Byrnes And Barkley Cut Into Wallace's Convention Support
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes and Senator Alber Barkley intensify efforts to secure delegates for Henry Wallace at Chicago amid Roosevelt’s cautious public support. Roosevelt letter reiterates the convention must decide. Wallace backers rush to bolster prospects before Thursday’s balloting and Roosevelt’s radio address.
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Byrnes
Barkley
Wallace
Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Alber Barkley
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt
Bombers Hit German Rocket Labs At Peenemunde
An American air armada of 1000 plus heavy bombers and fighters attacked eastern Germany and its Baltic coast targets including Peenemunde and Zinnowitz, where rocket development occurred. Allied raids from Italy and England swept the Normandy front in the largest air display since D Day, with over 3,000 sorties flown and 24 German planes downed.
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London
Germany
Peenemunde
Zinnowitz
Reich
Italy
England
Normandy
Britain
Baltic
Biggest U S ships lay fire on Guam in 13th day of action
U S Pacific Fleet reports heavy bombardment of Guam from Pearl Harbor with America's largest battleships, cruisers, and destroyers targeting shore defenses. Carrier planes followed with rocket and fire bomb strikes as the assault marked 13 days of action since July 4. Nimitz notes minimal Japanese resistance and near elimination of Guam garrisons. American losses limited to one dive bomber.
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U. S
Guam
U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
America
Pacific
Adm
Nimitz
Saipan
Marianas
Japan
Tojo and his circle tighten grip on Japan war effort
The Associated Press reports Japan’s military leadership remains under Hideki Tojo as Admiral Shimada is shifted within the navy, retaining power while Tojo also becomes army chief. The Saipan defeat exposes tensions, but the cabinet stays Tojo-led with Nomura as new navy minister.
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Associated Press
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Saipan
Shigetaro Shimada
Tojo
Shimada
Navy
U. S
Army
Shhief
Naokuni Nomura
Prohibition Party Meets in Michigan State Conven tion
Lansing July 18 members of the Michigan Prohibition party convened to unite with temperance agencies and aid other parties in harmony with temperance goals. Henry F Brown secretary urged not to nominate in districts with suitable incumbents and to become the balance of power by backing men who share their views even if they do not bear their insignia.
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Lansing
Michigan Prohibition Party
Henry F. Brown
Michigan
American Temperance Society
Dems Hear Platform Demands for Quick War Agency Elimination
Democratic platform drafters faced calls for rapid postwar abolition of War Labor Board, Manpower Commission, and Wage Stabilization Act. Senator Truman urged a concise, frank platform while race policy splits surfaced among southern delegates. Legion and Farm Bureau voices shaped foreign policy and postwar needs, and immigration limits tied to unemployment goals.
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Chicago
War Labor Board
The
Manpower Commission
John R. Suman
National Association of Manufacturers
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Truman
Platform Committee
Negro Association
American Farm Bureau Federation
CIO
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
National Citizens Political Action Committee
John W. McCormack
Joseph O’mahoney
Wyoming
Carl Hatch
New Mexico
Claude Pepper
Florida
Hatch
NBC
United States
Association of Nations
American Legion
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Platform Group
Legion
Germans Yield Ground Around St Lo In Breakout
Allied forces report German lines guarding St Lo collapsed suddenly today as American troops surged into outskirts of the ruined town. Don Whitehead notes doughboys pressed forward from Ste Croix area and within 200 yards of the Periers road amid fierce counterattacks. British units on the right flank push to strengthen the Odon salient.
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St. Lo
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Ste. Croix
Periers
Odon
Logie to testify in graft trial defense opens case
Mason July 18 Senator Jerry T Logie Bay City Republican today will be the first defendant in the legislative graft trial to take the witness stand in his own defense His counsel Benjamin F Watson said Logie will deny all charges that he accepted a 400 bribe in 1939 to influence finance company legislation He will contend he met Maj Charles F Hemans only once on the street conducted no business with him and never received an envelope alleged to contain a 304 bribe
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Charles F. Hemans
Logie
Hemans
Wounded Clinton Soldier Is Hospitalized in England
Lt Robert Robison of the U S Air Forces in England is hospitalized with facial and neck injuries from flak on a recent mission. He has served in Italy and Africa and has been in England since June 1. He has earned the Purple Heart and Air Medal with Clusters. Paul Palmer, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest L Palmer, with the Eighth Air Force in England, has been awarded the Air Medal for bravery in action.
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Clinton
Samuel Robison
Robert Robison
U. S. Air Forces
England
Robison
Italy
Africa
United States
Britton
Ernest L. Palmer
Paul
Eighth Air Force
New Officer Heads Jap General Staff
Gen Yoshijiro Umezu is named chief of the Japanese Army General Staff, succeeding a post held by Premier Hideki Tojo. Umezu, formerly commander of the Kwantung Army and ambassador to occupied Manchuria, takes a key position amid Japan’s high command changes. Tojo remains premier and war minister, with the broadcast noting Japan’s renewed call to unity as Saipan falls.
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New York
Yoshijiro Umezu
Hideki Tojo
Umezu
Japan
Kwantung Army
Manchuria
Tojo
Army General Staff
High Command
High Command Dropped Field Marshal Gen
Sugiyama
Saipan
Tokyo
United States
Britain
Marianas
Six Acres of Wheat Burn Near Britton
A Britton fire squad fought a blaze at the Curtis farm five miles northeast of Britton Saturday afternoon. A wheat combine burning destroyed six acres of wheat while Henry Mueller and John Walper owned the farm and wheat destroyed.
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Britton
Curtis Farm
Henry Mueller
John Walper
Red Army poised for greatest offensive in three years
Moscow dispatch reports signs the Red Army is ready to launch a major operation across the front from the Baltic to the Danube. Soviet units push near Grodno and Bialystok while gunfire and artillery push toward East Prussia, with Zakharov’s Second White Russian army crossing the Nieman.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Russia
Pripyat
Old Poland
Lwow
Galati
Romania
Carpathians
Danube
Baltics
Brest-Litovsk
Bialystok
Warsaw
Bug
Stalin
Suwalki Triangle
East Prussia
Grodno
Izvestia
Sviloch
Nieman
Lunnel
Eydtkuhnen
G. F. Zakharov
Syiloch
America First asks Dewey quit for Bricker to win
The America First Party urges Democratic nominating Senator Burton Wheeler for president and asks Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York to step aside so Governor Bricker can be the victorious candidate. Gerald L. K. Smith leads a rally of about a thousand delegates calling for volunteers to distribute anti Wal lace literature. Wheeler rejects the party’s support, stating he is not a candidate.
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America First Party
Dewey
Bricker
Chicago
Wheeler-Bricker
Gerald L. K. Smith
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Butte
Mont
Gerald Smith
Wheeler
Germans Shoot 33 More Allied Flyers, War Secretary Says
London July 18 British War Secretary Sir James Grigg told Commons that Germans have shot 33 more Allied flyers. In 27 cases the men were alleged to have been shot while attempting escapes. three killings’ circumstances were not disclosed. Foreign Secretary Eden had said 50 captured flyers had been shot, and protests are lodged through the Swiss protecting power with action by the War Crimes Commission.
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London
James Grigg
Commons
Anthony Eden
James
British Protecting Power
Switzerland
War Criminals’ Commission
H. W. i Burton
Barracks Fall Around Navy Man at Port Chicago
Floyd L. Scott a 19 year old naval painter from Baltimore describes the Port Chicago depot explosion that collapsed barracks housing 1500 men and triggered a massive barrage of high explosives and shrapnel. fellow crews including Jesse Anderson and Nils Anderson recount dazing blasts injuries and near destruction of ships and offices.
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Jesse Anderson
Nils Anderson
Coast Guard
Chinese offensives reported in Honan and Hankow region
Chinese press reports say a counter drive begins along the Peiping Hankow railway and a sweep toward Canton Hankow lines in Hunan. They claim to hold Hengyang and strike toward Leiyang near Hengyang while other reports note air combat with Raiders shot down five and damaged three. Japanese forces face shortages as the axis falters south of Ukhrul in eastern India.
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Chungking
Peiping-Hankow
Canton-Hankow
Hunan
Honan
Kioshan
Hankow
Hengyang
Leiyang
Kweilin
Kwangsi Province
Stilwell
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Ukhrul
India
Wallace in Seclusion Amid Roosevelt Ticket Maneuvers
Vice President Wallace, key figure in Democratic convention talks over a second Roosevelt ticket spot, went strictly incommunicado in Washington. An aide said he was inaccessible, with indications he might head to Chicago tonight or tomorrow depending on unfolding developments.
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Senate
Alben Barkley
Chicago
Roosevelt
Washington
Wallace
Capital
Wardman Park
Port Chicago blast devastates California naval depot
A massive explosion at Port Chicago near Port Chicago, California, killed an estimated 200 to 250 Navy personnel with hundreds more injured. Two ships destroyed, two small vessels lost, and Port Chicago town wrecked by fire and debris. Civilian casualties uncertain. evacuation ordered as Mare Island yard and nearby towns rush aid.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Calif
Port Chicago
Port
San Francisco
Navy
J. R. Thornton
Solano County
James N.'Long
Contra
Costa County
Naval Depot
Mare Island Navy Yard
Red Cross
Martinez
Coast Guard
Theater Audience Survives Port Chicago Explosion Scene
The Port Chicago theater owner reported operating the projector when an ammunition ship explosion shook the town during a war film. A wall collapsed, windows shattered, and homes and the railway station suffered damage, but the audience escaped with only minor injuries. Local agent L P Brooks and family suffered minor cuts and bruises.
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Port Chicago
Calif
Joe Meyer
Southern Pacific
L. P. Brooks
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Iowa
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Hyde Park
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Maryland
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New Jersey
Joseph Guffey
Pennsylvania
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Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
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Gang Stalf
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