Japanese Retreat Looms Over Dutch New Guinea
MacArthur reports Nip forces face calamitous losses as terrain, allied land sea and air assaults intensify. Techima's army in Dutch New Guinea dwindles. Manokwari and Nabire bases abandoned. About 15,000 Japanese in Manokwari area. Allied losses remain negligible. Sanapor, captured recently, shows no sizeable enemy challenge.
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MacArthur
Techima
Dutch New Guinea
Manokwari
Geelvink Bay
Nabire
Moemi
Waren
Sansapor
New Guinea
Turkey Preferred By Germans to Reich
A delayed UPA German report estimates about half of 3000 Germans in Turkey would choose internment or restricted freedom in Turkey rather than return to the Reich after Turkey broke relations with Germany. Industrial experts may stay under employer parole. others who wish to stay face internment in inner Anatolian towns, with watchlists in place. those leaving may take 240 pounds of possessions.
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Germany
Civil Service Examinations for City Jobs in 1944
The High Point Civil Service Commission announces open oral examinations for greenkeepers laborers truck helpers drivers janitors messengers and elevator operators to be held August 17 18 and 19 1944 in the 808 Security Bank Building from 9 00 am to 12 00 noon and 2 00 pm to 5 00 pm Applications must be filed beforehand with the Civil Service Commission and experience is considered but not required James B Lovelace Secretary High Point Civil Service Commission.
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Civil Service
Security Bank
Cvil Service Commission
James B. Lovelace
High Point Civil Service Commission
Weather notes from across the U S forecasts and heat records
At noon New York reached 91 with an all time high of 96 yesterday and readings of 95 to 100 expected. Baltimore faced 100 degrees while cooling rains fell in Nebraska Iowa Missouri Illinois and Michigan. One death occurred in Detroit. Fog halted Sea Lock shipping and a steamship collision occurred on Lake Superior.
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Germans Strike Southern England and London in Daylight Bombing
The report notes daylight raids on southern England and London with five dead from a direct hit on a sub post office and two cottages. A fire watcher died after diving into a river as a robot explosion occurred nearby. Allied France losses total 116,148 since D-Day, with U S forces suffering 11,156 killed and 57,710 wounded.
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London
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
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Invasion Casualties Below Expectations
Maj. Gen. A. W. Kenner, chief medical corps in Eisenhower's command, says Allied casualties in the Normandy invasion are about 30 percent under the expected figure. Mortality among the wounded is extremely low, with about 3 percent of Normandy casualties fatal. Once moved to England hospital bases, a patient has better than a 99 out of 100 chance of surviving.
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German coastal defense plans described as single-gun line
An Allied observer notes German coastal defenses aim to create a gun bristling barrier from the coast to the frontier. He says Rommel or Rundstedt could have placed strong fortifications, but the Nazis show no other built-up wall as strong as the D-day breakthrough. The German army, trained in counterattack defense, has shown skill at standing without fortifications.
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Rudolf Karl von Rundstedt
Rail disaster injures and kills civilians near Valdosta
A broken rail derailed a westbound train and sparked a firefight of rescue lights from Moody Field. Rescue crews recovered a civilian killed after asking for a cigarette. Six injured civilians and several patients were moved to hospitals in Valdosta Thomasville and Waycross. soldiers were unharmed.
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Allies Push Through Brittany and French Maquis Holdouts
Allied columns extend from the Breton peninsula toward Brest and Rennes with advances to Loudeac Derval and Chateaubriant as German forces retreat or risk trapping in a V shaped wedge between the Odon and Orne. French Maquis fight German communications with 1400 enemy killed and 200 patriots lost. Front lines push east from Avranches area toward Baventan as Britons strike near Vire.
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Russian forces press toward Krakow amid East Prussia assault
Military reports describe the Red Army advancing along the upper Vistula at over 20 miles daily toward Krakow with siege expectations. Cherniakhovsky massing an army for East Prussia while capturing towns west of Kaunas and near Konigsberg as Nowa Wicza nears Suwalki.
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Weather Today North Carolina Partly Cloudy and Hot
Partly cloudy to cloudy and hot today in North Carolina with mild mountain areas. Scattered showers and thundershowers in the west, afternoon thundershowers in the northeast, mostly cloudy and mild tonight with hot afternoon conditions.
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North Carolina
Marauders in Burma base hold prompts wider inquiry
An official inquiry reveals Myitkyina base endgame in May left dangerous gaps as Marauders were temporarily removed for convalescence and later rushed back. General Stilwell wept on learning orders were misread causing unfit troops to fight in Burma.
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Orth
Tne
Myitkyina
Joseph W. Stilwell
Solomons
South Seas
Burma
Draft Boards Must Review Some Cases
Local draft boards have been directed to review the cases of all registrants 18 through 25 who prior to June 1 were found unfit for military service because of educational or mental deficiencies. Army induction centers for the last two months have been using new and more accurate tests to determine the qualifications of registrants.
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Washington
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