Truman chairs Potsdam Big Three talks in Pacific war focus
Potsdam July talks feature President Truman presiding over discussions with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. Sessions cover war with Japan as Churchill meets military leaders and Stalin reportedly ready to commit. The first joint communique notes progress and confirms Truman as conference chairman.
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POTSDAM
Truman
Churchill
Stalin
Pacific
United States
Japan
Berlin
United Kingdom
United States of America
Soviet Union
jeagues
Europe
Taber Oil Field Man Drops Dead
T. Harry Conlin, 65, a Taber oil field worker, died after a truck accident following a heavy shower. He and a coworker were helping right the truck when he collapsed after lifting a heavy stone. He leaves a widow and eight children and was a former railway contractor who helped build several southern Alberta lines. Funeral expected Thursday.
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TABER
T. Harry Conlin
Contrad
Mr. Conlin
Blackie-Suffield
McArthur
Reslaw
Coal shortage threatens Western Europe recovery
Newsweek warns Europe faces a coal crisis as Northwestern European mines operate far below capacity. Daggett Howard notes potential unrest and another Hitler mood if 100,000,000 tons are unavailable. France, Holland, and Belgium suffer from missing machinery, skilled miners, and timber for shaft supports, limiting output.
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Europe
Newsweek
Daggett Howard
New York
Rosenman
Paris
Hitler
Howard
France
Holland
Belgium
Bel
New Menace To Kweillin
CHUNGEKING July 18 Chinese forces reported a six mile advance brings them within 12 miles northwest of Kweilin while other units close in from two directions on the former United States air base city. Chinese troops surround and kill enemy at Ining as another force nears the triple field air base. Southwest advances from Liuchow push toward Yungfu, and Chinese troops say they pursued Japanese into Indo China, occupying a port two miles south of Tunghing, severing the last overland link between Indo China and China.
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Kweilin
United States
Chinese high command
euemy crooys
Ining
Liuchow
Yungfu
Indo- China
Tunghing
Indo-China
China
Hitler Reported Alive on Antarctic Island
Radio reports and newspaper claims linked Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Queen Maude Island in Antarctica after a German submarine delivery. Argentine officials denied sightings near Patagonia as Amaghino and the navy warned four German subs remain unaccounted for.
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Adolf Hitler
Antarctic
Cesar Ameghino
Hitler
Argentina
Patagonia
Brazzaville
N.B.C
La Critica
Eva Braun
Queen Maude Island
Mar Del Plata
Great Britain
United States
Amaghino
San Clemente Del Tuyn
admiralty
First Cheques Mail At Ottawa For Child Allowance
Health Minister Claxton announced the first family allowance cheques will be mailed within 10 days to about 3,000,000 children in 1,250,000 families. The first cheques go out Tuesday with a supplementary list to follow. Some registrants may receive August payments if registration was completed late June.
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OTTAWA
Claxton
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC
St. Laurent
Mass Escape Bid Plotted by Japanese in Burma
Nearly 10,000 Japanese trapped in the Pegu Yomas press a foothold dash toward the Mandalay Rangoon line and Thailand border. Three battered units seek to break the British ring to the Sittang river, with a major battle feared soon and uncertain timing.
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DOON CAMPBELL
BURMA
Reuters
Pegu Yomas
Mandalay Rangoon
Thailand
Sittang
King Nominated in Glen garry by election
Hon Mackinac King, Liberal candidate for Glen garry, was nominated at a meeting in Alexandria Ontario. He urged national unity beyond Quebec influence and said he would not seek another general election, hinting his July 30 nomination could be his last campaign speech. Accclamation anticipated as convention gave King unanimous support.
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ALEXANDRIA
Ont
Mackinae King
Glengarry county
Liberal party
Quebec
Canada
King
house of commons
W. B MacDiarand
Plan Probe Of Ship Fire
Sarnia Ont July 1 The bulk of the luxury passenger steam Harmonic was still blasting flames as officials of Canada Steamship Lines and other agencies prepared to investigate the fire that nearly destroyed the vessel. Point Edward freight sheds and 33 freight cars were burned. A missing youngster reportedly fell into the St Clair River after a nurse lost her grip, but this was unconfirmed. Most of the 247 passengers and about 180 crew members are safe. Passengers in Sarnia General Hospital are listed as generally satisfactory, with 13 seriously burned or injured awaiting care. The ship’s superstructure is gone and its hull gutted near the Point Edward coal dock.
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SARNIA
Ont
C. P.i
Canada Steamship Lines
Point Edward
St. Clair
Dorothy Dure
Fort William
Sarnia General hospital
Hamonic
Naval Guns Demolish Huge War Plants North Of Tokyo
British and 3rd Fleet warships shelled Honshu coast destroying an engineering works, a steel plant, a copper refinery and an arms factory north of Tokyo. The raid followed a day of carrier air attacks, with no enemy opposition reported as the silent fleet operated offshore.
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Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tokyo
London
Honshu
ROMTSCHW
DSN
Oregon Forest Fire Swept Near Wilson River
Portland July 18 forest fire along the Wilson River slowed as bulldozed fire trails dissected the flames. The blaze now covers about 35 000 acres of rugged coastal canyons and foresters say the center is shifting northward toward an area planned for halting progress. Officials warn a break could threaten standing timber and replanting prospects, noting the region has burned twice in 12 years and reforestation is unlikely to proceed smoothly.
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PORTLAND
Ore
Oregon
Wilson River
rugge
Artillery In Duel Burma Rebels Japanese Retreated
Calcutta July 18 Artillery in Burma was pressed against retreating Japanese troops in the Mandalay area as heavy bombardment and artillery fire raked the sector. British reconnaissance troops moved along the Heho to Taunggyi road, 17 miles east of Meiktila, drawing sustained fire as the combined forces engaged.
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CALCUTTA
Burma
Mandalay
Southeast Asia Command
Heho
Taunggy
Merktilla
Rain Likely To Boost Foremost Crops Amid Drought Toll
Foremost reports a heavy rainfall on July 18 boosting parched farms across southern Alberta.Amounts ranged from quarter to one inch with 2.5 to nearly 3 inches north and west of Foremost while 25 percent of local crops were already written off. Elevator men say the rain will double yields for many, though some wheat fields were too damaged. Livestock are being moved and drought-stricken growth is being plowed under.
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Herald
Alberta
Wreathant
70000 Canadians Soon Training For Pacific
Canadian volunteers destined for Pacific service are expected to be in various training stages by August 15. By then the majority will have completed their 40 day home leave. Some Canadians already serve in the Pacific on the Uganda and RAF formations in India and Burma, with others among Allied forces in the Far East. Maj Gen Bert Hoffmeister is due to assume Canadian Pacific force HQ duties at Brockville by July 31 as troops prepare to regroup at Debert, Nova Scotia.
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JACK BRAYLEY
OTTAWA
Pacific war theatre
Pacific
Uganda
RAF
India
Burma
Far East
Bert M. Hoffmeister
Brockville
Ont
Debert
N.S. Bar
Eye Witness Accounts of Unprecedented Naval Bombardment
Eye witnesses describe a large scale United States British naval bombardment off the Japanese coast. The attack used a secret phonograph broadcast from the Iowa to signal start while fleets fired on a 20 mile coastal area. Reports say 5000% Japanese positions along the coast, with aircraft guiding gunfire through a night raid.
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GUAM
Iowa
Chester Nimitz
J Manon
Mutial Broadcasting Company
CBS
Gene Rider
Japan
General Gamelin Corrects Maginot Line Propaganda
General Maurice Gamelin argues the Maginot Line was misunderstood and over promised. He details fortification history from 1999 to 1934, noting false beliefs in a shielded frontiers system and clarifying the roles of André Maginot and the two fortified fronts along the Rhine Luxembourg border and the Metre region.
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PARIS
France
Maginot
en terim frontier
Andre Maginot
Lauter
Rime
Sarg
Haguenay forest
Slow Drive On Borneo Slow Drive On Borneo
Manila telegram reports British American carrier fleet attacking Japan while Australian patrols push toward Samuanrindi and Sambodji area as Australians consolidate for a drive through derricks and oil installations. Tokyo says Allied ships struck Mito Hitachi in Honshu. six miles off shore. In Borneo Australians advance yard by yard near Balikpapan with Samarinda about 60 miles away, as Solomons fighting at Bournville continues with constant small scale attacks by Japanese forces.
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MANILA
Samuarindi
Sambodji
Tokyo radio
Borneo
Balikyapan
Samarinda
oistab
Pacific
Bournville
Solomons
Kaiuli
Australia Eyes Japan News Rumors In Sydney
Sydney newspapers speculate on big news from Japan possibly a pact suit or shifting war moves as Japan rumors circulate. Major world events mix with Pacific war chatter as readers await official announcements this week.
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JAPAN
SYDNEY
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