Axis Repulsed At El Alamein in British Report
Cairo dispatch says British forces repulsed heavy Axis attacks at El Alamein 70 miles west of Alexandria with no unfavorable results. Rommel's troops reportedly breached a defended locality briefly before being driven out as RAF intensified bombings, while Berlin and Rome claim Axis gains on the same battlefield.
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el Alamein
Churchill
Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
Alamein
Nile
Erwin Rommel
Great Quattara
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
RAF
Axis
Rome
HK Alamein
Berlin
Nile Delta
Chinese Air Force strikes Hankow Yochow in new raids
Chinese air force formations bombed Hankow and Yochow in north Hunan on the Yangtze. The attacks follow American Volunteer Group raids on Hankow on June 23 and a prior Yangtze offensive near Sinti, 65 miles southwest of Hankow.
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Chungking
Hankow
Yochow
Hunan
Yangtze River
Central
Great River
China
Yangtze
Sinti
Yoyang
Changsha
Wasp Claim Sunk By Berlin Broadcast Rebutted
Berlin radio broadcast a DNB dispatch claiming the U S aircraft carrier Wasp was sunk in European waters. A U S naval communique yesterday said the Wasp completed two or more runs to Malta with aircraft reinforcements and incurred no damage to the escort or the carrier. The Berlin report said the Wasp was repeatedly bombed en route to Malta in the Mediterranean.
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London
Berlin
DNB
Wasp
European
Malta
Mediterranean
Fourth of July Quiet Follows Fireworks Ban in Frederick
Frederick avoids the usual Fourth of July noise as gas and tire rationing reduce traffic and the Boxer Farm fireworks display is canceled. State and city laws ban discharge without permits from the State Insurance Commissioner, with police and authorities enforcing the quiet day.
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Frederick
Trafic
Boxer Farm
Baker Park
Treasury reports record wartime cash spending in 1942
Secretary Morgenthau announced a record cash war expenditure of $25,953,665,954 for the fiscal year ending Tuesday night. He cited that about 25 percent of the national income was used for the war effort in the just completed year, and projected about 55 percent for 1943. The Budget Bureau estimates next year’s costs at $67,000,000,000.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Budget Bureau
Allied Air Force Hits Kendari Airdrome And Other Japanese Bases
Allied bombers attacked Kendari airdrome in Dutch Celebes and targeted Dili Lae Salamaua Tulagi and Bougainville. Grounded planes at Kendari were destroyed as fires and explosions followed on ships and warehouses. Weather hindered full observations at Lae but fires were reported. The Solomon Island raid was light with few details.
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Allied
Australia
Kendari
Dutch Celebes
MacArthur
Dili
Portuguese Timor
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
Tulagi
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Kondari
Darwin
Solomon Island
Nazi Losses in Russia Reach 337,342 in First Year
Berlin reports the first year of the invasion from June 22, 1941 to June 21 shows 271,612 Nazi personnel killed and 65,730 missing. In the two months since renewed offensive, 20,321 killed or missing.
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Russia
Berlin
High Command
Russian
Acti
Quiet Fourth Along Eastern Seaboard
Across the eastern seaboard July Fourth is expected to be quiet with limited fireworks demonstrations and large public gatherings discouraged by War Department orders to prevent sabotage. Cumberland reports Harr e L Smith, a five time city council member, died suddenly after a parsonage incident while attending church anniversary meetings. He recently served as a Fort Meade fire inspector and earlier as a park policeman in the city.
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Baltimore
Seaboard
War Department
Cumberland
Harre L Smith
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Beig
Fort George G. Meade
German claim Sevastopol capture not doubted in London
British sources in London say Germany has captured Sevastopol though fighting continues in the Crimea. Moscow reports bitter defense as Red Army battles to hold the last Soviet stronghold while Germany masses for a new offensive across Russia.
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London
Crimean
Sevastopol
Crimea
Kursk
Kharkov
Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Military Court To Try Alleged Nazi Saboteurs
President Roosevelt forms a seven member military commission to try eight alleged Nazi saboteurs landing at Florida and New York. The court will convene in Washington on July 8 with the attorney general and judge advocate general prosecuting. The record and any sentence will be sent to the president for action. Death penalty expected. Generals McCoy Grant Winslow Gasser Henry Lewis Kennedy named as tribunal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Florida
New York
Cassius M. Dowell
Kenneth Royall
Frank R. McCoy
Walter S. Grant
Blanton Wineship
Lorenzo D. Gasser
Guy V. Henry
John T. Lewis
John T. Kennedy
Evacuees on Diplomatic Ship Not Yet Debarked
Rev. Dr. Gaither Warfield and his wife and daughter are among about 800 aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Tin er Drottningholm docked at Jersey City. Government agents pressed a wide search as passengers and crew remained on board. relatives waited in vain for word of release. Warfield, once a prominent local businessman and preacher, is aboard with several hundred others held as authorities decide when they may land. The ship carried about 475 citizens among 941 passengers. only a few released so far.
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Gaither
FB. Warfield
Diplomatic Exchange Tiner
Drottningholm
Jersey City
Robert L. Warfield
Warfield
Dr. Warfield
Washington
Poland
Williams Fined 250 Dollars After Fenway Ejection
Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was fined 250 dollars for loafing and sulking during a doubleheader with the Washington Senators. Manager Joe Cronin announced the fine and a private dressing down, and Williams apologized to teammates before the next game as a weather delay postponed it.
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Boston
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
Washington Senators
Joe Cronin
Red Sox
Wil Narms
Fenway Park
Wixton
Chanteo
Cronin
Joe
Yanks
Canal Zone spy ring roundup arrests 20
Lieutenant General Frank Anderton defense commander of the Caribbean Area announced twenty individuals have been arrested in the Canal Zone roundup. The Army charges the group formed spy rings that aided Axis submarines and provided U S shipping information to the enemy.
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Canal Zone
United States Army
Panama Canal Zone
Frank Ande
Caribeean
United States
Man Dies After Creek Fall Near Point of Rocks
Joseph Himmel Dean 40 of Point of Rocks dies at Frederick City Hospital after injuries from a fall into a creek near the Point of Rocks bridge. Virginia state police ruled out foul play and no car involvement. Dean, a father of two, survived by his father and four sisters. Funeral plans set for Saturday at 2 p.m. with private services at St Pauls cemetery.
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Virginia
Potomac River
Point of Rocks
Joseph Himmel Dean
Frederick City
Dean
Martin Puncke
Corp. Puncke
Charles
Ming Vo Ie Buuight Dean
Raymond Denon
Melvin Dean
Poin
East Church Street
Odell Waller Executed in Virginia for Murder
Odell Waller, a 25-year-old Black man, was electrocuted at the Virginia State Penitentiary for the murder of his white employer Oscar Davis on July 15, 1940. He spent 630 days on death row and was executed around 8:35 a.m. with the maximum 12 witnesses present from several counties.
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Richmond
Odell Waller
Virginia State Penitentiary
Oscar Davis
Virginia
Anna Afonmenitionghalse
Large U. S. Merchant Ship Torpedoed Off Atlantic Coast
The Navy said a large United States merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and survivors reached an east coast port. In New York stocks, motors rails steels and other favorites rose on war news with subdued liquidation and selective bidding, brokers reported gains up to a point.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Atlantic
New York
Brazilian ship torpedoed off northern South America
The Navy reported in May that a small Brazilian merchant vessel was torpedoed off the northern coast of South America. There were no casualties and the ship's company was landed at a West Indian port.
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Washington
South America
L Navy
Churchill wins tight confidence vote amid Libya crisis
London July 2 prime minister Churchill secured a 475 to 26 confidence vote after warning the Mediterranean and Middle East war effort faced near disaster and insisting on strengthening with reinforcements. He defended his leadership while admitting grave setbacks and heavy Allied losses in Libya and Tobruk.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Mediterranean
Middle East
France
Peme
Jie
Eighth Army
Libya
Alexandria
Tobruk
Egypt
Staf
Claude Auchinleck
Africa
Britain
Erwin Rommel
Auchinleck
Malta
Fabruk
Commons
Tat Krivati
Churchil
United States
Australia
Roosevelt
Monterey Inn Destroyed By Fire In Monterey Pa
The Monterey Inn, birthplace of Wallis Simpson and a Civil War hospital, burned to the ground early today. About 35 guests escaped, none injured, as flames consumed the rambling brick structure and two outbuildings. Firefighters from Waynesboro and nearby towns battled the blaze for two hours but failed to save the inn, owned by Edwin T. Norris of Baltimore. damage unknown.
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Monterey
Monterey Inn
Wallis Simpson
Duchess of Windsor
Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
Waynesboro
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Edwin T. Norris
Baltimore
Winchester Doctors Await Orders to Enter Military Service
At least five Winchester physicians and surgeons await orders to enter military or naval service. Named are Dr. George H. Smith, Dr. J. B. McKee, Dr. Leslie M. Bell, Dr. E. C. Stuart Jr, and Dr. Thomas A. Gibson. One dentist, Dr. James C. Davis, has already been inducted and reported overseas.
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Winchester
George H. Smith
J. B. McKee
Leslie M. Bell
E. C. Stuart Jr
Thomas A. Gibson
James C. Davis
Com. Hat Service
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Adolf Hitler
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Voolkischer Begbachter
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Jhes Huntington
W. Va
Eliott Northcott
Elliott Northcott
Fourth District
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Asheville
N.C
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U.S
Department of Justice
Army
Joseph H. Dean
Mart
Pall
Pittsylvania County
U. S
No. 10 Downing Street
Great Britain
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