Soundest Offered Party Platform Dominates Chicago Rally
A Republican convention in Chicago showcased a platform calling for removal of trade barriers, emphasis on world economic cooperation, and anti lynching legislation. The key foreign policy plank urged modifying Britain’s empire preferences while pledging labor protection and postwar tax relief. The Dewey nomination sparked a lengthy, festive demonstration lasting 25 minutes before Bricker spoke. Tommy John of Brayton visits relatives in town.
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Convection Stadium
Chicago
Repeb
Great Britain
Alf M. Zandon
Kansas
Allied Drive On Caen Aims To Encircle Normandy City
Allied forces under Montgomery drive across the Odon river six miles from Caen as 12 Allied divisions wage a broadening front in Normandy. British Canadian units press toward high ground while Caen’s rail line and highway to Cherbourg are severed amid air bombardment.
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INS
Dwight Denhower
Paris
Bernard Law Montgomery
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Caen
Arma
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Tilly-Sur-Seullas
Cherbourg
Normandy
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Qodon River
Odon
Lades
Beyeux
English Channel
Evreux
Paria
Tourville
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Cheux
Colleville
Grainville
Etirely
Cap de la Hague
Allied Bombers Hit German and French Targets Across Europe
United States Fortress and Liberator bombers joined by Eighth Air Force and Allies raided airdromes at Couvron Athies Jubincourt in France and targets in Germany and France including rail centers near Saarbrucken and Paris Laon. RAF heavy bombers and Mosquitos attacked northern France while British Lancasters and Halifaxes supported.
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Athies
Jubincourt
Germany
France
Jairs
South England
Channel
Dewey Bricker Nominated by GOP at Chicago Convention
Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio secured the Republican nominations on the first ballot for president and vice president at the Chicago convention. Dewey's acceptance was set for tonight as the party united behind the ticket to face the New Deal in 1946.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Indiana
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Gov. Bricker
United States
America
Chicano
Leis
Bricker
MacArthur
Dewey
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin
Brieker
Republican Party
GOP
Albany
Brickey
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Gov. Griswold
Roosevelt
Weather outlook for Fair tonight through Thursday
The forecast calls for a fair night followed by cooler conditions. Cooler air will spread across the south and east portions, with temperatures dipping notably tonight and Thursday.
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Touraday
Mogilev Falls to Red Army in Baltic Campaign
Red Army forces crushed the German defense and occupied Mogilev after crossing the Dnepr. Stalin announced Mogilev’s fall in a special order of the day as troops pressed toward Minsk and Bobruisk, encircling several Nazi divisions. The drive claimed Orsha and expanded the encirclement around Nazi garrisons.
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Red Army
Crty
Minsk
Dnepr
White Russia
Mogilev
Joseph P. Stalin
Red Army Uits
Orsha
Pointe
Borisov
Bobruisk
Germany
Vitebsk
Joseph Stalin
Ask retrial for rape murderER
Lincoln Neb June 28 An attorneys for Joseph T Mac Avoy Brooklyn NY a former army sergeant scheduled to die in the Nebraska electric chair Sept 29 for the rape murder of Anna Milroy Sutton Neb today asked the supreme court to order retrial The petition alleged District Judge Edmund Nuas who sentenced Mac Avoy was a cousin twice removed of Anna Milroy The supreme court recently upheld the district court and set the execution date The attorneys have asked for a stay of execution pending completion of the appeal.
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Neb
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Joseph T. MacAvoy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nebraska Electric
Anna Milroy
Sutton
Supreme Court
Edmund Nuas
MacAvoy
District Court
Conscientious objector seeks writ over army entry
Mitton E. Bainum of Tulsa asks a Denver federal court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging illegal restraint by Brig. Gen. Omar H. Quade. Bainum says he was kidnapped into the U. S. Army despite being classified 4-F due to a back injury. He claims captain altered medical readings and urged enlistment. A hearing is slated for July 18.
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Denver
INIA
Omar H. Quade
Fussimons Hospital
Mitton E. Bainum
Tulsa
Oklo
U. S. Army
Bainum
Nye backs Stambaugh in renomination bid
U S Senator Gerald P Nye trains Lynn A Stambaugh former national commander of the American Legion for renomination on the Republican ticket. Early returns from 547 of 2251 precincts show Stambaugh leading Nye 14700 to 13793 with Burdick at 10457 and Townley 895 as Burdick runs independently.
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N. D
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U. S
Gerald P. Nye
Pearl Harbor
Lynn A. Stambaugh
American Legion
Nye
Usher L. Burdick
Nonpartisan League
A. C. Townley
League
Stambaugh
Burdick
Townley
Conyers Killed in Action in Italy June 5
Lieut. Harry D. Conyers a former Sheldon junior college student and Moorhead Iowa native was killed in action in Italy on June 5 the war department informed his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conyers Conyers had served since February 1941 after leaving Sheldon with an Iowa National Guard company
Newsboy Dies After Street Vehicle Accident
Hershel Lawson a 14 year old Omaha newspaper carrier died after being struck by a city street department grader. He had recently bought a bicycle for his paper route when a raised street section threw him from the bike in front of the grader.
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Omaha
Hershel Lawson
Lawson
First three theater flight by fortresses ends in Italy
Rome reports that Britain based Eighth Air Force B 17s completed a shuttle bombing trip from Britain to Russia and then Italy. The bombers attacked Berlin and the Drohobyca oil refinery before landing in Italy, marking the first use of bases in Britain, Russia, and Italy in successive missions. Mustangs of the 15th Air Force escorted the raid from Poland refinery area to Italian fields.
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Eighth Air Force
Reich
Soviet Union
Italy
Russia
Britain
Berlin
Drohobyca
Lwow
Galicia
Poland
Mustang
15Th Air Force
Il Duce Proven Big Time Thief
Rome reports declassified documents reveal Benito Mussolini stole at least 4.5 million dollars from railway cooperative food stores before his fall. It also shows an unchecked special government fund allowed daily withdrawals of 1 million lire for 22 years.
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INS
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Il Duce
Mussolini
Baptist Women Meet Opens Two Day Missionary Conference
Iowa Falls hosts a two day missionary conference starting tomorrow led by Mrs Samuel Shumate of Davenport president of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society of Iowa. Speakers include Miss Mable Olson a Hopi and Oklahoma missionary and Miss Lea Edgar who has just returned from China after twenty years of missionary work.
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Towa Falls
INS
Baptist Women of Iowa
Iowa Falls
Samuel Shumate
Davenport
Women’s Baptist Missionary Society of Iowa
Mable Olson
Lea Edgar
United States
China
Germans Send Forces to Aid Finns in War Against Russia
Stockholm reports at least one German anti tank brigade and infantry division reach Helsinki as Germany increases pressure on Finland. The German Finnish Brotherhood in Arms pledge ties Finland to Germany and limits independent Finnish action, while Ryti and Ramsay miss parliament amid rapid German reinforcement and fast moving transports.
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Jeve
Finledd
Russia
Stockholm
Finland
Helsinki
Berlin
Risto Ryti
Fins
Ryti
Henrik Ramsay
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Lenox Aviation Cadet Howard L Wurster Killed In Texas Crash
Victoria Texas June 28 In a training crash two planes collided at about 10000 feet near Edna Texas Avia tion Cadet Howard L Wurster 23 son of Mrs Rose M Wurster Lenox Ia died Col H H Van Auken Foster army air field commander said the accident occurred yesterday Henry A Weinard Russell N J parachuted to safety Wurster s parachute failed to open
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INS
Edna
Howard L. Wurster
Rose M. Wurster
Lenox
H. H. van Auken
Foster Army Air Field
Henry A. Weinard
Russell
N. J
Wurster
Allied Drive In Italy Claims Five More Towns
American armored and infantry forces advance toward the Gothic line in Italy seizing five towns including San Vencenzo SasSetta Chiusdino and Travale as British Eighth gains near Lake Trasimeon French Fifth army fights near Queco San Dorcia and Perugia while the Adriatic sees a naval strike and heavy air action with Allied planes sinking 38 Axis aircraft and losing six.
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Italy
U. S
San Vencenzo
Piombino
Belvidere
Sassetta
Mark W
Mark W. Clarks
Sienna
Chiusdino
Travale
Eighth Army
Lake Trasimeon
Goiella
Porto
Nazia
Magione
Fifth Army
Quebco San Dorcia
Orcia
Belosiena
Perugia
Colombella
Tiber River
Adriatic
Mediterranean Air Force
Budapest
Brod
Yugoslavia
Man Charged With Transporting Girl Across States
Earl Easter 39 of Jerseyville Illinois faces no hearing before U S Commissioner W B Chittenden today over transporting his niece Alma Easter 15 from Davenport Iowa to Moline Illinois for immoral purposes. The girl is a Jerseyville resident held as a material witness.
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Alma Easter
Davenport
Moline
Earl Easter
Jerseyville
Ill
U. S
W. B. Chittenden
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