United States Breaks Ties With Finland Over Nazi Ties
The United States announced the break in diplomatic relations with Finland, branding Finland a puppet of Nazi Germany. Hull declared Finland had entered a military partnership with Germany and acted without democratic procedures, ending years of cautious U.S. diplomacy amid World War II tensions.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Russia
State Department
Alexander Thesqueefere
He Harena Ooall
Fin
Republic of Finland
Germany
Hull
Thelieff
George T. Summer
Von
Helsinki
Bull
Local Weather Brings Fair Skies and Warmer Temperatures
The forecast calls for fair conditions with rising temperatures tonight and into Saturday. Light winds and dry air should make for pleasant daytime highs and mild nights across the area.
Reds Cross Berezina to Push on Minsk Crossing
Soviet forces pressed across the Berezina northeast of Minsk and prepared for mass crossings to breach the city’s outer defenses. Strong resistance and heavy German losses accompanied the opening gateway as Rokossovsky and Bagramian’s armies advance toward Minsk with air support from Stormoviks and American Boston bombers aiding the assault.
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Berezina
Minsk
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Rokossovsky
Gomel-Minsk
Sergei I. Rudenko
Truck Driver Walkout Set Across Midwest States
Dexter Lew of the AFL Central States Drivers Council says 26 000 over the road truck drivers will walk out at midnight despite a war labor board order. The WLB in Washington set a hearing for July 6 to show cause why the February wage increase order was not complied with. Lew maintains the walkout will proceed and notes eight states will be affected while operators claim compliance in Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Indiana. Maj. Alex Baxter says no delay in essential war materiel movements. Wage increase is seven cents per hour and three quarters of a cent per mile.
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Chicago
Dexter Lewis
AFL
Central States Drivers Council
War Labor Board
Midwest Operators Association
WLB
Washington
Lewis
Operators Association
Iowa
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Alex Baxter
Army 6Th Transport Zone
Baxter
Office of Defense Transportation
Midwest
Army
Navy
Finland Breaks With United States Over War Policy
Senator Connally declares Finland is committing suicide by allying with Hitler and breaking with the United States. He says Finland has embraced Nazi despotism, war on the Allies, and becomes an enemy, justifying the break in diplomatic relations.
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Washington, D. C
Finland
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Task Force Blasts Kurile Isles Bases in North Pacific Action
A Navy task force in the North Pacific attacked Kurile Island targets including the Kurabus Zaki airdrome on Paramushiro. Large ships bombarded shore installations while destroyers engaged enemy ships near Kurabu Suribachi. a fishing fleet was chased, threatening Japan's food supply.
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North Pacific
Japan
Kurile Islands
Kurabus-Zaki
Paramushiro Island
Kurabu and
Suribachi
Paramushiro
76th Division to Parade Through La Crosse Saturday
La Crosse residents will witness a 76th Division combat assault team march in tactical formation from Main Street to 21st Street and to the fair grounds for a Combat Show. The parade at 8:30 a.m. includes recon units, infantry, tanks, artillery, and a supply train with equipment for bivouac. Traffic on Main and 21st streets will be restricted until completion.
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la Crosse
76Th Division
Fair Grounds
Main Street
21St Street
Circus Arrives in La Crosse As Elephants Debark
Blanche Louis Tony and Jean led 10 elephants from Milwaukee box cars at 10:30 AM as a milling crowd watched. Children followed to see camels zebras llamas and buffalos unload. Police reported no incidents as trains shifted and circus crews moved the animals toward the grounds for an afternoon show.
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Blanche
Louie
Tony
Jean
Milwaukee
Winter Garden
la Crosse
Tokyo Reports Lishui Seized In New Assault
Tokyo radio claimed Lishui in Chekiang was reduced on June 26 as part of a Japanese drive in China. The report also said the 14th U S air force base at Hengyang had fallen, and noted ongoing Allied air operations around Saipan and attacks near Guam Tinian and Rota with 170 planes in a Thursday raid.
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Tokyo
Lishui
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio Today
Hengyang
China
Saipan
Mt. Tapotchau
Garapan
Chuchow
Chekiang Province
East China Sea
U. S
Japan
Lishul
Adm
Nimitz
Gen. MacArthur
Yap
Truk
Pagan Island
Pagan
Marianas
Guam
Tinian
Rota
Roia
Local Soldier Bruno Sievert Dies in France
The death of Bruno J. Sievert 34 was reported to his parents Mr and Mrs Alex Sievert 811 Caledonia St by Adjutant General James A Ulio in a telegram dated June 28. Sievert a technician fifth grade was killed June 6 in France after being missing since June 24. He had served overseas since 1942 taking part in Sicily Italy campaigns and earlier service in Algiers Africa. Surviving are his parents two sisters Mrs Sophia Kuski Wausau and Mrs Hetty Stugen La Crosse and a brother Andrew St Paul.
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Bruno J. Sievert
Alex Sievert
Caledonia Street
James A. Ulio
Sievert
France
Corp. Sievert
Sicily
Italy
Algiers
Africa
England
Corp
Camp Robinson
Ark
Camp Edwards
Mass
Central High School
la Crosse
Andrew
St. Paul
Equivalents Of Six Nazi Divisions Netted By Allied Forces
An American staff officer in France said Allied forces have killed or captured the equivalent of six full German divisions since the invasion 24 days ago. The tally includes more than 38,000 captured and about 10,000 killed, with Cherbourg drives yielding many. Estimated total prisoners will exceed 40,000 after Cap de la Hague area clears. German divisions named include the 352nd the 709th the 77th the 243rd and the 91st.
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France
Cherbourg
Cap de la Hague
352Nd
St. Lo
Red Skelton Doing Army Show Cleanup
A visitor from Camp Cooke California reports Red Skelton performed a show last Sunday for army troops. Skelton later recalled being asked to rise at 5 am Monday to clean the auditorium, joking he had “laid an egg and had to clean it up.”
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Hollywood
Camp Cooke
Calif
Red Skelton
Skelton
Red
Vienna Area Under Raids
Berlin reports American bombers from Italy hit the Vienna area for a second time in 12 hours while British forces attacked northern France. RAF bombers, Thunderbolts and Mustangs targeted rail junctions across France as German rockets struck southern England. The day ended with 55 German planes down and 25 Allied aircraft lost, including 15 American heavy bombers.
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London
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Britain
France
Sixth Nazi General Killed In France In Normandy Battles
Berlin radio reported Col. Gen. Friedrich Dollmann commander of the Seventh Army and defender of the Atlantic wall was killed in action in France. He was 62 and one of eight German generals killed or captured in Normandy. Other names cited include Hellmich Witt Marcks Kallay and Stegmann. A separate NBC identified Gen Ferdinand Jodl as the plane crash victim in Lapland, with Diet also reported dead, but unconfirmed.
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London
Friedrich Dollmann
Seventh Army
Hellmich
Witt
Marcks
Kallay
Stegman
New York
NBC Today
Lapland
Ferdinand Jodl
Alfred Jodl
Hitler
Eduard Diet
Reveal Program For Distillery Output
Washington reports that half of August output from 13 industrial alcohol producers and all 127 established beverage distillers will be devoted to liquor making during a distiller's month long war production holiday. The War Production Board estimates about 50 million gallons of whiskey gin cordials and other hard liquors will be produced.
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Washington
War Production Board
Pledge to Drive Japs From Philippines Signed by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signed two congressional resolutions pledging the United States to drive the Japanese invaders from the Philippines and grant the islands full independence once normal government function is restored. The legislation allows acquisition of air, land and naval bases in the Philippines.
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Washington
United States
Philippines
Roosevelt
Phillippines
Three Mighty Forces Now Aiming Toward Berlin
The war map shows three major offensives converging on Berlin from the east west and south. Soviet spearhead sits about 640 miles from the capital, Allied forces in Normandy about 650 miles away, and Italian fronts roughly 635 miles distant.
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Washington
United Nations
Europe
Berlin
Normandy
Italy
Inner tubes freed from rationing and tire allocations rise
The Office of Price Administration ordered the removal of inner tube rationing effective tomorrow and announced July August tire allocations of 3,900,000 passenger car tires, up 50,000 from June. OPA cites sufficient tube stocks but notes ongoing tire shortages with no tires for A card drivers until early 1945.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Charles F. Phillips
Trapped Prisoner Kills Self In Tower
Baltimore prison story reports 21 year old Salvador Appitillo of Baltimore used a shotgun to threaten guards for half an hour before shooting himself in the Maryland Penitentiary tower. Warden Patrick Brady identified the escape attempt and sentence details.
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Baltimore
Maryland Penitentiary
Patrick Brady
Salvador Appitillo
Darlington 9-Year-Old Bernard Schwartz Drowns
Bernard Schwartz aged nine, son of Mr and Mrs Barney Schwartz, drowned while swimming yesterday in Darlington Wisconsin. The tragedy occurred during a local recreational outing and prompted investigation by authorities.
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Darlington
Wis
Bernard Schwartz
Barney Schwartz
Nazis Fleeing From 5th Army Amid Allied Breakthrough
German troops along Italy’s west coast pull back north as American forces close on Cecina near Livorno and Siena. British and French units advance toward Castiglione del Lago while Allied air power disrupts a large Nazi supply shipment of vehicles and tanks.
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Italy
Cecina
Livorno
Leghorn
Siena
Florence
8Th Army
Lake Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
The
Knights of Malta
Albert Kesselring
Seven Men Missing As Collision Sinks Coastal Minesweeper
A coastal minesweeper was sunk in a collision with a destroyer escort off Cuttyhunk. Two officers and five crew members are missing, while the commanding officer and six enlisted men were rescued. The destroyer escort aided the search. no damage reported to the escort. Names of the missing were not disclosed.
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Boston
Cuttyhunk
Navy
First Anal District
Naval
Coast Guard
Chicago man drowns in Lake Marie near Kenosha
Michael Kranicke aged 32 from Chicago drowned after diving from a boat in 35 feet of water on Lake Marie, 25 miles west of Kenosha. The drowning is the first in Kenosha County this year.
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Kenosha
Wis
Michael Kranicke
Chicago
Lake Marie
Kranicke
Kenosha County
Brownell Chosen GOP National Committee Chairman
Herbert Brownell Jr a 40 year old New York lawyer was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican national committee to direct Gov Thomas E Deweys presidential campaign Dewey praised party unity and stated earlier that divisive efforts would not prevail Brownell succeeds Harrison E Spangler who was named chairman in 1942 Brownell has long worked with Dewey and is known for campaign organization He is a Peruvian Neb graduate of the University of Nebraska and Yale Law School with prior service as a New York state legislator other officers elected included three new vice chairmen Werner S Schroeder Mrs Horace A Sayre and Mrs Katharine K Brown Re elected vice chairman Ezra R Whitla Harold W Mason was re elected secretary and Jouett Ross Todd named official duties pending page 2
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Chicago
Herbert Brownell, Jr
New York
Republican National Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Republican Party
Brownell
Harrison E. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Peru
Neb
University of Nebraska
Yale Law School
New York State
John W. Bricker
Ohio
National Committee
Werner S. Schroeder
Illinois
Horace A. Sayre
Oklahoma
Katharine K. Brown
Ezra R. Whitla
Idaho
Harold W. Mason
Vermont
Jouett Ross Todd
Kentucky
Rommel Lets Fresh Reserves Meet Allied Push Near Caen
Allied reports say Rommel brought new reserves into Normandy while Miles Dempsey’s British 2nd Army pressed from Caen, nearing the port’s circle. American forces advance toward St Lo and Cherbourg defenses shift as Montgomery threats Caen from the east and the Odon line holds against German counterattacks.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Caen
Miles C. Dempsey
2Nd Army
France
Marcelet
Bernard L. Montgomery
Maupertus
Cherbourg
Marshal von Rundstedt
River Odon
Associated Press
Roger D. Greene
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Ivan Bagramian
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Bobruisk
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Yankees
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