Ike Leads In Normandy Battle As German Breakthroats Fail
Supreme Headquarters reports the German Seventh Army makes a last desperate push in Normandy but is halted by a heavy Allied bombing and shelling barrage. Eisenhower travels to the front to direct what is called swift, merciless action to crush the pockets. Canadian First Army and Lt Gen George S Patton's Third Army press toward Falaise from north and south, narrowing the escape corridor to nine miles.
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McMillan
Seventh Army
Eisenhower
George S. Patton
Americaty Third Army
Falaise
Hutton Separates From Movie Actor Cary Grant
Hollywood reports dime store heiress Barbara Hutton has separated from actor Cary Grant with no chance of reconciliation. She cited want of custody for her son after postponing earlier plans following her ex husband Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow.
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Hollywood
U.P
Barbara Hutton
Cary Grant
Miss Hutton
Grant
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow
Cary
Weather forecast for San Francisco Bay Region and valleys
Weather forecast notes high fog at night and morning with a clear afternoon today and Wednesday. Temperature little change. Livermore and Santa Clara Valleys expect clear today, tonight, and Wednesday, but high fog in early morning and cooler today.
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San Francisco Bay Region
Livermore
Santa Clara
Six Year Old Slender Girl Located After Kidnapping
Shirley Ann Gillham, six, was found by San Jose police with her stolen car reported missing last night. She appeared unharmed and claimed her parents and a friend took her to San Jose, saying she slept through the ride. She is described as blonde, 3 ft 3 in tall, 48 pounds, with a chin dimple and a T shaped scar between her eyebrows. Two baby teeth are missing from the left side and one is erupting. Police conducted an extensive overnight search after the Gillhams parked near a San Leandro night club while they went inside and returned to find both car and child gone.
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Shirley Ann Gillham
San Jose
San Leandro
Gillhams
Shirley Ann
Iever
Two Hurt As Trucks Collide on Irvington-Worm Springs
Bettencourt and Wolverton were injured when Bettencourt’s truck backed from Emerson Ranch and collided with Wolverton’s truck and trailer on the Irvington-Worm Springs highway one mile south of Landing Road. Both veered off the road. Bettencourt suffered possible back injury and contusions. DePue was treated and released.
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Bettencourt
Centerville
Emerson Ranch
Fairmont Hospital
Thomas H. Wolverton
Burlwood Ave
Oakland
Irvington-Worm Springs
Landing Rd
Wolverton
DePue
Jackisnife
Wem
Halt Sub Production Shift Fails to Show for Work
Groton Connecticut submarine yard of Electric Boat Co. halted production as between 75 and 80 percent of the 1,300 day shift workers did not report for work, according to company officials.
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Groton, Conn
J.P
Hugs Electric Boat Co
Yarde
Boys Trade Cucumbers For Fuses Ignite Fire Loss
Mt Helen youths Ralph Graham and Leo Herger traded garden cucumbers for railroad fuses with Southern Pacific crews. A fuse sparked a grass fire that spread to nearby Marsicano and Frager property, destroying a five room house, tank house, shed, hay mower, and hay rack worth about $1,000.
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Victory Garden
Ralph Graham
Leo Herger
Mt. Helen
Alfred Marsiengo
Paul Frager
Southern Pacific Railroad
Depot Rd
Marsicano and
Frager
Marsicano
Machinists Defy Navy Return To Work Order
In San Francisco Federal Mogul Bearing workers largely refused a Navy backed return to work order amid wartime overtime disputes. Only 20 of the plant's 115 machinists were on the job as 16 joined a walkout led by International Association of Machinists Lodge 68. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen said it was early to judge success as mailings to employees were still being distributed and progress appeared satisfactory.
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San Francisco
Roosevelt
International Association of Marchinists
Harold G. Bowen
Admiral Bowen
Hayward Hi Gets State Aid for 1943 44
State apportionment to Hayward Union high school district totaled 114,494 for 1943 44, averaging 84 26 per pupil for 1 359 pupils in average daily attendance for 1942 43 California Taxpayers Association released its analysis of state aids to high school districts across the state noting Alameda County received 2 349 502 for 1943 44 based on 26 220 pupils ADA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayward Union
California
Taxpayers' Association
Alameda County
Canneries Seek More Workers on Two Shifts in Alameda
A United States Army show titled Food for Victory drew about 800 to Hayward Union High School, signaling a drive to recruit cannery workers in Alameda County. Hunt Brothers require 50 women and 25 men for day shifts and 350 women and 130 men for night shifts, while California Conserving Co. needs no extra staff at present. Two recruitment booths issued 217 cards, with Beverly Staines and Margaret Mortenson staffing times from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. respectively. The event featured Western Defense Band music, greetings by Mayor George A. May, drills by H Co. W.D.C, and a talk by Mrs. J. S. Haines.
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Alameda County
Hayward Union High School
United States Army
California Conserving Co
Hunt Bros
Cannery
Beverly Staines
Haysyard Theater
Band Main Sts
Margaret Mortenson
Western Defense Band
CWO
Lynne Decker
Geo. A. May
H Co. W. D.C
J. S. Haines
16Th District
Baby Drowns In Bath Tub Accidental Tragedy
Billy Marx Curtis an eighteen month old child of Mr and Mrs Joseph Curtis drowned last night in a wash tub. His aunt Lovens Weber left him in an empty section then briefly stepped away to kitchen chores. On return the child lay at the bottom of the filled tub and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Marx Curtis
Billy
Joseph Curtis
Lovens Weber
Dorsey Eyes DA Interview After Nose Incident
Hollywood gossip fuels a noon appointment between Mrs. Dorsey and the District Attorney to clarify whether she restrained her hands or struck actor Jon Hall with an eight inch butcher knife. Hall resumes work amid rumors of a possible $100,000 suit. The DA notes inconsistent testimony among witnesses after a dawn altercation in Dorsey’s apartment, with details varying as vividly as the bruises.
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Hollywood
Urg
Miti
Tammy
Pat Dane
Dorsey
Jon Hall
Hall
Maria Montez
Fred N. Howser
D. A
Warren Urges War Veterans Aid For Readjustment Program
Governor Mark Warren urged World War I veterans to support readjustment efforts for returning G I Joes at the California State Legion convention in Los Angeles. He said the federal government bears primary obligation, but states must translate services into simple terms and mobilize libraries, labor unions, and professional groups to help. Other speakers included Legion officials and military leaders as the three day gathering addressed discharge pay, job placement, rehabilitation, voting, and immigration aids.
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Los Angeles
Mark Warren
California
American Legion
Cyntinando William P. Houghton
EB Monte
Calif
Philharmonic Ausitorium
National Legion
Warren H. Atherton
Thomas KR. White
Tokyo
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Ireetor
Two Graduates From Fields In Texas
Two local youths, Mancus H Alvarez and Deon P Cornish, were commissioned as Army Air Corps pilots and awarded silver wings. Alvarez, 20, of Foster Field Texas, graduated August 4 as a right officer. he will train five more weeks at Foster. Cornish, 25, of Lubbock Army Air Field, earned a twin motor bomber pilot commission and is on 14 day leave with bride Ellen Digna Conish before reporting to Wondo Held in San Antonio for navigation training duties.
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Mancus H. Alvarez
Deon P. Cornish
Army Air Corps
Foster Field
Dean P. Cornish
Maude Cornish
Home Ave
Lubbock Army Air Field
Texas
Cornish
Ellen Digna Conish
Pine Bluff
Ark
Mrs. Cormish
Wondo Held
San Antonio
Baseball scores and lineups from early games
Baseball results list scores and player names for St Louis Boston Chicago New York Detroit Philadelphia with pitchers and fielders noted. Summary includes partial inning totals and combined team tallies, indicating multiple games and lineups from the same date.
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St, Louis
Boston
Jokuckit, Shirley
Custer & R
Local Marine Promotes Lt Robert C Sumner to First Lieutenant
Lt. Robert C. Sumner, 20, son of Mr and Mrs C N Sumner of Almond Lane, has been promoted from Second Lieutenant. Stationed at Entirao on St Matthias Islands, he is among the youngest dive bomber pilots in the Marines and has completed his third Pacific bomb combat tour with 20 bombing raids and 110 hours of flight time. He earned Air Corps Wings at Corpus Christi in July 1943 after attending One St Marys Navy pre flight and Livermore high school.
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Robert C. Sumner
C. N. Sumner
Almond Lane
Entirau
St. Matthias Islands
Sumner
Pacific
Air Corps
Corpus Christi
Texas
St. Mary's Navy
Livermore
Midwest Heat Wave Pressures Midwest States
A red faced weatherman warned of a peak in temperatures across the Midwest as relief from a 100 degree heat wave was delayed. Forecasters indicated a cooler air mass should reach the region by week’s end, though unsettled patterns persisted with moisture from the Gulf moving north. Scattered thunderstorms were observed in drought areas of Iowa Illinois Indiana and lower Michigan, with heavier activity likely later.
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Chicago
U.P.J
Midwest
Theaveather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Muriina
Dakotas
Minnesota
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Iown
Ilinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Bombs strike Canadian troops in Falaise raid
British bombing planes accidentally dropped about 800 tons on Canadian troops during a saturation raid near Falaise France. More than 700 RAF Lancaster and Halifax bombers released some 4000 tons of fragmentation bombs, with about 20 percent falling short into Canadian lines, causing unknown casualties.
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France
Falaise
Apricot Tree Peeping Tom Reported in Hayward Area
Hayward sheriff are hunting a trespasser who climbs apricot and walnut trees near residences. Reports from Mrs Florence Hollingsworth and Mrs W D McLeod describe a man peering into their bedroom windows about three times weekly for a month. Other neighbors note broken walnut branches and nightly prowling around 11 p m.
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Hayward
Florence Hollingsworth
W. D. McLeod
Sycamore SL
Germans Use Potato Bugs to Target British Crops
A science official from the British Ministry of Agriculture said Germany used potato bugs as a forerunner to secret V weapons. German planes dropped colorless insect clusters to damage Britain’s 7 million ton potato crop. Odd specimens of the pests were found in southern England.
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London
W.W
Garmans
Ministry of Agriculture
Garman
Coolorade
Germany
England
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Mrs. Dorsey
Warren
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Bove
Manuel H. Alvarez
Foster Central Flying Twining Command
Alvarez
Hayward Grammar
IA. Cornish
Texas A. & M. College
Prining
Arky
Independence, Kany
Lubheels
Detroit
Philadel
Overmira
Trout & Richarda
Hamlin
Berry, Newhouser & Hayes
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Nebraska
Madrid
Paris
DNB
Herbert Matthews
United Press
UPA
Nis
Anna O'Brien
O’neille
Ivis Dianantine
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