Russians Chase Nazis in Poland
London reports the Red Army capturing Lida 95 miles west of Minsk and advancing toward Wilno as German forces retreat in disorder across Poland and Lithuania. Stalin praised the advance credited to Gen. Cherniakhovsky's White Russian Army with a 12 salvo salute. Northwest of Wilno, Red Army units push toward Kaunas as German defenses crumble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red
Lida
Minsk
East Prussia
Old Poland
Lithuania
Wilno
Vilna
Stalin
Baranowicze
Kowel
Grodno- Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Moscow
Lwow
Lublin
Baltic
Kaunas
Cherniakhovsky
Vassily Stalin
Sovie
Alon
Ivan D. Cherniakohovsky
Bombers Strike German Oil Centers From Britain and Italy
About 1,000 U S heavy bombers with fighter escorts attacked European targets from the west and south. RAF and U S air units pounded tours bridges and Chateaudun airfields while Fifteenth Air Force hit Ploesti refineries and the Concordia Vega refinery in Romania. Rockets and fighters supported Caen operations, with significant destruction of locomotives and rolling stock in France and reports of air activity over East Prussia and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U. S
Hitler
Europe
Normandy
Ttle
Tours
France
Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Ploesti
Britain
Pas de Pleis
Piepesen Tere Iiald
Manteonaun
Paris
Chateaudun
Pas de Ois
Fichter
East Prussia
West Germany
Federal Communications Commission
Caen
Orleans
Rennes
Concordia-Vega
Romania
Xenia
Pas de Calais
Rain Delays Plains Wheat Harvest Across Panhandle
Rain fell across the Panhandle last night delaying wheat cutting and loosening stalks. Amarillo reported .09 inches with Claude and Hereford also receiving measurable totals, while Clarendon had a trace and Dumas about .10 inches.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Clarendon
Gage
Lubbock
Pampa
Clovis
Claude
Hereford
Dumas
Dimmitt
Plainview
Canadian
Dalhart
Texico
U S Spy Tracks Philippine Guerrilla Network
German routed dispatch claims an American agent kept contact with the U S and Australia via a Mindoro Island radio station near Manila Bay for two years after Japan’s occupation. It names Blanco Jurka as head of a large guerrilla corps and Charles Parson as a leader who organized 100 agents from several nations.
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London
Transocean
Tokyo
United States
Australia
Manila Bay
Philippines
Blanco Jurka
Charles Parson
Mindoro Island
U.S. A
Weather Summary Amarillo and West Texas Regions
Partly cloudy with late afternoon and evening thunder showers in Amarillo area and vicinity. West Texas shows scattered thunder showers west of Pecos River with warmer conditions in the Panhandle. Tuesday expects fair weather. New Mexico reports scattered afternoon and early evening showers and thunderstorms with little temperature change. Sunrise 6 41 AM, sunset 9 02 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos River
Panhandle
New Mexico
Stepfather Held After Fatal Family Tragedy Near Amarillo
Ruth Waroff, 23, killed in a family quarrel at a Haight farm near the U S Helium plant Amarillo. Step-father A W Haight, 67, wounded himself with a knife while officers tried to jail him and faces murder charges. Hugh Haight, 16, fought back and took control of a gun and knife during the struggle. Ruth Waroff worked at the Texas Company Refinery. Haight formerly lived near Sonye and was a longtime Rock Island conductor. The body lies at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.
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Ruth Waroff
Northwest
Texas
A. W. Haight
Sheriff's Department
Bill Adams
Dick Vaughn
Jim Lumpkin
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
Haight
U.S
Hugh
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
Sheriff's Office
Adams
Amarillo
Northwest Texas
Texas Company
Soney
Canada
N. M
Rock Island Railroad
Susan
Alfred
Hereford
Waroff
Saipan victory boosts Pacific campaign and casualties
Admiral Nimitz announced Saipan fell after a four week campaign in the southern Marianas. Japanese losses include at least 58 ships and 900 planes with over 11,500 soldiers killed. Carrier air operations continued against Guam and Rota while the fight shifts to remaining Japanese forces.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Fears Harbor
Saipan
Japan
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas Islands
Central
Western Pacific
Nimitz
Gilbert Or
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Guam
Rota
Two Chin Up Girls Tie In War Bond Balloting
War Bond voting in Amarillo boosts E Bond totals by over 10000 while two wives of deployed servicemen tie for first place as Chin Up Girls Mrs Eisenberg and Mrs Byrd each surpass 500000 votes and receive equal first prize shares. Third place goes to Mrs Whitaker with over 350000 votes.
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Chichie Eisenberg
Aileen Byrd
Amarillo
Elizabeth Whitaker
Col. E. A. Simpson
Guy Saunders
Jack King
Eisenberg
Byrd
Whitaker
Amarillo Clearing House Association
Interstate
Blackburn Bros
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo Gas Co
Diamond Shop
Zale’s Jewelry
Mission Jewelry and Loan Co
Furr Food Stores
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Santa Fe Railway
KGNC
Neal's Restaurant
Globe News
American Legion
John Eisenberg
Italy
Red Cross
Leroy Byrd
al Whitaker
The
Lions Club
Irene Watson
Purr Food Stores
Bettie Brady
San Jacinto Kiwanis Club
Gwendolyn Alvarez
North Amarillo Kiwanis Club
Bernice Arnold Dashier
Bonita Cazzell Newby
Irene Parks
ABC Club
Rosalie Daley
Estelle Duncan
Downtown Kiwanis Club
Willadean Gochnauer
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Jessie George
Optimist Club
Fifth Army Near Port of Leghorn
Fifth Army reports capture of Volterra cutting a key mountain road hub toward Livorno. Allied advance stalls against German counter attacks while fires rage in Livorno. Italian forces with Poles seize Filottrano near Ancona as British Eighth Army pushes toward Arezzo. Caen falls after 36 hours of heavy fighting. western front advances in Normandy continue with Bradley’s forces near Le Haye du Puits.
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Rome
Volterra
Livorno
Leghorn
Tyrrhenian
Pisa
Florence
Rimini
90Th Armored Grenadier
Fifth
Rosignano
Eighth Army
Filottrano
Adriatic
Ancona
Monte Castiglion Maggion
Arezzo
Tiber River
Montone
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Normandy
la Haye du Purts
Paris
el Alamein
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
North Africa
Orne
St. Jean de Daye
Omar N. Bradley
le Haye du Puits
la Haye
Biak Clean Up Kills 213 Japs
Allied forces on Biak Island report 213 Japanese dead in the first week of July during ongoing mop up operations. Since the Biak campaign began May 27 total Japanese casualties reach 3,268. Three airfields built by Japan on Biak have been captured and at least one is in use. Liberators patrol and damage a 1,000-ton Japanese merchantman near the Kai Islands.
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New Guinea
Biak
Schouten Islands
Dutch New Guinea
Philippines
Western New Guinea
Australia
Kai Islands
Roosevelt Churchill report on U Boat actions in June 1944
The Roosevelt Churchill report says Hitler's submarine fleet failed in June 1944. U boats could not stop the Allied invasion or hinder supply to the European army. Submarines concentrated west of the invasion, but countermeasures rendered their efforts ineffective. The statement notes doubt about a possible U boat victim and mentions a merchant ship possibly sunk by mine or submarine.
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Roosevelt- Churchill
Hitler
United Nations
Europe
Victory Over U Boats Complete
Roosevelt and Churchill announced June 1944 saw Hitler’s submarine fleet fail across the board. UK and US coastal air and surface forces hunted U boats as thousands of Allied ships moved to Normandy, with almost no merchant vessels sunk.
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Atlantic
United Nations
Normandy
Europe
Nazis Boast of New Sea Weapon Reports From Berlin and Paris
London reports German radio claimed Allied battleship was hit and beached off the Orne estuary in Normandy while Paris radio boasted sinking ten Allied ships in ten minutes with a new weapon. Allied HQ denied knowledge of any new naval weapon.
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London
Orne
Normandy
Paris
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Courbet
France
Berlin
Burglars Fail to Loot Bailey Home on Third Try
The Leslie Baileys at 802 Johnson Street report three burglary attempts. Robbers disturbed drawers and furniture but left after two-dollar bills and silver coins worth about $100 were taken in the night. A penny collection remained untouched.
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Leslie Baileys
Johnson Street
Baileys
Hitler Cohorts Assume Front Roles in France Campaign
Swiss report says SS troops placed in charge of anti French partisans operations freeing regular army units for frontline duty. Von Kluege strengthens SS with 3000 Gestapo men amid Rundstedt retirement. Rommel’s actions require approval from the commander in chief.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Guenther von Kluge
Gestapo
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt
Erwin Rommel
Rundstedt
Kluege
Amarillo Dentist Promoted to Major in Laredo Base
Dr. Eugene Gibbon former Amarillo dentist receives promotion to major at his military base in Laredo. He practiced dentistry in Amarillo for about five years before entering service over two years ago. His wife is Viola Ruth Hawkins and his mother Mrs J B Gil lives at 1008 Lincoln Street.
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Eugene Gibbon
Amarillo
Laredo
Armed Service
Major Gibbon
Viola Ruth Hawkins
J. B. Gil
Lincoln Street
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Poland
England
Dover Strait
Palmiro Togliatti
Ing
India
Burma
China
China Coast
Manila
John H. Hoover
Hengyang
Liling
Canton Front
Caen and
Fifth Army
Port of
Smith
Wheeler
Chicago
Gerald L. K. Smith
America First Party
Democrats
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Eeeee
Lci
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Norway
Coastal Command
New Sea
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