German 14th Army Flees North After Allied Catastrophe
Allied officials declare a catastrophe has befallen Kesselring's forces in Italy as the German 14th Army withdraws in disorder. Fifth and Eighth Army advances seize Tuscania Tarquinia Vetralla Mori cone and other towns while air power destroys hundreds of vehicles and rail cars.
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Rome
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Fifth
Tuscania
Tarquinia
Mark W. Clark
Eberhard von Mackensen
14Th
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Eighth
Mackensen
10Th Army
Tiber
Viterbo
Goering
10Th
Hermann Goering
Sicily
Vetralla
Fifth Army
Orsogna
Guardiagrele
Miglionico
Filetto
Foro
Kesselring
Mediterranean Army Air Force
Luftwaffe
Denmark
Caen Under Terrific Gunfire From Allies
U S Marauder crewmen report Caen under terrific shelling after seventh D Day mission. They flew over the city and Balmieroy woods near Bayeux to blast German armor, noting fires and smoke along the bridgehead. Captain John B. Stirling of Annapolis, Maryland, described the scene six miles from Caen with shells bursting in the city.
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U. S
Britain
Caen
Balleroy Woods
Bayeux
John B. Stirling
Annapolis
Commander of China's 36th Group Army Killed
Gen. Li Chin Yu, commander in chief of China's 36th Group Army, was killed in action May 21 near Lening in Henan province, an official disclosure announced on June 10 from Chungking.
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Chungking
Li Chin Yu
China
36Th Group Army
Fierce Fighting East of Montebourg Reported
War bulletins describe intense combat east of Montebourg, within 15 miles of Cherbourg, as Allied forces expand breaches in the Normandy bridgehead and press forward against stiff German resistance. German civilians in Holland warned to depart. Swiss council boosts military preparations amid rising tensions.
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Montebourg
London
Berlin
Cherbourg
Daring Raid On Oil Field
Fifteenth Air Force fighters raid the Romana Americana oil refinery at Ploesti, Romania, leaving the target in black smoke as nearly 100 enemy planes pursue. Earlier raids failed to halt the refinery, but heavy bombers have reduced output by about 90 percent across the Ploesti area.
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Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Balkans
Ploesti
Romania
Messerschmitts
Focke-Wulfs
Tire Shortage Continues For Trucks And Buses
Washington reports a persistent tire shortage for heavy and medium trucks and for bus replacements will persist through July August and September Col. J Monroe Johnson director of the Office of Defense Transportation announced today
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Washington
Col. J. Monroe’ Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Playgrounds To Open Here On Monday
Speakers from the Washington Recreation Association will deliver addresses Monday evening as the summer playground season opens at the Baker Park band shell at 7 30. The Playground Commission announced staff under Mrs Helma Bowers with Mary Lowe Smith as assistant supervisor and Ruby Myers as art instructor. Assistant directors include Betty Baker Elizabeth Shoe maker Sally Worthington Betty Akers Jean Doll Joanne Johnson and Frances Grove stationed at Baker Park Harmon Field and Washington street school grounds. Mullinix Park will be in charge of Mrs. Alice DeLauter and Sonny Lee. The staff will be presented at the public ceremony with Robert L. Smith as master of ceremonies. The program includes colors, flag salute, invocation, district recreation leaders and songs.
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Washington Recreation Association
Baker Park
Playground Commission
Helma Bowers
Mary Lowe Smith
Ruby Myers
Betty Baker
Elizabeth Shoemaker
Sally Worthington
Betty Akers
Jean Doll
Sibyle Baker
District of Columbia
Washington
Clarice O. Smith
Joanne Johnston
Smith
Major Bartgis Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
Major James E. Bartgis, commander of a construction battalion in North Africa, is promoted to lieutenant colonel. He left with Company A in 1941 as a second lieutenant, later led a company, and has been based in North Africa for some time. Coal prices in Maryland see a 15 cent per ton reduction for Pennsylvania anthracite coal for households.
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James E. Bartgis
North Africa
Fairview Avenue
Bartgis
Company A
Baltimore
Maryland
Office of Price Administration
Pennsylvania
Byrd Turns 57 and Hopes to Visit Berryville
Senator Byrd of Virginia marked his 57th birthday today in Washington. He said he hopes to return home to Berryville for some work on the farm and rest.
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Byrd
D-Va
Berryville
Man pays final divorce settlement with bag of coins
Elwood M. Davis dragged a 145 pound bag of pennies and nickels into court to pay his divorced wife the final 300 dollars due on a divorce settlement. Her attorney Lot Friedman retired to a back room to count the change and later returned discouraged, saying he would have a bank count the money.
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Chicago
Elwood M. Davis
Lot Friedman
Price Ceilings Set By OPA For Used Cars
The Office of Price Administration imposed price ceilings on all used passenger cars from 1937 to 1943, at January 1944 levels. About 23 makes and 6,000 models are covered, with older cars limited to prices of the 1937 equivalent. Bowles cited wartime pressures and dealer opposition amid a 20 percent price rise.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Four German Trawlers Sunk Off Dutch Coast
June 10 reports from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force that four heavily armed German trawlers were sunk southwest of Ijmuiden by light coastal ships of the Royal Navy. One motor torpedo boat was lost, with two casualties. A later third armed trawler was torpedoed and sunk while searching for survivors. one British torpedo boat also sunk in the clash.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Ijmuiden
Public urged to cut its vacation travel
The Office of Defense Transportation urged the public to avoid railroad and bus travel this summer due to invasion related military activity. Col. J Monroe Johnson warned cancellations could occur without notice and transport facilities would be crowded. In Tokyo, reports said Hideki Tojo sent a “message of encouragement” to Adolf Hitler with banner headlines in morning papers.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation Today
J. Monroe Johnson
ODT
New York
Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler
France
Tokyo
United States
U. S
Final G F bill of rights agreed by Senate House committee
Final agreement was reached today by a Senate House conference committee on a G. F bill of rights, establishing a broad program of benefits for the men and women who return from World War Two.
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Washington
Senate House
Mayor Gittinger May Make City Engineer Change
Reports circulated in the city say Mayor Hugh V Gittinger will unveil his green bag of appointments Wednesday night possibly altering the city engineer post. Frank W Rothenhoefer may be replaced with speculation linking former engineer W Raymond Walter though no official comment exists. The mayor has not commented and changes, if any, are expected to be limited to one or none.
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Hugh V. Gittinger
Frank W. Rothenbaefer
W. Raymond Walter
Walter
Rothenhoefer
Gillinger
Board of Aldermen
Elite Nazi Parachutists Seized By Allied Troops In France
An American unit in flooded French marshlands captured 800 elite German parachutists dropped near them. About 200 more prisoners were rounded up nearby. Lt L A Barling and Lt Charles Sentarsiero reported heavy casualties as the group fought to secure food medical supplies and ammunition and prepared to press on with the mission.
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Robert Reuben
Associated Press
France
iUnitedh
L. A. Barling
Clinton
Mass
Charles Sentarsiero
Dunmore
Invasion Weather: Slight Improvement in Dover Strait
Daybreak brought a modest weather improvement across the Dover Strait with clearer skies to the west and improved visibility after yesterday's mist shutdown. Winds shifted from southwest to northwest, sea calmed, temperature at 50 degrees at 9 am, with rain ceasing before dawn and spatters resuming briefly by 8 am.
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London
Dover Strait
Russians Attack North of Leningrad in Karelia
Finnish communique reported by DNB via Berlin says Soviet forces launched a general offensive on the Karelia Isthmus north of Leningrad with heavy artillery and tanks. The attack breached only locally, with many casualties and tanks destroyed. reconnoitering continued elsewhere on the fronts.
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London
DNB
Berlin
Karelian
Leningrad
Moscow
Tarnopol
Poland
Red Army
Germany
Balkan
Yarnopol
Miy
Iasi
Romania
Ernst von Hammer
Bombers Hit Nazi Targets In Normandy
Expeditionary Force announces heavy bombing of German airfields and targets behind the Normandy battlefront in northern France. Up to 500 U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators led daylight raids aided by British bombers against rail hubs near Paris and key troop and tank concentrations to hinder Rommel forces.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
France
Paris
Edwin Rommel
U. S
Frampes
Night Club Tax Cut In Bill Signed Today
President Roosevelt signed legislation reducing the night club tax from 30 to 20 percent with July 1 effective date and raising the national debt limit from 210 to 260 billion dollars enabling the 16 billion fifth war loan drive starting Monday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Germans panicky near Allied attack in Normandy
London June 1914 German troops in Normandy showed panic and attempted to surrender as an RAF bomber crew observed near the advancing Allied forces.
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London
Normandy
Another Column Is Sent Southward In Attack On Carentan
Allied forces push from Ste. Mere Eglise, Isigny taken, and Carentan threatened as two German columns converge. U S Ninth Air Force bases in France await full operation while Bradley warns of a possible three-division counterattack near Cherbourg Caen area sees heavy tank battles and continued fighting.
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Carentan
Isigny
Ninth Air Force
France
Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Cherbourg
Normandy
Ste. Mere Eglise
Berlin
Montebourg
Bradley
U. S Airborne
Russia
Bloody Cassino
Italy
Trouville
Seine River
Orne
Atlantic Wall
Conde Sur Seulles
Bayeux
Carenten
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Swiss Federal Council
Normandy Bridgehead
Holland
Aneta
Mildh
Cuetuoura
Coutances
Barfleur-St
Lisieux
Trevier
Valognes
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Omar Bradley
Cassino
Touffreville
Caen- Bayeux
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