Soviet White Army Tightens Trap Near Warsaw and Prussia
Sunday dispatch reports F Zakharov's Second White Army smashed German fortifications northeast of Warsaw and near the Biebrza marshes, pinning about 300,000 troops at the Baltic coast. A western push toward Liepaja Memel and 610 towns claimed in the latest communique.
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F. Zakharov
Warsaw
Biebrza
East Prussia
Baltic Sea
Mies
Liepaja
Latvian
Memel
German Prussia
Scon
Zakharov
Hal Konstantin K Rokossovsky
Ouachita Parish Voters Face 112 Mill Road Tax Question
Ouachita parish property owners vote Tuesday on a proposed 112 mill road tax renewal. Polls run 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at usual primaries locations. The police jury says funds fund old and new roads. opponents contend revenue is unnecessary and funds come from state gasoline tax. A dispute over transfer of tax money to city streets persists with legal cautions from the attorney general’s office.
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Perty
Ouachita Parish
Chita Parish
Monroe
West Monroe
Attorneymen's Office
A. E. Montery
Police Jury
Ominous Outlook for Germany and Japan Deepens War Strain
War prospects darken as Allied pressure surges in France and Italy. Reports indicate German withdrawals from Florence and shifts by Alexander toward the Gothic Line. Allies weigh actions along the French south coast and a Balkan strike leveraging Turkey’s split with Berlin. Eisenhower relocates to France. Wilson moves to Italy with command links to Alexander.
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Germany
Japan
Europe
Pacific
France
Italy
Florence
Alexander
Mediterranean
Turkey
Balkan
Continent
Eisenhower
Britain
Wilson
Algiers
Parked Enemy Planes Smashed In Pacific Raids
General Headquarters reported an air raid on the Philippines and a sweeping attack on Halmahera Island. Forty one parked Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged and shipping suffered heavy losses. In Dutch New Guinea four 1,000 ton freighters were sunk and a 3,000 ton transport was damaged. Night patrols hit Davao in Mindanao. The two-day raids marked the first against the Philippines since 1942.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Southwest Pacific
Philippines
Halmahera Island
Helmahera
Vogelkop Peninsula
Dutch New Guinea
Davao
Mindanao
Major Mediterranean Action Near as Allied Planes Hit Germany
Clouds of Allied warplanes attacked German forces in Normandy while about 750 American heavy bombers targeted airfields and communications in northern France. British Lancasters bombed Bay of Biscay shelters, La Pallice, and fuel dumps near Le Mans as Fortresses and Liberators hit Metz rail yards.
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London
Germany
Normandy
France
Italy
Italian
Riviera
Forest de Mont-Richard
le Mans
Metz
Allied air blitz hits southern France as Churchill arrives
Rome August 12 Allied air power again pounded the southern approaches to Hitler's fortress with 750 US heavy bombers. High American military figures arrived to join Prime Minister Churchill in Rome. The move sparked talk of momentous Mediterranean developments as Patterson and Somervell were announced to be en route.
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Rome
Hitler
United States
France
Mediterranean
Churchill
Popolo
Christian Democrat Party
Robert P Patterson
Brehon S. Somervell
Forbidden Book List grows to 15 items in war effort
Washington reports that the army admitted two motion pictures rumored banned were not considered and that the forbidden list now contains 15 books including Raymond Clapper's Watching the World. The War Department says there have only been informal discussions on movies Wilson and Heavenly Days and no decision yet on their showing to troops.
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Washington
Army
Raymond Clapper
War Department Bureau of Public Relations
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Fibber McGee and
Molly
Bureau of Public Relations
War Department
Property bill given go ahead
Washington Aug 12 The House leadership gave the go ahead signal to surplus property legislation sidetracking the unemployment mobilization measure. Three days of debate were allotted in the house expenditures committee approved the surplus property bill with final action due Monday by the rules committee.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Expenditures Committee
Rules Committee
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Rescued battalion near Mortain after 9 days cut off
An American infantry battalion, separated by Germans near Mortain, was rescued this afternoon after five and a half days of isolation. Captain R. A. Kerley, held firm with the men while relief columns fought their way in, and the survivors, led by acting commander Capt. Reynolds C. Erickson, returned down the hill to safety. The strain and bravado of the siege were described by officers, with Kerley remarking on their stubborn stand, while the relief assault followed a mountaintop push by two other infantry battalions.
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William Smith White
Mortain
Ince
R. A. Kerley
Houston
Texas
Kerley
Reynolds C. Erickson
Miles
Iowa
Goebbels Demands More Farm Output From Farmers
London reports Goebbels told Berlin farmers they must increase food production to offset losses in the east. He praised efforts to avoid 1917-18 conditions but warned of new difficulties and explained measures including newspaper publication cuts and reduced rail traffic as emergency steps.
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London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
DNB
Goebbels
Slovakia Under Martial Law in Nazi-ruled Slovakia
London reports Slovakia was placed under martial law to quell rising revolts as Germany faces pressure on its Balkan front. The decree carries the death penalty for revolutionary activities, murder, robbery and sabotage, signaling harsh measures in the occupied territory.
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London
Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Balkan
Transocean
Yugoslavia
Poland
France
Mass at Lublin for Nazi camp victims draws 25000 mourners
In Lublin crowds mourn the Nazi extermination victims as Polish liberation committee leads rite before Lublin Castle. Father Krasinski conducts prayers as German bodies are exhumed and a memorial tablet is unveiled amid chants of murderers and degenerates.
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Moscow
Lublin
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Father Krasinski
Committee of Liberation
Maidanek
Germans abandon Florence after weeklong stand on Arno
Aug 12 reports say German forces withdrew from Florence under cover of darkness freeing Italy’s historic city from a weeklong siege. Allied officers moved into central areas north of the Arno while fighting subsided, with looting noted and Ponte Vecchio intact but blocked by debris. Across the Ceano river on the Adriatic front, Germans pulled back from Monte Porzio toward the coast as rain slowed Fifth Army actions.
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Rome
Florence
Italy
Arno
Eighth
Ponte Vecchio
Adriatic
Cesano
Monte Porzio
Fifth Army
100000 Tons of bombs required
The War Department announced that the U S Army Air Forces will need more than 700000 tons of high explosive this year in addition to 472054 tons already dropped since January 1. Through June this year bomb tonnage in Europe rose dramatically with 405212 tons dropped on continental targets. The Eighth and Ninth Air Forces from England and Normandy delivered 243402 tons. Mediterranean forces supplied the rest. Explaining the drastic.
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Washington
United States Army
War Department
Army Air Forces
Pearl Harbor
Eighth
Ninth Air
England
Normandy
Destroyer Escort Fiske Sunk By Uboat Off Atlantic
The destroyer escort Fiske was sunk by a German torpedo in the Atlantic. Lieutenant John A. Comly, 27, of Marion Park Pennsylvania, survived and next of kin have been notified. Built by Consolidated Steel at Orange Texas, Fiske was commissioned August 25, 1943, and carried about 150 crew.
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Washington
Atlantic
Navy
John A. Comly
Marion Park
Comly
Pacific
Consolidated Steel Corporation
Orange
Texas
Mystery Cloaks American Swing Near Caen Front
The Allies, presenting official mystery, pressed the German Seventh army bulge in northwestern France with five coordinated advances between Mortain and Caen. American armor moved toward southern France below the Loire as bomb bursts echoed along the Mediterranean coast. A German salient six miles wide and four miles deep was eliminated by British-Canadian efforts below Caen.
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Austin Bealmear
Allied Expeditionary Force
Seventh Army
France
Mortain
Caen
Loire
Mediterranean
Normandy Bulge
Loire River
Nantes
le Mans
Paris
Thury-Harcourt
Fresney-le-Vieux
Bretteville-Sur-Laize
Caen-Thury
Barbery
Bois Helbout
Gersman
Laize
Orne River
Bretteville
Caens Falaise
St Sylvain
Thury
St. Pierre la Vieille
Conde-Sur-Noireau
Truckers Readied to Roll Under Government Control
Army officers were removed from Midwest truck terminals as the Office of Defense Transportation moved to return 25,000 striking truckers to work. Longenecker said 50 percent of Chicago drivers were ready, with others to follow as unions and operators agreed to federal rules.
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Associated Press
Army
Midwestern
Office of Defense Transportation
Alex Baxter
Army Transport Command
Ellis T. Longenecker
ODT
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
S. D
Omaha
Neb
Sioux City
Iowa
Chicago
Twin Cities
Longenecker
Midwest
22 Wounded Men Reach Barksdale Field
Shreveport La August 12 1944 Sgt Andrew B Hearn of Jennings La among 22 wounded Normandy campaign veterans arriving by ambulance plane at Barksdale Field on their way to Texas hospitals. Hearn hit the French beachhead on D day plus one and was wounded a week later evacuated to England. He will go to Brooke General Hospital Fort Sam Houston Texas. Plane carried seven litter cases and 15 walking wounded.
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Shreveport
Andrew B. Hearn
Jennings
Amullance
Barksdale Field
Texas
Hearn
Rodessa
England
Brooke General Hospital
Fort Sam Houston
Normandy
Roosevelt Returns From Pacific Tour To Warn Of Future Japanese Aggression
President Roosevelt arrived in Bremerton after a 15 day Pacific war zone inspection and urged permanent defenses from Alaska to Chile. He stressed trust in Japan is broken and called on the United Nations to join in security measures and bases near Japan for hemispheric protection. He noted he played hockey near Juneau and joked of a three hour fishing outing.
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Howard Flieger
Bremerton
Wash
Roosevelt
Pacific War Zone
United Nation
Japan
Navy Yard
Marine
San Diego
Calif
Pearl Harbor
War Chiefs of the
United Nations
Central
South America
South Pacific
North America
North Pacific
Society of Nations
Washington
Develop
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