Allied invasion pushes inland in southern France
Rome reports Allied landings eight miles inland with eight major coastal cities including Nice and Cannes said to be captured. Airborne reinforcements and glider drops supported the bridgehead while German resistance was described as weak and operations proceeded on plan.
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Rome
France
U. S
Gervas
Richard T. Wright
Arlington
Nice
Cannes
Alps
la Suisse
Geneva
Marseille
Cap Negre
U S Officers See Germans Break Into Guerrilla Bands In France
Third Army officers report the German Seventh Army splintering into roaming bands in Normandy and near Paris. They estimate most of the force is trapped in the Falaise Argentan corridor with limited escape routes. Casualties in Normandy reach 250 000 to 300 000. 39 000 prisoners and 11 000 killed by Third Army efforts.
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U. S
Third Army
Seventh Army
Seine River
Paris
Normandy
Falaise
Argentan
France
Reds Make All-Out Bid For Warsaw As Nazis Offer Strenuous Resistance
Soviet forces press toward Warsaw from Praga across the Vistula while combat extends in East Prussia. Rokossovsky reports destroying 32 Nazi tanks and 800 troops in a Praga counterattack as Moscow says Konss army group has claimed large German losses and territory gains in the widening summer offensive.
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Warsaw
Moscow
Red Army
Praga
Vistula
East Prussia
Lyck
Jon
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Ossovsky
Ivan S. Kon
Krakow
German Commander Orders Preparations in Greece and Albania
Inside Greece reports Gen. Rosler ordered urgent preparations against an Allied attack in western Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations in Samos and Lesbos suggest possible evacuation while heavy units move from South Greece to defend the Adriatic coast region.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Greece
Roster
Albania
Aegean
Samos
Lesbos
Rosler
Scheidel
Adriatic
Bankhead Seeks Higher Cotton Prices by Market Halt
Senator Bankhead urges cotton producers to hold their crop off the market until parity is reached. Telegrams to governors commissioners and farm bureau presidents seek aid. Byrnes War Mobilization Office pledges cooperation to raise farm and cotton prices to parity. Earlier talks with cotton manufacturers outlined steps including parity loan utilization.
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Washington
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Farm Bureau
Bankhead
James F. Byrnes
Justice Byrnes
Khead
Japan's Pacific Bases Bombed At Both Ends And In Center
U S Pacific Fleet reports widespread Allied air strikes across the Pacific. MacArthur says Liberators and Mitchell bombers hit Halmahera and Ternate in the Spice Islands and raided Iwo Jima and nearby targets. Nimitz notes Lib erators attacked Paramushiro in the Kuriles and Suribachi airstrip, with fighter combat and ashore bombing.
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Japan
Pacific
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Pacific Islands
Kuriles
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Spice Islands
Equator
New Guinea-Carolines
China
Takao
Formosa
Douglas MacArthur
Liberator
Mitchell
Haleh
Halmahera
Ternate
Ceram
MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Paramushiro
Suribachi
Navy
Shumushu
Araito Island
Volcano
Pagan
Marianas
Rota Island
Saipan
Ickes Seeks Protection for Property to Curb Speculators
Interior Secretary Ickes urged Congress to pass a surplus property disposal law and to assign the Interior Department to handle government land disposition. He backed the Murray Taft Stewart bill in Senate hearings, warning against cheats in sales of unneeded war lands and proposing subdividing large tracts into small farms or grazing lands.
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Washington
Congress
Paradise
Interior
Ickes
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Interior Department
OPA to Use Authority to Fight Rent Violations
The Office of Price Administration announced plans to aggressively pursue civil suits for treble damages against landlords charging above area rent ceilings. Congress authorized these actions under the stabilization extension act, with tenants given a 30 day filing window after notice.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Congress
OPA
Congress xxx
Reports Made To Labor Convention
Greensboro August reports at the North Carolina State Federation of Labor three day meeting cite committee and officer reports led by C A Fink of Spencer. Officers to be elected and next year’s convention city chosen. invitations from High Point mayor Arnold J. Koonce and Wilmington building trades council received. Legislative committee backed Wagner act principles and higher compulsory attendance age to 16, study of workmen’s attendance, broadened workers compensation law, amended unemployment compensation with more weeks.
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Greensboro
North Carolina State Federation of Labor
C. A. Fink
Spencer
Arnold J. Koonce
High Point
Building and Construction Trades Council of
Wilmington
North Carolina
War Today: Mackenzie Analyzes Hitler on the Brink
DeWitt Mackenzie reports that Allied successes in southern France and Soviet pressure on East Prussia strain Hitler’s grip as German forces face dwindling strength. Eisenhower cautions that victory faces risks, while Hitler scrambles to rescue armies and hold lines behind the Rhine and Oder.
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Eisenhower
Rhine
Hitler
Siegfried Line
Oder River
Germany
Fuehrer
France
Russian
Unter den Linden
Oder
2000 Planes Bomb Nazis Oil Plants and Airdromes
The United States Eighth Air Force sent about 2000 planes to hit Germany in the Leipzig Magdeburg area and other targets. Bombers and liberators from Italy raided southern France rail bridges and a German chemical works at Friedrichshafen while Berlin faced two ton bombs. German reports claimed raids over Saxony central Germany and Tyrol as bombers pressed the fourth straight day of heavy offensives.
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Cap Negre
Frejus
Toulon
Nice
Armans
St. Tropez Gulf
Gap Negre
France
London
Armanda
Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Italy
Rayne Wet Lesses
Liberators
Friedrichshafen
Berlin
Reich
Alps
Tyrol
Bavaria
Theu. S. Eighth Air Force
Saxony
Hannover
Brunswick
Taft Attacks Soldier Voting Plans From War Dept
Senator Taft criticizes War Department instructions for soldier voting as creating a powerful get-out-the-vote operation. He notes officers would assist troops in obtaining ballots and urges posting clear instructions for soldiers. The remarks come after Senate okays political news sales at military outlets.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
War Department
Senate
Army and Navy
New Allied Landings Rise Likelihood of German Coup
An IRMN dispatch from Spain reports a well informed traveler says southern France landings may spur a German military clique to topple Hitler and seek peace before Allied forces push into Germany. The informant claims officers in Germany and occupied areas agree the army must preserve credibility by arguing it was not defeated in battle.
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IRMN
Spain
France
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Polio cases rise to 547 in North Carolina
The North Carolina infantile paralysis total climbed to 547 with 17 new cases reported to the state board of health. Readouts list new cases by county including Guilford with four and Mecklenberg with two, plus deaths in Hickory and Winston-Salem.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
State Board of Health
Avery
Buncombe
Caldwell
Forsyth
Guilford
Harnett
Lincoln
McDowell
Mecklenburg
Wake
Yadkin
Hickory
World Security Organization May Eliminate Peace Session
Washington reports that a world security organization may replace a general peace conference after World War II. The four power talks at Dumbarton Oaks aim to create a peace agency under the United Nations to handle boundary disputes and postwar settlements without separate treaties. American officials argue force alone may deter most conflicts.
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World Security Organization
Washington
United Nations
Hull
Russia
Poland
Dumbarton Oaks
United States
Britain
China
World Assembly
of All Nations
Council of the Big Four
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Mediterranean
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12Th Air Force
Brest
Loire
Onters
Labor Convention
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