Four Mile Advance by U S Troops in Normandy
Doughboy units pushed four miles amid heavy fighting near Lesseau and Periers, tightening a loop toward St Lo in western Normandy. British reinforcements reported taking thousands of Germans since D Day, with Allied prisoner totals over 54,000 as front lines close on key hubs like St Lo and Lessay.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEF
Doughboy
Normandy
Lesseau
Periers
St. Lo
Plessis
Cherbourg
Lessay
U. S
Pont- Hebert
la Barre de Semilly
Beauvais
Pissot
St. Germain sur-Ay
21St Army Group
Les Granges
Gonfreville
St. Patrice de Claids
St Lo
Vire
Creterville
le Hommet
Beer Barrel Bombers Deliver Supplies to Normandy Air Strips
RAF fighter-bombers fly non-operational relief trips to Normandy landing strips. Plane loads include oddly shaped barrels slung from bomb racks, nicknamed the ABDS or air beer delivery service.
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Supreme Headquarters
France
RAF
Normandy
ABDS
Air Beer Delivery Service
Sterner Policy Toward Argentina Signals Change
Washington July 15 authoritative sources said Norman Armour was named director of the State Department Office of American Republics, signaling a sterner stance toward Argentina. He will start next month, succeeding Lawrence Duggan, as the government reaffirms its position against General Edelmiro Farrell. No new ambassador is planned. Joseph McGurk is tipped as deputy director under Armour. Bonsal, on leave, will likely move to Madrid. Secretary Hull said the situation requires overall handling despite German diplomats leaving Argentina. Armour, a career diplomat, has previously served as ambassador to Argentina and Chile and as minister to Haiti and Canada.
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Washington
Norman Armour
State Department
Office of American Republics
Argentina
Lawrence Duggan
Edelmiro Farrell
Buenos Aires
Joseph McGurk
Philip Bonsal
Armour
Bonsal
Madrid
Hull
Chile
Haiti
Canada
US-223 Cutoff Extended Nine Miles to Rome Center
Michigan state officials reveal a 5.7 mile concrete extension to the planned eight mile US-223 cutoff near Adrian as part of a 10 million dollar addition to a 120 million postwar highway program. The completed segment will connect to M-52 then US-223 gravel and asphalt resurfacing continues toward Rome Center, creating the county’s longest paved stretch. The route will total about ten and a half miles of nearly straight highway, extending from Sand Creek to the Rome Center area.
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Adrian
Michigan State Highway Department
Charles M. Ziegler
County Farm
Sand ‘Creek
Rome Center
Sand Creek
Roosevelt Buried In France Amid War’s Echoes
General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is buried at the Normandy cemetery as war noises linger. Quentin Roosevelt, a captain in the Fighting First, watched the service with six generals including Lt. Gen. Bradley present. The Fourth Division, led by chaplains Schroeder and Bryant, honored Roosevelt with rifle salutes and a rose tribute from French resistance members.
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U. S. Fourth Division
France
Normandy
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Quentin
First
Bradley
U. S
Roosevelt
Peter
Schroeder
First Army
Flushing
James A. “ Bryant
Crystal Springs
Miss
Bryant
Barn Destroyed by Fire Near Onsted
A barn 30 by 70 feet at the Elmer Holland farm one mile east of Onsted burned after starting about 2:15 yesterday afternoon. The Onsted fire department prevented spread to other buildings but the barn, 45 tons of hay and tools were destroyed. Hog(s) removed. Cause unknown. loss partly insured and not yet estimated.
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Onsted
Elmer Holland
Holland
Japs Claim Superfortress Crew Killed in Raid Broadcast
A Japanese radio broadcast via Singapore transmitter claimed several American airmen captured during a Superfortress raid on northern Kyushu last month had been killed. The FC C monitors noted the message warned Allied airmen who bail out would be executed, stating the day’s order. The broadcast likened the fate to Tokyo raiders from about two years earlier.
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New. York
Pacific
Federal Communications Commission
Kyushu
Japan
Tokyo
FCC
Singapore
Guam Defenses Crumble Under U S Carrier Task Force
At Pearl Harbor July 15, U S Navy reports indicate carrier plane strikes and ship bombardment have severely degraded Guam Port Apra defenses. Adm Nimitz says ten straight days of attacks destroyed munitions dumps, gun positions, and buildings on Guam and nearby Rota, with a destroyer sinking an enemy coastal transport July 10.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Port Apra
Pacific
Saipan
Adm
Nimitz
U. S
Rota
Mitscher
Piti
Agat
Agana
Yap
Carolines
High Officers Die as Plane Crashes Near Chattanooga
A military plane crash in strong storms near Chattanooga killed Maj. Gen. Paul W. Newgarden, two colonels, and at least two others. Capt. Lester M. Nichols said the group was en route from Fort Knox to Augusta for a Camp Gordon troop review marking Gen. Newgarden’s second anniversary as commander. Col. Renn Lawrence and Col. Howard Clark were among the deceased. Newgarden was 54, a 35-year veteran and West Point graduate.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Paul W. Newgarden
10Th Armored Division
Here
Lester M. Nichols
Camp Gordon
Newgarden
Renn Lawrence
Fort Knox
Augusta
Sixth Corps
Chicago
Lawrence
Dairy Workers Ordered Back to Work in Detroit
The National War Labor Board ordered 600 striking workers from five Detroit dairies to return to work on Monday. It warned that if the stoppage continued, further steps would be taken, potentially including referral to the White House. The AFL strike halted milk deliveries to about 80,000 Detroit families as the WLB also urged Teamsters national leaders to intervene.
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Detroit
National War Labor Board
White’ House
AFL
WLB
Teamsters
Reign of Terror Marked Nazi Brutality Across Europe
Washington reports a Nazi reign of terror intensifying as defeat nears. Secretary Hull cites mass killings and atrocity waves in Greece and Hungary, including Distomo where over 1,000 people were killed. Pell warns Germany may aim to destroy neighbors while still strong.
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Herbert Claiborne Pell
Grecian
Distomo
Hungary
Hull
Hull denounces Nazi terror in Europe and Hungary
Hull warned of the reign of terror the Nazis have instigated in Europe and said the puppet Hungarian government violates basic human rights. He asserted the United States will not slacken efforts to rescue as many as possible and cited reports of a million Jews in Hungary facing death at German hands.
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Europe
Hull
United States
Hungary
Germany
Automakers resist postwar car redesigns plan
Washington July 15 wartime board meeting shows top executives refuse to start new postwar designs while war work dominates. They say resuming civilian production on 1942 models would be impossible after Germany falls, and WPB plans to permit experimental postwar models. Output goals and truck restrictions shape near term prospects.
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Washington
America
War Production Board Advisory Committee
WPB
Automobile Industry Advisory Committee
Germany
L. R. Boulware
WPBE
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Starving Japanese Forces Seek Escape in New Guinea
Allied headquarters report two starvation threatened Japanese forces trying to break the encirclement in New Guinea. One group fights to breach, another seeks jungle escape as American outposts halt an 18th Army breakthrough near Driniumor River. Remnants retreat toward inland jungles from Sarmi Maffin Bay. Sanar airfield falls under Allied control with minor resistance.
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New Guinea
18Th
Imperial Army
Driniumor River
Aitape
British New Guinea
Sarmi- Maffin Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Sanar
Maffin Bay
Driniumer
Turin
Pacific
Actress Joan Blondell Divorces Dick Powell
In Los Angeles on July 15 an eight year Hollywood marriage ended as Actress Joan Blondell and singer Dick Powell were divorced on cruelty grounds.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Joan" Blondel
Dick Powell
Goebbels Hints At Easier Terms In Nazi Propaganda
An article in Das Reich attributed to Paul Joseph Goebbels suggests both sides seek peace and calm, seen by the US OWI as urging Britain and the United States to soften demands for unconditional surrender. Berlin radio and AP reports note Bolshevism’s aim for unrest, while Das Schwarze Korps warns the war’s grim new phase.
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Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
U. S. Office of War Information
United States
Britain
Das Reich
Berlin
Soviet Union
Associated Press
Goebbels
American Troops Close On Livorno Seaport
Allied forces pressed toward Livorno as German resistance ebbed with Chianni and other inland towns captured. Fifth Army neared the Arno River while French units seized Poggibonsi in a broad push. Prisoner numbers exceeded 32,000 for Fifth Army. air forces claimed multiple enemy planes down.
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Rome
Livorno
Chianni
Fifth Army
Arno
Ghizzano
Arno River
Villamagna
Poggibonsi
U. S
Belvedere
Era Valley
Arno Valley
Eighth Army
Florence
Pisa
Apennine
Mediterranean
Brod
Yugoslavia
Budapest
CIO Convention Deliberates Politics in Grand Rapids
Michigan CIO Council at its seventh annual convention approved the national CIO political program and endorsed a proposed $1 per member contribution to the political action committee. About 1,600 delegates heard KR J. Thomas urge unity behind Roosevelt and predicted Wallace’s renomination. The plan would split the $1 between national and state PAC funds.
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Grand Rapids
Michigan Cio Council
CIO
National Cio
Political Action Committee
Michigan
KR. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers
Roosevelt
Wallace
Auto Workers
Chinese Prepare to Attack Lungling in Yunnan Province
Chinese High Command reports forces attacking from north east and south on Lungling Burma road stronghold. Five hills seized and about 100 enemy killed as Chinese reach three sides of Yunnan city. Other units take two more fortifications before Tengchung while Japanese reinforcements arrive from Lungling. Chinese aim to join Stilwell in north Burma and reopen land supply to China.
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Chungking
Burma
Lungling
Yunnan
Tengchung
Salween
Stilwell
China
Livestock Sales Ad Listed for Adrian Michigan
Tuesday July 18 livestock sale in Adrian Michigan listed by Al Linehan Jr auctioneers. Advertisement directs readers to Market Page for full details.
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Adrian
Michigan
al Linehan, Jr
Reds Open New Drive in Poland
German and Soviet clash as Red Army launches major southern Poland offensive extending toward Lwow and Brest Litovsk. German defenses rise in Grodno Bialystok Kaunas Daugavpils as Russians push toward Memel Riga and Kaunas threatening East Prussia.
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Daugai
Novaya Ruda
East Prussia
Wilno
Pinsk
REDS
Poland
London
Junker
Red Army
Tarnopol
Lwow
Luck
Lublin
Warsaw
Brest-Litovsk
Moscow
Pripyat. T
Grodno
Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Baltic
Kaunas
Daugavpils
Velikaya River
Middle Baltics
Pripyat
Europe
Konigsberg
Riga
Bagramian
Lithuania
Estonia
Baltic Sea
Memel
Cherniakhovsky
Germany
Latvia
State police to rule radio station silence plan
Lansing July 15 Capt Donald S Leonard State Civilian Defense director said the army has transferred to the state police responsibility for spreading the radio silence order in event of an enemy air attack. The prior plan of key stations broadcasting the order is abandoned. Radio silence shuts off commercial broadcasts and all but vital public safety broadcasts to prevent enemy planes from using signals to reach a target.
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Lansing
Donald S. Leonard
Army
Leonard
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Caen
Esquay
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Aure
Aid Balleroy
Tessy
Gen. Roosevelt
Sound of War
IAP
U.S. Task Force
Woleai
Nee
Truk
Reign of Terror
Hitler
Gestapo
Cordell Hull
Das Schwarze Korps
Italy
Bastille Day
Russia
Manipur Hills
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Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Manipur
India
Chindwin
Ukhrul
Maoku
Humine
Lord Mountbatten
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