Bloody Purge Follows Attempt To Assassinate German Leader
London reports on a German plot to overthrow Hitler as generals tried to oust him and form a new Reich government. Hitler named Himmler and Guderian to key posts while warning the public to resist the conspirators and shoots them on sight if needed. The plan included bombings at Hitler’s headquarters and a failed attempt that wounded the Führer and aides. Benito Mussolini met Hitler afterward and narrowly escaped.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Fuehrer
Wilhelm Keitel
DNB
Count von Stauffenberg
Hitler
Bern
Stockholm
Berin
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Home Front
Heinz Guderilan
Keitel
Hans-Jurgen Stumpf
Himmler
Benito Mussolini
On Eue
Senators Smith and Caraway Fail in Primaries
Returns from Tuesday's primaries show Senators Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina and Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas losing their nominations. Both Democrats and veteran figures, they join Senator Worth Clark as primary casualties. Rufus C. Holman remains the lone Republican survivor in Oregon.
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Smith
Caraway
Ellison D
Cotton Ed
Rufus C. Holman
Oregon
Wayne L. Morse
War Labor Board
Americans Break Through Nazi Lines Near St Lo
Supreme Headquarters reports a major American tank and infantry assault penetrated German first and second defense lines west of St Lo. The drive advanced up to five miles, creating a four mile breach and capturing at least 14 towns incl junctions, outflanking the coastal defense.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
St. Lo
Texas Delegates Walk Out of Convention
Thirty three regular Texas delegates walked out of the Democratic Convention in Chicago after southern delegates failed to secure concessions. The move follows defeats on every point and signals possible erosion of the solid south toward the Roosevelt administration.
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Chicago
Texas
Roosevelt
Great great grandmother Laubach welcomed at 77 in city
Harriet Laubach of this city becomes a great great grandmother at 77 an unusual distinction. A baby girl Ruth Marie Cooper was born July 6 to Mr and Mrs Donald Cooper of Fostoria Ohio. The list names Mrs Laubach Mrs Grant Monroe Florence Laubach former Tin Can Hill resident now in Oregon Mr and Mrs Wilbur Downs and Ruth Marie Cooper with a note of a wonderful baby.
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Harriet Laubach
Donald Cooper
Fostoria
Ohio
Ruth Marie
Laubach
Grant Monroe
Florence Laubach
Tin Can Hill
Oregon
Saginaw
Wilbur Downs
Ruth Marie Cooper
U.S. Denounces Argentina Over Diplomatic Stand
The United States condemned Argentina for deserting the allied cause and rejected any talks on reopening relations with Edelmiro Farrell's regime. The State Department urged diplomatic isolation of Argentina after consultations with other American governments. Copies went to allied nations but not Argentina.
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Washington
United States
Argentina
Edelmiro Farrell
United and Associated Nations
State Department
Hull
John T. Kelly Dies at Red Lodge
John T. Kelly, 60, former Montana agriculture commissioner and past state Farmers' Union president, died in Red Lodge after months of illness. He settled in 1914 on Red Lodge creek and was long active in farming circles. survived by his widow and son John T. Kelly Jr.
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Red Lodge
John T. Kelly
Montana
Farmers’ Union
Kelly
Roy E. Ayers
Red Lodge Creek
Elks Lodge
John T. Kelly Jr
Prominent Pharmacist Dr. Emil Starr Dies in Helena
Helena obituary notes the death of Dr. Emil Alfred Starr 78 a prominent pharmacist dean of Montana pharmacists and noted chemist and bacteriologist He died at his home in Helena after months of illness Born September 18 1865 in Stuttgart Germany Starr arrived in Helena in 1891 and helped establish Montana pharmacy by 1895 he joined the first state board of pharmacy and led the Montana Veteran Druggists Association as president in 1930
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Helena
Emil Alfred Starz
Montana
Stuttgart
Germany
Starr
State Board of Pharmacy
Montana Veteran Druggists’ Association
German Divisions Revolt and Beck Executed for Treason
London dispatches report two German divisions revolted in East Prussia amid a purge of generals following Hitler’s alleged assassination plot. Col Gen Ludwig Beck, former chief of the general staff, is said to be dead, and a colonel linked to the bomb attack near Hitler is among those executed. Berlin claimed the plot failed and a broader cleansing was underway.
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London
East Prussia
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Berlin
Ludwig Beck
Sweden
Hitler
Beck
Fuehrer
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Himmler- Hitler
Deed Transfers Hunter’s Hot Springs Ranch to Charles C Johnsons
Park County notes record deed transfers moving Hunter's Hot Springs ranch from Stuart H Hal ord to Mr and Mrs Charles C Johnson of Jack's Tire Shop. The 1000 acre property includes hay and grain lands with Hunter's Hot Springs water used for irrigation. Glen Hash will operate the ranch this year while the Johnsons decide future plans. the site hosts a historic resort once destroyed by fire about 15 years ago.
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Park County
Hunter’s Hot Springs
Springdale
Charles C. Johnson
Jack's Tire Shop
Stuart H. Halorn
Glen Hash
Johnson
Hunter's Hot Springs
A. J. Hunter
Bozeman Trail
Bozeman
Yellowstone Valley
Fort Harrison Hospital Capacity to Triple in Three Years
Fort Harrison Hospital will be expanded within two to three years to triple capacity with new permanent buildings. G M MacMillan, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said after a Washington trip he had assurance of the increase as 250 more beds become available from veterans administration transfers.
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Special Service Command
Fort Harrison
MacMillan
Montana
State Public Welfare Assistance Rising in Montana
Helena July 17 Administrator John Fouse of the state public welfare department reports a 30 percent rise in per person aid to the aged, needy blind and dependent children over four years. Old age payments from March 1940 to July 1944 rose from 17.92 to 29.18 per person. dependent children from 11.62 to 13.49. the needy blind from 20.96 to 30.20. July totals show old age 325,399 for 11,153 recipients and dependent children 47,688 for 3,535 recipients.
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Helena
John Fouse
State Public Welfare Department
Montana
Billings Attorney to Head Montana Bar Association
H. C. Crippen, a Billings attorney since 1901, was unanimously elected president of the Montana Bar Association at its fifty seventh meeting. W. E. Keeley of Deer Lodge presided as retiring head. James T. Finlen Jr. of Butte was elected state association delegate to the ABA house of delegates, and Marshall Murray of Kalispell was reelected secretary treasurer.
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Billings
H. C. Crippen
Montana Bar Association
W. E. Keeley
Deer Lodge
James T. Finlen Jr
Butte
State Association
American Bar Association
House of Delegates
Marshall Murray
Kalispell
Farley backs Roosevelt in November election
James A. Farley former national Democratic chairman who opposed a fourth term nomination announced he would support Franklin D. Roosevelt in the upcoming election. Farley had guided Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932 and 1936 and followed a similar pattern in 1940 by opposing a third term but voting for the president that year.
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Chicago Stadium
James A. Farley
National Democratic
Roosevelt
Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Has Better Method Combating Sharks
Santa Monica Calif July 21 The sea manual differs but Staff Sgt Jerrold O Eis of Dodge City Kan thinks he has the best method for combating sharks He and four other men spent seven days on a raft after their plane was forced down in the South Pacific The book said to pop them on the nose We did but that only made them madder So we let them alone and prayed.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Jerrold O. Eis
Dodge City
Kan
South Pacific
Els
Washington London Nonstop Flight Reported
An Army Air Transport Command crew completed the first nonstop London to Washington route in a four engine C 54 Douglas transport this week. The flight covered the Atlantic miles in about 18 hours, with plans disclosed by the air department on Thursday.
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Washington
London
D. C
Army Air Transport Command
Aer Department
Army Orders Six Hour Increase in Army Work Week
The army raised the work week by six hours for all army service forces personnel. A nine hour day and 54 hour week are now in effect with no leaves or vacations allowed for 1.3 million personnel. The move aims to speed production of war materiel amid earlier shortfalls and industry calls for more output.
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Washington
Army
Army Service Forces
Brehon Somervell
Services Forces
War Department
Robert Patterson
Service Forces
Somervells
United States
Wherry Says Small Business Has Gone to Pot
Senator Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska told reporters that small businesses in the United States have gone to pot. He cited more than a half million closures since the war began and blamed red tape and material allocation failures for many quitters. He said his comments drew on testimony from 38 subcommittee hearings.
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Kalispell
Kenneth
Wherry
Republican
Nebraska
America
Senate
Earthquake Felt in Los Angeles Rattles City
An earthquake shook Los Angeles at 4 p.m. Wednesday with light intensity. Caltech seismographs in Pasadena recorded the shock and said the quake was centered in the metropolitan area and unlikely to be felt outside it. No damage was reported.
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Los Angeles
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Caltech Laboratory
Death Toll Rises to 166 From Circus Tragedy
Hartford July 26 The Ringling Brothers circus disaster of July 6 now records 166 deaths with the passing of Ada Winale of Norwich.
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Hartford
Conn
Ringling Brothers
Barn & Bailey Circus
Ada Winale
Norwich
Roosevelt Nominated For Fourth Term At Democratic Convention
From a Pacific coast base Roosevelt accepts a fourth term nomination amid a Capitol Hill like scene in Chicago. Barkley places Roosevelt name with Byrd and Farley receiving votes. convention drama and Dixie dissatisfaction noted as delegates ignite in bedlam.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
Roosevelt
America
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Mr. Roosevelt
James A Farley
New York
Bedlam
Dixie
Mississippi
Louisiana
Barkley
Senate
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
War Food Administration Sets Wheat Allocation For Year
Washington reports the War Food Administration will allocate this year's wheat supply despite a favorable domestic crop outlook. The 1944 45 harvest is projected near 1.5 billion bushels with a sizable carryover to guard against possible shortages next year. Last July 1 carryover stood at 50 million bushels.
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WFA
Washington
War Food Administration
WEA
Nazis Extend Rocket Offensive With New Bomb Size
London reports the Nazi high command expanded its aerial attack on England by introducing a missile twice as large as prior models and deploying incendiaries in the 1000 pound robot. A 2000 pound bomb hit a southern England hospital, killing two elderly brothers and a nurse during rescue efforts as patients were moved from eight wards.
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London
Nazi High Command
England
Shaw says Hitler will likely get away with it
London July 26 George Bernard Shaw in his eighty eighth birthday remark warned that Adolf Hitler, like Napoleon and the Kaiser, was almost certain to get away with the war and survive. He suggested Hitler would end in a peaceful retreat possibly in Dublin.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Adolf Hitler
Napoleon
Kaiser Wilhelm
St. Helena
Kaiser
Doorn
Hitler
Dublin
Truman Secures Democratic Nomination for Vice President
Harry S. Truman wins the Democratic vice presidential nomination on the second ballot, defeating Wallace and Douglas amid party turmoil. Wallace’s Iowa motion for unanimity is ruled out of order as Truman secures 1,100 votes to 66 for Wallace and 4 for Douglas, with 6 absent.
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Chicago Stadium
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt
Wallace
Truman
Douglas
Iowa
Senate War Investigating Committee
Labor
C. I. O. Political Action Committee
Sidney Hillman
Roosevelt-Truman
John
Stanolind Company Begins Drilling at Boulder Site
Drilling operations started this week at the Stanolind site on the Boulder. Three shifts of five men each are working, with the drill running around the clock.
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Boulder
Kerr Denounces Dewey in Democratic Keynote Speech
Oklahoma Governor Robert Kerr delivered a 4,000 word keynote at the Democratic convention defending Roosevelt for a fourth term and labeling Dewey as untested with no program while contrasting aging Allied leaders with proven wartime leaders including Nimitz Marshal Halsey Churchill Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Dewey
Mr. Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Robert S. Kerr
Kerr
America
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Chiang
United States
United Nations
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U. S
Chas. C. Johnsons
Bay Hunters Ranch
Stuart H. Haldorn
Fort Harrison Hospital
Bar Association
Alben W. Barkley
Franklin D
Stanolind Company
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