German Nazi leadership consolidates total mobilization power
Adolf Hitler appoints Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels to supreme roles directing total mobilization. The decree gives Goering dictatorial control over public life in Germany and occupied territories while Goebbels acts as Reichs kommissar for war mobilization.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Occupied Territories
Hitler
Goering
Goebbels
German Reich
Junkers
Hore Front
Reich
Europe
Berlin
Transocean
Georg Schroeder
Occupied
British Yanks and Canucks Press Nazi Line in Normandy
Allied forces in Normandy opened a major offensive with Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley leading the American First Army breaking west of St Lo while British Canadian units push south of Caen. More than 3,000 American planes joined in a massive air assault as ground forces pressed through heavy resistance, capturing towns near Caen and May Sur Orne amid fierce hedgerow fighting along a four mile front.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
St. Lo
Cherbourg
Caen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Gurs
Orne
May-Sur- Orne
First Army
Second Army
U.S
Berlin
Bernard L. Montgomery
Route 13
Paris
Falaise
Orne River
Montgomery
Navy
Bradley
Erwin Rommel
St. Martin de Fontenay
Verrieres
Tily-a-Campagne
May-Sur-Orne
St. Martin
Rommel
Tinian
Guam
Nimitz
Apra Harbor
North Pacific
Ventura
Paramushiro
Kurile Islands
British New Guinea
Aitape
Marianas Push by U S Forces on Guam and Tinian
U S forces press the Marianas campaign with landings on Tinian and Guam. Marines and soldiers seize airfields and strategic hills as Japanese defenses stiffen. Navy leaders warn the struggle will be hard with heavy bombings and naval shelling continuing.
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Associated Press
Guam
Tinian
Western Pacific
U. S
Ushi Point
Orote Peninsula
Radio Tokyo
Nippon Naval
Marianas Islands
Navy
Forrestal
Saipan
Japan
Philippines
China
Adm
Ernest J. King
Nippon
Sea Navy
Tokyo
Red Armies Close on Visla as Warsaw Feels Pressure
Soviet forces report seven miles to the Visla with the push threatening to outflank Warsaw. Moscow says advances stretch 40 to 50 miles east of Warsaw as Lwow is surrounded and Daugavpils Riga rail line cut. Deblin crosses and Lublin region towns fall while German defenses crumble.
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London
Visla
Vistula
Warsaw
Lwow
Poland
Bialystok
Riga
Daugavpils
Latvia
Brest Litovsk
Stanislow
East Prussia
Lipsk
Moscow
Wisla
Deblin
Lublin
Hauffe
13Th
Daugavpils-Riga
Kurow
Pulawy
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Siedlice
One Polling Place for Potter County Second State Primary
Potter County will hold a compulsory second run off for state offices with a single polling site in the county courthouse. Absentee voting runs Aug 7 to Aug 22. ballots available at the county clerk's office.
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Bob Stone
Potter County
Democratic Executive Committee
Stone
Negroes Vote In Arkansas Primary Test
In Little Rock Arkansas negroes voted in the state Democratic preferential primary under a new rule meant to test loyalty criteria. J H McConico secretary of the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association received a ballot after officials verified his poll book entry and he pledged to support Democratic nominees. He forecast about 10 000 negro votes statewide.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
J. H. McConico
Arkansas Negro Democratic Association
McConico
June P. Wooten
Democratic Committee
Gossett Winner In Late Count
Complete returns from the 13th district show Rep. Ed Gossett winning Democratic renomination by 369 votes over State Senator George Moffett. The Texas Election Bureau tabulation lists Gossett 24 836 to 24 467. canvass next Saturday unlikely to change result. Runoffs loom for several seats. Beckworth and others win or head to August runoff. Field Marshal Kesselring reportedly wounded slightly but continued duties.
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Dallas
Ed Gossett
George Moffett
Chilicothe
Texas
Texas Election Bureau
Gossett
Moffett
Bureau of Texas
Richard Kleberg
John Lyle
Italy
J. M. Combs
Beaumont
Martin Dies
Nat Patton
Tom Pickett
Palestine
Joe Mansfield
L. J. Sulak
la Grange
Sam Russell
Clyde Garrett
Eastland
Beckworth
Coke Stevenson
Grover Sellers
Jesse E. Martin
Fort Worth
Richard Critz
Col
Gordon Simpson
Tyler
Supreme Court
Crutz
Wood County
Lindley Beckworth
D. S. Meredith, Jr
South Pacific
E. A. Martin
Longview
Meredith
Pickett
Patton
Andrew Brannen
Potter Demos pick delegates for governor convention
Potter County Democrats set a 4 pm meeting in the county courtroom next Saturday to select delegates to the state governor's convention in Dallas on September 12. Precinct conventions elected county delegates last Saturday at 2 pm across 27 precincts. The state convention certifies primary returns and shapes the governor race platform while naming members of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Potter County will have four votes based on 1942 general election ballot. Harris 105, Tarrant 16, Dallas 36, Bexar 32.
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Dallas
Potter County
Democratic Executive Committee
Harris County
Tarrant
Bexar
GOP Session Set for Potter County Convention
Potter County Republicans meet at 8 o clock Saturday night in the 108th district courtroom on the courthouse fourth floor for their annual convention. Harold Brady presides with Miss Ruthelle Bacon as secretary. Delegates and alternates to the State convention in Dallas on Aug 8 will be elected and nominees for office discussed. The event is open to the public with no drawing of party lines. Brady urged broad attendance.
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Potter County
108Th District
Harold Brady
Ruthelle Bacon
Dallas
Brady
Four of Every Thousand Wounded Die in Britain
Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley of the U S Medical Corps said the death rate among wounded American soldiers admitted to U S Army hospitals in Britain was four per thousand. He noted the rate in combat zone units was under three percent for the period from D Day June 6 to June 30.
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London
Paul R. Hawley
U. S. Medical Corps
U. S. Army
Britain
Bourbon Whisky Making Banned For War Production Holiday
Kentucky distilleries will suspend Bourbon production during the wartime holiday as a War Production Board order bans corn use. Albert B. Blanton, general manager of a major Kentucky distillery, commented on the measure.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
War Production Board
Albert B. Blanton
Kirkland Man Dies in South Dumas Tractor Crash
In DUMAS July 25 Special A Thomas Jr of Kirkland was killed when a tractor and pulled combine were struck by a loaded wheat truck at a bridge five miles south of Dumas. The truck driver Richard Lee Holder of Oklahoma City was held for investigation. The body was sent to Boxwell Bros Funeral Home in Amarillo awaiting family arrival.
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Dumas
C. A. Thomas, Jr
Kirkland
Boxwell Bros. Funeral Home
Amarillo
Thomas
Richard Lee Holder
Oklahoma City
D. C
U S Plans Non Partisan Course in Russo Polish Issue
Washington reports the United States will pursue a strictly non partisan line in the Russo Polish dispute over liberated Polish areas. Officials seek to avoid direct clashes with Britain and the Soviet Union. Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski of the Polish government in exile criticized the Soviet backed Polish committee as a Moscow puppet.
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Washington
United States
Poland
High Authority
Britain
Russia
State Department
Jan Ciechanowski
London
Hull
Ciechanowski
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Moscow
Planes Launch Largest Allied Bombardment Over Normandy
Allied warplanes unleashed a massive air assault ahead of the American advance in the western Normandy front. Over 1,500 heavy bombers and an equal number of medium and light bombers plus fighters dropped thousands of fragmentation and high explosive bombs on a ten square mile area, described as the greatest aerial bombardment since D Day.
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London
Normandy Front
Supreme Headquarters
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