Eisenhower Offers an Honorable Peace With Italy in Message Today
A modern wartime column notes Gen. Eisenhower's appeal to Italians for peace if they end support for Germany. The report cites Allied terms already prepared and mentions Nazi advances in northeast Italy including Trieste and Pola. It also covers potential prisoner exchanges and the planned civil occupation of Sicily as a model for Italy.
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Eisenhower
Italy
United Press
Switzerland
Trieste
Fiume
Pola
Hitler
Adriatic Sea
House of Savoy
Muini
Tunisia
Sicily
Germany
Madrid
Badoglio
Fliisenhower
France
Junior Chamber Meeting Tonight at Humphreys Park
All members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are asked to meet at Humphreys Park this evening at 7 50 for an important business session.
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Chamber of Commerce
Humphreys Park
Augustin Voisin Called By Death
Augustin Voisin Jr was pronounced dead at 7 25 PM after a five day illness following an appendectomy. He was 14 years old and would have started high school in September. Survivors include his parents two brothers and his grandmother. The body was taken to Welch Cornett Funeral Home and services set for Saturday at the family home with burial in Fairview cemetery.
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Augustin Voisin Jr
Augustin Voisi
Freeman-Greene County
Linton
Augustin
Zelief Voisin
Remy
Louie Voisin
Marie Rane
H Street
Welch * Cornett
Harry J. Rains
Fairview Cemetery
First Lady Opposes Mixed Marriages
Eleanor Roosevelt writes in her daily column that she is opposed to mixed marriages. She argues that mixing racial strains worsens the difficulties and suffering in such unions and believes awareness of this will deter advocates who care for people’s happiness.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
U.P
Eleanor Roosevelt
Americans And Canadians Push Forward In Sicily Front
Allied forces advance along a 40 mile Sicilian front as General Patton claims towns Pollina Castelbuono and Gangi. Canadians capture Leonforte eight miles northeast of Enna while air support aids heavy attacks on Axis lines. Mussolini’s line near Catania comes under heavy Allied bombing and naval action.
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United Press
Scily
Patton
Seventh Army
Pollina
Aste'ouono
Gangi
Leonforte
Huna
San Stefano
Gzcheng
Messina
Eighth Army
Catania
Mt. Etna
Reus Tightens Gap on Nazis in Orel
Russian forces report continued pressure south of Orel with four Nazi counter-attacks repulsed. About 1500 German troops were killed and five tanks knocked out as Soviet infantry and armor push seven miles along the Kurek Orel railroad. Front lines say pursuit of withdrawing Germans northward deepens as Red Star declares the Orel operation near completion.
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Orel
Red Army
Kurek-Orel
Red Star
Orel Bulge
Argentine censorship cuts Roosevelt speech references
In Buenos Aires on July 29 the Argentine government censored United Press reports of President Roosevelt's address. The censor order removed references to Mussolini and Fascism and phrases calling regimes corrupt and criminal. Other lines about Sicily celebrations and Nazis were also deleted.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juyl
U.P
United Press
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Sicily
Plane Crash Kills Twelve In Ireland
Authorities probe a British overseas plane crash in Ireland that killed twelve people en route from Lisbon to England. Among the dead is Max Roth, formerly with the Swiss legation in London.
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Pristn
Erie
Ireland
England
Lisbon
Portugal
Maxtoth
London
Stock Rahm Family Reunion Date Set at Humphreys Park
The Stock rahm family annual reunion will be held in Humphreys Park on Sunday per today’s announcement. All members and friends of the association are invited to attend.
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Stockrahm
Humphreys Park
Association
Indiana Driver to Face Grand Jury Over Fatal Crash
King R. Martin a Tipton farmhand is charged with reckless driving after his car hit a parked vehicle killing nine year old Virginia Scudder and seriously injuring Joan Carr. Sheriff Burl Lilly says the girls were on the front fenders blocking his view. Martin is jailed awaiting action.
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Tipton
U.P
King R. Martin
Martin
Virginia Scudder
Joan Carr
Burl Lilly
Emergency Citizens Committee invites Wallace in South Bend
South Bend invites Vice President Wallace to speak with an audience of 13 600 guaranteed. Rushville reports the death of Phil Wilk mother of Wendell Willkie’s wife. funeral plans await their arrival. Loganport reports two teenage boys returned to Plainfield school after theft arrest. Dion notes a grocery store raid by hungry soldiers. Indianapolis adopts four dollar dogs policy and opens a sale room for homeless dogs.
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South Bend
Wrp
Emergency Citizens’ Committee of
Wallace
Rushville
U.P
Wendell Willkie
Phil Wilk
Wilk
Miller Hamilton
Indianapolis
Franeville Man Drowns When Car Plunges From Ferry
An Franeville man Edward Tecob Moskowitz drowned after his car rolled down an incline from a ferry boat on the Ghio river at Lenalind. The brakes reportedly failed. workers recovered the body and removed the car.
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Invaneivailee
Ind
Ghio
Lenalind
Edward Tecob Moskowitz
Mocowitz
Coffee Returns to Free Market After Ration Lift
Washington July 29 U P News reports coffee is no longer on the ration list. The War Food Administration lifted restrictions citing satisfactory green stock levels and improved shipping, allowing Americans to drink unrationed coffee for the first time in eight months. President Roosevelt announced the change in his broadcast to the nation.
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Washington
U.P
War Food Administration
Roosevelt
We the Nation
Birth and local hospital notices in Elnora and Sandborn
A son named Richard Dean, eight pounds eight ounces, was born Wednesday to Mrs. George A. Randall of Elnora. Dale Norris, 2% years old of Sandborn, was admitted for a fractured right leg from a home fall. Rita Jane Linton returned home on Linton route 3 today. Darrell Brookshire of Newberry was taken home Wednesday evening.
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George A. Randall
Elnora
Richard Dean
Dale Norris
Paul Norris
Sandborn
Rita Jane Linton
Linton
Darrell Brookshire
Newberry
Roosevelt speaks to nation on war aims and unity b During wartime broadcast
President Roosevelt outlines Allied goals and the fight against fascism, pledging unconditional surrender for Italy Germany and Japan. He stresses restoring freedom and dignity to conquered peoples and supporting Italy’s transition to self rule in Sicily as part of the broader war effort.
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Congress
Berlin
Rome
Tokio
United Nations
Hitler
Mussolini
Sicily
Egypt
Libya
Tripoli
Tunisia
Justice
Italy
Germany
Japan
Italian cabinet arrests prominent Fascist leaders
London reports arrests of several important Fascist leaders as a precaution to preserve order. The Roma broadcast mentions no names and doubts about Mussolini’s whereabouts persist. The German agency says Nicosia in Sicily has been evacuated. Washington notes no peace overtures by the new Italian regime. Radio Rome claims liberation of political prisoners and burning of fascist emblems.
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Benito Mussolini
Rome
London
U.P
Nicosia
Sicily
Washington, D. C
Patterson
Washington
Radio
Women and helpers urged to ready church for Sunday services
All women of the United Brethren church and any men boys or girls who can help are asked to meet at the church Friday morning to prepare the building for Sunday services. Come prepared to work.
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United Brethren Church
Sailor Drowns at Schafer Beach near Nyona Lake
An 18 year old sailor stationed at the Peru Naval Air Station drowned while swimming at Schafer Beach on Nyona Lake near Rochester. Richard Deno of Saginaw Michigan, recently married to Mildred Howell of Peru Indiana, was recovered by state police.
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Rochester
Ind
U.P
Peru Naval Air Station
Richard Deno
Saginaw
Mich
Schafer Beach
Nyona Lake
Funeral set for James H Haseman at Saron Reformed Church
Funeral services for James H Haseman, who died Tuesday night, are planned Friday at 2 PM at Saron Reformed Church. Rev Carl A Hofmann will officiate. Burial will follow in the German Cemetery with Masonic Lodge services at the graveside.
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James H. Haseman
S2ron Reformed Church
Carl A. ‘Hofmann
Masonic ‘Lodge
Allied Air Power Racks Up Pacific Blow After Blow
Allied planes smash Japanese barges and ships in New Britain Huon area and New Guinea while bombers hit Bibelo hill and Munda defenses. Over five days American pilots claim 57 enemy planes shot down with four American planes lost. Liberator crews strike Tavoy island and Rangoon coastal targets in Burma.
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Pacific
United Nations
New Britain
South Pacific
Huon Reali
New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea
Munda
Solomons
Bibelo Hill
Munda Airfield
China
New Delhi
Burmese
Tavoy Island
Rangoon
Irraawddy River
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