Japs Lose 300 Planes In Pacific Aerial Battle
United States Marines and Army troops capture Aslito airfield on Saipan and drive east across the island to Magicienne Bay. About 300 Japanese planes attacking offshore were destroyed in a major Pacific air battle, the Navy announced. Seven ships and a carrier task force were engaged, with minimal American losses reported.
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Pacific
Saipan
Leif Erickson
Pearl Harbor
United States
Aslito
Saipan Island
Magicienne Bay
Midway
Adm
C. W. Nimitz
Ork
Rota
Guam
Marianas
U. S
Nosutan Point
Yanks Capture See Page Two Showers Relieve Heat
Heat wave spikes across West Virginia with temperatures reaching 103 at Point Pleasant and near 100 in Charleston and Huntington. A night shower dropped the city’s mercury from 88 to 68 as storms caused damage and two drownings were linked to the heat.
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Bluefield
Ace
Norfolk and Western Division
Inazure
Temuré
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Inton
Huntington
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Beckley
Charles Town
WVU Board Requests Lawall Resignation
Morgantown West Virginia June 20 AP The WVU board of governors demands the resignation of University President Charles E Lawall by August 31 He may take a post as head of the School of Mines or a professorship in the College of Engineering Dean R P Davis of Engineering is being replaced by W W Hodge The board met late after Governor Neely urged new administrative leadership
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Dean Davis
Neely
Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Charles E. Lawall
Lawall
School of Mines
College of Engineering
M. A
P. Davis
College of Neering
W. W. Hodge
Board of Governors
Errer
Matthewant Lawall
M. Neely
R. P. Davis
Engineering College
Davis
D. A. Christopher
Bluefield Patrolman Faces Probe After Saturday Night Incident
City directors plan to investigate Police Officer E. R. Kerns amid a near riot after an arrest on Saturday. Hospital reports say private Herbert Peters, injured in the altercation, is improving though considering assault charges against Kerns and possible action against the city.
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Kerns
Pvt
Herbert Peters
City Board of Directors
E. R. Kerns
Mimimilipal Vulmmaane
Emory P. Mitchell
U. S Army
Misters
Franklin Street
Bluefield
Peters
Ashford General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
H. R. Harlow
Harlow
Lieut
Wirt Bailey
Go Peters
Bailey
Bai
Ters
She Notes
State Funeral Directors Meet in West Virginia
About 75 delegates registered for the fiftieth annual West Virginia Funeral Directors association convention at the West Virginian hotel. The opening session at 10:30 will be led by Joseph Bonsall, Charleston, with Edwin C. Wade, Bluefield college president, delivering the main address. Mayor William C. Snyder of Bluefield will give the welcome as reports and committee matters proceed through tomorrow.
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West Virginia Funeral Directors Association
West Virginian Hotel
Joseph Bonsall
Charleston
Dent
J Ford
U. S. Navy
Bonsal
William C. Snyder
Bluefield
Edwin C. Wade
Bluefield College
Iers
Dewey Backers Move Open Draft for Presidential Nomination
New York Republicans declare Gov Thomas E. Dewey will be nominated and accept at the Chicago convention, with 92 of 93 New York delegates reportedly for drafting him. Leaders say Dewey will win in November, while Bricker supporters plan preconvention lobbying.
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GOP
Dewey
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Russel Sprague
New York
Edwin F. Jaeckle
Herbert Brownell
Albany
N. Y
Sprague
Ogee
John W. Bricker
Oho
Bricker
Roy D. Moore
Ee Ohioan
Republicans and
Republican Organization of
Gov. Dewey
Beachhead Dispatch From Ernie Pyle At Normandy Front
Ernie Pyle describes meeting U S war correspondents near the Normandy beachhead. He notes their fatigue and tight bonds, the risks endured, and their longing for news from missing colleagues as dawn unfolds over the invasion front.
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Ernie Pyle
Normandy
France
Goodby
England
Jack Thompson
Beachead memories of battle weary reporters recall h hour upheaval
Ernie Pyle describes exhaustion and mental strain of frontline combat. Whitehead and Thompson landed with regiments soon after H Hour and endured hours under shellfire. dead and wounded littered the beach as one officer was killed mere feet away.
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Don Whitehead
Thompson
Jack Thompson
Whitehead
Bulldozers Break Through Nazi Pillboxes At Normandy
Allied assault engineers faced heavy fire as British bulldozers advanced and cleared pillboxes with earth, while assault tanks breached a four foot wall. A senior officer described American British and Canadian engineers aiding the Normandy invasion, hailed as a major achievement amid fierce defenses.
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Twenty-First Army Group
French Complete Conquest Of Elba Island
French colonial troops captured 1 800 prisoners on Elba and pushed toward Perugia on the Italian mainland. Eighth army advances bring them within three miles of the strategic Rome Florence communications hub.
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Eighth Army
Perugia
Marshall
Italy
Rome
Elba Island
Florence
Allied forces drive Germans from positions in Italian campaign
An allied African headquarters communique from Algiers reports heavy French advances eroding German resistance and capturing Porto Longone. In Rome Washington dispatches note Gen Marshall and Henry Arnold met allied leaders. In Italy Lt. Gen. Clark's Fifth Army pushes north of Grosseto while French seize Roccalbegna and Radicofani as Perugia resists.
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Algiers
Porto Longone
George C. Marshall
U.S
Henry H. Arnold
Rome
Fifth Army
Grosseto
Mark W. Clark
Campagnatico
Roccalbegna
Florence
Perugia
Sad Stab of Wilcoe Child Shocks Welch Community
A seven year old girl named Jean Kelley was stabbed in the back by an eight year old boy as she walked Welch’s main street. The victim was taken to Welch Hospital in serious condition while Police Chief Harry Chaffins questioned the assailant who reportedly said I don’t know. Gail Carter the mayor elect of Welch aided the wounded girl and drove her to the hospital.
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Jean Kelley
Welch
Harry Chaffins
Clyde Kelley
Wilcoe
Chaffins
New. Com
Kelley
Norton
Gail Carter
Airmen Target Nazi Doodle Bugs In Combat Firefight
London reports Ninth U S Air Force units claim multiple kills of the German V 1 flying bombs known as doodle bugs. Mustang and Thunderbolt pilots say the unmanned rockets are now a favorite target as U S ground batteries along the south coast also destroy a sizeable number. One doodle bug was downed by a warrant officer with an improvised 50 caliber gun.
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London
U. S
Adolf Hitler
Senate debates over Churchill assurances trigger probe
Washington June 19 The Senate heatedly debated foreign policy with Sen Connally pushing facts from the State Department on Tyler Kent an American embassy employee linked to a London group alleged to have violated British law Kent reportedly decoded messages between Churchill and Roosevelt and disclosed them to a British MP and a Russianwoman elevating tensions over wartime assurances and diplomatic immunity contesting Churchill's prior dealings with Roosevelt
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Washington
Senate
Conally
D-Texas
Shipstead
R-Minn
Wheeler
Dmont
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Churchill
Admiralty
Chamberlain
Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Tyler Kent
London
England
Ramsay
Kent
Russia
Allies Reach Near Cherbourg in Major Invasion Push
Allied spearheads with 100 mile breakout close on Cherbourg as 25 000 to 50 000 German troops are trapped at the end of week two. American gains include Bricquebec and Valognes within 10 miles of Cherbourg with heavy naval support and reports of rapid German resistance collapse.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Cherbourg
France
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Caen
Associated Front
Don Whitehead
Bizerte
Jacques de Nehou
Barneville
Bricquebec
Valognes
Russians Sweep Closer to Viipuri as Finns Retreat
Soviet Leningrad forces reached within ten miles of Viipuri while Finnish troops pulled back from Muola to the coast. The Red army advanced along the Karelian isthmus, capturing over 70 settlements and four rail stations as Summa, LeiPatto a Muola centers fell. Moscow hailed the retreat as tactical, Stockholm cited critical Finnish distress.
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London
Red Army
Leningrad
Viipuri
Karelian
Muola
Rokkala
Summa
Leipatoa
Stockholm
Moscow
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New Mexico
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Tennessee
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Republican Resolutions Committee
Beachhead
Tex Oreilly
O. K
Dielerte
Barnevilla Carteret
St. Lo-d'Curville
Tire River
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Dulldozers
Island of
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