Airdrome At Gerbini Is Practically Wiped Out
Allied air forces pounded Gerbini and four satellite fields in southern Sicily with hundreds of tons of high explosives and fragmentation bombs. Daytime and night raids damaged administration buildings hangars and runways leaving large fires. Allied missions claimed multiple enemy fighters destroyed and noted some losses on their side. The raid followed sustained attacks including Biscari and Milo airfields plus Catania railway targets as air combat uncertainty remained.
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Allied
North Africa
Middle East
Gerbini
Sicily
Northwest
Afrcan Command
Gerbin Fields
Biscari
Milo
Catania
Sicilia
Inquiries On New Vacation Order Prompt Calls
Vacationists flooded the Local War Price and Rationing Board with questions about the OPA vacation order. The board had no official guidance on gasoline rations for a round trip to a vacation resort after July 15, and forms would be available only after that date. Some motorists pressed the office, though A rations expire July 22 and trips may wait until the next period. Alternative transport was noted as a constraint.
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OPA
Rationing Board
Japs Claim 3 Other U. S. Warships Sunk
The Japanese high command claimed in a wartime communique that one enemy cruiser was sunk and another set afire in Kula Gulf Sunday night, with torpedo boats sinking three war vessels the next morning. They also admitted Allied landings on New Georgia and reported ten Japanese planes shot down over Kula Gulf, while Washington announced possible sinking of six Japanese ships.
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Associated Press
Imperial Headquarters
Kula Gulf
Berlin
Washington
New Georgia
U.S
Desertions Rise Among German Forces in Norway
London reports Norwegian sources stating General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst warned Nazi troops in Norway to stay at their posts as desertions increase. Notices in military camps urged readiness, while deserters reportedly fled toward Sweden.
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London
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Norway
von Falkenhorst
Sweden
Ody Ai
Dream Come True Laurens 5 C July 7
Mrs Margaret Wilkes writes to her Army doctor husband in the South Pacific wishing for his return on leave. The phone rings. Lt Wilkes, from San Francisco, calls en route home on leave. A Lewistown district property a two story house on a county road sells for 1150 to Gilmore R Flautt with about one acre and outbuildings. Carl D Pertin previously owned it. Benjamin B Rosensa asssignee and U Grant Hooper auctioneer.
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Laurens
Margaret Wilkes
M. Wilkes
South Pacific
United States
San Francisco
Lieutenant Wilkes
Emmitsburg
Mike
Utica Mills
Lewistown
Gilmore R. Flautt
Thin City
Carl D. Pertin
Benjamin B Rosensa
U Grant Hooper
Overseas Sgt Carbaugh Returns Home After 22 Months Abroad
Long Overseas Sgt Carbaugh son of Mrs M Mil dred Shafer 101 East Seventh Street has returned to the states after twenty two months overseas. He was stationed at St Lucia British West Indies for a year and ten months with a Good Will Troop somewhere in South America. He is now at Camp Claiborne Louisiana as instructor in tank warfare. He recently spent about twenty days visiting relatives and friends in this city.
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Carbaugh
Mildred Shafer
East Seventh Street
States
St. Lucia
British West Indies
South America
Camp Claiborne
Attack on All Islands Not To Be Necessary
Leeds July 7 Australian Attorney General H V Evatt said a separate attack on every Japanese island in the Pacific would be unnecessary and metosterous. He arrived in Britain three weeks ago and urged attacking and reoccupying islands of crucial importance before applying pressure on Japan from multiple directions including China and the Pacific.
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Leeds
England
H. V. Evatt
UC eTey
Pacific
Evatt
Britain
Japan
China
Two Middletown MEN Enter V-12 Training at Cornell and Princeton
Two Middletown men renamed from the University of Mary to active Naval Reserve duty join V-12 college training. Ren lee L Reed and G Carlton Rhoderick leave for specialized design studies at Cornell Ithaca while Mr Rhode studies at Princeton. They receive apprentice seaman status with full Navy pay and subsistence while continuing education funded by the U S Navy.
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University of Maryand
Renlee L Reed
Rube Reed
Middletown
G Carlton Rhoderick
George C. Rhoderick
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
Rhode
Princeton University
Princeton N. J
U. S. Navy
Six Month Suspended Sentence For Whit ing In Assault Case
William A Whit ing a colored man near Adamstown received a six month suspended sentence after being found guilty of assault by Magistrate Edward J Smith this morning. Norman Despeaux a local taxicab driver testified that Whit ing threatened him and forced him to drive over country roads for hours on Sunday. Whit ing denied the charge saying he had been driving to collect money owed him and was unarmed. State witnesses supported Despeaux. Richard E Zimmerman was the defendant's attorney.
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William A. Whiting
Adamstown
Edward J. Smith
Whiting
Norman Despeaux
Richard E. Zimmerman
Rationing Rules Urged by Baltimore Grocers
Baltimore grocers urged appointing a competent official to administer food policies under the Office of Price Administration. Mrs Rose Keifer of the National Association of Retail Grocers outlined a program to decentralize regulation, simplify rules, raise prices to 1941 levels, end dollar and cent classifications, and grant a single ceiling price.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
Unanimousl
OPA
Rose Keifer
Lake MA
Keifer
National Associations
Baltimore Grocers
Reder
Price Nz
Simplicudean
Africa bound officer Lee Snowder cited in distant postings
In Africa Ple Lee, identified as a Viz blarerce Lee Snowder of New York, is stationed in Africa after nearly two decades in service. Report notes overseas time since April and June 25 enlistment. Critics criticize rationing rules and price methods, alleging price manipulation by processors and limited grocer profits.
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Ple
Lee Oon
Blarerce Lee Snowder
New York
Africa
Walker denies loaded dice in game tale at Roswell hearing
Washington July 7 Postmaster General Frank C Walker allegedly confronted a dice game at his home where a pair of dice behaved as loaded. Roswell of the National Police Gazette described Walker’s remark about the matter and the ensuing tensions over the magazine’s mail privilege. Walker’s assistant says he never owned a par if drawn and would not comment further on Roswell’s application.
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Washington
Frank C Walker
Walker
Walkers
Footminster
H. H. Ros
National Police Gazette
Sround
The
Gazette
Rosewell
Roswell
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