Spreckels heir plans postwar separation suit
Hollywood reports that Spreckels Ill announced a postwar plan to seek separate maintenance through an attorney as hostilities end. The former dancer Roxana Brown Spreckels sued him in a famous 1935 divorce case over the sugar fortune. Spreckels and his current wife wed in Woodland Texas in October 1997, and he is now in naval training. Mrs. Spreckels was robbed of 10 dollars in jewelry during a pool hall visit when she laid her purse down for a belly and rotation lesson, then became distracted.
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Spreckels
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Sbreckels
Roxana Brown Spreckels
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Germans Evacuate As Paris Fall Is Predicted
Paris fears rise as Vichy converts to an armed camp with barbed wire and pillboxes. German civilians and civil servants begin a mass exodus amid reports Paris may fall to the Allies within ten days. Plainclothes police guard government corridors and clerks move government valuables in a tense prelude to potential upheaval.
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Paris
London
Vichy
The Review Offers Expert Printing Services
The Review announces experienced printers ready to handle printing jobs. Clients are invited to bring work and rely on skilled typesetting and production capabilities.
Germans Rise Voice Declares Resistance Movement Emerges
London reports a mysterious radio Station calling itself Officers of the German Resistance Movement denounces persecution of German officers and proclaims officers have risen to destroy Hitler. The announcer warns against the Nazi trials and executions as the broadcast denounces Herr Hitler as not speaking for German officers.
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London
Hiller
Duncer
Hitler
Will Prosecute Wortish for Taking Checks From Servicemen
Four women named in federal informations for accepting government allotment checks from servicemen they were not legally married to. U.S. Attorney Charles H. Carr announced, with 100 others to follow in the drive against allotment chiseling. Named are Elsie Getter, 38, waitress. Drusilla Betty McConnell, 49, Reedley, California. Janet Cato, 27, and Maria Guana Valdez, 23, Los Angeles.
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U.S
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Elsie Getter
Drusilla Betty McConnell
Reedley
Calify
Janet Cato
Maria Guana Valdez
Soldiers Moblization Tied to U.S. Economy and World Politics
Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Hershey, National Director of Selective Service, said today that mobilizing America's armed forces must hinge on the domestic economy to prevent chaos and on global political conditions to guard against future wars.
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Sacramento
America
Lewis H. Hershey
Selective Service
Allies Near Paris Inconclusive Reports From Front
German radio fed reports throughout the day with wild claims as Allied forces move toward Paris. An American broadcaster cited unfounded progress on the outskirts of Paris while Berlin hinted Yankee spearheads neared Chartres and Chateaudun. Bradley's tanks and riflemen reportedly moved through Alencon to join British and Canadian forces above Falaise.
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Chartres
Chateaudun
Bradley
Alencon
Falaise
Allies recapture Mortain as German pocket tightens
Allied forces retook Mortain as German armored divisions faced encirclement by advancing American and British troops. The battle in the Mortain Salient intensified with the enemy pocket under pressure from north and south as Allied units closed in.
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Alencon
Mortain
Prisoners Agree to Work Nine-Hour Day at Stockton Depot
Five hundred German prisoners of war at the Stockton ordnance depot will return to work Monday after agreeing to a nine hour day. They had been on a sit down strike and on reduced ration diets during the protest, according to Maj. Arthur E. Cook, public relations officer.
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Stockton
Arthur E. Cook
Cook
750 Hit Continues Allied Raid Across Axis Europe
Allied air forces struck deep into German and Italian targets in a sweeping operation. Bombers and fighters pummeled Focke Wulf sites at Ruhmel near Gydnia, Poland, then attacked Trzebina oil refineries and Romanian airfields at Zilisteau and Buzau before returning via Toulouse.
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Poland
Ruhr
Hitler
Trzebina
Zillisteau
Buzau
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Balkan
England
Py Lway
Toulouse
French
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St. Raphael
Touton
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Putt Positions At Cap d Antibos Sentences
Cap d Antibos fled three other towns between Nice and Marseilles according to the fragment.
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Cap D'Antibos
Nice
Marseilles
Postwar Pontiac Designs Ahead of 1940s Cars
Los Angeles AP reports Don A Bathrick sales manager for General Motors Pontiac division says first postwar autos will avoid 1942 models. Designs to change within 60 days to five months after production go signal with non radical updates. Prices expected 12 to 18 percent below present yet above prewar due to labor and construction costs.
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Los Angeles
A.P
Don A. Bathrick
Pontiac
Generaltors Corp
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