End To End Blast Hits Japanese Heartland In Major Assault
Allied forces unleashed a massive air and naval blitz across Honshu and Kyushu, shelling Hamamatsu and industrial zones near Tokyo. Carrier aircraft hammered airfields and factories from Kobe to Tokyo while Japan’s Domei agency claimed air units engaged. Nimitz reports tally 1 076 planes and 935 ships destroyed or damaged since July 19.
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Kyushu
Tokyo
Kure
Hamamatsu
Honshu
Kobe
Domei agency
Japan
Domei
Kanto amy
Yokohama naval station
Nimitz
Sulverforts
MacArthur
Destruction For Japanese Destruction For Japanese
Guam reports cite U S military leaders warning of unprecedented destruction to Japan. General Lemay and Admiral Ramsey describe air power and invasion as planned, aiming to force surrender by targeting industries and urban areas. Spaatz foresees fleets mobilizing against home islands in coming campaigns.
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GUAM
Japan
D. C. Ramsey
United States fifth fleet
United States
Curtis E. Lemay
20.1 air force
Spaatz
strategic air forces
Europe
Ramsey
Blondel Divorces Powell Cleared Way for Septem Bride
In Los Angeles on July 30 the Superior Court granted actress Joan Blondel a final divorce decree from actor Dick Powell. The ruling allows Powell to wed starlet Jung Allyson, with a reported ceremony planned for September.
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LOS ANGELES
Superior court
Joan Blondel
Dick Powell
Powell
Jung Allyson
New secret planes Paris announces jet and prop fighter fleet
The article details late war era planes including a jet-propelled Vampire surpassing 500 mph in level flight, a twin-engined Hornet as a Mosquito variant, the Spiteful faster than the Spitfire at 460 mph, and a four-engined Lincoln bomber capable of heavier loads and longer range. Also notes a Fergus News-Record snippet about farmers renting an 80 acre farm.
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Whittle
Fergus News-Record
Fergus
Churchill Declines Knighthood in Garter Honor
London reports Winston Churchill has declined the Knighthood of the Order of the Garter offered by the King. Buckingham Palace said Churchill, after tendering his resignation as prime minister, asked to be allowed to decline in the present circumstances while thanking well-wishers for messages after the Conservative defeat.
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LONDON
C.P
Winston Churchill
Order of the Garter
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Edward II
George I
Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Conservative
Start Survey For Vets Land In North
Edmonton July 30 Provincial survey parties are in the Peace River area marking out lands to be included in the 100,000 acre veterans land settlement disclosed by Lands Minister N E Tanner. Clearing operations may begin this fall with planting to follow in spring 1948 by Seattle contractors Harold Hartman and Dwight D Hartman.
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EDMONTON
Peace River
N. E. Tanner
Alberta
Seattle, Wash
Harold . Hartman
Dwight D. Hartman
Goering to face trial if brought in on a stretcher
Mondorf les Bains Luxembourg July 30 Reichsmarschall Goering who collapsed from a heart attack during an electrical storm two days ago will face trial when his time comes if he has to be brought into the courtroom on a stretcher an authoritative source said Saturday
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MONDORF - LES - BAINS
Luxembourg
Reichsmarshal
Force Vote In Glengarry By Election Nomination
Alexandria Ont July 30 Nomination for the Glengarry federal by election closed at 2 pm BDT with only two names Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Dr Richard Monahan. King seeks re election after June loss in Prince Albert. Monahan an Independent Liberal from Montreal announced his candidacy.
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ALEXANDRIA
Ont
Glengarry
Mackenzie King
Richard Monahan
Sharbot Lake
J. J. Morris
Mr. King
Saskatchewan
Prince Albert
Dr. Monahan
King
Progressive Conserva
W. B. MacDiarmid
Liberal party
Prince Albert, Sask
MacDialrmid
Progressive Conservative
C. CF
Body Recovered From Waterton Lake Narrows
Waterton Lakes National Park July 30 A month after Boyd Bohne of Glenwood drowned in a boat accident on Waterton Lake the body was recovered. The ex serviceman's remains were seen Sunday near the spot of the accident by a Cardston man. The Narrows were dragged and blasting operations used to dislodge the body. The coroner Dr J axey of Cardston said identification was by military badges and there will be no inquest. The Glenwood man was part of a four person party. three were rescued after the boat upset, Bohne sank while attempting to swim to the docks for help.
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WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK
Boyd Bohne
Glenwood
deep Narrows
Waterton Lake
Cardston
J. a xey
Bohne
Big News From Potsdam Broadcast By Murrow
CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow reported from London that there is no news from Potsdam except a principal negotiator stating the country may go to war with Japan soon. The remark signals possible escalation as wartime diplomacy continues.
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NEW YORK
Edward R. Murrow
CBS
London
Potsdam
Japan
Herriot Praises Britain U S For Pre War Aid
Paris July 30 A P Roland Edouard Herriot three time premier between the wars testified at Marshal Petain trial that President Roosevelt placed at France disposal materiel needed before the German collapse. Herriot said Britain and Roosevelt were two staunch friends and that the day would come when the United States would enter the war. He also recounted Reynaud asking his opinion on leaving France and said he would rather be shot by the Germans than be hated by the French. The court limited sessions owing to Petain’s throat ailment.
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PARIS
Roland Edouard Herriot
France
Marshal Petain
Roosevelt
Germany
M. Herriot
Andre Mornet
Jean Lostanau-Lacau
Edouard Herriot
FPetain
marishal
Churchill
Herriott
Britain
United States
Lyon
Paul Reynaud
Plaque Stolen Then Remounted By Canadian Soldier
Utrecht July 30 A Canadian Army sergeant from Winnipeg Sgt Gordon Milne removed the Wageningen Plaque commemorating the May 5 capitulation to the 1st Canadian Corps The theft caused a public hue and cry but was later explained as a temporary mount swap and Milne was authorized to remount the 12 by 18 inch bronze tablet The plaque will be returned to its wall after a ceremonial unveiling earlier this month by Lt General Foulkes and Prince Bernhard Officials note the incident as an authorized salvage operation and suspect no malice
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UTRECHT
Holland
OP. Cable
Wageningen
Gordon Milne
Winnipe
Milne
George Ball
Edmonton
Jim Morrison
Montreal
Werweld
Charles Foulkes
Prince Bernhardt
Netherlands
1st Canadian Corps
Winnipeg
William Van Der Wide
West Holland
Fire raids level over 150 square miles in 46 Japanese cities
Guam July 30. Fire raids by Superfortresses have leveled more than 150 square miles of urban and industrial centers in 46 Japanese cities, the 20th Air Force announced Saturday.
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GUAM
20th Air Force
Big Three Draft Agreement Nears Final Stages
At Potsdam the Big Three leaders Attlee Truman and Stalin refined the final language after 11 days of talks. Observers expect an early conclusion within days as they press for a momentous proclamation on postwar Europe. Australia cautions on the Chiang Kai-Shek ultimatum to Japan and notes Japan's unconditional surrender and postwar disarmament. The meeting may end Tuesday or Wednesday with Attlee replacing Churchill.
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POTSDAM
Attlee
Truman
Stalin
Winston Churchill
Europe
Japan
Australia
Mr Attlee
Henry Ford Optimistic On Prosperity At 82
DETROIT July 30 Henry Ford 82 says in a statement that the United States and the world are on the threshold of a prosperity and standard of living never before conceived as possible.
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DETROIT
Henry Ford
Canadians Back In Holland From Berlin
UPRECHT July 30. Their mission to Berlin completed, elements of Canada's Berlin battalion are back in Holland with their parent regiments.
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UPRECHT
C.P. Cahie
Berlin
Canada
Holland
We Were Elected To Govern And Govern We Will
Labor leader Herbert Morrison explains the 1945 general election victory as a rejection of Conservative tactics. He argues Conservatives chose illusory issues and wartime slogans over clear plans for security and peace, praising Labour's program Let Us Face the Future.
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T Herbert Morrison
Labor party
Labor
Britain
teader
Canada Packers walkout widens across western cities
A fast-spreading strike by Canada Packers workers expands to Edmonton and Vancouver with 600 employees out, backing about 3,000 strikers in Toronto Winnipeg and Peterborough. Union officials say the walkout began at six a.m. and may spread to other plants, as sympathy actions and meetings unfold in Winnipeg and Vancouver.
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Vancouver
Winnipeg
Canada Packers. Limited
Edmonton
Toronto
Peterborough
Wiliam Symington
U.P.W.A
Canada Packers
O. W.A
Standard Ice
Swift Canadian Company
Manitoba Cold Storage Company
Western Packers
St. Boniface
Farmers’ abbatoir
public abbatoir
Mr. Symington
aken
Bangkok Bombers Hit City Amid War Turmoil
Calcutta dispatch reports heavy bombers striking Bangkok's main railway station delaying trains and destroying tracks. British forces claim success against Japanese units along the Sittang river while a Malaya coast sweep by a British task force destroys airfields and ships, with casualties and air losses noted.
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CALCUTTA
eastern air command
Bangkok
Thiuiland
Southeast Asia
Sittang
Britain
MALAYA
KANDY
Ceylon
Reuters
H. T. O. A aiker
Ameer
British 8th Army Disbanded After Four-Year Combat Run
The famed Eighth Army, winner at El Alamein and a nemesis to Axis forces across North Africa, is disbanded. Lt Gen Sir Richard L McCreery remains in command as the British 5th Corps is renamed British Forces in Austria. The 13th Corps, once part of the 8th Army, shifts to Allied Field Headquarters under Field Marshal Glorious.
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ROME
Britain
8th army
non
El Alamein
Austria
Arstia
Richard L. McCreery
13th Corps
Rodolfo Garaiani
Libya
cmmand
Alex GLORIOUS
Cairo
Alps
Winston Churchill
Sollum
Sid Rezesh
Gustav
Hitler
Cothic
batt les
Italy
A P Herbert Wins His Seat In University Election
London July 36 Two members added to the house of commons as Crford University results announced Sir Arthur Salter the economist 8771 votes A P Herbert humorist 5136 and GD Cole Labor candidate 2414 win seats all three ran as Independents Delayed Oxford count did not shift balance Labor 382 Conservatives 193 with 11 seats still unreported Hull Central and other universities pending
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LONDON
house of commons
Crford University
Arthur Salter
A. P. Herbert
GD. Cole
Labor
Oxford
giil
Conservatives
Hull Central
Striking Toronto Packers Workers Reaffirm Action
Toronto workers at five Canada Packers plants reaffirmed strike action by Monday. Sympathetic walkouts hit Edmonton and Vancouver plants of the same firm. Army officers seized the strikebound U S Rubber plant in Detroit to support bomber tire production.
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TORONTO
C.P
Canada Packers Limited
Edmonton
Vancouver
U.S. ARMY
DETROIT
A.P
army
Col
Harvey Humilong
war department
United States Rubber company
SASKATCHEWAN
XORKTON
Sask
Vincent Manastyrski
John Manastyrski
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
STRATHEDEN
QUEBEC
FATHER
POINT
Que
St. Lawrence
CONRAD
Conrad field
Lethbridge
DE GAULLE
WASHINGTON
PARIS
Reuters
Truman
BIINGS
LONDON
bows of commons
Sir Arthur Salter
A. P. Herbert
Oxford
Ernest Little
Independent National
London University
W. XM. L. Gruffydd
University of Wales
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Waterton
POTSDAMER PLATZ
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Lostanau- Lacau
becree
Morrison
TER ‘T MORRISON
Reuters News Agency
Conservaive
Canadian Press
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