Russians Push Beyond Captured Wilno Today
Allied front from St Lo to the sea on the move as American infantry and tanks press through the Cherbourg peninsula. German withdrawal appears orderly with U S forces taking several key villages and closing on Le Say. The First Army advances along a 10 mile western front while a southern push skirts St Lo’s eastern flank amid ongoing Normandy fighting.
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Wilno
U.S
St. Lo
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Supreme Command
United States Army
le Say
First Army
Normanay
St.Honorine
Colombelles
British Seek Elbow Room Bulletin
Washington July 14 The War Department announced that Lt. Gen. Ben Lear will command the army ground forces, relieving Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair who receives an overseas assignment. McNair had led ground forces since March 1942 and was wounded in North Africa in April 1943. Lear had temporary command during that period.
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Bulletin
Washington
War Department
Ben Lear
Army Ground Forces
Lesley J. McNair
McNair
North
Africa
Lear
Nomination of Nan Forvige President To Be Lily Fight
Democratic leaders predict a lively Chicago gathering next week as the party debates vice presidential picks. Governor Kerr and Mayor Kelly offer sharp forecasts while Henry Wallace seeks renomination as Roosevelt’s running mate. Barkley reportedly approves a plan to keep his name in consideration until a final candidate is named. The CIO PAC expands into a national citizens political action committee.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert 8. Kerr
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Henry
Alben Barkley
Barkley
Wallace
CIO Political Action Committee
Washington
National Citizens Political Action Committee
The Grafton Sentinel Theatre Invite Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs H B Daugherty of East Mainstreet to attend tonight's Strand Theatre program featuring Birth of the Blues with Bing Crosby Mary Martin and Brian Dohlevy or Seven Days Ashore with Welly Brown Alan Carney and Marcy McGuire and Riding West with Charles Starrett at the Dixie Theatre.
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Grafton Sentinel
H.B. Daugherty
West Virginia Still In Front In Fifth War Loan
West Virginia led national Fifth War Loan sales with 146,020,526 dollars, 180 percent of its 81,006,000 quota. Maryland trailed seven percentage points behind as Georgia reports were received by state finance headquarters late last night.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Maryland
Alumnus denounces Neely reform as dictatorial whim at WVU
Charles E Hodges former WVU Alumni leader blasted Governor Neely s reform program as a dictatorial whim in Morgantown criticizing the dismissal of Dr Charles E Lawall. He warned the action could harm the university for a decade and pledged alumni opposition to defend faculty independence.
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Charlestor
M. M. Neelys
West Virginia University
Charles E. Hodges
Hodges
WVU
West Virginia
Charles E. Lawall
Morgantown
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Neely
West ‘Virginia
University Board of Governors
Hitler threat prompts UN resolve to crush Nazism
A wartime editorial condemns Hitler's claim to raze Europe for Germany’s aims. It warns of a blood bath unless the German people reject his plans and urges the United Nations to intensify their effort to end Nazism and Prussianism. The piece notes past atrocities and calls for decisive action to prevent global devastation.
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Fuehrer
Europe
Reich
Hitler
United Nations
Adolf Hitler
THE
WAR Today
War Labor Board faced key issues in wage disputes
The War Labor Board faced two major disputes over wages. In Chicago and Joliet, 6,000 war workers quit after a WLB ruling for lower pay, affecting seven plants. A separate report warned of glass industry strife with 35,000 AFL union members. CIO unions and national WLB actions awaited. Local officials urged workers to return to avoid production gaps.
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Associated Press
War Labor Board
Muajor
WLB
Chicago
Joliet
AFC
Can
Sixth Regional War Labor Board
Gordon H. Kellogg
American Can Company
CIO
United Steelworkers
Edgar L. Warren
Harry Harper
National Union
Harper
Warren
Marietta
Ohio
Harry Cook
Traffic study to ease Wheeling congestion by by passes
West Virginia brief says the road commission will start a three week traffic survey on Wheeling city streets to interview motorists and study options to relieve congestion such as by passes grade crossings bridges and other improvements. In Charleston officials announced minors 18 to 21 lose deferments after August 1 with limited 22 to 25 eligibility for 90 day extensions on recommendation of solid fuels officials. Dennis P Taylor, 21, Mammoth, was found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in the state penitentiary for the April attack on Andrew Hudnall in Mammoth.
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Associated Press
Charlesion
Road Commission
War Transport Division
Wheeling
Ernest L. Bailey
Charleston
State Selective Service
Solid Fuels Administration
Dennis P. Taylor
Mammoth
Kanawha County
State Penitentiary
Andrew Hudnall
Taylor
West Virginia
Fourth Successive Bomb Free Night For Londoners
London recorded its fourth bomb free night in succession as flying bombs fell in southern counties today but raids were checked during darkness. The daily Allied strikes on launch sites and stronger fighter patrols along the coast appear to be having an effect, though military men doubt a super rocket bomb could be sustained for long. Concrete Cherbourg sites suggest launch platforms for such weapons, but officials kept silence on their purpose.
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James M. Long
London
Hitler
Cherbourg
Pearl Harbor attacker Nagumo dies in Saipan defeat
U S Pacific Fleet reports Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Pearl Harbor strike, killed at Saipan along with 16,000 others as Nippon suffers western Pacific reverses. Nimitz cites Saipan breach and ongoing Guam bombardments by Task Force 58 units preparing continued attacks. Tokyo radio claims American bombardment of Guam with planes. See JAP ADMIRAL Bage 4.
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U. 8
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Nippon
Western Pacific
Tokyo
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Chuichi Nagumo
Saipan. Adm. Nimitz
U. S
Washingt
Nimitz
Bage
German Prisoners Used For Labor At Academy
Fort Meade public relations office disclosed that about 70 German prisoners of war were employed at the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis for building and ground maintenance and agricultural work. Some worked in laundries. Guards followed standard procedures during their stay, which lasted a little over a week.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Fort Meade
Academy
Tornado victim dies in Fairmont hospital
SHINNSTON July 14 Frank Rotundo nine month old boy who lost his father and brother in the central West Virginia tornado died yesterday in a Fairmont hospital of injuries from the gale. The mother and sister were injured and remain in hospital. The death raised the Harrison county toll to 70 and West Virginia toll to 101.
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Shinnston
Frank Rotundo
West Virginia
Fairmont
Harrison County
West’ Virginia
Teddy Roosevelt Jr dies in Normandy from heart attack
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 56, son of the former president, died in a Normandy truck on the battlefield after a long day guiding Fourth Infantry Division troops. He will be buried in France where his brother Quentin was killed. He had led vigorous tours in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France and served in both world wars.
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London
Theodoore Roosevelt, Jr
Normandy
Fourth Infantry Division
France
Quentin
Roosevelt
North
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Quentin Roosevelt
German retreat as Russians press toward Kaunas and Riga
Russian units advanced from Wilno and neared Kaunas within 28 miles as Germans evacuated Pinate in the Pripyat marshes. Red Army forces stood 21 miles from the Kaunas Riga rail line toward Riga and Tallinn, with Cherniakhovsky's cavalry and tanks near Eydtkuhnen.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Wilno
Kaunas
Pinate
Pripyat
Brest Litovsk
Luniniec
Warsaw
Riga
Tallinn
Estonia
Ivan _ Cherniakhovsky
Eydtkuhnen
East Prussia
Grodno
Sur
Cherniakhovsky
Toures
Konstantine
Americans Fight Through Era and Take Pastina
American troops broke German lines and captured the village of Pastina thirteen miles east southeast of Livorno, then pushed two miles eastward toward San Luce. French forces on the right wing advanced toward San Leon, capturing San Gimignano and nearing the Arno near La Kum Poli, as Nazis counterattacked north of Tage.
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Caen
Bernard L. Montgomery
Cherbourg
la Haye
International
Noland Norgaar
Rome
Pastina
Livorno
Leghorfi
San Luce
Livirny
Orgin
Itéllan
Era Valley
San Leon
San Gimignano
Thenei
Arno
la Kumpoli
Poggibonst
Tage 9
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Gernans
Pinsk
Cairo
Jeanette MacDonald
Robert Young
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