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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1943
Page
1
General Eisenhower arrives in Sicily aboard landing craft near Gela and visits the beachhead amid ships and soldiers. He holds a breakfast conference with Patton and Hewitt, exchanges greetings with American units, and plans further coastal landings while overlooking dawn operations.
Italian civilians on day three of the Allied invasion of Sicily lacked progress reports. Fascist outlets urged focus on a distant Russian front and claimed Germany would soon finish there, freeing Axis power for a final push against the Americans and British.
Allied headquarters report a Japanese cruiser and three destroyers sunk in the Kula Gulf near the Solomons during the night of July 13. Two more Japanese destroyers probably sunk. US forces also report defeats of Japanese aircraft on Munda air base and raids on Vila supply depots.
Alfred De Marigny appeared briefly in Nassau as crowds gathered outside the court for the murder case of Sir Harry Oakes. Magistrate F. E. Field remanded him to prison until Monday when the hearing was to resume, leaving De Marigny puzzled by the swift adjournment.
President Roosevelt signed a broad 1944 appropriations measure financing 18 war agencies including OPA and OWI. The package totals over 2.9 billion dollars for the fiscal year, plus 1.1 billion for Labor and the Federal Security Agency and 253 million for miscellaneous federal costs. OPA and OWI received trimmed sums after a congressional compromise, with OPA at about 120 million final and OWI at 33.2 million, portions for domestic operations capped from initial requests. Continued details noted for Interior reclamation and irrigation projects and a note that the report continues on Page Eleven.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrives in London greeted by Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers and Lieut. Col. William H. S. Wright who accompanied him. The photograph captures their arrival in the European theater during the war.
The Soviet midnight communique says German attempts along the 165 mile Orel Kursk Belgorod front were repeatedly driven back by strong Soviet defense. After costly losses in men and materiel, the German offensive began to lose power as Russian forces held firm.
Washington reports rising war costs with daily expenditures averaging about 90 million over the last three years and a projected 265 million per day for the new fiscal year. Data from Daniel W. Bell and House Appropriations Committee Chair Cannon show three year totals of roughly 104.471 billion spent, with 1943 and 1942 programs at 72.109 and 26.011 billion respectively, while appropriations approximate 212 billion. The Treasury estimates current spending at about 97 billion for war purposes, about 10 billion under prior appropriations.
The national scoreboard shows no games scheduled while the American East section lists Elmira defeating Binghamton with a 7 to blank score in the sole scheduled game.
Moscow radio quoted a Soviet commission claiming Nazis used poison gas on Krasnodor, killing more than 6,000. It also said German tanks lost in today’s fighting totaled 122, bringing German losses to 2,622 since the offensive began, with 1,126 German planes destroyed in total.
The Undersecretary of War Patterson announced vigorous Army action over three months to fix Wright Aero nautical Corp at Lockland Ohio after the Truman Committee report accused it of supplying defective aircraft engines. Changes followed including personnel shifts, longer engine test runs, removal of Army inspectors, and increased inspection. The Justice Department will refer committee charges to a federal grand jury if warranted, with access to committee transcripts and exhibits for review.
Russian forces launched counter-attacks along the entire front as 40 additional aircraft were counted on Sunday. Red troops repulsed numerous Nazi assaults on the Orel Kursk sector, the communique said, noting the enemy attacked with fewer forces than before. Soviet counter-attacks grew fiercer as the day progressed, with Moscow radio announcing the drive and Berlin relaying the report via a wire service.
British aircraft, daylight raids across northern France and the Dutch coast damaged locomotives barges and a minesweeper. Royal Canadian Air Force Mustangs destroyed an enemy bomber Spitfires and Mustangs and Bastons took part with two planes reported missing.
Allied forces including British Eighth Army and American Seventh Army push along a 150 mile coastal front in Sicily. Montgomery leads fast eastward thrust toward Catania and Messina while Patton’s veterans pin Axis forces near Gela and Licata. Eisenhower visits Sicily as heavy fighting continues with Axis casualties and prisoners increasing.
New York UP reports Canada and Britain joined the United States in proposing a postwar monetary mechanism. The Canadian plan, called a clearing union, envisions an international pool of foreign means of payment to ease trade and provide dollars for exports while making pounds and pesos available for American buyers. The proposal excludes creditor nations from veto power over an international postwar monetary body.
Allied statements claim Italian coastal defense guns on Sicily were wooden. U S troops reportedly engaged Axis tanks successfully. German broadcasts admit Allied bridgeheads near Gela Capo Passero Pachino Licata and south of Syracuse. Rome says four UN cruisers torn up other vessels sunk or damaged and over forty merchant ships hit by air bombs. Stockholm-Spern-Switzerland report says part of the Italian fleet left La Spezia perhaps to give battle.
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