Yankees Sweep As 10,000 Japs Trapped In Guam Siege
Allied forces tightened the noose on about 10,000 Japanese troops confined to the northern third of Guam and seized another airfield. Nimitz announced roughly 33,000 Japanese killed across Guam, Tinian, and Saipan with American losses around 20,000 total. MacArthur repelled two Japanese attempts near Aitape as battles raged across Biak Noemfoor and Hengyang. US planes harassed supply lines while Tokyo claimed US aircraft losses.
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Guam
Marianas
U. S
Japan
Tinian
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Saipan
MacArthur
New Guinea
Aitape
Biak
Noemfoor Islands
China
Hengyang
Philadelphia transit paralyzed by war labor strike
Philadelphia faces a major transport shutdown as six thousand trolley and subway workers walk out amid wage and union disputes. Police enforce order as clashes erupt and 140 000 workers miss shifts, while officials urge a return to duty to support the war effort.
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Iontreal
Philadelphia
Montreal
Tramway Com
Sheriff hunts suspect in Strauch murder near Laona
Forest county sheriff Harry Fannin said a 30 year old woodsman accused in the slaying of 15 year old Selma Strauch remains at large after a midday sighting near Laona. Bloodhounds will aid the hunt as a coroner's inquest had named the suspect and issued a warrant.
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Laona
Wis
Harry Fannin
Forest County
Selma Strauch
Fannin
John Reese
Reese
Former Blackhawk Player Killed in France
Reported death of a former Blackhawk player in France on July 5. The Gabryck family of Winona, Minnesota, received word, noting service with the army since March 1942 and prior employment details. The subject played for Winona PNA in 1936 and later with La Crosse during the summer season.
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Blackhawk
France
Pps
Guinet
Gabryck
Winona
Winona Pna
la Crosse
Date Set For Solons W Ton Not Return To House
Speaker Rayburn announced that most House members not involved in reconversion would not return to Washington before Monday August. He said there would be no legislative business ready before then after a Thursday conference with the Democratic whip.
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Solons W. Ton
House
Ling
Ore
Rug
Rayburn
Ray
Local Weather Forecast Noted With Cloudiness
Weather brief notes considerable cloudiness tonight with continued warmth. Low around 70 and high Friday. Local forecast mentions scattered conditions and warm trend into the weekend.
Monty Asks When The War Will End On British Front
General Bernard Montgomery spoke to the Associated Press near Caumont saying progress is excellent as Allied forces push toward the next phase. He noted about 100000 German prisoners taken since D-day and praised American troops as going splendidly. When asked when the war would end, Montgomery laughed and declined to predict.
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Caumont
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Associated Press
U.S
France
St. Malo
Bay of St. Michel
Normandy
Brittany
Dinan
Pontorson
Brest
Reds aim to block German Baltic evacuation by sea
Russian trucks ferried speedboats torpedoes and mines toward the Baltic coast to seal a sea corridor west of Riga. Mines between Osel and mainland and fast boats could disrupt German exits from the Gulf of Riga trapping 20 000 to 30 000 troops and cutting off a Baltic evacuation.
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Baltics
Stockholm
Baltic Sea
Rica
Baltic
Osel
Gulf
Dubult
Riga
South Carolina
Governors Meet on New Deal Policy Postwar Jobs
Twenty five Republican governors issue a six point policy asserting private enterprise must lead peacetime jobs and warning that federal land grabs threaten state self government. They call for prompt plant clearance and veteran job considerations as war ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Thomas E. Dewey
Inter-State Fair Judging Under Way On Second Day
Open class judging continued Thursday at the 54th Inter-State Fair with livestock and exhibits. 4-H entries enter Friday as open class awards near completion. Friday features horse races with purses of 400 and 300, vaudeville acts, and 4-H style revue. Attendance topped 7,000 opening day with larger crowds anticipated. Saturday hosts a livestock parade and further races. Sunday closes with Young's revue finale.
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Ernie Young
Mighty Sheesley Organization
Floyd Jones
Bangor
Jones
Young's Revue
Pfc Lawrence A Banasik Dies in Action in France
The death of Pfc Lawrence A Banasik 28 was reported by his parents Mr and Mrs Stanley Banasik describing his service in paratroops. A Central High School track star class of 1935 he enlisted December 10 1941 trained at Camp Roberts California volunteered for paratroops November 1942 and served in Africa Sicily Italy Ireland England and France with his first combat jump in Sicily. He had recently completed infantry training at Ft Benning and went overseas in April 1943.
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Lawrence A. Banasik
France
Stanley Banasik
South 14Th Street
Banasik
Central High School
Army
Camp Roberts
Calif
Ft. Benning
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Ireland
England
Arms Output Lags Behind Schedule In 1944 Production
The War Production Board reports 1944 armament program at 48 percent complete by mid year with many urgent weapons lagging behind military estimates. June mu nitions output totaled 5.38 billion dollars, 1 percent below May and 3 percent behind schedule. Chairman Donald M. Nelson notes most major programs were on or ahead of schedule, but overall production was set lower to fit production possibilities.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
B 29s Score Direct Hits on Anshan Factories
War Secretary Stimson described a substantial force of new Superfortresses hitting Anshan coke ovens and other plants at Tangku and Tiensin on July 29. He said the attack targeted Japan's war industry and its production in occupied China.
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Washington
Anshan
Manchuria
Stimson
Tangku
Tiensin
China
Japan
Ceiling Prices Set In Chungking For Cold Treats
City imposes heat wave price caps with ice at 12 Chinese dollars per round and ice cream at 60 dollars per cup. Lemonade priced at 40 dollars per bottle iced milk 50 dollars per glass and icesuckers 18 dollars per stick. A second hand refrigerator is listed for 650 000 dollars.
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Chungking
China
U. S
Russians Establish Two Bridgeheads Across Vistula Front
London reports the Russian 3rd White Army has forged two bridgeheads across the Vistula, one 37 miles south of Warsaw, as fighting tightens on the Polish capital’s eastern suburbs and east Prussia near Tilsit and Insterburg. Russian forces press toward Koenigsberg, while fresh divisions push in Latvia and Estonia. Churchill notes large numbers of German troops cut off, with efforts to outflank Warsaw from the east bank of the Vistula.
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London
Vistula
Moscow
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Dydvizhe
Schirwindt
Eydtkuhnen
Wehrkirchen
Cherniakhovsky
Tilsit
Isterburg
Koenigsberg
Virbalis
Wizainy
East Prussia
Warsaw
Praga
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Deblin
Latvia
Estonia
Churchill
Riga
Lake Peipus
Gulf of Finland
Narva
Tallinn
Carpathians
Red
Krakow
Old Poland
Postal Inspector Hires Boat to Nab Wanted Man
Chicago based postal inspector Ohrvall hired a motor boat at Lake Mills Wisconsin to arrest Herbert Lee Nelson 28 an escaped convict and his wife Anne Nelson. Nelson fled Montana state prison June 19 and is wanted for a Fairview Utah post office burglary July 23. he previously served a nine year term for a 1940 Montana gas station robbery. He confessed to the burglary and reportedly hid loot at a Rockford Illinois bus depot last Sunday.
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Chicago
Sam G. Chrvall
Lake Mills
Wis
Herbert Lee Nelson
Anne
Ohrvall
Nelson
Montana State Penitentiary
Fairview
Utah
Butte
Mont
Rockford, Ill
Ohrwall
Rockford
War Manpower Commission Drops Manning Table Schedules
The War Manpower Commission announced the discontinuation of its Manning Table schedules used in war industries since October 1942. The agency said the schedules fulfilled their objectives and are no longer needed given current selective service rules allowing occupational deferments for men aged 26 and older.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Armed Services
German Army To Be Run By Nazis Laws
The Voelkischer Beobachter quoted in a Berlin broadcast that the German army is now a Nazi army and will be run by Nazi laws. It states this marks the transformation of the old army into the new Nazi army and that in this war the army must be truly national socialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Berlin
Germany
French Maquis Battle as Allied Drive Fights South France
Allied forces face intensified German defense in southern France as French Maquis sustain guerrilla pressure. Eisenhower reports Maquis dispersal and renewed attacks amid heavy enemy artillery and air power while American advances threaten Brittany and a broader push into the region.
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Spreme
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brittany
Fisher Brothers Leave Motors Corporation
Detroit leaders Lawrence P Fisher Edward F Fisher William A Fisher and Alfred J Fisher announced their retirement from General Motors after 25 years of service They had contemplated leaving since 1937 but currently have no definite plans for the future
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Detroit
Mich
Fisher Brothers
Lawrence P
Edward F
William A
Alfred J. Fisher
General Motors Corporation
U S Heavies Hit Germany Italy and France in Allied Air War
Allied air forces unleashed about 3 000 planes from Britain and Italy targeting railway yards at Saarbrucken Mulhouse and Strasbourg and industrial sites in Friedrichshafen and the Po valley. British bombers hit two rocket depots north of France while London faced robot bomb raids. In July US strategic air forces logged 58 979 sorties dropping 73 000 tons with 1 373 aircraft reported destroyed. losses reached 550 heavy bombers and 180 fighters.
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London
Britain
Italy
Germany
France
England
Saarbrucken
Mulhouse
Strasbourg
Maginot Line
Friedrichshafen
United States Strategic Air Forces
Allied Expeditionary Force
United States
Russia
8Th Air Force
Normandy
St. Lo
Caen
Americans In Speedy Push For St Nazaire
Allied reports say American forces advanced south of Rennes and pushed toward Dinan, Dinan to Rennes with rapid armor moves across Brittany. Three American spearheads seized Rennes, Dinan outskirts, and Combourg as Canadian troops attacked from the south near Caen.
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St. Nazaire
Hdarts
Brittany
Rennes
Penin
Cherbourg
Avranches
Dinan
Brest
Combourg
Omar N. Bradley
Caen
Loire River
Tilly-Le-Campagne
Achievement Flag Is Raised In West Salem Ceremony
West Salem Packing Co. received the War Food Administration achievement award in a gym ceremony with 350 workers and townspeople in attendance. An Army officer raised the blue A flag symbolizing full production as Major T C Dennehy explained food support for the armed forces. The event praised unity and efficient management and cited volunteers who kept crops from loss.
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West Salem
West Salem Packine Company
War Food Administra
United States Army
American Legion Color Guard
Mitchell
T. C. Dennehy
United States Army Headquarters Depot
Chicago
Tarawa
Salerno
Wendell L. McEldowney
West Salem Packing Company
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Philippines
China Coast
Philip Hayes
Miller
E. Parsons Miller
Parsons
Philadelphia Tron Company
CIO Transworkers Union
Samuel
War Labor Board
Cio-United Auto Workers
Kelsey Wheel Co
WLB
General Motors
Chevrolet Gear and Axle
Briggs Manufac Company
Wayne, Midh Mich
Stinson
Allied — Aircraft Co
Blackwell
Frank Gabryck
East Sanborne, Street
Sgt
Monty
By Roger D. Greene
Pfc
Big Red
Daniel DE Luce
WMC
Paris
By James M. Long
Fisher Brothers Leave Motors Corporation
Freidrichshafen
Bavaria
Hdqtrs
Mortain
Erwin Rommel
Edward D. Ball
Rance
Miles C. Dempsey
Vira
Estry
D. R. Wartinbee
A. F. Ewart
Camp McCoy
Rexford G. Mitchell
la Crosse State
War Food Administration
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