Allies open strong assault in Normandy with twin drives
British Canadian tanks and infantry pierced into Caen area while American First Army advanced under heavy air and artillery support. Montgomery pushed toward Falaise on a four mile front as British Troarn faced German resistance. Allies warned the drive had limited objectives and emphasized a renewed offensive ending a four day stalemate.
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Berlin
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France
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Falaise
May-sur-Orne
Verrieres
Tilly-la-Campagne
Vimont
Paris
Troarn
le Havre
Planes Blast Path For Troops
Allied air forces deployed about 3000 bombers fighters and support aircraft against German positions at both Normandy fronts to clear the way for American British and Canadian ground forces. RAF night raids targeted Stuttgart Berlin Frankfurt Aachen and northern France while mine laying and shipping strikes continued in the Channel. 25 planes reported missing and two lost in an oil storage attack in France. Heavy bombers preceded the northern thrust toward the Lessay Periers St Lo line.
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Normandy Battle Front
Normandy
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Berlin
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Aachen
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English Channel
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la Hogue Wood
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July Drouth Hits Michigan Hardest in Years
DETROIT July 25 GP The July drouth in Michigan is the most severe recorded in many years says F H Pearson head of the Detroit observatory of the Weather Bureau. Rainfall during July is .48 inch against 3.32 inches on average. Storms have moved northward reducing precipitation. The last rain was June 23 with three small showers since totaling under half an inch. Last July rainfall was six inches.
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Drouth
Michigan
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U- Weather Bureau
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Mexican Youth Beaten Thought Victim of Ride
Victor Lara a 15 year old Mexican of 236 Nelson Street was found at Fred Winkler’s home on the Acad emily road with cuts and bruises and semi conscious. He is believed to have been taken for a ride. Sheriff’s deputies transported him to Emma L. Bixby hospital for treatment and an interpreter, his uncle Joseph Valdez, was to assist in the investigation tomorrow.
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Fred Winkler
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Emma L. Bixby Hospital
Joseph Valdez
Inquest On 9 Year Old Electrocuted At Farm
The inquest into the death of Tommy Hess nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Clare Hess of 561 Dennis Street was adjourned yesterday and will resume today after Prosecutor L J Hammond investigates the scene at the Ray Mangus farm near Highland Beach Inn Devils Lake Testimony from 10 year old Johnny Wernescher described Tommy grabbing a live fence strand as he prepared to climb through a fence on a frog hunting trip Johnny warned him the fence was electrified Mangus the farm owner said the dry cell battery powering the fence was worn and he later connected the fence to 110 volt current with a bulb in series to reduce the current He tested the wire and felt only a slight shock
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Clare M. Hess
Dennis Street
L.J. Hammond
Ray Mangus
Highland Beach Inn
Devils Lake
Johnny Wernescher
Loledo
Tommy
Johnny
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Mangus
No Idle Combines If There is Legal Remedy Lenawee County
Mills says no idle combines if legal remedy exists. Farmers with worn tires received aid. small tractor tire quota boosted on appeal, certificates issued for automobile tires usable on tractors, harvest ongoing. Albert Smith of Deerfield received a tire certificate after reporting a six inch blowout. Tecumseh dealer offered a six ply tire on a grade I certificate.
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Lenawee County
Frank A. Mills
Albert Smith
Deerfield
Tecumseh
Stimson to Address Nation From Washington Tonight
War Secretary Stimson will speak to the nation at 10 15 p m Eastern War Time from Washington on his latest trip to the European war fronts.
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Washington
Stimson
July Fire Auction in the Village Held Near Market
A notice from the village lists a July auction at a location near Market Place, with details suggesting a sale of goods or property. The fragment notes two miles from the village and references nearby roads, but specifics are unreadable.
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Progress smooth on Guam Tinian invasion advances
Allied troops advance on Guam and Tinian as Ma rianas airfield gains a third captured. Casualties mount on Saipan and New Guinea actions press the enemy. Admiral Nimitz says the situation is well in hand while MacArthur reports renewed Japanese lunges near Aitape.
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Tinian
New Guinea
China
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U. S
Nimitz
Agana
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MacArthur
Aitape
Japs Say Navy Will Fight At Proper Time
Radio Tokyo said Japan will not strike now despite U S fleet task forces near the Marianas 1500 miles from Japan. Naval commentator Masanori Ito said Japan lacks air power and will attack after a cool assessment of strength and geography. In the Marianas battles, Japan lost 747 planes and over 30 ships in June.
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Tinian
New Guinea
U. S
Marianas
Japan
Masanori Ito
Ito
Marianas Sea
Saipan Casualties: 16,463 Americans Reported by Forrestal
Navy Secretary Forrestal announced that American casualties in the Saipan campaign totaled 16,463 with 3,049 killed, 13,049 wounded, and 365 missing. He said over 5,000 wounded have returned to duty and are aiding the assault on Tinian. Enemy dead were about 20,720 and 1,707 Japanese prisoners are reported, with 14,192 civilians interned. Governor Sumner Sewall to keynote Maine GOP convention August 1 in Grand Rapids.
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Navy
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Western Pacific
Marianas
Tinian Island
Tinian
Hitler Names Goering Chairman Of Home Defense Mobilization
Adolf Hitler appoints Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering as chairman of the Reich defense council and orders total mobilization of war resources in Germany and occupied areas. Goebbels named to oversee the total war effort, while Himmler is noted as commander of the home army after the assassination attempt.
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Goering
London
Adolf Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Council For Defense of the Reich
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Reich
Heinrich Himmler
Home Army
Congress Not Ready For Peace Says Chavez
Senator Chavez urges Congress to reconvene August 1 for 60 days of full sessions amid war news in Europe. He notes only a blanket veterans aid bill and contract termination law passed, with postwar public works, veterans education, and unemployment insurance still pending.
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Washington
Europe
Chavez
D-Nm
Congress
Germany
25-pound catfish caught on fly rod at Evans lake
Gail Austin of Tecumseh Route 2 reeled in what authorities deem Evans lake's largest catfish, a 25 pound 36 inch specimen. The fish struck while trolling a four inch minnow and the 15 minute fight ended with its capture. Sherman Carey weighed the catfish at Walter Jayes state park on Wamplers lake.
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Gail Austin
Tecumseh
Route 2
Austin
Sherman Carey
Walter Jayes State Park
Wamplers Lake
Tipton Marine Back With Unit
Arthur Daniels reports his son Pfe. Eldred G. Daniels of the U S Marine Corps has recovered from wounds suffered in the Saipan invasion and is able to return to his unit. He was hit by fragments from a Japanese hand grenade and spent three days aboard a hospital ship for treatment.
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Arthur Daniels
Pfe. Eldred’ G. Daniels
U. S. Marine Corps
Saipan
Pfe. Daniels
Girls Who Aided Nazis Re-Arrested In Bay City Case
Two Shiawassee county girls Kitty Case and Shirley Cruce pleaded guilty on arraignment to aiding German prisoners of war to escape. They could not post bond and were remanded to Bay county jail. Re-arrested at Owosso on a conspiracy to defraud the War Department charge. Officials said no treason intent. district attorney called the act a juvenile delinquency escapade with a maximum two year penalty.
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Shiawassee County
U. S
Clarence J. Pettit
Kitty Case
Shirley Cruce
Bay County
Bric Clausen
Gottfried Hobel
Ray E. Gellatley
Owosso
War Department
Detroit
John C. Lehr
Lehr
Gandhi Called a Bamboozer in Lords Debate
In London the House of Lords heard Viscount Elibank call Mohandas K. Gandhi the greatest bamboozler in Eastern history. He said Gandhi had bamboozled Britons and hindered Indian independence, criticizing censorship and accusing Gandhi of personal safety starvation tactics to win sympathy and complicate the situation.
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Lord Elibank
House of Lords
Lord Strabaghi
Lord Wavell
India
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Gandhi
FDRs Message An Exception, WU Says
NEW YORK July 25 UP J. 1 Egan vice president of Western Union says President Roose velt s message of congratulations to Senator Truman constituted an exception to the ban on such messages during wartime and that Western Union was correct to accept it The message to Truman began with I send you my heartfest congratulations on your victory During the Republican convention Western Union refused a Willkie to Dewey telegram Egan said the President s message was sent from the White House on July 21 by a government operator over a private wire to the Western Union office in Washington He said the ban was set by executive order and if the President had authority to issue it he has authority to modify alter or rescind it
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J. 1 Egan
Western Union
Roosevelt
Truman
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Egan
White House
Washington
Argentina recalls ambassador Escobar amid Washington row
Washington reports the recall of Ambassador Adrian Escobar as Argentina deepens diplomatic rupture with the Farrell regime, prompting expectation of Buenos Aires statements. Observers note Argentina may extend non recognition policy while U S Hull prepares a brief, cautious public reply.
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Argentina
Adrian Escobar
Buenos Aires
Farrell
Escobar
U.S
Norman Armour
Hull
United States
WLB orders 700 Statler strikers to appear for hearing
Detroit July 25 1945 Donald W Haughton disputes director of the War Labor Board ordered 700 AFL employees at the Hotel Statler to appear at 11 am Wednesday for a hearing to show cause why they should not return to work. The action followed a strike that began last Thursday and a failure to comply with a WLB return to work order.
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Detroit
Donald W. Haughton
Regional War Labor Board
AFL
Statler
Fate of Jews in Hungary Hangs on Vatican Mediation
London reports say the fate of about 500000 Jews in Hungary rests on Regent Horthy with Vatican and Red Cross mediation cited as halting deportations. Pope may have pressed for evacuation rights to Palestine or neutral lands. Meanwhile mass killings and ghetto conditions worsen as the Red Army advances in Poland and German camps are described as the world’s largest abattoirs.
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Hungary
Nicholas Horthy
Vatican
International Red Cross
Horthy
Bern
Anthony Eden
Commons
Budapest
Ankara
Russians Break German Lines Near Warsaw Push
Soviet columns and tanks surged toward Warsaw from Lublin and Lukow as Red Army forces breached Poland. Stalin announced heavy German losses while Polish committees formed in liberated towns and recruiting offices opened.
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