Mayor Jeffries Attacks Roosevelt, Urges Democratic Governance
Chicago dispatch reports Detroit mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr., a non partisan figure, denounces the Roosevelt administration in a prepared address to the executives club. He urges Republicans to back a standard bearer able to recreate the democratic government forefathers sought, noting his long service and neutrality in party affiliation.
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Chicago
Edward J. Jeffries, Jr
Detroit
Jeffries
Executives Club
Salvation Army Band Scores Real Success
Captain E. L. Osborne praised Salvation Army music as the Eastern Michigan Salvation Army Band and Detroit Citadel Chorus performed before a large Mount Clemens crowd at the high school auditorium. Brass and percussion carried the traditional concert as noted in the report.
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E. L. Osborne
Salvation Army
Eastern Michigan
Detroit Citadel
Mount Clemens High School
FBI Holds Armada Man on Draft Count
Stanley J. Ksiezarczyk of Armada was arrested in Detroit on charges of violating the Selective Service Act. FBI says he ignored Wayne county Draft Board orders to report for induction claiming unfair treatment by the Mount Clemens Board over farmer certification while employed at a war plant.
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Stanley J. Ksiezarczyk
Armada
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Detroit
Robert A. Guerin
FBI
Ksiezarczyk
Wayne County
Mount Clemens
Vast Landing Seizes Ground Across Normandy Front
American forces in France push ashore in large numbers as doughboys break through coastal defenses. The beachhead action shifts into a race to deploy troops, guns, and supplies before German fire drives them back, marking a difficult but advancing effort after a rough start.
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Don Whitehead
France
Tunisia
Sicily
Italy
Hitler
Myitkyina advances press Japanese grip in Burma
Myitkyina and surrounding areas see renewed Allied attacks as Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s forces seize the northern airfield end and Chindits dislodge Japanese at Hola two miles northeast. Chinese infantry also press new positions inside the city amid house to house fighting.
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Associated Press
Myitkyina
Great North Burma
Ledo
Burma
Japan
Joseph W. Stilwell
Pilot to Speak at Essay Dinner
Capt Edmund B. Anderson, 23 year old RAF ace, returns from Italo-African theatre to keynote Monday Father’s Day testimonial dinner at Medea Hotel. Fifteen essay contest winners will be honored.
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Edmund B. Andeson
Medea
Foe Falls Back to Avoid Trap in Italy Front
Allied Fifth Army presses north and northwest from Rome as German forces retreat to avoid encirclement. Lt Gen Mark W Clark’s columns reach Lake Bracciano and Caprarola while Tarquinia and the Tyrrhenian coast are shelled. Prisoners include personnel from the 20th Luftwaffe field division.
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Rome
Ariatic
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Lake Bracciano
Caprarola
Lake di Vico
Viterbo
Key City
Civitavecchia
Tarquinia
Tyrrhenian
Italy
Denmark
REPORTER TELLS GRAPHIC STORY Eyewitness Describes Beachhead Fighting
War correspondent Roger Greene of Associated Press describes landing at the Normandy beachhead under heavy fire. He details wading ashore with a heavy pack and typewriter, witnessing casualties near him, and observing only light German fortifications with mobile artillery as Allied air power dominates the skies.
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Roger Greene
Associated Press
France
Greene
Lone Eagle Gives Pilots Instruction
Detroit June 9 American fighter pilots in the Gilbert Islands receive instruction in high altitude flight from Charles A Lindbergh, a Ford Motor Co official has learned. O A Johnson, chief of the Ford Marine fleet, said the information came from his son recently arrived in the Gilberts.
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Detroit
Gilbert Islands
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ford Motor Co
O. A. Johnson
Ford Marine Fleet
Gilberts
Tank Crews Battle at 200 Yards in France Front
Canadian forces in France engage in a heavy armored melee with tanks firing at two hundred yards or less while infantry fight across fields and through woods. The engagement marks the front’s largest armored test to date showcasing Canadian crew and infantry grit.
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Associated Press
France
Charter Race Attracts Ten For Nine Member Revision Commission
Ten candidates from civic clubs and organizations have filed petitions for the nine member Charter Revision Commission race to be decided in the July 11 primary. Only one woman, Mrs. Gladys H. Hirt, is currently on the roster, with five or six more names expected. Announced contenders include Harold C. Green Robert H. Beal John H. Nunneley Harold G. Krauseneck Arnold F. Ullrich Otto Nickel William T. Kelly Oscar C. Watz and A. D. Brewer others may join by June 20. Voters must register by July 1 to participate. The League of Women Voters and allied groups are actively promoting charter revision.
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Charter Revision Commission
Gladys H. Hirt
Paul S. Hirt
Joseph H. Matthews
Vichy Bans Travel in Southern France
The Vichy Radio announced a motor traffic ban starting 3 p.m. in Haute-Loire Cantal Allier and Puy de Dôme with anyone found in a vehicle in the area to be shot on sight according to the broadcast from Vichy France.
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London
Vichy Radio
Haute - Loire
Cantal
Allier
Puy-De-Dame
France
Allied air forces pound Nazi supply lines in France and beyond
Allied aircraft pressed a daylight bombardment of German positions behind the lines in France amid hampered weather. Swiss reports described large formations invading Germany from the south toward Munich and Augsburg, forming a new aerial pincers action. Over the past 24 hours 52 German planes were shot down and 20 more were destroyed on the ground, while Allied losses reached 35 fighters and five bombers.
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Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Switzerland
Germany
Tyrol
Italy
Munich
Augsburg
How Invasion Beach Appears On A Normandy Beach
A delayed June 7 photograph shows a Normandy beach strewn with wreckage and derelicts extending hundreds of yards offshore. High tide congestion crowds a narrow 20 to 50 foot strip between water and the grass, with a steep aisle stacked with invasion paraphernalia surviving the landings.
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Normandy
De Gaulle to Visit United States This Summer
President Roosevelt said he expects a visit from General Charles De Gaulle of the French National Committee of Liberation. Roosevelt sent word that he would be glad to see De Gaulle in late June or mid July, noting those dates were the only times available before and during the Republican and Democratic conventions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
French National Committee of Liberation
de Gaulle
London
Churchill
Chicago
Solemn Ceremonies Planned for St Marys Graduation
St Marys High School holds weekend graduation events with Class Night this evening and a Sunday service at St Peters Church. Rev Father Albert Hutting will address the graduates, with 58 seniors honored and 56 diplomas awarded. Two male graduates, Thomas Moran and Jerome Zischerk, serve in the U S Navy. there are 40 girls in the class. See St Marys Page 2 Elect Carroll Circuit Judge Adv.
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St. Mary's High School
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Albert M. Hutting
Yanks Close on Cherbourg After Ste Mere Eglise Capture
Allied reports say American forces are within 18 miles of Cherbourg after taking Ste. Mere Eglise. President Roosevelt noted slow but steady progress in France as weather roughens sea conditions, with no other major war news.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Ste. Mere Eglise
Washington
Roosevelt
France
Allied armor surges as D-Day forces widen in Caen push
Allied reports say heavy armor clashes intensify on the Caen front with Canadians and British in a coordinated assault. Omar Bradley leads American troops ashore as Formigny falls and Cherbourg supply routes edge closer to Valognes, with airlift and naval gunfire supporting beachhead operations.
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France
Allied
Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Detroiter
Paul L. Williams
Detroit
9Th Airforce Troop Carrier Command
Ste. Mere Eglise
Cherbourg
Berlin
U. S
Valognes
Mount Clemens Retailers Launch Fifth War Loan Drive
Mount Clemens sales force of over 500 workers conducts intense bond sales to bolster the Fifth War Loan drive. Moderates resistances are being overcome as they aim to secure Treasury funding.
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Mount Clemens
U.S. Treasury
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