Yanks Press Toward Naples as Pompeii Gap Narrows
Allied forces push toward Naples as German positions around Pompeii and Salerno tighten. Reports indicate 5th Army lines near Salerno and possible consolidation at Foggia with Manfredonia reachable by coastal advance. Weather shifts from rain to warmer as Sherman tanks roll past Pompeii toward Vesuvius area.
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Cairo
Berlin
Bernard L
Clark
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Salerno
Naples
Gulf
Vesuvius
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Foggia
Peninsula
Balkans
Fahrenheit's origin and global coal share noted
The piece credits Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit with inventing the mercury thermometer in 1714 and states the United States holds about 60 percent of the world's coal supply.
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Fahrenheit
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
United States
Youth Injured In Tennessee Auto Crash Near Pinesburg
A four year old, Tommy Potts, was struck by an east bound car driven by Richard Guessford near Hone Pinesburg yesterday evening around five o clock and suffered a broken left leg. Deputy Leister Ananogie reported the boy was taken to Washington County Hospital by the driver. A six year old, Sidney Palmer, residing on Washington Avenue, was also struck and lightly injured by a car near Washington and Winter. The boy received treatment for brush burns.
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Tommy
Potts
Leister Isanogie
Richard E. Guessford
Williamsport
Guessford
Washington County
Sidney ‘Palmer
Washington Avenue
Washington
Hosiery Sales Rise Yet Profit Squeezed by Price Ceilings
Baltimore department store managers report higher stocking sales since the war but profits shrink under Office of Price Administration ceilings. A buyer notes rayon hose capped at 1.17 dollars, down from former nylon prices above 1.95 dollars. cotton ceilings loom.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
Ohio Sergeant Is New One Man Army
Sgt. James Burgess of Lakewood Ohio, hailed from U S Army HQ in the South Pacific as a new one man army after single handedly facing about 100 Japanese soldiers. He killed an estimated 20 men and helped break up a beachhead attack during the New Georgia campaign. Corp Andrew Genzoli of Ferns... California, an Army Public Relations man, said Burgess volunteered to man a machine gun to protect a beachhead supply dump.
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South Pacific
James Burgess
Lakewood
Burgess
New Georgia
Andrew Genzoli
Fernsgale Calif
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