In American News Saipan Pre-Invasion Blows Intensify
The Pacific Fleet reports intensified Japanese attacks as American forces press toward Saipan and Guam. Tokyo radio notes Nagumo and 16,000 Japanese dead as U S forces bombarded Guam. Task Force 58 prepares for continued actions to breach Nippon defenses and seize Saipan.
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Pacific Fleet
Harbor
Saipan
Nippon
Western Pacific
Tokyo
Coester W. Nimitz
Chiichi Nagumo
U .S
Guam
Kye
Washington
Sainan
Sarrison
Seinan
Abapag Harbor
Tinian
Nagumo
Pearl Harbor
Saseba
Japan
World War Front Dispatches Amid War Drums
Hard driving armies push toward Pinsk and toward Warsaw as German withdrawals claim strategic roads. Red Army reports 13,000 captured in Old Poland region while Soviet forces move toward Bialystok. American units press into German positions near St Lo as Allied offensives widen. Naval actions include Japanese carrier and air battles near Pearl Harbor and Guam as Pacific hostilities continue.
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Associated Press
Pinsk
Warsaw
Old Poland
Grodno
Red Army
Bialystok
Squire Falls
ASION
St Lo
Perlers
Livarna
Hengyang Encircled Again By Japanese Who Control Railway
Japanese forces tightened the ring around Hengyang and now control the Canton Hankow railway to Laiyang. Chinese and Allied actions include pushing toward Tengchung and targeting transports in French Indo China. Stilwell pilots claim several ships and barges sunk or damaged near Nam Dinh and Thanh Moi.
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Spencer Moosa Chungeing
Hunan
Hengyang
Canton- Hankow
Laiyang
Changshan
Hengshan
Tokyo
Associated Press
Changsha
Tengchung
Burma
Eest
Salween
Joseph W. Stilwell
Indo- China
Nam Dinh
Tnanmoi
Roosevelt Dies In Normandy From Heart Attack
Brig. Gen Theodore Roosevelt Jr aged 56 died on Normandy battlefront after a heart attack as he rested in a captured German truck. He served as assistant commanding general of the Fourth Infantry Division and will be buried in France, near where his brother Quentin fell in World War I.
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London
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Normandy
Fourth Infantry Division
France
Quentin
Roosevelt
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Ture
War Labor Board wage decisions trigger mass strikes
Thousands of war industry workers walk off in Chicago area plants after WLB actions. Can makers protest low raises while glass workers face a stern AFL demand. About 5,000 of 4,300 Continental Can employees quit. CIO unit workers also halt in three plants. Edgar L. Warren cites minimums of 77 1 2 cents for men and 66 2 3 for women. Harry Conk calls the glass case unsatisfactory and vows action.
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Associated Press
War Labor Board
WLB
Chicago
Joliet
Til
AFL
Can
CIO
United Steel Workers
Continental Can Company
Edgar L. Warren
Ita
Marietta
Ohio
Harry Conk
AFL American
Postwar airline plans flood Civil Aeronautics docket
Virginia Van der Velsen reports that the Civil Aeronautics Board has a flood of postwar applications from airlines trucking firms and stores. Projections show inter resort air service Gulf to Atlantic and routes reaching to Capetown Canton Calcutta. By mid 1944 seventy eight route applications cross the nation toward London Brisbane Alas Moscow Tokyo with far reaching aims.
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Virginia van der Vels
Washington
Milledgeville
Capetown
Canton
Calcutta
Florida
Atlantic
Gulf
Lake
Ocean
Jacksonville
Miami
Arkansas
Ing Machine
Civil Aeronautics Board
London
Brisbane
Moscow
Tokyo
Tuva Te Be
Bombers Hit Budapest Rail Yards and Oil Refineries
Allied air attack on Budapest targets four refineries near the capital and Ferencvaros railway yards as heavy bombers press assault against German fuel and transport lines. Liberators bombed Petturdo works and crews faced Nazi fighters with Mustang escorts.
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Glanwinmm
LONDON /AP
Budapest
Hungary
Normandy
Besavsis
Montdider
Taly
Fanto
Shell Kodaz
Hungary Petroleum Company
Petturdo
Ferencvaros
Paya 3
Lear Replaces McNair in Command of Ground Troops
Washington AP War Department announces Lt Gen Ben Lear will command Army ground forces, relieving Lt Gen Lesley J McNair who takes an overseas assignment. McNair led ground forces since March 194? Lear previously led the Second Army and has North Africa service, with a noted prewar controversy over discipline. McNair, 61, began at West Point in 1900 and served in Mexico and World War I with the First Division and General Headquarters.
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Washington
War Department
Ben Lear
Army Ground Forces
Lesley J. McNair
McNair
North Africa
Lear
Second Army
Army Group
Hamilton
Canada
First
Colorado Infantry Volunteers
Philippines
Cuba
Memphis
Ten
Senate
France
United States
American Expeditionary Forces
Germans Foreseen Destroying Europe
Herbert Pell, U.S. representative on the Allied War Crimes Commission, warned that Germany would try to destroy occupied Europe before defeat in a bid to start a new war. He cited a military broadcast predicting a fortress of Europe would be turned into a whirlpool of destruction to draw in all forces and blood.
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London
Herbert Claigorne Pel
U. S
Allied War Crimes Commission
Europe
Pell
Sore Attag
Euron
Japanese Breakthrough Repulsed Aitape Fight In New Guinea
Allied headquarters report heavy Japanese losses in a failed assault two miles east of Aitape as 45,000 van guards trapped Nippon troops fought back amid jungle warfare. The 18th Army,-led by General Hatazo Adachi, faced intense artillery and air strikes as survivors of a 96,000-strong force pressed for a break in Allied lines. MacArthur announced ninth Yap attack in ongoing Pacific operations.
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New Guinea
British New Guinea
Aitape
Altape
Hatazo Adachi
18Th Army
Wewak
Douglas MacArthur
Yap
Sparks To Interview State 3rd Regiment At Ozark Air Field
The Alabama State Guard Third Regiment, after a week of training, was to pass in review at the Ozark Air Field near Camp Rucker in the first open post for guardsmen. Governor Sparks and Brigadier General Cleere were to observe as Col Shealy and staff announced details. The unit, based in Dothan, will break camp Sunday and hand over to the Second Regiment, then the First.
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Alabama State Guard
Chauncey Sparks
Ozark Air Field
Camp Rucker
Dauthin Island
Mobile Psy
Inman
Minnmecon Ane
John P. Shealy
Ihn Vayieur Ain
Col Shealy
Sparks Yam
Anapt
Frederick Fia
Heer
Forth
Carian Mannmand
Geoarce L. Cleere
Alabama
North Alabama
Farm Road System Topic Before Board
County Board of Revenue plans a special session to consider paving five mile farm to market roads. Reports say the board will defer action until after the war. Observers note a majority favor delaying work. a few members prioritize maintenance of existing roads.
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County Board of Revenue
Tara
St Lo Fall Near Escape Route Hit
American infantry and tanks pushed one to three miles as Allied forces advance along the Cherbourg Peninsula. The Supreme Command said the whole front from St Lo to the sea is on the move as German withdrawal speeds up. Doughboys near St Jo dug in under artillery pressure while riflemen renewed attacks for a fourth day, taking several villages on a broad 48 mile front.
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Wes Gallagher
Allied Expeditionary Force
Tap
Cherbourg
Supreme Command
United States Army
St. Lo
Hat Boyte
Associated Press
St. Jo
Supreme Headquarters
IAP
Bt. Lo
Normandy
Armerican
Lassay
Lessuy
Carentan
Caen
Tera
Ne If
Jap American Troops Drive Through Italian Front Pastina
American forces led by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team breached coastal German lines and seized Pastina, 13 miles east of Livorno, pushing toward San Luce. French troops on the right wing advanced toward San Donato and San Gimignano, narrowing the path to Empoli and threatening Poggi Bonsi. The Germans counterattacked near Monte Maggiore but were repelled as the front shifted with gains along the Tiber valley. Indian units also moved east of Colle Dei Orel repelling counterattacks.
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Rome
Pastina
Livorno
Leghorn
San Luce
442Nd
Era
San Donato
San Gimignano
la Casette
Arno
Empoli
Poggibonsi
Citte di Castello
Santa Lucila
Colle Dei Orel
Houston Land Owners Finding New Revenue
Houston County land owners gain new revenue as oil gas and mineral rights leases expand across thousands of acres. Probate office notes future operations will dwarf past efforts with multiple oil companies increasing land acquisitions and one company holding about 100 leases.
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Houston County
Turkey Thought About Prepared To Aid Allies
Washington dispatch reports that Ankara draws closer to the Allies as Anglo American and Russian talks continue. A likely move is severing Turkish economic ties with Germany, halting chrome exports and limiting trade, with Turkey already reducing overall trade with the Nazi regime. Diplomatic activity in Ankara has surged as three way discussions unfold.
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Washington
Ankara
Turkey
L Lkely
Germany
Thie Gie
United Nations
Ti Ne. H
Vice Presidential Fights Spark Across Party Lines
Democratic leaders forecast fireworks as the 1940 convention nears in Chicago. Governors and mayors weigh running mates for Roosevelt, while Wallace seeks renomination and Dewey urges closer government and citizen self governance. The CIO backs Wallace, L. Barkley remains a possible name, and party strategists debate the ticket.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert S. Kerc
Oklahoma
Edward J. Kelly
White House
Henry A Wallace
Roosevelt
Ballnt
Henry Ward
Paducah, Ky
Sun-Democrat
Alven Barkley
Barkley
Wallace How
CIO Political Action Committee
Washington
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Prowlers Found To Be Youngsters
City police investigated prowlers at a Black Street address and found two youngsters aged nine and six who had entered the home to recover toys they claimed belonged to them. Patrolman Odell Hobby said police were notified of the entry at Clarence Bell’s residence. They entered through a screen window.
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Blackshear Street
Odell Hobby
Hobby
Clarence Bell
Nazis Lose 13000 Dead And Pinsk Evacuated
Allied dispatches report German forces evacuating Pinsk after a siege in the Pripyat marshes as Russians push near Kaunas and the Brest Litovsk fortress. The German communique claims a withdrawal from Luck and heavy fighting around Wilno and Grodno while American troops near St Lo hold firm against advancing artillery.
China First Lady Visits Brazil for Rest During Stem Conference Era
In Rio de Janeiro, Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrives with Madame H. H. King for a rest break, not originally expected to visit the country. The delegation accompanies the First Lady en route to or from the United Nations monetary conference at Bretton Woods, with prior visit noted in November 1942 after a New York hospital stay.
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Washington
Chiang Kat Shek Hag
Rio de Jeneiro
H. H. King
Breston Woods
Brasil
China
New York
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Congress
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