Roosevelt Urges Allies to Deliver Knockout Victory
President Roosevelt called on the United States and Allies to press for unconditional surrender from Italy Germany and Japan. He urged mustering out pay unemployment insurance vocational training medical care and pensions for returning service members and touted improved war production including ending coffee rations and more sugar. See ROOSEVELT Page Seven.
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Associated Press
Washington
Italy
Germany
Japan
Pacific
Roosevelt
United Nations
Benito Mussolini
Tialy
Axia
Mussolini
Merchant Marine
U. S
Russians Tighten Pincers On Orel
Russian forces push toward Orel from the south overcoming German resistance and driving 1,500 troops from a key zone. Front line reports say Red Army columns advance 24% to 4 miles, battering outer defenses as Stanovoy Kolodets falls. The northern thrust fights through flooded swamps and streams amid heavy going.
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William McGaffin
Moscow
Orel
Stanovoy Kolodets
WAVES SING AS U S S Huron Lifts Off From Cleveland Yard
The WAVES sing Anchors Aweigh as the U S S Huron slides down the greased ways at American Ship Building Co in Cleveland Ohio on July 3. The frigate named for the city honors war bond sales enlistments Red Cross and civilian defense efforts. A drive to fund war stamps targets $12,000 with about $2,000 raised last Saturday. L J Brindley and Mrs Frances Chenoweth lead volunteers at the stamp sales HQ in the Marvin Hughitt Hotel urging more participation.
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U.S.S
Mra. J
Cleveland
Huron
Beadle County
L. J. Brindley
Chamber of Commerce
Frances Chenoweth
Women's Organization
Chenoweth
Th Stamp Sales
Marvin Hughitt Hotel
New Regulations For South Dakota Control Job Changes
Siou x Falls July 29 local plan to stabilize employment sets conditions for South Dakota workers changing jobs. It aims to curb wasteful turnover and direct scarce skills to essential activities, requiring a job change statement of availability from current employer or the U S Employment Service. A referral card from the employment service serves as the statement of availability.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
BR. R. Benedict
War Manpower Committee
Minnesota
North
Iowa
Nebraska
Richard Barnett
U. S. FE
Sin Huron
U. S
War Today Ike Pushes Italian Peace Vote By People
In a column by J M Roberts Jr the piece argues Eisenhower favors letting the Italian people decide their future. It notes Ike’s shift from combat focus to steering political postwar outcomes and references wartime diplomacy with Admiral Dorlan and Roosevelt. The piece highlights Italian awakening to self determination.
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Dewitt Mackenzie
J. M. Roberts
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jean Dorlan
North Africa
Roosevelt
Nevada Cleared of Bonded Debt
Carson City Nevada July 29 The state has wiped out bonded debt with checks totaling 867 778 78 redeeming the last outstanding bonds.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
Henry Schmidt
World War Fronts and Air War Updates Across Europe Asia
Italian front sees troops and civilians in violent clashes with Nazi forces north of Milan as armistice talks appear possible. Allied offensives in Sicily advance toward Messina with heavy enemy casualties. Russian offensives push 2 to 4 miles, while Germans reinforce outer hedgehogs near Orel. U S. daylight raids target aircraft plants near Berlin and Hamburg end with numerous German planes shot down. Allied forces press against Japanese shipping in the Southwest Pacific, blocking bases at Murda and near Tokyo.
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Italy
Madrid
Milan
Turin
Vazi
Sicily
U. S
Messina
Russia
Moscow
Berlin
Oschersteben
Kassel
Joye
Hamburg
Pacific
Murda
Tokyo
American Forts Raid Deep Into Germany Near Berlin
U S heavy bombers hit Kiel Ogdersleben and Kassel in daylight raids. More than 60 German fighters claimed shot down, 23 bombers lost on the long round trip, one Allied fighter plane also lost. RAF and American raids followed Hamburg bombardment with substantial destruction and many aircraft losses.
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London
Hitler
Berlin
Ogdersleben
Kassel
Oschersleben
Germany
Northwestern
RAF
Hamburg
Thunderbolts
France
Belgium
Britain
East Anglia
National Stove Ration Plan Set for August Start
Price Administration announced that a nationwide rationing of stoves is expected to begin August with the plan already in effect in 32 states. The agency had forecast the start for the past two months and emphasized the move as part of wartime controls.
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Washington
Band Concert in Huron Park Directed by J W Camp
A municipal band concert is announced in Huron Park under director J W Camp. The event lists band members Hanis Christensen and various program pieces including marches and light classical selections, with a July 29 date noted and attendees invited.
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Huron Municipal
Hanis Christensen
J. W. Camp
Park
Four More Sicilian Towns Fall to Allied Drive
Allied forces report heavy fighting in northeastern Sicily as American Seventh Army and Canadian columns seize Pollina Castelbuono Gangi advancing from Cefalu toward Messina. Leonforte secures central road link while air power destroys enemy vehicles and tightens the retreat.
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Relman Morin
North Africa
Sicily
Leonforte
Enna
Seventh Army
Palermo
Pollina
Castelbuono
Gangi
Portina
Cefalu
Messina
Plate
Gangl
Pollins
Catania
Mt. Etna
Eighth Army
Peonforte
Digs Up 450 in Carrot Garden in Bishop California
Mrs. Patrick Kane uncovers a mildewed money belt containing 450 dollars while digging in a Bishop California carrot garden. The find comes as her harvest yields praise, and the mystery of the belt remains undetailed.
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Bishop, Calif
Japs Admit Loss Of Ships Heavy
President Roosevelt says Japan has lost more ships than it can replace. Tokyo radio notes that lack of shipping doomed Germany in World War I and urges Japan to focus on shipbuilding. MacArthur reports ships and transport hit. 13 barges sunk and a freighter damaged. Allied air power claimed 99 Japanese planes destroyed in four days near Hankow Hainan Hongkong.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Japan
Tokyo
Germany
Java
Borneo
Burma
Douglas MacArthur
Lodge
Munda
China Front
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hankow
Hai-nan Island
Hongkong
Nazi Attack Targets Ship Carrying Lt Roosevelt in Sicily
A U S destroyer off the Sicilian coast, carrying Franklin Roosevelt Jr as executive officer, withstood a severe attack by German Junkers 88 dive bombers. The ship dodged a direct hit and Roosevelt Jr, who had come ashore, was reported uninjured.
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Roosevelt
Sicily
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr
Sicilian
Eisenhower offers immediate peace if Germans leave Italy
General Eisenhower telegraphed Italians outlining a five point program for an immediate honorable peace. He said only German troops in Italy block peace and that Allied occupation would be mild. Badoglio sought terms avoiding mainland occupation while Italian unrest and fighting surged.
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Roger Greene
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rottern
Italy
Madrid
Milan
Turin
Hitler
France
Eisenhower
Germany
Sicily
Matican
Pietro Badoglio
London
Badoglio
Balkans
Crash Kills Twenty on American Airlines Flight
Twenty of the 22 aboard an American Airlines passenger plane were killed near Trammel Kentucky after a crash into bad weather. Two severely injured survivors, First Lt Glenn W Fellows and S K Hoffman, were taken to a Bowling Green hospital.
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Bowling. Green
American Airlines
Trammel
Allen County
Kentucky-Tennessee
Glenn W. Fellows
Love Field
Texas
Fellows
S. K Hoffman
Williamsport
Bowling Green
Hoffman
Lt. Fellows
End of coffee rationing announced by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing after about seven months of enforcement. He indicated sugar allowances would be greatly increased in the near term.
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Washington
Ana Euticals
Amartea
Roosevelt
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Kiel
Nicosia
Leonfory Enne
Taliagh
Ponte Olivo
Randaze Bronte
Paterno
Miles
Kousa
Teresa
Sul
Nori
Tokyo Radio
U.S. Hongkong
Eremier Badoglio
Rome
Genoa
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