Seaman Floyd Holcomb Returns From War Duty
Logan Ohio seaman first class Floyd R Holcomb U S Navy Arrived back at the Armed Guard Center New Orleans after ten months at sea part of which he served shuttling war supplies between England and the Normandy beachhead His ship took three shuttle trips hit a mine on the third trip sustaining forward damage with no deaths and minor injuries He was credited by his gun crew with destroying one enemy bomber His parents Mr and Mrs Ira Holcomb live in Logan He enlisted June 1943 and trained at Great Lakes Illinois The report includes marriage license and divorce counts for Hocking County highlighting wartime social shifts.
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Ohio
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Lomza Falls to Russian Army
London reports Lomza a key rail center south of East Prussia has been given up by German communique The town on the Narew River northeast of Warsaw was reportedly encircled as Red troops broke through minefields Its fall opens access to the Masurian Lake region while Berlin says German and Hungarian forces repelled assaults in southern Transylvania on the Balkan front.
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East Prussia
Poland
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Berlin
Transylvania
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Autonomy movement charge sparks slander debate in UMW
Ray Edmundson, former Lewis lieutenant and Lewis' rival for the United Mine Workers presidency, demanded John L. Lewis prove claims that Roosevelt administration supporters finance the autonomy faction. Edmundson warned of slander charges if proof is not provided, citing UMW rules. Lewis had described the autonomy effort with sharp insult during his keynote address.
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Ray Edmundson
Autonomy
United Mine Workers
John Ll. Lewis
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Autonomy Movement
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Lewis
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International Executive Board
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Battle. Wagons Turn Big Guns on Island Bastions
Allied naval and air forces pounded Japanese coastal defenses on Palau Babelthuap Peleliu Angaur Ngesebus and Manado as Nimitz and MacArthur push toward the Philippines. 16 inch battleships fire as Liberator bombers drop heavy loads in support of the impending invasion.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
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Palau Islands
U. S
Babelthuap
Palau
Pelelius
Angaur
Mystery Death Of Baby Probed
In Columbus Ohio Detective Chief Leo Phillips calls the case a mystery after 21 month old Ardella May Brobst dies. Coroner John G Gravis rules homicide from liver ruptures and brain hemorrhage. Aunt Patricia Herron who found the child and mother Flora Brobst are questioned as authorities pursue leads.
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Leo Phillips
Ardella May Brobst
Phillips
Patricia Herron
Flora Brobst
John G. Gravis
Fire Victims Die In Ohio Home Near Toledo
Dallas McDonall aged four and his sister Schylva Jean three died in a house fire nine miles west of Toledo. Their parents Mr. and Mrs. Melvin McDonall survived. Mrs. McDonall was seriously burned.
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Toledo
Dallas McDonall
Schylva Jean
Melvin McDonall
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50 Bodies Found Deep in Ohio Mine Rescue
Rescuers recover 50 bodies in the Powhatan mine near Bellaire after a deadly July 5 fire. Miners lie in varied poses amid drifting coal and black damp gas. the search teams expect more casualties in the large first chamber off No 7 right.
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Ohio
Dewey Opens Western Tour With Rodeo Stop
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey opened his western states tour amid Republican optimism. He shrugged off New Deal attacks during speeches after spending a night at former Gov. Sam McKelvie’s ranch in Valentine Nebraska. He planned to watch steer bulldogging and roping before his train departs at sunset for Sheridan Wyoming.
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Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Sam McKelvie
Sheridan
Wyo
Train Kills 6-Year-Old at Wellington Crossing
Elyria reports a Big Four passenger train struck and killed six year old Robert C. Curry son of Mr and Mrs Albert Curry of Wellington at a Wellington crossing yesterday. The tragedy highlights dangers at grade crossings and prompts local officials to review safety measures.
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Robert C. Curry
Albert Curry
Wellington
Yanks Beat Down Nazi Counterattack
The German high command admitted a setback on the eastern front as Allied reinforcements arrived for a western push. American forces six miles past Eupen repelled a German counterattack while the Moselle Valley also resisted. Allied air forces bombarded Germany from west and south, and a new American Army, the Ninth under Lt Gen William H. Simpson, joined operations against the Siegfried Line. Eisenhower notes six armies ready to strike. Hodges' First Army halted a counterattack.
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French forces liberate La Rochelle, U-boat base
French interior troops reportedly freed La Rochelle, a key U-boat base 95 miles north of Bordeaux, from Marseille radio. German broadcasts claimed American forces captured an outpost of the West Wall but gave no location for a dent in the Siegfried Line.
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Marseille
la Rochelle
Bordeaux
West Wall
Siegfried
GOP Gathers in Ohio Capital For Convention
GOP leaders converge on Columbus for a one day state convention after a Democratic gathering shaped a platform aimed at pulling Ohio into the Roosevelt column. State Chairman Ed D Schorr called caucus for 3 P M at the new headquarters 31 N High Street with all GOP candidates expected. The convention opens tomorrow and echoes of the Democratic platform meeting attend with approval from Mayor Frank Lausche.
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Ohio
Roosevelt
Ed D. Schorr
N. High Street
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Hospital Petition Filed With Board of Elections
City Auditor certified an initiative petition to the Hocking County Board of Elections calling for a city purchase of Cherrington Hospital for 40000. Logan voters will decide in November 1944 with a simple majority triggering a bond issue. council could face court action if it refuses negotiation.
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Cherrington Hospital
C. Wood Bowen
Ward Chase
Hocking County Board of Elections
Logan
Cherrington
Texas Pro Roosevelt Faction Wins Battle for Vote Control
Pro Roosevelt Democrats in Texas won a power struggle over how party electors should vote. In a late count, Texas Democrats shifted seats at the state convention to the 100 man pro Roosevelt Dallas delegation, altering the mechanism by which electors were bound to the Roosevelt Truman ticket amid earlier conditional directives.
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Texas
Associated Press
Dallas
The War Today by DeWitt MacKenzie
Allied forces have defeated Germany, with the United Nations praising superior Allied generalship at decisive moments. The article notes German leadership has long been highly capable, yet Allied strategic skill helped secure the triumph.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Germany
United Nations
Two Columbus Men Held for Slaying
Sheriff Sandusky said manslaughter charges would be filed against George O Neil 29 and his nephew Wayne Jenkins 27 in the death of Wayne Jenkins wife Jean 25 who was shot when a rifle discharged during a struggle over a rifle the husband had sold to O Neil and later lent but not returned.
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Columbus
Jacob E. Sandusky
George O Neil
Wayne Jenkins
Jean
O'Neil
Finns to Get Red Armistice Terms
Stockholm dispatch reports Finnish Prime Minister Hackzell to return from Moscow within 24 hours bearing armistice terms. Finnish source says parliament will vote to approve, with publication by Moscow or in a joint Russian Finnish statement. Terms are understood to constitute peace.
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Hackzell
Finland
Helsinki
Moscow
Senator Rogers Dies in Elyria at 72
Senator Pliny H. Rogers, 72, longtime Ohio Republican legislator, died of a heart attack last night at Elyria Trial Hospital. He served five terms in the state senate and earlier in the House of Representatives.
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Pliny H. Rogers
Ohio
Elyria Trial Hospital
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