American advances breach Cherbourg perimeter amid heavy bombardment
American spearheads widened a breach along Cherbourg's southern line as infantry pressed through German pillboxes and captured over 1,200 prisoners from four Nazi divisions. US forces shelled defenses with about 9,000 guns while air strikes hit rear fields and rail links across northwest France.
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Ern
Octeville
Cherbourg
United States
United States Flying Fortresses
France
Germany
Colonel Mitchell's Rites Held At Selman Field
Interment followed at Silver Cross Cemetery with pallbearers L. Z. Naylor R. M. Almond Calvin Todd W. C. Starrett L. W. Stenson and William E. Powell. Army officials from West Palm Beach attended along with Lt Col Neal J. Cromm. American Airlines officials from Fort Worth also joined the services. Mitchell recently returned May 31 from India where he aided the China Burma India theater supply route. He had earlier led American Airlines routes and held senior posts in Chicago and New York. Surviving are his wife, his parents Roy and Mrs. Roy Mitchell Mountain View Missouri, and a sister Mrs. Charles Steitz Kansas City Missouri.
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Silver Cross Cemetery
L. Z. Naylor
R. M. Almond
Calvin Todd
W. C. Starrett
L. W. Stenson
William E. Powell
West Palm Beach
Fla
Neal J. Cromm
Caribbean
Cromm
American Airlines
Fort Worth
Tex
Selman Field
Monroe
Mitchell
States
India
Chicago
New York
Roy Mitchell
Mountain View
Charles Steitz
Kansas City
Bricker Dewey clash on draft and VP speculation at convention
Republican delegates debate Bricker and Dewey paths to nomination with talk of Warren as potential VP. Predictions favor swift platform approval and a Thursday acceptance speech, while Stassen and Dirksen factions push for deputy roles. Also includes obituaries from Bastrop and West Monroe with details on survivors and funeral plans.
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Bricker
Ohio
Dewey
Rep
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Gov
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Martin
Harrison E. Spangler
Resolutions Committee
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Clarence Brown
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Simeon S. Willis
Kentucky
Dwight H. Green
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Eric Johnston
United States Chiefaber of Commerce
William Hutcheson
Indiana
Carpenters’ Union
AFL LO
Wendell L. Wilkie
Soviet Offensive Expands Front Norhwest and Southeast of Vitebsk
Stalin announced three special orders detailing major advances in White Russia as Soviet forces push 50 miles on both sides of Vitebsk and break through toward Orsha and Mogilev. He cited 200 towns liberated, wide-front gains, and named commanders Col Gen Ivan Bagramian and Col Gen Ivan Cherniakhovsky.
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Moscow
Stalin
Vitebsk
Orsha
Mogilev
White Russia
Ivan Bagramian
First Baltic Army
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Bagramian
First Baltic Front
Dvina
Polotsk
Reich
East Prussia
Smolensk
Finland
Svir
Kaerelia
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Joseph Heinsman
Camden, N. J
Raymond Sabourin
San Francisco
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Cleveland
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Hazleton
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Eddie Flynn
Louis Barbero
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Bastrop
Union Parish
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Quachita Parish High School
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N. C
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Mattie Alice
Mary
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Shreveport
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Marion
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Horace M. Bennett
Christ Church Cemetery
Robinson Funeral Home
Singleton Rites
Lyle Singleton
West Monroe
Delhi
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I. J. Brooks
Calvary Baptist Church
S. T. Sumners
Hasley Cemetery
Jack Russell
W. H. Greenwood
T. J. Worthey
J. R. Aughtenberry
H. Whittington
L. Willians
Mr. Singleton
Ora Venable
Flora Street
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Louisiana
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Monroe Exterminating CO
North Sevents St
Lanham Electric CO
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