German forces hold foothold along Arno near Florence
German troops maintain a foothold along the Arno River east of Florence, with heavy Allied and German pressures reported along both banks. Allied air patrols and ground actions continued as German counterattacks challenged advances toward Arezzo and Florence, while urban fighting persisted in the city’s worn districts.
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Norgaard
Arno
Great Bend
Florence
Evis
Ugh Ge
Pisa
Harold Alexander
Commission weighs extermination plan for typhus control
Dothan City Commission considers a proposal by a Citizens Committee for a typhus control program. Rawlus McKinney urges high study before action while Myer Blumberg, chair, says the group is ready to add measures for successful operation, seeking ordinance enactment No. 1.
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SY Eudyt Brown
City Commission
Citizens Committee
Dothan
Rawlus McKinney
Myer Blumberg
Cautioned safeguards urged for cotton growers today
Cotton growers from south and northwest Florida gathered to learn handling tips before ginning to prevent low grades. Officials warned that picking cotton green or mishandling will lower quality and price, with markets favoring better grades like middling over low grades.
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Flor
Yestern
Several Thousand Japs Cornered On Guam Isle
American Marines and soldiers on Guam have compressed several thousand Japanese into the island’s northern tenth, with ground forces and carrier planes tightening the noose. MacArthur reported a three hundred ton raid on Yap and a counter encirclement east of Aitape inflicting heavy casualties as Japanese supply lines from Wewak were severed. Dutch-manned Mitchells sank an 1800 ton enemy freighter south of Ceram in the East Indies.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
U. S. Naval
Carolines
Aitape
Wewak
British New Guinea
Philippines
U.S
Tokyo Radio
Davao
Mindanao
George C. Kenney
Far Eastern Air Force
Australia - New Guinea
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Yap
Yigo
Ceram
East Indies
Department forecasts cotton crop and acreage decline
The Agriculture Department forecast this year's cotton crop at 11.22 million equivalent 480-pound bales on about 1.2 million fewer acres than last year and 2.6 million fewer than two years ago. Average yield and area figures are given with August estimates and comparisons to prior years, noting lower acreage and differing production totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coerpares
Senate Debates Postwar Unemployment Control Divide
Senators opened formal debate on postwar reconversion with a clash over unemployment compensation for displaced workers and veterans. The George bill would keep rates and standards at the state level while placing 2,000,000 federal workers under the program, while Murray Kilgore advocates push for broader federal standards and vocational training funded by Washington. Organized labor backs Murray Kilgore, but many Republicans back the state control George plan.
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Don Hyndman
Washington
Democratic
George D.ga
George
Tick Price Dies After Wounds in France Battle
Staff Sergeant Cornelius Isish Zick Price, former Dothan High athlete and end for the Dothan Tigers, died days after being wounded in Cherbourg France on July 10. He entered high school in 1938 and was captain his final year, a popular figure among teammates and locals. His wife reported his death today.
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Cornelius Isish
Zick” Price
Dothan High School
France
Cherbourg
Tek
Dothan Tigers
Saramel
Headland
Tiger
Wite Drops Deed On False Report
Mrs Mildred McMertie received notice that a false report affected a deed. Her husband’s personal crisis was cited as the cause for the errant filing. Reynolds later returned the document, and the matter drew rapid attention amid the unfolding family difficulties.
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Wite
San Francisco
Mildred McRernetés
John K. McRermetés
Reynelds
McRey
Beerée
FBI Probes Cause Behind Philadelphia Transit Strike
FBI agents and a federal grand jury search for sensational disclosures in a six day transit strike that erupted over a Fair Employment Practice directive. The strike, led after rapid escalation and Army seizure, saw 181 workers stay away in the first 2½ hours of resumed operations. A special jury will hear at least 35 people including strikers, city officials, CIO officials, and War Agency officials.
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Philadelphia
FBI
Zebvur
Grand Jury
Philadelphia Transportation Company
CIO Transport Workers Union
Government War Agency
Roosevelt
Summes McNamee
Frank L. McNamee
Eight Nazi Officers Confess Complicity, Pay Death Penalty
London AP reports Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and seven German officers were hanged in Berlin after confessing plotting to kill Hitler and surrender to the Allies. The trial followed the July 20 bomb attempt, with defendants including Hoeppner, Stieff, von Hase, Bernardis, Klausing, von Hegen, and von Wartenburg.
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London
Erwin von Wittelben
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
von Witzleben
Witzleben
Erich Hoeppner
Stieff
von Hase
Bernardis
Friedrich Karl Klausing
von Hegen
Count Yorck von Wartenburg
Stierff
Polish Government In Crucial Moment In Moscow
Polish premier Mikolajczyk in London reports lengthy talks with the Polish Committee of Liberation and National Council. Sources say he has enough information to base vital decisions, with terms to be clarified. Russia recognizes the Polish Committee of Liberation, seen as crucial in Polish wartime history.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Premer Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
London
Polish Committee of Liberation and National Council
Potashistory
Soviet Union
Polish Committee of Liberation
Poland
Russia
Leeann
Ater
Internaauernai Ret Crosa
Gergrac
Investotar
Coe Stan
Mrcueyre
Red Army drives toward Krakow and Sambor in Poland
Soviet forces push from the Vistula bridgehead reaching up to 20 miles west of the river and 37 miles from Krakow while aiming to seize Boryslav and Sambor cutting Nazi supply routes. A northern pincer targets East Prussia as battles widen across Galicia and the Baltic region.
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Daniel Deluce
Moscow
Vistula
Krakow
Warsaw
Poland
Marshal Ivanov
Konev
Ukraine
Naz
Silesia
Bory- Slaw
Carpathians
Sambor
Czechoslovakia
London
Boryslaw
Romania
42 000 Japanese Slain In Burma By Stilwell Men
Allied spokesman reports 42 000 Japanese killed as four of nine Burma divisions are neutralized in Stilwell drive into northeast India. Japanese retreat possible to Mandalay while patrols cross Yu River and push toward Chindwin. Fewer than 5 000 Japanese fighters remain in India. plan to push them across the Chindwin.
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Charles A. Brumich
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mandalay
Tamu
Yu River
Chindwin
Tiddimon
Imphal Wer
Manipur
Campaium
Chindeii
Gen McNair's Son Dies on Guam Amid War News
The War Department announced the death on Guam of Douglas McNair, 31, son of Lt Gen Lesley J McNair. No details of his death were released. The message noted he had recently returned from Normandy and was connected to a senior officer in the theater.
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MecNair
Guam
Washington
Douglas McNat
Lesley J McNair
May Genanes
Bombs Rain on Caen Front As Allied Air Power Sapped
A thousand American heavy bombers and about 60 RAF heavy planes joined in a night strike over France near Caen. They targeted German air fields and V-rocket sites while Allied ground forces, including the Canadian First Army, pushed forward. Escorts of Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters supported the raids, with Lancasters conducting their first night operation in close support of ground troops.
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London
Caen
France
First Army
Romilly Sur Seine
Paris
le Perthe
Rommlly
England
RAF
Army
Hangman Himmler Reported Dead and Geering Wounded
A captured German intelligence officer claimed Heinrich Himmler was assassinated and Herman Goering wounded in a new attack on the Nazi hierarchy. Several captives echoed the rumor, while British radio noted unconfirmed reports and cautioned that the information was second hand.
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Roger B Greene
France
Heinrich Himmier
Gestapo
Reichsmarshal
Herman Geering
Leutenant
Himmler
Marshal Frwin
Rommel
Norrandy
Goering
Two Major Parties Choose Senate Running Mates
The Associated Press reports Democrats and Republicans in New York discuss senatorial running mates for the presidential race. Voters in Arkansas Connecticut and Vermont weigh candidates three months ahead as Governor Dewey aligns leaders to back his Senate pick.
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Associated Press
New York
Arkanes
Connecticut
Vermont
Thomas E Dewey
Senate
Hirn Seing
Thomas J. Curran
Manhattan
Robert F Wegner
Societ
Recurtz
Nabvans
Labor
Othey Wiee Meter
Artatzis
Veterans Education Costs Alarm Educators
Washington educators warn that if the government pays only the customary tuition at public colleges veterans may shift most costs to states. VA officials consider the program a benefit for veterans, not a college subsidy, and debates center on paying actual costs up to 500 a year.
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Washington
APY
Sam
Veterans Administration
Francis J. Brown
American Council On Education
Congress
State Universiity
Brown
Germans Advance From Plane Armada Near Paris
Allied forces unleashed twin bursts along a 130 mile front driving toward Paris. Canadian troops hit four miles into the Caen area while American units on the southern flank moved toward Le Mans, about 110 miles from the capital.
Civilians Leaving War Jobs To Enter Private Industry
Washington reports a rush of workers from war plants toward civilian employment amid fears the wartime manpower pool is shrinking. James Marlow notes officials like Paul McNutt and Ayres question the exodus, while WPB and Labor report no firm figures. Army leaders stress sustaining production for trucks tanks tires and ships as shortages and shifts in labor linger.
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James Marlow Washington
Paul McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Mr Nutt
Ard Byres
Drarue
WMC
McNor
Bureau 3
Laver Statistics
Office of
Jaber Production
War Production Board
WPB
Ayres - McNutt
Une Reed
Foundremoe
Gore Oana
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Tojo
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Allied Expeditionary Force
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U. S
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