Liberators Drive Deep Into Normandy As Carentan Falls
Allied forces push inland from the Omaha beachhead driving toward Cherbourg and St Lo. US troops report three key advances including deep incursions near the Cerisy forest and potential fall of Carentan as they threaten a crescent of Cherbourg. British and American units squeeze Caen from the east while preparing to seal the Cherbourg peninsula. Berlin broadcasts deny loss at Carentan.
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James Mlong
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normanly
Anid
Tronghold
Carentan
St. Lo
Normandy
Cherbourg
Cape
Caen
Peninsular
Deepes
Palau Bombed Opens Philippine Battle Prelude
Allied Headquarters Guinea June 12 reports the air prelude to the Philippines battle. Gen Doug Arthur's land based force destroys 22 grounded Japanese planes on Palau as carrier planes strike Saipan and nearby islands. Palau airdrome near western end of the line islands is about 663 miles from the Philippines.
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Robert Eunson Need
Guinea
Philippines
Doug Arthur
Libe
Palau
Dutch New Guinea
Fifth Army Air
Jau
Line Islands
Alon Guinea
Tas
Gham
Saipan
Philippine
Falau
Ein- Palau
Theatre Ticket Clip Mentions "Cover Girl" at Broadway
The clipping notes Mrs Clyde Mays Route 50 invited to tonight's screening of "Cover Girl" featuring Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth. It mentions a planned appearance by Katharine Hepburn and other stars in a later act.
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le Grafton Sentinel
Clyde Mays
Hire ‘Th
Gene Kelly
Kuith Robert
Taylor
Mans
Peters
Dbtle
Greatest Aerial Blows To Date Are Supporting Invasion Of French Coast
Allied air forces launched their heaviest day of bombing to support the French invasion. American heavy bombers and light aircraft delivered a steady hail of bombs and lead, surpassing prior efforts as RAF fighters moved to exact targets on ground calls. Air bases on French soil appeared to function, aiding rapid strikes and disruption of transport lines within 100 miles of the battlefront.
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French
Gladwin Hill
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Tug Of War Over New Price Control Legislation Menaces Congress Recess
Washington June 12 The House debates a bill to extend the price control act beyond June 20 amid revolt against the Office of Price Administration. The measure faces a Senate House conference to resolve differences and may invite a presidential veto or a stop gap extension. All before the Republican national convention on June 26.
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Congress
William F. Arbogast
Washington
Office of Price Administration
House
White House
Senates House
Senate
Excessive caffeine linked to stomach ulcers in studies
Chicago June 12 evidence that excessive caffeine in coffee tea or soft drinks may help cause stomach ulcers in susceptible people was presented to the American Medical Association. Researchers from Northwestern University School of Medicine showed caffeine increased stomach acidity and eroded lining in animals and suggested similar effects in humans without using them as direct subjects.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Chicago
American Medical Association Today
J. A. Roth
A. C. Ivy
A. J. Atkinson
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Allies Push Deep Into Italy as Germans Retreat Near Lake Bolsena
Allied forces report major advances as Fifth Army moves toward Orbetello and gains along the west coast. Eighth Army columns hug the Tiber, nearing Bagno Reggio and Rieti. Central Italy sees Avezzano occupied and Pescara front secured, with Lake Fucino now an expansive farmland area after drainage.
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Edi ReNieny
Rome
Fifth Army
Montefiascene
Lake Bolsena
Orbetello
Eighth Army
Tiber
Bagno Reggio
Rieti
Avezzano
Adriatic
Pescara River
Nunziatello
Lake Fucino
Invasion Weather Over Dover Strait Predicts Fair Skies
London reports a blue cloudless sky over the Dover strait with good visibility and a calm sea. A light westerly wind, rising barometer after overnight drizzle, and temperatures in the 70s at eight in the morning indicate a period of fair weather may follow.
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London
Dover Strait
West Virginia War Hero Roster and Local Fire Losses
West Virginia soldiers earned forty five awards in May including one distinguished service cross, one silver star, one distinguished flying cross, thirteen air medals and twenty seven oak leaf clusters to the air medal, Lt. Gen. Millard F. Garman announced. A Balmor post office building housing a post office restaurant store and pool room in Winfield burned yesterday, residents estimating losses at seventeen thousand dollars. Charles Meadows of Green Sulphur Springs, nineteen, was fatally injured when leaping from a car crossing a bridge near Sandstone. James Kincaid, twenty, was injured. Milford Richmond the car driver was held pending investigation. A 41 year old man escaping from a Hoboken reformatory twenty two years earlier is in Kanawha County jail identified as John B Dretzel.
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South ‘Pacific
West Virginia
Millard F. Garman
Winfield
Balmor
Charleston
Hoboken, N. J
Kanawha County
Dewey Williams
Fifth War Loan Drive Opens In State Aiming At Record Quota
West Virginia launches its Fifth War Loan Drive with a target of 81 million dollars. State War Finance Chairman A C Spurr urged agents to meet the ambitious quota as AFL West Virginia United Mine Workers and other groups pledge support. Special goals include 35 million in series E bonds and 47 million for individuals with added efforts by nurses associations and industrial unions.
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Charleston
West Virginia
A.C. Spurr
Firmont
AFL West Virginia
State Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
State Industrial Union Council
West Virginia State Nurses Association
Japanese Troops Open New Offense To Establish Canton Hankow Defense
Japanese forces push south along the Canton Hankow railway as part of a west wall defense plan while aiming at Changsha. U S 14th air force led by Maj. Gen. Claire L Chennault warned the campaign could prolong the war for years if the line is cleared and defended. Chinese high command said the invaders reached the outer defenses of Changsha, denying local claims of capture.
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Canton-Hankow
Chungking
Changsha
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Claire
L. Chennault
Canton
Chennault
Chang
Hunan
Shangsha
American Dead Laid On Normandy Beach for Supreme Sacrifice
The first American cemetery in France in this war holds the burials of soldiers fallen during a daylight amphibious assault to seize a Nazi occupied beach. Bodies of 10 Germans and two Britons lie nearby as laborers dig through the scorched sands awaiting mass burial under white covers.
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John A. Moroso
Cemetrey
France
Normandy
America
The Battle for Cherbourg Peninsular Intensifies
The War Today reports that reinforcements arrive for both sides as Allied forces secure a firm lodgement on the Cherbourg mainland, while Rommel faces a tight strategic corner guarding the entire western European coastline and prepares for a potential counterattack. General Montgomery cautions that danger remains and the peak battle may come with Rommel’s main armored reserves.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Cherbourg
Sir Bernard Montgomery
France
Rommel
Europe
Soutiérri
Huge ration free shoe sale to start July 10
The Office of Price Administration announced a national odd lot sale offering about seven million ration-free shoes from July 10 to July 29. Shoes must cost at least 25 percent less than their June 1 price. Men and women footwear available. children’s sizes 1 to 6 not included. Less than 1.6 percent of 1944 total shoe supply is in the sale.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Texas political turmoil_convince Democrats face split ballot
A Dallas meeting of the Democratic executive committee discutts filing procedures for Texas primary aspirants and a demand from Roosevelt supporters to list two separate electors on the July 22 ballot alongside regular party picks. The anti administration regulars urged the group not to back the party nominee without this separation.
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Jack Bell
Associated Press
Democratic Oat Executive Committee
Dallas
Roosevelt
Texas
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