Russians poised for thrust into East Prussia and Lithuania
Moscow reports red armies advancing west of Grodno breaking Niemen lines and closing within seven miles of East Prussia as Germans brace in key cities. Deep tank wedges threaten Riga and Memel routes as Cherniakovsky’s force pushes toward Kaunas with a crucial rail line at risk.
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Moscow
East Prussia
Grodno
DNB
Transocean
International Information Bureau
Tarnopol
Luck
Poland
Berlin
Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Baltic
Kaunas
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Velikaya
Middle Baltics
Pripyat
Pinsk
Europe
Konigsberg
Ivan Bagramian
Lithuania
Riga
Estonia
Wilno
Panevezys
Siauliai
Baltic Sea
Memel
Ivan Cherniakovsky
Germany
Latvia
Barber Shop Return and Bagworm Warning in Logan
Marvin Dicken returns to his barber shop trade in Harbor, while Logan residents are warned about bagworms attacking evergreen shrubs. Early June larvae spin cocoonlike homes, with silken bags choking sap flow. removal by hand is advised, or a spray of arsenate of lead in six gallons of water before cocoons form.
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Marvin Dicken
S. S&s
All Harbor
Harry Struble
Harry
Seaman Dicken
Logan
James R. Smoot
New Mental Health Hospital Plans Considered in Ohio
Governor approved committee proposals to build seven new hospitals for mental disorders in Ohio. Recommendations include two receiving hospitals in Youngstown and Portsmouth, two feeble minded institutions, a criminally insane facility, and a convulsive disorders hospital. Existing facilities at Cleveland Longview and Columbus would be replaced, with sites in Gallia and Lebanon also noted.
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Columbus
Cleveland State Hospital
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Columbus Institution
Youngstown
Portsmouth
Gallipolis
Ohio
Lebanon
West Logan Youth Wounded in Burma War Theaters
Mrs. Mahala Wilson of West Logan received a War Department telegram stating her son Cpl. Orval D. Wilson was seriously wounded June 14 in the North Burma war theater. He attended West Logan school and is the son of Fletcher Wilson who died last winter. His mother has been working in New Lexington.
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Mahala Wilson
West Logan
War Department
Cpl
Orval D. Wilson
North Burma War
Cpl. Wilson
Fletcher Wilson
Allied Forces Close on Periers Lessay and St Lo Fronts
Supreme Headquarters reports a four mile American advance in 24 hours sieging three key Cherbourg peninsular towns. Lessay, Periers, and St Lo are reached or within striking distance with multiple detachments advancing from Beauvais, Pissot, St Germain Suray, and La Barre de Semilly as renewed pressure tightens around these towns.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
First Army
Cherbourg
Periers
Lessay
St. Lo
Plessis
ST LO
la Barre de Semilly
Vire
Creterville
Vice Presidential Candidates Spring Up On All Sides
In Chicago on July 15, candidates for vice president spread across the loop as Democrats awaited word from National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan on Roosevelt's stance toward Wallace. A letter reportedly favored Wallace's renomination but left final choice to delegates. Senators Alfred Chandler Claude Pepper Joseph O Mahoney and Elbert Thomas surfaced among potential sleep strike contenders as party nerves rose.
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Chicago
Robert E. Hannegan
White House
Hannegan
Roosevelt
Henry Agard Wallace
Wallace
Alfred
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Claude Pepper
Florida
Joseph O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Fire claims children in Akron tragedy
Akron daily report states Jackie Gra ham, three, and Rebecca Gra ham, fourteen, children of Mr. and Mrs. John Graham, died after a fire yesterday in their North Hill home. Neighbors and authorities described the blaze as sudden and deadly.
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Akron
Jackie
Rebecca
John Graham
North Hill
Americans Advance Toward Livorno During Italian Front
U S troops pushed within three and a half miles of the Livorno seaport as German resistance collapsed. American columns seized Chianni and Villamagna while others swept Belvedere and Ghizzano near the Arno valley, with French forces also advancing and Bastille Day actions at Poggi Bonsi. Clark’s 5th Army moved along the coast toward Livorno and Pisa, continuing a broad forward sweep on highway one.
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Rome
Livorno
Leghorn
Chianni
Fifth
Arno River
Bastille
Poggibonsi
Ghizzano
Villamagna
U. S
Belvedere
Era Valley
Arno
Mark W. Clark
Pisa
Castiglioncello
Barberton appoints Walter Crewson as schools superintendent
Barberton board of education announces Walter Crewson, Massillon Washington High School assistant principal for the last three years, is named Barberton public schools superintendent. He succeeds Arian L. Light who retired after 31 years. The post pays six thousand to six thousand four hundred dollars annually on a three year contract.
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Barberton
Walter Crewson
Massillon
Washington High School
Barberton Public Schools
Board of Education
Arian L. Light
Japanese broadcast claims Allied airmen executed in Kyushu raid
A July report from New York states a Japanese radio broadcast to American Forces in the Southwest Pacific declares several Airmen captured in the first Superfortress raid on northern Kyushu last month were executed. The broadcast warned that Allied airmen who bail out over Japan will be executed, saying this is the order of the day. It compares the fate to Tokyo raiders two years ago.
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New York
Southwest Pacific
Federal Communications Commission Today
Kyushu
Japan
Tokyo
Blackstem Rust Threatens Grains Across Plains
Nebraska reports a menacing spread of black stem rust endangering crops east of the Mississippi. The state Department of Agriculture says winter wheat has suffered serious damage and oats are developing rust quickly. Earlier alerts began in Texas and spread through Oklahoma to Kansas.
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Chicago
Mississippi River
Dought
Nebraska
State Department of Agriculture
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Models Allowed as War Production Shifts Dates
Vice Chairman R L Boulware of the War Production Board said yesterday that when automobiles can be made again the industry will be free to produce new models rather than revert to the 1942 designs, signaling a shift in postwar plans in Washington.
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Washington
R. L. Boulware
War Production Board
Special Boards To Probe Pearl Harbor Come Fresh Inquiry
Washington July 15 Heads of the War and Navy departments established special boards to inquire into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Navy court will convene Monday to begin its study. An Army board under Lt Gen George Grunert will also hold sessions as required. The inquiries aim to uncover the facts surrounding the catastrophe and do not imply imminent court martial of Rear Admiral Husband E Kimmel or Maj. Gen. Walter C Short.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Pearl Harbor
Navy Court
Stimson
Army Board
George Grunert
Grunert
Eastern Defense Command
Henry D. Russell
Department Manpower Board
Columbus
Walter H. Frank
Army Air Forces Air Service Command
Patterson Field
Forrestal
Navy Court of Inquiry
Orin G. Murfin
Navy Department
Edward C. Kalbfus
Adolphus Andrews
Harold Biesemeier
Modesto
Calif
Husband E. Kimmel
Navy
Walter C. Short
Army
Stewart Named Chief of Staff at U.S. Bomber Base
Lt Col James Stewart, former movie star, appointed chief of staff of the B-24 unit in Britain, serving as second in command to Brig Gen Edward J Timberlake Jr. The assignment places the actor-turned-airman in a senior staff role within the 8th Air Force bomber wing during World War II.
Labor in politics to stay says CIO leader
James B. Carey of the CIO declares labor remains active in politics at an Antioch College institute. He urges workers to elect or defeat candidates on labor and social legislation, and says wartime production should serve the public after the war, warning against cartel influence and sale of war plants to profiteers.
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Yellow Springs
James B. Carey
National Congress On Industrial Organizations
Organized Labor
Carey
Antioch College Institute
CIO
Youth Volunteer Hopkins Registers For Induction
Charles Edward Hopkins son of Mr and Mrs Charles H Hopkins Logan Route 1 has registered and volunteered for immediate induction at the local Selective Service Board Friday according to Mrs Kathryn Myers secretary
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Charles Edward Hopkins
Charles H. Hopkins
Logan
Selective Service Board
Kathryn Myers
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New York Foundling Hospital
Joan Schutter
Walter Goggin
International Soundphoto
U.S
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Nancy Coleman
Hollywood
Whitney Bolton
Columbia Studios
International
Stewart
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