German Fourteenth Army Dispersed as Allies Advance in Italy
Allied dispatch reports the German 14th army is scattered toward the Florence area with equipment lost. Field marshal Gessler ingreinforced forces including three fresh infantry divisions as Allied forces pursue disorganized German units near Orbetello northwest of Rome.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
14Th
Mark W. Clark
Orbetello
Anl
Florence
France
Europe
Italy
14Th Army
Albert Gesselring
10Th Army
War Bond Bazaar Pledges 310100 In Bluefield
Bluefield citizens gathered at the Appalachian assembly room for a war bond bazaar sponsored by the Junior Woman's club. Purchases and pledges totaled 310 100 with 34 259 by Bnai Brith and Sisterhood for the top prize. The event featured 12 booths and the keely game drawing big crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. Postelthwaite
Ray Evans
Rotary Club
Appalachian Assembly Room
Bluefield
Junior Woman's Club
Sisterhood
B'nai Brith Lodge
Keil Alderson
Mercer County War Finance Committee
Miss Barnett
Alderson
Business and Professional Girls Club
American Association of University Women
Kiwanis Club
Young Womans’ Club
Appalachian Building
Beta Sigma Phi
Japanese Pound At Changsha Near Encirclement
Chinese communique reports heavy Japanese pressure around Changsha with fighting on multiple fronts. American air forces bombed targets as Chinese troops countered near Lungling in Yunnan and along the Canton Hanko w railway while a new southern push aimed to seize lines near Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Changsha
Canton-Hankow
Burma
Lungling
Yunnan Province
Hunan
Claire L. Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
Canton
Chennai
U. S. Subchaser Lost In Mediterranean
A United States subchaser PC558 was lost in the Mediterranean on May 9 after destroying two German one man submarines during patrol off the Italian coast. Skipper Lt (jg) Edward C Leber of Blauvelt NY was wounded and survived. Casualties not yet announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Mediterranean
Navy
Edward C Leber
Blauvelt
New York
President Roosevelt Outlines War Progress In Opening Drive
President Roosevelt said the nation must force Japan to surrender or face national death, as he opened the 16 billion dollar Fifth War Loan Drive on radio. He affirmed Germany as the first target, noted Soviet advances, and touted Allied gains in Italy and the Pacific.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Esident
Netionel 4
Germany
Pacific
Italy
Demobilization Bill Discussed In Senate Hearings
Washington June 12 Senators seek an orderly postwar shift from war to peace. James F Byrnes argues for prompt demobilization but declines directing reconversion. Committees hear half a dozen recommendations including postwar tax measures and creation of a war mobilization office.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Congress
Murray
D- Mont
George
D-Ga
Special
Kilgore
DW. Va
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Rew
Supreme Court
House
Russians Break Through Finnish Line and Seize Raivola
Russian tanks and infantry breached the Mannerheim line and seized Raivola eight miles beyond the coast, pushing toward Viipuri and Helsinki. Kivennapa fell. more than 30 settlements captured as the drive advances along Karelia with air and artillery support.
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London
Mannerheim
Raivola
Viipuri
Helsinki
Kivennapa
Hesinki
Terijoki
Karelian
Stockholm
Hei
CBS
Leningrad
Moscow
Red Army
Leonid Govorov
Pravda
Sestra
Karelia
Terijjoki
Kuokkala
Gulf
Ilya Repin
Soviet Union
Helsingin Sanomats
Wife of Former Big League Umpire Dies After Leap
Mrs. George J. Moriarty 33, wife of the former Detroit Tigers manager and major league umpire, died after leaping into the Detroit river from Belle Isle Bridge. Amos McPherson saw the jump. O W Burdette Olson aided, a rescue squad failed to revive her. Her divorce and child custody suit against Moriarty was pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
George J. Moriarty
Detroit Tiger
Belle Isie
Amos McPherson
Selfridge Field
O. W. Burdette Olson
Area Men Reported Killed In Action
Eighteen West Virginians including two officers are listed as killed in action per the War Department. Names tied to Beckley Eccles Raleigh George Welch Emmett Loose McDowell and other counties are given with family links. The report cites Mediterranean theater service and specifies next of kin.
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Washington
West
Pfc
Howard ' S
Sally Jenkins Capell
McDowell County
Glenn E. McClung
Les W. McClung
Beck
Ickes Urges Miners and Operators to Skip July Vacation
Interior Secretary Ickes called on coal miners and operators to skip the July 1-10 vacation period amid a 38,000,000-ton coal deficit. He warned that production loss from a general mine shutdown could jeopardize the war effort, while noting July 4 holiday rights remain intact. Last year the summer vacation was eliminated without eliminating miners' $50 vacation payment.
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Washington
Ickes
Battle Over 4th Term Shapes Up
A Texas Democratic executive committee vote blocks certifying pro Roosevelt electors for the July primary ballot. A split in the party produced a rival slate of 23 electors, challenging the party’s nominee unless the two thirds nominating rule is restored. Roosevelt supporters plan a quick court appeal. Also noted are Ohio GOP nominating plans and Idaho and Virginia election activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Democratic Executive Committee
Dallas
George Butler
Executive Committee
Widow of 37 Weds 16 Year-Old Lad in Vancouver
Ronald Smith aged 16 married Mrs. Mary Ellen Breen 37 in Vancouver on June 12. The groom wore green nail polish to match his wife and said they had known each other for nine years. Mary Ellen, a widow with two children, called it love at first sight and cited hunting and fishing as common interests. The groom's mother, Mrs. Fannie L. Smith, witnessed the ceremony.
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Vancouver
Wash
Ronald Smith
Mary Ellen Breen
Mary
Fannie L. Smith
Four Evading the Draft Are Acquitted in New York
German-born Hans Gert von Gontard, supposedly related to Adolphus Busch, and three co defendants were found not guilty by a federal court jury of 10 men and two women after conspiracy to evade the draft charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hans Gert von Gontard
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Carrier Task Force Strikes Marianas Again From Pearl Harbor
U S carrier planes bomb the Marianas for a second day as submarines sink 18 more enemy ships. Admiral Nimitz says operations extend within 1600 miles of Japan while total submarine sinkings reach 607. The raids hit Guam Saipan Tinian and Rota amid tight secrecy.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Marianas Island
United States
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Navy Department
Washington
Pacific
Nimitz
Marianas Islands
Guam
Saipan
Tinian Islands
Rota Island
Churchill visits Normandy with Eisenhower and top Allied leaders
Prime Minister Churchill lands on French soil for the first time since 1949 as Gen. Eisenhower leads a tour of the American held sector. The group includes Smuts Brooke Marshall Arnold King Kirk Hall and Montgomery. They spend three hours ashore touring the beachhead while bombardments continue.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Churchill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U. S.S
Normandy Battlefront
Britain
Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
Henry H. Arnold
Ernest King
France
Alan G. Kirk
John Leslie Hall
Germany
H. M. S. Kelvin
Noreastern
Normandy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Urchill
Bertram H. Ramsay
Inductees to be assigned to camps from Huntington
Selective service officials said WV draftees will now be sent to camps from the Huntington induction station instead of Fort Benjamin Harrison. The change, under a new directive, places all draftees into a common pool for assignment to the services, replacing plans to send men to Fort Benjamin Harrison after the Fort Center closings.
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Charleston
W. Va
Selective Service
West Virginia
Huntington
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Carleton E. Pierce
Fort Amin Harrison
Fort , Ky
Allied air offensive hits German targets in France
U S Fortresses and Liberators bombed air fields from St Nazaire to Lyon as 1000 heavy bombers supported Montgomery. Eight army aircraft faced stiff German resistance while 16 enemy airfields and six bridges were struck.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cologne
DNB
France
Germany
Supreme Command
Norman
Channel
U. S
St. Nazaire
Lyon
Lille- Nord
Montdidier
Evreux - Fauville
Dreux
Vitry-en-Artois
Bauvais-Tille
Eighth Air Force
Bernard L. Montgomery
Ninth Air Force
UMW Predicts Some Southern Operators Will Sign Agreement
Charleston June 12. United Mine Workers official predicts some Kanawha operators will sign the master wage agreement for coal despite a routine Kanawha Association meeting. Saunders Coal of Boone County already signed, with back pay of 40 dollars portal to portal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha Operators Association
United Mine Workers
William Blizzard
UMW District 17
Saunders Coal Company
Boone County
Blizzard
Kanawha Asociation
Tomorr
War Labor Board
Northern Producers
Southern Producers Association
Southern Association
Jewell Ridge Coal Company
Americans Take Gerigy Forest amid Allied Beachhead Fusion
Allied forces smashed through the German line in Normandy capturing the Cerisy forest and toppling Carentan. Rommel fields 250,000 troops as the fusion of beachheads completes a 60 mile coastal strip with Cherbourg within reach and Carentan’s fall places Americans a third across the Cherbourg peninsula. More than 10,000 prisoners taken in the first week of invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Cerisy
Carentan
Cherbourg
Edwin Rommel
la Haye du Puits
Lessay
Countances
Rteway
Berlin
NBC
Pointe de Barfleur
Cher
Americans See Page 2 GOP Convention Interest Grows
National Committeeman Walter S Hallanan predicts the Republican convention will exceed all prior in world wide interest due to the war He cites large press and radio coverage and expected record attendance West Virginia delegates plan to assemble June 24 at the Stevens Hotel with Austin V Wood joining early to serve on the resolutions committee The convention marks the first war time political gathering since the Civil War era and aims to promote patriotism and support for the Fifth war loan drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Walter S. Hallanan
GOP National Committee
Hallanan
Huntington
Windy City
West Virginia
Stevens Hotel
Halanan
Austin V. Wood
Wheeling
West V
Convention Resolutions Committee
Saan Ovens Hall
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Italian
Bond Drive
Chamber of Commerce
Marianas
THE
Associated Press
John W. Bricker
Ohio
James Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
Bricker
Hatch
D-N. M
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Idaho
Virginia
Charles H. McMurty
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AIR Force
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