Allies Strike In Pacific As Japan Shrinks War Corner
Allied air bases in France and Nipponese ships faced heavy losses as 30 Mitchell bombers hit Biak and surrounding Dutch New Guinea waters. Japanese forces retreated toward Tokyo after losses include five ships and a cruiser, while Chinese troops advanced in Burma and Lungling was breached.
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Southwest Pacific
Geelvink Bay
Biak Island
Schouten Group
Dutch New Guinea
Tokyo
Schoutens
Biak
Philippines
Burma
Myitkyina
Mogaung
Kamaung
Kohima
India
Lungling
Japan
Yunnan
Tengchung
Watien
China
Changsha
Hunan
Central Pacific
Truk
Ponape
Pakin
Carolines
Nauru
Marshalls
Say U. S
Price ceilings placed on used cars by OPA effective July 10
The Office of Price Administration set nationwide price caps on used automobiles from 1937 to 1942 models sold by dealers or private owners. Ceilings vary by region from high in the Far West to low east of the Mississippi, with two prices per model for as is and dealer warranty conditions. Affected transactions require transfer certificates to be filed with local ration boards.
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Washington
Oo Price Administration
OPA
Eve of Battle to Show at Rivoli and Wiscon Theatres
A U S War Department film titled Eve of Battle will be shown at the Rivoli and Wiscon theaters from midnight Saturday until Wednesday. A second run is planned for Monday and Tuesday at the same venues.
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U. S. War Department
Rivoli
Wiscon
Tucs
Weather shows slight improvement after misty shutdown
London weather report notes a slight improvement in unsettled conditions with visibility increasing after mist. By late morning skies cleared westward as winds veered to the northwest and sea conditions steadied. At 9 a.m. temperature recorded at 50 degrees.
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London
Doont
Weather forecast notes wetter, warmer trend with showers
Forecast warns of wet conditions and a rise in temperatures with partly cloudy skies. Showers expected tonight and into the night, bringing damp air and a chance of rain.
House votes to ban OPA highest price line in price act
The House, by 157 to 31, approves a ban on OPA highest price line in the price control act extension. Rep Hartley says the change stops discrimination against established retailers. Chairman Spence warns it would push ceilings on all items. An 86 to 39 vote rejects Rolph’s tenant eviction amendment for abusive tenants.
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Washington
OPA
Hartley
R-Nj
House
Spence
D-Ky
Banking Committee
Office of Price Administration
Rolph
Calif
House Votes Order For OPA To Boost Crude Oil Prices
The House tentatively agreed to amend the price control act to require the Office of Price Administration to raise crude oil prices by about 35 cents per barrel. The amendment passed 123 to 57 as oil state lawmakers argued higher prices were needed to sustain wartime petroleum production. Rep. Disney of Oklahoma sponsored the oil amendment to extend the price control act for one year from June 30.
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Washington
House
Office of Price Administration
Rep
Disney
D-Okla
Germans In Holland Warned To Flee
German civilians in occupied Holland have been told to prepare for a swift exit, according to the Dutch news agency Aneta. The warning signals looming evacuations as Allied advances press near.
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Holland
London
Aneta
German Naval Moves Battered By Allied Guns
Allied naval action off the Dutch coast sank four heavily armed German trawlers southwest of Ijmuiden. One motor torpedo boat was lost. The engagement involved multiple trawlers attacked by torpedoes and gunfire, with continued searches for survivors.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Ijmuiden
Allied naval losses reported in invasion week actions
At Gen Eisenhower's headquarters two US destroyers and one landing craft were the only Allied losses through the invasion's fourth day. A German destroyer was sunk by Allied fire off Brittany amid surface actions. The Tartar suffered minor damage and a few casualties on another British ship as the fleet defended the coast.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
United States Navy
Eisenhower
Admiralty
Brittany
le d’Ouessant
U.S
U. S
Roosevelt
Charge 15 Year Old Boy With Operating Speakeasy For Kids
Lancaster scene: a 15 year old boy named Edward Zeamer was arrested after Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Agent George Seesholtz found a speakeasy at the Kinderhook Athletic Association shack near the boy’s farm home. About 20 teens were present and served beer and whiskey. Zeamer is held on $500 bail for selling liquor without a license.
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Lancaster
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
George Seesholtz
Justice of the Peace
Lloyd Axe
Kinderhook
Kinderhook Athletic Association
Sheesholtz
Edward Zeamer
RAF crew walks into Allied post with dozen prisoners
RAF bomber crew forced down after towing a glider in Normandy found a château and twelve Nazi guards surrendered to Canadian forces. The crew entered an Allied command post with the prisoners, illustrating panicked enemy behavior as Allied forces closed in.
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London
Normandy
RAF
France
Finns Report Start Of Russian Push In Karelian Isthmus Area
A Finnish communique quoted by DNB said Soviet forces launched a general offensive on the Karelian Isthmus with heavy artillery and strong tank formations. The attack caused local breaches, many casualties, and the battle was described as still in full swing with 24 enemy aircraft downed and 10 tanks destroyed.
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Karelian Isthmus
London
DNB
Berlin
Karelian
Catastrophe for Germans in Italy reshapes retreat
Allied advances push the German 14th army northward in disarray as the 5th and 8th armies seize Tuscania Tarquinia Moricone and other towns. Luftwaffe losses mount with the Mediterranean air force claiming hundreds of vehicles and rail cars destroyed or damaged.
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Rome
Albert Kesselring
Italy
5Th
Tuscania
Tarquinia
Mark W. Clark
Eberhard von Mackensen
8Th
Moricone
Tivoli
Arsoli
Subiaco
Adriatic
8Th Army
Orsogna
Guardiagrele
Miglionico
Filotto
Foro
Kesselring
Mediterranean Army Air Force
Lightnings Bomb Ploesti and Trieste Refineries From Italy
American P-38 Lightnings bombed and strafed the Ploesti Romania refinery complex from Italy, with heavy escort and counterattack. The operation crippled Romanian output by about 90 percent, while additional targets near Trieste and Venice were struck.
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Italy
Ploesti
Italy Adopts Cabinet Under No Oath To Crown
Rome reports Premier Ivanoe Bonomi forms a 17 member cabinet pledging to the constitution without swearing to the crown. Crown Prince Umberto is criticized by some for monarchical questions but receives public acclaim as he departs for Naples. Rome remains in a war zone with Salerno named provisional capital. Rumors claim an assassination bid on Umberto. Allied and Italian officials deny. An explosion at the German embassy triggers a search for explosives with no serious injuries.
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Rome
Ivanhine Bonomi
Umberto
Italy
Naples
Salerno
Fall Kills Veteran of La Fayette Escadrille
Glenn Sitterlly 46 of Spring Valley died from a skull fracture after a fall. A World War I Lafayette Escadrille veteran, he served in Beloit College and the French air force, credited with three shoots, Croix de Guerre with three palms. Survived by widow and three children.
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Spring Valley
L—i
Glenn Sitterlly
Lafayette Escadrille
Sitterlly
Princeton
Ill
Western Sand and Garvel Company
Beloit
Wis
Airforce
Bong in Madison during 5th war loan tour stop
Maj. Richard Bong, famed army air ace piloting a P-38, made an unannounced stop at Truax Field in Madison on Saturday en route from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. He landed before 2 pm to refuel and planned a 20 minute stay before resuming to Milwaukee.
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Madison
Wis
Richard I. Bong
Truax Field
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Col Miller Leaves on 30 Day Leave from Army
Col Henry J. F. Miller, demoted from major general and relieved as head of the Ninth Air Force Service Command, left Coral Gables hospital for a 30 day leave. Eisenhower sent him home after a cocktail party remark hinted invasion timing. Evidence against Miller in London security case did not warrant a court martial, Eisenhower reported.
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Miami
Fla
Henry J. F. Miller
Ninth Air Force Service Command
Army Air Forces Regional
Coral Gables
War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Miller
Washington
London
Fraser lands in Rome as UN head of state visits Pope
Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand arrives in Rome becoming the first UN government head to visit since the Allies captured the city. CBS radio in New York reports Fraser called on Pope Pius XII yesterday.
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Rome
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
United Nations
London
Fraser
Pius XII
New York
CBS
French Surround Grenoble Prompt Siege State
The Associated Press reports French patriot formations have encircled Grenoble in southern France, with La Suisse describing the city as now in a state of siege. OWI relayed the Swiss account today.
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Associated Press
Grenoble
France
la Suisse
OWI
Massive Allied Bomber Raids Struck North France Front Lines
Allied air forces hit rail hubs, airfields and supply lines behind the Normandy front in northern France. Up to 500 U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators joined British bombers in raids including Etampes and airfields near Paris as RAF Mosquitos struck Berlin.
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15Th Air Force
Trieste
Porto Marzhera
Venice
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
U. S
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Reich
Flers
Rennes
Laval
le Mans
France
Etampes
Air Ministry
Yanks Reach 15 Miles From Cherbourg Invasion Push
American troops supported by Allied air power fought through flooded French terrain toward Cherbourg cutting rail links and seizing two towns. German forces pulled back to shorten lines as U S Thunderbolts and RAF Spitfires operated from French airfields four days after the invasion.
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Cherbourg
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Jvsco
Berlin
Montebourg
France
Carentan
Ste. Mere Eglise
Caen
Yankee High Command In British Isles
Allied leaders Marshall King and Arnold monitor the invasion as Runstedt weighs stronger forces in a bid to push Ike’s troops from Cherbourg. Weather and air power could tilt the balance toward further Allied landings and sustained Italian and Soviet pressure. Stalin returned from Teheran satisfied with the Western front timetable.
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Italy
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Teheran
Expect River To Reach 11.5
A new flood crest of 11.5 feet in the Mississippi at La Crosse is forecast by Wednesday noon after heavy rains from the St. Croix and Chippewa valleys. Meteorologist A. D. Sanial noted the rising levels, with prior crests of 11.8 feet on May 18 and 9.6 feet on June 7 and a one foot rise at the Winona dam Friday.
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Mississippi River
la Crosse
St. Croix
Chippewa
A. D. Sanial
Weather Bureau
Samal
St. Croix River
St. Croix Falls
Durand
Winona Dam
Frightened Soldier and Wac Fall From Plane Near Dayton
A WAC and an enlisted man leaped from a B 25 Marauder over Dayton causing both to die as a parachute accidentally deployed but could not open due to low altitude. Wright Field officials reported no names released.
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Dayton
Wright Field
End of Nazi Domination Foretold by Benes
President Edvard Benes of the exiled Czechoslovak government said in a radio address that a new powerful and final Soviet offensive was imminent and that an Allied attack from northern Italy on the Balkans and Germany would come soon. He claimed the end of Nazi Germany's domination had begun.
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London
Edward Benes
Italy
Balkans
Germany
De Gaulle Attacks Eisenhower Proclamations Over French Sovereignty
Gen Charles de Gaulle condemned Eisenhower’s D Day and postwar proclamations as a step toward Allied military control in France. He warned such actions risk provoking incidents and currency issues without French authority. He affirmed France’s wartime sovereignty and readiness to negotiate a sovereign peace. He said he would be honored to visit President Roosevelt to discuss common U.S. and French interests.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Roosevelt
United States
Allied forces advance with Montgomery in France
Allied headquarters say Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery has set up advanced command in France as heavy fighting continues in the Carentan area. American forces seize Courseulles and St. Aubin and push toward Cherbourg and Caen, with Isigny also in American hands. Air bases on liberated territory enable close fighter cover and wounded evacuation to Britain via Ninth Air Force troop carriers.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
France
9Th Air Force
RAF
Allied Headquarters
Bernard L. Montgomery
Carentan
Caen
Pivot City
Ste. Mere Eglise
Cherbourg
Courseulles
St. Aubin
Seine Bay
Isigny
Ninth Air Force
Britain
9Th Airforce
Sully Village Seized in Bayeux Beachhead Fight
Sully, two miles northwest of Bayeux, served as the original joining point for American forces on the right and British and Canadian units on the left. The village was captured by American troops with substantial losses disclosed Saturday.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Sully
Bayeaux
Allied advance on Cherbourg gains ground in France
Allied forces press the Cherbourg peninsula with advances near Carentan and Isigny while Germans retreat to a shorter line south of Montebourg. Reports note flooded beachhead terrain hindering American movement as 9th Air Force provides close tactical support amid ongoing invasion actions.
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Montebourg
Valognes
Ste. Mere Eglise
Vie
Edmonville
Bayeux
O Key
Supreme Headquarters
Caen
Isigny
Carentan
Cherebourg Peninsula
U. S. 9Th Air Force
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