Sicilian Woman Talks With FDR Jr Along Waterfront
A Sicilian woman speaks with Frank D Roosevelt Jr realizing her son in the United States Navy will not face prejudice due to ancestry. The piece notes Sicily’s beauty, better soldier morale, and home hospitality despite wartime ruins and dangers near Agrigento.
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Fdr, Jr
Rarold V. Botle
Seventh Army
Sicily
Regocter
Veutenant
United States
America
Navy
Wraw
United States Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Catania Falls to Allied Forces Securing Eastern Sicily
Catania becomes an Allied foothold as capture secures Sicily’s second city and its vital east coast harbor. The plain dominates grain and fruit production, links rail and road networks, and places Etna nearby. Palermo lies 159 miles away.
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Catania
Sicily
Palermo
Cicero
Italy
Germany
Atebesa Cerae
Mt. Etna
St Acatha
Dimout Rules Revised for Shore Area
Shore area dimout regulations announced by Col. Henry S. Barrett director of air raid precautions. Motorists may drive with full headlight beams in the shore zone with lenses upper half secured.
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Battimore
Ange Ue
Vindar
Col
Henry S. Barrett
Wate
Mae West Wins Final Decree of Divorce from Frank Wallace
The Los Angeles film actress Mae West, once denying a marriage lasting 32 years, has a final decree of divorce from former vaudeville dancer Frank Wallace. Superior Judge Goodwin J. Knight signed the order yesterday at her request.
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Los Angeles
Mae West
Frank Wallace
Goodwin J. Knight
Buffet Supper Plan For Wartime Nights And Prune Filling
A wartime family plan for easy meals features a buffet supper with soup baked beans salad and dessert to ease cooks burden amid shortages. It recommends decaffeinated coffee brewed longer and a hot milk pour, plus a method for a simple nut pruned filling cake with lemon rind vanilla and a prune juice cream filling.
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Tod Dye Ae
Fordinary
Baltimore Price Clerks Meet to Discuss Restaurant Price Enforcement
Baltimore officials and Maryland Office of Price Administration members convene to outline procedures for enforcing the newly instituted restaurant price controls as August discussions proceed.
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Baltimore
Mary
Allied Leaders Face Strategy Shakeup as War Plans Form
In Washington and London the Allies weigh a new European victory plan after Sicily gains momentum. Roosevelt and Churchill may reconvene soon to outline a European campaign, while Sicily's fall prompts debate on Italy invasion versus pressing Badoglio. Stewart Waring notes OPA price clerks will brief restaurateurs next week on new regulations.
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Washington
Russia
Sicily
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Hitler
European
Casablanca
Europe
Pacific
Catania
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Freeze Stewart Waring
OPA
Strategic options tested in war with air power debate
The high command weighs air power versus combined land air strategy to force German surrender. If airpower delivers the main punch, invasion forces might breach continental defenses. Decision hinges on whether air alone can finish the job or a broader approach is needed.
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Germany
Pacific War Council Meeting Led by Churchill in London
London reports that Prime Minister Winston Churchill presided over a Pacific War Council meeting attended by British ministers, service officers, and the Dutch Prime Minister Pieter. The event underscores allied coordination in the Pacific theater during the war.
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Pacific War Council
London
Winston Churchill
Pieter
Netherlands Officials Meet Chinese Foreign Minister in London
Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. T. V. Soong and Dutch representatives including Vice Admiral Helfrick discuss coal mine safety in London. Reported method uses sulphonated alcohol compounds and organic by products to wet coal dust, claimed more effective than water alone in preventing explosions.
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Gerbrendy
Netherlands
T. V. Soong
Netherland
Great Britain
C. E. L. Helfrick
Southwest
Pacific
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