Planes Pound European Continent in Wide Allied Assaults
American heavy bombers and fighter escorts pounded the French coast and targets across France and Germany. The raid, amid poor weather in places, hit Calais Boulogne Cherbourg and airfields in Romania and Italy. Thunderbolts, Liberators, Fortresses and Mustangs supported missions striking radar stations, airstrips, and supply lines.
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Gman
B. Jameson
Lied Expeditionary
Het
Skyways
Sun
Calais
Boulogne
France
Cherbourg
Italy
Romania
Armerican
Liberators
Germany
DNB
Berlin
U. S
Eighth Air
Song
Normandy
Bat
Paris
Yeedy Radio
Thunderbolts
Yurve Cassis
England
Mand
Heat Wave Sweeps Southeast With High Readings
The Associated Press reports temperatures near 100 degrees across most of the Southeast with the heat peaking in Texas and Florida. A mass from the West may bring brief relief later in the week, but highs already hit 102 in Jack and 103 in Gainesville, while Tallahassee and Birmingham logged 104. Thunderstorms and shortages plagued some areas as utilities warned of strain on old customers.
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Mand West
Texas
Atlanta
Southeast
Florida
Claes
Mercury
Jack
Gainesville
New Strength Shown By Nazi Army In Italy
German forces again hurled armor and air power into the Italian front as the U S Fifth Army pushed toward the Ombrone River about 115 miles northwest of Rome. French units crossed to the south bank after overrunning Roccastrada, with battles widening along the front amid heavy artillery and minefields. Allied columns fought near Fallencia while Mediterranean Air Force planes bombed targets in Romania and on lines from Ploesti to Central Europe, despite weather and losses.
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George Tucker Rome
Italy
Fifth Army
Cuntains
Omie River
Rome
Ths
Fifth
Roccastrada
Pise
Ombrone
Rotcestrada
Albert Kesselring
Reecastrada
Giurgiu
Bucharest
Frriday
Mediterranean Air Force
U. S
Craiova
Iron Gate
Danube
Oltuli
Chins
Take Trasimeno
Pervela
Corcins
Mante Ginea
Per
Adriatic
San Elnidio
Ancons
Rieht
Morravele
Vonterosara
GOP Legions Swarm Chicago For Convention War Party
Republican supporters swarmed Chicago for a wartime convention, amid rising talk of a Dewey War Referenced ticket with War Senate, as delegates and campaigners converge. California Pennsylvania Illinois plan caucuses with up to 50 10 58 votes. decisions on ballot strategy could clinch nomination before the convention.
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Paul Miller
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Earl War- Ten
California
United States
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Napier Field Open House Draws Huge Wiregrass Crowd
Napier Field in Alabama plans a nine hour open house on Thursday June 29 from 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm drawing more than 10 000 citizens. The event, tied to the 5th War Loan Drive, features a post tour led by military and civilian personnel and showcases combat aircraft including B 17 B 26 A 20 P 47 and P 51 arriving from war plants for visitors. The gate at 2:00 pm marks the start of the post tour and a display of planes expected to blaze across theaters of operation.
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Napier Field
Alabama
Army Air Forces
Napier
Gruffies
Caren Puetes
Barshall
Napier Field Instructor and Cadet Die in Plane Crash
A Napier Field instructor Second Lieutenant James W. Brown, 24, and Aviation Cadet Robert Anthony Benes, 21, were killed when their training aircraft crashed three miles southwest of Dothan Municipal Airport during a routing transition flight. Brown, son of Forrest E. Brown of Cumberland Maryland, trained at Napier Field this year after receiving wings in February. Benes, son of Frank W. Benes of Chicago, attended St Leo High School and the Aeronautical School before enlisting December 4, 1942. The fatalities marked the first losses in the field’s training program for the current year. Col Cardell noted extensive flight totals for Napier Field.
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Napier Field
Dothan
James Daniel
James W. Brown
Forrest Ee, Brown
Rose Hill Ave
Cumberland
University of Maryland
Cardell
Mapher Field
Talladega Storm Uproots Ancient Oaks and Damages Homes
In Talladega Alabama a severe storm with strong winds toppled century old oak trees along streets. One uprooted tree crushed on courthouse lawn and damaged the colonial home of Mrs R Williams on its second floor. Damages run to several thousand dollars as roofs were ripped from houses and streets clogged with debris.
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Talladega
Ala
Cecil Nabors
Civil Case Trials Begin Monday at County Court
Civil cases will convene tomorrow morning at the county courthouse with Judge D Halstead presiding. Approximately four cases are scheduled for trial on opening day with eleven more on the court calendar.
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Circuit Court
Halstead
War Bond Drive Reaches Million Mark In Houston
Houston County Fifth War Loan Drive neared $1,000,000 in total sales through yesterday amid warnings from Chairman Pat Poyner Jr. that pledges must be purchased to meet the quota. A large open air event on West Main Street netted $158,275 in War Bonds, with other rallies in Ashford and a fundraising dance at the Dothan Country Club boosting support as the drive heads into its final stretch.
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Houston County
Pat Poyner, Jr
County War Finance Committee
West Main Street
Dothan
Poyser, Jr
Wertene
Ares
Napier Field String Band
American Legions
Bend of
United States
Ashford
A. J. Sandoz
Sandoz
Dothan Junior Chamber At Commerce
Country Club
86Th
di Tvision
Camp Rucker
Poyner
One Week Remains To Buy Car Stamps
Motorists must obtain use tax stamps by July 2 to avoid delinquency. Postmaster Mrs. A. Y. Malone said about 400 stamps have been sold so far at Dothan post offices. Officials expect a rush in the final days before the June 10 sale began for the 1944-45 year.
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Federa Au
A. Y. Malone
Internal Revenue
Dothan
Russians Make Big Advances Against Nazis in Russia
Report from London says Soviet forces shattered defenses around Vitebsk in White Russia. Two breakthroughs widened fronts to about 150 miles with further advances toward Orsha and Molodetsk. Stalin announced large territorial gains across multiple battle zones in three special orders, noting thousands of places liberated and a salute from Moscow.
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London
Hitler
Russia
Vitebsk
Moscow
Stalin
Orsha
Mo Silev
Automobile Mishap Causes Two Injuries
Two people were injured yesterday when a Chipley Florida truck collided with a horse drawn wagon on South Oates Street near the high school. Dwight Jemmerson and Mrs Gladys Hichols were taken to Dothan hospital with injuries. The truck driver James Earl Burdesnaw was charged with reckless shelving and released on bond. The wagon occupants S B H Whisenhunt and C C Mullis escaped injury.
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Chipley
Fla
South Oates Street
Frank Dunham
Dwight Jemmerson
Houston County
Gladys Hichols
Dunham
Jemmerson
Dothan
Wes Herring
Hugh McElwain
James Earl Burdesnaw
Webb
Scoggins-Dormant Company
S. BH. Whisenhunt
C. C. Mullis
Heriting and McElwain
J. W. Wynn
Intense heat grips Dothan with record temps
The Dothan area endures days of extreme heat with highs reaching 101.4 and 66 as the lowest, following a season record. Forecasters warned of continuing hot weather into the week, with daily readings breaking past thresholds and summer starting amid heat waves.
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Mercury
Nimitz reports new Pacific victories against Japan
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced five Japanese ships sunk and 72 enemy planes destroyed as American carrier planes struck island targets within 800 miles of Tokyo. The sorties hit Iwo, Tin dan, Pagan, and Rota in the Bonins and the Marians, with five American fighters lost and Japanese losses including cargo vessels and six Zero bombers.
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Liev Erickson
U. 3
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
Nippon
Saipan
Iwo Island
Kazan
Bonins
Tindan
Pagan
Rote Iq
Marianas
Repudiation of Confession in Sims Case Shocks Town
In the Mrs. Molly Sims slaying case on West Savannah street the 21 year old Neil Fancher granddaughter of the slain woman repudiates an earlier confession and claims a man killed her grandmother. Sheriff Farmer says investigators are pursuing certain clues with State help while Fancher’s counsel seeks jail interview restrictions for protection.
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Biu
Molly Sims
Savannah Street
Sherif B. G. Farmer
C. T. Donaldson
State Department of Public Safety
Farmer
Neil Fancher
Uist
Sims
Clayton Adarms
Fancher
Lewis
J. T. Casey
Della Mae
Gime
Adams
Pape
Cherbourg Siege Pressures Grow As American Push Near City
Dispatches report American forces within about a mile of Cherbourg's heart as they press through a maze of ravines and plateaus. Observers note intensified German resistance, with shells and machine gun fire, while British and Canadian units strike at Caen and Ste. Honorine. Allied planes bomb supply routes and destroy German vessels trying to flee from Cherbourg. Eisenhower and Bradley confer in Normandy as civilians anticipate fierce street fighting to free the port.
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Cherbourg
Don Whitehead
Presa
Gorce
Wakehead
Ungs
Conk
Alderney Island
St. Malo
Brittany Peninsula
Mead
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Normandy
Omar N. Bredlay
Eld
U. S
Transatlantic
Hitler
Normandy Front
Ste. Honori
Chardonnereuz
Eestern
Orne River
Cam
Orne
Caen
Carr Besepron
Wara
Bernard L. Montgomery
Seid
Ham
Terrific Storm Ravages Pennsylvania and West Virginia
A massive storm left a wide swath of destruction across Southwest Pennsylvania and parts of West Virginia. Authorities reported at least 145 dead with hundreds injured as the tornado path stretched from McKeesport near Pittsburgh to Shinnston, W Virginia. Rescue crews, federal and state agencies, and overwhelmed hospitals struggled to cope as many victims remained unaccounted for and communications were disrupted.
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Pittsaurgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
McKeesport
Pittsburgh
Shinnaton
W. Va
Maryland
Last Barrier On Hengyang March Overcome By Nip
Chinese High Command reports the last major barrier in the Hengyang campaign fallen as Japanese forces press toward Hengyang from both sides of the Canton Hankow railway. Fighting reported four and a half miles below Hengshan in Hunan with near 20 miles to the objective, amid heavy clashes along the Siang and Mfi rivers and near Leichtahih.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Hengyang
Chang- She
Hengshan
Hunan
China
Canton-Hankow
Siang
Jere
Leichtah
Hitler Threats to Shoot American Soldiers in Normandy
London AP reports German headquarters claimed two separate prisoner shootings in Normandy and warned that ten American soldiers would be executed for every German if the reports were true. The broadcast followed accounts of Allied soldiers being killed or captured in Cherbourg area where German troops had taken prisoners in uniform.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Normandy
Cherbourg
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U. S. Fifth Army
GOP Legions
Dewey and
Bricker
Dewey
Wartera
Houston
Mimitz
Japan
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