Monday, August 14 At a Girl Scout Council meeting a very nice plaque with first scout officers at time of organization in Utah was presented by the remaining officers living of that group as follows Mrs J.G. Falck Mrs Edn I. Rich, Mrs Chris. Flygare, Mrs John Culley, Mrs J.U. Eldrege were present as guests. Others were represented by relatives. This evening the D.U.P. History Comm. met here & read the 2nd assignment of chapters 3, 4, 5 & 6, Larkin L. Monson, Proudfoot Terry a guest. Tuesday, August 15 Allies trap German 7th Army. U.S. Planes Rip Fleeing Nazis. Reds take Latvia Rail Center, 60 villages, kill 60,000 Nazis 5 German ships sunk. This evening Dr & I spend in reading. War News favorable. Allies close in on 100,000 doomed Nazis World War Story Condensed From All Principal Areas By United Press FRANCE Allies throw curtain of shells across death corridor closing on 100,000 trapped Germans near Falaise; reveal new American Third army helping close giant trap. RUSSIA Soviets drive wedge toward southeastern corner of East Prussia, capturing Osovets, 17 miles from border; Third Baltic army advances 16 miles to Antsla, 83 miles from Gulf of Riga. AIR Some 7000 allied warplanes, in greatest assault since D Day, pin down Fifth and Seventh German armies and strike at rail and communication lines in France; bomb German industrial plants, southern France and northwestern Italy. ITALY British capture Frontone in eight mile gain in the Apennines; mop up enemy snipers in Florence; Americans take Isola. SOUTHEAST ASIA Allied troops in Burma advance over Myitkyinandalay railway to within six miles of Pinbaw. CHINA Battle for Hengyang rages in streets; Japanese blasted from Lienhwa; Chinese besiege garrison in Liling.