Americans Storm for Rocket Coast In France Advance Near Toulon
Allied forces push from Toulon toward Marseille as French troops tighten the grip on the Mediterranean base. American armor and infantry form a multi pronged drive through the Durance valley while siege ships pound enemy shore batteries. Patton’s tanks reach Fontainebleau as Montgomery’s front eyes Paris and the Seine crossings.
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Marceille
Rome
Toulon
France
Mediterranean
Marseille
Valensole
Lyon
Asse River
Portais
Dear de Lattre de Tassign
le Beausset
Cages-Les-Pins
Aubagne
Durance
Rhone
Montgomery
Nexis
Seine
Supreme Headquarters
AEF
Revolutory
Paris
Marne
Axis
Po Amaxian
Bernard L. Montgomery
Reich
Berlin
2D Armiea
Eemy
England
Watchad
7Th Awmy
Argentan
Normandy
Santas
Elfgidt
Badinsky
Menni
Somanee
George S. Patton
Fontainebleau
Poland
Mantes
Patton
Vernon
Versailles
16 Men Killed in Sky Collision Near Trinidad Colorado
Lt Col Lambert B Cain chief at Trinidad POW camp reported 16 men killed in a collision of two Pueblo Army Air Base bombing planes about 30 miles northeast of Trinidad. Three others escaped, likely by bailing out, as guards secured the wreckage. Details were not immediately available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Trinidad
Colo
Lambert B. Cain
War near end optimism at Big 8 Security talks
American British and Russian delegates met at Dumbarton Oaks to frame a postwar world security system. Hull Cadogan and Gromyko urged unity among allies and small nations while stressing strength to deter aggression and enforce peace. Willkie and Dulles also discussed broader international security here in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hull
Dumbarton Oaks
Georgetown
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei Gromyko
Reading
Gromyko
Cadogan
Hitler
House unit moves to limit postwar reconversion controls
Washington August 21 The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively moved to cap the life of reconversion machinery at one year reshaping Senate drafted industry demobilization measures. The amendment by Representative Carlson would end the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion when Congress declares no ongoing emergency, reducing federal supervision from two years to one after hostilities end.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Rep
Carlson
R.-Kas
Office of War Mobilization
Emer
FDR Defends Nelson's Trip To China Mission
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board will go to China on a pressing mission. The trip drew remarks that he is not being kicked in the teeth, as Senate war inquiry probes his assignment amid wartime production concerns.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
China
Nelson
Senate War Investigation Committee
County Committees Can Fill Ballot Vacancies
The 1919 legislature granted county executive committees power to fill vacancies on general election ballots after a state supreme court decision. Acting Attorney General Partlow noted the court ruling of October 29, 1918, which held committees could not appoint nominees for ballot placement. The new law amended election rules to empower committees to fill vacancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Nra
Partlow
H. D. Allen
Morgan County
Supreme “Court
Russians Drive 20 Mile Break Near Warsaw Front
Soviet troops pushed northeast of Warsaw and shattered a 20 mile stretch of the Axis line along the railway to Bialystok. Berlin claimed 150,000 Soviet troops opened the Romanian front. Moscow reported progress toward Riga with several rail hubs captured and 42,000 German casualties acknowledged in the Sandomierz pocket.
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Sandomierz
London
Warsaw
East Prussia
Bialystok
Berlin
Dnestr
Moscow
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Tuluszcz
Urle
Lechow
Zlereniec
Praga
Latevia
Tukums
Riga
Latvia
Estonia
Gom
Gulf of Riga
Baltic
Romania
Vistula
German
Silesia
Warka
Kazimierz
Radom
Sinodomierz
Nickel Strikers Ordered to Work at Huntington Plant
In Cleveland on August 21 the War Labor Board ordered about 300 CIO and United Steelworkers back to work after a four day strike at International Nickel’s Huntington plant. The dispute centers on unsettled grievances and the company’s handling of union talks. WLB officials said no further action will be taken until production resumes.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
CIO
United Steelworkers
International Nickel Company
Huntington
Morton D. Barrisch
WLB
William D. Mackay
Cio-Usa
James C. Johnson
National War Labor Board
Cmdr
Palmer H. Beam
Naval
Mackay
Army
Navy
WPB
Johnson
Wavy
Liberated Soviet Women Seek Guns to Fight Nazis
A dozen Russian women freed from a German labor camp in France near Le Mans volunteer to join Allied front lines. Among 220 prisoners aged 18 to 74, eleven bore children. only one woman chose to retreat with Germans. The group, once forced to repair railways for the Todt organization, now aims for combat, asserting they will fight the Nazis rather than quarrel with rifles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boye ST. Mars LE Prezere
France
le Mans
Seymour Pinchefsky
Queens
N. Y
New York
Pinchefsky
William Neiler
Billings
Mont
M. C. Igloe
New York City Board of Health
Corp
Saul Mitchell
Brooklyn
Igloe
Todt
Maria Volkov
Leningrad
Volkov
Russia
Red Army
Poles Seek To End Russian Dispute
London August 21 Polish cabinet spent the day drafting a plan to settle the Russian Polish dispute Emigre leaders say a Warsaw meeting to set up a provisional government is needed The proposed government would include National Committee of Liberation members exiled Polish officials and various internal groups A plebiscite under Allied auspices could legitimize any outcome Mikolajczyk hopes to present proposals to Stalin after Warsaw is liberated but officials say final talks should wait there Allied sources seek an early solution though cautions remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warsaw
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Moscow
LL Ir
National Committee of Liberation
Poland
Landor
Marshal ‘Stalin
Mikolaiczyk
11 New Polio Cases Reported Across State This Week
The state health department logged 11 new infantile paralysis cases for the week ended Aug 19, up from 15 the prior week, with four deaths in the summer outbreak. Total cases for the year rose to 51. counts by county included Boone three and Kanawha two, while many counties submitted no reports.
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State Health Department
Boone County
Kanawha
Ohio
Wyoming
Cabell, Webster and
Morgan
Barbour, McDowell, Harrison, Jefferson
Mercer, Pleasants
Pocahontas
Putnam
Roane, Taylor, Wayne
Wetzel, Wirt
Wood Counties
Air and Underseas Blows Hit Japan in Pacific War
Allied war reports detail new U S submarine sinkings totaling 19 ships including a light cruiser and tanker. The 20th Air Force describes two B 29 raids on Japan Proper with 15 fighters destroyed and 4 planes lost, while Tokyo boasts inflated battlefield claims.
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Pacific
Ray Cronin
Associated Press
Japan
Hongkong
Ching
Sani
U. S. Navy
U. S. 20Th Airforce
Chugoku
Honshu
Radio Tokyo
Kanawha City Demands Bus Fare Parity Protest
Kanawha City residents joined residents of South Ruffner yesterday to demand parity in bus fares within the city limits. A petition signed by about 375 Kanawha City residents was filed with the public service commission. Principal promoters include Edward Hutchinson Hall D. Camp Denver Barnes Roger Vrancken W. T. Slicer Jr and I B Bush. The Kanawha City fare is 74 cents versus 6 14 cents to Edgewood East and West Charleston.
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Kanawha City
South Ruffner
Charleston Transit Co
Public Service Commission
Edward Hutchinson
Hall D. Camp
Denver Barnes
Roger Vrancken
W. T. Slicer, Jr
I. B. Bush
Four Marines Wounded and Two Sailors Missing in Action
Navy dispatches list four West Virginia Marines wounded and ten sailors missing after a confrontation. Names include Henry Jones Jr, Hazel Nuzum, Raymond Shreves, and Manuel Shamblin among the wounded. Norvie Tinney and Ardith Shreves noted as missing. reports cite parents in Beckley Clendenin Fairmont and Ridgeley.
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West Virginia Marine
Navy Department
YoNrs
Henry, Jr
Pri
Gorns
Bertha G. Jones
Xenna [ Riser
Hardert L
Pet Marine Corps
Parent
Robert AL. Kiser
Beckley
Nuzum
Haymond J
Cpi
Macine Tore
Zona VY
Simpson
Shamblin
Manuel
Prt
Marine Corps
Isle L
Clendenin
Bhreves
John Henry
Ardith Phoebr Shreves
Sir Ridgeley
Fairmont
Rosa Shreves
Norapod
Tinney
Norvie Blaine
Navy
Naval
Oscar Byrne Tinney
Epinstat
Allied raid drives Japanese from Halmahera and Celebes
Sw Pacific Bomber force hit Halmahera and Boeroe islands with 203 tons in new raids. Eight Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged at Boeroe, and a Japanese freighter off Mindanao was sunk or damaged. MacArthur says air power loss weakens Japanese hold on the Moluccas as his forces edge toward the Philippines.
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GHQ
Southwest Pacific
Halmahera
Boeroe Islands
New Guinea
Boeroe
Mindanao
Philippines
Celebes
Talaud Islands
Mintisnao
Douglas MacArthur
Molucca Islands
MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Morris Harvey Senior Wounded in Normandy
Sergeant Robert I. Dickson aged 21 was seriously wounded in Normandy on August 3. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dickson of Omar, his father serves as safety director for the West Virginia Coal and Coke Corp. Dickson was a senior at Morris Harvey College Charleston when he entered the service in March 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Harvey
Normandy
Logan
Robert Dickson
Omar
War Department
Robert I. Dickson
Sgt. Dickson
West Virginia Coal and Coke Corp
Morris Harvey College
Charleston
Warships Lash Bayonne Walls In Coastal Shelling
Three Allied light cruisers shelled Bayonne defenses before dawn as German fortifications reportedly fell to the retreating forces. An American motorized column moved 165 miles northwest of Bayonne toward the Loire border, greeted by joyous French villagers with light enemy resistance. Coastal shells drew scattered fire but no hits were reported.
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Spain
Bayonne
Whey
Bay J Yoreig
Nantes
Loire River
Angouleme
Bordeaux
Gradual Release Of GI's Forecast
Denver dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of selective service, foresees a gradual demobilization after Germany falls. He says 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 men could be released as hostilities end, with discharge not in a single day. He notes current drafts of 70,000 to 100,000 per month and expects the rate to continue postarmistice.
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Denver
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Armed Services
Germany
Japan
America
Hershey
Paris Uprising Grows as French Forces Enter City
Inside Paris the French Forces of the Interior are reported operating and the city to be liberating itself from the Nazis. Allied air drops of arms aid the FFI while plans move to maintain order under Gen Koenig as Paris nears liberation. Hendaye bridge occupation signals Pyrenees control.
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London
Paris
Algiers
FFI
France
International Bridge
Hendaye
Pyrenees
DNB
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Charles de Gaulle
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Col. von Avleck
St. Malo
St Malo
Signal Corps
Beil
Melun
Fontaineble
Paria
Chateau
Thierry
Big 8 Security
Dulles
Fdr
Willie Willis
Lally
Philippine
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