Allied landing reported near Balikpapan and Kulla Samboja
Radio Tokyo claimed Allied forces landed 31 miles northeast of Balikpapan on Sunday at 1 30 p m with main force ashore at Balikpapan in three sites. An earlier report said 5090 troops in 250 landing barges initially reached shore and were being reinforced. Broadcast noted as unconfirmed and recorded by the FCC.
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San Francisco
Radio Tokyo
Balikpapan
Kulla Samboja
Federal Communications Commission
Women Pilots Shot Down Reported Over China
London dispatch says Tokyo radio reported three American aircraft piloted by women shot down near Kweilin China. The broadcast notes a crew shortage may force women to fly on operational duties.
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London
Tokyo
Kweilin
China
Two Teens Held in Window Peeping Charge
Two 16 year old youths were held for action of Juvenile Court on charges of window peeping on E Pall Mall street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juvenile Court
E. Pall Mall Street
Local Notes on Various Residents in Virginia
Lamp LAMP Va June 30 Mr Edison Fawcett is taking treatment at Charlottesville Hospital Miss Jeanette Racey who taught school last year at Kernstown is attending the summer session at Madison College at Harrisonburg Miss Mildred Racey who graduated from Stephens City High School early this month is spending a week with her aunt and uncle Miss Naomi Racey has returned from attending Dayton Training School.
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Lamp
Edison Fawcett
Charlottesville Hospital
Jeanette Racey
Kernstown
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Mildred Racey
Stephens City High School
Naomi Racey
Dayton Training School
MacArthur’s Borneo Victory Expands Oil Base For Pacific War
General MacArthur’s amphibious conquest of Balikpapan strengthens Allied control of the southwest Pacific and taps Borneo’s pure petroleum. The seizure splits the East Indies and creates a strategic oil base, reducing reliance on distant supplies as Australians and U.S. forces push inland.
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MacArthur
Borneo
Balikpapan
East Indies
Southwest Pacific
Japan
America
Pacific
Persian Gulf
Indian Ocean
Nippon
Indonesia
Sumatra
Java
Scwgetime
Midas
Veteran Recovers Lost Wallet in Postwar Tale
North Platte Nebraska July 2. Leo Grieser a discharged veteran of the African and Sicilian campaigns recovered a wallet lost on an Italian hillside in October 1943. His wife received a letter from a company sergeant enclosing a $30 money order and noting the wallet had been found.
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North Platte
Nebr
Leo Grieser
Bans Shorts On Business Streets
Decatur Illinois police chief H J Schepper bans abbreviated shorts on business streets saying shorts that fail to reach the knees invite yoohoos whistling and improper remarks. The policy targets female wearers amid daytime enforcement and public debate over dress codes in the city.
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Decatur
Ill
H. J. Schepper
If We’ll Buy The Bonds They’ll Drop The Bombs
The notice frames a wartime bond drive as a pledge with implied threat of air attack. It frames public debt as defense against enemy bombardment and urges citizen support for financing military action.
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Relf Mae
Wayneeror
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Keenan
Lucille Ball
Carl Wynnesmond
Patricia Morison
Felix Bressart
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Warner Bros
Capitol
Haspel
H. C. Sheetz & Son
Gray and Sheetz
Hansbrough & Carter
North
Loudoun Street
Winchester
Virginia
Dial
Earl L. Mason
Loudoun St
J. A. Hotinger
N. Loudoun St
Miller's Drug Store
U.S. War Bonds
Farmers & Merchants
Vr. Lewis M. Allen
Ray Robinson
Paul M. Haldeman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Peeping
George Washington Garage
MacKenzie
Dewitt MacKenzie
Tarakan
Brunei Bay
Greenland
New Guinea
Australia
Indo-China
Philippines
Celebes
Brunei
Brnei
C. W. Ritter
D. B. Haines
Winchester Steam Laundry
Lohr la- Follette
Yellow Springs
W. Va
Airdale
Freemont St
E. W Armstrong Co
E. Piccadilly
Willey
Hugh A. Stewart
Wardensville
Lem Anderson
Bellview Ave
Chapman Motor CO
National Ave
Roy P. Duvall
North Main Street
Miller & Anderson
East Boscawen Street
St.okers
The
U. S. Employment Service
O'Sullivan Rubber Co., Inc
Geo. W. Kurtz
George W. Kurtz
J. W. Arthur
Rouss Avenue
Palace Theatre
E. W. Armstrong
Piccadilly St
Fairmont
U. S. 50
U.S. 522
Lee Jackson
Duff
Cameron
W. B Snider & Son
Food Department
Peoples Drug Store
Lloyd Milburn
Harry Boarman
Harry A. Racey
Charles St
Washington St
Hable
Russia
Paul L Muni
West Point
Eisenhower
Secretary of War
U.S
G. I
Duff’s
Bell Bottom
Laura
Hong Kong
Lupton Orchard Service Co
Knoxville, Tennessee
W. Piccadilly Street
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