting. Anderson has been at Biloxi Miss as civilian instructor, granted a leave of absence, and will return to his local post at the start of the new term.
State Police Erie Unit Chief John Mehallick and Cory Journal report multiple holdups of parked couples near Corry. Victims urged to contact officers or the Cory Journal. information kept confidential to avoid press and legal actions.
Nine to eleven enemy ships sunk in Kula Gulf. U S planes down 12 enemy aircraft. American troops push toward Munda airbase on New Georgia with two new landings isolating the base. MacArthur reports jungle troops ashore at two points on New Georgia and advance to threaten Vila and Munda.
Roving pickets with women aided a strike closure across several coal mines in southwestern Pennsylvania. The action idled about 10,000 workers as part of a broader walkout linked to the 2011 labor dispute and organized by the United Mine Workers district led by John Bussorelli. Government officials, including Renwick and U.S. Attorney Charney Foote, indicated possible enforcement moves by West Virginia authorities to curb the insurgent movement.
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