Yanks Wreck Jap Tanks in Saipan Drive
American forces on Saipan repelled Japanese tank and landing craft assaults and pushed toward Magicienne Bay as beachhead lines extended from Agingan Point to Garapan. Allied ships shelled Guam and Kurile zone airbases while tactical air and sea actions expanded the war front in the Pacific.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan Island
Marianas
Magicienne Bay
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Equator
Mitchell
Japan
New Guinea
Sorong
Nimitz
Matsuwa
Paramushiro
Shimushiri
Shumushu
Agingan Point
Garapan
Charan-Kanoa
Hinashisha
Tinian Island
Ashito
Saipan
Cap
Crop Insurance Gains Support in Congress
A bi partisan push in Congress backers a federal crop insurance program extending into 1945. Sponsors including Rep Fulmer of South Carolina back legislation to insure wheat cotton and flax and to permit experimental projects on other crops.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Iman Fulmer
D-Sc
Youthful Ohio Sailor Ends Life in Maine
Portland Maine dispatch reports Orn Leach 19 seaman first class USN Cleveland Ohio found dead by hanging from a display billboard near Tukey Bridge. Medical Examiner William Holt ruled death by own action in the incident.
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Ohio
Maine
Portland
Tukey Bridge
Orn Leach
USN
Cleveland
William Holt
Fourth Ohio Northern University President Dr. Williams Dies
Dr. Robert C Williams aged 60 former president of Ohio Northern University at Ada died yesterday of pneumonia. Williams retired last June.
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van Wert
Robert C Williams
Ohio Northern University
Ada
Williams
Heat records fall as Ohio swelters with storms looming
Ohio baked under a heat wave with a new Wilmington 101 degrees and Port Columbus 99. Reports say thundershowers will ease heat, while three bathers drown in streams and quarries, including John Kosar 34 of Cleveland at Ruggles Beach and Goldie Branan 19 of Ada in a Dunkirk quarry.
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John Kosar
Cleveland
Ruggles Beach
Sandusky
Lake Erie
Paul Blevins
William Blevins
West Middletown
Baker County
Great Miami River
Goldie Branan
Ada
Dunkirk
Strong Earthquake Reverberates Through Los Angeles Area
In a Sunday afternoon jolt, thousands in downtown Los Angeles Long Beach and Inglewood felt a strong earthquake lasting a few seconds. No major property damage reported though windows rattled some glass broke and stock toppled from shelves.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Long Beach
Inglewood
Dayton man named commander of Ohio Sons of Union Veterans
Mont. A. Bennett of Dayton is the new commander of the Ohio Department, Sons of Union Veterans, succeeding Carlton N. Edie of Findlay.
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Columbus
Mont. A. Bennett
Dayton
Ohio Department
Sons of Union Veterans
Carlton N. Edie
Findlay
Dewey Opens Chicago Strategy Push Ahead of Convention
Dewey campaign leaders moved into Chicago to establish pre-convention headquarters as Bricker gains ground in the GOP nomination contest. Key aides Jaeckle Sprague and Brownell briefed Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms that a new interview may occur while Bricker’s delegate strength appears to grow amid hotel row chatter days before the convention.
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Chicago
Thomas FE
Dewey
Board of Strategy
John W. Bricker
Ohio
New York State
Edwin Frank Jaeckle
J. Russel Sprague
Herbert Brownell
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Bricker
Wounded Veterans of Italy Brought to Ohio
Thirty one new patients, wounded veterans of the Italian campaign, arrived yesterday at Crile General Hospital in Suburban Parma. The latest contingent, transported by train from Stark General Hospital in Charleston, S. C., brings the 24 hour total to 100 patients at the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Crile General Hospital
Parma
Stark General Hospital
Charleston
S. C
CIO Strength Being Tested in Maine Nomination Battle
In Maine voters chose party nominees for three House seats and governor. In the First District Portland and Bath shipbuilding areas figure with Andrew A. Pettis of the Portland CIO Shipyard Local seeking major party nominations backed by Maine United Labor Committee, challenging incumbent Republican Robert Hale. Maine’s early Sept. 11 general election date keeps state results as a national trend indicator.
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New York
CIO
Maine
Portland
Bath
Andrew A. Pettis
Portland Cio
United Labor Committee
Robert Hale
Congress to Recess During Convention Period
Washington lawmakers plan a Friday night recess that extends through the political conventions. Congress still faces a heavy agenda with several controversial measures possibly causing deadlock and delaying the break. A Senate dispute over the continued operation of the fair employment practices committee adds a new timing wrinkle.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Lines of Finns Are Broken by Soviet Gunfire
Soviet field dispatches say the Red Army, under Gen. Leonid Govorov, pushed to Viipuri after breaking the Mannerheim Line and capturing Koivisto Fortress at Viipuri Bay. A massive artillery barrage aided by Kaliusha helped breach Finland’s three defensive lines in Karelia, with the front advancing toward a likely victory.
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Moscow
Red
Viipuri
Finland
Mannerheim
Koivisto
Viipuri Bay
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Karelia
Red Army
Mannerheim Line
Raivola- Yoki
Nelsonville Man MIA in Italy since May 12
Pvt. Rufus Ray DeFord 24, from Nelsonville, attached to an infantry unit, has been missing in action in Italy since May 12. Overseas since March, he trained at Camp Fannin and was home on furlough in February. Wife Mrs. Rufus Ray DeFord, 198 W. Franklin St., notified by War Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Speial
Rufus Ray DeFord
W. Franklin Sr
War Department
Italy
DeFord
Army
Camp Fannin
Texas
Edgar DeFord
Oak Hill
Columbus Child Smothered in Bed
Linda Kay Coman, 14 day old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Coman of 2990 Indianola Ave, died after being smothered in bed early yesterday. Police say the mother woke and found the infant unresponsive, and the fire department emergency squad arrived to find the baby dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Linda Kay Coman
Robert Coman
Indianola Ave
Fire Department
New Car Purchases To Be Severely Limited
Washington officials tighten eligibility for new car certificates amid dwindling 1942 autos. Applicants must prove use in essential war activities, with doctors nurses ministers war workers and public health safety roles prioritized. Columbus dairy specialists gather at Ohio State University for the American Dairy Science Association’s 39th annual meeting.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Columbus
Ohio State University
American Dairy Science Association
Rocket Bomb Threat Against New York At Wartime Broadcast
Berlin broadcasts warned the rocket bomb could be used against the United States in reprisal for European and East Asian air crimes. Southern England faced fifth day of rocket bomb attacks as defenses tighten and Allied air strength hits targets across Germany and Pas de Calais.
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London
United States
Berlin
England
New York
Europe
East Asia
Hitler
Pas de Calais
France
Hamburg
Germany
Normandy
Reich
Ninth Air Force
Thunderbolt
Lightning
Cherbourg
Paris
Amiens
Arras
Yank Airmen Safe in Yugoslav Hands
New York dispatch reports Herbert P. Foreman of Vanceburg Kentucky among 13 American fliers forced down in enemy territory who are now safe with units of General Draja Mihailovic's Yugoslav Army in exile.
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New York
Herbert Pd, Foreman
Maneth Foreman
Vanceburg
Draja Mihailovic
Hazard Pay Urged by House Military Committee
Members of the House Military Committee endorsed fundamentals to revise army hazard pay, aiming to correct wartime inequities. Infantry on beach heads would gain up to 10 dollars monthly. expert infantrymen would receive five dollars, with War Department support and a possible House vote tomorrow.
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Hazard Pay
Washington
House
Air Corps
War Department
United States
Most of Elba Taken Over by French Forces
French colonial battalions seized Portoferraio and hold the greater part of Elba with several hundred prisoners including high officers. In Italy Allied troops advance on both flanks and center taking Assisi as German resistance clanks back toward the Pisa Rimini line.
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Elba
Rome
Portoferraio
Assisi
St. Francis
Fifth
Eighth Army
Italy
Pisa-Rimini
Perugia
Florence
Ration Bank To Check Gas Ration In Huge District
The plan, called bank verification, will start in 34 Columbus District counties around July 1. OPA rationing chief Robert M. Boda says local boards will accept and verify applications for gasoline and other items, then forward them to Columbus for a second check and issue of coupons. All books will be stored in a central electrically guarded location.
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Columbus
Robert M. Boda
OPA
Hard Coal Miners to Forgo Vacations for War Demands
Hazelton Pa. Pennsylvania's 71 000 anthracite miners agreed yesterday to forego their annual July vacations in response to a plea by Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes for uninterrupted production to meet war demands.
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Hazelton
Pennsylvania
Harold J., Ickes
Taft Warns of World Control by Great Powers
Sen. Robert A. Taft told Bethany College graduates that freedom for speech and religion abroad hinges on ongoing struggle. He criticized Teheran Conference as accelerating a three-nation drive toward a controlled world and warned over choosing between a league of sovereign nations or a power balance alliance with England or Russia.
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Taft
Bethany
W. Va
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Bethany College
Russia
China
Brazil
England
Ohio
Hull
Roosevelt
Willkie
Siege Tightens as Allies Close on Cherbourg Port
American forces pressed siege operations around Cherbourg, the French naval port and arsenal, after widening the assault corridor. About 25 000 to 30 000 German defenders were isolated in the Cherbourg peninsula with escape nearly impossible. The Bradley spearhead led the Ninth Division drive toward the port.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
France
Omar N. Bradley
Napoleon
U. S
Churchill predicts summer may bring freedom victory
The report cites Prime Minister Churchill, speaking at the Mexican Embassy, hopeful that summer months could bring full success to the cause of freedom. He notes the Normandy invasion as a German surprise and signals further decisive actions in the coming months. Allied moves focus on La Haye Du Puits and St Lo areas as American and British forces press toward Cherbourg.
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London
Churchill
Normandy
Bizerte
Tunisia
Manton S. Eddy
United States
Peninsula
Atlantic
la Haye du Puits
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
la Haye
St. Lo D’ourville
Atlantic Coast
Bradley
Lison
St. Lo
Vire
Cherbourg
Supreme Headquarters
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Caen
Tilly
State to Buy Five Million in War Bonds
Ohio Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced a purchase of five million dollars in war bonds in the fifth war loan drive with possible future buys. Bond credit will be spread across 88 counties proportionally. On third ballot J Frank McDermond Jr predicted Gov John W Bricker would secure the Republican nomination on the Chicago ballot next week.
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State of Ohio
Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Ebright
J. Frank McDermond, Jr
John W. Bricker
Ghicago
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