U S Troops Reach Edge of Marsala In Sicily Drive
Allied reports say Montgomery's Eighth Army advances toward Catania and Messina as German and Italian forces retreat under heavy pressure. Prisoners exceed 40,000. Patton's Seventh Army nears Enna and Agrigento, while Castelvetrano and Sciacca serve as logistically important west Sicily points.
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Possem
Palermo
Ramaccs
Catania
Etna
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hermann Goering
Primsola
Mierna
Sicily
Mt. Kina
Java
San Stefano di Camastra
26Th Assieta
Nio
10Th Bersaglieri
Agrigento
Castelvetrano
Porto Empedocle
Sciacca
Eisenhower
Sala
Cataniz
Sicilian
George
Patton
U. S. Seventh Army
Enna
Messina
Strait of Messina
Algiers
Villarosa
Stiacea
Messina Strait
Sir Bernard J. Montgomery
Mareth
Tunsia
Ward Leader Named in Albany Twelfth Ward
Frederick W. Clark of Albany was named acting president of the Republican Party in the Twelfth Ward to succeed the late Joseph Richards. A 15 year ward committeeman, Clark had been a 1938 Albany County treasurer candidate and previously pursued supervisor and alderman roles.
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Frederick W. Clark
Orange Street
Albany
Joseph Richards
Clark
Albany County
Raid Hits Japs on Soerabaja
A high level Allied communique reports continued Allied air and ground operations in the Southwest Pacific. Allied bombers attacked Munda and Salamaua areas in New Guinea, with heavy losses to Japanese forces while suffering minimal Allied casualties. Other strikes hit New Georgia Madang Lae Timor and surrounding targets, with several enemy planes downed and multiple fires started.
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Willam F. Balser
Munda
Madang
New Guinea
Salamaua
Southwest Pacific
Bairoko Harbor
Vilages
Bogadjum
Komiatum
Mount
Tambu
New Georgia
Solomons
Timor Island
Voco Point
Lae
Kaukenau
Dutch New Guinea
Penfeel
Rabaul
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Finschhafen
New Ireland
Cape George
Bulolo
Gum Gogol
Gori
Child Is Out In Sixth Avenue Stone Injury
Four year old Marie Carter of 2144 Sixth Avenue suffered a cut over the left eye yesterday afternoon after being struck by a stone while playing on Sixth Avenue north of Federal Street. Patrolmen Derzowsky and Lyman reported she was taken to Troy Hospital by Frank Fatoin for treatment, where Dr. Joseph Padalino attended her.
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Marie Carter
Sixth Avenue
Federal Street
Joseph Der‘xowsky
John Lyman
Central Police Station
Radio Patrol
Troy Hospital
Frank Fatoin
Joseph Padalino
Axis retreat from Sicily prompts risky sea escape plan
North Africa notes compare a supposed Dunkirk style withdrawal by Axis forces in Sicily, suggesting many prisoners could slip to the Italian mainland by night boats, contrasting with the larger losses at Bizerte and Tunisia. The unnamed observer warns of a swift, scattered evacuation rather than a definitive retreat.
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Terpart
Bizerte
Tunisia
Africa
Sicily
Reds Drive on Orel as Germans Scramble Defenses
Soviet forces press the Orel pocket as Bolkhov falls and German reinforcements stream in. Reported losses tally heavy on both sides with thousands of tanks, planes and guns claimed destroyed or captured. German propaganda signals retreat as Red Army pushes toward Bryansk and Teleciye.
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Bolkhov
Moscow
Red Army
Berlin
Russia
Orel
Aled
Teleciye
Bryansk
Russia Continues Offense as Front Holds at Orel-Belgorod
Military briefing notes describe the July 12 Russian resistance to a German summer push on a 165 mile front from Orel to Belgorod, with Moscow not admitting a halt since the offensive began July 5. In Denver, Judge Gilliam urged social hygiene education linking home life to delinquency while a note on invasion money printing appeared in Washington.
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Orel
Moscow
Germany
Belgorod
Grantic
Denve
ENS
Phillip Gilliam
Denver
Gilliam
Denver Public Health Council
Fighters Fortunes in Houston Shipyard Trinkets Drive
Workers at the Houston Shipbuilding Corp yard spend spare minutes making warmapam trinkets for South Pacific natives. The trinkets are planned to appeal to locals where United States cash has no value, aiding fighting men in the area.
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Houston
Tex. P
Houston Shipbuilding Corp
United States
Gasoline Ration Book Revoked for New York Man
The OPA revoked the gasoline ration book of Norman C. Norman a New York businessman who last week defied the agency to block use of his one and a half gallon weekly ration as he saw fit.
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New York
OPA
Norman C. Norman
New York State Ranks Second in War Contracts
New York now ranks second in war contracts held nationwide with a total of 11.713 billion dollars since June 1940, according to Commerce Commissioner M P Catherwood. California leads with 12.032 billion. The period December through March saw 2.716 billion more contracts, boosting per capita value to 869 dollars vs 807 nationally.
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New York
Commerce
M. P. Catherwood
California
Catherwood
War Production Board
New York State
War guilt commission to try Axis leaders soon says Wise
Dr Stephen S Wise president of the American Jewish Congress predicted after a Roosevelt meeting that a commission to try Axis leaders for war guilt in the civilian slaughter would be formed soon American report names Herbert Pell as US representative on the UN commission Wise estimated over 3 000 000 Jews killed in Germany and Axis held lands and warned the toll could rise further with Soviet figures even higher
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Stephen S. Wine
American Jewish Congress
Wise
Germany
Herbert Pell
Commission
United Nations
Hitler
Sicily
Goebbels
Greens
Man Held as Draft Violator in New York State
Roland J. Stebbins of Sanford Maine was arrested yesterday morning in Warren County by FBI agents for alleged Selective Service Act violation. He was arraigned before U S Commissioner Davis Fisk at Hudson Falls and held on 2500 dollars bail until the federal grand jury session. With bail unavailable he was sent to Schenectady County Jail to await trial.
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Roland J. Stebbins
Sanford
Warren County
Stebbins
Davis
Fisk
United States
Hudson Falls
Schenectady
Injury Awards Announced for Second Quarter 1943
State Labor Department reports uninsured employers paid 34 890 87 in compensation to insured workers in Q2 1943. Compensation referees approved 129 awards in the period. It also lists 122 industrial accidents in June: 76 in New York City and 46 upstate.
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Labor Department
New York
Guarded by Lady M. P s at Curtiss Wright plant
The Curtiss Wright plant in Columbus adds 21 women guards to its security team called Lady M P s part of the Auxiliary Military Police. The women, 22 to 35, 5 ft 6 in or taller, come from varied backgrounds and train in close order drill pistol practice and hand to hand defense under Army supervision. Margaret Barney heads the unit, formerly a social worker and store detective.
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Columbus
M. P
Army
Navy
U.S. Army
Auxiliary Military Police
Marine Corps Forest Green
Aficatio
Margaret Barney
Curtiss- Wright
Women’s Guard
Fruit harvest to dip 1943 44 in deciduous crops
Department of Agriculture experts warn that fruit production will fall about ten percent in 1943 44 with deciduous varieties hardest hit. Peaches pears apricots cherries strawberries apples plums and grapefruit are listed as scarcer due to bad weather.
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Department of Agriculture
Nation's Liquid Assets Increase Across Next Year
The Commerce Department estimates liquid assets of individuals and businesses may rise this year by as much as the $50 billion gain of the prior two years. Savings include War Bonds and bank deposits. The department warns inflation risk postwar if war financing is not kept pay-as-you-go.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Escaped German Prisoner Krebs Captured Near Horne Payne
Guenther Krebs escaped from Petawawa internment camp on July 14 with Heins Schuch a Dutch seaman. Krebs was captured yesterday by CNR police constable L McArthur at Horne Payne near Port Arthur Ontario. Both men were merchant seamen and Schuch was recaptured nearby last Friday.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Guenther Krebs
Petawawa
L. McArthur
Canadian National Railways Police
Horne- Payne
Krebs
Heins Schuch
Fascists Report New Rome Attack
The Italian High Command says British planes sought to machinegun the Ciampino airfield near Rome but were countered. The communique tallies Monday's raid casualties at 27 killed and 1,599 injured, and notes a German plane shot down a British twin engine aircraft.
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London
INL
Rome
High Command
Renter
Ciampino
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