U S Air Power Strikes New Blows At Japanese Navy
Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific report Liberator bombers hit a Japanese heavy cruiser near Waiparin Bay on Waigeo Island. They damaged or sank one enemy fighter and continued pressure as MacArthur notes night patrols sinking a destroyer near Halmahera. American forces at Mokmer airstrip on Biak Island advance, with cleanup operations on Borokoe and Sorido.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Waiparin Bay
Waigeo Island
Dutch New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Halmahera
Manokwari
Waigeo
Biak Island
Mokmer
Borokoe
Sorido
Water Enough For Navigation And Irrigation, Committee Says
A Missouri River study by the Missouri River States Committee engineering subcommittee concludes there is enough reservoir storage to meet both navigation and irrigation needs. Using a 1914 1943 period as a base, the report finds total river water can support proposed irrigation and the Army plan for navigation, while noting neither period perfectly reflects achievable water with storage regulation. The nine state group will send the findings to governors and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Missouri River
Missouri River States Committee
Army Pick
Reclamaation Bureau
Army
Reclamation Bureau
Sioux City
St. Louis
Yankton
S. C
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Colorado
Missouri
Monavia
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Wardner G Scott
Prediction of Fall of Vichy Government Reported
NBC quoted Berlin radio saying the people's national government is ready to take over if the Vichy regime does not surrender power. The report notes Paris and the Vichy government were meeting on the day of the broadcast.
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New York
NBC
Berlin
Governors urge unified Missouri flood controls on river water
Montana Governor Sam C Ford North Dakota Governor John Moses join Wyoming Governor Leslie Hunt and Colorado Governor John Vivian in a public report urging comprehensive flood control for the Missouri River basin. They oppose piecemeal legislation and insist dams and water storage are vital for irrigation reclamation and national economy from Sioux City downstream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam C. Ford
Montana
John Moses
North Dakota
Missouri River
Midwest
Leslie C. Hunt
Wyoming
John C. Vivian
Colorado
Congress
Sioux City
Conflicting Groups Urged To Iron Out River Differences
Senator Cordon urges Army engineers and the Reclamation Bureau to resolve Missouri River basin development conflicts. He notes Senate action on a House omnibus flood control bill may wait until fall. Chairman Overton says hearings will wrap before summer recess.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
Cordon
R-Ore
Missouri River
Senate
House
Chaiman Overton
D-La
Senate Commerce
Millikin
R-Cole
O'Mahoney
D-Wya
Japanese Edge Into Changsha Strains Chinese Defenses
Japanese columns driving from the north are within seven and a half miles of Changsha where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek orders defenders to stay at their posts. Chinese spokesman cites 70 000 to 80 000 attacking forces astride the Benkow Canton railway. A major Hunan flareup is forecast as signs point to Japan attempting to reconquer the Peiping Hankow railway corridor south from Yencheng.
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Chungking
Changsha
Chiang Kai-shek
Hunan
Benkow- Canton
Peiping-Hankow
Yencheng
Farley Resignation Seen As Protest To Fourth Term
James A. Farley resigns as New York Democratic state chairman citing time constraints from Coca Cola duties. Washington observers call it an act linked to his opposition to a fourth Roosevelt term. Farley may attend the Chicago convention as a delegate. A successor is to be chosen July 11 while Farley plans to stay active in politics.
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James A. Farley
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Farley
National Democratic
Coca Cola Company
Chicago
Weather Delays Allied Invasion Gains at Cherbourg
The article notes unfavorable weather slows the Allied invasion of Cherbourg Peninsula. Despite disciplined landings, high seas hindered troop and supply disembarkation, delaying momentum and allowing Rommel to prepare a counterattack.
Farmers May Shoot Pheasants Out Of Season In SD
South Dakota farmers may shoot pheasants out of season if a game warden proves crop damage. Only those with an official complaint and warden certification may shoot on their farm. hired hands and family may help, with season opening restricted to authorized hunters.
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South Dakota
South Dakota State Grange
N. E. McEachron
State Game and Fish Department
Game and Fish Department
Game Department
McEachron
Grange
AL van Leur
T. J. Terney
Hitchcock
E. B. Clason
Hermosa
May Urban
Presho
A. E. Walseth
Watertown
Raymond Lund
Bryant
Henry Vriem
Wilmot
Norman Bush
Milbank
John K. Burnett
Huron
Ralph Lang
War Department advances officers to lieutenant colonel
The War Department announced temporary promotions including Major to lieutenant colonel for Benjamin Mav Sheldon of Watertown South Dakota. Kenneth Afdahl, petty officer 2-c, on Atlantic service for 16 months, arrives in Hur for 30 days leave to visit his wife Mary McDermott and father K L Afdahl in Redfield.
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S. D
Washington
War Department
South Dakota
Benjamin Mav Sheldon
Nd Ave
N. W
Watertown
Kenneth Afdahl
Atlantic
Huron
Mary McDermott
Redfield
Kl, Afdahl
Armored Combat Grows In Intensity Caen Under Attack
Allied forces push toward Caen as Canadian and British troops coordinate to seize the pivot city. Bradley leads American forces ashore with Devlin reporting early successes along a 60 mile beachhead while German counterattacks are repelled and Formigny falls, broadening the drive toward Cherbourg.
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United States
France
Associated Press
Cherbourg
Signal Corps Radiotelephoto
NEA
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Ste. Mere Eglise
Plains of France
Allied Headquarters
Caen
Repe
Formigny
Bayeux
Ste. Merc Beglise
Omar N. Bradley
Paul L. Williams
Detroit
Ninth Air Force
Ste. Merc Eyise
Berlin
U. S
Valognes
John Leslie Hall, Jr
Beach‘head
S. 1
Carentan
Mussolini Faction Absent From New Italian Cabinet
Ivanoe Bon omi begins formation of a new Italian cabinet to be anti fascist in tone and exclude anyone who aided Mussolini. Marshal Pietro Badoglio will not join the government, citing his duty during the interim period. Bonomi, aged 71, previously led in 1922 and lived under Fascism, now allied with Liberals though independent.
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Rome
Ivanoe Bonomi
Benito Mussolini
Pietro Badoglio
Mussolini
Bonomi
Minow
Sparey
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London
Tojo
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Lake Bracciano
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Italy
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Thenemy
Rommel
Lwesther
Beerhes
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