Oddities in the News Readouts From Across the Nation
A collage of quirky reports from U.S. towns describes odd incidents: private Ickey’s Sicily ration wrapper from a Muncie supply can. Red Cross applicants in Hartford rejected for age. a nest of $15 in bills found in Greenville. a Chilmark clerk granted a pantry rationing card. a Los Angeles gunpoint theft of butter. Maya Monk in Sacramento finds $101 in an envelope with a mysterious letter claiming a past department run.
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Muncie
Ind
Robert Ickey
Sicily
Delaware Hotel
Sacramento
Calif
Maya B. Monk
Ouachita Parish Sets Third War Loan Drive Goal
Ouachita Parish details a 4 015 000 quota for the third war loan drive with a house to house canvass planned by volunteers. Parish chairman S J Rogers urges strong support to fund planes tanks jeeps and ships in the ongoing global conflict.
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S J. Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Germany
Japan
Said
Rogers
Ouachita
Say Ball Carriers Are Good Fighters
Washington reports from Walter Reed Hospital where two wounded soldiers claim Americans win battles by brute strength and ball carrying. Joe Jaskel and Joe Mondolok say Italy and Sicily showed the enemy cannot beat an army of players who know how to swat or carry a ball. They predict German advances will stall as the army moves forward.
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Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
Sicily
Saly
Joe Jaskel
Ifieman
Joe Mondolok
Yonkers, N.Y
Italy
Mendek
Germany
Jaskel
Hitler
Mondok
Turkey
Russians close on Nazi lines as Soviet push deep
Moscow dispatches say two Red Army groups, after securing Staling and the Donets basin, advance toward the Dnieper from the south and west. Front reports place Soviet forces within 70 miles of the Dnieper with the German lines collapsing along a widening front from Mariupol toward Sevastopol as Kiev area towns fall.
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Moscow
Germania
Dnieper
Weuth
Stulico
Mariugol
Red
Kiev
Kharkov
Semlenak Yeaterday
Minscow
Bryanik
Red Sammy Wep
Six More Japanese Vessels Sunk in New Navy Report
The United States submarine service announced six more Japanese merchant ships sunk and four damaged as part of continued attacks on enemy supply lines. The total sunk or damaged reaches 319 vessels since the war began, including 223 ships definitively listed as sunk. Allied headquarters report Japanese air forces thinning under heavy Allied pressure in the Southwest Pacific as MacArthur’s units press in New Guinea and the Solomons.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Far East
United States
Navy Department
Southwest Pacific
Lowes
China
Japan
New Guinea
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
German forces claim occupation of north and central Haly
Berlin said German troops have occupied north and central Haly and disarmed Italian forces with little resistance. The same broadcast claimed Allied landings on the Gulf of Eufenia were enveloped by German troops, signaling potential strategic shifts. Reuters noted Hitler held a war council to reinforce German positions.
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London
Haly
Berlin
Gulf of
Eufenia
Pali
Reuters
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Swiss Troops Move to Border Amid German Italian Tensions
Swiss authorities rush reinforcements to frontier posts as Germany and Italy near a clash. Reports from Bern and Lausanne describe mobilization of frontier units, Italian troops seeking refuge, and Italian guards around German consulates in Milan amid rising regional tension.
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Bern
Switzerland
Europe
Germany
Italy
Sweex
Bertin Radio
Associated Press
Fexbere
Couresl
Gazette of
Lausanne
Palic
Vienna
Geneva
der Bund
Etsch
Trentino Distri
Venice
Maly
Noe Leaves for Mother’s Funeral in Louisville
Former Governor James A. Noe departed New Orleans for Louisville to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs Bebe Noe 83 who died of a heart attack at St Joseph infirmary Louisville. Funeral services set for Saturday. Survived by three other children Johan M Nee Indianapolis Mrs T P Bradley Louisville and Mrs Henry Greer West Point Ky.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Louisville
Bebe Noe
St. Joseph Infirmary
Noe
Funda
Johan M. Nee
Indianapolis
T. P. Bradley
Henry Greer
West Point
Germans' Chances in Italy Slight
London dispatch reports Allied landings along the Italian coast amid jubilation over a major Mediterranean victory. The 300,000 German occupation troops in Italy are described as bottled up and unlikely to resist a broad Allied advance to the Balkans and the Po valley line. The London Evening Standard cites a difficult last phase for Allied troops as German forces may fight a delaying action, given shortages.
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London
Italy
Balkans
Naples
London Evening Standard
Po Viver
Aly
Allied Bombers Strike Northern France As Invasion Rumors Mount
Allied air forces led by American and British bombers struck air fields and ports in northern France amid the seventh day of a large daylight assault. Fighter-bombers and patrols swept the Channel while residents reported a Britain facing an invasion buildup.
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London
Italy
Channel
France
Hitler
Atlantic
Europe
Britain
Dover-Folkestone Road
United Sates
Brith Air Ministry
Texi
Halt on drafting pre Pearl Harbor fathers gains momentum
Italy's surrender boosts a congressional bid to bar drafting of fathers who served before Pearl Harbor. Leaders on Capitol Hill push for fast action and a manpower survey while OWI chief Elmer Davis cautions the war is not won yet.
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Washington
Italy
Capitol Hill
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Roosevelt opens third war loan drive for 15 billion
President Roosevelt launches the third war bond drive totaling 15 billion dollars as Axis Italy falls and Rome's surrender nears. He warns Americans to stay grimly determined and not assume victory is near while Allies press offensives in Italy and beyond. The speech hints at further Allied landings and continued efforts to drive Germans from Italy and France.
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Washington
Italy
Berlin
Tokyo
Roosevelt
Rome
Naples
Italian Armistica E
France
Casablanca
Churchill
Downfall of Mussolini Described by Berlin Radio
Berlin radio broadcast its account of Mussolini being dragged from the palace by force and taken to Ponza after a secret coup between King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio. The report says Mussolini asked the king for full powers and was arrested as traitors, while the German view calls the abduction criminal and disgraceful.
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Mussolini
Berlin
Associated Press
Benito Mussolini
Royal Palace
Vittorio Emanuele
Pietro Badoglio
Il Duce
Ponza Island
Gulf of Gaeta
Rome
Sicily
Surprize
Marshal Badoglio
Caatl
Mafiosi in Sicily Smashed by Allied Forces in Sicily
The Mafiosi extortion ring in Sicily has been toppled by a joint British American operation. Leaders Domenico Tornaselli and Giuseppe Piraino, plus 17 district depots, were captured with help from Scotland Yard. Allied authorities hold remaining regional chiefs.
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Sicily
Fas Clam
Domenico Tornaselli
Giuseppe Piraino
Scotland Yard
N. J. C Opens New Year With Freshman Orientation
Northeast Junior College begins the new year with a faculty meeting led by Dean C. C. Calvert. Freshmen attend orientation Friday at 9 am in the auditorium, followed by registration through Friday and Saturday. Sophomores register next week. Late registration costs a $2 penalty. Bus routes operate from Urania Tullulah Jones Wisner and Oak Grove. Ground school training starts for new Army specialized military trainees.
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Northeast Junior College
C. C. Calvert
Urania
Tallulah
Jones, Wisner
Oak Grove
Calvert
Atheltic Y
Grand Jury May Report Friday Over Hopkins Death
Ouachita parish grand jury continued its probe into the August 27 death of Willie Hopkins, 17, at the parish prison camp. Twenty witnesses testified so far with four remaining, as murder charges loom against Guard J D Milam and Warden A W Townes after a coroner's verdict cited fatal beatings.
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Ouachita Parish
Willie Hopkins
Young Hopkins
J. D. Milam
A. W. Townes
Hopkins
Campaign aims to halt black markets in Monroe drive
At a chamber meeting Virginia hotel official L W Ferguson outlined a city wide price leveling campaign modeled on New Orleans to curb black markets during shortages. House to house pledges will require paying top legal prices and surrendering ration stamps, with grocers also pledging. Ferguson classified price violators and described three price types while stressing a non punitive, synchronizing approach.
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Chamber of Commerce
Virginia
L. W. Ferguson
OPA
New Orleanis
Ferguson
Monroe
Plas
New Orleans
Elmo O Dean Dead in Africa Former Monroe resident
The war department notified Elmo O Dean private first class died August 22 in North Africa. A Port Neches High School graduate, he later lived in Monroe and worked in the city streets and packs department. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs George Dean wife sister Mrs Doris Rae Wroten brother Hershel B Dean and other relatives.
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Monroe
North Africa
Elmo
Dean
War Department
Denie Moore
Fort Bragg
N. C
Port Neches
Tex
Dear
George Dea
Doris Rae Wroten
Hershel B. Dean
Orange
N. J
W. Webster
Essie O'Neal
Rubin O'Neal
Mon
Mighty Sweep North Opens Allied Push Into Italy
Allied forces under General Mark W. Clark push from Naples toward central Italy as Italian troops join in battles with German forces. Stimson notes Italy’s capitulation is a setback for the enemy but not a quick path to occupation, with 15 to 20 German divisions possible and German counterstrength rising. Dispatches report advancing Allied and Italian units along the Tyrrhenian coast toward Milan and other northern industrial centers amid German claims of control.
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Washington
Mark W
Clark
Naples
Stimson
Italy
Tunisia
Sicily
Rome
Hitler
Europe
Tyrrhenian Sea
Milan
Turin
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Candide
Noella
Norma
Olanda
Greenville
Chilmark
Mase
Mredidie Norton
Los Angeles
Fun Imu
Uae
Nian A
II Duce
Dnieper River
Petes
Po Line
Nag
Houston
Contimurd
Elmo O. Dean
Africa
Mighty Sweep
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