Allied Air Strikes Hit Sicily and Sardinia Towns
Allied aircraft struck six towns in Sicily and one in Sardinia in a two day offensive to gain air superiority in the Mediterranean. They claimed 101 enemy planes shot down, while suffering losses themselves. Notable engagements included Gerbini and Messina ferry terminal strikes, with several U S bombers reported shot down or damaged.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Sicily
Sar- Mnia
Mediterranean
Gerbini
U. S
Ruig
Sergt
Benjamin Warmer
Srd
San Francisco
Lirata
Marsala
Sciacca
Catania
Messina
Sardinia
Villaeldro
Villactivo
Etna
Senate Balks At Roll Back Subsidy Ban in Food Prices Fight
In a tumultuous session the Senate voted 36 to 28 to ban any subsidies to lower retail food prices. President Roosevelt had vetoed a similar ban previously as inflationary. The measure extended the Commodity Credit Corporation and raised borrowing authority. a House conference committee will seek a compromise.
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Senate
Washington
Roosevelt
Commodisty Credit Corporation
Administration Farm Agency
House
CCC
Rep. Cannon
D-Mo
Chiang Sees Two-Year Window To Defeat Japan
Generalissimo Chiang Kal-kahek marked China’s sixth wartime anniversary by pledging that the enemy’s defeat cannot exceed two years, with victory aimed by 1948. He cited Japanese stagnation on land, weakened sea and air forces, and increasing Allied pressure across the 1,000 mile front.
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Chungking
Chiang Kal-ahek
China
Japan
Chiang
U S Warships Sink Six Jap Vessels In Solomons Fight
Allied headquarters in Australia reported that six Japanese ships were probably sunk and four damaged in the Kula Gulf action while one US cruiser was sunk in the same engagement between New Georgia and Kolombangara. General MacArthur directed the New Guinea offensive as details came in from the July 5-6 sea battle with enemy cruisers and destroyers.
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Allied
Australia
Kula
Alief
United States
New Georgia
Kolombanagara
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Kula Gulf
Darwin
Rendoya
Arms Production Stumbles in May Slack, Nelson Warns
Chief Nelson of the War Production Board warns that May output showed no overall gain, marking a grave seriousness as the pace slackens. Aircraft rose 5 percent and navy and army vessels 2 percent, while ordnance and munition programs fell. Ship deliveries hit 1.8 million deadweight tons but actual work in yards declined 4 percent.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Producetion Board
Nately
WHDB
Nelson
RAF Fighters Sweep Over France Down Seven Nazis
Royal Air Force fighters on sweeps over Northern France and the French shores from Dieppe to Dunkirk knocked down seven German fighter planes today. German reports of British bomber raids on Germany last night remained unconfirmed. The seven Nazi fighters Focke Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt 109s were hit by pilots of a Canadian and Polish wing forming a large Spitfire formation, the Air Ministry News Service reported.
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Tondon
Royal Air Force
France
Dieppe
Dunkirk
Germany
Afr ‘Ministry
Martinique Reported Joining French National Liberation
Reuters reported tonight that Martinique has joined the French committee of national liberation. The claim lacked corroboration from other sources. Admiral Georges Robert had invited the U S to name an envoy for talks on changing French authority there.
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London
Reuters
Morocco
Martinique
House Group Starts Search For More Revenue
Washington July 6 The House ways and means committee began work on legislation to obtain new higher wartime taxes with focus on taxing war swollen incomes. The treasury aims for 12 billion dollars in annual revenue above present collections. The committee asked staff and the treasury to propose alternatives including an individual excess profits tax with no retroactive effect before Jan 1, 1944. An excess profits tax would tax individuals more if wartime income rose faster than peacetime earnings.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
One Vacation Trip To Be Granted By OPA in East
Washington July 6 Motorists in the northeastern gas line shortage area soon may use their cars for vacation travel but the ban on all other nonessential driving remains. Beginning July 16, the OPA announced motorists may use their A rations for one round trip to a distant home or vacation place if other transportation is inadequate and regulations are followed.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Frentiss M. Brown
Furnishings Sought for Recreation Room on Good Ship Carroll
Mrs. John M. Power and the American Women's Volunteer Youth Section urged donations to furnish the recreation room aboard the Good Ship Carroll housing V-12 cadets. Items needed include chairs desks drapes bridge tables and bookshelves. A meeting was set for 2 PM at the Flacer hotel to plan further and donors were asked to leave items at the salvage defense store or call 2092 for pickup.
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Carroll
John M. Power
American Women's Volunteer
Derk
AWYS
Flacer
USO
Army
Navy
AWYVS
Danatoras
House Group Signals End of Soft Coal Price Floors
Washington July 6 The House rules committee refuses to extend the Guffey coal act signaling an end to government established price floors under soft coal. The move is seen as rebuke to United Mine Workers leader John L Lewis and mine owners for the wartime government takeover of mines. Also July 6 Denver Dr William M Hana of University of Colorado lectures Montana oto ophthalmology society at the 41st midsummer scientific meeting in Helena.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
John O. Lewis
United Mine Workers
MK Nidiage
William M. Hana
Denver
University of Colorado Medical School
Montana
Montana , Academy of Oto-Ophthalmology
Woman of 72 Lost In Wilds Rescued Near Camp
Kalispell July 6 Mrs O A L McDonald aged 72 was lost in the Wolf creek region since Sunday and found today a quarter mile from the camp she left to pick whaw berries. She suffered two days and nights without food and told rescuers she recalled little of her wandering.
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Kalispell
AL McDonald
Wolf Creek
Oaly
Montanans Listed as Prisoners of War and Wounded
The War Department released names of 264 U.S. troops held as POWs, 186 by Italy and 128 by Japan. Montanan prisoners include Jimmie G. McLaughlin of Twin Bridges and Raymond H. Trobridge of Rexburg. Also named are 278 wounded soldiers with Montanan examples Dean E. Galles of Billings and Guido ld A. Hansen of Sidney in the Aleutian region.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Italy
Jinan
Montag
Jimmie G. McLaughlin
Janes J. McLaughtlin
Twirbridges
Raymond
Trobridge
Bertha Trobridge
Rex
Victor
n¢Lon
One Dead Four Injured In Laurel Gas Vapor Blaze
A gas vapor explosion at the Farmers Union refinery clay-treading tower in Laurel killed Herman Martin Siemsen, 49, and injured four others. Ted Wise, 27, remained in critical condition. first aid was given at the plant to Royal Lane, 4, and dim Nutting, 24, both of Laurel, and Vern Cook, 87, of Billings.
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Dim Nutting
Laurel
Vern Cook
Billings
Great Falls Road Carried Into Missouri River
About 200 feet of Rainbow road serving dams and power plants east and north of here was washed into the Missouri River by a landslide. Repairs are expected to take nearly a week, County Surveyor Carl Lemmer said today.
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Great Walla
Missouri River
Repaira
Carl Lemmer
Chinese Hopes Rise After Marco Polo Bridge Anniversary
The sixth anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge battle marks renewed Chinese optimism as military gains and United Nations support strengthen resolve against Japan's aggression. General Ho Ying-Chin cites Japanese casualties near 3,000,000 since the bridge clash, amid hopes of Allied assistance arriving within a year.
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Japan
Tf 14
Waterloo Ling
Chin
Chiang Kai-shek
United Nations
China
Chas
United States
Britain
Mgheing
Marco Polo Bridge
Chungking
Sia
Pearl Harbor
Ho Ying-Chin
Row Over Calvert Schools Leads To Assault Charge
In Great Falls Montana on July 6 a protracted Calvert school district dispute ended with the arrest of Helen Mah the school board clerk on a degree assault charge filed by Loraine Nowen. A hearing is set for July 16. The district’s schoolhouse plans have sparked years of elections including tied and invalidated votes amid improper postings. A federal probe into interstate and foreign transmission of photographs by wire and radio was ordered with a hearing scheduled for August 11.
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Calvert
Helen Mah
Loraine Nowen
Washington
Federal Communications Commission Today
Terrific Loss Suffered By Germans
German offensive in central Russia drives into Belgorod area with heavy losses. Soviet communiques claim at least 13,000 German dead in two days, 1,009 tanks destroyed, and 111 planes shot down. Russian air and ground forces pressure Orel Kursk Belgorod sector as battles widen along the western front.
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Edward D. Ball
Byayerian Uy
Belgorod
Orel-Marsh
Cee Mang Umed
Aed
Rel- Kursk
Corman
Wittler
Orel-Kursk-Belgorod
Moscow Radio
Japanese Soldiers Entranced at Sight of Yanks
Japanese troops on Rendova Island stare as American landing craft move ashore. U.S. forces dislodge defenders with rifles and pistols. no casualties reported as cleanup continues near Renard Harbor.
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J. Norman Lodge
Rendova Island
Renard Harbor
Lumbart
Acton Weros
Ren Down
Lake Erie Dike Fails Near Toledo Flooding Homes
In Toledo Ohio on July 6 pounding waves breached two holes in an earthen Lake Erie dike, flooding about 200 homes in Reno Beach and nearby residential areas. Police and coast guards evacuated families by boat as the Red Cross opened an emergency center and agencies mobilized countywide. No casualties were reported.
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Toledo
Oho
Lake Erie
Reno Beach
Horn
Toward Farms
Red Cross
Clerks and Stenographers From Montana to Be Sent East
Montana army recruiters announce 200 clerks and stenographers will be recruited for work in Washington. After indoctrination at Butte the workers will be transferred to the capital to support war department operations.
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Montana
Butte
War Department
Washington
Army
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Allied Sea Victory
French National Liberation
House Group
East
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Red Army
AWVS
Attu
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Kalinin
Arso
Helena
Rendova
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