Yanks Push Deep as Allied Forces Break Through Normandy Front
Allied forces pressed six miles along the Normandy coast amid heavy fighting around Caen and Carentan. British and American units reported gains on both flanks, with American advances toward Lessay and the Vire River, while German counterattacks failed to halt the advance and many enemy dead and prisoners were counted.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary
Rahe
Siance
Normandy Battlefront
Caen
Orna Diate Ja ‘River
la Haye du Puits
Lessay
St. Jean de Daye
Carentan
Louvigny
Orne River
Seine River
Orne
Normandy
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Ameri
St. Lo
Vire
Pont- Hebert
St. Je
la Haye
Vaucelles
Herouville
Isola
Germany War Economy Near Hopeless, FEA Says
The Foreign Economic Administration warned that Germany faces likely defeat in 1944 or 1945 as Allied bombers ground forces and blockades deplete war material. The analysis notes Germany has consumed nearly three years of production in three years and now relies on a bare supply base.
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Washington
Germany
Foreign Economic Administration
William T. Stone
FEA
Prussia
Turkey
Spain
Portugal
Russia
Finland
Escaped prisoner complains of faulty jail bars
William Horton admits escaping from Mundfordville jail after urging the jailer to replace two missing bars. He slipped from a defective cell window and extended his absence into a four day furlough before capture in Louisville. He blames the jailer for the lapse.
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Louisville
U.P
William Horton
Mundfordville
Horton
Revolt in Venezuela and Argentine Parade Alarm
From Caracas the Colombian embassy reported a radio broadcast saying Lt. Col. Diogenes Gil’s force seized President Alfonso Lopez and cabinet members in Colombia and that Gil acted as de facto leader. In Santiago the Siglo warned that Argentine Alpine troops parading in Buenos Aires threaten Chile and urged severing relations.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Bogota
Diogenes Gil
Alfonso Lopez
Colombia
Gil
Santiago
Chile
Siglo
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Liberator Bombers Hit Sorong Yap And Palau Bases
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports Liberator bombers from the South Pacific attacked airdromes near Sorong in Dutch New Guinea and bombed Yap and Palau in the Caroline Islands. They dropped 43 tons on Jerman airdrome at Sorong with no anti aircraft fire or interceptions.
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New Guinea
South Pacific
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Yap
Palau
Carolines
Jerman
Noemfoor
Geelvink Bay
Manokwari
Bumper Grain Forecast Tops Farm Report
The Agriculture Department predicts record crops for 1944 with a bumper wheat crop of 1.128 billion bushels and a corn crop of 2.98 billion. Wheat would top all prior years except 1942, while the corn figure ranks near the top in history. Weather varies by region, with southeast shortages and western good growing conditions noted. John Welch returns to his snack stand post vacation and Harley Holton runs the kiosk in his absence.
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Washington
New York
Texas
West
Southwest
Kansas
Oklahoma
Welch
Joe John Welch
Court House
Harley Holton
Russians Press Forward Near East Prussia Front
Russian drives push through the Pripyat Marshes shrinking the Nazi line toward Memel and Dvinsk Kaunas and Daugavpils rail corridor. Wilno sees fierce hand to hand fighting as German defenses crumble in a widening Baltic push.
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London
Luniniec
Slonim
Brest-Litovsk
Bilyastok
Old Poland
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Kaunas
Baltic Sea
Moscow
East Prussia
Wilno
Lovell
Stalin
Luninets
Solnim
Pinsk
Pripyat
Polesie
Utena
Lithuania
Memel
Hitler
Latvia
Ivan C. Bagramian
Baltic
Vetna
Georgia
Bar
Luninice
Balystok
Warsaw
Moscow Radio
Volkovsyk
Bialystok
Rail Board Asks Refrigerator Cars To Move Exposed Panhandle Grain
Texas Railroad Commission urged use of refrigerator cars to transport Panhandle wheat to shelter it from weather. Telegraphs sent to federal officials demand urgent action as harvest peaks. Kansas City permit system for new crop wheat slows movement while Amarillo receipts show variability amid car shortages.
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Rail Board
Panhandle
Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Office of Defense Transportation
Secretary of Agriculture
War Foods Administrator
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas Panhandle
Kansas City
Board of Trade
Amarillo
D. A. Adams
Plainview
Cooperative Extension
High Plains
Adams
Nazis Denied Use of Roads
Allied air forces have driven the Germans from daytime road use in Normandy with fighter bombers targeting front lines. Only a few vehicles appeared in daylight on key routes as weather limited British flights. Night raids by RAF Mosquitoes destroyed trains, with sixty trains wrecked in the past four nights as communications lines face ongoing pressure.
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London
Normandy
Alencon-Argentan
Caen
Britain
Eisenhower cautions against too much Allied optimism
General Eisenhower warned that long, bitter fighting lies ahead on the European front. He praised Caen’s capture and the Normandy push but stressed no spectacular gains are guaranteed, predicting strenuous combat and heavy losses while noting weather and coordination issues affected Allied operations. He met with Halifax and praised Allied unity, and commented on the Wilno Russian victory and German morale risks.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Caen
Normandy
Gestapo
England
Tobruk
Russia
Africa
Italy
France
Pacific
London
Halifax
Harl Halifax
United States
Roosevelt
Washington
Wilno
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas region
Partly cloudy through Tuesday and Wednesday with little temperature change. Showers and thunderstorms expected in Panhandle South Plains and east of Pecos Tuesday afternoon and evening. In New Mexico scattered showers and thunderstorms east Tuesday with a chance elsewhere. Temperatures range from the upper 60s to mid 80s with a 24 hour precipitation of 0.29 inches. Sunrise 6:41 AM. Sunset 7:93 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos River
New Mexico
Navy shells Guam after Saipan gains in Marianas
U S Pacific Fleet reports Saipan secured and moves to Guam and Rota. Pearl Harbor dispatch says light cruisers and destroyers bombarded Guam and Rota over the weekend while carrier planes attacked the islands. Japanese bases in the Carolines also rendered useless by repeated bombing.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan Island
Guam
Rota Islands
Saipan
Marianas
Rota
Carolines
Plains Historians Name Group To Direct Expanding Program
More than 50 directors of the enlarged Panhandle Plains Historical Society elected a five man executive committee at a Canyon meeting. The new directors include John McCarty Floyd Studer H C Pipkin J Evetts Haley and John O Colquitt. The panel will lead a museum expansion a publicity drive a finance campaign and broader membership.
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Panhandle-Plains
J. H. Hamlin
J. A. Hill
Texas
L. F. Sheffy
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