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Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered thundershowers. Max 88 min 65. Local notices include cinema listings Shine On Harvest Moon at the Princess Henry Aldridge Plays Cupid at the Roxy Pistol Packing Mama at the Capitol. Comunitary notices cover church sermons and wartime ration stamps details with a focus on local leaders and events.
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The
Princess
Henry Aldridge
Cupid
Roxy
Capitol
Yanks Pour Through Normandy Gap Near Coutances
Allied armor slammed through the Normandy gap near Coutances after a 15 mile advance from St. Lo, trapping remnants of the 84th German army corps. Bradley’s spearheads pushed 11 miles deep with a two mile pull on Coutances, while German retreat intensified and air power destroyed dozens of tanks.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Coutances
St. Lo
Gladwin Hill Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
Bradley
Lessay
Marguerin
Periers
Corbuchon
Soulles
Avranches
Vire
Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Tare Two
Four Die in Dixie Storm Across Mid-South
A Dixie storm system claimed four lives across Arkansas Mississippi and Tennessee. At Greenwood Army air base a wind toppled four buildings injuring many including Cpl William A Hall of Lucas Ohio. Pvt Teofilo Salinas Holtville California died at Camp Robinson. John Glenn Robinson Con way died of a heart attack sheltering from the storm. Clarence T Woods Memphis was killed removing debris. The storms hit Arkansas Kentucky Alabama North Mississippi West Tennessee and East Oklahoma.
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Memphis
Tenn
mid-South
William A. Hall
Lucas
Ohio
Greenwood
Miss
Army Air Base
Arkansas
Teofilo Salinas
Holtville
Calif
Camp Robinson
John Glenn Robinson
Conway
Clarence T. Woods
Kentucky
Alabama
Mississippi
West
Tennessee
Oklahoma
German Plane Losses Mount inMediterranean Air War
Allied air crews claim over 200 German planes destroyed in four days during raids on Hungary as U S fighters and bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force report 73 Allied aircraft losses in the period.
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Rome
U. S
Mediterranean
Hungary
Nazi Propaganda Promises Secret Weapons Amid War Doubts
The article reports Goebbels claiming secret German weapons including flying bombs and rockets, while Churchill warns Britons to expect greater trials. It questions the existence of such weapons, notes Hitler’s total war push, and hints at ongoing fronts in Eastern Europe and Normandy.
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Goebbels
Germany
Britain
Hitler
Churchill
Europe
Normandy
Attlc
Prosecution Under Alabama Bradford Act Initiated in Birmingham
State Labor Director Emmett Brooks announced the first Bradford act case in Birmingham against Clifford Jenkins of Ingalls Iron Works. Jenkins is charged for suspending an employee for nonpayment of union dues under a War Labor Board backed contract. The case, to be tried in the local court, involves the AFL Iron Workers union and could carry up to 500 dollars fine and a year in jail.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Bradford
Emmett Brooks
Brooks
Clifford Jenkins
Ingalls Iron Works Company
Clem S. Walters, Jr
Ingalls
Sheriff's Office
Jenkins
War Labor Board
Jefferson County
WLB
Jail Held Writer L. C. Shelton Charged With Forgery
L. C. Shelton of Pulaski Tennessee was placed in Morgan county jail Friday afternoon charged with forgery after arrest by Police Chief J. B. Whitmire and Patrolmen Terry and Carter. He allegedly wrote checks totaling 28 dollars using the name W. R. Rolland to pay for items from Lyon's Electric Company Grant's Moye's Barber Shop and the Outlet Store. six warrants were issued for his arrest.
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L. C. Shelton
Pulaski, Tenn
Morgan County
J. B. Whitmire
Terry and
Carter
Shelton
W. R. Rolland
Lyon's Electric Company
Grant
Byrnes Likely to Quit Washington After 30 Years Career
James F. Byrnes, 65, long a central figure in Washington politics, after a brief Supreme Court stint, is expected to depart public life. The move follows decades of influence and service in national affairs.
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Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Caro
Publite
Allied thrusts devastate Japanese empire in Pacific moves
Allied forces struck Palau Truk Sabang and China fronts as Japan faced five new advances. Carrier raids at Palau destroyed ships and planes while MacArthur bombers hit a convoy south of Truk. Sabang suffered harbor damage and British submarines damaged Japanese shipping recently.
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Palau
Philippines
Japan
Hengyang
Truk
Sabang
China
Caroline
U. S
Arakadesan
Peleliu
Angaur
Malakal
Koror
Yap
Ulithi
Guam
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Sumatra
Burma
Singapore
London
Far Eastern
Executions Denied by Tokyo Amid Bond of Propaganda
London reports a Japanese broadcast denying that American pilots who crashed in Japan were executed or would be executed. The denial targets a Singapore broadcast two weeks earlier about a single journey ticket for Superfortress airmen. The piece notes Tokyo's denial covers only Superfortress fliers while the U S government cites confirmed executions related to the Doolittle raid.
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London
Tokyo
United States
Switzerland
Singapore
Japan
Allied land and sea victories push through Marianas and China drives
Allied operations in the Marianas push Japanese garrisons toward collapse on Guam and Tinian as 2,089 Japanese and 159 U S. deaths, with 441 wounded and 32 missing in six days. In China, Leiyang is retaken and Hengyang remains fiercely contested, shaping the Canton Hankow railway drive.
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Guam
Tinian
Marianas
Ushi
U. S
Nimitz
Apra Harbor
Sumay
New Guinea
Leiyang
Canton- Hankow
Hengyang
Bulgaria Reports Readiness to Quit War
An Ankara dispatch dated July 27 reports Bulgaria negotiating with the Allies to exit World War II. The negotiations align with Turkish developments, though a portion of the dispatch from Ankara has not been received.
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Ankara
Bulgaria
Eighth Moves On Florence From Front Lines Across Arno
Allied forces push toward Florence with New Zealand units taking San Casciano seven airline miles from the city. Indian troops gain northwest toward the Arno while Polish forces advance toward the Misa river and Senigallia. German smokescreens persist as American artillery targets concentrations and dumps.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
New Zealand
San Casciano
Arno
Pisa
Cerbaia
Monte-Spertoli
Empoli
Adriatic
Misa
Senigallia
Forts Strike at Germany
American Flying Fortresses, about 1000 strong, hit central Germany under fighter escort as Nazi planes clashed in the skies. German radio claimed Bucharest was bombed, while weather limited damage assessments and raids extended from Franconia to Saxony.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Germany
Berlin
Normandy Battlefront
Reich
Ploesti
Stuttgart
Bucharest
Franconia
Thuringia
Saxony
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Britain
Europe
Salvage shop in Normandy turns rifles into service gear
In Normandy a medium ordnance company operates a salvage yard under a canvas canopy. Thirteen men strip usable parts from rusted and broken rifles, reassembling them into serviceable guns for return to action. Dozens of such companies process hundreds of rifles daily.
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Ernie Pyle
Normandy
Medium Ordnance Company
Ernie Finds Group Repairing Rifles
A unit recovers and rebuilds rifles from salvaged parts. Workers sort, clean with gasoline, sandblast damaged pieces, and assemble usable components into good rifles for front line use. Leftover parts are discarded or sent to the shop for repairs.
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Ernie
Red Army Advances Near Berlin After Baltic Push
Stalin announced Soviet forces captured Przemysl Jaroslaw and Kaunas as they race toward East Prussia and Berlin. Moscow radio boasted tanks control high ways as Brest Litovsk and Lwow fell under Red artillery and infantry pressure.
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London
Stalin
Przemysl
Jaroslaw
Associated Press
Brest Litovsk
Warsaw
Kaunas
Lithuania
Berlin
San River
German Silesia
Baltic States
Poland
Carpathian
East Prussia
Czecho-Slovakia
Transocean
Garwolin
Moscow
Bug River
Mos
Minsk
Wilno
Russia
Siaulai
Wounded Yanks Killed As Plane Strikes A Cliff
London reports a plane crash near Southwest Scotland killed twenty four people, including seventeen wounded American soldiers and six crew members. A nurse died among the victims as a fire erupted and many bodies were burned.
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London
Scotland
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J. N. Freeman
Montgomery
Elmer Freer
First Christian Church
Norman Olsen
War Department
Dewey W. Ellard
Oscar A. Ellard
Holly Pond
Thomas’ R. Yarbrough
WPB
Chamber of Commerce
Sgt
Claude L. Stipe
Camp Gordon
Johnston, Florida
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
W. W. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Pat Kelly
Ringling Brothers Circus
O.K
Mr. Kelly
Hartford
Big Top
Clarence R. Myrick
Robert Lee Myrick
Gardendale
First
Marine Division
Guadalcanal
Sarah Elizabeth Baker
Decatur General Hospital
West LaFayette Street
Brown’s
Harold M. Chadwick
Prospect Drive
Brown's
Charles O.guinn
Decatur
M. C. Keith
Vacaon
Geraldine, Briscoe
C. R. Bibb
Huntsville
D. R. Bibb
Hartselle
Norman Harris
H. D. Greer
J. W. Cunningham
Sixth Avenue
Nooss
Alfie Cooper Dobbs
Pfc
James R. Dobbs Jr
U. S. Oo Corps
Saipan
Pfe
Dobbs
D. J. Anders
Hartseller
Eula May Goree
By Ken Reynolds
Associated Press CO
Line Gap
Frank Policastro
Eileen Hyland
New York
Long Island City
East “Prussia
Velkie
Vitebsk
Bryansk
Deblin
Pulay
Romania
Shlobin
Pulawy
Visla
Vistula
Narva
Estonia
Delatyn
Dixie
By Dewitt MacKenzie
England
Byrnes May
Japs Empire
Pyle
Victory
Red Army
Lwow
Old Poland
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