Tragic circus fire stresses emergency calm and safety
The piece urges calm and clear thinking in emergencies after the Hartford circus fire. It contrasts public reactions to disasters and weighs the political tension around Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Roosevelt, then reviews Iowa school code commission work and its chances for legislative action.
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Hartford
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
U. S
Roosevelt
Casablanca
de Gaulle
White House
Iowa School Code Commission
G. W. Hunt
Iowa
Yanks Open New Assault In Normandy
Allied reports say American forces launched a dawn drive across the Vire river near Carentan and La Haye du Puits St Lo arc. American units captured Airel and pushed toward Caen while German defenses remained strongly entrenched in Caen and along the Cherbourg peninsula.
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Vire
la Haye du Puits-Carentan-St. Lo
Normandy
BBC
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Supreme Headquarters
Orne River
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
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Airel
St. Lo
Carentan
Cherbourg
Berlin
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St. Jores
la Plessis Canal
le Mont
Churchill Pledges Full British Weight Against Japan
London reports Winston Churchill promised Chiang Kai-shek Britain will exert its full weight on Japan once victory is secured in the West. The message to Chiang Kai-shek underscores allied resolve in World War II.
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Carpiquet
Erwin Rommel
Verson
Ross Munro
Munro
Rommel
Normandy
Anzio
Bernard N. Montgomery
Europe
London
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Britain
Yankees Shoot Down 75 Nazi Fighter Craft
United States air forces attacked central Germany near Leipzig and other targets in a coordinated strike. About 2,000 U S planes faced German defenses and 75 fighters were shot down as Allies pounded oil plants railyards and synthetic fuel facilities across Silesia and Bohemia with heavy bomber and fighter escorts.
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Italy
Czechoslovakia
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Halle
Aschsleben
Fred Christenson
Watertown
Mass
Paris
Toulon
France
Eighth Air Force
146 Dead in Circus Holocaust Accused Ringling Officials
Hartford jury lists 146 dead and 250 injured as Ringling Brothers officials face manslaughter charges. Fire menace traced to canvas tent coated with gasoline paraffin. authorities press for causes and burial logistics while survivors and relatives cope.
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Circus Holocaust
Ringling
Hartford
Conn
Ringling Brothers Circus
J. A. Waley
George W. Smith
Leonard Aylesworth
Edward Versteig
David Blanchfield
Haley
Smith
Tragic Connecticut Circus Fire Leaves Dozens Dead
State police report two thirds of the victims were children as a tent blaze at a Connecticut circus killed many and trapped hundreds. Mayor Mortensen said the steel runway blocked exits while the band kept playing and ringmasters urged calm moments before a mass panic ensued.
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Mortensen
Connecticut
Merle Evans
17 Killed and 80 Hurt in Troop Train Wreck
A Louisville and Nashville troop train plunged into the Clear River gorge near Jellico Tennessee injuring more than eighty and killing at least seventeen including 15 soldiers and the engineer and fireman. Rescuers used block and tackle to lift victims from wreckage as doctors treated injured with plasma transfusions.
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Jellico, Tenn
Louisville and
Nashville
Clear River
Here
Express
C. L. Alley
Jellico
Willard Yarbrough
Knoxville Journal
Yarbrough
Wallace Lewis
Canton
Ohio
Cumberland Mountain
Diana Barrymore Faces Arrest in Traffic Court
Actress Diana Barrymore daughter of John Barrymore faced arrest Friday for failure to appear in traffic court on a speeding charge. The report notes the Hollywood connection and the legal trouble centering on the traffic case.
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Hollywood
Diana Barrymore
John Barrymore
Superfortress Attacks Sasebo and Yawata on Kyushu
U S bombers from the Twentieth Air Force hit the Japanese naval base at Sasebo and the steel center Yawata on Kyushu in a Friday night raid. General H Arnold announced the assault, marking the third bombing of Japan proper since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
United States
Twentieth Air Force
Sasebo
Yawata
Kyushu
Gen . H. Arnold
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Norfolk
Chinese Break Siege of Hengyang Reverses Japanese Advance
Chinese forces break the Hengyang siege and push a large Japanese army 25 miles northeast. Chungking says enemy units are wiped out at Leiyang and a Canton force was stalled. Tokyo faces setbacks as Mountbatten reports a failed northeast India invasion and the Burma road back in reach.
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Hengyang
Hankow - Canton
Tokyo
Bataan
Saipan
India
Japan
Chungking
Canton
Peiping
Leiyang
United States
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Mutaguchi
Tengchung
Recesheyy
Burma
Civilians Offered Road to Surrender on Saipan
Allied forces designate a single road for civilians to surrender as U S Marines and army units press the Japanese garrison at Saipan's northern tip toward final collapse. About 7,000 civilians already interned. others hiding in hills receive offers of water food and safety.
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Saipan
Navy
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