Hitler's last stand plan eyed amid shifting fronts
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie outlines Hitler's strategy to retreat to the Reich's borders while delaying Allied advances. He notes potential southern France invasion, defense of Paris, and a final stand behind the Maginot and Siegfried lines as Soviet frontlines tighten toward East Prussia.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Reich
France
Rhone
Fuehrer
Caen
Spain
Atlantic
Normandy
Brittany
Avranches
Paris
English Channel
Channel
Belgium
Germany
Maginot Line
Siegfried Wall
Rhone Valley
Belfort
Vistula
Warsaw
Oder
Nine Jap divisions liquidated in Burma drive toward India
Allied spokesmen announced 42,000 Japanese killed and four of Burma’s nine divisions liquidated as Stilwell’s campaigned in the jungle mountains pushed toward Northeast India. Patrols crossed the Yu River chasing the disorganized foe toward the Chindwin. Myitkyina base secured with heavy Japanese losses.
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Southeast Asia
Kahdy
Ceylon
Burma
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mandalay
Tamu
Yu River
Chindwin
Tiddi
Imphal
Manipur
Stilwell
Myitkyina
Lend Lease Decrease Seen In World War Two Aid
Washington officials predict a steady downtrend in lend-lease shipments to Britain after Germany’s defeat. They anticipate trimming supplies in line with Britain's needs for the war against Japan and consider transition credits to keep Britain's economy and U S industry steady as lend-lease items move to credit and normal trade resumes.
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Washington
Britain
Germany
Japan
America
Congress
Philadelphia transit strike fallout and union leaders
Philadelphia reports show eight workers to begin operator training after a transit walkout, with four strike leaders released on $2,500 bonds awaiting August 14 hearings under the Smith Connally act. Leader James H. McMenamin defended actions as protest, not a strike, while losses to war production were pegged at millions of man hours by War Manpower officials.
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PTC
James H. McMenamin
Willian C. Dixey
Frank P. Carney
TWU
Frank Thompson
McMenamin
Frank L. McNamee
War Manpower Commission
Eiga
McNamee
WPB Faces Resignations Over Army Stock Report
The War Production Board pulled a July report after Army officials demanded removal of a section on ground forces ordnance stocks. Officials Bassie and Kaplan resigned following the recall ordered by Stacy May with Wilson backing the action. The board had not yet seen the edited report.
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War Production Board
Somervald
War Department
Army
Bassie
Kaplan
Stacy May
WPB Bureau of Planning and Statistics
Charles E. Wilson
WPB
Assassins Von Wartaburg at People's Court Senate
In the German People's Court session presided by Dr. Roland Preisler and led by Prosecutor Lautz, Stieff admitted early involvement in assassination plans dating to summer 1943. Suess and Witvleben confessed ties to the failed plot and referenced Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, with mentions of Witzleben and Beck contemplating leadership changes amid Hitler’s military strategy.
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Witvleben
Ludwig Beck
Hitler
Nore
Witzleben
Beck
Russians advance west of Warsaw and toward Krakow fronts
Russian forces push 37 miles from Krakow after seizing 650 square miles on the Vistula west bank and capturing towns including Kongary Sosniczany and Sandomierz. A Baltic drive nears Tilsit Memel as General Bacramian’s army gains up to 20 miles from Siaukalim. Moscow radio appeals trapped Nazi troops to surrender as German losses mount.
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Warsaw
Krakow
Kongary
Sandomierz
Sosniczany
Vistula
Silesia
Warka
Moscow
Aarshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Ivan Cc. Bacramian
Tilsit
Memel
Cuding Sankenai
Baltic
Krusenai
Sankenai
Siaukalim
Lithuania
Bugyamian
Estonia
Latvia
Gulf of Riga
National Committee of Free Germany
East Prussia
Reds press drive toward Cracow as Warsaw flank looms
The article notes fierce fighting at key points as German forces slow to delay Russian advances. The Red Army has crossed the Vistula into the Cracow sector, threatening a critical German front. A breakthrough south of Warsaw could force a wholesale German retreat.
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Vistula
Cracow
Warsaw
Allied air and ground offensives push German lines in France
Allied forces renew strikes across France as Omar Bradley’s tank infantry reach toward Lorient and Brest. RAF and US air forces pound Caen region, rail and fuel depots, destroying hundreds of locomotives and cars, while German withdrawal threats loom near St Malo and Lorient.
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Mortain
France
Breton
Omar N. Bradley
Lorient
U. S
Brest
St. Malo
Paris
Lonoqon
Aug
Caen
First Army
Romilly Sur Seine
le Perthe
Rommilly
England
RAF
May
T4-Orne
Tilly la Campagne
Caen-Falaise
Avranches
Second Tactical Air Force
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Tvan
Maly
Reconquest of Guam Is Near
Allied advances press the northern one-tenth of Guam toward final recapture as U S forces sever Japanese lines from Aitape to Wewak New Guinea and Yap Island falls under neutralization Rounds of aerial activity are reported over Mindanao and the Philippines with Tokyo claiming limited Allied raids amid assertions of American carrier losses and Japanese counter claims Koiso pledges armament as Marianas moves loom in the war.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
U. S
Yap Island
Carolines
Aitape
Wewak
British New Guinea
Philippines
Tokyo
Davao
Mindanao
George C. Jenney
Far Eastern Air Force
Australia- New Guinea
Corregidor
Bonin
Wazan Islands
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglass MacArthur
Yap
Kuniaki Koiso
Marianas
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Koiso
New Guinea
WPB Approves Stove Production in War Time
The War Production Board says three manufacturers will produce standard four burner electric ranges in October through December. Production aims for 88,000 units this year, about 16 percent of prewar output. Manufacturers can meet quotas without interfering with war work, though some delay may occur to prepare equipment after two years without standard ranges.
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Washington
Aug. B
War Production Board
WPB
WFB
Obituary for James Samuel Markley in 1944
Friends of the late James Samuel Markley are receiving at the family home on Sixth Street in Clymer. The funeral will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. by Rev. Wm. H. Mooney. A separate dispatch reports Allied patrols crossing the Yu River in northwestern Burma with no resistance from retreating Japanese forces, and progress along the Amphal to Tiddim highway on the Indian side.
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James Samuel Markley
James Samuel
Markley
Sixth Street
Clymer
Servn Ri “2 Cices
Wm. H
Shanghai
Mooney
Domet
Federal Communications Commission
Toyko
Hengyang
Chungking
U.S
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Tamu
Burma
Yu River
Shindwin
Amphal
Tiddim
Obituary notices from Greensburg and nearby towns
Multiple deaths are reported including Norris Sickenberger of Greensburg and Mrs Eleanor Holstein of West Lebanon. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2:00 pm and 1:30 pm respectively, with interment at local cemeteries. Also listed are Mrs Rhoda May Holben of Trade City, and NOMER M. NEIL of Banks Township, detailing birth years, survivors, and church affiliations. Additional smaller notices note George Clabnogusey of Brush Valley Township and surviving relatives, with a Requiem High Mass Friday at 10:09 am and burial in Lucerne church cemetery.
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Eleanor Eliza Holstein
West Lebanon
Jacob I. Brown
West
Lebanon Cemetery
Rhoda May Holben
William Holben
Canoe Township
Indiana County
G. W
Sara States Painter
William Holden
Cloe
Esteen
Jonn' A. Painter
Punxsutawney
R. D
Nora McCallister
Meade Long
Sharon
Edith Bargeratock
Albion
Joseph Zufall
Morrison Funeral Home
John Cogley
Circle Hil Cemetery
Nomer MM. Neil
Banks Township
Banks ‘Township
Rossiter R. D
James W
Catherine Bowers Neil
Clara J. Fearce
Methodist Church
Dale
Donavan
Carl
Erie
Lloyd
Pittsburgh
Howard
William
Needles
Calif
Cecelia Lydie
Martha Neil
Franklin, Ind
Mary Weil
Annabelle Seeley
Clay Neil
Rossiter
Lanle See
George Clabnogusey
Brush Valley Township
Indiana Hospital
Brush Valley
Elizabeth
George
U. S. Army
Mary Brack
Helen
Margaret
Irene
Newark
N. J Sophia
John
Joseph
Martha
Jim
No Changes On Italian Front Yet In Armies Stand
Italian front reports say German forces hold a foothold in the hills south of the Arno near the great bend east of Florence after a counterattack against Indian troops moving toward Arezzo. Florence and Pisa remain under Allied and German control respectively with weather disrupting operations.
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Romb
i/Pi
Arno
Florence
Arezzo
Pisa
Nazis Drew Men From All Europe
Allied records show German divisions used in Normandy came from Brittany and southern France, with only two SS Panzer divisions drawn from the Eastern Front. One Panzer unit was from Galicia and another from Poland. Three divisions were from Denmark, Holland and Belgium. The rest were already in Normandy or north of the Seine through Pas de Calais.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Brittany
France
Eastern Front
Galicia
Poland
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Seine
Pas de Calais
Allied air forces strike German targets in Europe blitz
The Szombathely airfield near Vienna was bombed burning numerous German parked planes. Hours earlier Jalian field American bombers hit two German oil plants at Bleckhammer, sparking large fires. Mediterranean forces destroyed 29 German planes in combat. 22 more were shot down. The Soviet communiqué claimed 117 German planes destroyed yesterday, bringing Allied losses to at least 166.
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Szombathely
Vienna
Germany
Blechhamer
Mediterranean
Commuunique
Ramspeck predicts huge cut of federal workers
Washington Aug 8 Rep Ramspeck predicts a postwar federal payroll purge cutting about two million civilians within a year after the war ends. He cites Civil Service Commission layoff rules favoring career workers and veterans, with reductions tied to appropriations, projects, and agency reorganizations.
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Washington
Ramspeck
House Civil Service Committee
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Three Changes In Hungarian Gov’t
London dispatch reports Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Hungarian regent, dismissed Bela Imrech minister without portfolio, and two other cabinet members at their own request. Antal Kyunder minister of Commerce and transportation and Andor Jaross home secretary were named. Strong pro Nazi links noted, significance unclear.
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London
Berlin
Budapest
Nicholas Horthy
Bela Imprech
Antal Kyunder
Commerce
Andor Jaross
Hungary
Nazis Famed Atlantic Wall Abandoned in France
IAAN Spain reports the Atlantic Wall across southwestern France is largely abandoned as American advances threaten supply lines. German forces retreat north from Bayonne and Hendaye with only a few Gestapo and SS units guarding the frontier, while railroad troops move artillery toward coastal ports.
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Iaan
Spain
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic
Bordeaux
France
Brittany
Paris
Maginot Line
Belgium
Hendeye
Loire
Bayonne
Tturn
Hendaye
Biarritz
la Rochelle
Montpellier
Rhone River
Stock Market Air Reauction Am Rad And Tel And Steel
A chaotic listing of major companies and stocks headlines a market air reauction. Firms including American Telephone American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Boeing United Aircraft and US Steel are cited among others in a dense exchange report.
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Nick Can Int
Tel & Tel Johns Manville AK Kennecott
Cop ‘Kresge
Lehigh Va! Coal Leh Val RR
Libby, Men & L
Montgom Ward
Net Biscuit Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow & Lt
NY Central RR
North Ameria Northern Pac Packard Motor Param Pictures
Penn RR Pub Sve
NJ Pullman Pure Oil
Radio Corp of Am Reading Co
Repab Steel Sears Roebuck Socony Vacuum Sperry Corp
Cal
Ind Studebaker Corp
Swift & Co Texas Co
United Aircraft
United Gas Imp US Rubber US Smelt
A & M US Steel Warner Brog
Pict West UN Tel A West
el & Mig
Woolworth
Youngst
Sh & T
Curb— Ark
Nat- Gas “A
Elec
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