Allied Attack Opens Toward Le Havre Du Puits On Cherbourg Front
Allied forces launch a dawn push along the Cherbourg peninsula as Omar Bradley’s First Army drives toward Le Havre Du Puits. Doughboys advance through mud under heavy shelling from the west coast area near Barneville Sur Mer and St Sauveur Le Vicomte in a swift peninsular reversal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Barneville-Sur-Mer
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
St. le
SWIFT
July Republicans chart a late fall Dewey drive
Albany July Republicans shift focus from speeches to organization with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey expected to skip heavy personal campaigning and launch a concentrated late September and October push. He returns to Albany to resume state duties and will hold an 11 a.m. press conference to outline the week. A church visit marked his only public action yesterday as aides indicate a cautious campaign cadence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Chicago
Theatre Offers Dual Screenings At local Cinemas Strand and Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Mamie Rogers of Bluemont Street to tonight's showings. Strand Theatre presents The Dark with Ginger Rogers Ray Milland and Warner. Dixie Theatre screens Cry Havoc featuring Margaret Sullivan Ann Sothern and Joan Blondell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Grafton Sentinel
Mamie Rogers
Bluemont Street
Gingerers
Ray Milland
Warner
Tte
Strand Theatre
Margaret Sulivan
Ann Sothern
Joan Biondel
Dixie Theatre
Certificates For New Vehicles To Be Issued
Washington July 3 Certificates for purchases of new commercial motor vehicles will be issued by the Office of Defense Transportation starting July 5 under the new program placing rationing of all equipment of this type under ODT. The program covers trucks tractor trailers but excludes taxi cabs and integral buses. Applications must be filed through district ODT offices.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Eee
Larry Allen to visit Charleston for war bond drive
War correspondent Larry Allen, Pulitizer winner and former Charleston Daily Mail reporter, arrives in Charleston with the canoes and landing craft tank tour along the Kanawha and Ohio rivers. He seeks to boost the county bond quota during his homecoming week.
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Charleston
Larry Allen
Assciate Press
Allen
Kanawha
Ohio
Charleston Daily Mail
Tobruk
Germany
Frank A. Night
Kanawha County Fifth War Loan
Sentinel and Business Houses Close for 4th
Sentinel and business houses will close for the Fourth of July observance. The Grafton Sentinel will not publish tomorrow as the annual holiday. Postmaster James T. Murphy announced post office closure for window service and deposit box pickups on Tuesday night.
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Grafton Sentinel
James T. Murphy
French American units take Siena as city falls
Rome dispatch reports French troops and American artillery and tank forces occupy Siena after a week of heavy fighting through strong German defenses. Concurrent dispatches describe a large papal stronghold demonstration in France, Danish resistance, and 60 000 foreign prisoners escaping in Europe as Allied moves unfold.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Siena
Florence
London
Papal
France
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Madrid
Flying Bombs Kill Famous Novelist and Noted Figures
London reports that flying bombs killed Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur Scott retired at 82 and his wife Aimee Byng a novelist. Sir Percy Alden aged 79 a longtime anti slum campaigner and Sulgrave Manor board official also died in the raids. A bomb struck a house killing a mother and five of her nine children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Arthur Scott
Aimee Byng
Percy Alden
England
Scott
Percy
Sulgrave Manor Board
United States
Bond salesmen urged to concentrate on fifth war loan
West Virginia sets a 24 million dollar quota as state war loan headquarters urge volunteer bond sellers to skip July 4th observances and push all issues to individual investors. A coast invasion craft unit will lead a beachhead bond rally at Montgomery as part of the campaign.
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Charleston
State War Loan
West
Virginia
West Virginia
LCT
Montgomery
Larry Allen
Associated Press
War Today argues Hitler on last mile but warns against complacency
The War Today columnist argues Allied fortunes rise if momentum remains strong and Hitler remains fought on three fronts east south and west. He cites Soviet and Normandy operations as unmatched in scale and asserts Nazi weakness in manpower and equipment, urging continued exertion until Hitler is removed.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Fuehrer
Normandy
Stalin
Western
Europe
Bee
the War Today
Autonomy push challenges UMW with 2700 delegates
A band of 86 miners in Cincinnati campaigns for autonomy from the United Mine Workers. They have ten weeks to persuade about 2700 delegates at the UMW convention on September 12. Ray Edmundson frames the effort as major reform, while accusing top officers of suppressing attendance and threatening expulsion for supporters.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Cincinnati
United Mine Workers’ Convention
Ray Edmundson
UMW
John L. Lewis
Edmundson
Ilinois
Lewis
West Virginia Briefs Reported Fatalities and Accident
Charleston reports list a June 15 head injury from an incident involving a jack and car that killed Chester R. Coleman, 56, near Charleston. Kanawha County Prosecutor J Blackburn Watts will study reports to determine if Hillard Eugene Mullens, 10, of Dunbar, died accidentally after being dragged by a car with a cord-like noose around his neck. William Hardy Claybrook, 51, of Charleston nicknamed the Human Cork, died of a heart attack while swimming in Coal River. his buoyant body floated for hours. See West Virginia Page 2.
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Charleston
Chester R. Coleman
Kanawha County
J. Blackburn Watts
Hillard Eugene Mullens
Dunbar
William Hardy Claybrook
Coal River
West Virginia
Russian columns cut sea to Brest-Sovetsk drive near Minsk
Soviet forces pushed toward Minsk within 10 miles as cavalry and tanks struck from the north and northwest. A second column pressed near Wilno, 65 miles east of Wilno and 46 miles northwest of Minsk, threatening the Baltic approaches as German defenses weakened. The offensive aimed to cut escape routes toward Wilno and Brest-Litovsk and to pressure the old front lines.
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Minsk
Polatsk
Poland
Stalin
Slutsk
Brest-Litovsk
Pinsk
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Wilno
East Prussia
Brest-Zit
Ovsk
Wilejka
Red Bee
Americans Hold Strategic Ridge On Saipan Coast
U S Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports American forces have established ridge lines above Garapan and Tanspag Harbor on Saipan, gaining 400 yards to a mile along the front. Garapan encircled on three sides as Yank units push toward Marpi Point, with moves supported by air, sea and artillery bombardment.
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Pearl Harbor
Grim Americas
Garapan
Tanspag Harbor
Saipan
Chester W. Nimitz
Marpi Point
Nimita
Vie
Rokn
Howard Handleman
Piteup
Nortern
Tan+apag harbor
Transports
Sels
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la Haye du Puits
Mins Velikiely
Lithuania
Vilna
Ine
TSK
Roitev
Gomel
ORSAY
Gorins
Yanks
U. S
Seventh Corps
International Soundphoto
J. Lawton Collins
Paul Reynaud
Dewey
Strand
Dixie
Sentinel and Business Houses
Cegina
Confab
Blueville
Church OF Christ
Evangelist Paul
Gray
Jesus
Brest-Sovotsk
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