Chaos still grips Rome as nation struggles after occupation
Premier Bonomi's government faces a Rome beset by postwar chaos six weeks after Allied arrival. Power shortages persist as German damage cripples plants, fuel transport declines, and water pumps struggle. Bread rations rise, unemployment looms near 100000, but theatres and cinemas operate while Italians welcome their first new American goods since before the war.
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Edward Kennedy
Bonomi
Rome
Rmans
Italia
Ger
Rolley
Anniversary of Marriage Observed in Stockton Condition
Mrs. Percy Phillips visits Stockton with her husband stationed at Stockton Field with the Guard. They celebrate their first wedding anniversary on July 10 with dinner at the Beilbys home and a theater party at the Grand Ritz. Mrs. Phillips, formerly Miss Elizabeth Kitchens, is living with the Kitchens family while Pvt. Phillips serves.
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Percy Phillips
St. Percy Phillips
Stockton
Stockton Field
Guard Actron
Beilby
Ata
Grand Ritz F
Phillips
Elizabeth Kitchens
M. M. Kittchens
Pvt. Phillips
Leaves From A War Correspondent Notebook In Jersey
Hal Boyle notes from Carteret France dated July 6 describe American soldiers viewing the German held island of Jersey, 12 miles away in the gulf of St Malo, with Nazi troops likely swelled from Cotentin. Islanders face starvation as Nazis confiscate food and disrupt farming while fishing boats are forbidden to leave harbors. The piece contrasts close proximity of enemies with inability to act and quotes a Yankee soldier on the war’s distant Berlin outcome.
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Carteret
France
Blue Sea
Gulf of St. Malo
Jersey
Channel Islands
Britain
Cotentin
Berlin
Guernsey
Alderney
Sark
England
War era workplace deaths rise with 1943 tally
The National Safety Council reports 18 000 workers killed in 1943 from job accidents, with total home front deaths reaching 94 500 that year. After Pearl Harbor, armed services deaths total about 51 000.
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Washington
National Safety Council
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guards
The
Safety Council
General Motors
Draft Dodgers Face Immediate Induction Warnings
Montgomery news notes July 13 that draft age men who leave the farm without consent of their draft boards face immediate induction per statements by state Selective Service Director James T. Johnson.
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Montgomery
State Selective Service
James T. Johnson
Allied Heads Will Confer
Washington July 13. A meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill may occur soon as Roosevelt revises French policy to permit cooperation with General de Gaulle. The Anglo American relationship over de Gaulle’s National Committee of Liberation complicates joint Washington London strategy. Roosevelt hints at summer or fall news conferences and a possible trip to Britain.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Charles de Ke E
de Gaulle
National Committee of Liberation
London
Foreign Office
France
Britain
Mr. Churchill
Wounded Hero Hoyett West Receives Purple Heart
Mrs. Alice Vest reports Hoyett West wounded in action and awarded the Purple Heart by the War Department. Mrs. Sarah Jones remains unimproved. Local visits include Legg, White, Roberts families in Basham and Decatur.
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Alice Vest
War Department
Hoyett West
Sarah Jones
Earl Legg
M. M. White
Orval Roberts
Basham
Alice’ West
Susie Murphy
Ann Brown
Vera McCleskey
Kenneth Ray Price
Decatur
Richard Hopper
Athens
Olen Tapscott and Sons
Hartselle
Alice West
Roman Mayfield
G. B. Legg
Talmage Legg
Points
Mississippi
Elmer Martin
Danville Road
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James Craig
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Bill
Heavenly Body
Princess Theatre
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Comets
Powell
Hal Boyle
Ompany
Decatur, Alabama
By James Marlow
George Zielke
Morgan County
Oak Ridge
Zola Mae Legg
Steachie's
Simmons
Mother Goose
Sterchi Bros
Elmer
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