Victorious Yanks Drive South Toward Lessay in Normandy
In France American troops broke through around La Haye du Puits and advanced along the road to Lessay, forming a broad exit from the Cotentin peninsula as German defenses cracked. Fog and rain muted guns while artillery rained on positions and armored columns rolled through muddy roads, showcasing the mass of equipment in Normandy.
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Vire
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Logan Aerie 2168 Eagles Honor Roll of War Service
Logan area veterans and serving members are listed on the Aerie honor roll. Letters from Clarence McIntosh Haydenville Guy Stuart Union Furnace and Lawrence Ellinger Logan show three local men in France after invasion. Capt Kenneth Evans England and Corporal Lee Evans Italy also exchange home news with Logan families.
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Order of the Eagles
The
Army
Navy
Marines
Clarence MclIntosh
Haydenville
Guy Stuart
Union Furnace
Lawrence
Cowboy
Logan
A. F. Evans
Kenneth C. Evans
England
Lee Evans
Italy
John Donahue
Donahue
Lee
Rome
Vatican City
Hartford Prepares to Bury Unidentified Circus Dead
Hartford toll rises to 158 with the death of eight year old Frank Poglitsch as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus fire claims more victims. Unidentified victims include three children two women and one man to be buried in Northwood Cemetery. Investigations continue ahead of Tuesday coroner's inquest. Police seek unidentified man who allegedly tossed a cigarette.
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Hartford
Conn
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Frank Poglitsch
New Britain
Northwood
William M. Morensen
Daniel McAuliffe
Hickey
Detroit Youth Killed in Auto Crash Near Fostoria
In Fostoria Ohio a Detroit youth, Stewart Kuntz, 16, was killed and his bicycling companion Julius Mikus, 11, was slightly injured when struck by an automobile near the city yesterday. The accident occurred as the two boys rode along a road outside town.
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Detroit
Here
Stewart Kuntz
Julius Mikus
Beatrice Phelps Drowns at Springfield Lake
Young Akron woman Beatrice Phelps, age 22, drowned yesterday at Springfield Lake near Akron Ohio. Authorities reported her death as accidental with no immediate signs of foul play.
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Akron
Beatrice Phelps
Springfield Lake
Allies rip German battle line from Normandy anchors
Associated Press analyst DeWitt MacKenzie notes Allied gains in Normandy with Caen and La Haye du Puits captured after 35 days of heavy fighting. He says Caen’s fall opens routes toward Paris and Berlin, while Cherbourg restoration will allow a flood of troops and equipment into the peninsula.
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Central Pacific
Normandy
Caen
Hell
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Supreme Allied Headquarters
Paris
Berlin
Cherbourg
Tolling deaths mount from Tennessee troop train wreck
In Jellico Tennessee the toll of a Thursday troop train wreck in a gorge on Clear River rose to 32 identified dead with one more body found but not identified. Army authorities announced five more names and addresses of soldiers among the deceased. Cause of the crash remains undetermined. Seventeen Ohioans died among 91 injured. among them Austin Paumer of Louisville Ohio in critical condition.
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Jellico
Tenn
Clear River
Hubert Perkins
Austin Paumer
Louisville
Ohio
Donald J. Clark
North Canton
John R. Wickline
Orient
Robert H. Biard
Canton
Don P. Hasline
Joseph E. Shipbaugh
Clarence M. Wright
Minerva
Jack C .Brown
Raymond H. Kiesling
Raymond B. Lillie
Warren
George E. Eaves
Orwell
Wayne E. Clemens
Former U S Catholic Archbishop Hanna Dies in Rome
The Most Rev Edward J Hanna 83 longtime archbishop of San Francisco from 1915 to 1935 and noted for immigrant aid and labor arbitration died today in Rome where he had lived in retirement after a period of ill health officials said He had served the church and labor causes for decades and was widely respected for his work with immigrants in the West and beyond.
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Rome
Edward J. Hanna
San Francisco
Train Hits Auto Killing Two Youths in Massillon
An eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train struck an automobile in Massillon killing Howard E. Smith aged 19 from Strasburg and Alfred Ferron 15 from near Massillon. The fatalities occurred yesterday as the train struck the car at the crossing in the Tuscarawas County area.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Howard E. Smith
Strasburg
Alfred Ferron
Tuscarawas County
Government urged health clinics for postwar youth
Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire proposed that the government provide health clinics to build up a healthy post-war American youth.
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Washington
Ross T. McIntire
Bombers gain bases to raid Manila and homeland
United States forces have captured Saipan, opening Western Pacific air routes toward Manila and Japan. The fall of Saipan after 25 days marks the costliest battle of Admiral Nimitz’s campaign, placing land based bombers within striking distance of Tokyo. Noemfoor Falls and Hengyang battles further illustrate Allied advances across the Pacific theater.
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Saipan
Pacific
Japan
Marianas
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Manila
Marshall Islands
Noemfoor Falls
Noemfoor Island
New Guinea
Phillipines
Douglas MacArthur
Hengyang
China
Burma
Ukhrul
India
Yanks Drive Wedge Into Gothic Line At Volterra
Allied reports say American infantry captured Volterra and pushed four miles forward, breaching the Gothic Line as Fifth Army presses toward the Arno River surrounding Florence and Pisa. West coast forces also advanced toward Livorno under heavy fire, nearing the port.
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Rome
Volterra
Arno
Florence
Pisa
Livorno
Leghorn
Massachusetts voters weigh party nominees in Roosevelt test
Boston July 10 A test of CIO Political Action Committee strength and support for a fourth Roosevelt term will unfold tomorrow as Massachusetts voters select party nominees for state offices and for senator and representative in Congress.
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Boston
CIO
Miners Entombed as Shaft Reaches Powhatan Mine
BELLAIRE O July 10 A deathly echo answered calls down a vent to 66 coal miners trapped 400 feet underground at Powhatan mine. Drillers sunk a nine inch bore and lowered a telephone. only echoes and dripping voices came back. Crews drill 32 hours straight from Carpenter's Hill. a 1200 foot bore from a three inch drill is expected to finish today. Fire trapped the men Wednesday, hope faded, entrances sealed to starve flames. Mine Superintendent Roy Fox says the nine inch shaft is sealed and a slope entry to recover bodies will take about three weeks. Rescue worker John Balzell of Cadiz suffers multiple fractures when a drill bit slipped.
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Bellaire
Powhatan
Carpenter’s Hill
Roy Fox
John Balzell
Cadiz
Understanding Wage Act Urged by Regional War Board
The Regional War Labor Board urged employers possibly violating wartime wage controls to study the wage code closely to avoid expense and inconvenience for themselves and the board.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
No Agreement Seen for Texas Democrats
In Austin on July 10, former state Sen Roy Sanderford, permanent chairman of the regular Democratic convention, declared no compromise would bind electors to the party presidential nominee unless the Chicago convention restores the two thirds rule and adopts a platform plank critical of the Supreme Court Negro vote decision.
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Texas
Roy Sanderford
Sanderford
Chicago
Supreme Court
Expert Advice On Drought Planting For Late Summer Crops
Columbus Ohio July 10 A drought expert advises gardeners on how to plant late summer crops amid dry conditions in the Midwest He urges thorough soil preparation including hoeing spading mixing one pound of victory garden fertilizer per 100 feet and soaking soil before sowing Seeds should be watered even if water must be carried in pails The guidance reflects the hot weather and limited rainfall impacting vegetable production
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Columbus
Midwest
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Victor H. Ries
Ohio Victory Garden
Ries
British Second Army Strikes Eastward in Allied Push
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force reports the British Second Army delivering a hard blow eastward in a July offensive. The action underscores the widening Allied pressure on German positions as tactical gains unfold across liberated and contested zones.
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Montgomery
Caen
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
Second Army
Nazi Lithuanian Defenses Collapse in Wilno
Moscow reports the Red Army fights in Wilno as German lines crumble across Lithuania and Poland. Russian advances push toward Kaunas and East Prussia narrows the gap to 80 to 85 miles, while Germany plans a withdrawal from Pskov Narva Estonia to fortify East Prussia.
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Moscow
Red
Wilno
London
Kaunas
Lithuania
Poland
East Prussia
Pskov-Narva
Estonia
Latvia
Junkers
U Boat Fleet No Longer Menace Says Roosevelt Churchill
Roosevelt and Churchill report in a joint monthly dispatch that for every merchant ship sunk in June by German submarines several U boats were sunk, signaling a shift in the U boat threat to the United Nations. The leaders disclosed the updated maritime losses and gains in a wartime briefing from Washington and London.
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Washington
United Nations
Roosevelt
Churchill
Roosevelt May Let Wallace Stand On His Record
President Roosevelt may leave the 1944 vice presidential nomination to the Democratic convention and let Henry A Wallace stand on his own record. Wallace heads toward Washington to report to Roosevelt amid party shifts and Dixie opposition. Virginia instructed delegates to vote against Wallace, leaving 1,176 convention votes tallied with 589 needed to nominate.
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Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Washington
China
Russia
Chicago
South
Virginia
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Boy Slashed Mother Found In Basement in Cleveland
In Cleveland a 13 year old boy Richard Trouteman lay unconscious at Huron Road hospital after his face and body were slashed. Police investigated the apparent attempt on his life and the death of his mother Mrs. Fred Davis who was found hanging in a basement. Coroner Samuel R. Gerber identified the boy and noted the mother’s death occurred shortly after the incident.
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Huron Road Hospital
Samuel R. Gerber
Richard Trouteman
Boyd Davis
Fred Davis
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