Allied Columns Tighten Trap In New Drives
Allied columns pressed a widening pursuit along the Seine front as German forces retreat toward Paris. U S armored units crossed toward Sens while Patton's Third Army moved near Fontainebleau, with Canadians and British advancing from the Falaise gap. About 40 000 to 50 000 Germans were reported captured in the Falaise pocket as enemy attempts to escape across the river continued.
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Americans Enter Railway Center In South France
American troops of the seventh army have entered Grenoble in southern France, a large industrial city about 140 airline miles north of the Mediterranean coast, following a spectacular surprise thrust through German defenses.
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Seventh Army
France
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French invasion landing reports near Bordeaux and Hendaye
Reported by Associated Press from the Spanish border says a third French landing began last night near Bordeaux under naval and air bombardment. Berlin radio claimed a small force ashore near St Jean de Luz, while Hendaye says the operation linked with American and French ground forces closing on Bordeaux. No confirmation from Supreme Allied HQ.
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France
Bordeaux
Hendaye
Charles S. Foltz
Associated Press
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Berlin
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Biarritz
Stockholm
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Armored Column Advances Into City Amid French Patriot Tension
An American armored and motorized infantry column surged into the city long a center of French patriot activity, marking a forceful intervention amid ongoing tensions. The action reflected strategic aims to quell insurgent networks and restore order.
Chinese Troops Seize Town Near Hengyang in Heavy Rain
Chinese forces advancing under heavy rain captured a small town 18 miles south of Hengyang and halted twin Japanese columns trying to outflank near the Canton Hankow rail junction. A Japanese unit moved east from Leiyang and faced Chinese defense. In Hupeh Chinese diversions hit positions around Ichang and took several outskirts of Tangyang, a key supply center northeast of Ichang.
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Hengyang
Canton-Hankow
High Command
Leiyang
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Hunan
Ichang
Tangyang
Don't Sell U. S. Short asserts Eric Johnston
Eric Johnston, president of the U S Chamber of Commerce, told 500 construction workers in Seattle that Russia lacks civil liberties and worships Stalin, urging Americans not to sell America short after his trip to the Soviet Union. He praised American freedoms including habeas corpus and the bill of rights.
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Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
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Stalin
Spokane
Wash
Soviet Union
America
Halmahera Hit By American Bombers
General Headquarters reports Liberators and Mitchells delivering heavy blows to Halmahera a key barrier to the Philippines. A record 135 ton bombing destroyed eight parked planes supply dumps and defense positions and sank a freighter.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Halmahera
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Marshalls
Marianas
Pearl
Infantile Paralysis Cases Reach 590 in North Carolina
Raleigh reports 590 cases of infantile paralysis since June 1 with eight new cases and a death toll of 23. New cases come from Johnston, Lenoir, Mitchell, Forsyth, and Mecklenburg, the first reports from Johnston Lenoir and Mitchell to the state health department.
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Johnston
Lenoir
Mitchell
Forsyth
Mecklenburg
State Health Department
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Juniors to Meet in High Point for 1945 Assembly
A. C. Edwards of Hookerton elected counselor of the North Carolina Junior Order United American Mechanics. High Point chosen as the 1945 meeting site. Other officers named include Clyde Green of Boone as vice counselor and Forrest G. Shearin of Scotland Neck as secretary.
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Raleigh
A. C. Edwards
Hookerton
North Carolina
Lend-Lease Continuance Urged By FDR In Report
President Roosevelt urged Congress to extend lend-lease aid until Japan and Germany surrender unconditionally. He argued the program must not be weakened as Allied power combines to secure final victory, and urged continuing aid at necessary scale to deter delays and American casualties.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Japan
Germany
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50 Die As U S Bomber Falls In England
An American Liberator bomber crashed in Freckleton Lancashire killing at least 50 people including 34 children at a church school. The toll may be higher as rescue workers comb wreckage in one of England's worst air disasters. Evacuees from London were among the dead. Continued on Page Sight.
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The
Press Association
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England
Red Army advances on wide front across Balkans and Poland
Soviet forces push on a 150 mile front from Iasi toward Bucharest while reaching near Danube mouths. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky drive through Bessarabia toward the Galati gap. Chisinau trapped. German troops retreat from Poland as Warsaw outflanked.
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FDR and Churchill May Witness Paris Parade
London reports plans for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to attend the Allied march into Paris under the Arc de Triomphe with French troops and General Charles de Gaulle in a lead role. A further stage of destroying German forces is noted, and newsreel crews are being organized.
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London
London Daily Herald
Roosevelt
Churchill
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
The
Daily Herald
France
Daily Mail
Paris Liberated by 50 000 French Forces in Street Fighting
Paris freed after four days of urban combat led by 50 000 organized French interior forces with thousands more joining. The liberation followed police strikes and the seizure of key sites such as the Prefecture and Trede Cite, with de Gaulle and Eisenhower coordinating civil affairs. Casualties and German losses were not disclosed. France celebrates as Paris returns to French hands four years after German occupation.
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London
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Tre de Cite
de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Preminnes
Committee of National Liberation
Rennes
Brittany
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Avranches
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Federal Communications Commission
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Montparnasse
An Algiers
Suit Filed Against 47 Railroads
The Justice Department filed an anti trust suit in Lincoln Nebraska naming the Association of American Railroads the Western Association of Railway Executives J P Morgan and Company Kuhn Loeb and Company and 47 railroads as defendants Also named are officers and directors top executives of the railroad groups and 31 other individuals Attorney General Francis Biddle said the complaint alleges a private financial industrial and railroad alliance used non competitive rates to restrain competition and hinder improvements in western railroad services and facilities.
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Justice Department
Lincoln
Neb
Association of American Railroads
Western Association of Railway Executives
J. P. Morgan and Company
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Francis Biddle Annon
Liberation of Paris marks turning point in war
Dewitt Mackenzie argues Hitler’s control in France collapses as Allied invasion and Maquis resistance topple the Nazi occupation. He predicts a strategic pullback to the Rhine and continued pressure on the Eastern front, with Paris’s liberation signaling broader Western Europe gains.
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Paris
Hitler
France
Normandy
Brittany
Europe
Pershing Sees Paris Liberation as Step Toward Berlin
General John J. Pershing hailed the liberation of Paris as a great step forward toward Berlin. In a War Information Office statement he recalled Paris as the heart of the war and credited American soldiers with a prominent role in 1944 alongside British Canadian and French allies.
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John J. Pershing
Paris
Berlin
Office of War Information
Gen. Pershing
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