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...Cave Junction...
LONDON--Russian troops in a 15-mile advance have captured Izdeshkvo on the main Moscow-Vyazma-Smolensk railroad only 11 miles from the important Rurovo railroad junction, Russia's Thursday midnight communique announced today...
Southeast of Rzhev other Russian columns captured Gzhatsk, the German position nearest (125 miles) to Moscow, and converged on the railway-junction town of Vyazma. Its fall would enable all the Red armies on the Central Front to combine for a drive toward Smolensk. The whole German position in central Russia was crumbling away...
...treaty ship laid down in 1927, she is the oldest heavy cruiser the U.S. has. So bare of streamlined beauty is her ungainly silhouette that Correspondent Bob Casey (Torpedo Junction) fondly fastened the nickname "Swayback Maru" on her when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...
...Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between...