Allies push toward St Nazaire and Caen fronts in Brittany
Allied forces drive toward Brittany major ports Brest and St Nazaire and move from Avranches toward Rennes and Dinan. Canadian units attack below Caen while British and American columns pincer from Vire toward Villers Bocage and Vassy as German defenses thin along the center of the line.
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St. Nazaire
Rennes
Breton Peninsula
Dinan
Avranches
Caen
Bradley
Brittany
Bay of St. Michel
St. Malo
Brest
Kennes
Loire River
Paris
Breton
Orne River
Tilly-La- Campagne
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Vire
Normandy
St. Pois
Vire- Tessy-Percy-Villedieu
France
Guenther von Kluge
Berlin
Villers-Bocage
No Man’s Land
Aunay-Sur-Odon
la Lande
Villers- Bocage
Rains Quiet Race Clashes as Philadelphia Hopes for Washington
Philadelphia residents face a three day transport strike tied to FEPC orders. Amid rain, clashes between whites and Negroes subdued, 13 hospitalizations reported. Officials warn of possible government seizure of the Philadelphia Transportation Company and troop use if service does not resume.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Fair Employment Practices Committee
FEPC
Philadelphia Transportation Company
PTC
Transport Workers Union
CIO
Washington
War Manpower Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading Company
Allied Landing Craft Sightings Stir Hope for Invasion
Vichy radio quoted by The Associated Press claimed a large Allied landing fleet was cruising the Tyrrhenian Sea and hinted at an imminent land invasion in northern Italy or southern France. No corroboration emerged from other quarters.
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London
Vichy
Associated Press
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italy
France
Absentee Ballots Available Saturday for Second Primary
Absentee ballots for the second Democratic primary will be available at County Clerk Hubert Cole s office on Saturday morning the first day for absentee voting. The deadline is August 22 and the election is August 26. One voting box will be in Potter County on the courthouse second floor. A heavy absentee vote is expected as farmers and residents of outlying districts may cast ballots. There are no contested county or precinct races and only two untested state races.
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Hubert Cole
Potter County
Lark Blames CIO for His Defeat in Senatorial Race
In St Louis on August 3, Attorney General Roy Mc Kittrick led over incumbent Senator Bennett Clark by 20 000 votes in the Democratic senatorial primary. With 4 328 of 4 512 precincts reporting Mc Kittrick had 165 726 to Clark 145 856. Clark conceded defeat blaming the CIO Political Action Committee. V Kitchen position wanted 31 years experience. Best references Time.
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ST. Louis
Roy McKittrick
Bennett Clark
McKittrick
Clark
CIO Political Action Committee
Russians Drive Toward East Prussia and Vistula Front
Russian forces under Cherniakhovsky surged toward East Prussia within 28 miles of Tilsit and 44 miles of Insterburg as fighting raged near Schirwindt and Eydtkuhnen. Rokossovsky pressed along the Vistula east of Warsaw while Konev moved near Krakow, capturing hundreds of towns as bridgeheads formed southeast of Warsaw.
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Moscow
Ivan Cherniakovsky
Hydvizhe
Schirwindt
Eydtkuhnen
Wehrkirchen
Cherniakhovsky
Tilsit
Insterburg
Konigsberg
Virbalis
Wizainy
Warsaw
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Vistula
Siedice
Estonia
Latvia
Lake Peipus
Daugavpils
Ivan S. Konev
Jaroslaw
Krakow
German Silesia
Downtown Shorts Sparks Wide Opinion Poll
A Pulse Feelers question asks residents about women wearing shorts downtown. Reactions vary from approval by CPL Teagle and Onita Hollingshead to disapproval from Mrs Gleason and Mack Nobles, with station attendant Bailey deeming them acceptable but not downtown.
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Red Cross
Cpl. J. P. Teagle
New York
Jimmy Earl Bailey
F. F. Gleason
Mack Nobles
Onita Hollingshead
Ukrainians Charge Nazi Doctors Deliberately Spreading Diseases
The Ukraine State Atrocities Committee stated 150000 patients died in a German hospital at Slavuta near Kiev during two years of occupation. It alleged German doctors purposefully spread infections by forcing new arrivals into wards already crowded with typhoid and tuberculosis deaths.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Slavuta
Kiev
Allies Break German Ring Near Pisa and Florence
The Fifth Army halted German counterattacks across the Arno near Pisa and up the Arno corridor. Eighth Army advanced from San Michele and La Romola, capturing La Poggiona and threatening the German line west of Florence. West of Florence British and Indian troops crossed the Pesa River, took Ginestra, and pushed toward Montelupo, while Italians report Nazi efforts to clear civilians along the Arno north bank.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Arno
Pisa
Italy
Pontedera
Eighth Army
Florence
San Michele
la Romola
la Poggiona
Art City
New Zealand
Pesa
Ginestra
Montelupo
Nazis Adopt Watchful Waiting Attitude Toward Turkey
Germany says it is adopting a watchful waiting stance after Turkey cut diplomatic and economic ties. Berlin notes the rupture violates the Turkish German friendship pact and says no aerial retaliation is planned for now. Germany watches Turkish developments amid fears of further alignment against the Reich.
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Turkey
Associated Press
Germany
Reich
Berlin
Ceiling on ice set at 60 cents a pound in Chungking
Chungking authorities fix a ceiling price for ice at 12 Chinese dollars per pound during a heat wave. Other prices are ice cream three dollars a cup lemonade two dollars a bottle iced milk two dollars fifty cents per glass and ice suckers ninety cents per stick. A second hand refrigerator is listed for thirty two thousand five hundred dollars.
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Chungking
U. S
Seventh Airfield Taken as Guam Push Fortifies Marianas Chain
Allied forces seized a seventh airfield on Guam as Americans tighten the noose in the northern third of the island. Adm. Nimitz reported about 33,000 Japanese killed on Guam, Tinian, and Saipan with American losses around 3,589 dead and 17,548 wounded.
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Guam
Marianas
Tinian
Chester W. Nimitz
Saipan
Marianas Island
Philippines
China Coast
Japan
MacArthur
New Guinea
Aitape
Biak
Noemfoor Islands
East Indies
Carolines
Solomons
Sansapor
China
Hengyang
Chungking
Hankow-Canton
U. S
Tokyo
India
Tiddim
Burma
Myitkyina
The Road To Berlin Front Distances Listed
A historical note lists distances to Berlin for major fronts. The Russian front is 322 miles from eastern Warsaw, the Italian front 605 miles from Senigallia, and the French front 630 miles from Troarn.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Senigallia
Troarn
Hot spell eases slightly with cooler forecast
The weatherman predicts a high of only 102 degrees this afternoon after a three day stretch above 104. Few clouds and light winds linger as the heat spans Texas, eastern New Mexico, and Oklahoma, according to H. C. Winburn.
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H. C. Winburn
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Production of Munitions Lags in 1944 Half-Year
War Production Chairman Donald M. Nelson reported that only 48 percent of the $69 billion 1944 munitions program was completed by mid year and warned against assuming the war production job is finished.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Bombers Based in Italy Attack Friedrichshafen
A force of possibly 750 American heavy bombers raided Friedrichshafen in southwestern Germany today. King George VI returned to Britain by air after a 10 day absence touring Italian battlefields and reviewing Allied forces there.
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San Ubaldo
Gubbio
Rhone Valley
France
Italy
Po Valley
Robert D. Thompson
Hubbard
Tex
Rogers Zierenberg
Erie
Avignon
Friedrichshafen
Rome
Germany
King
England
London
King George VI
Britain
Switzerland
Bavaria
Zurich
St. Gotthard
St. Moritz
RAF
U. S. Army Air Forces
Belgium
Bay of Biscay
Big Factory Center Hit by Superfortresses in Manchuria
The B 29 Superfortresses struck Anshan Manchuria damaging coke works and factory buildings in a blow to Japan's war industry. Stimson said the July 29 raid also hit Tangku and the port of Tianjin, part of a broader Allied offensive across fronts. He praised Normandy gains as the most satisfying Allied breakthrough since D day. The report notes British and Canadian forces trailing the American advance through Germany's center.
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Washington
Anshan
Manchuria
Stimson
Tangku
Tiensin
China
Japan
Normandy
Cherbourg
Truman resigns as War Investigating Committee chair
Senator Truman of Missouri resigns as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee amid protests from colleagues. Chief counsel Hugh Fulton also resigns. Truman says his political candidacy for vice president would make his statements unfair to the panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Missouri
Senate
Hugh Fulton
Evacuation Hint as Germans Pull Troops From Finland
Stockholm reports indicate Germany may be withdrawing all forces from Finland after Marshal Mannerheim replaced President Ryti. Existing German divisions in the north and a panzer brigade reportedly moved to Estonia, while only a single infantry division remained to aid the southern front despite the prior nonpeace pledge.
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Stockholm
Finland
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Risto Ryti
Ryti
Russia
Estonia
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast notes fair conditions for Amarillo and vicinity tonight and through Saturday with continued high daytime temperatures. West Texas will be fair this afternoon tonight and Friday, New Mexico may see scattered afternoon thundershowers over mountains with little temperature change. highs today 95 to 105 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Lowel
Longest 12 Hour Assault Drops Bombs on Southern England
London reports a continuous 12 hour aerial assault over Southern England and London. Anti-aircraft batteries fire almost nonstop as seven hospitals were hit with ten lives lost at one site. Bombs damaged a large house near a busy shopping area and casualties were feared.
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London
England
English Channel
French Patriots Hitting With Increasing Blows
London reports Allied chief Eisenhower says French patriots and Maquis fighters force German forces to use strong troops and air power to defend southern France. In Brittany the American drive raises the risk of a major southern France battle as rebels form and retreat in intense clashes.
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London
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brittany
Policeman Seized By Prohibition Era Turmoil
Dallas dispatch notes Officer C. P. Smith, cited as an example that an officer's life is not all sugar and cream. He was hospitalized after suffering prostration following an incident with a drunken woman and a soldier who tried to jam Smith's car en route.
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Dallas
C. P. Smith
Smith
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Vassy
Vire-Le Beny-Bocage
Lark
Sunray Cleaners
Jack Phillips
Thomas E. Dewey
National Guard
Army of the United States
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Imew
Russell Stationery Co
By J. B. Krueger
By Austin Bealmear
War Investigation Committee
Prohibition
Harry
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