Tennessee River Gets Face Lift Through the Locks
The Tennessee River realigns into slackwater pools with TVA dams from Muscle Shoals to Paducah. Locks, modern river terminals, and coal and grain shipments push freight and tourism, as 1944 views of the river foretell a transformed commerce and recreational boom.
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Tenn
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Ohio
Truman Seeks Guidance On Campaign Role After Ballot Victory
Truman declared he will study what the national committee and the commander-in-chief want before planning campaigns. He secured 1031 of 1176 votes for the vice presidential nomination while Wallace received 105. He said he would resign the senate war committee chair but only after ensuring it remains above politics. He expressed fondness for Wallace and noted the desire to see President after convention.
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Henry A. Wallace
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Iowa
Henry Wallace
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Arty
Edward Jelly
Chicago
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Allies Press Hard in Caen Area as German Resistance Holds
The account notes sharp Allied air and ground pressure near London and Caen with limited German aerial opposition. It says Allied troops grow tougher with superior equipment. It cautions the war remains difficult, but forecasts eventual Allied dominance as German forces thin and stronger Allied units gain strength.
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London
Caen
Democratic Party Names Committee Members
The Democratic National Committee released its list of new committee members following yesterday's national convention. Arkansas will finalize its selections on July 25, with other states naming representatives such as Alabama Col. Marion Rushton and Lenhard Thomas, Connecticut Robert A. Hurley and Mary C. Hausman, Louisiana Henry C. Sevier and Roland B. Howell, among others.
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Marion Rushton
Lenhard Thomas
Connecticut
Robert A. Hurley
Mary C. Hausman
Louisiana
Henry C. Sevier
Roland B. Howell
Maine
Harold Dubord
Katherine M. Hickson
Maryland
Preston Lane, Jr
Alice M. Canoles
Massachusetts
James M. Curley
Margaret O'Riordan
Issippi
David E. Leene
Mary Louise Kendall
Hampshire
Francis Parnell Mor
Agnes Collins Dunn
North Carolina
Wilkins P. Horton
Beatrice Cobb
Rhode Island
Theodore F. Green
Margaret M. Sullivan
South Carolina
Olin B. Johnston
Vermont
Frank H. Duffy
Beatrice Shurman
E. R. Combs
John Land Pollard
West Virginia
Arthur B. Koontz
Garl Gal
Nazi purge highlights high command loyalties during revolt
Reports from Berlin and Geneva describe a purge of officers suspected of sympathy with the rebel movement as Nazi leaders claim quiet across Germany. Radio sources say Himmler bolstered a home army with SS detachments and that several top generals remained at large or were implicated.
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Lindemann
Schoerner
Ers
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Norway
Baron Maximilian von Weichs
Europe
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la Suisse
Marshal Kesselring
Berlin
der Bund
Bern
Robert Ley
Ley
Italy
Britain
Free Committee Calls Germans to Quit War
In Moscow the Free German National Committee urged German soldiers and civilians to join the revolution against Hitler. The broadcast appeal, signed by Gen. Walter Von Seydlitz, said the die is cast as utter discontent gives way to open battle.
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London
Free German National Committee
Moscow
Hitler
Walter von Seydlitz
Union of
Soviet Lightning Advances Across Poland and Ukraine
Soviet forces pressed across occupied Poland and into Galicia and Volhynia, capturing Chelm and Jaroslaw while closing on Lwow. Units used American made aircraft including Bostons Mitchells and Airacobras as they pushed toward Warsaw and the Vistula line.
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Dauga
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Jarosliaw
Pskov
C Thian
Russia
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Latvia
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Kaunas
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War Update on Pacific Landing and Burma Actions
The 77th Infantry Division landed with Marines as Nimitz called progress satisfactory. Coastal defenses were overrun after a 17 day bombardment making the landing smooth. American artillery from 1000 foot peaks aided by the Fifth Fleet could target the harbor. Japanese air protection was lacking as bombers targeted Bonin islands. MacArthur's bombers struck Palau Yap and other eastern Caroline island groups. In Burma, airborne British troops seized two villages in Mo Gaung Myitkyina area while Chinese encircled Lungling and pressed Hengyang outskirts.
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London Says No Official Allied Reaction Issued
CBS reported a BBC broadcast claiming an Allied stance endorsing generals and a mass German capitulation, but London's foreign office rejected any official Allied attitude and called the broadcast likely psychological warfare.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
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Allied drive near Caen rations German counterattacks and tanks
Allied troops edged within a mile and a half of the highway as German counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses, including at least 14 tanks. British machine gunners halted German advances around Le Bon Repos and Esquay while rains slowed operations along the 100 mile front.
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Associated Press
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Notab
Seventeen Deaths Attributed To Polio
Raleigh reports a total of seventeen infantile paralysis deaths for the year and 362 polio cases in the current epidemic, with state records showing 374 cases in North Carolina so far this year.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
North Carolina
CIO Group Backs FDR Truman Campaign Drive
In Chicago on July 22 the CIO political action committee announced support for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. CIO Treasurer Hillman said about 6,000,000 members are urged to donate with a $3,000,000 goal, starting from a frozen treasury of $750,000. Philip Murray explained CIO PAC limits to CIO members, while non members may join the citizens group. The executive committee will meet in New York around August 5 to set rules and machinery for fundraising and campaigning. The group pledges to operate within the law while backing Roosevelt and Truman at the Democratic convention.
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CIO
Harry Truman
Hillman
Treasury
National Citizens’ Political Action Committee
Philip Murray
Cio-Pac
CTO
Citizens’ Group
New York
Citizens’ Committee
Murray
Airforces Hit Romania With Heavy Blows
About 750 heavy bombers of the U S 15th air force hit Ploesti Romania today for the sixth day of the week long attack on Hitler war plants. The week long strikes by Fortresses Liberators and other aircraft hit more than 100 German targets and lifted total bomb tonnage toward 18 000 tons.
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London
U. S
15Th Air Force
Romania
Ploesti
Hitler
Air Force
Europe
Germany
Britain
Italy
Bea
Berlin
Channel Ey
Battlefront
France
Soviet sea power credited for vast wartime losses
On the eve of Red Navy Day, Moscow asserts Soviet sea power sunk over 2,500 enemy surface ships, damaged 1,200 more, and destroyed 6,600 aircraft in three years of war.
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Moscow
Wounded Soldiers Restored to Duty Under New Reconditioning Program
Col Rex Diveley of Kansas City reports a new Army program that returns a large percent of wounded men to full combat duty and 10 to 15 percent to a duty. This reconditioning cuts manpower loss days by 20 to 35 percent and uses physical training, games, remedial gym, physical therapy, and refresher military training.
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Rex Diveley
Kansas City
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Diveley
Vatican Press Says Communism Incompatible With Catholicism
Rome July 22 Vatican City paper Osservatore Romano published by Father Mariano states Catholic doctrine and historical materialism cannot coexist. It warns Catholic youths forming a so called Catholic Communists group risk eroding faith if they merge dogma with materialist politics and fear state control would strip citizens to wages and dependence.
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Osservastore Romano
Vatican City
Mariano Master
Pontifica Palace
Uni
Electron Scope Improves Stanford Lab Analysis Tool
At a Stanford University presentation Dr Ladislaus Marton announced an enhanced electronic instrument. It can identify chemicals in particles smaller than one hundred millionth of a square inch. The device attaches to a standard electron microscope and uses its higher power to enable analysis of extremely fine mixtures.
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Calif
American Physical Society
Ladislaus Marton
Stanford University
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