Reds Strike Baranowicze and Press Advance on Carpathians
London AP reports Soviet forces captured Baranowicze opening routes toward Bialystok and Warsaw. German observers cite a new wide front offensive east of Lwow and west of Kowel as Soviets press Wilno area defenses and hammer inland from Orsha to Wilno.
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London
Carpathians
Lwow
Kowel
High Command
Baranowicze
Old Poland
Berlin
Moscow
Wilno
East Prussia
Bialystok
Warsaw
Pinsk
Pripyat
Orsha
Red Army Drives Three Spearheads Toward Wilno
Soviet forces under Gen Ivan Cherniakhovsky launched three cavalry and tank spearheads toward Wilno as German troops within the city prepared to defend the approaches. Front dispatches report Russian columns across the Viliya and near Ostrovets and Oshmyana, with Bistritza and Ostrovets rail corridors as key targets.
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Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Wilno
East Prussia
St. Stanislaw
St. Nicholas
Red Army
Kemelishki
Dvinsk
Bistritza
Viliya
Minsk-Wilno
Ostrovets
Gudogaie
Minsk- Wilno
Oshmyana
Red
Mrs Robt Campbell Injured In Collision With Coal Truck
Cedar Rapids news reports Mrs Robert Campbell, 32, of Voorhees Hall, a nurse at CNE College, injured when her northbound car was struck by a coal truck driven west on F avenue. The truck driven by John S Moore could not stop, turning the Campbell car, then struck an elderly pedestrian, Frank Rooks. Two children in the Campbell car, 7 year old Margaret Kubasa and 9 year old Milo Kubasa, were aboard. the girl was badly scratched. Moore fined for faulty brakes and driving without a license. owner Paul Merveaux fined for permitting an unauthorized driver.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Campbell
Voorhees Hall
Cne
Ellis Boulevard
F Avenue
Johns Moore
McKinley Street
Moore
Campbell
Frank Rooks
F Avenue NW
Margaret Kubasa
Milo
Kubasa
First Avenue NW
Rooks
Paul Merveaux
Batt Denies Secret Trade Pacts by U S and Britain
Washington AP reports William L Batt chairman of the Combined Production and Resources board denies Friday night that the United States and Great Britain have made secret trade agreements.
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Washington
William L. Batt
Combined Production and Resources Board
Great Britain
Man Killed in France Leonard Kelly 30
Leonard Kelly a 30 year old technician and machinist in an armored division was killed in action in France on June 20. A Linn county draft inductee he went overseas before Christmas 1942 and is survived by his mother Mrs Emma Kelly two brothers Chance 28 Elmer 22 a sister Goldie May and grandfather Joseph Tellin all of 1308 D avenue NE Fortieth street and Mt. Vernon road SE. He had work at Quaker Oats before joining the army.
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Linn County
France
War Department
Emma Kelly
D Avenue
Kelly
Fortieth Street
Mt. Vernon Road
Chance
Elmer
Goldie May Kelly
Joseph Tellin
D Avenue NE
Grocery Fire Floods One-9-Teen Center Stock
A fire caused by a smoldering cigarette butt at the One-9-Teen youth center on Third Avenue SE damaged the center slightly and caused extensive water damage to the People's Grocery stock in the same building. Fire Chief Kohout estimated about 10,000 gallons flooded the store basement to inches deep. Orrie Becker, the store manager, called the stock loss "huge" but could not value it. A crew of 25 firefighters pumped out the basement while keeping overall damage to a minimum. The store remained open Saturday.
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Third Avenue SE
People’s Grocery
E. P. Kohout
Orrie Becker
Becker
Superfort Workers Follow Raid On Japs Strike
CHICAGO, UP. Day shift machinists at the Dodge Chicago plant of Chrysler, which builds B 29 engines, returned to work as management sought to settle a second shift machinists strike that began Friday night after the second B 29 raid on Japan. The plant had a prior department strike when bombing Japan occurred earlier. Friday night, 23 of 56 second shift machinists walked out after a first shift lead man was promoted to second shift foreman.
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Chicago
Dodge
Chrysler Corporation
Japan
Fifth Army Wins 3 Key Fortresses
American and French forces of the Fifth Army captured Rosignano Castellina and Colle di Val d Elsa, key outposts of the Gothic line, driving within 11 to 23 miles of Livorno and Florence. Heavy street fighting marked the advances as Allies pressed the German defenses. Eighth Army gained in Arezzo while Polish troops cleared to five and a half miles of Ancona along the Adriatic.
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Fifth Army
Rosignano
Castellina
Colle di Val d’ Elsa
Italy
Livorno
Leghorn
Florence
Colle di Val d ’Elsa
Poggibonsi
Volterra
Eighth Army
Arezzo
Lake Trasimeno
Adriatic
Osimo
Ancona
Wallace Quarantine Report Denied In Canada and U S
Wallace and others aboard an army bomber returning from China were reported quarantined in Edmonton Friday night but Army officials denied the quarantine order Saturday Maj George A Carroll said no comment on the co pilots illness Seattle NBC hookup news noted no notification of schedule changes KOMO radio stations in Seattle had not been informed of any broadcast alteration
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Edmonton
Alta
Wallace
China
Seattle
George A. Carroll
Army Transport Command
Grand Prairie
Carroll
KOMO
NBC
Iowa
Field denies Sun campaign to smear Avery in libel suit
Marshall Field editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun told a Chicago court on Friday that the newspaper had not launched a campaign to smear Sewell L. Avery, chairman of the Montgomery Ward board, in a libel suit.
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Chicago
Marshall Field
The
Chicago Sun
Sewell L. Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Dr. W A Jessup Dies Former Iowa U President
Dr Walter Albert Jessup 66 prominent educator and former president of the Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Foundation died in New York after not returning to his Arlington Vermont summer home. He led Indiana University and Iowa State University earlier, earned multiple doctorates, and was born in Richmond Indiana.
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New York
Walter Albert Jessup
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Columbia University
Wiscon
Yanks Bomb Seven Robot Bomb Bases in France and Germany
Allied air fleets pounded seven German rocket base sites near Paris at St. Leu d Esserent and other targets in France. RAF Lancasters hit a large cave depot, while US bombers and Fortresses struck three oil refineries near Vienna and other airfields. Night raids caused heavy German losses and disrupted rail and road links to the caves.
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United States
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France
St. Leo-d'Esserent
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R.A.F
Vaires
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Ruhr
London Daily Herald
England
Vienna
Veszprom
Eighth Fighter Command
Luftwaffe
Italy
Britain
Germany
Belgium
Superforts Bombed Japan China Targets No Planes Lost
U S B 29s struck five Japanese naval industrial and military centers in Kyushu and coastal China. All aircraft returned safely with light opposition. Targets included Sasebo Yawata Omura Laoyao and Hankow with earlier Tobata error denied. Japanese reports claimed minimal losses and noted some fires at Yawata.
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United States
Japan
China
Twentieth Air Force
Kyushu
Twentieth Bomber Command
Sasebo
Yawata
Omura
Laoyao
Hankow
Yangtze River
Tobata
Nazis Slaughter Greek Villagers in Dis tomo Massacre
AP dispatch from Izmir reports copies of a Greek puppet government communique stating that on June 10 Germans killed more than 1,000 residents of the Greek village of Distomo in reprisal for 30 German soldiers killed nearby. The village was burned. hundreds were said to have died in a church crucible. Limoges nearby also cited a similar massacre in France.
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Turkey
Distomo
Lidice
London Radio
Limoges
France
Bordeaux
Negro appointed to GOP publicity post in New York
The GOP national committee announced the appointment of Dr. C. B. Powell, publisher of the New York Amsterdam News, as assistant director of publicity. Powell previously served as a director of publicity for the Democratic party in 1936 and 1940, per national chairman Herbert Brownell Jr.
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NEW York
C. B. Powell
New York Amsterdam News
Republican National Committee
Herbert B. Brownell
Powell
Hitler and Generals Hold Crucial Talks at Frontier
German leaders, in talks with Adolf Hitler, consider drastic defense revisions before month end. Debated options include withdrawing from Norway and the Balkans to concentrate forces, with Rommel pressing for more in Normandy and Rundstedt seen as wary of overextension. Civilian evacuations and new refugee camps expand as Italy and Finland fronts threaten positions.
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Adolf Hitler
Reich
Hitler
Norway
Balkans
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Italy
Rundstedt
Eduard Diet
Finland
Dietl
Austria
Allied Offensives Push Toward Caen In Normandy Fight
Allied headquarters report British Second Army and Canadian troops driving toward Caen after night bombardment. American forces seize St Jean de Caaye and advance along the Vire river and Taute canal, touching toward St Lo. Monty’s front drives, air power, and organized river crossings widen the bridgehead. French underground forces and Maquis actions disrupt German units in southern France.
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HDQ
Second Army
Caen
Normandy
St. Jean de Caye
la Haye du Puits
Supreme Command
Vire
St. Jean
Taute Canal
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
St. Lo
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Ome
Carpiquet J
Roger D. Greene
New
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