Tokyo Admits Heavy Landings On Guam Beach
The Guam liberation push proceeds ahead of schedule as U S Marines and Army tanks land off ships and push inland from beachheads near Port Apra. Reports describe swift progress with light casualties as a division and 150 tanks reportedly land near Asan and Aga.
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Southern Demis Get Kicked Around At National Meet
Southern Democrats return from the Democratic National Convention with militant calls to resist northern leaders. Debates center on organizing Southern Party leaders or backing a third party or the Electoral College to influence November. Some favor indirect support for a non Roosevelt Democrat through electors, possibly Senator Harry F Byrd. Reports from Chicago by William F Arbogast.
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Thomas E. Devry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Texas
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The Grafton Sentinel Night at Two Theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mr James Weekly Longstreet to attend tonight’s Strand Theatre presentation Bee Here Private Hargrove starring Robert Walker Donna Reed Kennan Wynn and The Falcon Out West with Tom Conway and Twilight on the Trail starring Wil iam Boyd at the Dixie Theatre
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MR. James Weekly Longstreet
Bee
Private Hargrove
Robert Walker
Donna Reed
Kennan Wynn
Strand Theatre
Tom Conway
Wilam Boyd
Dixie Theatre
West Virginia conference sessions set for next week
Charleston July 22 budget director Cleveland M Bailey announced three regional conferences for county superintendents and fiscal offices to cover budget matters. Sessions will be at Clarksburg July 28 with speakers W W Trent state School Superintendent and W H Ruble, director of the bureau of oral hygiene.
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Cleveland M. Bailey
Board of
School Finance
Clarksburg
W. W. ¢ .Trent
W. H. Ruble
Bureau of Oral Hygiene
Fifth and Eighth Troops Close on Florence Today
Allied forces push toward Florence with Fifth Army taking Tavernelle Barberino di Val d Elsa and Capanne while an American column nears the Arno. Eighth Army Britons advance around San Giovanni as American patrols near Pisa. Polish troops press toward Senigallia as Nazi divisions are redeployed to Italy. Allies report new prisoner interrogations and a resupply of hardened German units.
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Eighth Army
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Barberino
San Giovanni
Arno
Pisa
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Senigallia
Misa
Italy
Ancona
Supreme bid for Polish capital from Russians advances toward Warsaw
Soviet Red Army forces pushed toward Warsaw with a jagged 200 mile front as they cut railway lines and breached a German defense, approaching within about 90 miles of the Polish capital. German lines in the Baltics weakened as Ostrov was captured and Pskov left in an untenable position while Soviet offensives continued around Brest Litovsk and Lublin.
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Allied Bombers Continue Foray Into German Reich
British Mosquitos bomb Berlin while Italian based planes strike into Czechoslovakia hammering the Pardubice oil refinery east of Prague. Heavy clouds hinder RAF raids. Brux synthetic oil plant in Sudetenland attacked by U S heavy bombers. Seventeen Italian-based planes reported missing from these operations.
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Democrats Name Truman as Roosevelt Vice Presidential Choice
The Democratic convention nominated Harry S. Truman of Missouri as vice president, beating Wallace and others in an eight hour session. Truman, a 60 year old senator, won 1,031 votes to 105 for Wallace, with small counts for Douglas and others. The ballot ended after a bitter intra party struggle and the choice advances the campaign for a fourth Roosevelt term.
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Supreme Court
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Tennessee
Alven W. Barkley
Kentucky
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CIO
Hitler faces rebellion and uncertain Nazi strength
War analyst Dewitt MacKenzie weighs how the Nazi revolt and Germany’s shaky military position could affect the war’s duration. He notes Hitler’s grip on youthful followers and the potential resilience of a regime built on fanaticism, while warning against premature judgment of its collapse.
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Associated Press
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Germany
Herr Hitler
Nazi Party
Fuhrer
Badoglio Links Hitler Revolt to War Losses
In Rome July 22 AP Badoglio said a revolt by German officers indicates Germany has lost the war. He cited Russia's advances and Germany's dwindling reserves for Italy and Normandy as signs the war turning. He added that if high ranking German generals are captured it shows troops in front of them moved to the enemy or fled. He suggested a German revolt may have been planned by Field Marshal Beck.
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West Virginia Republicans nominate electors in Parkersburg
About 1000 Republicans filled Parkersburg High School auditorium to choose eight presidential electors and draft a platform. State Chairman Jim H. Shott presided as Austin V. Wood served as permanent chair with brief speeches by Robert H. Kay and other GOP leaders.
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West Virginia
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Jim H. Shott
Bluefield
Robert H. C. Kay
Charleston
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Austin V. Wood
Wheeling
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Pennsylvania
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New York
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Ohio
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Hitler declares revolt crushed as traitor officers executed
London reports Hitler asserting in a day order that a coup by a small circle of officers was crushed within hours. He vows loyal troops will fight to victory, claiming the traitor plot was wiped out and arrests made. sources note purges across bases and cities, with varying casualty counts.
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Lull in Normandy Woos Inactivity Amid Muddy Front
Supreme Headquarters reports no advances in 24 hours as Allied forces in Normandy remain bogged in mud. The brief communique states there is nothing to report while Esquay’s fate is unclear and front lines show uncertain German or Allied gains around Maltot Bes ient? and Noyers.
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Caen
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Odon
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