Truman Chosen To Top Demo Campaign
CHICAGO July 22 The Democratic party chose Barry S Truman of Missouri as its new vice presidential nominee to campaign with Roosevelt. He beat Henry A Wallace for second place and will lead efforts to win a fourth-term for President Roosevelt. Northwest states split on ballots with Truman edging Wallace on several measures.
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Barry S. Truman
Missouri
White House
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Henry A. Wallace
Northwest States
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Wallace
Montana
O’mahoney
Truman
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Moontana—Truman
Harry S. Truman
Wallace Wins Democratic Nomination Roll Call Ends In Harmony
Senator Barkley and Manpower Commissioner McNutt led the delegation as 1 176 delegates cast ballots. The vice presidential race began with CIO PAC strife and ended on a harmonious note despite Dixie dissent from Senator McKellar over Tennessee’s 26 votes for Governor Cooper.
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Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Paul V. McNutt
CIO
Cooper
University of Chicago
Northwestern University
Wallace
Washington
Senate
Father Of Huron Baby Born D Day Wounded After 23 Days Of Battle
Pvt. Charles Evans Hughes 29 of Newport Kentucky a mechanized cavalryman in the European Theater boasted he is the only soldier to become a father on D Day His wife Marie Poirier Hughes gave birth to Patricia Susan in Huron South Dakota while he landed in Normandy He was wounded after 23 days of fighting near Cherbourg in an 88 mm shell blast and later toasted Patricia Susan with cider after a battle scarred farmhouse.
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Charles Evans Hughes
Newport
Kentucky
United States Army Station
England
Hughes
Marie Poirers
Patricia Susan
Huron
South Dakota
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Cherbourg Peninsula
Pvt. Hughes
Pearl Harbor
Cherbourg
Vauville
Pvt
Sulfa
War Today: Hitler's Rule Tested by Rising Rebellion
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes Hitler's grip as internal revolt surfaces amid Germany's weak military position. He cautions against premature burial of Hitler, noting the Nazi party's potential strength and the Fuehrer's dual political and spiritual authority.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Germany
Herr Hitler
Nazi Party
Fuehrer
Ag Lee MacKenzie
French Campaign Bogged Down In Sea Of Mud
Allied headquarters report no advances in the last 24 hours as the Allied invasion of Normandy stalls in mud. Esquay southwest of Caen is cited as a loss but officials say capture reports for Maltot St Martin de Fontenay Noyers Monts and Berigny were garbled or misinterpreted field dispatches.
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Normandy
France
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Caen
Orne
Odon
No Man's Land
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St. Martin de Fontenay
Noy‘ers
Monts
Bayeux- St. Lo
Berigny
Two U S Submarines Reported Sunk Trout and Tullibee
The Navy announced the loss of two U S submarines, the Trout and the Tullibee, with the Trout noted for slipping past Japanese batteries under cover of darkness to haul gold from the Philippine government treasury.
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U.S
Washington
U. S
Philippine
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Reinforced Yanks Pour Onto Island In Guam Invasion
U S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor reports Allied forces land on Guam. Marines and soldiers push inland near Port Apra as Tokyo radio claims large Japanese landings. Nimitz says casualties are moderate. In separate actions MacArthur’s area sinks two ships and damages another off Dutch New Guinea and Timor.
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Agat
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Richard W. Conolly
Henry
Nimitz
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Saipan
Chichi Jima
Haha Jima
Bonin Islands
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Timor
Allies Push On Toward Florence
Allied forces press toward Florence from three directions with Fifth and Eighth Armies advancing infantry. American columns seize Tavernelle Barberina Dal D Elsa and Capanne while Castel Fiorentino falls and forces near Pisa probe new Arno defenses. Artillery duels continue as Polish troops advance on the Adriatic end.
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Eighth Army
Florence
Fifth Army
Tavernelle
Barberina Dal D'Elsa
Capanne
Elsa
Arno
Castel Fiorentino
San Giovanni
Pisa
Adriatic
Combine sold quickly prompts ad for 1938 McCormick Deering
For sale notice received by David Kannegieter of Willow Lake reports a McCormick Deering combine 31-T with 12 or 15 foot cut and pickup attachment, model year 1938, sold in three days.
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David Kannegieter
Willow Lake
McCormick-Deering Combine
Germany in siege as Nazi forces face revolt surge
Moscow reports Red Army threats to Warsaw with advances along a 200 mile front as Ostrov and Pskov areas fall. German lines crumble in the Baltics while rumors of mutiny and naval strikes spread from Kiel to Stettin and Basel amid Nazi purge talk.
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Red Army
Warsaw
Baltics
Ivan I. Maslennikov
Ostrov
Pskov
Ostro
Hitler
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Czeremcha
Mekhoryta
Lawin
Lublin
Visla
Vistula
London
Switzerland
Gestapo
Walther von Brauchitsch
Karl Gerd von Run
Fraternal Association of
Madrid
Robert Ley
Weather Hamstrings RAF Bombing Raids Over Europe
Bad weather across the Channel grounded heavy British bombers as Italian-based planes hit Czechoslovakia. Pardubice refinery near Prague suffered a large explosion and fire, marking a major European facility hit in the day raids.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Pardubice
Prague
Europe
Romania
English Channel
RAF
Badoglio predicts Germany’s end nears amid war turns
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, in a Rome interview, argued that Germany has lost the war. He cited the Russian advance and Germany’s lack of reserves for Italy and Norway, and suggested a German revolt could emerge from frontline officers. He dismissed a mass German uprising, noting most Germans are in the army.
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Pietro Badoglio
Germany
Mussolini
Italy
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Normandy
Badoglio
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