Yanks Break Through Near Coutances In Normandy Drive
Allied HQ reports American armored columns punching southeast of Coutances led to a collapse of seven German divisions attempting a breakout. American tanks checked Rommel’s counter attacks near Tessy sur Vire while continuing a broad push along the Normandy coast toward Brehal and Le Mesnil Herman. US forces have seized St Denis le Gast and pressed toward Vire and Legronne, with 5,000 German prisoners taken and area gains totaling about 300 square miles since Tuesday.
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AEF
Coutances
HDQ
Normandy
Brehal
St. Denis -le - Gast
Erwin Rommel
France
Tessy-sur- Vire
le Mesnil-Herman
Rommel
Lengrone
Omar N. Bradley
Percy
Vire
Legronne
St. Malo de la Lande
St. Lo- Caumont
Foerster Resigns Over Curriculum Change Dispute
Prof. W Nor man Foerster, director of the State University of Iown School of Letters and English professor since 1930, resigns in protest after a dean and the president approved curriculum revisions without his input. The liberal arts faculty backed the change amid internal resignations from several faculty members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
W Norman Foerster
School of Letters
State University of Iown
Virgil M. Hancher
Foerster
Harry K. Newburn
College of Liberal Arts
State University
J. H. Arnold
E. B. Reuter
Cedar Rapids marine killed on Saipan Russell J Stanley dies in action
Russell J Stanley a Cedar Rapids resident and Rock Island Railroad maintenance worker prior to enlisting February 21 1941 was killed in action July 25 on Saipan Island. He fought at Guadalcanal and Tarawa and was a nephew of Earl Stanley formerly with the Cedar Rapids police.
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Cedar Rapids
Russell J. Stanley
Saipan Island
Lyle Stanley
R Avenue
Charles T., Stanley
Clarion
Russell
Rock Island
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Earl Stanley
Dewey Bricker Plan Nationwide Campaign Tour
Governor John Bricker announced that Republican standard bearers Dewey and Bricker will cover the whole country in an intensive campaign starting around September 1. The pair will tour major states, with Bricker emphasizing a broad national effort as part of the presidential bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Dewey and
Bricker
John Bricker
Disjoint News Briefs Amid Sparse Page Text
A fragmented update page shows scattered items including Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson columns, plus segments labeled Comics, Movies, and Sports. The text is heavily garbled with stray letters and incomplete headings, offering little coherent reporting.
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Marquis Childs
David Lawrence
Drew Pearson
Foe Reports Big Russian Baltic Surge
Soviet forces surged toward the Baltic states and Warsaw with Rokossovsky and Bagramian leading advances. German defenses in Lithuania Latvia and Estonia weakened as Red Army crossed toward Riga and Jelgava. Polish and Ukrainian fronts pushed toward Krakow and Warsaw while a possible thrust toward Germany loomed.
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Foe
Moscow
Red Army
Warsaw
Lithuania
Riga
Baltic
Joniskis
Siauliai
Estonia
Latvia
East Prussia
Baltics
Jelgava
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Kolbiel
Rokossovsky
Pliev
Bug
Brest Litovsk
SiedIce
Jaroslaw
Przemys
Ukraine
Krakow
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Carpathian
Red Star
Vistula
Niemen River
Baltic Republics
Gabreski Top Ace Missing. Nation’s Leading Fighter Pilot
Lt Col Francis Gabreski, the nation’s leading fighter ace, is missing in action. The war department notified his family that he has been missing since July 20 during a German airfield attack in Europe. He had credited 31 aerial and ground victories, surpassing 28 by any American, and planned to wed Kay Cochran during furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Francis Gabreski
War Department
Gabreski
Globe Shipyard Ends Strike In Superior Wisconsin
Two thousand workers at the Globe shipyard returned to work Saturday ending a strike that began Wednesday noon. The protest challenged the War Labor board for not acting on a contract previously agreed by employer and union last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior, Wis
Globe Shipyard
War Labor Board
Rommel Reported Dead Of Strafing Wound
Clark Lee reports from the Normandy front that independent sources claim Field Marshal Erwin Rommel died after a strafing attack on his car. Prisoners and a French Red Cross worker substantiate the tale with varying details of his hospital admission and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Lee
Normandy Front
Ins
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
Red Cross
Weekend Weather Outlook for Cedar Rapids Area
A generally fair and warmer weekend is forecast for Iowa with a chance of a few showers Sunday afternoon. Skies were clear in Cedar Rapids at 2:30 pm with 83 degrees and 30 percent humidity. Maximum Friday reached 76 degrees between 6 and 7 pm, while the state high yesterday was 88 at Onawa and Spencer recorded a low of 52 today.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chambers
Onawa
Spencer
Yanks Blitz German Oil Plant Anew
American air forces struck the Leuna syn thetic oil plant at Merseburg for a second day, attacking Bremen and supporting raids with heavy bombers. Losses included 17 bombers and six fighters. 20 interceptors were shot down by American fighters. RAF Spitfires destroyed a German headquarters village at Scrignac in the Brest peninsula, while British night bombing faced increased German night-fighter activity with at least 21 bombers downed. Southern England bore the blast of German flying bombs as Allied air forces conducted 1,700 sorties including actions on Ploesti and Florina, with 12 German planes destroyed and 25 Allied aircraft missing.
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London
Germany
Merseburg
Bremen
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Frankfort
Buzzbomb
Juvincourt
Laon-Couvron
Paris
Brest
Scrignac
Air Ministry
Reich
Ploesti
Romania
Florina
Greece
Roosevelt visits Carlson at Coast Hospital in San Diego
SAN DIEGO Calif AP The Office of Censorship announced that President Roosevelt visited Lt Col Evans F Carlson of marine raider fame at the San Diego naval hospital. Earlier the navy said Mrs Roosevelt visited Carlson and other wounded from Saipan and Tarawa and conveyed the president's praise for their heroism.
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San Diego
Calif
Office of Censorship
Roosevelt
Evans F. Carlson
Marine Raider Fame
San Diego Naval Hospital
Navy
Carlson
Saipan
Tarawa
Japanese Lose Thousands In Guam Breakthrough Assault
Two thousand Japanese dead followed a bold nighttime push that breached U S lines on Guam near the northern beachhead but was repulsed by U S Marines. The Orote peninsula battle continued as Allied forces tightened control with heavy artillery and air power, with overall campaign losses mounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Finch
Admiral Conolly
Guam
Navy Radio
United States
Orote
Meister to Take Roving Post with Methodist Church
Dr. Karl P. Meister, longtime superintendent of St Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids since 1943, elected executive secretary of the board of hospitals and homes of the Methodist church. The roving post will handle general and statistical matters for Methodist hospitals nationwide. Meister, formerly of Elyria Ohio, succeeds Rev J P Van Horn. He is a past president of the Methodist National Association of Hospitals and Homes and has held multiple welfare and aged care roles. During his tenure a $75,000 federal Works Administration grant supported a nurses' home expansion at St Luke's, now under construction as a $125,000 project.
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Karl P. Meister
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Board of Hospitals and Homes
The
Methodist Church
Chicago
Associated Press
Dr. Meister
Elyria
Ohio
J. P van Horn
St. Luke’s
Methodist National Association of Hospitals and Homes
National Alliances of Agencies For the Aged
Ohio Association of Homes For the Aged
National Committee On Religion and Welfare Recovery
Federal Works Agency
Willkie Offers to Defend Playwright Against Fish Suit
New York AP Wendell L Willkie offered to represent Maxwell Anderson if Hamilton Fish sued him for libel over the congressman's bid for renomination Gov Dewey rejected Fish. Willkie said he would publicly defend Anderson and would not confirm support for Dewey beyond the telegram.
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Willkie
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Maxwell Anderson
Hamilton Fish
Rn.y
Thomas E. Dewey
Fish
Anderson
Dewey
U S Subs Sink 17 Japanese Vessels in New Wave Claims
Washington AP reports the navy states American submarines sunk 17 Japanese vessels, including a small warship escort craft and ten cargo ships. The tally also lists four cargo transports and a medium transport, with one tanker among the fuel carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
New Bay
Cafe owner reports $70 stolen from cash drawer
C Melean owner of Joe and Cliff's Third Street sandwich shop reported to police Saturday morning that 70.28 dollars in currency was stolen from the cash drawer Friday night. The money had been placed in two sacks in the drawer when the shop closed and was missing on opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
C. Melean
Joe and
Cliff
Third Street
Melean
Navy Announces Minesweeper Lost
The Navy reported the loss of the minesweeper Swerve, bringing total American naval vessels lost since the war began to 172. The 890-ton ship was sunk in the Mediterranean by enemy action. casualties were not disclosed.
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Washington
Navy
Mediterranean
Superforts Bomb Anshan in Manchuria Steel center attack
American B 29s struck Anshan Manchuria destroying vast iron and steel works and chemical by products facilities. The raid aimed at the heart of Japanese heavy industry with daylight precision and involved a diversion against the Chengsien railway yard. Reports claim ships sunk and cargo damaged near Hongkong as Allied communiques note strategic gains and subsequent signals from bomber crews describing their return.
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U. S
Western
China
Anshan
Mukden
Manchuria
Chengsien
Peiping-Hankow
Joseph W Stilwell
Hongkong
Chungking
Formosa
Darien-Port Arthur
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Airen
FCC
Tokyo
Imperial Steel Works
Yawata
Sasebo
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Lessay
Periers
Sienne River
Ninth Air Force
Granville- Villedieu
Liberal Arts
Board of Education
Norman Foerster
Dewey, Bricker
Today's. Index
Ivan Bagramian
Pistol Head
S. T. Willis, Jr
Pacific
Eileen Boyle Willis
Brooklyn
Willis
Air Force
Fair
England
F.R. Lees Carlson
Coast Hospital
Richard W. Conolly
Sumay
Orote Point
America
Orate Point
Pearl Harbor
Tinian
Apra Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas
Nimitz
United Press
Richard W. Johnston
Johnston
Ushi
Mandated Islands
Marshals
Carolines
Meister
Karl P,. Meister
U.S
Cafe
Steel City
Anshan’s Industries
Mary
Roy Lynn
Holton
Kan
Twentieth Bomber Command
Judy
Alyce
Selby Calkins
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