Admiral Shimada Relieved as Japan Seeks War Unity
Admiral Shigetaro Shimada is relieved as Japan's navy minister in Tokyo after serving since 1941. Naokun succeeds him as war pressures mount in Saipan Guam and the Marianas amid intensified Allied air and sea attacks. Nimitz says Guam bombardments continue. Curtin warns of British forces joining the Pacific fight. Iwo Jima land bombing reported.
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Shigetaro Shimada
Japan
Amerian
Saipan
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Guam
U. S
Pacific Island
Rotaidand
John Curtin
Australia
Germany
Nimitz
Iwo Jima Island
War Equipment Caravan to Tour La Crosse Area
A caravan of captured enemy equipment arrives in La Crosse to educate civilians about modern warfare. The program at the Vocational School auditorium includes a 7:30 p.m. concert by the La Crosse Concert Band, a Boy Scout color ceremony, and an address by Mayor J. J. Verdot a. Army Lt. Forrest Armstrong will discuss the films showing after colors. Films cover Cassino, Marshall Islands, and the Art attack, with no charge for attendance.
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la Crosse
U. S
Age Oews
E. Wallace Evans
WMC
U. S. Employment Service
B. W. Ingli
J. J. Verdota
Evans
Forrest Armstrong
Boy Scouts
Cassino
Marshall Islands
Art
Lso
Nis
Urge Platinum Be Turned In To Refiners
Government urges that platinum from which jewels have been removed be turned in to refiners or sold to dealers for use in auctions and war production efforts.
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Ington
Milwaukee Nurse Audrey Senecal Killed in Crash
A 21 year old Milwaukee nurse Audrey Senecal died Saturday night when the automobile she rode in left the road and overturned. Charles T. Peters, 62, was recovered from the Milwaukee river yesterday with police cir cumstances unclear.
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Milwaukee
Audrey Senecal
Charles T. Peters
Wes
Milwaukee Tiver
Local Weather Forecast Sees Showers Then Clearing
Local showers expected early tonight followed by clearing and cooler conditions late tonight. Tuesday looks fair with moderate temperatures.
Father Commons to Meet Son After 14 Years Missing
Dr John R Commons reports a telegram confirms reunion with son John A Commons missing 14 years and legally dead since 1938. Son, a World War I veteran, identified himself in Hartford police and will arrive tonight. widow Mrs Eben Holland Commons remains resolute and continues her work.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
John R. Commons
University of Wisconsin
Fort Lauderdale Daily News
John A. Commons
Commons
Hartford
Conn
Eben Holland Commons
Washington
Road To Berlin Distances From Allied Fronts
Mileages on allied routes to Berlin show the Russian front at 435 miles from Grodno, the Italian front about 607 miles from Ancona, and the Normandy front 635 miles from Caen.
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Berlin
Grodno
Ancona
Adriatic
Normandy
Caen
Collision Kills Youth in Janesville Police Report
Calvin Little aged 19 died when the car he rode in crashed with another vehicle, left the road, and struck a power pole. Three other youths in the car were injured.
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Janesville
Wis
Calvin Little
Wallace bid to back Wallace by urging Roosevelt
Wallace strategists consider a personal appeal to President Roosevelt to back Henry A. Wallace as running mate. The convention opens Wednesday and delegates decide the vice presidential nomination. Byrnes and Barkley are seen as strong opponents while Roosevelt may defer to delegates amid wartime conditions.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Barkley
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Alben Barkley
Byrnes
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Samuel Jackson
Indiana
Jackson
Joseph Guffey
Pennsylvania
Women Urged to Fill Muscle Work Jobs in Forge Industry
Washington news reports the War Manpower Commission calls for more women to perform strenuous forge and foundry work. Volunteers may wire their name age address and telephone to Western Union for immediate placement via the U S employment service. McNutt notes 48 000 Western Union offices will handle messages and cites 20 000 more workers needed in 90 days to aid B 29 parts production.
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Washington
Manpower Commission
U. S
WMC
McNutt
Harvel
Allies Cross Arno River Near Florence and Pisa
Allied troops storm the Arno River as they push north of Arezzo through Florence and Pisa. British tanks and infantry seize a bridge intact with German engineers present. South African armored units and British guardsmen advance several thousand yards in a separate sector.
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Noland
Norgaard
Rome
Arno
Filorence
Italy
Arezzo
Florence
Pisa
Civil Air Flyer Survives 3500-Foot Fall in Rally
Lieut. Dorr C. Walker of the Civil Air Patrol cheated death after a parachute mishap during a war bond rally in Adrian Michigan. He survived a 3500 foot fall, with spinal and heel fractures, and was listed as fair at Bixby hospital. Witnesses said tangled parachute lines prevented full canopy inflation.
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Adrian
Mich
Dorr C. Walker
Civil Air Patrol
Bixby Hospital
Walker
Fall Of Grodno Opens Gates To Advancing Reds
Moscow reports Soviet forces pushed a broad front from the Baltics to the Pripyat marshes after taking Grodno, near the East Prussian border. Russians crossed the Niemen, consolidated bridgeheads, and advanced toward Kaunas as German defenses fell back.
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Grodno
East Prussia
Moscow
Red Army
Baltics
Pripyat
Stalin
East Prussian
Niemen
Nieman
Alytus
Wilno
Lwow
Berlin
Tarnopol
Luck
Martin Hallensleben
DNB
Baltic
Destruction Reported At Bayrische Engine Plant And London Raids
Swedish witnesses estimate the Bayrische Motorenwerke plant 80 percent destroyed and shifting to jet engines. London and southern counties face further robot bomb strikes with casualties and damage. Stockholm reports Germans massing large robot bombs in Denmark with potential reach to New York.
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Stockholm
Munich
Bayrische Motorenwerke
Hitler
Brown House
London
Sweden
Stockholm’'s
Denmark
New York
Cave of Horrors on Saipan Marines face grim stand off
Marines call Saipan canyon cave the Cave of Horrors after a confrontation with Japanese forces and civilians inside. Lieutenant Cross, with 16 men, tried to coax surrender by promising food water and medical aid but the occupants did not emerge as grenades were readied.
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Saipan
Marianas Islands
Charles T. Crossis
Cross
Guage
Mizu
Allies Too Scientific In Attacks
The German propaganda agency Transocean quoted Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge last night as complaining that the Allies' security method of conducting the war places an extraordinarily strong demand on the individual Nazi soldier and the German high command. He said the Allies have “gotten up their operations against our continent, so to speak, in a strictly scientific way.”
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Transocean
Guenther von Kluge
Western Front
Pravda Critiques GOP Convention From Moscow
Pravda denounces the Republican convention as reactionary and backward in foreign policy, arguing that the Mackinac decisions aimed at a middle ground between isolationists and anti isolationists. It cites factional splits between Willkie supporters and the party machine and singles out Senator Taft as an isolationist leadership figure.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Jacob Khavinson
Tass
Mackinac
Wendell Willkie
Republican Party
Willkie
Taft
Ohio
Robot Rains Glass Near U S Headquarters in England
London dispatch reports a robot bomb exploded outside a U S military headquarters in southern England. Glass rained on the top three floors injuring several Wacs and officers, though no one was killed. one lieutenant recalled being knocked across the room and continuing duty the next day.
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London
England
Heavies Again Batter Nazis In Allied Air Offensive
Allied air forces pounded river bridges near Normandy and Belfort in eastern France, a Rheims supply dump, and targets in Italy and Yugoslavia in one of the largest four engine bomber operations of the invasion. Liberators and Fortresses escorted by fighters struck Germany from multiple fronts. losses included twelve heavy bombers and three fighters to heavy flak.
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London
U. S
Normandy
Belfort
France
Rheims
Italy
Radio
Berlin
Reich
Switzerland
Paris
Calais
East Prussia
Germany
Vienna
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
RAF
Homberg
Rhine
Nantes
Rennes
Mediterranean
Munch
Saarbrucken
St. Lo
No Recommendation For Two-Thirds Rule
Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island said the Democratic National Committee subcommittee would not recommend returning to a two-thirds majority rule for nominating candidates. The panel backs continuing the current majority rule for president and vice president selections. The two-thirds rule was replaced by an arrangement granting two extra delegates to each state that voted Democratic.
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Chicago
Theodore Green
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
Purchase Of E Bonds Emphasized In County
La Crosse county Fifth War Loan drive urges all residents to help reach the E bonds quota. Only a few thousand dollars needed. Banks in West Salem Holmen and Bangor will stay open Saturday evenings for purchases. Doerflinger store bond booth also open Friday nights.
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la Crosse County
la Crosse
West Salem
Holmen
Bangor
Doerflinger Store
Valley City Tragedy Claims Couple In Double Suicide
John Novak 56 a World War I veteran killed his wife 56 then shot himself in Valley City North Dakota late Saturday. County coroner Hub Peterson reports no motive given. Survivors include brother Martin Cuchra of Ashland Wisconsin and daughter Mrs Walter Grau of Chicago.
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Valley City
N. D
John Novak
Aso
Hub Peterson
Martin Cuchra
Ashland
Wicc
Novak
Walter Grau
Chicago
Tea firm and officers face anti trust conspiracy charges
Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley set a hearing for January 8, 1945 in Danville Illinois on a motion for further particulars by the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and about 20 officers and subsidiaries charged with conspiracy to violate anti trust laws.
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Danville, Ill
Walter C. Lindley
New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Americans Press Normandy Breakthrough At St Lo
Allied forces under Bradley drive into the heavily defended St Lo as Dempsey’s 2nd British Army advances along a nine mile front southwest of Caen. British gains include Evrecy and Noyers as Rommel commits five divisions and the air war intensifies. More than 53 French towns liberated in six days.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
St. Lo
Normandy
Miles C. Dempsey
Caen
Lessay
Bradley
Periers
Les Milleries
St. Lo- Periers
Evrecy
Odon
Orne
Noyers
Vendes
Haut Des Forges
Walter Robertson
Erwin Rommel
Dempsey
Remilly-Sur-Lozon
Lozon
le Mesnil
Remilly
Caumont
Rommel
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Driniumor River
Douglas MacArthur
Washington Star
Louis W. Dawson
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Sieur
Dawson
Demos
F.R
Arno River
By Henry P. Cassidy
Hallensleben
Kaunas
Lithuania
Dorsunishki
Latvia
Smash Robot Engine Plant
Sgt
David Dempsey
Sonny
Kluge
Robot Rains Glass
Preston Grover
Heavies
Yankee
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