U S Carrier Task Force Shells Bonin Islands
Allied naval forces launched a two day assault on the Bonin Islands driving into Jap defenses near Chinchi Jima. The raid, led by Adm. Chester Nimitz, reported sunk and damaged ships including five destroyers or escorts and several cargo vessels, with reports of a cruiser and five smaller craft sunk or damaged.
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U.S
Bonin Islands
Japan
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Toyko
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pacific
New Guinea
U. S
Bonin
Kazan
Omura
Chinchi Jima
Muko
Ane
Iwo Jima
Polish Boys Fight Tanks In Warsaw
Polish forces press bureau says Warsaw battle crews fight German tanks in the city. The homeland army reports it seized its first tank and credits civilian John Lumenski as the first civilian decorated for Warsaw efforts.
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Warsaw
LS Fae Pone
Ish
Homeland Army
John Lumenski
For
Polish Talks Renewed As Moscow Encounters Resume
Moscow reports brighter broadcasts on Polish reconciliation as Premier Mikolajczyk meets with the Polish National Committee amid renewed Polish national talks. Soviet press highlights ongoing conferences and renewed momentum in the Polish question.
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Moscow
Mikolajczyk
Lib
Local Weather Night Showers Then Clearing Warm Tuesday
Tonight showers move in as clouds increase and temperatures rise briefly before a cooler Tuesday night. Do not burn this paper. paper fights for victory.
26 Passengers Hurt in Milwaukee Line Derailment
Lake City Minnesota reports 26 hurt when Milwaukee road eastbound train derails near Lake City. Five remain in hospital not in critical condition including Thomas Potter and Pvt Richard Schlegel. Train did not stop at Lake City. east track blocked with 10 minute delays while crews investigate.
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N. Fremont
Chicago
Flora Bascomb
Tuskegee
Bascomb
Con
Lake City
Marine Corps
New York
Attu
Kiska
Milwaukee
W. J. Whalen
la Crosse Division
More Men Needed For Army Says Hershey
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of selective service, told Spokane readers the army is nearly built but needs more men to relieve troops overseas. He urged local boards not to forget men up to age 38 who may be called, noting service lengths of two to three years for some units.
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Spokane
Wash
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Son of Clementon Man Dies in France Wounds
James Samuels of Clementon New Jersey learned at home amid a strike that his son Staff Sergeant Harry J Samuels 26 a veteran of Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns died in France of wounds July in the war.
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Philadelphia
James Samuels
Clementon
N. J
War Department
PTC
Harry J. Samuels
France
Road to Berlin fronts distances chart
The Associated Press lists three front distances: Russian front 322 miles from eastern Warsaw, Italian front 603 miles from Florence, and French front 630 miles from Troarn. This summary preserves the named fronts and reference cities.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Florence
Troarn
Lands P-38 In Romania to Save Fellow Airman
A 20 year old American Lightning pilot Flight Officer Richard T. Andrews of Portland Oregon landed his plane in Romania to rescue a fellow airman and was decorated with the silver star as he exited his aircraft. He was greeted by Maj. Gen. Nathan Twining commander of the 15th air force after shuttle flights to Russian bases. Andrews and other 15th air force flyers strafed trains oil tanks and airfields during a mission ending at Italian bases.
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Rome
Richard T. Andrews
Portland
Ore
Nathan Twining
15Th Air Force
Andrews
Destruc
Postwar Peace Talks Delayed By Soviet Request
Acting Secretary of State Stettinius announced talks among the United States Britain and China are postponed until August 21 at Moscow's request to allow Soviet preparation before their representatives travel to Washington. The Russians had delayed opening at end of July as they plan extensive proposals.
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Washington
Stettinius
United States
Britain
China
Moscow
Union says over the road truck strikes unauthorized
Dexter L. Lewis of the central states drivers council said AFL drivers in Kansas City Minneapolis and Omaha would not be ordered back to work and that the wildcat actions were not official. He noted most union members awaited a presidential order on seizure of lines. Strikes began Saturday and affected Iowa cities Creston Ottumwa Marshalltown Dubuque Waterloo and Sioux City as drivers pressed wage increases from the war labor board.
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Chicago
Dexter L. Lewis
Central States Drivers’ Council
AFL
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Omaha
Council
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Lewis
International
War Labor Board
Iowa
Des Moines
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Creston
Ottumwa
Marshalltown
Dubuque
Waterloo
Sioux City
More War Material Needed Says Somervell
In a broadcast Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, head of the army service forces, urged increased wartime production. He said the enemy still hangs to the ropes and the nation must provide trucks to haul troops, big guns and shells, tires for planes and trucks, and bombs to finish the job.
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Washingtork
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Service Forces
Congress Should Retain Postwar Control of Merchant Marine and Air Force
Senator Johnson told a Senate Military Affairs Committee that Congress must keep firm postwar control of the expanded merchant marine and air force rather than delegating disposal authority to an executive agency. He urged his bill to withhold surplus war goods from civilian markets for five years to push rapid peacetime production while unemployment and reconversion debates brew in the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
D-Cole
Senate
United States
Reds Run Into Stiffest Fight Of Push
London bulletin reports Russian forces capturing Boryslaw the Polish oil center and Sambor near the Carpathians in successive day orders of the day issued by Marshal Stalin.
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Reds
London
Boryslaw
Sambor
Carpathian Slope
Stalin
Red Army presses across frontline from Krakow to Silesia
Russian forces push toward Krakow and Silesia as 11th Army under Col. Gen. Petrov drives along a 1200 mile front from Finland to the Carpathians. Drohobycz falls in a southern push while Warsaw remains under siege with fierce street fighting.
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Moscow
Germany
Krakow
Warsaw
East Prussia
Drohobycz
Carpathian
Red
Drohobycz Station
German Silesia
Germania Konstantining
Ysheen
Vistula
Red Army
San Vistula River
Ivan Petrov
Feodor I. Tolbuchkin
Finland
Carpathians
Truman urges expanding congressional investigative power
Senator Truman, Democratic vice presidential nominee, urged Congress to widen its investigation powers to raise its prestige. In his last report as War Investigating Committee chair, he argued an informed Congress earns public trust and stressed progress stalled by new needs and armed services opposition.
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Washington
Truman
D-Mo
Congress
The
Missourian
Senate
Armed Services
War hardened dog Flaps fears city horses at home
An Australian born cocker spaniel named Flaps, famed for facing Jap bombing planes in the South Pacific, now reacts anxiously to horses in Chicago. Sgt. Marshal Kappell notes she once dodged into slit trenches in New Guinea but is unsettled by urban street scenes.
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Chicago
South Pacific
Marshal Kappell
New Guinea
Kappel
La Crosse Tribune Sets Noon Editions For Picnic Day
The La Crosse Tribune will publish at noon on Tuesday so staff and families may attend the annual Myrick Park picnic. Classified ads close at 9 30 a m.
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la Crosse Tribune
Myrick Park
Florence Area Held By Allies Under Shellfire
Allied forces press the Florence operation with heavy shelling on the south bank of the Arno. South African troops contacted the north bank while reconnaissance patrols returned. Over 50,000 prisoners taken in the offensive toward Florence as bridges blamed for delaying advance. American artillery and mortars target enemy positions on the Arno front.
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Manipur
India
Burma
Tamu
Southeast Asia Command
Tiddim
Imphal
Florence
Rome
Harold Alexander
Arno
Cassino
Albert Kesselring
Tiber
8Th Army
5Th Army
Merrill Ill But His Marauders Still Fight
Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill has been moved to Kandy due to ill health but his Merrill’s Marauders remain active in Burma. The transfer is not linked to the Myitkyina morale inquiry, which recommended fixes rather than action. The unit has received replacements and joined a larger Allied force with many original members offered rotation to the United States.
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Stilwell
Hdqtrs
India
Frank Merrill
Kandy
Merrill
Marauders
Burma
Myitkyina
United States
Oil Truck Explosion Injures Four Men
Four men were burned in a gasoline truck explosion Sunday night in Fond du Lac Wisconsin. The O Connor Oil Corp truck was being welded when the blast occurred throwing Richard Rowe 45 feet and leaving him critically injured. Edwin Becker John Murphy and Bruce O Connor suffered varying burns and required hospitalization as the blast shattered windows nearby.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
O’connor Oil Corp
Richard Rowe
Edwin Becker
John Murphy
Bruce O'Connor
Nazi materiel shows Germany not short of war supplies
Maj. Gen. Henry B. Sayler, chief ordnance officer, said captured German guns, tanks and automobiles indicate no critical material shortage. He noted Allied ordnance plans to sustain war for months as plants operate in Normandy fields producing munitions and equipment from bullets to Sherman tanks.
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U. S
France
Henry B. Sayler
Germany
Ordnance Department
Normandy
Japanese privy council president Yoshimichi Hara dies at 76
Yoshimichi Hara, 76, president of the Japanese privy council, died Monday. He had succeeded Prince Konoye as head of the council, according to Tokyo radio reports.
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Associated Press
Yoshimichi Hara
Privy Council
Tokyo Radio
Hara
Prince Konoye
The
Coun
General Dies Leading Troops Against Nazis
Brig. Gen. Nelson M. Walker 55, native of Pittsfield Massachusetts, assistant commander of a U S Infantry division, was killed in Normandy while personally leading an assault on a German machinegun position in a hedgerow. He died within hours from a thigh artery severed by a machinegun bullet and was recommended for a posthumous distinguished service cross.
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Normandy
Nelson M. Walker
Pittsfield
Mass
Hitler Bids for Support and Unity Across Reich
The German news agencies report Hitler, addressing Reich leaders last Friday, insists he will not capitulate and will lead the nation to victory, rallying Germans under the Nazi banner. Tass notes plans to mobilize foreign workers into labor battalions and an increased SS strength at Himmler’s urging.
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DNB
Berlin
Hitler
Reich
Tass
Bern
Zurich
Heinrich Himmler
Oliver allegedly fed horse apples after stable rental
Chicago police questioned Walter Oliver after a horse he rented from Blue Front stables died. Oliver claimed he fed the horse a bushel of green apples, which puzzled Detective Sgt. Loftus T. Lowry.
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Chicago
Walter Oliver
Blue Front
Oliver
Loftus T. Lowry
Von Papen Arrives in Bulgaria En Route to Germany
London Berlin broadcasts report Franz von Papen former German ambassador to Turkey has arrived in Bulgaria en route to Germany amid World War II developments.
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London
Berlin
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Bulgaria
Germany
Germans Hold St. Malo Against Allied Assault
Allied forces closed to within four miles of St. Malo as German troops entrenched in barricaded streets prepared to fight to the last man. Refugees fled toward Allied lines amid claims of executions and planned harbor blasts by the German garrison.
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ST. Malo
Brittany
Harry Brouchard
Indianapolis
Ind
William P. Callaghan
Washington
D. C
St. Servan
Parame
Believed to have ended life Ira Eastman sought for Strauch slaying
Sheriff Fannin reported strong indications that Ira Eastman, the 31 year old lumberjack and former brother in law of Selma Strauch, may have killed himself in the Wisconsin woods while posse members and residents searched Forest county areas. Miss Strauch was found slain near Laona and coroner Reese said there was no evidence of criminal assault.
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Laona
Wis
Forest County
Harry Fannin
Ira Eastman
Selma Strauch
Fannin
Eastman
Miss Strauch
Reich Oil Centers Battered As Other Heavies Hit France
U S heavy bombers and Liberators hit two Nazi synthetic oil plants deep in the Reich. Allied air forces also struck oil installations along the Danube near Novi Sad and pounded targets in France including bridges, depots, and a railway junction.
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Reich
France
London
U. S
15Th Air Force
Mediterranean
Beichhamer
Breslau
Balkans
Alibanar
Belgrade
Danube
Novi Sad
Germans Launch Major Counterattack East of Avranches
German forces mounted their fiercest counterblow in France since D-Day, driving four armored divisions up to three miles into the Allied coastal strip east of Avranches. The assault aimed to outflank American spearheads toward Paris while threatening Bradley’s forces near Normandy. American air power and heavy Allied fire supported the defense as Mortain was briefly recaptured and Vire fell under German pressure. The front stretched about eight miles from Mortain to Sourdeval with the Allies maneuvering to protect the flank toward Paris.
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Reich
East Prussia
Vistula River
Silesia
Krakow
Baltic States
Carpathians
Jelgava
Latvia
Ten Mile
Baltic
Riga
Red Army
Danube
Germany
France
Breton
Brest
Seine River
Paris
Corbeil
Corbie
Vernon
Hdqtrs
Avrances
Omar N. Bradley
Brittany
Normandy
Mortain
Bradley
Domfront
Sourdeval
Vire
Lourdeval
Allied invasion forces expand in northwestern France
In the past fortnight the Allied armies have increased their territory there more than tenfold. They now control about 20,000 square miles or nearly a tenth of continental France.
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France
Allies Close in on Brittany Ports as Brest and St Malo Loom
American armor and infantry push through Brittany capturing four towns as the offensive tightens around Brest St Nazaire Nantes Lorient and St Malo. German garrisons at St Malo and Lorient surrender while 13 300 prisoners and 3 400 dead mark heavy losses in the Brittany drive.
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Caen
Brittany
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Lorient
St. Malo
Dinan
St. Brieuc
Normandy
Paris
U. S
Supreme Headquarters
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George
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Home Front
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