Reds Capture Grodno and Push Toward East Prussia
Soviet forces report the capture of Grodno, advancing along a broad front from the Baltics to the Pripyat marshes. The fall removes a barrier to the German homeland, with Russians crossing the Niemen and moving toward Kaunas and Brest Litovsk while pushing west of Wino toward East Prussia.
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Moscow
Baltics
Pripyat
Grodno
Prussia
Nie River
Niemen
Alytus
Red Army
Wino
East Prussia
Martin Hallensleben
Baltic
Hallensleben
Kaunas
Lithuania
Dorsunishki
Latvia
Bie
Bialystok
Brest
Mstikovo
Wilno-Warsaw
Brest Litovsk
Berezushkaya
Henry Dwire Dies at Duke Hospital in Durham
Henry R. Dwire 61, Duke University vice president and public relations director, died early today at Duke Hospital after an operation in July. A Winston-Salem native and Trinity College alumnus, he served as editor at Twin City Sentinel and held several Duke posts including University Press director and South Atlantic Quarterly editor. Services set for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Duke Chapel with burial in Winston-Salem that afternoon. No immediate survivors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Flowers
William P. Few
Dwire
Duke Uiversity Press
South Atlantic Quarterly
Duke Alumni Register
Ben
Durham
Duke University
Winston-Salem
Centenary Methodist Church
Allied Push in Caen May Shape Normandy Breakthrough
War forecast notes heavy fighting in Europe with Allied forces under Montgomery poised for a major Caen offensive to seize a favorable position for a decisive push toward Paris and Berlin. It warns weather and German resistance may delay the breakthrough, stressing the importance of timely action before autumn rains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Montgomery
Caen
Brea
Paris
Berlin
United Nations
Normandy
Monta
Eral
Byrnes' Vice Presidential Candidacy Gains Speed
Chicago reports a tightening race for the Democratic vice presidential nomination as James F. Byrnes vies with Henry A. Wallace and Alben W. Barkley. Roosevelt possibly backing Wallace remains unclear while Byrnes seeks a majority on the convention's first ballot. Wallace arrives to lead his campaign with Guffey predicting about 250 votes on the initial ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Alben W. Barkley
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Wallace
Grnes
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Burnett Maybank
Samuel Jackson
Indiana
Jackson
Roosevelt-Wallace
Walace ‘Sptet
Joseph Guffey
Ansylvania
Work Started On Another Polio Building
Work began today on a new permanent building at the Catawba County health camp near Hickory to aid the infantile paralysis epidemic. The 30 by 150 foot addition will house about fifty patients, sit near the main building with space for a swimming pool, and cost about fifteen thousand dollars, funded by county contributions and local fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickory
Catawba County
Carl V. Reynolds
State Board of Health
Work Resumed On B-25s At Willow Run
Detroit July 17 production of B 24 Liberators resumed at the Willow Run bomber plant as workers returned to duty after a shutdown caused by crane operators and riggers. Skeleton crews opened the plant at midnight to ready for full day shift production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Willow Run
Bega
Ford Motors Company
Allies Smash Within Sight Of Leghorn
Allied forces push toward Livorno as Fifth Army closes up to Monte and Montenero while expanding along the Era valley. French troops hold Poggibonsi after repelling a major counterattack. Arezzo area fighting intensifies with British advances and Italian partisans aiding.
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Rome
Livorno
Leghorn
Monte
Montenero
Era
Arno
Pisa
Fifth Army
Poggibonsi
Bastille
Campannoli
Monte Maggiore
Lorenzana
Crispina
Asigliano
Arezzo
Eighth Army
Oliver Leese
Gary
Navy minister quits as Guam attack enters 12th day
Tokyo announced Adm Shigetaro Shimada resigned as Japan's navy minister to be replaced by Adm Naokuni Nomura amid a relentless 12 day U S attack on Guam. Nimitz said fleet bombers struck Guam rail yards and airfields in the continuing Marianas campaign as Tokyo warned the war situation offered little optimism. Australia’s Prime Minister Curtin warned of a coming large British push into the Pacific this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Shigetaro Shimada
Japan
Tokyo
Saipan
Shimada
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Naokuni Nomura
Tojo
U. S
Guam
China
Marianas
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Rota Islands
John Curtin
Australia
Road to Berlin Mileages on Allied routes
On the Russian front the distance to Berlin is 435 miles direct from near Grodno. The Italian front shows about 607 miles from near Ancona on the Adriatic. The Normandy front stands at 635 miles from Caen.
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Berlin
Grodno
Talian
Ancona
Adriatic
Normandy
Caen
Scott Outlines Farm Policy at Democratic Convention
Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott of North Carolina spoke to the platform committee outlining six policy points for the national association of agriculture officials. He designated himself as the association's spokesman and urged treating agriculture as an essential war industry.
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National Association of Commissioners
Agriculture
W. Kerr Scott
North Carolina
Association
Scott
Newcomer Tops 1942 Corporate Pay List in Treasury Report
Sidney R. Fleisher, moving picture negotiator in New York, leads the 1942 Treasury list of corporate compensation to individuals with 645000. He earned this from Twentieth Century Fox. Second is Eugene G. Grace of Bethlehem Steel with 537724. Third is Thomas J. Watson of IBM at 425549. All figures cover salaries and bonuses before taxes. The list highlights film industry salaries including Colbert, Crosby, Hope, and others across Paramount, Warner, and Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sidney R. Fleisher
The
Treasury
Fleisher
New York
Dramatist Guild
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
L. B. Mayer
Mayer
Loew's, Inc
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Machine Corp
John B. Hawley, Jr
Northern Ordnance
Minnesota
Claudette Colbert
Paramount Pictures
Fred MacMurray
Woman Assaulted En Route to Greensboro Mill
Mrs. Charles R. Harris Jr., 26, mother of two, was stabbed in the right breast by an unidentified Black man in civilian clothes while walking to White Oak Cotton mill. Police, aided by bloodhounds, cordoned the area. the attack occurred between 6:45 and 7:15 a.m. and the injured woman was treated at St. Leo's hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
L. L. Jarvis
Charles R. Harris, Jr
White Oak
Asheboro
Harris
St. Leo's Hospital
Summit Avenue
Proximity Prints Works
Coble Dairy Announces Milk Price Increase
George S S Coble of Coble Dairy Products Co announces higher producer prices effective immediately. Grade A milk received at Ramseur Lexington and Guilford College set at 4.40 ewt. other points 4.05 ewt. farm milk with mechanical cooking equipment 3.40 ewt. all other milk 0.83 ewt. Prices based on four per cent butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
George S.S. Coble
Coble Dairy Products Co
Ramseur
Lexington and Guilford College
British Drive Hard To Break Through Lines
Allied forces under Omar Bradley push toward Saint Lo in a seventh day assault, breaking into the heavily defended Nazi Normandy line. Miles Dempsey’s British units drive along a nine mile front southwest of Caen, capturing villages and pressing toward the Periers road as German defenses in the Saint Lo area intensify.
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Supreme Headquarters
Omar B. Bradley
St. Lo
Normandy
Miles C. Dempsey
Lessay
Bradley
Periers
Lesne
St. Los Periers
St de
Charlesmagne
Caen
Au>recy
Odon
Orne
Pravda Criticizes GOP Platform as Isolationist
Pravda denounces the Republican convention for isolationist foreign policy and internal strife between Willkie supporters and party machine leaders. It cites Taft as an isolationist leader and highlights committee figures Landon and Vandenberg as adherents of isolationism.
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Moscow
Praveda
Communist Party
Jacob Khavinson
Tass
Mackinac
Wendell Willkie
Republican Party
Willkie
Pravda
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Alfred M. Landon
Land Sen
Vandenbrg
Michigan
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St Lo
Pripyat Marshes
Henry RK. Dwire
Henry Dwire
Duke Hospital
Army Air Corps
Cochran Field
Bernard G. Hartley
Lewiston
Donald V. Shattuck
Woronoco
Mass
Jack Gooch
Rommel
Hitler
Itler
Fuehrer
France
By Noland Norgaard
U.S
Farmers At Convention
Raymond Milland
Ginger Rogers
Victor Moore
Preston Sturges
Franchot Tone
Dorothy S. Kaumerger
Paramount
Dorothy Lamour
Gary Cooper
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., Ltd
Twentieth Century-Fox
Don Ameche
Jack Benny
Henry Fonda
Bryan Foy
Betty Grable
Sonja Henie
Tyrone Power
Bette Davis
Warner Brothers
Warner
Humphrey Bogart
Olivia de Haviland
Errol Flynn
Cary Grant
Ida Lupino
Ann Sheridan
Blue Bell Globe Manufacturing Company
J. C Fox
North Carolina Equipment Company
A. F E. Finley
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
S. Clary Williams
Graniteville Company
S. H. Swint
H. A. Woodhead
Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company
Archie C. Joslin
Coble
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