Furloughs For High Pointers Serving With U S Marines
Five hundred South and Southwest Pacific marines from the first marine division return to San Diego for a thirty day furlough after twenty six months in combat. The report lists North Carolina marines with home addresses in High Point Thomasville Denton Asheboro and Lexington noting ages and family details.
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Atlanta
United States Marine Corps Headquarters
Southern Recruiting Division
South
Southwest Pacific
First Marine Division
San Diego
California
Pacific
United States
Guadalcanal
New Britain
North Carolina
Ralph Carter Hartley
Sallie Hartley
Pershing
High Point
Howard J. McManus
W. S. McManus
Osborne Street
John FE. Watts
Kathleen Watts
Trinity
Thomasville
Corp
Joe D. Cagle
James D. Cagle
Franklin Street
James R. Williams, Jr
J. R. Williams, Sr
Denton
John T. Burns
Thomas B. Burns
Greenville
Occoneechree Avenue
Asheboro
N. C
Jesse B. Link
Carrie Link
Salisbury St
Lexington
German Prisoner Air Mail Letters Available At Postoffice
Air mail letter cards approved by the Army and axis government for correspondence with American prisoners of war are at the general delivery window for free distribution. Cards require a six cent air mail stamp and are designed to protect prisoner addresses while speeding censorship.
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Army
Dewindow
Post Office
Allied Command Reports Pacific Gains and Japan Losses
McArthur and Nimitz described heavy Allied air and ground successes in the Pacific. Bombers set fires to transport ships near Halmahera and Saipan, with several enemy vessels destroyed or damaged. Casualties included 1,620 Japanese captured on Saipan and 19,000 dead in the defending force. in New Guinea, 787 Nipponese were killed as a breakout failed near Wewak.
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Halmahera Island
Philippines
McArthur
Halmahera
Nimitz
MacArthur
Saipan
Tojo
Japan
British New Guinea
Wewak
Young Nazi generals split with older commanders in WW II
The report says younger Nazi generals like Marshal Erwin Rommel and Col. Gen. Eduard Dietl sided with Hitler against veteran leaders in France and northern Finland. The younger officers, including Hofmeister, have had little wartime experience.
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Erwin Rommel
France
Eduard Deit
Finland
Hitler
Hofmeister
Approval of Interstate Labor Movement to Cannery Jobs
The War Manpower Commission announced that governors of Delaware Florida Maryland North Carolina Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania approved an interstate movement of workers to relieve cannery labor shortages during the recessing season peaking in the coming weeks. The rest of the text notes that most of Turkey’s population is engaged in or dependent on agriculture.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission Today
Delaware
Florida
Maryland
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Turkey
Allied forces breach Orne defenses near St Lo in heavy push
Allied command reported Montgomery’s troops cleared half of Aubourg De Vaucelles and breached the Germans defenses as a vast air land assault roared across the front. Americans seized Rama northwest of St Lo while heavy air strikes pummeled German positions with 7 000 to 9 000 tons of bombs in 7 350 sorties.
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St. Lo
St. Lo-Periers
Vire
Amigny
Supreme Command
Montgomery
Aubourg de Vaucelles
Rommel
Orne
Paris
Noyers
Villers-Bocage
Rama
Cassino
France
Germany
Europe
Funeral Rites for Richard T. Fowler Held at Home
Funeral services for Richard Thomas Fowler who died last Friday at his home on Route 3 will be conducted at the residence Thursday at 11 o'clock. Reverend O. L. Ruth will officiate and interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Richard T. Fowler
Richard Thomas Fowler
Rt. 3
Ev. O. L. Ruth
Oakwood Cemetery
Board Reviews 24 Used Car Certificates
The service price panel of the war price and rationing board reviewed and passed 24 certificates of transfer for used cars in yesterday morning’s meeting. Officials said weekly reviews will likely continue to detect any violations in used car sales. D C Goff explained the maximum price regulations in a related afternoon session with the Charlotte district office.
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War Price and Rationing Board
D. C. Goff
Charlotte
Service
Allied Air Offensive Near Normandy Front
Planes from Italy before dawn damaged a rail bridge and struck Bologna Udine and Yugoslavia areas.Targets in southern Germany included a Messerschmitt parts factory at Kempten and railroad yards at Coblenz Saarbrucken and Strasbourg. German bases at Lechfeld Leipheim and Laupheim near Augsburg were attacked. British aircraft dropped over 15000 tons of bombs on France and Germany in 30 hours with over 6000 tons on Germany amid Normandy advance. Air offensive set a high pace with 13 attacks on nine German cities in twelve hours.
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Italy
Bologna
Udine
Yugoslavia
Germany
Messerschmitt
Kempten
Switzerland
Coblenz
Saarbrucken
Strausbourg
Lechfeld
Leipheim
Laupheim
Augsburg
Britain
Roosevelt linked to Wallace ticket reshapes nomination race
Wartime censorship shelters Roosevelt moves as Byrnes signals Truman and Douglas as late contenders. Delegates press for a clear vice presidential choice with Barkley silent while labor backing grows for Wallace opponent meets mixed signals from Byrnes and Maybank. Byrnes letters push Truman in hopes of rallying support against Wallace.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Byrnes
Burnet R. Maybank
South Carolina
Truman
Missouri
Douglas
Senate
Alben W Barkley
Kentucky
New England
Chicago
Jake More
Iowa
Midwest
Barnes
Burnet Maybank
Sear Barnes
James F. Byrnes
Weather Forecast for North Carolina
Partly cloudy and warm today and tonight with scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers over coastal areas and in the mountains. Thursday will be partly cloudy and hot with scattered thundershowers.
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North Carolina
Poles Capture Ancona After Driven 75 Mile Advance
Polish troops seized Ancona after a 75 mile advance against stubborn German resistance. The city on the Adriatic coast, near the Yugoslav border, housed about 100000 residents and yielded over 2000 prisoners and large war materiel. British Fifth Army made gains near Arezzo, crossing the Arno and taking Montevarchi as Polish columns moved on to Agugliano and Camerano.
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Ancona
Bay of
Italy
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Arezzo
Arno
Montevarchi
Monte Cassino Abbey
Agugliano
Camerano
Tiber
Eighth Army
Citta di Castello
Soviet counterattacks and rapid breakthroughs across Latvia to Riga
Six czars pursued a widening Soviet wedge toward the Bug and Warsaw while heavy fighting north of Grodno intensified. Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian drove into Latvia near Riga with a major breakthrough as Red Star noted four German tank divisions against Konev near Lwow. Krasovsky led a formidable air force as defenses strengthened for a new offensive.
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Gainovka
Bug
Warsaw
Grodno
Nieman River
East Prussia
Daugavpils
Ivan C. Bagramian
Latvia
Riga
Red Star
Konev
Lwow
Stepan A. Krasovsky
Polio Cases Rise to 344 in North Carolina
Fight new cases of polio were reported to the State Health Department today, bringing the total for North Carolina to 344.
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Raleigh
State Health Department
North Carolina
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