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US fliers bomb Abbeville ry yds in 1st raid by 8th Air Support Command; comment on operation's significance as pre-invasion strategy; Brig Gen Candee and others laud success; RAF attacks Peugeot motor vehicle works at Montbeliard, France; map
US troops capture Canicatti and are reptd near Agrigento
LONDON, July 16 -- The joint appeal by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to the Italian people to end the war or take the consequences was not a new idea, for the Prime Minister in 1940 warned the Italians they were backing the wrong horse and that the day of reckoning was coming.
US Navy repts escort carrier clashed with 11 U-boats while on convey duty, Atlantic; repts 2 U-boats sunk, probably 8 others; actions described; illus
BOSTON, July 16 -- A serious food shortage is the week-end prospect for residents of Greater Boston with the development of additional cuts in egg and poultry supplies.
1943LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator[†]
LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She retired from writing in 1997.