Bradley Reports Casualties and Beachhead Security in France
General Bradley told beachhead correspondents that American casualties in the first 11 days of the Normandy invasion totalled dead and 12 600 wounded with the beachhead “absolutely secure.” He noted higher than expected losses on the central beachhead but lighter casualties on the peninsula, and praised Doughboys and parachute troops for making the operation a success.
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France
N. Bradley
M Y
Bradley
Peninsula
London
Manuevers
Cherbourg
82Nd Airborne
St. Sauveur-Le-Vicomte
Normandy
Georgia rate suit filed against railroads seeks injunction
Georgia files an original Supreme Court suit asking a permanent injunction against 20 railroads for allegedly discriminatory freight rates favoring Northern shippers over Georgia. The petition seeks $6.75 million, triple damages, and an accounting, naming Attorney General T Grady Head as filer.
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Atlanta
Georgia
United States Supreme Court
Mississippi River
Illinois
T. Grady Head
Wallace May Have Battle Over renomination
Washington reports say Vice President Wallace could face a stiff fight for renomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Southern lawmakers and governors criticize him over white supremacy and oppose a racial equality plank while hoping for concessions on other reform demands.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Wallace
Roose
Chicago
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
China
Roosevelt
Maybank
D-S. C
Pepper
D-Fla
Mississippi
Texas
South Carolina
New Committee to Fight for President in Washington
A National Political Action Committee formed by 350 delegates at a CIO conference aims to renominate and reelection President Roosevelt. It will include CIO leaders and prominent progressive Americans outside labor, funded voluntarily by individuals, avoiding union and corporate involvement per Smith Cannary rules.
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Washington
National
Political Action Committee
Roosevelt
CIO
Pressman
Smith-Cannally
Alabama Baptists Move to Clear Indebtedness in 1944 Drive
In Birmingham on June 17, Alabama Baptists report $420,000 raised toward a $500,000 goal to relieve debt for 2,327 churches across the state during 1944.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Lovelady Navy Family Stationed in Framingham Mass
Pvt Norman Lovelady is stationed in Framingham Massachusetts. Mrs Lovelady accompanies him. He is the son of Virginia Lovelady and brother in law Ray Bond.
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Pvt
Norman Lovelady
Top
Framingham, Mass
Mrs. Lovelady
Virginia Lovelady
Ray- 8
Bond
Congressmen to Donate Blood for War Effort
Alabama's nine U S representatives will give a pint of blood next Thursday at a Red Cross plasma center. The symbolic donation follows a suggestion by Rep Sparkman and Rep Boykin citing Allied advances and Japan bombing news as a call to action.
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Washington
Alabama
Red Cross
Hey
Sparkman
D-Ala
Boykin
Japan
St Joseph Aspirin Promises Quality and Purity Assured
An advertisement touts St Joseph Aspirin as the world’s largest seller at 10 cents with guaranteed quality and purity. It emphasizes value and trust in the product.
Billy Byars Aids War Bond Drive Despite Young Age
Six year old Billy Byars of 402 West Gordon Drive saves pennies to buy a $100 war bond in the fifth war loan drive. He asks Aunt Maud Odom to help and offers to be her first customer as bond salesman. He insists the bond be made out for himself and his brother Jack.
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Billy Byars
Helen Odom Byars
Jack
Europe
Billy
West Gordon Drive
War bond faith in a boy and brother in France
A fragment recalls Billy Byars and his brother Jack serving with the first artillery division in France. They share ownership of a $100 war bond symbolizing a boy’s faith in his brother and country as he awaits his return home.
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Billy Byars
Jack
France
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