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Business properties in East Orange and Linden have been purchased by John Avrutis, builder and operator, for investment.
GULFPORT, Miss., Feb. 17-- Harold (Jug) McSpaden, the jinxed man in professional golf's winter tournament series, caught the early pacesetter, Sammy Snead, at the halfway post in the seventy-two-hole $5,000 Gulfport open today.
Stoneham appeal to Frick for naming of comr planned
Adm Nimitz announces heavy engagement raging off Iwo with US warships shelling shore; silent on Jap repts of attempted US landings; US carrier planes and army bombers join in attack, Iwo; Chichi and Haha also hit; Domei dispatch on US attempted landings, Futatsune and Kamiyama Beaches, Iwo, noted; text; map
1945World War II: American and Brazilian troops kick off Operation Encore in Northern Italy, a successful limited action in the Northern Apennines that prepares for the western portion of the Allied Spring offensive.[†]
Operation Encore was the Allied offensive timed for February—March 1945, to break through the Gothic Line. This was initiated at the army instead of corps level. This comprised an assault by the 10th Mountain Division and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to secure the high ground dominating Strada statale 64 Porrettana where it crossed the Apennine Mountains, followed by a limited offensive that ended with the capture of the crossroads at Castel d'Aiano Once these objectives were achieved, the Fifth Army could successfully penetrate the northern Apennines to reach the Po Valley as part of the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy.