Badoglio press decree signals wartime control in Italy
Rome reports show Prime Minister Badoglio's cabinet meeting lasting four and a half hours with no peace talks cited. Measures target dismantling Fascist remnants, tighten press control requiring ministry authorization, and plan reconstruction aid for bombed Rome homes while aligning laws with state wartime needs.
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Associated Press
Pietro Badoglio
Rome Radio
Italy
Rome
Coyotes Gain and Sheep Losses Hit Oregon Rangelands
In Fortland Oregon a coyote grabs a sheep in a remote gulch as mutton losses mount. Federal Wild Life Service notes rising coyote numbers due to war service drain on trappers. Oregon Wool Growers Association cites 2000 lamb depredations in Umatilla County with higher losses east toward Idaho. A call for higher bounties seeks to lure trappers back from war industries to curb the carnage.
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Fortland
Ore
Oregon
Federal Wild Life Service
Robert A. Rowe
Portland
War Production Board
Mac Hoke
Pendleton
Oregon Wool Growers Association
Umatilla
Baker County
Idaho
Hoke
Army feet win sympathy in California assembly
The California state assembly passed a resolution memorializing Sen. Sheridan Downey to back national legislation to commission chiropodists in the Army. It noted the Navy already employs chiropodists and argued proper foot care is essential to Army success.
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ARMY
Sacramento
Cal
California
State Assembly
Sheridan Downey
Navy
Allies Advance as Catania Falls in Sicily Battle
Allied forces push along Sicily’s north coast and seize Catania after heavy fighting near Mt Etna and Taormina. British and Canadian units smash German defenses while American ships provide coastward support and air strikes target Naples, Messina, and surrounding roads.
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Cesaro
Troma
Gela Bay
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Eighth Army
Bernard L Montgomery
Tunisia
Dunkirk
London
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Paolo
Catanzaro
Reggio Calabria
Strait
Northwest African Air Forces
Sicilian
Catania Captured as Allies Dominate Eastern Sicily
Catania falls to Allied forces securing Sicily’s second city and a key eastern harbor. The capture gives the Allies control of the Catania plain and vital rail and highway links, with the airfield close to Gerbini and near Mt. Edna. Palermo lies 159 miles away as bombers press from Volcanic Mt. Edna bases.
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Associated Press
Catania
Sicily
Palermo
Italy
Germany
Gerbini
Dittaino
Mt. Edna
Cra
Mt. Etna
B.C
St. Agatha
Falls of Munda Airfield Marked by Bold Advances
Eyewitnesses describe the New Georgia action as units of multiple regiments push toward the airfield on the southern revetments. Reports tell of 1,000 to 1,200 yard advances with little opposition, pillboxes knocked out and troops near the airstrip as Japanese defences remain unmanned.
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MacArthur
Hirohito
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
New Georgia
Bibolo Hu
The
Stock Exchange
Delay of pre Pearl Harbor fathers draft assured by officials
Selective Service told Senator Gurney that pre Pearl Harbor fathers will be drafted as late as possible and drawn from all states simultaneously. Local boards begin reclassification now but induction won’t start until October 1. Gurney emphasized even distribution and to exhaust lists of other men first. Separately, 16-year-old Manuel Curcio, son of Joseph and Mrs Curcio, was injured when diving in Blue Mill Pond Ballston Spa. a stone fragment was embedded in his skull and removed by Dr Miles J. Cornthwaite.
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Selective Service
Gurney
R.8. D
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Wheeler
D.mont
Congress
Paul V. McNutt
Hildey
Senate
Blue Mill Pond
Ballston Spa
Manuel Cureio
Washington Street
Miles J. Cornthwaite
Joseph W. Curcio
First to Munda Air Field Dash Declares Victory
Five venturers raced toward the Munda air field at 2 pm. They sprinted to a wrecked Zero, ripped a fuse plate from a fuse box, seized a landing light, and dashed back to report success. They felt the tide had turned and vowed to lead the advance.
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Munda
Hardy Venturers
Family Affair at Bucknell as father and son teach
Bucknell University hires Charles F. Bond of Lewisburg as physics teacher while his father leads the religious department. Also listed is Catherine Kennelly of Troy among eight promoted to senior file clerk in Albany’s Agriculture and Markets office.
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Lewisburg, Pa
INS
Bucknell University
Charles F. Bond
Lewisburg
Catherine Kennelly
Fifth Avenue
Troy
Department of Agriculture and Markets At
Albany
Divorces Rise In Canada
Ottawa United Press report from the federal Bureau of Statistics highlights demographic shifts from 1931 to 1941. The divorced population nearly doubled from 7 441 to 14 032, while married persons rose 19.3 percent and single persons 4.7 percent. British Columbia led in married couples at 47.8 percent, Ontario 45.4, and Quebec 35.7.
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Federal Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
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