Allied Fleet Bombards Cherbourg In Major Invasion Action
Fourteen Allied warships led by the battleship Nevada bombarded Cherbourg defenses Sunday afternoon, silencing shore batteries after a three and a half hour clash. The Nevada Texas Arkansas Quincy Tuscaloosa Glasgow Enterprise and four U S destroyers participated under Rear Adm Morton L Deyo, with British destroyers Onslow Offa Melbreak and minesweepers aiding. The bombardment, described as the heaviest naval strike on the invasion coast, lasted beyond the planned duration as ships pressed the shore under heavy enemy fire.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Pearl Harbor
Nevada
Cherboourg
U. S
Adm
Morton L. Deyo
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Texas
Arkansas
Carleton Bryant
C. A. Baker
Washington, D. C
P. M. Rhea
Washington, D
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Murphy
R. A. Wolberton
Rodman
J. F. Foley
Emmons
E. B. Billingsley
Onslow
Offa
Melbreak
Channel
Quincy
Tuscaloosa
Glasgow
Enterprise
Deyo
Warren Leads at Convention as Dewey Backer Picks Warren
At the Chicago congress Warren, favored for vice president, vows a GOP sweep and attacks the New Deal as delegates gather for nomination. Dewey leads with pledged delegates past the nominating threshold while Griswold screens as Dewey’s choice for the nomination. The platform debates linger over foreign policy and trade while Warren’s name remains the most discussed VP possibility.
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Chicago
ST_ M. Anne
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
Earl Warren
Caliornia
Warren
America
Dewey
Griswold
Nebraska
Dwight Griswold
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Owen Brewster
Maine
Republican Party
Byrd
California
Nazis Fall in Russia Open Path to Berlin
Premier Stalin announced the capture of Vitebsk and Zhlo bin as anchors of German defenses in White Russia. The fall of these fortresses opens routes toward Minsk and East Prussia with Moscow reporting pincer movements around Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk as Soviet forces advance toward Berlin.
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London
Marshal Stalin
Vitebsk
Zhlobin
Berlin
Ivan Bagramian
Stalin
K. K. Rokossovsky
Stalingrad
Bobruisk
Baltic
East Prussia
Minsk
White Russia
Moscow
Federal Communications Commission
Ivan Chernyanknovsky
Ivan Gagranian
Bastities
Orsha
Mogilev
British Broadcasting Company
Lithuania
Baltic States
Wheat harvest grows as Amarillo receipts rise
Wheat receipts at Amarillo Grain Exchange climbed with 87 carloads yesterday, as 37 on Saturday and 36 on Friday. Today’s receipts are expected well above 100. Rex Baxter of the chamber of commerce says soldiers have joined harvest work, but a larger supply of combines, trucks, and laborers is still needed.
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Amarillo
Marines Take Mount Tapotchau Dominant Saipan Peak
U S Pacific forces scaled Mount Tapotchau on Saipan dominating the island center. They pushed toward Gara Pan and Magicienne Bay while carrier planes bombed Rota and Guam bases. Nine more enemy planes were destroyed bringing total Allied air losses to 756. Saipan invasion progress sparked confidence among officers.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Mt. Tapotchau
Saipan Island
Marianas
Garapan
Magicienne Bay
Japan
Philippines
China
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Guam
Rota Islands
Saipan
United States
Nimitz
Tapotchau
Howard Handleman
Handleman
Joint Expeditionary Force
Rota
Orote, Peninsula
Apra_ harbor
Bond Premiere Draws Crowd in Amarillo as Sell-Out Hopes Wis
The Amarillo Bond Buyers Premiere at the Paramount Theater drew heavy ticket sales with remaining seats, features Col. B. A. Simpson interviewing Gen. Carl W. Connell in the foyer. Proceeds support Fifth War Loan with E Bonds contributing heavily amid rallies and auctions led by local merchants and a crack military band.
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Qccacu Lmol
Amarillo
Paramount Theater
Col
B. A. Simpson
Carl W. Connell
Amarillo Field
Star
Rex
Amarillo Army Air Field
Sixth Avenue
Polk Street
Cal Parley
A. K. Baracat
Stork
Pinky Vineyard
Jinks
Ample Clouds and Tstorms Across The Southwest
Partly cloudy conditions persist in Amarillo and vicinity with little temperature change and widely scattered thundershowers possible Tuesday afternoon. West Texas sees similar skies with scattered after noon and evening thundershowers in the Panhandle and South Plains, fresh winds. New Mexico remains fair with cooler Tuesday and a 20 to 30 mph wind. Precipitation data at 4 PM shows activity. sunrise 6 35 AM and sunset 6 05 PM.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Trece
Grain Loading Wages Hiked in Texas Elevators
The War Labor Board in Dallas approved temporary pay raises to 75 cents per hour for grain loaders and unloaders at five elevators in Lubbock and Amarillo for 30 days. Foremen may earn 80 cents an hour. The move aims to speed wheat logistics amid a record crop, after firms warned they could not hire at 54 cents.
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Dallas
Regional War Labor Board Today
Texas Panhandle
Wales H. Madden
Amarillo
Lubbock
Kearns Grain and Seed Company
Burrus Panhadler Elevators
Producers Grain
Russians Fight In Nazi Army On Normandy Front
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expedition Force reports several battalions of Russians pressed into German service encountered by Allied invasion forces on the Normandy front. Russians are used to bolster coastal garrisons and local reserves. captured Russians are treated as POWs until status clarified.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expedition Force
Normandy
Japanese Air Losses Prompt Move to Safer Bases
Allied air forces reported Japanese fliers withdrawing to more remote bases in the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines. In New Guinea and surrounding areas Allied bombers and Liberators attacked Truk and targets at Noemfoor, Aitape-Wewak, and Maffin Bay, with four hundred seventy five Japanese dead in Maffin Bay fighting.
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New Guinea- Solomons
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
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New Ireland
Solomons
Truk
Carolines
East Indies
Marianas
Noemfoor Island
Dutch New Guinea
Aitape-Wewak
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SONOS
Jury pool continues in O M Redding murder case
The 47th District Court enters a second day as 162 of 600 veniremen report at 9 am for the murder trial of O M Redding. Prosecution ready. defense awaiting venire. Judge Bishop excused many for exemptions or farming duties amid wheat harvest.
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O. M. Redding
47Th District Court
Henry S. Bishop
Jim Lumpkin
E. T. Miller
H. H. Cooper
R. E. Underwood, Sr
Clem Calhoun
R. A. Wilson
Redding
Sailor Brace Drowns While Swimming at Goodnight Lake
Coxswain Harold Jack Brace a 19 year old Navy sailor on leave drowned at Spring Creek Lake near Goodnight after diving into cold water following a large dinner. His brother Bill, 17, survived the attempt to save him as divers and ambulances responded. Brace had served in the South Pacific and earned four enemy plane credits as gunner on the USS South Dakota. The body was recovered from 30 feet of water and is at the Burn-Shaw Funeral Home in Amarillo pending funeral plans.
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Goodnight
Harold Jack Brace
Navy
Spring Creek Lake
Bill Brace
Jack
Bill
Burtin
Clarendon
W. D. Kidd
Griver
Margaret Kidd
Thelma Holomb
Palmotors
Amarillo
Amarillo Field
Jack Brace
E. ¥. Brace
Cox- Swain Brace
U. S
Hobart Connor Brace
French Solid for Eisenhower Named as Interior Forces Chief
New York June 26 The French provisional government expressed confidence in General Eisenhower after naming General Koenig to command the French forces of the interior. The statement came on a Radio Brazzaville broadcast monitored by NBC.
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New York
Eisenhower
Koenig
Radio
Weather forecast clashes with superstition on rain today
A moon halo sign and the weather bureau agree on rain today. The Indian omen predicts showers, while the forecast calls for scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers in the Panhandle.
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Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Resistance Ends As Yanks Clear Cherbourg
Allied forces close in on Cherbourg as U S troops clear the arsenal area and street by street battle winds down. Montgomery pushes a major Caen front advance while Berlin reports heavy losses in the Normandy region.
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Cherbourg
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