Arving Fought House to Germans for Cherbourg
Supreme Headquarters said it had no knowledge of any American ultimatum announced by radio to the Cherbourg garrison demanding surrender by 7 a.m. Greenwich Meridian Time today. The London Daily Sketch reported such a broadcast. Bradley was said to have ordered a final attack as artillery and infantry pressed swift advances on the peninsula.
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Arving
Cherbourg
Supreme Headquarters
Omar W. Bradley
Cherbourg Allied Objective in Normandy Drive Military Victory
Allied forces report a major victory following the Normandy operation. Daylight air and naval actions off Saipan and the Philippines netted 353 Japanese aircraft down with minimal American losses. Japanese fleet suffered severe damage including one carrier sunk and multiple ships seriously damaged as American carrier planes and warships closed in.
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U.S
Pearl Harbor
Fifth Fleet
Philippines
Japan
Saipan Island
Marianas
Dama
Adm
Samen
Nepp Naval
The War Today War News From Pacific Front
The latest reports from the Pacific indicate the Japanese fleet may have evaded battle again. Rembert James with the American fleet off Saipan says the Japanese have maneuvered them out of the way dampening enthusiasm for a showdown. It is too early to be positive but likely no battle in the expected area. If a fight occurred it would have required long travel time and carrier presence. Page 2.
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J M. Roberts, JR. MacKenzie
Dewitt
Pacific
Rembert James
Amer
Saipan
James
Forrestal
King
Nimitz
Manilla
Tly
of Bengal
Individual War Bond sales lag in Fifth War Loan
Washington reports bond sales to individuals reach only 18 percent of quota in the Fifth War Loan. War finance director Ted R. Gamble warns against overconfidence and urges intensified sales effort after the invasion did not trigger expected surge.
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Washington
Ted R. Gamble
War Finance
Allied push nears Ancona as Italian port town eyed
Allied and Italian troops close to Ancona within 32 miles on the Adriatic coast while forces approach Camerino about 35 miles east and a bit north of Perugia. American units advance northwest of Grosseto with improved weather but limited cross country movement. Casualties in Italy estimated 80,000 to 100,000 with 27,000 Nazis captured. Mediterranean air force flights total 1,100 with no losses.
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Sy Lynn
Venice
Ferma
Rimini
Pisa
Perugia
Welch
Sid Feder
Italy
Mediterranean Air Force
Livorno
Ventimiglia
Italian Riviera
Hungry Strikers Targeted by Soldiers Seizing War Aid
A wartime letter from the crew of the U S S Coos Bay proposes to fund a wage increase for Wright Aircraft strikers, collecting 41 200 pennies to end the strike. They urge workers to stop striking to avoid hampering war production and promise to help morale and arms output.
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U.S
Coos Bay
Wright Aircraft Corporation
Iaira
Ickerbocker Holiday and Lumberjack At Local Theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs W P Turner of Maple Avenue to attend tonight's Ickerbocker Holiday with Jes Coburn Nelson Eddy and Instance Dowling at the Strand theatre Also showing Lumberjack with Kiam Boyd and They Live In at the Dixie theatre
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The
Grafton Sentinel
W. P. Turner
Maple Avenue
Jes Coburn
Nelson Eddy
Instance Dowling
Strand Tre
Kiam Boyd
Dixie Theatre
Berlin Raid and Allied Bombing Run Night of June 22
RAF planes bombed the Ruhr Rhineland and Berlin in a powerful follow up to the first shuttle bombing mission against Berlin. Mosquitos Lancaster bombers hit industrial targets while RAF heavies supported Liberators and drum bombers over the Calais region. Fifty plus bombers missing. daylight raid involved over 1,000 US bombers and 1,200 fighters.
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Gladwin Hill Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Ruhr
Rhineland
Berlin
Vas de Calais
France
Elyria
Italy
U. S
New Red Army Drives Press Finland on Front North of Lake Ladoga
Soviet forces launched two new offensives on a broad front north of Lake Ladoga amid a Finnish government crisis and rumor of peace talks. The strikes aimed to clear the Murmansk Leningrad railway region, with advances from Viipuri toward the Kare lian Isthmus and near Onega, within 120 miles of the Finnish capital.
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Associated Press
London
Red Army
Finland
Moscow
Viipuri
Karelian
Lake
Ladoga
Soviet Union
Murmansk-Leningrad
Svir River
Onega Onezhskoe
Lake Onega
Medverhegorsk
Vibouri
Ganital
Russians offer ceasefire if Finland agrees borders and motion rights
Stockholm June 22 Aftonbladet reports Russia proposes to halt war against Finland if Finland accepts 1940 border settlements and grants temporary freedom of movement through Finnish territory, including access to certain airfields and bases on the Aland islands.
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Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Finland
Aaland Islands
Bricker In Chicago To Take Personal Command Of Drive
Gov John W Bricker of Ohio arrives in Chicago to take personal charge of a late lap drive for a Republican presidential nomination as delegates remain uncommitted. News conferences set, with Dewey backers courting support from India and West Virginia delegates amid expected convention action.
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Bricker
Chicago
Jack Bell
John W Bricker
Ohio
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
J. Russell Sprague
Dewey
J. Frank Mcdermond
Attica
Ohioan
Indiaid
Indianapolis
Austin
Wood
Wheeling
West Va
Delgate
West Virginia
Gordon
Kansas
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Will Rogers Widow Dies At Santa Monica
Will Rogers widow Betty Blake Rogers 65 died at the Rogers ranch home in Santa Monica canyon after weeks of illness and a severe influenza attack in Washington. She had courted Rogers, who died with Wiley Post in an Alaska plane crash in 1935. Her body will be interred in Claremore, Oklahoma, at Will Rogers Memorial.
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Betty Blake Rogers
Rogers Ranch
Santa Monica Canyon
Washington, D. C
Rogers
Wiley Post
Alaska
Will Rogers
Claremore
Okla
Guillotine Set Up By Germans In Dax To Execute French Patriots
Reports from Irún Spain say German and Vichy forces have established a guillotine in Dax to execute French patriots captured in southwestern France. Informants include Belgian workers at German HQ in Mont de Marsan and refugees. number executed unknown, with severe repression following Normandy invasion.
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Vichy
Louis Nevin Irun
Spain
Dax
France
Mont-De-Marsan
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
French National Committee
Algiers
Maquis
West Virginia brief hits honors and court case
West Virginia news briefs report Lt Gen Kenney posthumously awarding the air medal to Staff Sgt Kenneth F Higgins of Keystone for an aerial fight near Guinea on March 13 1944. Other items note McBride Glass settling OPA price disputes, Lt Kenneth W Heyl named Fifth Naval District civilian readjustment officer, Thelma Brumfield convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and Governor Neely to respond to WVU changes in a radio talk next Wednesday night.
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New
Nea
George C. Kenney
South
Norfolk
Jar
Kenneth W. Heyl
Huntington
W. Va
Fifth Naval District
Hey
Charleston
Matthew M. Neely
West Virginia University
Grafton Sentinel Invites H R Watkins To Opera House Show
The Grafton Sentinel invites H R Watkins of Grafton Morgantown road to tonight’s Opera House presentation of Arizona Whirlwind with Kien Maynard for Hoot Gibson and A Yank on the Burma Head with Laraine Day and Barry Nelson current attraction at the theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
H.R. Watkins
Grafton
Morgantown
Arizona
Kien Maynard
Hoot” Gibson
Burma
Laraine Day
Barry Nelson
Opera House Theatre
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