Guns and guts in a Troina ridge stand down
News account details Lt Claus Anderson and Corporal Palmer of Wisconsin and Corporal Ralph Kelly of Indiana holding a foxhole line under German fire near Troina. Fire support, counterattacks, and a daylight air strike accompany their endurance as B-25s strike the area and the unit advances to occupy Troina.
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Jack Belden
Time
Life Magazine
Sokler
Claus Anderson
Kenosha
Anderson
Corp Wayne Palmer
Lallysmith
Wis
Palmer
Liew
Stan Masisl
Philadelphia
Twe
Kelly
Ralph
Corp
Ralph Kelly
Em- MuissuTy
MATA
Mastyr and
Mastyl
Tutler
Horner
Troy
Atem
O Oficer
Shelly
Belcher
Lochy
Wisconsin
Albert H. Smith
Baltimore
Traina
Chuck Horner
Art Ridge
Kelly Sompore
Horne
Smith
Trona
Liquor Price Drop Seen In Baltimore
Baltimore officials predict a general lowering of retail liquor prices due to the new Office of Price Administration policy effective August 28. Variations in current markups complicate exact calculations, but reductions are expected, with some dealers seeing 10 to 30 percent cuts.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allies Report First Time Shipping Surplus
London reports the Allies have a shipping surplus for the first time since the war began. The Financial News notes this as encouraging for Allied strategy, citing rising American ship construction and urgent losses from enemy submarines as key factors in the improved shipping situation.
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London
Europe
London Financial News
Maryland Bank Deposits Reach New Highs in 1943 and 1999
State Banking Commissioner Jann W. Downing reported Maryland bank deposits rose to a wartime peak of 590,945,7444 dollars by June 1943, driven by government spending and high war wages. By December 31, 1999 deposits stood at 344,825,735.41 dollars, reflecting long term shifts in public funds and banking.
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Jann W. Downing
Maryland
Churchill and party view Niagara Falls from Canadian side
Prime Minister Churchill and a small party, including his daughter Mary Churchill of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, cross to the American side after spending about ninety minutes sightseeing on the Canadian side. An unannounced destination followed the Falls visit.
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Drittia
Couretull
Niagara Falls
Churchill
Mary Church Hl
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Provisional Co Mil ler Field Staten Island note
In New York Pres Roeder son of Mrs Ella M Mann of Jefferson is stationed at Staten Island New York. His address is Pre Herman A Roeder Cct Aut 5S 3rd Provisional Co at Miller Field Staten Island N Y.
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Pre. Roeder
Ella M Mann
Jefferson
Staten Island
N. X
Herman A. Roeder
3Rd Provisional Co
Miller Field
North Africa service noted for Brunswick private
Theima Sigafoose of Brunswick reports her husband Pvt Sigafoose is now serving with the armed forces somewhere in North Africa according to a World War II era notice.
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Pvt
Thurmont Thurmon Minute Men Entertained at White Home
About 50 men and women gathered on the Summit avenue lawn Sunday afternoon August 1 to entertain Thurmont's Thurman company of Minute Men. Rev. Ivan G. Naugle hosted the program with refreshments, delivering a brief address as felicitations arrived from Gen Franc Perrott. Local officers and their wives attended, while state guard camp attendees Col E Brooke Lee, Capt W Jarboe Grove, and Lieut G Shipley were absent.
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Thurmon
Thurmont Company of
Minute Men
J. K White
Summit Avenue
Tr Duce's Residence to Become Public Museum
The Associated Press reports that Mussolini’s former residence Palazzo Venezia in Rome will become a public museum. Art objects removed for air raid precautions will not be restored until the war ends, and the palace, long open only to holders of special permits, will open to the public later.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Mussolini
Palazzo Venezia
Rome
Palazzo Venevila
Damaged ships arrive at Gibraltar report
The Paris reported that two cruisers two aircraft carriers five destroyers and two torpedo boats have arrived at Gibraltar in a damaged condition. The report cites an Associated Press dispatch dated August 12 from London noting the damaged fleet reaching the strategic harbor.
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Gibraltar
Associated Press
Canning Sugar Simplified By Rationing Board
Housewives may obtain canning sugar by mailing in Ration Book 1 after using 15 and 16 stamps. No blanks needed this year. Each person may request up to 23 pounds for canning and five pounds for preserving. board requests no further blank requests to save clerical work.
Birthday Dinner Honoring Arthur Houser Held at Houser Home
A birthday dinner for Arthur Houser was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harald Houser on Sunday August 8 at their home. Attending were Rev Mr. and Mrs. S E McGavock and numerous relatives and friends including the Houser, Frye, Dwyer, and Jenkins families along with others named in the guest list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harald Houser
Arthur Houser
S E. McGavock
Low Houser
Harve Houser
Will Houser
Edgar Barnhouse
Roger Frye
Marvin. White
Mes. J. Shry
Tra Loy
W T. Moxley
Alberta Breckenridge
Kirt Slifer
Ella Newton
Ella Magaha
Ruth Houser
Fred Houser
Dick Houser
Earnest Hill
Molly Loy
Lula Redman
Ronald Athy
Love
Paper Scarcity May Grow Worse
New York August 12 Immediate steps are urged to prevent a worsening paper shortage. A House investigating subcommittee reports to publishers that newsprint use is already curtailed. Congressmen plan a thorough study of newsprint in Canada and the United States and will confer with the American paper and pulp industry. Chairman Lyle N. Bor en says increased pulpwood producing, aided by more manpower, is the only answer.
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New York
House
Canada
United States
Lyle N. Boren
D-Okla
Legendary figure Icarus and mythic wings identify fall
Q and A style notes mention Icarus with wax wings, coriander used in cakes, Turin as a military objective due to factories, Karl Landsteiner discovering human blood types, and a dubious entry about Tokyo Rose as a broadcast figure with a garbled description of a balloon named Swampy.
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Icarus
Turin
Italy
Greta
Karl Landsteiner
Wiiter
New York
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
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Kauniteburg
New High
Party
Pe. Werman
A. Roeder
Condi
Markell & Ford
North Africa
Pri. Herare A. Sigafeose
Thurmont
Tr Duce
Paris
Rayon
Chenille
Naw Brown
Coben
Marvin Jones
House Agricultural Committee
Nant © Davis
Davis
Lydia
Pinkham
Glen
Owes Melvin
M. Engle
Frederick, Md
Kemp
Kemp's Men's Store
Parris Island
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