Lieutenant Swancutt Hangs Self After Murder Conviction
Lieut Beaufort Swancutt 31 died by suicide at Letterman hospital after a court martial sentenced him to death for killing his sweetheart Dorothy Douglas and her friend Lourdine Livermore at Camp Anza. He was wounded during capture and had suffered a mental blackout before the March 5 shootings at the officers club in Camp Anza Riverside area.
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San Francisco
Beaufort Swancutt
Army
Letterman Hospital
Swancutt
Camp Anza
Lieut
Dorothy Douglas
Lourdine Livermore
Long Beach
Calif
Aubrey G. Serfling
Preston
Minn
Riverside
Arthur Simpson
la Crosse
Wis
Post
Caroline Swancutt
Detroit
Beatrice Wright
Buy War Bonds At Once Plea For La Crosse County
Gysbert van Steenwyk chair of the Fifth War Loan drive in La Crosse county urged immediate purchases to meet the county quota. By Thursday only 54 per cent of the county’s individual market bond allotment had been met, with bonds maturing in 1954 1965 and 1970 among those emphasized. He warned purchases after July 8 would not count toward the quota and urged large quantities of market bonds beyond E F G bonds and tax notes to reach the target.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gysbert van Steenwyk
la Crosse County
van Ae
Treasury
Military Honors To Be Paid de Gaulle On Reaching Capital
De Gaulle will receive full military honors on arrival in Washington from Algiers with a 17 gun salute at the airport. He will be greeted by commanders of the Army Navy Air Forces and Marine Corps and meet with President Roosevelt to discuss arrangements since Casablanca 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Algiers
de Gaule
United States Army
Navy
Air Forces
Macorps
Stephen
de Gaulle
French National Committee
Language A problem at monetary meeting in Bretton Woods
A Soviet delegation faces communication hurdles at the monetary conference in Bretton Woods as talks stall over translating their views due to the need for secure Kremlin contact. Other delegations report similar difficulties in intermember communications.
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Bretton Woods
N. H
Gilicuttes
Thenee
Interleut
Kremlin
Tax Exemption Confirmed for Airport Lands in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin Attorney General opinion to M. W. Torkelson of the state planning board states lands used for airport purposes by counties towns villages and cities are exempt from taxation. The ruling covers lands whether inside or outside unity and regardless of immediate need for airport development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esadison
Wis
Atty
E. Martin
M. W. Torkelson
State Planning Board
Martin
Leal Weather Outlook Sees Cooler Friday Night
The forecast shows cooler conditions tonight and Friday with lower temperatures across the region. Residents are advised to expect a drop in highs and potential overnight chill into the weekend.
Lieut Benson Dies In Action Over France
Lieut. P. G. Benson A 20 Havoc pilot was killed in action on June 22, parents Dr and Mrs A G Benson report. Earlier mission saw his crew bail out over France and the plane briefly rebound from flak, leaving Benson to assume control was lost. In a June 21 letter he said the bailouts left men prisoners in Germany after the raid. Benson, a University of Wisconsin alumnus, enlisted in 1942 and had completed 20 bombing missions, often flying two or three per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.G. Benson
A. G. Benson
Benson
France
Lieut. Benson
Lieut
Germany
University of Wisconsin
Army Air Corps
Heil Workers Returning to Jobs at Milwaukee Plants
About 2000 Heil workers resumed work in three Milwaukee plants after CIO union officials urged production to restart following a noon stoppage. The halt stemmed from a plant foreman’s transfer dispute. local leaders planned talks with management and federal conciliators assisted the effort.
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Milwaukee
Heil Company
CIO
Newspo
Ross Blum
Relax Restrictions On Border Travel
The United States and Canada announced a new border travel relaxation allowing Canadians and British subjects to enter the United States for up to 29 days without a passport visa or border crossing card for business or pleasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Canada
Case Workers Vote to Return to J I Case Plant
Production workers at the main plant in Racine Wisconsin voted Thursday to return to their jobs Friday morning ending a work stoppage at the J I Case company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wis
J. I. Case Company
Soviets Open New Offensive Aim For Pinsk
Premier Stalin announced the capture of Kovel and reported a Red Army thrust toward Pinsk and Brest Litovsk. Cherniakhovsky’s 3rd White Russian army neared Wilno while German defenses at Baranowicze fought stubbornly as Soviet air and artillery barrages dominate the fronts.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Kovel
Pripyat Marshes
Brest Litovsk
Moscow
Red Army
Pinsk
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Wilno
Dnestr
Kowel
Baranowicze
Minsk
Warsaw
Brest-Litovsk
Molodeczno
Vileika-Nesvizh
Minsk-Vilno
Polotsk-Lida
Moscow Radio
Gorin River
Hitler
Watermelon exemptions in new melon price ceilings
The Office of Price Administration set maximum retail prices for all melons except watermelons. Prices will use community pricing with the same regional mark ups. Season averages will be lower than last year with cantaloupe 9.1 cents per lb honeydew 11.1 cents and other melons near 9.8 to 12.1 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Fire devastates Ringling circus tent. 50 to 100 feared dead
Hartford reports a blaze at Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey tent during an afternoon show collapses the canvas. Officials estimate at least 100 dead with many injured trapped beneath the ruins as crowds flood the area seeking updates. Red Cross aids the scene while hospitals await casualty details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
Joseph Mitchell
Barbour Street
Von Rundstedt Ousted As Nazi Chief In West
Berlin announced Marshal Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt was replaced by Marshal Guenther von Kluge as commander of German forces in the west due to ill health. The broadcast, from Hitler's HQ, said Rundstedt was thanked and will receive a new command later. Erwin Rommel’s status was not clarified in the report.
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London
Berlin
Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt
Marshal von Kluge
Guenther von Kluge
Cologne
Germany
Rhineland
von Rundstedt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Rundstedt
DNB
Ervin Rommel
Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
von Runde
Saipan Japs Face Death in Last Stand on Saipan
American forces pressed to finish off Japanese resistance on Saipan and Noemfoor as Japanese soldiers and civilians packed caves and pillboxes awaiting doom. Adm. Nimitz warned of a hard fight. raids on Guam Tinian Rota Pagan aimed to curb relief. Paratroopers aided Noemfoor assault as Kornasoren airport neared fall.
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Saipan
Noemfoor Islands
Pacific Isle
Tokyo
Philippines
Howard Handleman
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pacific
Garapan
Tanapag
Guam
Tinian
Rota
Pagan
Navy
Radio Berlin
Bonin Islands
Bonins
Volcano Islands
Noemfoor
Kornasoren
Hengyang
Allies Break German Line Anchor in Normandy Breakthrough
Allied forces flanked La Haye de Puits as Glatigny Scorman and La Butte fell in Normandy. In Caen area fighting for Carpiquet persisted while French interior troops aided large-scale operations. 24 train derailments and several tank losses highlighted sustained Allied push across northern France.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
la Haye de Puits
Normandy
France
Glatigny
la Haye
Scorman
la Butte
Marass
Marais de Corges
Carentan-Periers
Culot
Carentan
Supreme Command
Caen
Carpiquet
Vercors
Department of
Gers
Bordeaux
Toulouse
Doubs
Department of Ain
Ardeche
Rhone Valley
French
Sailor Returns From Navy Ordered To Silence
Sailor M. W. Stalker comes home on leave under orders to take no part in press conferences and to not talk with reporters. His father, Harold Stalker, is a police reporter for the Decatur Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Ill
M. W. Stalker
Navy
Harold Stalker
The
Decatur Herald
London Faces Buzz Bomb War Fatigue And Defiant Spirit
Londoners report three weeks of buzz bomb attacks forging deeper hatred for Hitler and the Nazis than the blitz while residents cope with crowded shelters and windowless work. Despite fear there is a resilient mood and demand for stronger anti air measures amid disappointment over government retaliation.
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London
Hitler
Bunnelle
Associated Press
Hospital Cut Off By Water Main Break
A water main break at South avenue and Redfield street cut off supply to Lutheran hospital and Gundersen clinic at 1 pm. City fire and water departments provided temporary water during the emergency. By 10:30 am the clinic had water, hospital remained affected into the afternoon. Labs and X rays were out of service for about two and a half hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Avenue
Redfield Street
Lutheran Hospital
Gundersen
Water Department
M. P. Jonsrud
Widespread Bombing Attacks on Nazi Bases Reported
London reports indicate around 1 000 U S heavy bombers hit northwestern Germany and enemy air fields in France while medium and light bombers targeted rail lines to the Cherbourg front. The RAF bombed channel coast robot platforms and the Dijon rail center. Berlin claims concurrent attacks from Italy and England and notes German losses of 35 shot down to 17 Allied planes.
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London
U. S
Germany
France
Pas-de-Calais
Cherbourg
RAF
Channel
Dijon
Paris
Italy
England
Radio
Berlin
Austria
Hopkins Back On Job Returns to Roosevelt staff after illness
Harry L. Hopkins has resumed duties as special assistant to President Roosevelt after six months of illness and convalescence. He is described by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early as back on the job this morning, having been ill since January and treated at Mayo Clinic and a government hospital in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Hopkins
White House
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Robots Kill U S Soldiers In Flying Bomb Attack
The report describes American soldiers killed by a flying bomb at a U S base in London with Wacs narrowly escaping. Sgt Rhoda Laird of Houston and Corp Mary Lou Bernick of Sarasota recall the blast at 7 30 am as doors and windows shattered and rescuers worked to reach the wounded. Sgt Mary D Thatcher of Indianapolis is praised for directing ambulance runs to hospital.
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London
Wacs
Rhoda Laird
Houston
Tex
Corp
Mary Lou Bernick
Sarasota
Fla
Sgt. Laird
Bernick
Laird
Mary D. Thatcher
Indianapolis
Swedes Fire Upon Stolen Nazi Plane Over Helsingborg
A 19 year old Danish laborer, Hoest, allegedly stole a Heinkel 111 at Copenhagen airport and flew toward England. Swedish antiaircraft near Helsingborg shot the craft down over Kattegat, he was rescued unharmed and taken into military custody as the plane lay wrecked.
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Stockholm
Helsingborg
England
Hoest
Copenhagen
Kattegat
Denmark
One Dead Score Hurt In Oil Plant Blast
An explosion and fire at a Pennzoil gasoline plant in Oil City Pennsylvania killed one man and injured at least twenty others. Emergency units and blood plasma were rushed to the scene as crews battled the blaze.
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Oil City
Pennzoil Corporation
Nazis Reassess Churchill Speech on V-1 Attacks
German officials describe Churchill remarks as confirmation of the V-1’s effects and vow intensified bombing. Berlin radio cites American pilots releasing winged bombs against Cologne and Hamburg while American sources decline comment. The broadcast says V-1 bombardment has tied down a large force across land sea and air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Foreign Office
Berlin
Cologne
Hamburg
Churchill Reports V 1 Attacks and London Evacuation
Prime Minister Churchill disclosed that German V-1 robot bombs have killed 2,752 to 2,754 Britons and injured about 8,000 in three weeks. London prepares mass evacuation of children and opens deep shelters as U S bombers strike takeoff sites and RAF targets in Pas de Calais. Churchill says Allies will use everything to defend and retaliate while operations in France and Germany continue. London will not be conquered and will endure the blitz with monthly casualty tallies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Commons
England
U. S
RAF
Pas-de-Calais
Normandy
France
Germany
Lonedon
Home
Herbert Morrison
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Soviets
Ringling Circus
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