Allied Push Drives to Bologna as Gothic Line Falls
Allied forces in Italy launched a major drive toward Bologna and the Po Valley after breaking through key Gothic Line positions. Fifth Army pushes north of Florence dig in at the Futa pass while Eighth Army links Rimini to the Adriatic coast. British units seize Casalecchio and Verucchio and take hundreds of prisoners as supply constraints bite German forces.
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Reynolds Packard
Rome
Italy
Bologna
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Rimini
Fifth Army
Florence
Futa Pass
Paso
Firenzuela
Santa Lucia
Futa
Monte Citerna
Monte Tronale
Santa
Ligurian
Viareggio
Genoa
Marecchio
Bologne Island
Ravenna
Casalecchio
Verucchio
Arnhem Focal Point Getting Hard Smashes
Allied parachutists pushed across the Rhine peninsula to contact the British Second Army. Beek on the German border fell as the 2nd Army advanced three miles east toward the frontier. A 170 mile sky train landed reinforcements to sustain the drive amid fierce Luftwaffe and ground defenses. Stolberg near Aachen was captured, aiding the push toward the German border.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
Arnhem
Rhine
Second Army
Secone
Nijmegen
Beck
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Kinghorne
Bighnes
Allied
Holland
Adsle
Eindhoven
Miles C. Dempsey
Beek
Enem
Luftwaffe
RAF
Arhem
Germany
Eemy Panzer
Moselle
Dutch
Radio Orange
Amsterdam
Stolberg
Aachen
Allied air raids sink Japanese ships in Mindanao and Borneo
General Douglas MacArthur reported that a navy Catalina bomber sunk two Japanese merchant vessels of 2000 and 500 tons off Mindanao. Long range bombers destroyed a 1000 ton freighter near Borneo as Allied air control extended westward. Allied ground and naval forces killed 835 Japanese in New Guinea mop up with 201 prisoners taken and 101 friendly nationals freed.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Mindanao
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
MacArthur
New Guinea
Legislation Planned to Cut Waste in California State Government
Sacramento report says Rolland Vandegrift and a joint interim budget committee will draft bills to curb wasteful practices in sick leave overtime and vacation privileges for state workers. They predict a 1945-47 budget larger than the 1943-45 total and oppose a $60 to $80 pension measure and ADA payments expansion. A school equalization fund of about 1 million dollars may aid districts with low valuations.
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Sacramento
Rolland Vandegrift
Vandegrift
Allied air raids smash targets under vast bombing campaign
Large bomber fleets and fighter formations attacked European targets while Italian based bombers struck the Sudetenland. U S 15th Air Force and Mitchell bombers hit rail lines bridges and a cruiser at La Spezia. Taranto burned amid fires and heavy anti aircraft fire as operations continued.
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Dougald Werner
London
Holland
Sudetenland
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Australia
Italy
Taranto
la Spezia
Rome
Austria
Ninth
U. S. Airforce
Coblenz
Saarbrucken
Gormon P. Savilles
12Th Tactical Air Command
Rhine
James G. Ellis
Dallas
Texas
Mediterranean
Munich
South Pacific
United Press Rome Dispatch
Most Critical Labor Dearth In Pacific Coast War Center
Oregon Manpower Director L. C. Stoll declared the Portland Vancouver area the most critical labor short productive center on the Pacific coast. He said 15 000 more workers must be added to current payrolls to meet production schedules. Thousands of New Yorkers have entered the area to meet tougher delivery dates on war contracts. Stoll released detailed needs of plants and contractors due to the emergency.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
L. C. Stoll
Portland-Vancouver
Pacific Coast
Stoll
Sheep Fetches Highest Price at Victory Food Livestock Show
The United States top price for a sheep at auction went to a 90 pound grand champion southdown owned by David Boehm of Bakersfield. The sale at the victory food livestock show fetched $11.75 per pound and $1,057, $450 above last year. Auctioneer was Charles Adams of Alhambra.
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Angnor
United States
Southdown
David Boehm
Bakersfield
Boehm
Charles Adams
Alhambra I
Former State Official Alden Anderson Dies at 77
Alden Anderson former lieutenant governor of California from 1903 to 1907 died at his Sacramento home at age 77. He chaired Capital National Bank board and held roles in insurance oil hotels and mining firms and the state chamber of commerce. He served in the legislature 1897 to 1903 was speaker in 1899 and 1901 and was banking superintendent 1909 1910. Born Meadville Pennsylvania October 11 1867 he leaves widow Agnes and daughter Mrs Kenneth Potts of Auburn. He was a member of Islam Shrine San Francisco and other Masonic bodies the Elks and clubs.
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Sacramento
Alden Anderson
California
Anderson
Capital National Bank
State Chamber of Commerce
Meadville
Pennsylvania
Agnes
Kenneth Potts
Auburn
Islam Shine Temple
San Francisco
Ithe Elks
Sweden Bars German Ships From Baltic Waters
Stockholm declares all foreign shipping barred from Swedish territorial waters in the Gulf of Bothnia effective next Wednesday. The ban blocks German access to Lulea the iron ore port linking to Narvik and cuts Germany off from Swedish iron ore and other exports including paper wood and steel.
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Stockholm
Gulf of Both
Nia
Lulea
Tornio
Falsterboro
Baltic
Malmoe
Gulf of Bothnia
Oregon sees huge China postwar demand for goods
A postwar adjustment commission report cited by Governor Snell says China will need 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber for shelters, 100,000 tons of hardware, cement, and 1,200,000 tons of white wheat flour after the war. It lists processed foods, fertilizers, medicines, tools, vitamins, cod liver oil, hospitals, and mills as Oregon opportunities.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon
China
Earl Snell
Columbia River
Shanghai
Double Money Given Schools Double Money Given Schools
State treasurer Leslie M. Scott reported a total of 11 420 182 distributed to counties cities and school districts in the year ending June 30 1944. This amount more than doubled the 5 408 573 distributed the year before, due largely to the school support fund street tax fund and liquor permit fees allocations.
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Salem
Ore
Leslie M.scott
Scott
Brush Fire Burns Thousand Acres Near Ventura Calif
Uncontrolled brush fire near Foster Park nine miles north of Ventura burned about 1,000 acres and threatened 50 homes in Casitas Springs. Residents helped firefighters as winds shifted, with four forestry fire divisions and 50 navy Seabees working to control the blaze.
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Ventura
Cal
Foster Park
Here
Casitas Springs
Casitas
Forestry
Navy Seabees
Allied Conquest Goes On In Peleliu Battle
Allied forces push north on Peleliu in the Palau group, seizing about three quarters of the island and claiming 7020 Japanese killed in nine days of fighting. Nimitz said American planes and ships repelled a Japanese reinforcement attempt while carrier raids struck Yap and other Pacific targets. The puppet Philippine government declared war on the United States and Britain amid Tokyo fears of invasion.
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Mac R. Johnson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Peleliu
Palau
Chester W. Nimitz
Coral
Tokyo
Philippines
United States
Britain
Manila
Philippine
Berlin
CBS
Nimitz
Yap
Stack
San Marianas
Bonins
Carolines
Marshalls Islands
Marcus Island
Japan
Mindanao
Russian Baltic Offensive Seizes Parnu Port and Splits Nazi Forces
Soviet troops push a 50 mile wedge to the Baltic Sea capturing Parnu on the Riga Gulf and threatening a collapse of German positions in the Baltic states. Berlin admits withdrawals as Red Air and Naval forces sink transports and disrupt evacuations. Soviet forces also strike from Hungary toward the prewar border amid unrest in Hitler’s Balkan satellites.
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Europe
Poland
Romania
Cassino
Rome
Normandy
Cherbourg
England
Britain
Japan
Tojo
Hitler
Guam
U. S
France
Brittany
Paris
Berlin
Estonia
Riga
Parnu
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Baltic
Baltic States
Red
Jon Riga
Latvia
Gulf of Riga
Hungary
Finnish Gulf
Baltic Sea
Tallinn
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