Tanks break German line near St Lo in major French advance
U S tanks in their first large operation in France breached the first German defense west of St Lo, driving four miles south toward the St Lo Periers road. Infantry rode the tanks as bombers led the way, engaging heavy enemy armor in Marigny while capturing La Chaple En Juger and other towns as fighting raged with casualties on both sides.
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Gladwin Hill
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
France
St. Lo
Marigny
St. Lo-Periers
Coutances
Wouth
la Chaple-En-Juger
Port Apra Sealed Off as Americans Enroute to Agana
Allied war reporting describes Guam containment with U S naval and air power sealing Port Apra and Orote peninsula. Japanese forces suffer a stalemated position as American ships planes and artillery advance from the front lines toward Agana.
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Port Apra
Agana
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
al Cocking
Associated Press
Orote
Sumay Naval Base
John R. Henry
Agat
Theatre Ticket Notice for Strand or Dixie Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs L L Painter Maple avenue to attend tonight's presentation of J Boat Prisoner with Bruce Bennett Erik Roif and Jo m Av at the Strand theatre or How Business with Eddie Cantor George Murphy Joan Davis Bally and Constance Moore at the Dixie theatre
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Grafton Sentinel
L. L. Painter
Maple Avenue
Bruce Bennett
Erik Roif
Jom Av
Strand Theatre
Eddie Cantor
George Murphy
Joan Davis
Y Bally
Constance Moore
Dixie
Hitler orders total mobilization across Reich and territories
War analyst notes Hitler plans to regiment society for total war under a tight trio of leaders. Goering handles public life, Goebbels hunts war emergency gains, and Himmler commands the SS to enforce orders with death for disobedience. The move signals a determined effort to fight to finish.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Reich
Reich Marshal
Goering
Goebbels
Gestapo
Himmler
AP photographer Bede Irvin killed in Normandy drive
AP photographer Bede Irvin was killed near Pont Fet four miles north of St Lo during Allied Normandy operations. He had just photographed the aerial barrage that opened the drive when a B 26 Marauder bomb fell short. Irvin, in a jeep, died from a fragment as he dived for a ditch.
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First Army
France
Bede Irvin
Associated Press
Normandy
Pont Fet
Yanks Close In On Florence As Pisa Bombarded
In Rome the Allied advance tightens as Eighth army nears Florence within eight miles while Fifth army holds south of the Arno near Pisa. German shelling concentrates on American positions. Italian towns San Miniato and Romana see counterfires and snipers wiped out as patrols probe.
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Florence
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Pisa
Arno River
Eighth Army
Fifth Army
Arno
San Casciano
Insana
San Miniato
An Romano
Powerful Naval Task Units Attack Palau And Sabang
Japanese radio reports say large allied task forces 3000 miles apart assaulted Palau in the western Pacific and Sabang near Sumatra. Palau raid involved carriers and planes with limited damage claimed. Sabang raid reportedly hit harbor and city, sinking two Allied vessels.
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Palau
Sabang
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Western Pacific
Dutch East Indies
U.S
Tokyo
Savang
Sumatra
Guam
Tinian
Marianas
Japan
South Sea
Italian Newspaper Flags Allies For Loose Conduct During Wartime
Rome July 26 The Allied armies drag behind them an elephantine bureaucracy says the Italian action party Stana Libera in a critique of both Italians and their liberators. The article titled The Allies in Italy accuses officials of imprecision and contradictions while condemning civility, pride, trickery and imbroglio among Italians. It claims Allies pursue modern comforts luxury and entertainment and expose aristocratic patronage with German link rumors. Page references indicate continuation on page 3.
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George Bria
Rome
Action Party
Stana Libera
Italy
Bricker predicts GOP gains in border states this fall
Albany bulletin reports Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio predicting the Republicans will cut deep into border states in November and carry Missouri despite the Democrats nominating Senator Harry S Truman of Missouri as a vice presidential candidate.
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Albany
N. J
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Missouri
Harry ‘Truman
Hitler Maps Plans For Drafting Large Manpower Reserve
London reports Hitler both mobilizes Reich and occupied territories for a final struggle. Goebbels to address the nation on total mobilization to maximize manpower for the army and arms industry. Goering named chairman of the defense council to overhaul state administration for war needs.
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Associated Press
London
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Europe
Madrid
Foreign Office
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbles
Hitler
Berlin
Gobbels
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Ministerial Council For Defense of
Goering
Provisional Peace with Italy Comes Up for Discussion
Flora Lewis reports from Washington that a British proposal for a provisional peace with Italy is under American consideration. The plan would sidestep final territorial and reparations issues for later and aim to regularize Italy’s relations with the United Nations and clarify Italian war prisoners. It would also allow Italian soldiers to rejoin front lines and boost the Italian government’s standing as Premier Ivanoe Bonomi presses for publication of the armistice terms.
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Flora Lewis Washington
Italy
Russia
United Nations
Ivanoe Bonomi
Argentina Shown Isolated Over Nonrecognition Policy
Washington reports Argentina is accused of deserting the common cause of neighboring republics. A U S message circulated among 19 American states supports continued non recognition until conclusive acts show fundamental shifts in Buenos Aires policy toward the United Nations. Argentina’s envoy Adrian Escobar was recalled as hopes for a more friendly stance fade amid Western Hemisphere diplomatic strains.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Argentina
United States
Buenos Aires
Americas
United Nations
Adrian Escobar
Norman Armour
West Virginia Briefs report on flood claim and scarlet fever
West Virginia court denied minister S H Worrell a 261.20 dollar claim against the road commission for alleged theft by prison laborers after the 1943 flood. Fairmont measures designate an emergency landing field at the old ferry grounds. Scarlet fever cases rose to 25 for the week ending July 22 with infantile paralysis totals at 10 for 1944. E day drives Fifth War Loan sales approaching a 24 million dollar goal. sales were 19,804,781 by Monday. No. 4 mine near Shinnston to reopen August 1 to recover 16 killed in March explosion. firing area air samples noted.
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Charleston
Court of Claims
S. H. Worrell
Burnsville
Road Commission
West Virginia
Worrell
State Health Department
Department
West Virgina
A. C. Spurr
Federal Reserve
Cossacks Reach Visla as U S Planes Support Assault
Russian forces push toward the Visla in the Pulawy area while U S planes from bases in Russia strikes 98 German aircraft near Lwow. Cossacks surround the German garrison at Lwow and advance toward Warsaw as lightnings and Mustangs target airfields and transport.
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Daniel de Luce
Moscow
Visla
Vistula
Tiver
U. 5
Lwow
Wisla
Pulawy
Warsaw
Berlin
German Silesia
U.S
16Th Air Force
Us .S
Russia
Kiev
Carpathians
Tra~nsocean
Senate trial end Beckong Caramay Cotton Ed Smith
The end of a long senate race arrives as Cotton Ed Smith, a vociferous New Deal critic from South Carolina, trails in the Democratic primary behind Gov. Olin D. Johnston. In Arkansas, Hattie Caraway struggles in a debated nomination while Rep. Fulbright leads, potentially forcing a runoff among five candidates.
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Associated Press
Senate
Hattie Carawat
Rep
Fulbright
Congress
Tr Johnston
South Carolina
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Strand
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William Keitel
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Hiller
Guitetion
von Brauthitsch
State Department
Buenos ‘Aires
Fairmont
Pleasant Valley
Elks Club
Beckong Caramay
Cotton ED Smith
New Deal
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