Soviets Break Through Finnish Defenses On Karelian Front
Moscow announced Gen. Leonid Govorov's troops widened the breach on the Karelian Isthmus by capturing 17 more fortified Finnish strongpoints and two towns Mustomake and Ino as Finnish resistance exacted heavy losses. The bulletin tallied 235 guns 180 mortars and 400 machine guns seized, with continued air raids on German targets in Poland.
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London
Leonid A. Govorov
Viipuri
Moscow
Govorov
Mustomake
Leningrad
Ino
Finland
Kuuterselxae
Sakatyvla
Red Air
Poland
Bialystok
Baranowicze
Luninec
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Domei Agency
China
DNB
Saipan assault under way as Pacific fleet presses Marianas
Nimitz reports initial landings on Saipan with strong naval and air support. Japanese fire tested assault troops as carrier task force engaged southwest of Guam. several ships attacked and a trawler sunk amid ongoing bombardment and fires along the Saipan coast.
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Tokyo
Saipan
Tinian
Nimitz
Marianas
Philippines
Formos
China
League of Nations
Japan
Guam
Alps
New B 29 Superfortress raid opens new Pacific phase
War Department announces the B 29 Superfortress raid on Japan marks a new phase of the war with fleets of long range bombers able to strike from remote bases. General Arnold says the mission could be repeated and compares the force to a naval task fleet.
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Stimson
Pacific
Japan
Army Air Forces
Tokyo
Henry H. Arnold
War Department
High Command
China
H. H. Arnold
Naval Task Force
20Th Air Force
Arnold
Atlantic
Kenneth D. Wolfe
Riverdale
Cal
20Th Bomber Command
C. A. Horn
Liberty
N. Y
John E. Upton
Tawas City
Mich
George C Marsall
Army
Army Chief of Staff
Marshall
Rob
Gruber
Okla
Rainbow
Patterson
Tokyo claims six B-29s shot down over Kyushu
Tokyo said about 20 B-29 and B-24 bombers from the China area raided Northern Kyushu six hours earlier. It claimed six American planes were shot down and noted Moji, Yawata, Kokura, and Shimonoseki as targets with negligible losses on its side.
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Japan
Tokyo
Cupid
Hirohito
Nagoya
Osaka-Kobe
Kyoto
Oska
Kobe
Honshu
Kyushu
Yawata
Hakata
Pukuoka
Nagasaki
United States
China
Owi
Tokyo Radio
New York
Federal Communications Commission
Comei
Esa
Shimonoseki
FCC
Kokura
Moji
North America
News of the World
War Department
Washington
Tank Holds Off the Nazis Twenty Six Hours
In Italy near Monte Calvello a lone U S tank nicknamed Ate Ball and its six crew held a mountain stronghold for hours against German assaults. After a three day fight Highway 74 and the 800 foot peak were contested as Allied forces pressed the attack.
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Sid Feder
Tera
U.S
Monte Calvelgia
Ger
Servicior Hosts Sunday Banquet for 300 Soldiers
A Father’s Gay banquet is planned at the Louisville YMCA next Sunday for 300 servicemen. The event aims to honor military members and foster community among attendees.
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Louisville
Kerr and Kerr Named Keynoters for Major Conventions
Reports from Albany indicate Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey may attend the Chicago convention as a potential presidential candidate and deliver an acceptance speech at his farm during a planned 10 day vacation. At the same time Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr was chosen as the Democratic convention keynoter with a July 17 decision on a permanent chairman.
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Associated Press
Thomas E. Dewey
Albany
Chicago
Roosevelt
Dewey
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
New Child Welfare Head Due Rosalind Giles in Chicago
The Potter County Child Welfare Board will have a new supervisor arriving July 1, Miss Louise Blackwell, a Mary Hardin Baylor graduate and former Midland division supervisor. Also joining in July is Miss Nancy Strain from Canyon, a USC social work student after teaching in Amarillo. Mrs. Rosemary Kollmar notes wartime staffing shortages and appeals for volunteer typists. The board, funded by city county state and federal sources, handles placement and care for dependent and neglected children, unwed mothers services, and related duties.
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Potter County Child Welfare Board
Rosalind Giles
County Child Welfare Board
University of Chicago
Louise Blackwell
Mary Hardin Baylor College
Midland
Potter County Child Welfare
Nancy Strian
Canyon
Strain
Amarillo
University of Southern California
Rosemary Kollmar
Child Welfare Board
Juvenile Court
Child Welfare
Scout Awards At Llano Estacado Council Honor Night
Awards and badges were presented at the District Court of Honor of the Llano Estacado Council Boy Scouts of America at the Potter County Courthouse. Recipients included Rex Wedgeworth George Farwell Billy Wilson Joe Ed Pate Johnny Ritchardson Clifford Fulton Bill Strait and many more for second class first class merit badges star cards and dispatch bearer awards.
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District Court of Honor
Llano Estacado Council
Boy Scouts of America
Potter County
J. E. Spann
A. M. Strait
J. L. Parmelee
Bishop E. C. Seaman
W. J. Hiatt
Danny Ritter
R. E. Irelan
Rex Wedgeworth
George Farwell
Billy Wilson
Joe Ed Pate
Johnny Ritchardson
Clifford Fulton
Bill Strait
LaVon Bagwell
Jimmy Parmelee
Bobby Jones
Joe Wayne McAdam
Jaycees Chester Park Presidents Amarillo Chapter
Kierasee Chester Parks is named the Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce president and will assume office July 1. Directors elected him at a meeting held last night at the Southwestern Public Service Co Auditorium. Charles Bates retires as president and becomes state director. other new officers include Lonnie Prestyn Bob Lewis Fay Shackelford Patt Powell and Garland Martin.
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Chester Park
Amarillo
Bombers Strike Multiple Targets Across Western France
A large bomber fleet hit Bordeaux railyards Angouleme Nantes La Poissonniere La Frilliere and Beauvais with some formations reaching Germany for the day. Allied escorts battled Nazi fighters while gun crews downed several enemy planes. three bomber and three fighter personnel received national recognition for May production efforts.
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Bordeaux
Angouleme
Nantes
la Poissonniere
la Frilliere
Tours
Beauvais
Paris
Germany
Finland Pays On War Debt To United States
Finland paid 148445.06 to the United States treasury as the regular semi annual World War I debt payment. The transfer was made in Washington on June 15.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Britisher Blames Churchill For Eisenhower Comment
London information minister Brendan Bracken criticized Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for suggesting that General Dwight D. Eisenhower would be blamed if harm came to Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his trip to France. Bracken accused Cunningham-Reid of acting to curry favor with the United States and to improve relations between the two nations.
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London
Brendan Bracken
House of Commons
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid
France
Bracken
Cunningham-Reid
United States
De Gaulle Wins Warm Welcome on Normandy Visit
Gen Charles De Gaulle reported to have left instructions for civil administration supplies and relief as he toured the Normandy beachhead. He received a moving demonstration of courage from Isigny residents and similar fervor elsewhere. He returned to Britain to push allied backing for recognizing the French Committee of National Liberation and planned talks with Eisenhower before a possible trip to Algiers and then Washington to meet Roosevelt.
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London
French Committee of National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Normandy
de Gaulle
Isigny
Brittain
France
Algiers
French Consultative Assembly
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
Roosevelt
Normandy Front
Americans Press Allied Onslaught Near St Lo
Allied forces push south toward St Lo amid reports of tank losses near Villers-Bocage and river movements along the Vire and Elle. Air support hits rail bridges on the Loire as German reinforcements rush in and a regional county auditors meeting in Panhandle is noted.
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St. Lo
Lison
Seine Bay
Carentan
Isigny
Villers-Bocage
Janew
Karl von Rundstedt
Ninth Air Force
Loire River
John Crudgington
Panhandle
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